The Cherokee Banner from Cherokee, Kansas • 1

BA-NNEKo GHER0MME VOL. 1. NUMBER 38 CHEROKEE, CRAWFORD COUNTY, KANSAS, JUNE 21, 1878 MISCELLANEOUS. PHYSICIANS. When a woman turns swindler, sho often a talent that few men posses.

She has a degree of tact, delicacy, finesse, and downright CITY MEAT MARKET boldness, which we rarely find la A.BAILEY, Physician Surgeon. Office at Boyd Clark's Drug Store. Cherokee, Kansas. JONES rOPKIETOKS. 1 First Door South Crawley's Vine Street.

W.W.PRIOHARD, Physician Surgon. Office ia Halner's Drug Store. Residence One Block West of Church. Cherokee, Kansas. FRESH MEATS The American Newspaper Reporter publishod an account of one George Washington Matchett, the oldest tiamp printer on the road.

IIo has tramped across the continent, peven times, and has visited almost (every printing office in the Union, eo he says, and we believe he tells the truth. The old man struck us when we were publishing the Mining Echo, in Empire City, daring the cummer of '77, and wonderful were the stories he told the boys. One in particular we remember well, and which resembles the one published iu the Reporter: While traveling through Arkansas in 1762, he found little work, but one day he struck a small town that had a printing office in it. He went in and found the editor busy writing, using a barrel for a desk and a nail keg for a seat, and the "devil" occupied a stool at his side. He asked the editor how work ALWAYS ON HAND.

Highest Market Price Paid in Cash for Hides. The 'Denver Tribune pays that "the missing locomotive, which went down in the quicksand, at Kiowa, has been diecoverod by the Instrumentality oi Wolfe Londoner, who visited tho scone of the wreokjSun-day. Wolfe went prepared for the work, and with tho avowed, determi-nation of demonstrating the infali-bility of a method his own ingenious brain gave birth to. He procured a mqtalio rod, which he had heavily charged with magnetism. Armod with this he slowly passed over ti ground, under which, or in the vicinity of which, the engine ivaseup-posed to bo buried, expecting that the mass of iron in the engine would so attract tho magnet that tho location of the locomotive would bo easily indicated by the effect on the magnet abovo.

The expectation was realized to the full. The magnet is said to have jumped around so and dived jntOjthe sand insuoh a lrantic manner when the current first acted that Londoner and his instrument noarljr perished Jn the quick- ATTORNEYS. T.D.MILLER, Physician Surgeon, CHEROKEE, KANS. Tendprs his pro'essional services to thefixitizensof Cherokee and vicinity. Enquire at Hainer's Drug Store.

the otl or sex. Itocently a woman claiming to be. a Polish countess, (6 rat clahs adventurers are frequent-ly Poke), and said, to be pretty, well cjucatod, and shrewd, bad been swindling jewelers on the European Continent. After getting diamonds, necklaces, bracelets, and eajr-rjngq, of the rarest pattern, on credit, she would suddenly decamp, Thejiewelry shejwould dispose of to various persons, pretending that abrupt cbaogos of fortune bad com. polled her to part with it, which she did with great pain, as ft had been long in her family.

She has had success In many of the leading capitals, having defrauded, it is said, different firms of 800,000 to 1,000,000 francs, ($160,000 to $200-000), She has been arrested within two or three weeks in Vienna, and is in prison there. She is so jdannible, and winning in over 20 and is so ery astute' tiiat it is thought Bhe may yet escape justice. Most of the men she has swindled have been wholly or partial ly In love with her. Love making, indeed, she has made a branch of her dishonest art. Anchor Mills, CHEROKEE, KANSAS.

Does a General Custom and Merchant Work. FLOUR, MEAL AND FEED By the car-load or otherwise. run the present year at Wator With tha assurance of gelling Good Janies F. JS; Moore RT.CLAIR MOORE, ATTORNEYS LAW AND COUNSELORS. was, and what the chance was for a "sit," who replied that he co(ild have work for a few days.

Ho pulled off his coat the devil gave him Office -ovtr P. Qherokce, wad, ColJtiher us' as onoo apprised enci'-'j S. E. LEIGH. 293ra E.

A. PERRY, ATTORNEY at LAW. PUBLIC. getii digging and explorationprov. ed that Wolle had by this Bimple contrivance accomplised more than the skilled engineers employed on the work had been able to." Office 101, Up Siairs Vine Street' Chemkee Kansas.

SOL. SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. AND NO I'ARY PUBLIC. Ollke up Htairs, over Larcum ouekmg'st, Vine street, Cherokee, Kansas. CHEROKEE.

Livery Feed Stable CHEROKEE, KAN. A. C. SPRAGUE, Proprietor Keep? firHt-ciehS lurnouts. Passengers conveyol to ny part of the outiutry on reasonable terms.

BATES BROS Pr-pptors, Houe li conveniently located near the depot, ami has jus' changed hands, and been newly refitted and turnished throughout. 8 The proprietors intend to run a firt cl.is hotel in every Ta-l lis supplied with the best the market a if wis. A uARGE SAMPLE ROOM For Commercial, Men. We are informod thattwenty-fonr letters of the alphabet can be changed 620,401,733,239,300,000 times, all of which changes could jnot be written in a thousand years. Again, twelve persona can interchange their respective positions 199,001,600 times but it would not take less than 1,848 years to make this nnmberjof changes, if they movedj every minute for twelve consecutive Ihours daily." If any twelve'of our readers doubt the correctness cf this tatement they P.

A. VESTAL, Justice of the Peace. Office one door north of the Ban-nek office, up stairs. Cherokte, Kansas. type and cases, and wasttold that the type was in a sack in the corner, and lie would have to chalk out his case on the floor.

He went to work as directed, and got along first rate till one day a man came in with a fall sheet'posterMo print. The editor kindly told George VV. that the job type was in a sack in the loft. He got the saclc'down, and spent half a day sorting them out, and hunting for the broken pioces, but had finally to throw Up the job in disgust, the editor finishing it. When he had set up enough type (all there was in the office) he was directed to make them up in two columns and place them on the stone.

lie ''one so, and with the mallet and planer run off the issue, consisting of twenty-five numbers. Saturday night came and he asked the editor for some money, who reached up in the loft and pulled down two coon skinsj and was told they passed for currency in that counfry. lie shoulilored them and went down to the only store in town and purchased a pint of whisky, a paper of pios and some tobacco, receiving in change a squirrel and a rabbit skin. lie told us ho was in his 70th'year, and bad drank more whisky than would fill the bed of the Mississipi river. He had been gone- from the paternal roof six months left home in the firsi bloom of summer, with a smile upon bis brow and a pickaxe in his hand.

ThejBlack Hills, bis, glory and, gold the goal. A summer spent amid the auriferous rocks industry, perseverance, ad a rare knowledge of chemistry "and mineralogy his useful toolsin addition to the pickare. Results are such that he is enabled to return, sooner than his mostjjaanguine expectations had allowed him to dream of doing. Almost home, he pauses outside the town until the nightfall, and sends to his waiting, expectant parents the folio message: "Bring me a large blanket and a pair of pants I've got a hat." Erie Gazette. B.F.KING, otasry Publi9 And Justice of The Peace? Office over P.

Che oee, Kans s. should get together and try tue experiment. If they perform the task in less time than years, they will please notify us by postal card. The fifty-two cards of an ordinary pack of playing cards, with thirteen to each of tho four players, can be distributed in different ways. So if the player doesn't get a good hand the first deal, he may be more successful on J.

"WV FLETOHEE, Dealer in. 9 000th shuffle, if not sooner." This BOOTS SHOES NOTIONS, PLOWS, WAGONS GROCERIES' AND. ALL KINDS COUNTRY PRODUCE. CHEROKEE KAS fact may encourage him. Exchange.

A NEW DISCOVERY PLEASANT BELIABLK Remedy for Catarrh, Eron-chitis, Asthma, Cough, HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Cure, an initiation (Miioued in a Sent 1 mail 75 cents. Agents, wanted Free Suiplr ui lied to any sufferer. Address. Dk.

W. BLuSSER, 25 3 xie, Jasper Mo. BOYD and CLARK, DEALERS IN MEDICINES, PAINTS. OILS VARNIH, PAINT AND TOILET BRUSHES, GLASS, PUTTY AND LAMPS, -TOILET SOAPS, PEKPUME RY, TOBACCO, ciOAKS and Great variety of her articles belonging to our line of trade. PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS Carefull-compounded at all hour-.

Goods selected with care and war ranted us represented. Cherokee, Kansas, Oct. 5, 1877. Mrj. Kate Southern, of Pickens Alter partaking of a "square" the old man continued his journey.

county, killed a woman because her husband, Mr. Bob Southern, I'm glad to say that our child is a generous little body. The other day her grandfather gave her a cgnt tq buy herself some candy. As She was going out, sho discovered a little, bnggar boy on the front steps. She stopped, and looked first at him and then at her cent; then looked down on the ground, apparently lost in thought.

Finally, with the sweetest smile on her beautiful face, she stepped up to the forlorn child, and, laying her hand on his shoulder, said in D. A. PAYNE, danced with her. This, has made her somehow, a heroine, and Bob a Carpenter Builder. Guaraneets to do Hrst 5- Class Work.

hero. Mrs. Southern was convicted and sentenced to be bung, but an immense nressuro was brouarht to Shop one door wf st of Gates' agrlrul tural rooms, Cherokee, Kansas. 276m Cedar township, Cowley county, is infected with a new sect who term themselves followers of Christ. Their creed is to take no medicine when afflicted, but, having faith, thoy will be healed; and that 110 serpent, bqast or insect can harm them.

Miss Moore late joined the church and adopted the While in tha garden, a few days ago, she came in contact with a rattlesnake Believ- a gentle tome'J takft this cent, and go buy yourself a suit of clothes and some dinner." FRED. A-SSMA N. BRICKLAYER. CHEROKEE, KAi All work done in first class style, and satisfaction guaranteed. bear cn Gov.

flolquet, and he has commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life. Her journey to the penitentiary is descibed as an "ovation," and a powerfull effort is being made to procure her fall pardon. The moral to be drawn from this by tho husband is, never dance with with any woman except your wif and the sweet lesson for wives is, if any other woman dances with your husband, go for her with a butcher knife at once. SSTCan be found at the Eagle Hotel. E.

-A- I 3STE IR DEALER IN Drugs and Medicines. A complete line of PATENT MEDICINES constantly on hand. PAINTS, OILS VARNISH At reduced prices. And everything iidlly kept in a first class Drug to e. ID.

Xi. LEMMONS, FASHIONABLE A "Female Hercules," a native of Franco, is to be seen in London. One oi her feats is to lift np an anvil by the hair of her head, and then have tho same anvil placed on her bosom, while three smiths forge a horseshoo with heir hammers, she talking -and singing all the while. Undoubtedly, it would take an unusual blow from the hand of misfortune to break tho heart qf the "Female iDg sulhciontly annoimea with faith, she took the reptile np in her hands, caressed the "dear thing" as only a woman can, and carried it into the bouse. "While the family were fondling this obnoxious pet, the snake bit the old lady in her foot.

Notwithstanding her faith, the wound shows the usual symptoms and she is not expected to recover. She had Moore faith, and not enough oven then. Barber Hair Dresser ALSO DEALER IK CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Next door North of Larconi Stone-king, Cherokee, Kausas. ''I told her 1' never smoke anoth- -a m.

ft A Ute Indian died recently near Cimmaron, N. M. His tribe buried him in good Indian style, killing his horses so that he would have some thing to ride in the happy hunting grounds. They would have killed his widow, but as she was so old and nglylhey came to the conclusion that if he could not find a younger and prettier one in his new home, he had better go it alone. Tho Tinsion Pnst Bflvs that Haves er cigar, be said sol try, ana 1 won 1.

Tho June rise of the Missouri river is higher than usual. Farms have been flooded along tho bottoms. A pipe's plenty good enough for me." And he gracefully drew a 'JUL H- BEILI-OIMre, DEALER IN FURNITURE. Keeps of BUREAUS, SAFES, CHAIRS, t-Undertaking a speciality All order promptly attended to day or night. 4 Come and examine my stock parch asing.

match. and in some instances even washed entirely into the current Harlem, across the river front Kansas City, Dealer la HARNESS, SADDLES, COLLARS, HH And everytnbag pertaining to a first class Harness Shop. SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. C. U.

MERRIAM, CHEROKEE, KANSAS To the American boy there issan 13 nearly all under water, as are all the railroad trackB on that side. awful, a majestic difference in weight -1 1 is as calm and unmoved as a wheel-! barrow stuck in the mud. between the butt-end of a fish polq and a hoe handle. The river continues to riso, and fears are entertained of the result. li.