Bluff City Herald from Bluff City, Kansas • 3

OKLAHOMA Ouly Waiting. We have relrained lately from saying anything about a creamery, grist mill or sugar mill and have been asked if those enterprises had been We TIMETABLE. 8T. LOUIS AND SAN FBANC1SCO RY. New Time Card In effect at 12:05 a.

m. San-day Oct. 21st, 1SSS. EAST BOUND. A Surprise.

The people of this place were surprised Saturday night to learn that a change had been made in our post office, A. Martin being appointed postmaster. Charley Earnest has made a good post master, faithful, intelligent, obliging. He is a cripple but ambitious, and has never hesitated to do any honorable work that would help him to gain living, and when he was appointed to the office, it gave general satisfaction, for the people had more thought for his deserts than his politics. Mr.

Martin is one STATE BANK BLUFF CITY A general Banking Business Done. IParm Lons. T. CLARK, Cashier. FRISCO CITY.

Is directly south of Slim FTJENITTJR The best way to reach that country and the Territory north and west of it, is from this place. 3 nn THE Mo iiUo are now ready to make you tnose astonismng ture we spoke of TAKE 4 Imk LUFF CITY, HARPER COMTY, HI determined to sell our entire stock of furniture within the NEXT SIXTY DAYS if low prices will do it. "bought this stock at less than factory prices and we mean to give you the benefit thereof if you will accept it. This is an opportunity to buy furniture that you do not ave every day. Read our prices below in plain figures and then ponder, but dont ponder to long and et the other fellow slip in and buy, HERE ARE: answer No.

We have an offer from oue of our citizens, if he can arrange his business a he believes he cao, to pat $3000, into a creamery if the people will invest $2000. more, so that matter, we consider nearly as good a settled. The grist-mill is open for bidders: the situation is good and when we find a proper party we will make bids. The sugar mill could have been built any time since the legislature passed the law allowing townships and cities to vote 'aid, but our people think best to wait until those already being put up should start and demonstrate if they are susceptible of improv-ment. Also we want to see if any of the new discoveries, the Adamson for instance, shall prove to be what is claimed for tiem.

The coming winter we will know what to do, and we believe that next fall, Bluff City will have a sugar mill, a creamery and possibly a grist mill. The best selling thing in town is fruit cans. Galveston will soon have a twine and cordage factory. Somebody fetch us a big watermelon. The Attica Advocate had one that weighed 50 pounds.

Fort Worth is to have a $250,000 cotton mill, which means, a large number of operatives to be fed. The register of dreds in Lyon county is a woman and she announces herself a candidate for re-election. It is conceded by a majority that the headed grain is saving better than the bundle grain in this vicinity. Do you know you can buy more furniture for the money at Bird fc Williams than any place in the county. The Hutchinson Interior-Herald says that a car load of fruit evaporators have been sold in that city this season.

Several of our exchanges are telling about 'ah ear of corn 13 inches long and lots of inches thick." We want one that will go those some better. The Cowley county fair commences at Winfield next Tuesday. It will no doubt be a splendid exhibition. They have the material over there to make it so. The Winfield Courier wants to know if we ever sawuch delightful weather in August? Why yes, saw it last year and the year before and always see it Courier your memory must be bad.

Improvementson the Trinity river; Texas, will soon commence, $10,000 being available for the purpose. At no distant day there will be not one, but several, deep harbors on the gulf coast. The moon is very hard up ju9t now. It's on its last quarter. Journal.

True, and the next quarter it will get, will be spent in order to get full. Atchison Champion. This is not a subject to make light of. The west side ol Oklahoma is undoubt edly making the most substantial im provement and is the most desirable portion of the territory. The settlement of the Kingfisherdistrict is largely Kau-sans which tells the story.

It is tLe general opinion that if the Cherokees do not accept the $1.25 per acre for their interest in the Strip lands, that the government will settle the wild tribes upon the Strip and throw open the land now occupied by all except the civilized tribes. As will be seen elsewhere in these columns R. Ij Houser fc Co. have sold their implement business to Meyers Streat-er. We are sorry to loose Bob from among us for he is a right good fellow, and we believe when he comes back here in five or six years he will say "What an infernal fool I was to sell out." We are in receipt of a note frpm Tom Phillips, enclosing a very interesting letter descriptive of Steamboat Springs, written by him to the Cadiz, Republican, which we would like to reprint if we had space.

Tom is now in Ohio but will soon be in Kansas. He expects to locate at Geuda Springs with W. C. Barnes'. The Geuda Springs Herald reads the riot act to the town authorities for their neglect to enforce the ordinances.

It claims that old men and little boys are bounced for trifles while the "big bugs," who sin by wholesale, are not disturbed. Go for them, Will, if it wasn't lor the newspapers and the churches, what would become of this wicked world. One of the beneficent institutions of the state, is the deaf and dumb institution at Olathe. The state has provided a splendid building, equiped with everything for the comfort, health and thorough education of th6 deaf and dumb. Those unfortunate youths are here given an ordinary common school course, and, besides, are taught mech-aimcal trades, housekeeping, sewing, drawing, painting and etc, thus fiting them to earn their living along with their more fortunate brothers and sisters.

Any deaf or dumb child in the state, will be received into the school and books, board and tuition furnished free by the state. Persons interested should Correspond with S. T. Walker the Superintendent. The Frisco people have put in a Fair-bank's platform scale just east of the depot.

This on the face of it might ap pear to be a worthy and liberal act, but it isn't. Oar grain buyers have never been able to get the least accommodation, aften having to fur Dish their own grain doors or let their wheat run out. The cause of this scale movement is to try and establish a buyer here who will ship to St. lionis. Heretofore the mills at Arkansas City have afforded our buyers a better market than St.

Louis, and just so long as this continues the bulk of the wheat will go there. Saint Louis can be depended on for the best grade only and anything that is "off," may not bring freight, while Arkansas City, has a steady market for all grades. If the railrooda want to get the long haul they must make rates that deducted from the price in market, will still leave something for the wheat here. No. 4, Passenger No.

30, Freight WEST BOUND. No. S. Passenger No. 29, Freight DIRECTORY.

.6:58 a in .7:50 Mayor James Glover. Police Judge W. W. Bird. -City Clerk P.

P. Lewis. Treasurer Y. A. Miller.

Councilmen, C. W. Elsie. N. V.

McCain. Beegle. C. A. Dovr.

1 CHURCHES. M. E. CHURCH. Begular services, alternate Sundays witb the Christian church.

C. E. Mann, Pastor. CHRISTIAN CHURCH Regular services, alternate Sundays with the M. E.

church. ELDER WALLING, Pastor. UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL. Every Sunday at 9:35 a. m.

C. W. FISK. Superintendent. SCHOOL BOARD.

W. D. Frutchy, Director; P. P. Lewis, Treasurer; W.

T. Clark, Clerk. POSTOFFICE. Open 6 a. m.

to p. m. Evening through mail closes at 5:45 p. m. Way mail closed :15 a.m.

C. N. ERNEST, P. M. SOCIETIES.

SLIT CITY F. A A. W. Bird, VT. M.

C. Fisk, S. G. W. Cobh, J.

C. B. Frank S. J. J.

Mccarty, J.D.; C. E. Meyers, Secretary; Martin, Treasury. Meets every Saturday night. Lodge In State Bank building.

Visiting brothers Invited. BLUFF CITY LODGE, NO. O. O. F.

P. Lewis, N.G.; W. A. Williams, V. G.

c. W. Fisk, Sec. c. E.

Meyers, Treas Meets every Monday night. Lodge In State Bank building. Visiting- brothers in good standing are cordially invited to meet with us. BLUFF CITY LODGE, NO. 220-A.

O. U. W. C. E.

Myers, M. J. W. Arnold, Recorder. Meets every Tuesday night In State Bank building, Visiting workmen invited to vneet with is.

BACON POST, NO. 451. G. A. R.

VT. R. Camerer, P. C. Win.

Buskins, Adjt. Meets every second and fourth Thursday night at Fraternity HalL PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. W. ARNOLD, M. D.

PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Office and residence in Bank building, south entrance. DR. C. W.

GOODRICH, Physician and surgeon. T)rn Store. All calls "Office at New All calls answered day of night. Chronic cases a specialty. Cyclone Insurance, James Glover.

All kinds of machine oil at C. A. Dow's Pipes and smoker's articles at C. Dow's. Sore care for chicken cholera at C.

A. Dow's. The G. A. R.

and Sons of Veterans will hold a camp fire at their hall early la September. The Odd Fellows will give a social at the hall next Wednesday evening for the brethren and their families. Don't pay fancf prices on long time for insurance, i can do better by you i the Hartford or home. Jambs Glover, Agent-Grain insurance I am prepared to insure your grain In stack barn or grainery, from one month to one year at a trifling cost. James Gloves.

To Advertisers. Business men who are carrying a standing ad and wish to insert locals, will be charged three cents a line, to ethers the price will be five cents. The notes and accounts of R. L. Hous-er Co.

will be found at the State Bank and we desire that the same be met promptly. R. Ii. Houser Co. If you want insurance I can give you The Home of N.

The Hartford of Hartford, The State of Des Moines, Iowa and the Kansas Fire, ef Abilene. James Glover, Agent. The weekly Capital Commonwealth and the Herald for $1.75. This offer is for cash and enables you to have all the latest news from the capital of the state and your own local paper at the price of one. The Capital-Commonwealth will contain the most complete report of legislative proceedings publishsd anywhere.

Notice, 1 Having sold our impliment business to Messrs. Myers and Streator, we take this method of thanking our customers for their patronage extended to us, and express our appreciation of the present relations that haye at all times existed in our business with them. We kindly bespeak for our successors a continuance of your patronage. They are well enough known to merit your confidence. Respectfully, R.

L. Houser fc Co. Wanted. Parties with experience and some money to invest in a creamery. This is a good location and will make it an object to the right, person.

We also want a grist mill of 50 or 60 barrel canacity-and a practical miller with capital to build a mill and run his business. Can secure a liberal bonus. The territory tributary to a mill here, is large, and so soon as the "Strip" is opened will be practically unlimited on. the south. Address the "Mayor," Blufi City, Hprper county, Kansas.

of our best citizens and is capable of filling the office, doubtless to the satisfaction of its patrons, but, we be lieve if. ttte question was put to a vote or thoroughly discussed the verdict would be to sustain the civil service idea, and allow the present in cumbent to serve out his time. Besides, it seems hardly treating the business men and the old time rustlers fairly to ignore them so entirely, in the matter, while we had no reason to belive the choice would have been different, bad they been consulted and a change determined on. No man would have re- caived our name quicker than Mr. Mar tin, but we object to our home affairs being managed by outsiders, be they Judge Peters, the Postmaster General or even President Harrison.

The men who made Bluff City and sustain it, would, it seems to us, be proper councillors in a matter of this kind. Election. Next Wednesday the election to fill vacancies in the City Council will be held, and our desire is to call proper alien tion to the importance of selecting the proper persons to fill the offices. The council stands towards us as a com munity the same as the legislature does toward ihe Btate, and its composition should be a matter of interest to every one that cares to see the town prosper and grow. Select men that have inter ests here; men that will attend to the city business and deem it a duty.

Too often men look upon attendance on council meetings, as of little impor tance and allow any trifle to keep them away. Such men are either unconscious of the duty conferred by their neighbors and their obligation to it, or they are too selfish to the little time necessary from their own affairs. The coming year may be an important one to us. There are sevaral enterprises talked of that it may be the duty of the present council to mature. We do not expect a miracle to happen, but believe that to push ahead, grow and prosper, we must work for all there is in sight and keep working.

We want to see a council elected that will be in harmony with that idea. "WeStern Farm Mortgages. MThose persons who have considered the farm mortgages of Kansas as unprecedented in amount, will be interest ed in the following figures for several states, given in the "Bankers' Month ly:" TOTAJj FARM MORTGAGES Kansas $235,000,000 Indiana 035,000,000 Iowa 567,000,000 Michigan 500,000,000 Wisconsin 357 000,000 Ohio 1,127,000,000 A comparison of these figures shows that Kansas has but one-third of the of the farm debt of Indiana, less than one half that of Iowa and Michigan, and only about one-sixth of tbg debt of Ohio, considered one of the most prosperous states in the Union. Kansas, it will be observed does not suffer by comparison with older and generally considered more prosperous states." Our corn crop this year, sold at ten cents a Dushel, will pay off every dollar of our farm mortgages and leave forty million dollars to loan Iowa, Michigan, or some other suf fering state. Carry the News to Hannah.

The Droves News of Wichita asks everybody to hold up their hands and then invokes the shades of Ceres to wit ness, while they relate, what seems to them, the unheard of yield of 47 5-11 bushel of wheat per acre, on the farm ofS. H. Hess on the Cowskin. While that is a splendid return to Mr. Hess, still it is not phenominal, at least not down here.

J. E. Hutson sold wheat at Doster to W. W. Miller, that yielded 51 3-10 bushels and it was not a small selected patch.

Mr. Hutsons wheat this season at thepresent prices, will net him over $4000. Sedgwick is a splendid county but for a farming country is badly cut up with the Arkansas river and Wichita additions. When you want to see big fields and big yields, Brother, News, come down to Harper and Sumnercoun ties. A Great Offer.

The publisher of the Herald tak es great pleasure in announcing that he has made arrangements by which he can offer this paper and the Kansas City Evening News together for one year for $2,50. This is only about half the regular price of the two papers. The Evening News is published every day In the year except Sunday, and is one of the bright est papers in the great Southwest. It regularly gives all the news from both home and abroad. It is bright, crisp and entertaining.

Samrle copies will be sent on application to the publisher of this paper. Hand in your orders at once and have your home paper and a metropolitan daily sent you for the coming year. Their Title. The Cherokee title to the the Strip is based on the following clause in Secre tary Calhoun's letter, dated October 8th. 1821: "It is always understood that in removing white settlers from Lovely's purchase for the purpose of giving the outlet promised you to the wjstyou ac quire thereby no right to the soil, but merely to an outlet of which you appear already apprised." All treaties with those people since then haye been based on that letter and the government has frequently reminded them that they had no title which was the reason of our lease being submitted to the Interior department lor approval.

Peaches. Now that peaches are so plentiful, wo want to see as many of them as possible saved. Cau them, preserve them, dry them, pickle them and if there is any otber method of keeping them, put it in use. There is no nicer or wholesome fruit and there should be enough put by to last two years. Tin cans and glass fruit jars by the wagon load at Bird Williams.

Bargain 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cherry bedroom suit, $25.00 worth 835.00. Solid walnut suit, 28.00 worth 40.00. Imitation walnut 23.50 worth 33.00. Ash and maple beds 6.00 and 0.50 worth 7.50-8.50. Solid walnut bureau qur marble top 15 worth 22.

Perforated bottom chairs 4.50 worth 5,50. Mattresses 1.50 worth 2.50. Ladies sewing chairs 1.50 worth 2.50. Wash stands 1.75 worth 2.50. Best curtain shades complete 75 cents.

Picture moulding 15 cents per foot. Picture frames at your own price. We have a great many more bargains we might mention but we can not do it at present. In the other branches of our business wo shall endeayor to keep as full and complete as the trade demands. BIRD WILLIAMS.

prices on iurni- recently. We have DISTRICT FAIR. Special Premiums. For the best oil painting, copy to be furnished by S. M.

Neal, one set of five volumes Maiauley'a History of England M. Neal. Lumber Company will giv 200 feet four ineh crib lumber for bos bushel yellow dent corn, raised, on th exhibitor's own farm. P. P.

Lewit, Manager. To the exhibitor of the best load cf corn, a large rocking chair or an office chair as desired. Bird William. Our Dlstrtlct Fair, We expect to publish the premium list next week to be offered by the dis trict fair which will be held in Walnut Park on the last Friday and Saturday of September. This should have been done sooner, but the exceedingly busy season has prevented the officers getting together.

Everyone with whom we have talked are preparing to come to the fair and bring something to show and we expect to haye a pleasant and profitable time. Half Kate Excursion to Milwaukee and return. On August 21st to 28th inclusive, the Frisco Line will sell round trip excursion tickets to Milwaukee and return at one single fare for the round trip, for persons to attend the 23d national en campment ot the G. A. R.

which takes at Milwaukee, August 2Sth to 31st, inclusive. Children between the ages of five and twelve years can purchase at half of the excursion rate. These excursion tickets carry you through the cities of St. Louis and Chicago, and are good between Chicago and Milwaukee in cither direction by rail or steamer. These tickets are good for return between Augnst 29th, end September 5th final limit Sept.

10th, all dates inclusive. A special privilege is afforded persons holding these excursion tickets who desire to make aside trip from Milwaukee. By depositing same with joint agent at Milwaukee on or before September 3d the limit on euch deposited tickets can be extended to September 30th. Remember the advantages afforded by purchasing your ticket via the Frisco Line, St Louis and Chicago For full particulars regarding rates, routes, time schedules, call upon or address D. Wish art, Gen'l Passenger Agent, St.

Louis, Mo. Oklahoma and the adjoining territory north and west of it, will probably soon be opened for settlement. Blufl City lies on the border of the Indian Territory. There is a fine wagon road from here over a smooth! level country, down through the Territory and Oklahoma to Port Reno, 114 miles south, that traverses thousands of acres of the finest farming land in America. There are thousands of beautiful farms lying in sight of this place, closo to market and all the advantages of aj well settled country, and as fertile and well watered as it is across the border in Kansas.

Buy your ticket to Bluff City if you are going to move or to prospect. By driving from here, you avoid the sandy, rough country west here, and you can find here everything you need to take with you into the new country. Take the Frisco Line to Bluff City. PERSONALITIES. Mrs, Mort McComas ank children ar visiting the family of W.

S. Howard. Doctor Arnold reports the birth of a little girl Tuesday, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed.

Donnell. Joe Zeigler subscribes for the best farm paper in Kansas, the Kansas Farmer through this office. The finest watermelon we haye had this season was presented by N. V. McCain and weighed 45 pounds.

Mrs. Frank Buckley, of Beanmont, has been visiting in the city the past week, the guest of Mrs. J. E. Hamilton.

Billy Gardner, son of Sheriff Gardner, was badly hcrt by a lot of gamblers in Guthrie, who it is thought mistook him for some one else. Jimmy Pulliatn hung up a dozen ears of corn in our office that are remarkably he says they are but a fair average of his whole crop. K. O. Codding, a promising young business man, of Winfield, who was accidentally shot "while out hunting last week, died Monday afternoon.

H. K. Swift, of Cheiry vale, who has been visiting at W. S. Howard's, returned home Tuesday.

The boys think he will "Swiftly" "Carrie" away one of our nice girls. The Bliss Wood grist mill, or Winfield, has been sold to J. P. Baden. It is a splendid mill and we are glad to hear that it is in the hands of a thorough business man.

Fred Ikner came np from Oklahoma Sunday. He reports the Bluff City colony all satisfied and with bright future prospects. Woll's family had been sick but were getting better. Dr. Holmes, of Ohio, and son of A.

Holmes, is here attending his father who has been very ill with fever. We trust his skill will be suflacient to bring his father safely through. Mr. Holmes is one of our most esteemed citizens and his speedy recovery is earnestly desired by his many friends. Corn knives of every description at Bird te Williams.

There is a hukster wagon that is doing a retrular business between ne ana points in Oklahoma. Wedne day it loaded for Henneeey. J.MEJS GLOVER, Notary PuMIc Agent for the H03IELNSUBA2TCE COMPANY, Ol NEW YORK ana "STATE" OP IO (Real Estate Sold on Commissio.