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Edwards County Leader from Kinsley, Kansas • 3

Edwards County Leader from Kinsley, Kansas • 3

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TiTiiT7 nna mm JLLb- Seatl Estate Agents. Office Brick Block. Larned Pawnee fcouuty, Kansas acre of A.I. S. F.

thU road IandV fa Barton. LM-ward awd Rush eonnties for sale. Thinnest larithr the Arkansas valley; Teams always ready io show laridi free to f. S. F.

TIME-TABLE. GOING east Express Leayes Kinsley at 1 47 a. r. Accomodation 9 20 P.M. Vreight train V4 6 45 A.M.

GOING WEST Expres.s Loaves Kinsley at 3:412 a. AecomMation 44 0:45 a. m- Freijjh't train 4-5 a.m. Fked. Gardxek, Agent.

Ait orb ey-Ht-ijiaiVv Jb fto'tdry LT)AX aVd LANb AtSENT Office On cat Sixth sti-et, Kinsley, Kansas. 2-18 M. gEfQtlSStfS. I Subscribers finding an attached to their names on their papers or wrappers are notified that their subscriptions are about to expire and are requested to renew. No renewals, unless paid in adyaVicc.

Kansas. Boots and Shoes, Mar sti atehtle, Kinsley, All kirids of wotk in rny litie trt order-on ihott hoticei at lowest litlug prices. RepalMng neatly done. Shop on garsh aveniie south of the bakcrt. 2-1 DON'T! fcEAlEBS IS Mt li eoiciieil, rr-T----- a CIGARS', TOBAGC, feMOfffeRS' ARTICLES, apple citPer aTCways on hand.

AH kinds of Fruit in their t'easori. Ihree doors east of JLhe KinTe Kansas. yodr piH-ona'ge is espectfully solTcKed. 41 UNDER MN AviAQtMETiT Sharp's, at Rath's sometime before. He got the pistol the tirte the first robbery jvasplatmc Green had 6nly 6rfe.

Dan Dement had one gnn a Sharp's rifle.irid one six-shooter, a Colt" 43; Don't know wher he 0t them-. Thomas Gott had a and no revolvers bought his gun from Roark. Green "was armed with One 45 U. Springfield pateht gun; he had twn 45 tOlt's pistols; he bought one of the pistols at Zimmerman's in Dcdge ity, bttVcen the time ofthe first plan an.d before the scApon'd robbery; Ed. Vras arrAed onb United States Springfield gun and Vine six-snoot-er, Cole's 45 don't know whtre he got it.

I was armed with one of Sharp's 40 calibre guns arid had two Smith A Wesson pistils-. We alw ays ha'd a wagon with us and left it on the Bearer and started in evening. This Wis about eight; mites frOm L53ge.City.. We rode that night about twenty-five rrilles and camped again on Beaver. The ckmp is twenty 'miles above the trail it crosses the Bearer, mooting we went across the CMrriaron, and that night camped at the head'6'f Sand creek.

The next day ute Went over to Buffalo creek on the Caiup "fOad-: Tffe next dav we left at ndon-, We stopped that night on Mulberry, aborit five miles south Of Pat. Ryan's, ranch; This was Friday, January 25,177. Tlie day we went Nvifhm ten miles cf Kinsley. Got there just about dusk. It was in the Sand hills, the ether side of the river.

We carried our food wi li us. We stayed there about four hours, crossed the river and went over to Kinsley; got to Kinsley about before the western bound train was due. We went to a bouse near the railroad track and about half way between Kinsley and the water tank, Ed. West asked how far it was to Kinsley, and was told it was about a mile and a halt. We were all closle together when the, question was askcu.

He then asked how far it was to the tank, and was answered about the same distance. After we left the house we went about hilf a mile np the railroad. We left the horses at the trestle halt a mile from the tank, Thomas Gott held the horses tor the party, Ten miles from Kinsley we intended to take the east bound train, but a snow storm came up and we changed the plan, aiul decided to takfe the west bound train, oh account of not being able to get to Kinsley in time to take the east bound train. We just got to the tuck as the east bound train passed, and could not have stoppeU it if we wanted to. Roark gave tW orders assigning each man his position.

Roark, Dement and I went inside the depot and talked to lincaid. Roark and I went behind the railing. Dcriient staid outeide, and I don't think anybody was with him. Green and West was on the platform outside. Roark talked with Kincaid andi talked With huh.

Roafk look pistol away froiri him and Kavfe it to me and I srav it to Gott; Kincaid intehttea to shoot 5tfS with it. Si Bi clip We Bay 'ThebldandFopuUr Pay tvd price Tot a lot ami dod't buy at all Until you have called 011 i Oft edwahds. whd Dwh U0 of the best lots in Kinsley lo ft sli.K CUEli. 20 good dwelling 0 S25. eath.

40 good dwelling lots 35; each lOVcty foiedta-cltlngtols 810 each. 20 citi-a ilvelling lotd hear tho It II. depot and centre of trado (3 50 each. 20best business lota at Very low-Special rates to thosxs Who desira to build. No you may be reconiiucndcd it pays to look fcJat EAhVoa fe.

fenwARi or at the Office Xf TayLoji FirCK. lit VERY COIiIilOTIOSS MAKI Hat recently come under "th'tj tnanagcrnent of Business notices among reading mat ter will be charged for, in every case 25 cents per line for each insertion. JLoeal JlTcws. 1 1 i i ii i i i Plums are ripe. No paper next week.

We are gc ing to celebrate. Monday "is the first day of July. I Balloon ascension on the Fourth. Now timber bill on the first pas. "Court adjourned last Friday night.

M. M.Lewis was up to Dodge Tuesday. Hon. Willaril Dayis will orate here on the fourth. Monday the thermometer got up to 06 in the shade.

We are on the "ragged edge" of a glorious harvest. Money to loan on imprriyed farms. Inquire at this office. The wheat crop of Kansas Will be far beyond the average. Kansas a a State, will s5on be ranked nshe wheat field of tfic world.

Pocket book found. The owner can have by calling at this office. Kev. llonnoll has our thanks for fa. vors rendered us the past week.

Fort learned has been abandoned and the soldiers sent to the frontier. The county commissioners will hk-et In "regular session next Monday. L. S. Webb will read the Deelaralio'n tf Independence next Thursday.

There will be a grand, old-time celebration in Kinsley on the fourth. Dr. Mosher returned from his home in Illinois, on last Friday morning. Wilson's Oven eaVed in ia'st week. on iU arU tit United StaleS and Chdu.

A Whoriasputih EE CEIYE AM i gehM biaklttg bttsiilt. and made "of it '6h'e 'of tft1 Fiiies't Hbteis in the Valtey. L. W. C.

L. 'tfubbs, A. L. Kendall, Ge6. Hribbs, kridScr'eTa'l other KiHsleyites, weVeWown at LaVned dur-rfig the past attending business before the hi rid office.

lion. Taylor Flick sWted Vith his family Tdr the mountains on 'Tuesday morning. We join with their many riends in wishing the a pleasant and hope Soon f6 sec them return. The business "men of Kinsley arc "rio't satisfied with the trade of Edwards county, but are extending their busF-'n'ess far out into the mVr Kinsley can boast of the best class of business men in the valley. We understand that ar'ra'ngcnVe'rits will be made to have an excursion from Lamed.

Kinsley and Dddge fo Pifsblo, and points hi the rnorintains. The excursion is to take piace the lattsx part of July or the first ot We Will riot issue a regular edition of the LeaTdek next Week, the Jottrth comes on our publication day, and it is the established custom with The newspaper fraternity throughout the country, as well as with other people to Observe thcfoGith. Two courts were tri sesston Thurr-day district and justice's, superior and inferior. What this country Wants is more law, lawyers and litigation for the benefit of the press. 'Graphic.

And fot the benefit of the lawyers, but lcs for the Two cases of malignant chicken Aox are repot ted Iron1! near Ollerle. A Mr. Sands, from riear Genesseo last spring has died, aged 30 years, and a child 61 Perry Smith's aged 2 years. Two children in the former family are Very sick With the same disease. B.

Kelcham's twenty; acre "wheat crop Was all iti shdck the 15th; and all in stack the 22d, notwithstanding the rains. It will yield thirty tmsliels per acre. The other crops look well, and his stock yard will soon look like a village-. Mr. Avcty AiriswoVth, the accomplished and gentlemanly clerk the Larned land office, has full charge of the register's department during the absence Of his chief Capt.

Morris. The Captain, wfch atnily, siting thfoir old home at Fort Scott. DtlMy FrateV lia been selling a largo amount of maciiiriery the past few wetks, and they always give satisfaction to their customers. The firms Olf arid DePuy, featc-irian Frater have done much to build up this county nd extend the trade ot the tdwn. Ed.

Spencer who his been stopping in Kin ley for the past few weeks, was ar rested last Saturday at on his Way to the LeaveriwOrth prison as a guard over the train The particulars as tar as we haye been able to learn is that Spencer fleeced a cigar retailer 6f that place out ot $30.00. Spencer represented that he wai'a Gov-crnriVent detective, n'nd that he had detected the cigar retailer selling cigars without license, and proposed to drdp the rna'ttcr if the dealer wOitld give hint the abcye amount. May. In'mari announces his purpose to "publish, in the Larned Chronoscope, a series of original sketches 6f the Great Tiains and the mountains; These sketches Will be d'rAwh frOni his personal anlt wiH; no denbt, be Very interesting. Aniorig tlitni will be the "Scout's Last llide" a trtSc incident of the Indian Svar of "(Jannady's a true story cf the Moreno riiiries.

"Another Legend of Pawnee Itock, IS3G" A Story o)e Orgor Trait" ferrlbfe Ten Mile Itide" (From Fdrt Zarab). "Va! Henderson," etc; Two of odr stocic hien found two hu'-riiah skeletons last week. forty mies south of Kinsley, on the A bttllet Mole Vds found lit tMj skull of one; The yictims died with tfteir boots on. Near by tUc skelctp'fis' of two P0tilt. Tliey liad beeii dead perhaps two years.

Whether a civilized murder or Indian massacre will perhaps never be known; Possibly the last re htains ot two young CSfcn who bafrie td explore the new west arid secure homes br engage in the stock business, arid of whose fate friends at hoine have rlevir heard. THE KIXSLEY OMc iVni Sank ia ttttt Tnis itoiise has goo'A san) TO'Dms-s Sale Feod ari'd 'Other cOnrenierics ifcT Roark sttys-, uI'll take that," and Kin -BV ROIIlY Cor. Siiith J3t; and MiVsAv. The-'tabie Vs suppled Vritu 'eVer thing the market affords'. Firsfclass 'furne'rit furnishtid at read onable rates.

Feed, grain, farm seeds ol every tTes scriptiOn for sale. HorscS bturded by the'daV '6 Creole SbwARDsjBRbs. 44 'J. W. FULLfelt; Frobrietor.

AGENTS REAB We will pay Agents a salary of $100 -per mbntlr, and expenses, tji sell 'our New arid Wonderful Address, ShermAj? Marshall, Mich: 4W caid handed it to hitm When Roark went in hensked fTincaid if he liad any money; Kincaid told him he was too late; that the money was all sent on the other train that slmd jirt passed, and pulled 'open tile Wraer that as fc the counter arid showed him there was none there. He offered us a lot of postal cards which we did not take. Roark told him to unlock the safe. Kincaid said Gardner had the key arid he was over rb the hotel. As stepped outside a man came on the platforul and Kincaid told him to go back.

Says he, Blanchard, go back. These men have all got pistols." Blanchard not understanding. it, came to where Kiricaid was; By that time the train had got to us. When the engirie pot opposite to rfs Kincaid made a sudden jump landing in front of the 'cowcatcher; bai-ely missing it, dint got on the other side of the ecgiiVe. Then West and.

Demerit started for the engine, and Roark started for the express car. Ureen and Roark went to the door ofthe car, and. twent to the rear ot the baggage car at the frorij of the. I was to have ffot on the express car A'ith the rest. train running be-youd thq platform upset our plan corii-pjeteljr, as the lielsrhth from the gYound to.

the car door was to jercat.i Roark Highest honors ifiRi rVR.ftAT-T BROS, PRICE p.i in worm ex- est catalogues with. new p'tyles reduced prices, arid niu'en sent free. MAS01 LtN Orga'ri Go, Boston, New fork br Chicago, ins 2. mm SWEET navy VMM coud, hot get in. Jlontk and Green Dotn ran to tne car ttogr to gp in quick.

Roark spoke id tab mtsgengeri don't know what lte said. The first shot ram w.thm fired, by the iDi i ili nil hjrfn In thh three inches of hittjn Awftrdtt KtyJutt vtim Ccntannikt Xxpotitiofefor fntL ehudnj quolUU Mni eacttltnyt lotting cAar. titUr tbbM m(id our bin atrip la clncly imitated inferior poods. that JafJmcm't itH im a rar jpl g. by all Teafpri.

8td for ataplu fraa. to C. A. Jaccaoa Jdfra, rUribarc. Va.

B'eaiitjfiil Concert Grand. Hanoi, tiricj $1600 only $425. Girid. Slujre price $1,100. only $253'.

tk'arit the I was still oil the Heboh I find bUt hierel-y td keep any.orie frotij homing out of tile cars. train then 'to wiiicM Bikv ivif isasfibs oi? cLbs r- i-. an.tis stons price $390 onlv aVi.Vuwv xi vrja iw i UlU I1D0 01 aaaa4 come and see me at home it I am not fts rep I.L k. Fare, paid both ways td Piino, jor Qr.r gan given Large list; with much information about cost of Pianos and Organs sent free- Please address OaxikCF. BkiriY; Washington, N.

J. ll-4w. Woi kmcu "are at work rebuilding it. II. E-Gryilcn, of Dodge City, will 'tike part in our celebration on the 4th.

W. II. Vernon, at Lamed-, has one of the finest gardens we have seen, in the Valley. Ah adjourned term of the district 'court for Pawnee county will begin on August 20. Spring 'chickens are now r'pe, and the crop is the largest ever produeed in the 'coYuity-.

Michigan cider is what they call it at LarnctL They usually take It with lemon juice. J. W. Crawford, has finally got settled down to business in his hew Office on Sixth street; Come to Kinsley on the fourth, arid take part in the grandest celebration fever held in the west; The article "Wckj in Israel," on the first page, should have been credited to the Topcka The Kinsley brass bahdi the best in the upper Arkansas Valley, will furnish the instrumental music for the fourth: What but a few years ago was known as the great American desert, is now called the great American wheat field. i Tramps are now hurrying away from the harvest field Si They are afraid they niay find work when they don't want it.

r. Deputy U. 5. Marshal arid muter Sheriff, presided hi the court room during the Session" of court last week; Supper for parties holding tickets for the ball at the Gern Half, on the etching of the 4th; will be served at ths Valley House. Kudebaugh was promised inrniunit from prison if he would "squeal," but poor Elizabeth squealed arid She was cx-coniuiuuicated, Shcrifl Fuller started for the penitentiary on last Friday with the train robbers.

He was accompanied by Messrs. Billings, Meuny and Barkmtfn. The train robbers, West, GOtt and Green, lutvc taken quarters with the prison warden at Leavenworth, and are booked for five years at hard labor. When you go to Larned don't fail to put up at the Lamed It is the toss hotel of the town, and the larid-Jord is one of the rtfost pleasant gentle-" men in the valley. Tho neatest piece of work we have seen recently, done the Leader office, is the invitations fat the ball at the Gem Hall on" the 4th, printed at the Graphic offiee.

Cucumbers will begin' to arrive in market about next week, arid the doctors propose to have a consultation1 tor raise the price for attending cases ot eholeja morbus and colic. Doiiar of Ciir falrl recciveil for GrbtiHeS. A fresh and tie Fancy and Domestic; v. CASHMERES, Jfe6 MPa- Housekeeping CRASH, Goiiete issorli David RudeVausIt one of the Oansi iTlakes a C6ufes6ion, v. TVHiTE RtJlRTR KeceiVe'd 2ailj.

Also SHIRTINGS; TABLE, LINENS; NAPKINS, QUILTS, Etc; Etc; CH12VIOT SHIRT ri Thar Pari I siarieu. Yemeni ioia ine io Start the raia object was to rob the train while in riiotion, and by the tfhie we got to our horses. The In case we got into the express car, was to be two scot; Instead Of two there wa? a.boUta doen, sciit-ed the riien on tlie eiigihe and let know-there was something After the train had run past, I walked up the track and overtook Dement and Roark; Green was ahead of us about halfway to the West came in the last. We gc't to bUt ho'f Sb3 aHd stdrted for camp. We blacked our faces when; we stopped ten miles from Kinsley get supper.

A party fired at us, near where we got our horses; flrid as we rode off. Gott's horse gave qntiindav rhorning. We left, the horse, arid hid the saddle in deep grass off the trail about five miles from the river, in the Sand Hills. Wednesday night, we stopped at Ldvell's hip and were Wanted A. bfoofri tier, 4 ttiiles north of Ofterle, at my residence, M.

L. Wear. Ice! cheap at the Broadway Market. 2-t)tf. dscoS ScnjrrD'f.

ice! lee! Ice I- Parties wanting ice, can have the best quality of Clear Creek Ice delivered at their houses during the summer, by giving tfieir erdeis to frjilk wagon. 2-5lf. N. Miixdi A Closed Letter. En'.

Led'eR: Deaf Siri Somebody hai been' Writing open letters about Brown's Celebrated Medicines; this is a privafe letter arid I write to telf yon confidentially that Srowa's Liver Pills have entirely cured ray sick headache, biliousness afid constipation. We would staj soon ihinlc ot gilng without bread our family as to be without Brown's Li ver Pills Blac-' berry and Ginger, One of my neigh- bors was cured chronic rheumatism and a bad skin disease arising impure, bfood by. using Sandelicn atid Iodide, of Potassium, compounded ly the Brown Medicine All of Brown's Great Western reme-' dies for sale by Glasgow and H7 Fuller, Kiasley, Kansas; a We ieii fee liesl.tfiiirts in the rnartot for 2Dw Cure for Catarrh will no.t ITrUintifi FIdiif i Healj Bicon iienry ttrs, JsCf-i ens, 1 aM 2. argo Aurora, si. LAfJESa RIBBONS CORSETS.

qLQVES HAP COilSSTS, FAS, New Hats Gaps, Boots and Shoes: Daviti RiKJebadgH, one of the arig who attempted to rob the Santa Fe express, made the following public confession of the affair; Ex rosil, February 2S, 1373. My name is David Kudebaugh age 23; born in July, 1854; my home is in Greenwood cotmty, neaf Eureka, Kafi-sas. About Wednesday, January 16, 1878, we were all together on Wolf creek Roafk, Dan Demerit, Ed. Gott arid D. Green and it self- I think that Koark and Demerit were the two that first broached the subject of attacking the st Eirrslty, It was agreed that the party should Consist of the six named.

This was the second ki tempt. The first attempt was to attack the train at Dodge City. This was to have been on or about the first ot January, btrt failed On account cl a smow storm: After this failtfre we returned and moved over to rolf We stayed at or near there tilt the second attempt, which made on the morning of January 1S7S. About five days before the attack we started. Mike Roark was leader.

He fode an" iron' gray htrs Dan Dement rode a black horse, Gott rode a sorrel horse, Green rode a roan horse, West road a bay horse and I rode a- sorrel horse. Roark got Lis gun', a (15) Carp We htte now on hand. in are nm. itp-wen, Mc Haton, GraBt Bo-rOa 4 CASIwen.St:Louisv Testimonials anrl tpeatie by msfli Price, with improved. In-Jfiler, $lt- 8oTd everywhere.

Weeks Potter; pikiiv Proprietors. Boston, Mass TZSS; are the Hi! ill Purgative Pills make new rich blood, and will, completely change the. blood in the entire system in three, Any person whq will take. one pill each week from 1 to 13 weeks iay be 6 health, if such thing be possible Sent hv mail for 8 letter stamps. S.

JQH2S Co. Sangor, Me." ii (jioty reieivirig almoEt daily Custom -made work tttf pkii ihtij wir A fI and complete 4sortmf ix Very hoxreit Pfictsi FOR SPRING TRADE; As it hs h'ctii oifr' culora no Ho carry gooi.oreffcom seaion: season, c4afd vise 6very oife, Ho' rcttda this ndtt6e give us i.call Vefoie purchasing have tne largest arid best, stocic of goods in the. valley and defv competition as- to prices. NO TROUBLE BUT PLEASURE TO SHOW GOODrv.

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1877-1880