The Stafford Citizen from Stafford, Kansas • 3

TO TEE CITIZENS OF PRATT IChe Stafford Citizen. II. S. Lai Office. 35.

Ij. ZSIEYEil, AT Z7S CUT. A man was shot at Sun City, this week, for not paying his bills. It seems he owed another man $00, and upon bein asked for it, said he did not have that amount, but offered to pay him $5 on the account, which was refused. The party being owed came around the next day and shot him six times, causing death immediately.

We were unable to learn their names. W. JvWHffETBR, PHYSICIAN SURGEON, -GREAT BE.D, KAXS. Yl here you will find a supply ofFresIi DRUGS, MEDICINES CHEMICALS PERFUMERIES. TOILET SOAPS, HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS.

Fancy Toilet Articles. StaMer Braces, Trusses SnprSers FETSICLiSS' AICT2ATT1T ORDERS anwere with care and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine and of the be' quality. looked better at this season of the year than does the present crop. Should nothing befall it between this time and next harvest, Montgomery county farmers' eyes will be gladdened by the heavyest crop of wheat that has been harvested in this county since its settlement Independent Kansan.

A few cases of black leg among the cattle, are reported in Richland township, and the disease is said to be spreading. It would be well for persons having cures for the same to have them published at once, A. H. McLain informs us that he has cured it by bleeding the leg in several places, and then bandaging salt to it Newton Kansan. Neff Campbell are full-feeding 200 head of cattle near Buffalo, 200 at Mayer's Ford, 300 at Humboldt, and 200 at Toronto all two or three years old.

They expected to feed all their steers in Clifton township, but found out that the corn in this locality wa-s insufficient for the purpose. The cattle are "followed" by 500 head of hogs and several hundred head of sheep They are feeding in all about 2,000 head of sheep. Xeff Cam pell are the big stock men of this part of Kansas, and their opper-ations afford the people to this part of Wilson and the southern portion Woodson a market for all their surplus corn at as good, if not better, prices than can be obtained elsewhere. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Call at Allen's drug store, Great Bend -and see the immense stock of tovs and holiday goods.

APOTHECARY -AXD WHOLESALE DRUGGISf. HUTCHINSON, KANS. BECKEit DEALET.S IX fik Bfe. xb. na anv AND PROVISIONS, COM AND OATS.

JVcs. '2 ami 4 Xorlhltfain Street. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. CLEMENT MILLS IV. W.

1. CraISJXT. Special attention given to custom work. Flour, Feed and Meal con-atantly on hand. Cash paid for grain.

GREAT BEND, KANSAS. THE sranora Deuoteb to the 11W RICHARD FOX, Dealer in Keeps constantly on hand a full stock Chairs. Uurea us, Stands, Wardrobes, Tin Writing Desks, Bedsteads, TaMes, Pumps, arm Baby Carriages. Hep airing neatly done. KICIIAIXD FOX IlfflEETAKEE.

Is prepared to furnish Cofilns and attend promptly to all business in this line. East side Broadway, Sterling Kansas BAILEY BROTHERS, DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing Boots, Shoes, Etc GREAT BEND KANSAS. interests of the $2,00 per loathSj or 50 FHBHITDBE Citizen COUNTRY -IN- COUNTY i wish to call attention to the citizens of Pratt county to the fact that being an exclusive grocer and buying my goods in large quantities, I can and do sell goods cheaper than any house in Rice county. I respectfully ask all who come to Sterling to step in, 'price my goods and. I -will convince you that I will do just as I advertise.

Hexky Sheemax. SINGER SEWING MACHINES. I will sell you a Singer Sewing machine for cash or on time, for less money than they have ever been sold for in this country. Come in and see. Henbi Sheiwan, Sterling.

WANTED. At the Green Mountain House, a good female cook. Apply at once. FOR KANSAS AND COLORADO Take the Atchison Topeta Santa Fe Railroad, extending from Kansas City and Atchison, on the Missouri River, via Topeka, the Capitol of Kansas through the fertile Arkansas Valley, to Pueblo, where direct connection is made with the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for Colorado Springs, Manitou, Denver, -Canon City and all points of note on -the Denver and Rio Grande. The track is excelled by that of no road in the West, and the passenger equipment embraces all the modern improvements for comfort and safety.

Through express trains leave union depots, Kansas City and Atchison, dailv, on the arrival of trains from the East, and run through to the Ilocky Mountains, with Pullman Sleeping Cars attached. For maps, circulars and detailed information, send to T. J. ANDERSON, General Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kan. STAFFORD HOUSE.

E. 31. ROIiORB'S, Proprietor. Good Accommodations for Man or licast at Jl-'zuotitib'e liati-s. Stafford, Pratt Kans.

COTTAGE HOTEL H. M. WILLI STO PROP. STERLING, KANSAS. BE2T0 HOUSE.

CIIAS-. CMAHBEIIS, Prop. HUTCHINSON KANSAS. GREH KIT. HOUSE, H.

S. GOSS SON, Proprietors, STJIIILIXG, JtlCE CO. KANSAS. Tic Largect Best Hotel ia tha City. The Proprietors, boin? old inhabitants- are prepared to give any information to lan I explorers.

There is also a 11. R. Land Office iu the House. Good Stables in connection With tae House. Terms always reasonable.

BLACKSMITH WORK. IV. CliOXIi Has fitted up a blacksmith shop mile west of Stafford and is prepared to do all kinds of smith work to order on short notice and at reasonable prices. A. W.

GRAY, DEAJLER IN HARDffAEE, STOVES AND IMPLEMENTS -ALSO MANUFACTURER OF TIN, COPPER AHL SHEET IRON WARE GREAT II END, KAXS. LUMBER, COAL, ETC. K. WIIXOX DEALERS IX HARDWARE, Agricultural Implements, Stoves, Tinware, Etc. ALSO Maters of Ms of Tlwars.

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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. POST AOS "EF.S. Single Numbers 05 One Copy Three Month 50 One Copy Six Months l.W One Copy One Year 2.00 Six Copies One Yur 10.00 Ten Copies One Yer Twenty Copies One Year A Club may be mii'le up of mhwribprj from Several post offices, but must be all ordered at one time. HOME NEWS. Gan-J yo.ir.self ag unst prairie fire-Miss Jennie McNayliton is now at home.

A-big rushfor government land, this week. Now is the time to subscribe for the Citizen. The subscription list of the CrnziiN is increasing. Davis Foster, of Hutchinson, is ftt Stafford, on a visit. There is no place like home even if it be.

made of sod. Never judge a man by tk color of the patch on lxis pantaloons. Now is the time to go t6 the Medicine after your Christmas trees. Now is the time to come to Pratt county, if you want government land. Local news will be gladly received at this office, in 11 M.

iiobord's build ing. Mr. J. January has completed his new frame house and is now living in it. Joseph Tyrell is well pleased with Stafford.

He talks of building a house here. Help build np your country by subscribe for the Citizen and sending it to your eastern friends. Stafford is going to have a nursery. Good. We are glad to see an enterprise of this kind started.

Win. "Wallace's daughter is very sick with the diptheria. Dr. Russel, of Zenith, is attending her. On last Sunday three were baptized into the fellowship of the Goshen Baptist Church by the pastor.

A Quaker meeting was held at Chas. Howell's, last Friday evening, a large number being present. The Citizen has a larger circulation in the southern part of Barton county than ony other paper published. Rev. Mr.

Clark, of Xicksrson, was to have preached for the Stafford people, last Sunday but failed to get here. If any of our subscribers fail to receive their paper we would be pleased if they would notify us at once and we will rectify the Stewart Grant, of Iowa, has traded for the Fuller claim. He will bring his family here in the spring. Mr. Grant is a practical farmer.

The crop of timber on tho- Mede-cine must Lave been large this season, judging from the numerous wagons passing Stafford loaded with wood from that place. Rev. Stephen A. Cronk, of Sterling, called at the land office of E. M.

Robords on Friday to have his homestead entry changed to another quarter; his former entry having been placed on a tract claimed by another party. Mr. Zebedee Kendall, from Zion Valley (alias Rattlesnake), was in town on Tuesday. He road twelve miles in the pelting storm and piercing cold, to secure a timber claim. E.

M. Robords did the business for him satisfactorily, as he does for all who have anything in tho way of land, business to do. Mr. J. C.

Hurt is still hauling lumber to his house in the new Southwest. He has built a fine, commodious, and comfortable house and is now preparing for the coming crop by building a large granary, lie displays first-class judgement in preparing for the next harvest at this early day, when there is no other work on hand. May his granary be filled to overflowing, is our best wish. James Zimmerman, from Cass arrived on Wednesday last with his wife and hcnselftld goods. He stepped with Mr.

Crawford and Estel for a few days, they being old acquaintances. He set to work at once hauling lumber from Sterling for a house and has progressed so far already as to take his family to his new Mr. and Mrs. Z. are both young and ambitous and having struck the right "lead" to success they are surejto in.

Geo. McMillen, just from his home in Ohio, has made his appearance among us, and has shown his willingness to cast his lot with us, by homesteading the southwest quarter of section 33, town 24, rauge 12. Mr. M. is a young man of energy and ability, and as he brings with him his family and a erood name, we 1 welcome him to our young and rapidly developing country, where he may grow with its growth.

There is yet room for thousands more of his stamp and now is the time for them to come, while they may get good land near town. KANSAS. I Am Prepared To SHOW Lkm AXD MAKE OUT HOMESTEAD, PRE-EMPTION, MBER CULTURE, AND Soldier Filings. Furnish Abstracts or Plats. FILE CONTESTS.

Deeds, Mortgages AH Kinds of Papers Drawn. AND Acknowledgements Taken. Special attention given to Sale of Farms and Claims. E. M.

ROBORDS, Xotary Public. STAFFORD, Pratt Kans. COAL COAL Best Osage Shaft, Scranton, Oarbondale inrnm ri -AT BOTTOM PRICES. J. A.

GRAYSOX, Xo. 5S North Main Street. HUTCHISON, KANSAS. BomM Especially For lis iLMY TRADE. A BIG LINE OF- Toys Fancy Goofls or EVERY DISCRETION AT AT We wiih every reader of the Citizes to call and examine goods and prices at JORDAX'S BOOK STORE izzzzz.

HntcMESon. Kansas. THE SEASIDE LIBRARY. Choiee Books no loneer for the few on! 7. TTi best standard noveU within the reach of every one.

Books usually fold at 1 to Si riren (un changed and unabridged) for 19 cenU and 20 cts. 21. FOUL PLAT. By Charle Reade. 10r.

21. MAN AN 1 WI FE. liy Wilkie Collin 2cc. Zi. 'lHESyLlKJi'S LiiUACY By Mary C.

Hav. 24. NEVER TO LATE TO MEND, By Chas. neaae. zl'c.

25. LADY ADELAIDE'S OATH, By Mrs. H. Wood. 1V.

20. AURORA FLOYD, By Mi3 M. E. Brad- don. 27.V1CIOR AND VANQUISHED, By M.

C. Hay. lCc. 23. A DAUGHTER OF HETH, By William Black.

1V. 29. XORA'S LOVE TEST, By Mary C- Hay. 10c. 30.

HER IBAREST FOE, By Mr Alexan der. 20c GEORGE MUXR0E, PabMer. P.O. Box 21. 3, VjLdewatsr XT.

FORT hit auun uUAL BOOKS mm UVUl IE2 333 23AI3. One of the greatest advantages wmcn we nave over au eastern sraues in winter is our entire exemption from mud; our roads being just as good now as in August, and that, too, on roads that never have had an hour's work done on them. With a litile filling in of buffalo wallows and bridging of ravines, it will be an easv matter for a good team to haul, over any road, 100 bushele of wheat, and the marketing of our immense crops will be done in one-half the time that it now is; thus giving the more time for farm work. Farmers, think this matter over and fix up those few bad places and you will save money by it. 1 ffTTi'v The Dolan boys, from Cass county, Missouri, came here nbout six weeks ago to look for, hey were shown some west of town which suited them and they secured it and went back to Missouri to fix up their worldly affairs there.

They have now returned to Pratt and commenced improvements on their claims. They report Cass county, as being heavily bonded and the people unable to meet the payments. They say every man who can possibly get away is going to come to Pratt county. A county that is free of debt. We heartily welcome the Dolan boys and hope they may prosper in their new home.

The Citizen circulates in Cass county and we will try and let the people there know just what our country is. C-2 14 AH BOUTS. Mr. Johnson, of Lulu Valley post-office, has received information from Washington that the mail route from Great Bend to Zion Valley is to be extended to Stafford, Freeman, Hainsville and then to Medecine Lodge Tha mail carrier is to leave the Bend every Monday morning and has to be at Medecine Lodge the following Tuesday evening. There is a plain road from the Bend Zion Valley, but from Zion Valley to Stafford the road is dim and hard to follow.

The remainder of the route is without any road or trail. The Stafford people say a man can not travel the route in two days. A great many pecple are anxious to have the route described in last week's Citizen established and are now working to that effect. CTAI7C2D TO A And now Pratt county is to have a nursery. Messrs.

E. M. Robords and Calkins Mathewson foreseeing in the near future the great need of our New Southwest, and feeling themselves entirely competent to supply that need, have mr.vle arrangements to start an extensive nursery at Stafford. Knowit the great superiority of home grown trees over those grown in another state or even in the eastern part of this state. They are assured of ready sale for their stock as soon as ready for market.

We ish them ample success in this en-terpris -We are well acquainted with the gentlemen, and know that they have the energy and ability to carry out their plans. We feel safe in makiug the statement that Stafford will ere long have a nursery equal to any in Southwestern Kansas. LE2 TH2 TESTE B2ZK0WS. The cold weather of last week took many of the new-comers by surprise, they innocently supposing that the truth, the whola truth, and nothing but the truth had been told them when they came here, during the balmy months of Stpteml er and October, to the effect that we never have any cold we; ther, and that the grass remains green all winter, that it is unnecessary to put up any They now find, to their dismay, that they are the only green thing left; It would be far better for all to let them know the worst at once and have time to prepare for it; there would be less disappointment and fault-finding, and more teams in condition for work in the spring. We look lack to the first winter spent in south-western Kansas with a shudder, as we, like most others, believed the flattering" accounts of the old settlers.

True, our winters are mild taken ou the- whole, but those cold storms are sure to come, and, although they are of short duration, they are severe in the extreme while they last, and stock must have protection from the. sweeping winds. This is very easily and 'Cheaply provided; there is no stable more comfortable nor half as cheap-as a sod one, and if properly put up they will stand for years. CHT3CS I2SCTC3T. BAPTIST.

Goshen Church. Preaching in the Goshen school house every first and third Sunday at 11 a. m. Praye meeting every Tuesday evening. Rev.

J. G. Smujky, Pastor. EAS3AS FABJOS3. Kansas has sixty cheese factories." It is said they are making handsome profits from the capital invested.

Dr. Durand, of Greeley township, reports the wheat in excellent condition in his section of the country and along "the road from Greeley to Wichita. The apprehension of ravages from insects is entirely over for the present and the crop safe until next spring, when of course it will run the usual gauntlet of danger. Farmers tell us that wheat nerer Every settler in this vast and fertile region ought to subscribe for. the STAFFORD CITIZEN.

-TOYS! At Allen's, Great Bend. Holiday goods of every description at Allen's drug store. Richard Fox has the greatest assortment of holiday goods in Sterling. Don't forget to give him a call when you go to town. BONES! Six Follars and Fifty Cents, per ton, cash, paid for Bones, by B.

J. Pottee, Hutchinson, Kans. ODESSA SEED WHEAT For sale by B. J. Pottes, Hutchinson.

BAKOAIX. A good chance for a man who wants a good home at once. One hundred' and sixty acres with farm house, 14 by 16 feet; stable, 15 by 40; good hen house; 40 acres of old ground; 25 acres of good wheat; 2 acres of rye; 50 fruit trees; 1,000 Cottonwood trees. Within three miles of town. Price, $G00.

E. M. Roeords, Agent. Mrs. S.

C. Fisher, of Sterling, Kansas, keeps constantly on hand a full stock of ladies' hats, bonnets, trimmings, flowers, ribbons, neckties, plumes, switches, etc. If you want a nice dress go to Mrs. S. O.

Fisher, at Sterlings We wish to call the attention of our ladies to the fact that Mrs. S. C. Fisher keeps the best stock of milli nery goods in Sterling. Give her a can when you go to Sterling.

I want it understood that I will sell the best hue of Implements, Tinware, of any house iu western Kansas. Come in and see me. C. W. Sterling, Kans.

Go to Boyer's for Hardware, Stoves, and Tinware, one door south of P. 0., in Sterling, Kansas. Boyer keeps on hand the Moline Plows, Harrows, Shellers, Wagons, Cultivators, as low as the lowest. Boyer keeps the best line of Stoves in the Valley. Citizens of Pratt county, come in and see me when von come tn Kf ling, and find out where you can sae money buying goods.

W. BOTER. Aj ARRET REPORT. Dec, 7, 1S77. PRODUCE, ETC.

Wheat live OatJ i Barley lans liuttcr Bacon Cheese Corn new Dried Apples Peaches Prunes Beef Buffalo -Earss Chickens -Lard Onion -Potatoes Tallow 60(5: 2 it; 18 20 11 20 1S(S20 10 516X 10 12! 12 15 1.50 11 15 75 65 (g 75 6 is BUILDING MATERIAL. ComraoH Boards, per 30.00 flooring -Siding f'encinsr -Dimension Shingles Lath Nails Doors Windows -i White Leal, por keg BoildOil -Brick, per M. 30.00 (a! 45.00 20.00 30.00 30.00 4.00 5.00 5,50 05 2.00S 1.50 fib 3.00 a l.D (4 10.00 5. 3.50 3.25 1.15 UKOCERIE3. Susrar Coffee A 7 8 Brown 8 for i.oa Conee i lour, per cwt -Tea Canned Fruit -Coal Oil Vinegar Syrup MISCELLANEOUS.

Standard Prints Sheetings Indian Head Stark A Lonsdale bleached 4-4 Men's Kip Boots AVomen's Shoes -Stirrinsr Plowj 3.00 ffi 3.05 50i1.4 20 2 35 40 75 1X9 5 7 10 14 10 (m II 3.00 fr 5. 0 1-40 2.00 12 (' 15 Breakers 24 Sto res and Ware 7 Farm a otitis 3 35 CT33 Two Horse Caltirators 23 (3 25 Drills 75 80 Evaporators 40 75 Fannin? -dills 25 tian? Plows Salkv Plows 70 Sorghum Mills Sprins Wasrons 120 Corn Shellers, land 12 Rakes 8 25 donble 25 Mowing Machines lufl Common Chairs 4.50 Tables 4.50 Ic hteadi a Z) Every dealer who wants to sell to the people of this vast and region ought to advertise in the ''wkiHuQ senptijm Sub Ytef tWO foE Bis Months ent for Thres It (jives the news, It talks up the country. It is just the thine; you want in every respect. THE STAFFORD CITIZEN, Stafford, Fratt County, Kansas,.