The Stafford Citizen from Stafford, Kansas • 3

e. wn.coT ALLISON DEVIER'S COLUMN FOR KANSAS AND COLORADO During a stormy night this fall, Henry Sherman's Cash Price List. CCLCSABO COAL. Some of our citizens have been Ihe 8taffor5 Citizen. STAFFORD, JANUARY 11, 1878.

COERKCTED WEEKLY. 4 lbs Good Coffee for $1.00 l.oo 1.00 l.oo 1.00 1.00 50 90 90 1.20 75 1.00 20 45 60 65 20 20 20 20 25 30 15 20 10 25 Bestiuo 51 3i Ground M- Extra Sar 9 Standard Sugar Good Imperial Tea perH ttest Young Hyson Gunpowder Sugar House Syrup per gal Fine Imperial Brooms, each Catlin's Shorts Tobacco per lb Good Chewinff 14 Lorillard's Bright Navy 2 lb Strawberries per can, Blackberries Cora 44 Peaches 44 3 fit Tomatoes 44 44 Peaches 2 ft Gooseberries 44 Oysters 1 lb i Bars Standard Soap And a full line of Groceries and Provisions, Glassware, Queensware, kc, all at proportionately low prices. THE FIRST BRICK STORE I2f STERLING. Farmers will save money bv eivinsr Davis Taber, of Sterhner. a call They are selling Dry Goods, Cloth- mg, onoes ana groceries.

Don't forget to give them a trial. 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.

BorEK, Sterling, Kans. Go to Beyer's for Hardware, Stoves, and Tinware, one door south of P. in Sterling, Kansas. Boyer keeps the best line of Stoves in the Valley. RONES! Six Dollars and Fifty Cents, per ton, cash, paid for Bones, by B.

J. Pottee, Hutchinson, Kans. There are quite a number of claims near Stafford and now is the time to get them. E. M.

Robords can tell you all about it Call and see him when you want a No. 1 claim. When you go to Hutchinson don't fail to call on Plaak alton and see their immense stock of watches, clocks, jewelry and other goods in their line. Watch and clock repair ing a specialty. Two doors south of Ran store.

We are authorized to sav that Heny Sherman will sell you goods just as he aaveruses. ne prices given are lor cash only. Go to C. W. Boyer, of Sterling, for your lumber.

STAFFORD NURSERY. The have made arrangements with nurseries in the eastern part of the state, by which they can furnish all kinds of nursery stock in prime condition and as cheap as it can be bought at the nursery. All parties wishing trees of any kind, will do well to call and get our prices before ordering from any other source. Robords Mathewson, Stafford House, Stafford, Kans. BARGAIN.

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. E. M.

Roboeds. 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 harness as part payment. E.

M. Roborxs, Agt A good chance for a man who wants a good home at once. One hundred and sixty acres with farm house, 14 by 1G 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. Witbin three miles of town. Price, $600.

M. Roboeds, Agent TMBEB CLAIM, CHEAP, Four miles northeast of town. 20 acres in wheat. 10 acres planted in nuts. Price $375.

E. M. Roboeds. There are more Homestead entries being made in Pratt than at any time since its settlement. E.

M. Robords makes out the papers for them. Take the Atchison Topeka 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 con nection is made with the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for Colorado Springs, Manitoa, Denver, Canon City and afl points of note on the Denver and Rio Grande. The track is excelled by that of no road in the est, and the passenger equip ment embraces all the modern im provements 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 the Rocky Mountains, with Pullman Sleeping Cars attached. For maps, circulars and detailed information, send to T. J. ANDERSON, General Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kan. J.

HANNA Wholesale and Retail DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware, Pumps, Etc. Having also secured the services of a COMPETENT AND PRACTICAL TINNER, we are prepared to furnish all in nis line at Bottom Prices. Our STOVES are excellent, xxtekior to none in the market, and a trial only is needed to secure them that repu tation here they have gamed elsewhere. We rcspectliilly invite the citizens of Pratt and adjoining counties to call and examine our goods, and will gladly quote prices. Uur place 01 business is in the MBrkt, East Side of Broadway, IJERLIXO, KANSAS FRY LOWREY, Settlers' and Farmers' Brick Block, darned.

Kans. MILLINERY GOODS. EATS, 1211X3 7L0WESS, EI2B3KS, pltces, stitches, STAMPING OF ALL KINDS. Mrs. S.

Fisher, STERLING, KANSAS, w. j. wrrarixrER, PHYSICIAN SURGEON, GREAT ISEXD, KAXS. Where you will find a supply of Fresh DRUGS, MEDICINES CHEMICALS PERFUMERIES. TOILET SOAPS, HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS, Fancy Toilet Articles.

SMfler Braces, Trusses Supporters rarsicuirs psesceiptioks accwatzli CCltfOulTEES. ORDERS answered with care ami dispatch Farmers and Physicians from the country will find oar stock of Medicines complete) warranted genuine and of the best quality. Attonues at Law. CoHesiiag Agesta BLACK HONEY, DRUGGISTS BOOKSELLERS. STERLiyG, ASS AS.

"We deal in Drugs, Patent Medicines of all kinds, Books, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Perfuirery, etc. We also have in connection with our store a Circulating Lib- ary, comprising many valuable works of Fiction, Science, Law, rneoiooy, etc. We also deal in Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs. We practice in the Courts of the State as Attornies at Law. We deal in Lands and p-rchase and sell Claims and Rail road Lands.

We also loan money on collateral and real estate security. In fine, we try to make ourselves generally useful to the community. When you come to Sterling, come and see U3; it will do you good. BLACK UOXEY. D.

PLVMMEB, Jt ITEALEBS IS Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded, Contest Notice. U. S. Lasd Office, Lamed, Kansas, Deaember 20. 177.

1 Complaint having been entered at this office by Thomas M. Harrison against John F. Mason, for abandoning his Homestead tntry, No. 1030, dated Oct. 23, 1876, upon the northeast quarter section 33, Township Zi south.

Range 12 west, in County, Kansas, witb a view to tne cancellation of said entry: the said parties are hereby summoned to appear at this office on the 26 day February, 1878, at 11 o'clock A. to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged abandonment. V. A. Mobbjs, iieguter.

BAILEY BROTHERS, DEAIXES IS Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing Boots, Shoes, Etc. GREAT BEND KANSAS. General Outfitting ten men and one woman stopped at Gibbens Potter's sheep ranch on the South Kinnescak in. this county. It is fortunate for the teamsters that Gibbens Potter have located a ranch at that place, it being about half way from this place to the Medicine Valley.

The Gibbens brothers are ac-ommodating gentlemen. They furnish the teamsters with a cook stove and comfortable room, and only charge a reasonable compensation for the hay they feed your team. Mr. Sorrels, from Kentucky, has bought the northeast quarter of Sec tion 5, Town 2o, Range 11, and has built himself a neat little frame house. He brought with him two good teams and has already bought a sulky plow.

This looks like business. Also a brother of the above 'and father of Vergil Sorrels has settled in our neighborhood. He found the north west quarter of Section 29, Township 24, Range 11, entered on the record as vacant and has taken it as a home stead. J. Towanda, Pa.

There is good land near Stafford that may be had under the homestead, timber or preemption laws. Seven or eight hundred dollars would give a man a good start in this country, most of us having come here with much less than that Such things that you have on hand and unable to sell and worth paying the freight on, you would do well to bring with you. But such things as you have to buy you can get as cheap here as in the east, and much less after adding the freight You will find the market report in the Citizen of much service to you. Coal can be obtained at reasonable prices at the towns along the line of the A. T.

S. F. railroad. Stafford is about thirty miles southwest of Sterling, C2EEK HOIES. Peace Creek is not a city, town or village, but simply a country post-office of which Isaiah Wilhite is postmaster.

This post-office is situated on the southeast quarter of Section 12, Town 23, Range 11, six niil.es north and six miles west of Stafford A lively christian settlement is sur rounding this post-office and is known as the Missouri settlement. There was a lively little lyceum or ganized on Saturday evening week ago, at what is called the Clothier school house. All are cordially in vited to attend and participate in dis cussing the many questions that will arise from time to time. The last question by Milton Clothier was discussed last Saturday night. Question: Resolved, that -whisky causes more sorrow and death than the sword.

Old Settler. GOLD rSATT CCTOSY. To the Editor of The Stafford Citizen Gold and silver in abundance to be found in Pratt county. The minin process which has been going on in Pratt county the last year has devel oped the fact that there is an abun dance of this precious metal to be found here and with very little cost to the miner, compared to obtaining it in California from quartz rock Htre, with a good breaker, by turn ing the sod over from one to thrt inches deep in the spring, and in July or August stir the ground from three to six inches deep and sow to wheat, in good season, then, if the miner in the following autumn will sift out all the yellow ore and market it, he will be likelj to get from $10 to $18 per acre for the precious metaL The miner that will wash out forty acres would receive the little reward of $100 to $720, all told, and this would u't be a bad showing for the first season's mining. Then, by ad ding a few head of cattle, horses and hogs, just enough fo make living interesting, we will add to our pocket change, and in a few years we will be able to go back and see our old friends and tell them of the great gold field, of southern Kansas.

J. W.R. EAl'SAS fA2MK3. Mr. Gutrie has succeeded in rais mg some 20,000 bushels of corn on Mr.

William's farm this year. frank- ford Record. W. W. Kirkpatrick has a thoroughbred Berkshire pig that weighs G95 pounds, and is still gaming in weight, uarnett Flaindealer.

Brown, Legate Tilford have been bntchering some fine New Year's beef. They killed a heifer weighing 1,80 pounds. Olathe Mirror. The hog market is looking up a little, but our judgment is that it is not safe to hold hogs, that are ready for market on anticipation of high figures. Linn County Clarion.

New Hampshire boasts of having raised 2,000,000 bushels of com the past year. Montgomery county only six years old from the raw prairie raised nearly two and a quarter million of bushels. Independence Tribune. Blue grass in the valley is from four to six inches high, and as green and as fresh as it commonly is in May. Up to this time stock has required but very little feed except what they have picked." iSWtne Valley Register.

Captain Defreese brought some of the fruit of his farm in Raymond township to town last It consisted of forty hogs, the aggregate weight of which was 10,090 lbs. They were sold to J. A. Powell at $3.20 per hundred, amounting to $322.88 for the lot Rice County. Gazette.

Gathering com is the employment of the majority, and such com, too, as only Kansas can make when she tries. Large and round 700,800 and 900 large grains on 12 and 13 inch ears, are not uncommon. Had the season for com culture been less wet and the weeds better killed there is no telling what com would have been- raised. Six years ago the com was mere half dozen acre patches. Chr.se County L0ier.

trying the Colorado coal and are more than satisfied with it It costs a little more per ton than the common Osage coal, but is pronounced far cheaper in the long run on account of yielding so much more heat from a given quantity. It is also far cleaner and produces less gas and less ash than the slaty, sulphurous stuff we have been getting from the east. The S. F. railroad company is now selling it at such reduced figures that it can be laid down here at wholesale at about $7.00 per ton.

Ave are glad on several accounts to see this coal coming into use. It promotes the opening of the exhausted mineral resources of the mountains, in which this country is so much interested. The miners in these regions must be fed, and the fertile plains of tlie Arkansas valley can supply them with flour, produce, and meat more cheaply than can any other region. The trains which carry our products to them will re turn theirs to us, and the increased traffic will reduce the rates. What our farmers need is a better market What Colorado miners need is a bet ter market.

The development of both sections depends largely upon the rates which the railroad company can make on freights. This movement of coat from the west brings into use a part of the road over which there has been but fight traffic heretofore. The road comes down grade nearly all the way, and we hope that for the advantages to ourselves first, to the company second, and to the mining interests third, the rates will be made as low as possible, and that every facility will be afforded for commerce between the two sections. Rice County Gazette. CETOCH EIEZCTCEI.

STAFFORD CIRCUIT. Methodist. Preaching every first and third Sabbath at 11 a. at the residence of Henry S. Riegle.

Sabbath School at 10 a. at the same place. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at Wm. Wallace's. GOSHEN.

Preaching, second Sabbath in each month. HAINES VILLE. Preaching, every fourth Fabbath. Wm. Wallace, pastor.

MARKET REPORT. STEELING. PRODUCE, ETC. best Wheat Rve 82 23 16 25 6X 15 14 20 18 20 10 12X 20 12X 13 1.50 1.0) Oats Barley Beans Butter Bacon Cheese Corn new -Dried Apples Peaches Prunes Beef Buffalo Esgs Chickens Lard OnioHS Potatoes Tallow fci! iO 6 8 BUILDING MATERIAL. Common Boards, per M.

30.00 lloonng -Siding -Fencing -Dimension -Shingles Lath Nails -Doors ai Windows White Lead, per keg BoildOil Brick, per M. 30.00 tfS 45.00 20.00 30.UO 30.U0 30.00 4.00 5.50 05 2.00 1.50 3.00 1.10 10.00 5.00 5.00 3.50 3.: 1JL5 Uttuciimius. Sugar Coffee A lbs for 1.00 Brown Coffee Flour. Dcr cwt 8 4 3.00 3.50 Tea Canned Fruit Coal Oil Vinegar Syrup MISCELLANEOUS Standard Prints Sheetings Indian Uead Stark A Lonsdale bleached 4-4 Men's Kip Boots Women's Shoes Stirring Plows Breakers Sto ves and Ware Farm Wagons Two Uorse Cultivators Drills Evaporators Fanning Mills (rang Plows Sulky Plows Sorghum Mills Spring Wagons Corn Shell ers, band llay Rakes Harness, double Mowing Machines Common Chairs -Tables Bedsteads 50 1.40 20 25 35 40 75 1.0(1 5 10 14 10 12 3.00 Ct 5.0U 1.40 0 2.00 12 15 24 7 85 23 75 40 25 35 (3 3 5 25 75 120 70 40 120 12 8 25 lui 25 (2J 30 4.50 4.50 10 3.50 (3 3J For the last several weeks, Mr Fair has paid freights to the amount of $1,000. per week, on an average, The firm has taken advantage of every opportunity to buy at re duced rates, and a considerable part of the present stock is now be-i ig sold at prices which would barely cover cost and freight at the present wholesale prices.

All carpenters will appreciate their sized dimension stun. ODESSA SEED WHEAT For sale by B. J. Pottee, Hutchinson, LUMBER FOR PRATT. Parties in Pratt county can now be supplied with lumber by calling on (J.

W. Boyer, of Sterling, at the lowest market price. Those in need of lamber would do weil to remember the place. C. W.

Boyer, Sterling. THAT SCHOOL HOUSE. Stafford shall not have a sod school house while Edwards Bros, Fair of Sterling, are selling lumber so cheap. Osage and Wite Ash plants for sale by IL M. Wilbur, Freeman, P.

O. 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 Deuo Stoke.

C. W. Boyer, of Sterling, has a choice lot of lumber. HARDWARE, Agricultural Stoves Tinware, Etdi -i ALSO tenfactiirers of all Ms cf Tinware Hutchinson, Kansas. Am Prepared To.

SNOW LAND A5D MASS OCX HOMESTEAD, PRE-EMPTION, TIMBER CULTURE, -AM) Furnish Abstracts or Plats- FILE CONTESTS COIsTTKlCTS AND All Kinds of Papers AXD Acknowledgements Special attention given to Sale of Farms and Claims- M. ROBORDS, Xofar Public. STAFFORD, Pratt Co.r Kans. BLACKSMITH WORK. C.

XV. CROXK Has fitted up a blacksmith shop one-half mile west of Stafford and is prepared to do all kinds of smith work to order on short notice and at reasonable prices. 0. S. Lai Office.

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Sing 9 Numbers One Copy Three Months One Copy Six Months One Copy One Year Kix Copies One Year Ton Copies One Year 05 50 1.00 2.00 10.00 16.00 30.07 Twenty Copies One Year A Club may be made ud of mbacfiber from Several post otlices, but must be all ordered at one time. HOME NEWS. Peace Creek has a lycetan. For homesteads come to Pratt. Henry Horn has joined the blue ribbon party.

Each day brings one or more settler to Pratt county. Attend the school meeting at Mr. McNayhten's, to-morrow. Look out for grasshoppers. They can cross the creeks on the ice.

Claims taken up last spring are now worth from 200 to $2,000. After you have read the Citizen send it to your friends in the east The wheat in Pratt county will compare favorably with any in Kansas. No place in the world offers more inducements to settlers than Pratt county. homestead papers on your claims and avoid trouble and disappointment Seven cedar poasts for a bushel of corn is the rate of exchange in the Medicine Valley. An THinnis mrin has settled on the high prairie about six miles south of the bouth JNinnescan.

H. X. Devendorf, representing the Topeka Commonwealth, favored us with a call last Tuesday. Heho the Citizen and we will let the homo-seekers know that there is such a place as Pratt county. Sub scrip tion, $2 per year.

A party has been surveying near the south line of this county, with a view of locating a colony of twenty families from Missouri. Fanners in the east with large families of marriageable daughters would do well to immigrate to Pratt county. All of our young men own 1G0 acres of good farming land. Amos Bateliff expects to build a fine house on his claim east of fetal ford, this coming spring. That is right Amos.

like to see a man get a cage before getting the bird. When vou come here to take crov eminent land, remember that the pre emption law requires you to live on it. Your absence from it for more than thirty days forfeits your right Mr. Mott, brother-in-law, of Mr Hartnet, recently lost a very fine horse from blind staggers (worm dust.) Farmers, be careful, and sort your com before feeding it to your horses. Parties coming here to look for homes should remember that the pre emption law is worthless to them un less they are prepared to take pos session of thwir new homes imme diately.

The Citizen is growing more im portant every day. The subscription list is steadily growing and. the ad vtrtising patronage is getting better. It is truly "growing up with the country. Stone coal underlies Pratt county at from 10 to 60 feet from the sur face.

Cannot some one near Stafford go down and bring out a few loads of coal. It would help to build up our town. A large excursion of land hunters is expected at tha towns along the A. T. S.

F. E. next Friday. We hope to see some of them go where Uncle Sam will give a farm to every actual settler. Tommie Wear has moved into his new sod house and looks quite comfortable in his bachelor quarters.

He has a good half section of land and will doubtless soon want an assistant to help manage it. R. Ellis Boyd has built him a new "dug out" and is going to try batching again he and the Eundell boys having dissolved partnership by mutual consent Ellis has a good half-section of land and should take a partner for life. Miss Jennie Ferril came out to this country with her brother to spend the summer, but liking the country and people so well, she has concluded to remain and has taken a claim; the southwest quarter of Section 20, Town 26, Range 12. Citizens of Pratt county have requested Captain Ratcliffe to furnish the readers of the Citizen an exposition of his political status which he promises to do in a future issue and to accompany it with his opinion on the organization, of Pratt county.

We are personally acquainted with a young man who had been unable to find work in the east, although he had searched diligently for one year. He came to Stafford last spring with just money enough to take a homestead for which he now refuses $300. THIS COXj-tTMnST is CORRECTED EVERY WEEK. ALLISON DEVIER, Wholesale and Retail Drugs ai Groceries SPECIAL PRICE LIST! Looli at this Column every Week fo? SPECIAL PRICES ON DRUGS GROCERIES Cash Buyers Look to Your HcTCHDisocf, Jan. lltli, 1878.

Apples, green, per peck 50c Standard A Uoflee Sugar 8 lbs $1.00 Granulated 7 1.00 Extra very light 10" 1.00 Best Bio ColTee, i pounds for 1.00 Good" 1.00 Linen Soap 3 .25 Best Gunpowder per pound, 1.25 Best Imperial 1.00 Choice .70 Good. .50 Best Japan 1.00 Very Good Japan" .35 Good Old Hyson Best Baking Powder" .35 Choice Bright NaTy Tobacco 55 Blackburn Excelsior Condition Powders, (the best in market) per pound 50 Prunes, per pound, new crop, 12 Choice Louisiana Bice, per .10 Choice Dried Apples, new .10 Beans .06 Sulphur .15 Prime Leaf Lard, in pails. .15 Bacon, clear sides, Matches, six. boxes for. .25 Coal Oil, per gallon 25 Pure White Castor Oil, per gaL 1.50 Axle Grease, three boxes for .25 Pure Glycerine, per ounce 05 Best Indigo, .10 Sperm Oil 1.20 No.

1 Lard Oil 1.30 XXX Flour 3.00 XXXX 3.25 California Syrup .85 No. 1 New Lake Salt per bbl. 2.75 Sorghum molasses per gal. .50 Greenwich Soda, 4 lbs for .25 Allison's Improved Liver Pills, .25 Other Goods in Proportion. ALLISOU DEVIER, Wholesale and Retail Druggists and Grocers, 3L Front, HUTCHINSON.

KANS. ALLISON'S IMPROVED LIVER PILLS. FORM LA. Aloes Soc. Jalap Gamboge Leptandrin 1 gr.

1 err 1-8 St. 1-8 sr. 1 8 gr. 1-48-ftt. 1-4 gtU Hyd.CUor.Mite.

Ol. Capicum DOSE, ONE TO THREE. Manufactured for ALLISON DEVIER, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, 2SJT.XiUS-.mi, Coal Oil Depot. "We are now prepared to furnish dealers with-Coal Oil by the barrel, at less than Kansas City prices, with freight added. THE LAST CHANCE.

The Price of the Levrentrorth WfhhJ Times Soon, to he Only a few Weeks more at tlie VUt Mmtc. The Leavenworth Weekly Times for the last two mouths has been publishing a paper of fifty-four columns, with very tew advertisements. It is now the largest, cheapest, best, and leading pp.per of Kansas, and has a larger circulation than any other paper in the State. We do not see how aay man in the West can afford to be without The Times. Its market report3 are correct, Kansas Items complete, miscellany select, editorials positive, and agricultural items especially adapted to the Kansas farmer.

When the proprietor expends as much money as he has done, $1.00 a year does not pay for the white paper, and realizing the fact that the people do not care for a little extra money, provided they obtain all the news, the price of The Weekly Times will be raised to $2.00 en the 1st of February, 1878. But until that date all subscriptions will be received at the old ratesT and those sending will receive The Weekly Times lor oue year. Send your money nnmediatelyf and get the best paper in Kansas for one year lor one dollar. Address, D. ANTHONY, Leavenwoth, Kan..