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The Colby Free Press from Colby, Kansas • 4

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NO CURE PAY! BMGIIT3 DISEASE positively cured or no nay. Wo have ft case In Colby thai yo P8n sou fur yourself, that our remedy cured In six weeks time, that the expert, ol ver pronoun inourable. Our remedy is vosetabio ami The Free Press. Jiff C. A.

IHWHIVK. rest- rr r- dlfteation ninl ulvcs vliror to the syt.tVm.F. lit the drugstore. lt Coll.y or of i KANSAS' AGEICULTURAL Products Almost Equal the Output of Precious Metals in the U. S.

Peter Mclvor, president of Wash-in-jton college in Topeka, publishes the following under the head of "Kaunas Crops ami Precious Melals" Prom the annual rep of IIon.F. Cobiini, secretary of the State Hoard of Agriculture, recently pub (ioveinoi' bank. Dot is "bi.sh nes.s' don you see, eh!" The eolliu trust had a meeting recently to "adjust prices." This is an ago of trusts. Man plods along through life bumping up against them at every turn of the road, each trust in turn demanding its pound of llesh, till at last man reaches his journey's end and i.s shullled into a box made of var Injure nobody. It Is a remedy hasttonio in US a.

on ii4 lit oi.iiv. Kansas), or you 75 cent per bottle for the next three months, if lull for I ailiornia minify luro, Union Memorial Service. O'Kovnui. Tort 803. O.

A. R. Coiby. KiinsHS. Mny 15.

Tho old Koldiers nud families, tintl the public tjeneriiHy, are cordially invited to iiltenil the Union Memorial Services on Sunday. Miiy 2()th, at 11 A. to In? held at the Melhodist church. Colby, Knnaits. under the auspices of Post 803 G.

A. H. The tesident ministers of Col by nrc Invited lo be present. Rev, Jas. Welsh, of Ihe Presbyterian church, will deliver the Memorial Sermon.

Com ratio 15. Morrison consulting committee. I. V. Cruuily iu charge of choir.

.1. P. Hayha. 1). II Passkll.

W. A. Boyd. Committen of Arratgemeuts. Decoration Day.

Coi.ijy, Kansas, May 15. 1P93. Decoration Day. May 30, 1895, will be observed in this city under the auspices of Clias O'Kovohl Post '3)2, (). A.

H. Members of the Tost and nil old soldiers, and ail other Societies and schools, who will participate in the exercises, will meet nt their respective halls at 10 a. m. sharp, report to the Chief Marshal of Ihe Day, who will form column in front of the Warden Block, Franklin Avenue, and move forward at 10:30 a. south to Fourth street, thence east on Fourtu street to Betilah cemetery in the following order; Colby Comet Band, Guard of Honor, Colby Public Wnmens Relief Corps, Ladies of ihe G.

A. Sons of Veterans, Chas.O'Rovohl Post 303 and Old Soldiers Mayor and City Council, St. Thomas Lodge A. and A. Sunlight Lodge I.

O. Knights of Pythias. Ancient Order United Workmen, Modern Woodmen af America, Citizens on Foot, Citizens in Vehicles, Arriving nt the Cemetery, the column will form it square about the Monument, Guard of Honor oa the north, and Band on the south inside the square. A brief exercise will be rendered bv the Post, followed by the decoration of, Soldiers' graves by a detail in charge of the Officer of the Day, and tin address to the "Unknown Dead" by Rev. H.

II. Turn er. At the close of exercises, the Pro cession will return to the city in same order, leaving 4th street near Court House Square, thence southwest to 3rd street, thence to Franklin avenue, thence norlh to Ward Block, there dismiss At 1:30 p. Post 303 mid all old soldiers, meet at O. A.

It. Hall, proceed south to 4th street, countermarch, and march north to Armory Hall, where the exercises will continue at 3 p. to which the public iu general is invited, viz: Call to order by W. H. Smith, Post Commander.

Opening Song by the Choir. Prayer by Rev. L. M. Bonnett.

Song by the Choir. Reading Memorial Order by D. Adjutant. Post Service by Officers of tha Post. Song by the Choir.

Oration by Rev. J. N. Clark. Song by the Choir.

Music by the Band. Benediction by Rev. Jas. Welsh. P.

Bayiia. H.Passki.l, W. A. Boyd. Committee of Sheriffs Sale.

E. T. Curtis, Plaintiff, vs Anton Jepson and Julia C. O. Thompson, ef, Pefts.

Itv virtue of an eider of sale to mo directed and delivered, issued out of the cleric's office of district court of Thomas county, state of Kansas, in the above entitled action I will. on Saturday, the 13 day of June tbe hours or 10 eioeKa in ami 4 ot said riav at the front dimr of the court house in the city of Colby in the county and Mate aforesaid, otter at public Pale and sell to tho highest tddder for cash in hand all the fol lowing described real property situated In tlieeountyoi Ll.omas anu slate oi Kansas, to-wit: The southeast qimrter iseV) of section thir- tv-twoiaiin towiisliip range Uilrty-six west ot tlie ltn p.m., con laming 160 acres according tothe government survey The above desrHbed properly to be then and here so snniect to a urior lien and en eumbrance, to-wit: A mortgage of live hun dred dollars iSieftM).) The above described wal property levied upon and to be sold as the pmiierty of the nlxive named defendants In pursuance of a decree of foreclosure in the above entitled 1 R. WATER. Sheriff. Sheriffs office.

Colby. Mny Ks. iJ-ftV W. (i. WILI.COXOX.

Atty. for PlttT. Sheriff's Sale. H. V.

Rrffiin. PlaintitT. 7 vs. f.ea L. rt.

al I)e fendants. Itrrfrtueof nnorlerof sntf to mo dfreeted and ileliverff. tsued ottt of tiie office of the district enwtuf 7 noma connry. statu of Kn. in eiuitn-d action.

I TiM on tatcty. jii-iu) ui ur-, Alcts ou rim put tho remedy i THURSDAY, MAY3, 1895. The letlefliiiM-s are 'still retliwiu- Jllg tMlHl OtlltM'. Capital tin) iin'iiiiH by wliicli 0110 man inako.H nnotlior a slavo. TI10 stato iifaMiiifi-of Minnesota lias llanl! m1 in tlio sum Moro riiiilliirun lediMiiption.

TI10 liarkhvv Holler Mill (Jo. of Superior, ami tin? Citizens IJank ol liodwood Fulls, Minne-i sola, quit business May 10 Kvi of prosperity. Tlio liiu dailies are teeming wit iiceoiints of bank failures, labor difficulties and assignments, and yet tbey are bowling about 'times looking up." Governor Lewelling bad a force of clerks at. work a month or so before bis inauguration but up to tlie hour of going to press be lias Hot been accused of attempting to make the state pay (be bill. The special election in the 10th Congressional district of Gcoria is expected to take place next August, The contest is between that 1mm rock populist, Tola Watson, and J.C.C.niack, the democratic ballot box Htuller.

Andrew Carnegie bus raised the wages of his laborers JO ptM' cent. Taking into consideration the fact that he has been reducing their wages right along since the McKinley rariiT law went into effect we see no reason why an advance is not justifiable. The National Watchman is still throwing out sop for the new single plank party greatly to the disgust of all true populists. Washington i. a poor place for a people's paper.

In the language of an exchange "it is the gable end of bell." J'ollntion Jloats in the air. Governor Morrill has paid back into the state treasury the 5W7J.71 he paid out of the state treasury for clerks, stenographer ami room rent prior to his in angulation as governor of Kansas. It is becoming more difficult for republican thieves to get away with their booty since the pops have got the people waked up to a sense of their dntv. A giant coal combine has been formed in the New Kngland states whereby profit is made in a year. Now you fellows who vole the monopoly tickets, don't squeal about tho high price of coal, but walk right up to the polls and vote for 'em again.

No business to vote their tickets if you don't ant to give them the power to rob you of life's necessities. It is reported that Mrs.Mary Lease and Miss Mary Morrill, both of Wichita, will shortly form law partnership and open offices in Topeka and Kansas City, Kan Sirs. Lease practiced law in Wich ilrt before she went into politics Sliss Morrill has been stenograph er at tho Topeka insane asylum for several months. She is graduate of the law department of the university at Ann Albor. Leavenworth Saloon Keeper 'Vot for yon republican papers make all dis fuss because Governor Morrill lets Jtle sa'oons rnn vide open? Dot ish just vot he promised LeM do.

lie told me so veu he was here lnri ig le cam paigu. Close dem op! Vet Twemly vive zaloons took in lets cf money. Hey deposit in le between tho hour of 10 o'clock i o'clock ui of naid day, at tho front UiMjr tho court house iu tho eitv of in th oouiity mid Htate nl'orosalil, offer ut iml.ii,. nil I wii nmiiui mvll'r, lOr CllMl 111 hand all tho following described real prniiertv Minuted in the county of Tliomus and state uf a sas, wile. Tho north west ouartor tnw wi of number llvo t.V in township number eight im south, and rango thirty-four ai) west of the tlth 1.

containing ltw acres uccordlii" to government survey. Tho above described real nronertv lovimi Li on and to be soli) as tho property of the iilxtvo named defendants, in pursunneo ofadoereo of foreclosure iu the above entitled action. H. WATEKS. Sheriff.

Sherlifs Offieo. Colby, May imi.v VV. S. WIMcoxon, Attorney for I'l't'f. VOTICE Of APPOINTMtNT-AUminlstra.

i tur, Stato of Kansas, eu Thomas County, In the Matter of the Kstate of Alexander Taylor, late of Thomas Ivans. NOTICE OF AI'POISTMKST. Notice Is herehy plven that on tha 2Tth day of April A. 1). lsn.) the undersigned was, by the probate court of Thnmnx county, duly appointed ami qualified as administrator of the est ate of Alexander Taylor, deconu.

ed. late of Thomas county. All parties In said estate will take nolloo, and kov-era ihenibclven accordingly. Geouqe V. Undaceh, Administrator.

Notice for Publcatlion No. 9140. Land Office, Wakeeney.Kansas, I April 29, 1895. Notico Is hereby plven that tho followlni named nettler has (lied notice of his Intention to make tiniil jiroof In support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before th. clerk of the district court, Thomas county, Kansas, at Colby, Kansas, on viz; LEAXDEU M.

GUEEN, II. A. No. lfliUO for the section 6, town 10s. ranso 32w, llo names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upoii and cultivation of said land, viz: James C.

Emms, William Keeling, John Ilusthes, all of Oakley, Kansas; Jasper V. Davis, of Mingo, Kansas. Abham Fbakes, Register. Notice for Publication No, 25349. U.

S. Land office, Colby. Kansas, May 22, 1835. Notice Is hereby Riven that tho following named settler has filed not Ice of her Intent ion to make Una I proof In support of her claim and that said proof will be made before the Uegisterand Receiver of the IJ- S. land office at Colby, Kansas, on July 9, lt-33, viz: Lhwie KIca Corn well, formerly Lizzie Rica Sigel, II.

E. No. 13CO0 for the se of section 26, town 0, S. of rango 3(5, w. lith p.

m. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Olto Hjork, of Kuka. Charles M. Fen-no, of Brewster, Adam Wright, of Kuka, Charles Emil of Lava, Ks. James N.

Fike, Register. SVECJAt SESSIOX. NOTICE OF SPECIAL SESSION. State of Kansas, I Thomas County. I 00 To I Gilbert and Simpson Parrot mem- tiers ot the uoam or county comniissioner of Thomas county.

Kansas. You and each of vou are hereby notified and requested to meet in special session in the office of the county clerk of said county on Saturday, the lith day of May A. 1. 1MC. at 10 o'clock a.

m. for the purpose of taking action on petition for release of Samuel It. t'iaar, anu appointing townsinp ciera in t.acy township, vice Harry Myers, resigned. Dated at, Colby, Kansas, this, the 11th day of May A tts95. Marble, Chairman, Bd.

Co. Comnis. We and each of us do hereby acknowledge service of tho above and foregoing notice and take full knowledgo of the facts contained in the same and shall govern ourselves accordingly. IE Gilbert, S.cParrott, Members of Board Office or County Clerk, May 18th, 15. I Board met in special session as per above call and was called to order by Mar chairman.

Members present, Marble I Gilbert and Parrot cominissioners.and James M. Stewardsoit, county clerk. Chairman of board stated that a petit inn had been presented to him praying for tho release of Samuel I). Claar, ho is now confined In the county jail lor non-payment of tine and costs taxed against him in criminal case, and which he Is unable to pay. Board proceeded to discuss tho matter of said petition for some time, and at 12 board adjourned to meet at 2 oclock m.

2 oclock rn board met pursuant to adjournment and was called to order by chairman. All members and county clerk present. Board proceeded to the farther consideration of subject pending at adjournment, to the consideration of petition presented to board remonstrating against the leleaso or said Samuel I) Claar, prior to October meeting of board unless the fine and costs were paid by him. Board listened to arguments of petitioner. and parties interested for some timeaudtocn upon motion the following resolution wa adopted "Resolved, Thnf we do not release Pamutl D.

Claar from jail at the present On motion the resignation of II. W. Myers, clerk of Lacey twp was accepted, ana Eaton was appointed to till vacancy. On mot ion board adjourned. Attest: Jas.

M. STEWAnr.so.s. County Clerk. O. W.

L. Douglas S3 SHQEnosqueamno. Ana ower -GenUemen, Ladies Boys and lllsse are tba Best in the World. BeodeKTlptlveadvcrtl merit wbicb ppeaw la paper. Take ao Sufcstitiw Xntiet ea bH8 DOWLAS' with name nA COLBY, KANSAS.

Commissioners ltafa lished, it appears that the products of field and live stoek in Kansas as returned by assessors for the year ending Muich 1, were as follows: Field prod uoN Live sto 'k product Tot ui Prom the annual report of the secretary of the Treasury at Washington, j. it i shown' that the production of gold and silver in the United States, during the calendar year of was as follows: I 2b.Ka.mX0 Total According to these statistics it is a significant fact that the products of field and stock in Kansas alone for the year ending March 1, and that a year of comparative fail-tin; in crops, were nearly equal t. the whole output of all tho gold and silver mines of the United States. It impresses also the immense iniport- i. i i i ance or the agricultural interests ui Kansas.

The servile supremo court has finally declared the income tax unconstitutional. That is what we have said would come of- it. Tax the rich? Not much! They dour? propose to rob skin and plunder the people and then give 2 per cent of it back to the government not as long as we have judges appointed for life, who are pledged to protect the rich in their unholy work. We ask you, what hope is here of relief from legislation as ong as the servile courts stand bet ween the people and justice? Justice in America! What a mockery! A VOXO Til jm I TONS. "Restored prosperity" don't seem to help the laborers uiuch.

In llhodo Island 75.000 weavers are out on a s'rike. and In the mining districts of We.it. Virginia and OliiO' 000 tire out. Industrial News. Too mimv nln nits in nor nlatform Is tho erv of the trimmers.

Perhaps so. hut Texas, with hor tliiriv-oiin plank platronii, east more votes for the I'oimlist. party than any other stato la the union. imr JNation crisis. No man who Is drunkard or a libertine Is tit to represent I he republican party.

Slate treasurer Albert on must he investiiraled just as Senator lingers is Indus investigated. If Alberlou is innocent, let him prove it. If guilty, he must fro or damn the republirnn partv. woe trust no lias netrayeu. niawu-tha World (Hep.) Tho United States treasury renort for Mv 1, I MB, shows the a mount of national bank noles outstanding on that date to be This vast sum of currency Is furnished bv the government to hunks at one per cent.

year to defray the expense of priming and ssuimr. rue nanus loan it to the neonie at the highest Interest obtainable, say six to fifteen per cent, (the latter In thinly settled western localit ies where tho rate is ono per cent, a month.) Now, why shouldn't tho government furnish this S0!) IHW.nOO of paper money lit one per cent to he people of all classes, as well as to this favored little class of usurers? That Is one of the vital demands of the money plunk of the Omaha platform. tanner rihune. FJSKTJEXT AXI IMI'KMIXEXT. "Did tho fisherman hnve frog's less, ltridg- et?" "Shurc I couldn't see, mum; ho had his pants mi." The biggest telegraph oflice in the world Is In tho general postolh'ee building, London.

There are over 3.000 operators, i.Outi of whom are women. Tho batteries are supplied by yo.WX) cells. Who would not ho a reformer a conservative of all that is good, a reformer of Ignorance: a conservative of truths and principles; a reformer of laws and Institutions which are hut the Imperfect work of man. Brljrjrs I read the other day that some words In the t'hlnese ltiug-inifre are capable of forty different meaning liriirgf Wbat a beautiful language to make campaign promises in. At the present time the Australian aborigines are the lowest known species of humanity.

Tlicy have little or no reasoning faculties, and their only idea of a higher power is through fenr. They are chooolatc-colored. wear little elothing, and tlieir weapons are of wood. Von could dig lake in the centre of Texas, it the republic of France on an i-laiut in mat lake and it couldn't be seen fmrn the shore. Vo.i could hide England.

Ireland. S-oilnnd inul Wales In any part of li, and it would be two month Ix-iore any one who didn't know of tlieir locution would lie able to net even a suspicion of it. Mrs. M.iry Brown, one of the last remaining pensioners of the war of Independence, dieil near Know file. April 15 at thenre of In she married Joe Hrown.

a soldier of the revolutionary war, he being then ears eld and she but Hie as In Knox-viile, Mareli totlraw her pension of month, and though feehio seemed able to last many years. Catholic Church. Mass on S.uitrday at 10 a the first Siinday in each month until further notice. H. Ilorgnn, Pastor.

Anyone who wishes to buy gnod work horse lime, should upply to Willcoxoo. Colby nished boards by the eolliu trust whose only excuse on earth is to absurd the wealth created by toiling millions. The threatened arrest of Gov. ernor Morrill for misappropriation of state funds has finally come to naught. The complaint was properly filed and the proof of his guilt established, but the county attorney of Shavvnee refused to prosecute the governor.

Think ye, had it been some poor, ragged half starved laborer charged with the crime of stealing a loaf of bread for a family, the county attorney would have refused to act? No! Laws are not made for the rich to obey. We are in receipt of a democratic paper published in Topeka, which urges the pops and democrats to fuse on the stato ticket in No thanks, gentlemen, the people's party has had enough fusion to last it forever and it will patiently wait for enough tried and true followers to give it a substantial victory. The peo pie's party is glad to have all vote with it who will but not, to combine for a few paltry ollices. Principle and the rights of the masses lirst, all else afterward. Gen.

B. Weaver is in Colorado making free silver single plank- plat lorm-Joe-Sibloy-for-president. speeches. Mr. Weaver is very plain in his statements and says the people's party must put up a man of "democratic tendencies" for president in "J5.

Tho peoples party must do nothing of the kind and Mr. Weaver will find it out too; but there is one thing dead certain and that is the populists will put up a died in the wool man whose faith in the Omaha plat form can never be shaken, and who is ready and willing to light for the masses on all lines of re form. "With all the progress that has been made in science, art and the invention and development of la bor saving machinery, no advant age has accrued to the laboring classes. They are in a worse po sit ion today tliau twenty years ago, more people are out of em ployinent, and poverty i more general; and never in the world's history has crime been so pro i lie or wide spread as the United States to day. The subject mat ter ol our (tail papers is more than half a record of crime, ant' thousands of courts are kept busy trying criminal cases.

Thisciim iual class is not confined to the lower strata, but has invaded the precincts of education and reline meiit, and includes many who hold positions of trust in banks insurance emnpan'es, large eorpo rations and business bouses P.ank wrecking, forgery, defalca tiou and many minor crimes ne of almost daily occurrence among this class. No man is trusted honesty is at discount, am oouds are iieuamied to insure against dishonesty; ami it only needs incentive and opportunity for the average individual to de vclop into a first class criminal Is this not a terrible state of af fairs, when honesty has grown so cold ami decrepit that bonds are demanded to insure against its downfall? Is there not something radically wrong in a system which breeds dishonesty?".

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