The Stafford Citizen from Stafford, Kansas • 3

TO TEE CITIZENS OF PRATT Ihe Stafford Ititizen. zi. j. ueiijer, PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON, GREAT DX5XTD, II AITS. Where you will Cm4.

supply FresSi DRUGS, MEDICINES CHEMICALS PERFUMERIES, TOILET SOAPS, HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS. Fancy Toilet Articles. SMisr Braces, Trasss Sutlers tsnssuxr nssamst accvuxsit ORDERS answered with care and dirpatefc. Farmers e4 Physician from the country will find oar stock of Medicines complete, warranted cenuine and of the best e.aalitr. FOR KANSAS AND COLORADO Take the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railroad, extending from Kansas City and Atchison, on the Missouri River, via Topeka.

the Capitol of Kansas through the fertile Arkansas Valley, 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, daily, on the arrival of trains from the East, and run through to Che Rocky Mountains, with Pullman Sleeping Cars attached. For maps, circulars and detailed information, send to T. J.

ANDERSON, General Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kan. and is sent then to Harper. The detective put op with the postmaster, Mr. Ball, and represented that he was looking for land and wished to make some investments. The next morning after the Harper mail had been made up, he followed the mail carrier a short distance from the house and, in his presence, opened the mail bag and found that six out of the eight money letters had been opened, and the two packages of merchandise were missing.

In the meantime Mr. Ball had started for Sterling, leaving Mrs. Ball and son in charge of the office as deputies. The detective returned to the house, and, on searching the parties, found the knife and handkerchief in possession of Mrs. BalL He at once placed her under surest and brought her to Hutchinson.

On being brought before Squire Whitelaw, she waived an examination and gave bonds for her appearance at the TJ. S. Court at Topeka. What the result will be is uncertain; but it is highly probably that she will attone for her misdoings within the state prison walls. The office is now closed and it is probable that it will be for several weeks.

H. S. Bush is recommended as postmaster, and will doubtless receive the appointment in due time. BisssTSXs irons. P.

M. Miller don't help the neighbors fight prairie fire. Nancy E. Hammond is ready to prove op on her claim. The Rev.

A. Axline, of Iuka, preaches here every other week. Our worthy P. lives in a sod-house, but feels as happy as any of us. Hainesville has a smith shop and intends to have a store soon.

Our winter wheat looks well. I hope we may reap bountifully next harvest The Iuka settlers are dealing largely in the Kansas currency (bones). The first copy of the Stafford Citizen has reached us. I call It good for the first and trust it may grow better. D.

S. Dill, attorney-at-law, of Hutchinson, Kans gave us a call on Saturday last He thinks a lawyer he must be. L. H. Jones has his new and fine residence about ready to move in.

We wish him success in his new home. The cold weather has had no effect on emigration. They still keep pouring in. Our land agent Wm. Yeo, is locating "new-comers almost every day.

Our settlement was visited with a lively prairie fire on Thursday, Dec 5th. It caught by a spark from Mr. Mason's stove-pipe. There was no serious damage done but had it not been for the faithful working of the neighbors some would have suffered. LC.B.R.

ODESSA SEED WHEAT For sale by B. J. Potter, Hutchinson. DECKER SHAHAX. DEALERS IX GROCERIES AKD PROTTISIOrjS, 00RN AND OATS.

Nos. 2 and 4 North Mala Street. (orrosra l. xxtzs'S sxtrn stobz.) HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. RICHARD FOX, Dealer in FDBMiE, Keeps constantly on hand a full stock Chairs, Bureaus, Stands, Wardrobes, Tin Safes, Writiuic Desks, Loanges, Bed-steads, Tables, Pumps, and Baby Carriages.

Repairing neatly done. RICHARD FOX IfflDEBTAEH. Is prepared to furnish Coffins and attend promptly to all business in this line. East side Broadway, Sterlin, Kansas X2A1XE1T DnOTHERS, dealers nr Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing Boots, gZaoes, Etc GREAT BEND KANSAS. Citizen.

of the THE Stafford Deuofeb to the 1 1 Bsnflit EsjsciaHy For Its HOLIDAY TRADE. A BIG LINE or EVERY DISGRIPTION AXD AT We wish CTery reader of the Crrtxw to call and examine goods and prices at eTOXXDAJPS COOK STORE PCST-WTOX OTTUTya. HutcMnicn. Kansas. COAL COAL Best Ocqqc Shaft, Garbondalo -AND FORT SCOTT COAL, AT BOTTOM PRICES.

el. A. OXXATSOX, No. 58 North Slain Street. HUTCHISON, KANSAS.

TV1XCOX DEALERS IN HARDWARE, Agricultural Implements, StoveSf Tinware, Etc ALSO Manufactsrers of all linOs of Tinirare. nntchlnson, Kansas. 0. S. Land I Am Prepared To SHOW LAND AND SLAKE OUT HOMESTEAD, PRE-EMPTION, TIMBER CULTURE, A5D Fei-Blsh Abstracts or Plats.

FILE CONTESTS. IZortQagca -AND BOOKS BOOKS Toys fit Ice W1SI -IN- COUNTY. Having tested the credit business to its utmost capacity and finding that it is better, both for the consumer and the retailer to sell for cash, and give the benefits of bad debts and slow pay to the consumer, I have concluded to mark my goods down (after the first of January, 1878) to the lowest possible margin and sell strictly for cash. Or; I will sell on time, bj taking a note with approved security on short time, thereby enabling' me to sell for much less profit Call in and price my goods and see the difference between credit and cash prices. Hexbt Shekman.

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

Botes, Sterling, Kans. Go to Boyer's for Hardware, and Tinware, one door south of P. in Sterling, Kansas. Boyer keeps on hand the Moline Hows, 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 you come to Sterling, and find out where you can save money in buying goods. C. W. Boyer. NOTICE.

Winslow Allbright, at Hutchinson, are legitimate druggists and carry a full line of drugs and mede-cines. Paints a specialty. Special prices to citizens of Pratt county. tf Stone Drug Stoke. HOLIDAY PRESENTS.

Call at Allen's drug store, Great Bend and see the immense stock of toys and holiday goods. 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 Eollars and Fifty Cents, per ton, cash, paid for Bones, by 15. J. Potter, Hutchinson, Kans. NO MORE TRIPS TO THE MEDECINE! A trip to the Medncine is something that we all dread. It is hard on our teams as well as ourselves and our farmers have now came to the conclusion that it is a great deal cheaper to go to Edwards Bros.

Fair, at Sterling, and get just what they want at Hutchinson prices Don't forget to call on Mrs. Fisher when you go to Sterling. Let it not be forgotten by the ladies that Mrs. Fisher does stamping. Why is it that the ladies of Sterling are so pretty Because they patronize Mrs.

Fisher. When you make a Christmas present let it be one of some use. Go to Mrs. Fisher 8 and get it. When young men can't think what to get for their sweetheart for a Christmas present, they should consult Mrs.

Fisher, at Sterling. STAFFORD NURSERY. The undersigned have made ar rangements with nurseries in the eastern part 01 the stale, Dy wmcn they can furnish all kinds of nursery stock in prime condition and as cheap as it can be bought at the nursery. AQ parties wishing trees of any kind, will do well to call and get our prices before ordering from any other source. UOBOKDS MaTHEWSOK, Stafford Stafford, Kans.

DACGAHf Timber Claim for sale cheap for cash. Four miles from town. HOMESTEAD, CHEAP. Three miles S. W.

live acres breaking. A splendid tract. Price, $100. R1L Bobobds. Homestead and Timber Claim, 1 north of Stafford; 41 acres under cultivation; 15 acres of fall wheat; 8 acres planted with timber, on timber claim; house, 12x16, board roof; $15 worth of other lumber; good well.

Price, $700. Will take team, wagon and harneo part payment. j. M. BoaoMM, Agt.

A good chanca for a ma who wants a good home at csace. One hundred and sixty acres with. farm bouse, 14 by 16 faet; stable, 15 by 40; good hen house; 40 acres of old ground; 2b acres of good wheat; 2 acres of rye; 50 fruit trees; 1.000 oottonwood Within three Biles of town. Price, $500. E.

1L Bobobds, Agent There are quite a cumber of claims near Stalbrd aad now is the time to get them. M. Bobords can tell yoa sH aboct it Gall and see farm when yon want a No. 1 claim. STAFFORD, DECEMBER 21, 1877 ADVERTISING BJ.TM3.

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10 cents per line for first 5 cents per line for ech satueqaeni TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. roeTAQK rsxz, Single Numbsri 05 One Copy Three Monthl Una Copr Six Months 1.00 One Copy One Year 2.00 Hix Copied One Yer 10.00 Ten Copies One Tear 16,00 Twenty Copies One Year 3ft.W A Club may be made up of subscribers from Several post offices, bat must be all ordered at one time. HOME NEWS; Merry Christmas to all. Provide shelter for your stock. Jo.

Tyrell has been home on a short visit- Oscar Johnson is at Lake City, attending school. Samuel Estle is concreting and plastering his house. We have received ten new subscribers since our last issue. The Stafford men are about to prove up on their claims. The price of Odessa seed wheat is getting higher all the time.

The temperance people of Sterling are holding weekly meetings. Mr. Davis, of the North Ninnescah, has gone east after his family. The rain last Sunday night made our wheat look better than ever. Fremont Harriman and Wm.

Goss hard at work on their claims. Thos. Watson has completed his nw Pratt county brick" house. Some of our farmers had a lively time fighting prairie fire last week. Wm.

Smith has one hundred and seventy-five acres of fall wheat sown. Don't forget that it is cheaper to raise oats than to feed defective corn and lose a team. J. H. Kerr is working at his house on the northeast quarter of Section We notice a number of young trees springing up where our farmers broke prairie last spring.

There are a number of teams passing through Stafford on their way to the Medicine after wood. Garret Edwards is putting up a fine sod house on the northeast quarter of Section 27, T. 24, It-11. Mr. R.

M. Wilbur lost a valuable horse. Mr. Wilbur thinks that lung fever was the cause. If our farmers keep on planting trees the same as they have this year our country will soon bo a grand forest D.

A. Barclay, Pa. You can obtain reliable information in regard to homesteads, by addressing E. M. Robords, at Stafford.

On Thursday and Friday nights of last week, fifteen horses were stolen in Rice county. The owners are 6couring the country for them. Wm. Smith got home last week. He brought out four mules and two horses.

He now has ten mules and three horses on his farm near Stafford. Arthur L. Leach is preparing to put up ft $1,500 house on the northeast quarter pi Section 22, T. 25, R. 12.

This will be the. boss house of Pratt county. I) Twelve large loads of cedar posts passed- through here one day this week, from Barbour county to Bice. At this rate, it will not be long before Barbour county will be as destitute of posts as Reno. By a mistake last week we said that Mrs.

Anna Tharp had moved on her chum, the southeast quarter of Section 3, T. 24, R. 12. We should here said Section 23, T. 24, R.

12. The great question at Stafford ai the present time is, "What kind of a building will we put up for a school house. Some want a sod building and some want a frame one Settle it among yourselves, we are ready to help build either. We received your contains valuable statistics of Pratt county and will be kept on file until we obtain enough information 'of Pratt county to enable 1 us to write its history in full We hope to hear from you again. 1 There is and has been for a time past, many fine horses dying suddenly of some disease, which is generally attributed to wormy corn.

Can some one give a remedy. As a preventative, feed no wormy corn, or if you must feed saca, ccxk before feedisg. Mr. Sheldon, an old citizen reading some five miles northwests of this place had his hgnds and feet badly from daring tis eight cf cx-November snow storo. He was lost upon the prairie tad remained out au night He is in a very critical condition.

Samuel B. Estie and Wm. Smith returned to ua on Wednesday, of last week, each having been to his old home; Mr. Estle, to Zliami county, Kana, and llr. Smith, to Cao county, Mo.

They report hard timee aad bad roads. Rain, mud and sleet; sleet, mud and rain. Ugh. No more cf the eame for them. Mr.

S. says he would not give his claim in Pratt for any three quarters in Missouri. KANSAS. Every settler in this vast and fertile region ought to subscribe for the STAFFORD CITIZEH. Lursia txaam.

Kansas will realize $20,000 from its silk crop this year. An Osage county farmer raised seven thousand bushels of corn this year. It is said that 120,000 bushels of wheat were marketed in Solomon City during the month of November. Mr. Vorhees informs us that Mr.

N. Haggart threshed 433 bushels of wheat raised on ten acres. Salina Journal, Sumner county had 54,300 aires planted to wheat in and is credited with 74,036 this year, but the press says the real area is about 95,000. Elisha Edwards sold to J. C.

Scott three hogs, weighing 1,380 lbs. Average weight 460 lbs. Two of them were full blood Berkshire. Junction Tribune. Bill Stewart of Zeandale, Riley county, shucked: threw into a wagon, drove it to the crib, and put in five wagon loads of corn, each load being twenty-two bushels, in nine hours and forty minutes.

Captain J. M. Allen is our Mayday items in Manhattan Nationalist A great many of the chickens and some of the turkeys in this neighborhood have been dying with the cholera or enlargement of the liver. Alum dissolved and mixed with their feed or given in the water they drink, is said to be a preventive. Mayday items in Manhattan Nationalist J.

A. Ileece lost three fine, fat hogs recently by the cholera or some other disease. This is the first I have heard of any hogs dying in this locality from anything of the kind. It will be a bad thing for our farmers if the hog cholera does get a start in this vicinity, as there are a great many fat hogs and young porkers around hese. C2V2C3 2I2XCT087.

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

Rev. J. G. Smiley, Pastor. Sabbath School at the residence of Henry S.

RiegeL at 10 a. m. Preaching at the same place 11 a. m. Alice Mary, daughter of William Wallace, aged 7 years.

Died on Thursday, Dec of diptheria. MARKET REPORT. STERLING. PRODUCE. ETC.

Wheat Rye Oats Barley Beans Butter Bacon Cheese Corn new Dried Apples Peaches -Prunes Beef -a Buffalo -Eggs Chickens Lard -Onions Potatoes Tallow BUILDING MATERIAL. GO ll 2 16 li 18 20 14 20 18 ft 20 10 r.i6 101 12 12X 20 1.50 li 15 75 60 75 60 8 common isoaras, per M. Ploorinr Siding fencing Dimension -Shingles Lath Nails Doors Windows White Lead, per kec Boild Oil -Brick, per M. 30.00 30.10 45.00 20.00 30.00 30.00 4.00 0 5.50 05 2.00 IJ59 1 2000 1.10 0 10.00 5.00 5.00 350 LIS UttUUlU3. 8agar Coffee A 7X 8 Brown IS 8 Coffee 33 4 Ftonr, per ewt -Tea, Canned Frsnt CoalOU Vinegar Syrup -MISCTCLLANEOS3.

8taa4art- Prints Is for IM ZM 0 3.05 5O0L4 20 0 35 40 75 01.W S9 1 10 0 1 10 0 li 300 0 5.00 1.40 0 2JW Indian Head Stark A Lonsdale blenched 4-4 Mea's Kip Boots WosaWs SaoM Stirring Plows Breakers -Stores and Ware Fane Wagons --TweOetMOaUtraten Drills Evaporators Faanb; Milk (HafPfowt Solkr Plows Sorghnn Mills Spring Wagons Cora Shellers, hand 12 WU 34 0 35 0 Zi. 7 23 75 0 0 SO 75 25 120 70 40 120 12. 2T 1M uajr nates 0 25 0 30 Hanese, doable Mewing Maefainen Common Chairs 4J50 4.50 0 10 300 30 Tables When von co to Hutchinson don't fail to call on PUak Walton and see their immense stock of watches, dorfri, jewelry sad 'other goods is their hoe. Watch and clock repair ing a specialty. Two doors south 0) Kan store.

moons. Harry Bagley has built a house on his father's west eighty- Who can tell what that means Thinking you would like to have some of our local news in your noble little paper I will write occasionally a few items. F. J. Chambers was married to Miss A.

J. Font on the 11th of and is now happily situated on his homestead. A couple of months ago Chancy Clothier accompanied by his son went to Missouri to sell his farm but on finding times rather dull there, he did not sell his farm, but returned to his home in Kansas, with a big load of apples, hich, we are informed, he sold to the new store at Stafford for $1.50 per bushel. Mr. Clothier has gone back to Missouri with three teams for apples and will return in a few days.

He says he could not sell the apples for forty cents a bushel in Missouri. Old Settler. A UXLX. SITS. We are informed that power of sufficient capacity for milling purposes can be obtained from the North Ninnescah, in Pratt county.

This assertion is no doubt true, as the Arlington Mills, in Reno county, are driven by the same stream successfully. Who will build the first flour mill in Pratt county? A mill in one of the best wheat growing portions of Kansas, where there is no. competition. Here is a fortune for- some one. The North Ninnescah will be of inestimable value to our country.

THAT SCHOOL H07SX. 7b the Editor of The Stafford Citizen In looking oyer, last week's Citizen I noticed the piece entitled. How to get a school house, church and place for public meetings." In the beginning of the article you are correct. We need a school house more than anything else. But when yon go on to tell how to get one, that is, build it of sod, I disagree with don't think that our public buildings should be of sod when it is in -our power to prevent it and it is in jthis case.

It is not going to cost a great deal to build a school house, and I am sure if a subscription paper was started among our people we would have no difficulty in raising sufficient money to put up a building that would be an ornament to our little town. We have not spent all our money yet We have kept enough to build a good school house, and Jet us have a good school house, one that will last a number of years and one that we will not be ashamed to build in Stafford It will count post one more building in our (little' town. Hoping that you will continue -publishing the Citizen but desist from urging our people to build their pub-he buildings oV sod, I remain, yours respectfully, J.JEL Sl AX3S3 WSTMABTa BL For some time the citizens of Harper county who received their mail at the Harper poet-office have been annoyed by having their letters opened and rifled of their contents. Indeed, so common had this become that it became unsafe to fiend anything through the mail that might be of value to a third It appears that the envelopes were opened sU the end and frequently pasted together with flour paste. Some of the envelopes were sent to the department with a statement of grievances.

The case was put into the of TJ. S. Detective Wr P. Edgarton. He at cncegave the matter Ms attention asd pedtouieQy investigate, and if possible ferret oat the guilty parties.

He came to the conclusion that the irregularities occurred in the Kingman post-office. He came to Hutchinson and prepared eight decoy letters, enclosing money in each. In addition to. these he also sent two packages of merchandke, one containing a fine pocket-knife and the other a silk handkerchief. These he placed in the mail bag at the Pretty Prairie office in the presence of witnsses.

The mail was not opened then until it reached Kingman. There it remains several days Every dealer who wants to sell to the people of this vast and region ought to advertiso in tho aly 81.00 jo? lis Heatkj, i0 If toIZxo up IiloiIflia 81.00 to. tZio county. It trant in aucujj respect. All Kinds cf Papsrs Drawn.

-A2TD- Acknowledgements Taken. Special attention given to Sale of Farms and Claims. EL tL Notary Public STAFFORD, Prrtt Kan, THE STAFFORD CITIZEN, Stafford, Pratt County, Kanoao..