Bluff City Herald from Bluff City, Kansas • 3

BLUFF CITY HERALD A Certain Class. There is a certain class ot people, a few of which are to be Found in every community who consider themuelyeg a decided success, and do not hesitate to eral votfal solos Whicfl wef welt feSeiv ed. Miss Russell has an excellent voice which has had the benefit of the culture and training of the best schools. Her efforts were warmly encored, and she obligingly responded with other Hufi4reds and thousands of home-seekers now have their" eyei and iaindf turned toward the much Cia.kf the wil known secretary and treasurer of the Harper Milling committed suicide Monday morning by shooting himself through thelheart. The cause is suppossd'to be financial trouble, and possibly, despondency from the mysterious disappearance of his brother a year ago.

We baa a slight acquantance with Mr. Clark and thought him a plescnt, intelligent and prosperous business W. i Coulson, of Anthony, met with a bad accident at Peauthoht last Saturday. He was boarding train when his foat caught in a loose planic Off thdf platform which threw him down, his hand striking the rail just before the moving wheel, which passed over it, cutting off all the fingers of the right hand. Through the enterprise of Carley Myers and George Mulvey, the stars and stripes now float proudly from the belfry of our school house.

We trust the young minds may daily be taught to respect and love the "glorious ensign of the republic," as loyal Americans should. Married, at Anthony, September 30, Will Tucker to May Willis, both of this place. The Herald extends best wishes for the prosperity and happiness of the young couple. Long live the delightful weather. Wheat is coming up beautifully.

Everybody Is busy seedincr. TALKED ABOUT As a place desirable Lies within five miles of this beautiful country, and is one of the principal outlets from the state into the Strip and Oklahoma. A good wagon road leads from here, over which thousands have traveled to and from Oklahoma since its settlement. This will also be te nearest MARKET and TRADING POINT to a very large scope of the Strip, south and west, for years to come, which will greatly increase business here, and push the growth and importance of the town and advance the value of farms and other property throughout the township. Those seeking new homes and hesitate to go into a wild, new coun try and endure its hardships, its privations and slow development, if they have little means, can locate themselves near Bluff City and escape the disagreeable features of first settlement; besides having the inestimable benefits of SCHOOL, CIIURCn and MARKETS, immediately.

Many of the first settlers here, by reason bad management, have become involved and their farms can be bought at bargains, and these ands passing into the hands of men of business experience and conservative methods, will prove fine investments. This the acknowledged center of the now famous SUGAR BELT; the finest wheat producing section in Kansas; grows all kinds of grain vegetables and fruit to perfection. The water, both in streams and wells-is pure and soft and is obtained in lasting supply at a depth cf twenty to forty feet The climate is salubrious, healthy and delightful no long win-pr to wear out the system and consume the earnings of the summer, land while hot in summer, yet it is not enervating; men and horses working with comfort and safety in a temperature that would be fatal to both in the north. Nights are always cool and afford refreshing sleep in the hottest season. This southern country is peculiarly adapted to raising cattle and hogs, the short, mild winters greatly reducing the expense of shelter and the amount of feed required to keep animals in condition that it taket to show the same results in the colder states.

Farmers here have more time to work and can cultivate twice the number of acres that can bo done in any other state, and do it more comfortably. The central position of Kansas in the Union will insure markets on all sides; Colorado will always be a consumer of her products. Our nearness to tide-water will, so soon as harbors are built on the Gulfj put ua practically, FIFTEEN HUNDRED miles nearer Europe, 'which means higheririces for the products of the farm. Mexico and the two Americas are seeking closer commercial relations with the United States and no state will be more benefitted thereby than Kansas. CHEROKEE STRI1 to locate a homei KMSAS! and, on the' Saint Louis and San Fran- soil, churches, schools, moral and in to sell Rock Bottom Prices.

lower than tliey were ever sold before. Our large Block awaits buyers. We are holding out inducements in every department of our stock that cannot fail to attempt those who appreciate the best good at Popular Prices. Hew good of all kinds arriving daily la DRESS GOOS. we have a fine line, also the same of the latest ot fashions.

In shoes we have the rk kedx choolh odse It KJ Mhikh cannot be beat for boys and girls, in Ladies Shoes we handle some O. M. Henderson's and Phelp Dodge and Palmer, best make, and many others We also handle a line and extensive line of Mens and Bovs Shoes. -IN- we have a fine assortment. As fine as you can find in any first-class city.

Dress Goods, we can7t be beat, are now selling goods cheaper than any firm in Harper county. We will quote you a few prices below: Indigo blue c-tlico at 7c Many dark calicos from 3c up. All light calicos 5c Worsted is from 4 up to 1 50 Muslins from 13 to 9 1-2 Bleached muslin 7 to 12 12 Shirtings fi ora to 12 12 Toweling from 4 to 12 1 2 We have one thousand and one other things which we have not mentioned. Give us a trial and be convinced. Produce taken in exchange for goods.

'We just received this day a ii lie iiuu mi ucuih Li uuj a Winter Gloves ank have many more on the road Just give us ene trial and let us convince you that we can sell goods cheaper than any firm in this county. We have a fine una of staple and fancy GROCERIES Yours Truly, Kaoffiiiaii Br's. We are now prepared goods at CLOTHING TIME TABLE. ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO RY.

New time card in effect at 12:05 a.m. Sunday, June, 8 1890. EAST BOUXXk No. 4, Passenger No. 30, Freight BOUND.

No. 3. Passenger No. 29, Freight 6:27 a 2:00 7:26 5:45 a in IJITY DIRECTORY. Mayor JAMES GLOVED President of Council A.

DOW. City Clerk P. P. JLfi WIS. Treasurer A.

Miller. Marshal C. D. BROWN. STANDING COMMITTEES.

On Ordinances W. VV. Bird, C. A Dow, W.V, Williams. On V.

Williams Toses Kauffman. On Health J. W. Arnolds W. V.

Williams, Moses KautSfmaD. On Streets, Alleys and Parks A' Dow, W. W. Bird, Dr. W.

Arnold. SOCIETIES liLiUFF CITY kOfcTGE NO. 313, A F. vfc A. M.

NV. Bird, W. K. II. ilch'olsvc'y.

Meets eveiy Saturday 'nlgto'U Visiting brothers invited. bluff city Lodge no. 335 i.o.o.f. P. P.

Lewis, N. VV. A. Williams, V. O.

W. Flake, Sec'y; C. E. Movers, 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. N. V. McCv.ii, M.

J. W.Arnold, Recorder. Meets every Tuesday night tn State Bank Building. Visiting Workmen invited to meet with us. BACON POST NO.

451 G.A.R. W. R. Camerer, P.C.; C. W.

Goodrich, Adjutant. Meets every second and fourth Thursday et 3 o'clock p. Fraternity tiaii. SCIIOOX. Joe Zeigler, Director; P.

P. Lewis, treasurer; w. r. CiarK, Ulern. POSTOFFICE OPENS 6 a.m.

to 8:30 p.m. Evening mrougn man closes at tna p.m. way mail closed at 6:15 a.m. PROFESSION AI, CARDS. J.

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To Advertisers. men wno are carrying a standing ad and wish to insert locals, will be charged three cents a line, to others the price will be five cents. If you want insurance 1 can give you The Home of N. The Hartford of Hartford. The State of Des Moines, Iowa and the Kansas Fire, Abilene.

James Glover, Agent. Don't pay fancA" prices on long time for insurance, can do better by yo In the Hartford or home. James Glover, Agent- Mr. and Mrs. M.

D. Lee were down from Anthony. Tuesday, visiting Mrs. Arnolds. The rumor comes to us that there Is going to be a weddinsr in town.

J. N. Walton has bought a fine new $75 barber chair. let it be knQTVn that that is their opin ion ot toemselves. They pay cash for Svery thing they buy but they do not buy anything they can borrow and re turn without consuming iU They are not what the world calls low down people, but are sordid arid selfish and scarcely ever do an act of eharitVt They consider that fry paying or their groceries and cl thing, thty have per formed, all their duties toward society.

They simply do nothing for the general welfare of the town or community in which thoy liye. They never give penny to help any enterprise and disap prove in tones loud and long against anything and everything that does not come within the narrow limits of their views. They will not subscribe for their home paper, yet borrow the same and read and criticise it. Like the ter: rapin they live within their shell, and only put forth their head when they see something they want. Harper Sentinel.

Take Yonr Medicine. The Free-Press, the Cowley county alliance organ and people's party sup porter, is in dead earnest. It does not believe in blaming the republican party for all the ills imagined and complained of. but in its last issue contains the fol lowing opinions of the democratic party: Who that allowed fraud to con tinue, when they had the power to stop it? The democrats. Who was it at the bidding of Sammy TildenV that adopted a platform as hear like the republican as pbssiblei so that the money kings would pay them as much as they paid the republicans for doing the same work? The democrats.

Who is it that have been getting their share of the boodle and never made an attempt to change it? Tbedemocrats Who was it, when they had control the treasury department, in viotation of the laws of the country, stopped the coinaA nf millions of silver a month? The denu-erats. Republican Convention. The republican county convention last Saturday nominated: R. P. Ray for the legislature! A.

Shoemaker, probate judge. Wi K. pwoll, clerk of the court. Washbon, county attorney. Frank Garver, county superintendent.

The convention was well attended and conducted their business with harmony and expedition. Is Vas ordered that, the Crawford county system of holding primaries be adopted. The Ola Story. E. A.

Richmond, of Gueda Springs, committed suicide last Saturday by blowing his brains out with a bull dog revolver. Mr. Richmond was Dut re cently a prosperous diuggist at Gueda, but took to drinking and soon went down. His wife left on account of his drunkenness, and the last of his stock was sold a few days ago. From a pros perous influential citizen whiskey drinking in a few short months brought him to a suicide's grave, penniless, friendless and without hope in eternity.

South Haven New Era. How About This. Resolved, That we will not support for office, any. member of our organization who will accept a nomination from either of the old parties, but will consider such a member a traitor to our cause. Last spring several alliances adopted the above resolution.

Now, they are supporting Ives, who is a candidate on the democratic and resubmission tickets. When was the resolution recinded? and, if It is still in force, are not the alliance party stultifying their record? One firm, the Globe Iron Works Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, has within the past eight months built a greater tonage of iron and steel ships than any other firm of ship builders in this country or Europe, the carrying capacity being over 26,000 tons. Their last steamer being a staunch steel vessel of 312 feet length. Last year the tonage put afloat by lake builders was almost exactly equal to that built at all the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific ship yards combined. Lake navigation is yery materially interrupted by ice during the winter months, but during 235 days of year tonnage was passed through the Detroit river to the amount of 000,000 tons, which is more than the en tries and clearances of all the seaports of the United States, and 3,000,000 tons more than the combined foreign and coastwise shipping of Liverpool aDd London.

We declare emphatically iD favor of hisrh license and local option, and recommend a law providing that for each li cense issued for the sale of liquor $500 shall be paid to the county treasurer for the purpose of making and improving roads, and that the city municipalities shall in addition fix such sums as. the mayors and councils may determine. 13th Plank in Democratic Platform. Had it read "for each license issued for the sale of liquor $500 shall be paid to the county treasurer for the purpose of" maintaining paupers and paying the costs in criminal prosecutions, the causes for which may be directly traceable to the liquor tariff, the nail would have beeu hit a pretty square blow. Attica Advocate.

As we menttioned last week, the family of A. S. McClellan' has all been ill with fever but were supposed to be recovering. One of i he boys, Thomas, twelve years of age, had so far recovered as to be about the house for nearly two weeks seemingly improving. Last Saturday he ate his dinner with the family and was feeling well, but later in the day, complained of being tired and finally lay down upon a couch to rest.

He grew worse rapidly and died before night. Mr. McClellan and family have many friends in this neighborhood, and in this double bereavement, they have the sympathy of all of them. One of our Harper county girls has been visiting down east and receives the following flattering notice in a Port Jarvis(New Ycrk) paper. MUs Russell is to be congratulated that, being a representative of the "wild and wolly west," her talents elicited such kindly praises from that cultured community: "Miss Josapbine Russell, of Anthony, Kansas, favored the audience with sev- Argonla Clipper.

The Argonia State Bank was moved last Friday evening and Saturday, into the 'Twining buildihgj next door north of J. E.dafr'si The building has beefa thoroughly repaired and is now one of the neatest business rooms in the city. The business men of the city seem to be vying with each other in making improvements and in beautifying their places of business. Agonia looks very different from what it did a year ago, and still there are many more improve ments to be made soon. While the spirit of improvement is tak ing Main street by storm; we would like to see it extend to the resident part of town.

If everybody would only paint his residence it would make Argonia look like a new town. Paint is cheap and a great beautifyer. There should be a liberal use ol it this fall. J. S.

Newton is back again taking or ders for trees from th Winfleld nur sery. He tells us that he is selling lots of trees which we are glad to hear. Har per county is proving to be all that is claimed or could be desired for fruit.and in the comparatively easy circumstances in which- the farmers now find them. will do well to improve their farms by planting orchards. We have peaOhes enough but there should be more applet cherries.pears, apricots and small fruit planted.

They will all do well. Mrs. Belden, a writer in the Alliance Bulletin, is fornenst the prohibitory law, and in the issue of September 19th, cites one of the most potent reasons for its repeal that we have heard yet, if true: "What good has that law done to Kansas, an to make men 'purge' them selves for the sake of drink? she asks. tf they buy the physio and the whisky too. its a double ender for profit to the druggisttand should be divided between the drug store and the saloon.

We are in receipt of volume 4 of the "Kansas Historical Collections," issued by the State Historical Society and we have received no public document this year that we consider more valuable. It embraces the Fifth and Sixth Biennial reports of the society and five or six hundred pages devoted to "executive minutes by Governor John W. Geary," the very A. B. C.

of early Kansas hist ory, it is altogether a book ot great value and especially i to Kansans. Judge Cade del vered an able addres8 to the citizens in the southeat portion of thecounty at Bluff City on Wednesday. A large crowd was in attendance to hear the people's side of the question. Alliance Bulletin. Rats.

A man that has no greater in spiration in a cause than a desire to de feat a neighbor, who was more popular with his ward for committeeman than himself, has'nt got the "make up to de liver an address" on any occasion. Murray Moore and family left An thony Monday, Murray goes to Atlanta, and Mrs. Moore and the children to Indiana to visit relatives. Murray leaves lots of friends, he was one of the most pleasant and gentlemanly con ductors that ever punched a ticket. The Caldwell News last week, in com menting on an item from the Journal, that has caused unfavorable criticism of Caldwell, writes the best and most concise temperance article we have read this year.

Frisco Line to St. LonU Exposition. The Frisco Line will sell round trip tickets to St. Louis, Oct. 4th to 10th, in clusive.

Good for return Oct. 13th, 1S90, for only one fare plus the price cf admis sion to the exposition. O. Clai- basey. The county democracy will be in con vention at Anthony to-day.

They have exhibited a good deal of "scare" this fall but will have probably mustered cour age to nominate a ticket of their own. We shall see. We notice by the Anthony papers that I. A. Love challenges G.

-W. McKay to a oint discussion in seven different places jn Harper county during the last three weeks of the campaign. Tom Miller was up bossing the job of wheat planting at their iarm northwest of town this week. Mr. Miller will put in 320 acres of wheat this season.

South Haven New Era. Caldwell has decided to build an additional school building on the ground ot the present building, which is overcrowded. Several newspapers have been confiscated, ana the editors arrested, because their papers contained lottery advertisements. Stella, the daughter of O.F, Casteen, a beautiful girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age, died last Saturday of typhoid pnumonia. The Frisco agent sold two tickets for St.

Louis to Frceport parties last week. What's the matter with the sunflower? The Kingfisher papers say there is a rumor that the Rock Island division will be removed from Caldwell to Kingfisher. Parties going to the St. L9uis fair can secure tickets of admission here when they buy their railroad ticket. Col.

J. R. Hallo well is billed to speak at Anthony Monday, October 13th at 2 o'clock p. m. The adjutant general's report shows that there are 100,000 old soldiers in Kansas.

Anthony is arranging to hold a county reunion of old soldiers in the near future. W. W. Miller and sons have bought the Bent Cantwell farm. C.

B. Franke has bought the Frank Walta farm. Will Tucker got back from Galveston last week. Council night. meeting next Wednesdy Over 80 pupils in school now and more to come.

And still there are peaches coming to town. FAREWELL TO THE TURTLE. A favorite aiarlne Chelonlari Gradually Dlapperlng The Hobo ton Tnrtle Club of New York city owes its birth to Alexander Harallton and Aaron Burr, but although it has been in existence tor nsarly ninety year it never had a permanent abiding place until the pther day, when the members moved into a handsome home at Larchxnont. It seems rather unfortunate that the club members should settle down to housekeeping Just at the tune when the delicacy on which they dote is growing scarce. The turtle has been the pet of gourmands for bo many generations that he and his family seem to be dying out, and the pros pectiTO disappearance of green soup front the tables of the wealthy has already created alarm, not only in America but also In England.

The London Graphic In speaking of theahortage says that the present stock in the hands of wholesale dealers 'Ms so low that the market is practically at their mercy, and they are now charging something like 2s. 2d. a pound, whereas this time last year they could only obtain 3d. This means, of course, that our caterers will have to charge prohibitive prices for the famous soup, and that for a time it will practically disappear from the menus of most of our restaurants. We do not for a moment suppose that our civic magnates will cease to Bupply their guests with the delicious compound of caHpaslfcand calipee, for what would a city dinner be without this delicacy, which is, in a sense, identified with the historical glories of our municipal life Outside thocharmod circle of the city, however, a veritable turtle famine is apprehended, and preparations are being made, no doubt, to find some wortsjy substitute for the celebrated grcaa and yellow fat." "Ilorlcas," tho Fatal 63.

Certain years in the life of man have been, from great antiquity, supposed to have a peculiar importance, and to be liable to singular vicissitudes in his health and fortunes. Where or how this belief originated is unknown, but it is supposed to have been founded on the teachings of Pythagoras. The well known notice of the climacteric year 63 supposed to be particularly dangerous to men of that age, in a letter of Augustus Caesar, evinces its prevalence among the Romans. Some astrological writers have called the sixty-third year man's "hori-cus," because of a mythical notion that it was or is fatal to great men. The sole cause of its blighting influence is supposed to revert to the fact that it is a multiple of the 7 and 9, both of which are mystical numbers.

It is a remarka ble fact that all nations attach particular importance to 7or any multiple of that figure. Thu3 at 14, twice raven, the male and female are supposed to have arrived at puberty; at 21, three sevens, the male becomes "of age," while many writers, Aristotle in particular, fix 35, five sevens, as the height of bodily vigor and 49 as the year of maximum mental activity. At the age of 63, when man is nine times seven years of age, the most trivial diseases are likely to cause the death of the most robust old man, while the ten sevens (70) have-been ascribed as the limit of his earthly career. St. Louis Republic fiipiainea A drummer who travels for a Boston grocery concern says that he see3 in Maine some of the sharpest tricks that are practiced anywhere on his route.

He gave tho following specimen to a Lewiston Journal reporter: A farmer's wife bustled into a store in Washington County the other day and went for the proprietor with: "Mr. I bought six pounds of sugar here last week and when I got home I found a stone weighing two pounds in the package." Yes, ma'am." "Can 3ou explain the swindle, sir?" think I the proprietor's placid reply. "When I weighed your eight pounds of butter week before last 1 found 'a two pound pebble in the jar, and when I weighed your sugar the stone must- have slipped into the scales somehow. are both growing old, ma'am, and I am sorry to say that our eyesight isn't to be trusted. What can I do for you to-day, ma'am For a moment the woman gazed at the tradesman over her brass-bound spectacles.

Then she recollected herself and remarked that she had a dozen eggs which she wished to exchange for hooks and eyes. To Whiten the Hands. There is an old fashioned preparation which our grandmothers made for whitening the hands. Two cakes of old time brown Windsor soap were shaved fine and a wineglass of German cologne and a wineglass of lemon juice added. In a day or two the liquid became, incorporated with the soap so that the mixture could be moulded into a cake.

Though old, this is an admirable preparation or bleach for removing stains from the hands; New York Tribune. PEERLESS DYES best For BLACK STOCKOGS. Made In 40 Colors that neither to in 5, waeso mm auc. Soli by Druggists. Also Peerless Bronze Paints 6 colors.

Peerless Launary tiiuiag. Peerless Ink Powders 7 colors. Peerless Shoe Harness Dressing Peerle.ss Egg Dye Iors. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoiria. "Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.

OUTHERI And the Cherokee Strip are also bound to become celebrated for their climate, and be chosen for residence on that account alone, by thousands who wish to make a home in a genial clime, or who have impaired their health by living In the rigorous north and east, will come here to build it up again. MOVER OBSERVE! Kansas Is a very large state and the climate is not the same In all parts of It Southern Kansas, remember, Is the Southern France THE ITALY OF THE STATE. Bluff City 13 a thriving new town, beautifully situated on high, rolling ground on the south sidejof Bluff Harper County; four miles only from the Sumner County line, eisco railroad. It has a fine large two-story brick'school house, brick business blocks, large well-furnished hotel, bank, stores, lumber and coal yards good livery stable, church societies, masons, Jodd fellows and united workmen. Harper and Sumner counties are famous throughout the country for beauty of landscape, fertility of telligent people, beautiful towns, salt, sugar and big crops.

Buy tickets to Bluff City to locate, or to go into the Cherokee Strip. For information address, JAMES GLOVER, Resident Agent, BOADEIi LIS! TOWS LAI.