Hill City Sun from Hill City, Kansas • 4

Fcm first Local News. 'HE HILL. CITY SUN Thps. H. McGill, Editor and Proper.

"'Entered or transmittion tarotgh the mails jivew. h' eed and Sale Stable 'issded Thursday ef 'Each week at $1 ptr year; TvY 7 -r 4 West Summit House, Of ieial Matters. PROCEEQIHC Kegolaf session oard of 'county' commissu AftStv Tv6i Carry aU Poinfs at lowest possible rates and Hwm iJtLf cart State of Kansas, S3 Graham cr-enty. -j Pursuant to statute, tha board '6 f' cotinty Com-joiiibioijert mpt in, regular session. i Members present, D.

Hickman chairman and Bobert commissioner, ami '13. YariSlyck, county Sleik, whereupon the chairman requested tliat fKe board stand adjourned until1 3th, lSSa 9 o'clock, a. to allow him to attend tha funeral of his fathrr-inaWj wliich -was Sche accordingly. 'Attest B. "YanSirek; La-wson merman 4 County UlerK.

Stat8 of Kansas, a 68 Urahamcoanty Jannjirvfit i. 18S PROPRIETORS OP TTTR adjournment, thq board rnet in Pursuant to regular "seemion, Leading: RSeat farket Of Thfi Robert Allen and W. Hoyt, lnembers-of the chickens foritha Holidays. MAIN STREET. OPPOSITE DELMOXTPn ttattcw HILL CITY, 4 KANSAS B.

jKackley, Proprietor of tji Qrpat Western Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. North of Pomeroy rjlocji; Cash paid for horfoi, Good rigs and teams always ready for the tratelinj ftibUo. Hors boarded by the day or reek. Phaetons, Sulkies, Bnggies. Carts and Wagons for HILL CITY, KAXm erCo mm hoard, and jj.

Viinsly, County clerk. Moved by Boot. Allen that the; courity' commissioners Jeraove their office from the'Fomroy building in Mill City, to the now cbof htiuse la" Hill City, aiucondetl by X. wherefupon ithe vote fvas as fellows; H. Hickman and Kobert Allen, $ve, and W.

Hoy nay, whereupon the board Adjourned, tp meet at the nsw court house at 2 Hoard je-assembleu at 2 a loc.k. p. present including Z. C.JTritt County attorney. fu motion the assessment of Mrs.

Mary Jones fr Gettysburg township was reduced from $40 to $5, and county clerk ordered to make such change being for taxes of 1S88. On motion the follow-lug bpnds of the county and township offices were approved Pioneer township; Wilson Bowers; township clerk; Geo. Clark, 'justice of the beace: justice' ci the yeaco. FV? constable; Jerome Slionp, township' treasurer "W.ild Hors township: wm. H.

Jones clerk; Wm. M. Sott; constable; Mullaney instable; Rheubin Kit-g." township treasurer; Henry Garrett, justice of the peace: II Snyder; justice of the peace; tfhess, 1 trustee0 and as-bsoe. Gettysburg township; Blackman and Wm. Stone justice of th peace; Merwin, toXvriship cleric; Jas treasure, Thomas Lankford, constable;" John trustee and Asesdr; 'Wicodemus township; oriffin, justice otthaiieace; chas.

Baxter, constable; John Vaughn, trustee. Allodium township! Thomas Cooney, clerk; constable; A Yam-prut, tieasurer; wP D(onohbo. justice of the efice; qeo EmmonI trustee and assessor. Gra-iam township: Gei' Stickler, trustee and assessor; Brnih and Thdmpson, justices of the anc T. Eastman, constables; A Clark, clerk; Flyhn, treasurer; On motion board adionrned uhtil wednebday porning, at 9 o'clock; Hvedneday, Jan.

Hth. Board after being called to 6rde'r, proceeded with' approval of bonds as follows! I Fly nn, county euperintendant, 3 it Hawkins, clerk district court. Indiana township: Sain Farver, clerk, Joseph Edwards, treasurer, 8 faiscsy, trustee 'and assessor. Hill city township; 0 Eopson, constable, hb Blackbnrn, ind A Pipes, justices of thft peace, WmMc-fclUre. trustee and agaesnof.

Bryant' township: Hiclcs clerk, F. Bower, constable, A Hobbs, treasurer, Law and 11 Grabam, justices of the beace.w Kune.r, lr.asteQand assessor. Solomon townsluiu M'c rinley, trustee and assessor, chas. ilccinlep. treasurer, crank, clerk, dc Kay, Justice of the peace, sesse tilark; pojUible.

Mor-Itin township! Gordon, "justice of the peace, A Supper, treasurer, Mnmmert, 'constable, i t'austee and kssessoi1. Millbrook township- Li Erichard, trustee and aSsqssbr, a Martin, justice qf the peace. On motion the as-fiOHSinent of A McPherson, for the year 1888, iwas reduced SLOW), bein.s 25 per fcent. on the sarao paving bera at its true value, and the capital s.toclt of other banks in the county assessed at 75 per cent. This order being made equalise his assessment.

Oral evidence taken. On motion the agsessmgnt of the tyarmer's joint Stock company olsic'oflemus was Reduced from $600 tq on account of error in aid aasessmpnt. Eyienbe being furnished on path. I'etition of formation of Happy tpwnship being presented, the board finds, that' said petition tm been published fqr a period of three months, aext priqt 'to 'this date; that said petition is sign- Ixi by 'more ihan 50 legal resident' electors; more Han 80 square niles, and rcore tlmn 2U0' inhabi-jjnts resident ip "aid territory; said township of llappy being bounded as follows; Commencing at tho nor theast corner of section 8, township 9, outh of range 2'4 west, and piling th'qnco west in section line To tle northwest corner of sec. 11' tnwnshio'9.

south of ranee' 23 xsreat. t.hrn 33ea.lrsin Lath, Shinfflesi Lime9 Lumber dard. It IooIls pretty tough 1 on religion wheii' iiiinister'of the gospel hs to swear. t5: do his dty.1 One thing is 'certain, no1 boy of ever be a member 'of the legislater if I dan help I have a notion" that all Tegislaters are creatures of the wtitin chaps ese they Would not pay ko much attention to th em. Right her5 I want to Hvarn the young against running for.

vthe offices of tne legislater, They ate delusions and snares and the pppr fellows have to kntickle to the members worse even tha he members to the 5 It'is hardly necessary for me to say that I havh't 'as'mucll respect for the laws of Kansas "py blame sight as I had before my visit to the temporary for en a fellar is cnOo'sed on the 'wrong side lie is apt to make thjudges believe that wrong is right'tnyiirclose this shbrt epistle by wishing you the usual compl iments giveft on closing articles for ublication.Sairia Ifepublican. i i-: Fii3rErl'BKbwN. Cal I on the Old Reliable First National Bank beford teelling your County script. "2 it RQ ADS AOT SUQAR FprroE 1 "see taat the Board of Co'unty Commissioners through their supveme generosity gave to C. Fountain; F.

3.. Tuick, II. Jr Harwi, et al tjie sum pf $1300 as damages in ponsequence qf an act of the tl egilature making all section nnes'rp'ads in ijran'am county. Men who have been in office iq." this county should npt be the first to open the way to bankrupt "our county; if every man yhp' happened to' own a quarter section qf land shpiild apply to the Board fo damage as these pei-sons have (and surely they have the sanpj In' the co'upty we have 9Qp sectiqfis aiid four miles to each section pl'aping the daniage at $50 per mile a sum'much 'less than the Board allowed ttpse istinquish-ed gentjemenwill place a dpbt of $180,600 uppn" the' "Now would if no't, geem more reasonable and jut for "ifie $oard have al lowed them aiair conipe'nsatiori for their land say 10.00 'ty Qre. and then allowed every other person so injured the sarpe amount and that will cause a debt qf and then call the 'more liberal por tion pf the county to qnate what they wquljl gei 'tp erect a sugar plant in Graham cPpnty.

This" would look to me likp a sensible move qn the part pf thp pppple. Qf course there would be gonie who wpuld not donate and t' ppild npt be expected that wj)p came here poor and were elected to a county office and heloj it for tw6 fpup or six years couid afford tp donate tq anything that wpuld cpntribute sq largely to the welfare cpunty but there are tljpse whp have lived' in sod houses, and haye lived qn half rations and have donp everything in their pover to make a decent and- comfortably living who wpuld gladly give to enterprise Q.f thfsind but they would first look, and not be charged shysters robbing the coun- ty. is Belling everythina at bed-rock prices. The Santa Fe R. has been doing spme book keep jpg whiph cannot be nnrayelied by the 6harebp)ders, says the Chicago Times.

Thig railroad has 14,100 shareholders arid the Times says: "It is, however, this forrp of bpokkeeping that renders it difiicult to make any cleaj statement of the earnings of the Alison's entire system "without 1 rTrad at Green's cash store if yqa rant to saTO money. Gov. Hill, of Kew recom-mends that retiring prpsidepts be made life members of the U. S. Senate.

Certainly; Hill is high tariff, Cleveland lower tariff, and the manufacturer's money elected Hill and defeated Cleveland. Just such a fool proposition as this might be expected from a man elected by money. It seems impossible for this country to steer clear of an aristocracy, For glPTes, mittens, end nnderwaar, go to Garnett's, tf tueco, Cement and Hair. -Also tile "LEXiPGTO," PilO pftGcl; "best in. tine aricet.

HILL PITY, mm another column. JSuowed last Suiiday and rained Mondajf and Tuesday. ggTtith said that tlere are several gambling places in town. The mild winter run tle price, of hav. doh to 4 SSIP'R, C.

Childs will move his family from C-ss bity to IliU City. JJ. II. Cciyier got a car load of flour from Liiiboln last Saturday! JT'J. II.

Phelp living northwest of town, called St the Sex bflics last week. 4 4 iTThe Iieyeille sign was painted by a union labor 'mau and it is a goo.d o.ne. 2rA Smith county man i doing some, tall 'lying to get 'the HUFCity postoffiS. J. H.

Wright, of the Star, moved his 'family from h.fs farm near'tepor last jfonday: CST'The First Rational bank is negotiating the removal of their stone building jilro.ok. JMore peojde will have an opportunity to read official county proceedings than ever befqre. "i You can get Kansas salt at the stores now. A car load arriyefl' from Hutchinscm a few days ago, iMrs, Ujh Pritchar.d, of lill-brook has been gtG sick ''t at last accqiints was i'mproying. Sun desires three' or four bushels of 90 day corn, not of.

the flint variety, for yhiciy we will pay a fair price. 5,1 "Plant 9(3 cor early in the spring or lpte? say abput' Jn.rte. 1st, anf you Tyill miss the. jQtyfindvs and probably get some corrj, JIt is believed that when two or three farm loans, now pending, are consummated there will be a little money in circulation far a few days. ITA dispatch from Bypf.

Piatt to Rev. Oeore yesterday, stated that he missed tl)Q train and therefore could not be. on timq at' the, S. S. In-stitute.

HPDiErr-Jan. 15th, 1389. at 11 o'clock a. JJ. P.

of Hill City, juried yesterday. Funeral services to, Ijp preached Sunday at 11 a. m. at Cqngregational church, i returned from Chicagp and the east last Saturday. UTThe first mail over the L.

C. arrived lagt JJonday at 11 o'clock and the roiite frorg. Hill City to Ed-mond has beep stopped. gnWe learn from Coder that Eugene Goffs sod houe at old. Whitfield, fell in last Friday and his little boy, age years, was killed.

The older these sod houses become the mgre ffongey there is living in them. STThe county printing matter came up before the commissioners last iSJonday and the print jng for the year 1889 was awarded to the Star, Reveille, Democrat aud Sux, of Hill City, and Times, of Mill-brook, pne-gfth legal rates tp each. SPThprp js talk pf bonding the county to the full amount of the outstanding script. It would bp a great saving to the county, provided script could be floated at par. As the income from taxes for county porposes this year will be fully $10,000 enough to pay running expenses this year there is no vaijd reason why script should contine to.

be 85 perct. many readers in 3raham county will read and closely scrutinize the legislative proceedings this winter? 50? If not more than this how can there bean intelligent ballot for and senator two years hence? And how about congressional matters, too? A few people appropriate unto vast riches by and through law and if you do not what is going on in our legislative bodies how can you vote right? fcST'Insuring the court house and letting the county printing were prettv lively proceedings before the commissioners. Ceurt house was insured for divided equally among four printing was let to the four papers in Hill City and Times, of Millbrock. Printing was let at legal rates, divided among the live papers. gSTThere would be less whisky guzzled in Hill City if thera were not so many of the drinkers sucking the public teat; and these drinkers are trimming for the city election in the spring and the county election in the fall.

And ikzzt are two papers of different political skades that will magnify the glorious deeds of these guzzlers when they are brought forward for ofiiee. BlackMtumg. John f-fammell, Proprietor, Al tiling 3Don NeatJyAnd 3roraptlyr, HorsarSloeing a Specialty. 1 invite Inspection of Work. First doer west of Mitchell Lawrence's Lirery Barn, HILL CITY, KANSAS ioiith on section line, to the northwest corner eeciwn 23, tqwnship 9, south of range 3 west, Ihenca west; on section linp to tlie northwest cor 3 ner of (JoctiQn 43, township 9, south of ranee 24 H.

Wales, Qontractor, PJter- erand Bricklayer. Plain and ornamental plastering: a specialty. Jos. S. Trosper, Excuse Painting, Graining an Caiciniiningi Sign Painting Neatly and Promptly eiecnted, Paper Hanging a Specialty, All Work Guaranteed.

HILL CITY, KAS, Cisterns that will stand the test of this cli mate pnt down reasonably. HILL CITY, KAS. E. Sanford, Prop'p. of Feetj EVfill.

Opposite liiwrence's Barn. Chop' feed always on hand for $ale. Grain ground on shares or for capn. Wil deliver chop feed any where in toyn. -Give me a call at the mill.

Jf C. F. Bbown, DEALER IN- HILL CITY KAS. a cy and St a pi Grocerie C2 C. Mecbem, JWbs ractor.

Pomeroy HILL CITY, KAS. A complete stock of GLASS. QUEENS, tzA WOODEN 'WARE to select from, South side of Garnett Blook, HILL CITY, KAS. ivrst, thencs south on Bectioh line tq the south iine of Graliam county, heIce eaat on south line pf Uraham county to the southweet corner of sec. township lfy south of range 23 west? thence north on section line to pacp "of beginning.

Whereupon it is considered prdoreil, and od-udsred, that the prayer of tlje petitioners be irauteu and tlio township of Happy bp formed iccording to the above descriqtion. And that he voting precinct be at the school in No. 77. continued next week. Sheriffs Sales.

J.is. Pomcroy ys E. J. gmith, Oil Feb. 2d, 880, 'at goutlj clpor of the court house, the following property of the above defendant will be fjold by the Sheriff See.

35 G24. Pomeroy vs Dan'l. and Mary peihl, S. II. Bogart and C.

C. Brown on the same date and place by the Sheriff iii' favor of Pomeroy for $634.25 tho following real estate of the defendants will bp sold to-wit; S. i S. E. i ami i i See.

33 24. Pomeroy vs IJarvey and Lydia Evans on the same day and place for the sum of 393.50, the following property of defendants will be sold by ths Sheriff, to-wit W. Sec. 30723. Pomeroy vs Irwin and Ella Eaks And Marcus A.

Owen, on the same date and place for the sum of the following property of the defendants will be sold by the Sheriff towit: N. W. i Sec, 18921. Chicago Lumber Co, vs A. L.

and Mary J. Duuwoody on Saturday, Jan. 19, 3889, at 2 p. at south door of the court house on Main Street, by the Sheriff, the following property of above defendants in favor of L. Company to-wit: N.

I lots 1, 3 and 5, block 2, in Hill City. Ilax Furniture Co. vs V. C. and Ti.

A. Young, on Jan. 5, 1889, by the Sheriff, at the court house, the following property will be sold in favor of plaintiff towit: W. N. E.

and K. E. i X. E. i and S.

E. i N. Tr. i Sec. 12 23.

The Star gallery will make you a nice portrait pictnre 8 10 framed for $2. 33pYbiskey gulling continues in this neck o' buffalo grass. And most of the guzzleys don't pay their honest debts. of 5iill Oity, Is selling boots and a 50 per cent, below cost. i The Leading Farm Paper.

The Kansas Fanner, new in its 26th year, im proves with age. In contains 20 pages, and stands at the head of men who gratuated in tbe school of the farm, old Kansans who believe in tSe state and who beliero in developing all oar possibilities. The Kansas Farmer ia a broad-ganged jonroal which aims at the education of farmers and their families; rpm the plow to the platform, from the pail to th? parlor. The feet firmer is an educated gentleman, end bis. wife and children are graceful companions of the good and rare.

This stalwart old friend of the people believes in building cp everywhere thebpstandtbEtroneiimenand women, and in making th farm a fountain of good things, It is not only a teacher of farm work and farm methods, but it is an educator in tate-craft. Published weekly at Topeka. at tbe re, dnced price of $1.00 a Sample copy free. Addrc Kunsas Farmer Company. special arrangement tha Kansas Fanner is clubbed together with the Hill City hzu both, papers for only $1.59.

gfTn all the commissioners allowed over $1300 road damages at the session just passed, The decision of Judge Pratt in the Brown appeal case opened the door for others to put in claims and they came with a rush last week and quite a number got their claims through, aggregating the amount stated. There is no doubt, we think, that since the passage of the bill making all sec. lines highways the county is liable according to the provisions of the act but we thhiik it not nevcisary- to from 20 to 50 an acre when $10 an acre would be goed round price. Co to tho Art Gallery for best crbiaet phctns, opposite new court Lease. Subscription Offer Renewed.

Our offer of the Suk and Chicago Weekly Times for one year for 1 is again renewed. The former proposition closed Jan. 1st, but we are glad to announce that the two papers can be had for one year for thspric? of our paper alone. This offer has beentaLen up-already by a umber of ourjbubseriUic. and we hope to receive many more.

The Weekly Times can be seen at this office. This will last foi 30 days only. CroupSiPortrsits and views cheap at Etar ceilerjr. The Star gallery is making a C'i d.v rt i 03 largo work. In speaking of 00 day com Crau.

Hickman says: liile it is generally a small variety yet it is better to have some coin" than now: at all'.