Sheridan County Times from Kenneth, Kansas • 2

I STATE NEW 3. SHERIDAN COUNTY TIMES. A TRIP TO K2NNETH. I Last Friday about noon, in com Official confirmation of the report rom Vienna that the Austrian gov ernment will not receive Mr. Keiley pany with C.

C. Reynolds, we jumped into a buggy behind a span of X. A. L. P.

WOKCESittt, Editor and Prop. The total valuation of property in ice c-ounty is Sumner count- has a surplus in her as a representative of the United Oreat eseitement exists in fmaiieial and railway owing to the sudden official announcement by the government of new laws regarding the payment of taxes, the cutting down of official salaries and the suspension of railway subsidies. Clark's automatic skeletons and com PUBLISH OFFICIAL COUNTY NEWS. States government cannot be obtained at Washington. The secretary of menced a journey toward the- land of county treasury of $40,000.

Sheridanites, Kenneth being our de3- state and the Austrian legation refuse ination. The road was dusty, and to talk upon the subject. There are The new mayor of Hays City is Ion. Simon Motz. The salary of the receiver of the earned land office is alxmt a Old Sol smiled upon us with a warmth indications, however, that point to the substantial correctness of the report hat would have curdled ice-cream JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

There will ho a Judicial Convention of the 17th Judicial District, hold at Miil-brook, Graham County, Kansas, on the day of July, 15, at 1 o'clock p. tor the purpose of placinsrin nomination a candidate forjudged' said liistrict. The counties will be to the following number of del '-utiles, to-w it; Phillips 11 1 Rooks It Norton it Cvahnm ii Gen. Grant is fully alive to the admitted fact that he can never recover. But he endures all with his usual quiet fortitude and courage.

As 'on without the regular 10-cent fee, but A dispatch has been received at the year. post office department at Washington, A man named efferson Durr was nevertheless these slight inconveniences-did not prevent us from amply rom British Columbia, saying that the field of battle when shot and struck by lightning at Abilene a few Hibbs, the absconding postmaster shell made havoc with evervthing days ago. He died a short time after. enjoying the manifold beauties of nature presented on every hand. If of Lewiston, Id.

who stole 20,000 around, Grant sat on his horse and fire in Atchison last week caused he growing grain, the verdure of the and went to Canada, is willing to com a loss of 800 '-to Joseoh Mav. the wrote a despatch with as firm a hand and' as cool a head as if seated in the rairie, the signs of new life and labor, promise by giving the government jroprietor of a second-hand store, the white-capped immigi'ant wagons. 8.000 of the stolen money for his White House, so now, facing certain which was burned. nd the occasional glimpse of a mir death in the. near future, lie calmlV reedom.

The postmaster general CHOICE INVESTMENTS Several of the leading citizens of directed that the offer be refused, as Erie, Neosho county, have leen ar writes, in simple, sturdy phrase, the memories of the jrrcafc events in which the government would rather have Decatur Sheridan 2 Rawlins 3 Thomas 1 Cheyenne 1 Shenuu 1 Kllis 6 Two 5 Gove 1 St. John 1 Wallace 1 The committee recommend that the prim a-rics be held iu the same counties on the 1 Ith tiny of and the county convcHtiou to f-if'ct ou the l-'tii day tf July. Uy order of the committee. LafC. Smith, Cluant-aa.

J. Secretary. INTRODUCTORY. Republican in politics. County news a specialty.

The upbuilding stud development of Sheridan comity. Absolutely free from prejudiced personal or political warfare. Legitimate newspaper work. 1). P.

WORCESTER. rested because they failed to pay their age presented abundant subjects for thought and suggestions of pleasant topics of conversation, and with an editor to do the thinking and a land agent to do the talking, everything Hibbs than the money. The extradi lie took so conspicuous a part. occupation tax. tion proceedings will begin in a few days.

J. C. Eatherly, who killed Mr. Extremes meet but to' separate. Messmore at Elk Falls, made his es quickly assumed the hue of the rain Gen.

Grant, since his removal to cape while Ips trial was in progress. bow without the faintest suspicions of The defeat of the government' which led to the resignation of the Gladstone He was recaptured. Mount McGregor, a little more than a week ago, has steadily improved by mechanical construction from which ministry ras brought about largely deduct medical inferences, Striking A citizen of Newton received a tel by the Irish members, and -at the same the change of air. Dr. Douglas was asked, this week, to make a compara- the divide south of to wn we were soon egram from Colorado the other day time it greatly pleased Queen Victoria.

asssing through a country thickly- offering him $100,000 for a mine he son of the general's condition now and on the day he started from New owned in that State. dotted with homes of sturdy settlers. who has never loved the sturdy and independent statesman. Thus the Emporta-is to bes. connected with Topeka by telephone.

surrounded with growing crops and It is said there are forty-seven can York. Gen. Grant could not have crown and its most intense haters rejoice at the overthrow of the greatest owing herds, all bearing evidence of didates for sheriff in Phillips county. lived in New York until this tiling with the weather such as when he left," Prosper it-, thrift and comfort. Many This beats Books countv, which has 7 The people of the -west part of this of the time.

Cut whatever new-houses have sprung up along the only twenty-five or thirty. said tho doctor, '-he was sinking very judicial district seem; inclined to run 0f malice may have been satisfied in KANSAS DUST I Incendiaries have been at work set rapidly there, and that was why we road during the year, and great tracts of bnflalo orass have succumbed to a. rate-urn lor judge wncmcr lie is the union of these closing forces to had to hasten the time of leaving. a candidate or not. 1n.wror.lili tin's rairrasp.

its shafts ting lire to stores at Independence. the plow and been transformed into which was originally fixed for to-day; Montgomery county, resulting in a reached not the heart of ladstonc, ti i it. i 7 growing fields of grain. Just before loss' of eight or ten thousand dollars, In making a comparison of the gen Liiutuuuuoveoj wuuioptu- necourt(d dcf Mt rclicycJ we reached the Prairie Dog we dip- eral's condition a week ago and now, iwmuu uaa u. piusuauti uocoe i offf.ml fov him to re- Gen.

Reynolds, late first auditor of 11' il. I 1 1 "1 I covered evidences of the damage done there is a central fact that must al ionium mat no nas saneu ourope tir0i. Whethcr at the head of the the United States Treasury, who was by the hail storm that visited that rr in votiroinont lio lioc lately killed by falling down an air to seek rest and a restoration to health. ways be considered; A fact that pains me deeply, and all the time, and that shaft in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, no peers.

scetioa some two weeks ago, where fields of rye and wheat were beaten to the ground and destroyed, and is, that we must stand by and watch was a large land-owner in Harvey F'runcis'M urphy the other da-. told a volume in a sentence to the Pitts the course of this illness, with the A land office removal meeting is county. where the glass in the windows of the advertised. to be held at Atwood to consciousness of being unable to stay The city attorney of Stilina has houses along the way were shattered it. Starting from that fact the inci da-.

The Atwood people are the been instructed to draft an ordinance burg strikers. Hcf said "If you must strike, strike against whisky 'and bad company. Such a strike a3 that is A great many farmers had replanted dents of daily changes may be prime movers in the scheme, thinking requiring an annual license of 500 the devastated portions to corn and that if the office is moved it will sure The political crisis in England's always in order. from the drug stores of that place. confidently expect to realize hand ly go to that place, while Coll)-, in affairs seems to have been passed, and The penalty and back taxes on the Thomas county, is quite positive that somely, notwithstanding the disaster attending their first efforts.

The most probably alt ditterences between as pich a9 California Piacof Diggings, but Unlike ThStf Vtchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad in man has brought suit against a "newspaper for is rnmrivoil f.lir will hnvo in case it the conservatives and liberals have uum unun.iDn. amounting to $22,350, were paid to half of the journey was the first half saving he was a liar. It isn't really the political influence to secure it been arranged. The following persons the treasurer of Johnson county last repeated, minus the hail, everything are unofficially but definitely an rafe for a paper to'express any opin- The land office located at Oberlin is week. indicating a large immigration anC nounced as members of the 'hew min ion ust oi it an i-v A farmer who resides near Welling active preparations to do battle with of fchendan county as anyone could istry Postmaster General, Lord Arkansas tnai, too.

the untamed prairie. The shades ton was bitten by a mad dog last week, reasonably expect, and removal to John Manners; Attorney General for He has tried all the so-called mad eveniug were deepening when we Ireland, Mr. Holmes Solicitor Gen The directors of the Indianapolis either place would be an inconvenience. 160,556 acres irt tracts of i6o to 640 acres in Sheridan, Gra: stones of the surrounding towns, none pulled into Kenneth, and our. firs eral for Ireland, Mr.

Monrcte. The bhpe ball club bodily to There is plenty of territory west for of which adhered to the wound. He thought after attending to the team members of tlie cabinet proper are the Detroit. The Omaha club gave the formation of a new land district. was to size up the hotel and have our now goes to try the celebrated stone themselves away.

Only the Mil wan- taking a part of the Oberlin and Wa Lord Salisbury, Sir-Stafford Northcote, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Sir Hardinge at Paola. measure taken for supper. The Ken kecand Kahsas Citycluba nc-vr remain Kei-ney districts. "Wa Kcehey is ham, Decatur, Rawlins, Norton, Govek irego, Rushj Ness, Lane and Hodgeman counties, will be sold to suit purchaser. Parties asking information will please state the quantity of land they wish to buy, the county in which they want it, for what purpose wanted, and wheth er for cash or part cash: neth House, where we stopped, we Clark county, which is now organ Gilford, Viscount Cranbrook, Lord in the western" league.

thiitv miles east of Oberlin and the ized and tlie county officers appointed district extends to the 'Western Harrowby, Sir Richard Ashcton Cross, found presided over by Mr. O. Ellithorpc, a courteous, pleasant man i claims 2.0-12 inhabitants and 85 Col. Frederick Stanley, Right noh Bulfulo Iiiil has taken Washington, boundary of the State, making some voters, 481 children of school age, L. with his VM show, of the lands in the district subject to and -Withal a good democrat.

For fair treatment and honest endeavor 4,319 acres of land under cultivation, Win. II. Smith, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord George Hamilton, Lord John Majors, the Duke of Richmond The street parade with Sitting-Bull entry over one hundred and twenty 640 aeres ef unimproved prairie land) only one-half mile from The town of Ashland has been de and his staff, as a new attraction, five miles from the office. divi recommend us to a democrat. Mr.

Eliithorpe has a good patronage. county seat. cided upon as the temporary county- drew an immense crowd to the thor and Gordon, Hon. Edward Stanhope, sion of territory and the formation keeps a neat, tiit-class establishment, seat, agreeable to the expresiou the Earl of Carnavnn, Right Hon a new district is what is needed. oughfares through which it passed.

and is evidently making money the voters of the county. Edward Gibson, who is also Lord 160 acres of choice, smooth lartdj orily onehalf rrtile frorri Chancellor of Ireland. Syndicates and 'capitalists are pur After supper we made a survey of the town and found it to contain many county seat; SHERIDAN COUJiTY. Iteccivor Chandler's time having expired, Tully Scott, a young lawyer of Beloit, has been appointed to fill that chasing large tracts of land in the A northwestern county, lying in the western part of the State. Lombarc hew and commodious houses and al classes of business well represented Now that the position of Receiver ir 1 i 1..

1 1 1 00 acres 01 nice tana wicri sonic improvement, umy unci: position. "Mr. Chandler has made a second tier or counties soutii irorn the Boston bankers, recently pur of the land office at this place has miles from county seat. good officer and we are sorry to see State of and in the thirc been "awarded 31 r. Scottj Ave would The Closer Bros, have a lumber yarc at this point, carry a good stock anc chased 117,000 acres lying south of the Arkansas river, between Coolidge him retire.

-Mr. Scott is highly re- from the Colorado State line from the beg leave again, as one of the demo acres cf very choice school land, only four miles from commended by the press of the west west. It was organized in 1SS0, ha and Syracuse, and a Garden City syn command a big trade. Kenneth is not one whit behind her sister towns cratic journals of this district, to call 3 county seat, 20 years time witn six per ceni mieresc. an area of 900 square miles, and has dicate bought 11,300 on the other side the attention of the authorities to the of the same river.

G. Webb Bertram now has clear a population or i.tuu. me iowuoi claims of Hon. G. Webb Bertram for sailing for the registership of Kenneth, lying in the north centra tlie position of Register.

He is uni- SO acres of nice land, slopes gently to the east and northeast in the. matter of land otlices, and the familiar signs, mottoes and legends decorating the fronts of buildings were a vivid reminder of our own peerless town in this As in 1 Oberlin land oil'ee. Mr. I'atehms portion, the. comity seat, its popula versally endorsed by the people and term does not expire for some time tiom being about 150.

There are no m-ess of this district for thatiiosition. vet, but it is almost certain that Mr. railroads in the county at present, bu He was an alternate delegate to the 640 acres 6f school land, twenty years time on part, a very Oberlin just throw a stone and four Bertram will succeed liiia. having a two railroads have been surveyed GENERAL Yseult Dudley, tlie woman who shot Rossa, is clamoring for a trial. She 1 has been in jail for more than, four mouths.

Senator Mnnderson, of Nebraska, suggests Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, convention which nominated CW- choice table oi lanu witn a stream crossing mrougn uiu times out of five vou will hit a lan unanimous endorsement from this across the county tlie Missouri Pa- and and Hendricks, and has ever been center, will make an excellent farm, only ten miles IroM 1 1 1 a cine and Kansas Western. The Kan district. an active worker for. the party. As tOUhty seat, on line OI proposed K.

rv. extension. agent or cripple a locator. We here met Mr. S.

II. Jameson, sas Division of the Union Pacific -rai to his qualifications for the place, they printer of the old school, with whom the intEs will not be devoted to wav in ninniUg through the extreme can bd ascertained by reference to his 640 acres of school land, will make a fine Stock farm. as the Republican -candidate for President in 1S88. irejudiecd political or personal war- northern portion, of Gove comity arge "practice in every court Cf the fare, but will meet, the demands of the comcs itbiii one-half mile of the I it is a pleasure to converse. Charley Ityan, of Lenora, has a livery stable iu this town and appears to be doing dispatch has bee'A received at strict, the oeal landomee or thcrte- Ar firrnc -nrr rhniro nnrl sir mi PS irom COUntVSeaiA I 1 uvibJ people'for a oowspapcr containing the S0lltiiCm line of the county.

The the war department from Fort Davis-, partment at Washington'. If he is county news and general information lmvn cf Ln)0rn iu Norton county. not appointed, then indeed will the 160 acres nice land, comfortable house, good well and forty about tlie country. expect antl TlCStern terminus of the Atchison. people of this section be greatly "dis acres in cultivation.

good business. visited the court house and found the County officers all at their posts of duty and evidently rushed with work. Sheridan saying that tlie small-pox has broken out- in a virulent fonrtand that there are no facilities for taking care of the sick. will endeavor to treat all fairly. Polorada Pacific railroad, is withinJ appointed.

Oberlin Herald. ten miles of tlie neitheajtern corner, 1 60 acres very fine second bottom land with water at fifteen It is said tb.il not one settler has and is distant from- Kenneth about LEGAL NOTICES. feet and fine building stone on one comer. left the Crow Creek Heserv ation in twentv-eight miles. The distance NOTICE XO.

county last fall elected a young lady. Miss Gertrude Stevens. Superintendent of Schools, and we heard many tlattering expressions regarding her fitness for the position, her aptitude and thorough mastery of all the d.e- Dakota in response to the proclama- from Keimeth to Graintleld, in Gove "lion of the President The sixty days county, a station on the Kansas Di- S. Land Otfee. Wa Keener.

The first comptroller of the trens ury has disallowed items amounting to 3.200 in tlie accounts of 31 r. Hal-lett, supervisor of elections in Boston. The accounts a3 rendered amounted to 9,000. May 5th, lSb5. fY.i,irlinlhftvinj? teen entered at this o- fi hr ilnu-h J.

Joue3 air.iinst Louis Lnrsou which they had to leave has ex- vision of the Unioit. PaciSc, is alxut pired and the President is about to twenty. The general surface is gently for liulurc, to comply nun ibw ns uun-i culhn-e entry No. 3TA dated May Kit 11, tails of the office. The voters of the The Indians contmrc to cdmiSit cend the miliiary there to drive them 1 lululating.

and in marly places. Nearly oil', level. One-fourth of the entire area Isaac ciulholland, upon ine -j 01 se -4 mm Ji 1), town 10 range 27 In Slierklan county, with a view, to the. cancellation of KaiiJ pntrv: contestant, ttUbSrinjr that the eaid depredations on the Mexican border. oiiia toKnn has nnt hiineif or caused to Ix; county- evidently have reason to congratulate themselves upon their se lection for this important position, Mr.

Isaac Mulholbud has just com n'lnwfrf. of cultivate! any part of said is in bottom-land, the valleys averaging a width of one mile, Cotton The war department at Washington The administration progressing. VfaOT QUriUg or Since iue iiuiii jrai ui Member Real Dealers Association of U. S. has received telegrams reporting heavy f-ntrv: the saul parties are nereoy pummone'i In assto-nuv? causes tor removals causes tor remo wood, oak, cedar and elm trees are tn nnncnr at this oftico on the 2th day of i i rlhtina between the eowbovs and In- June, 1S.S5.

at 9 o'clock a. to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged pleted a new office and is now it lias uroppeu mat woeiim fuund in nu.miitics the diaus near Fort Lewis, home" to all comers. We -had the fauure. F- HaSSA. Rcjrifter.

word offensive, and merely says for I After a 'while they margins of the larger streams, there beimr no continuous belts of timber; W'. H. Pilke.nton, Receiver. Gen. Pope has telegraphed the war pleasure of making the acquaintance (1.

M. Brooks, att r. Tro department that Capt. Lawton was will probably-fpeak out and. say words as tliev now do iu acts lie is but an occasional small grove.

Springs are abundant, and good well-water is obliged to abandon the trail of the KOTICE NO. P. Land OlBee. Wa Keener, Kani of Mr. Chambers, a yourg legal light just from Illinois, who has concluded to try his fortune in Kenneth and who is enthusiastic in his praise of Xorth- Real fetate, loan' and kvestoient Brokers May 7.

15. a Republican, and we want his place hostile Apflches in Mexico at a point in Sierra Maderia, fifteen miles soilth: r.ifiinlaint havinsr been entered at this of- reached at an average depth of thirty feet. The Saline river flows east for a Democrat flue by Charles 1. Richards against Oliver E. fnr failure to comply with law af 1.1 tiinW culture entry No.

dated March east of Bavispe river, his horse teiug across the extreme southern portion. nth. ls-'. noon the nw of section 6, tov.n 10 The people of Madrid seem to think completely exhausted. having no tributaries of importance south, riin'e 27 west, in Sheridan county.

with a view to the cancellation of said west Kansas. We also shook hands with the jovial Geo. Crane, of pioneer fame. Kenneth is excited over its railroad prospects and confidently ex that thev had rather die of cholera Buddensick, the builder of the county. The South Fork of entrr; contestant that the said Oliver E.

liutinKton ha fruied to cultivate cr plr.nt than to let the pullic ra'thorities adopt death-traps in New York Cit, hich kenneth, Sheridan Kan. or cause to lc or pianiet any pa" s'initai'v measures- to disinfect their the Solorscn river enter? at the western border, nine and cue-half miles north of the southwestern comer, and crosst-3 the comvtv in a direction north pecting the appearance of th'1 locomotive within a year. The Kansas Western surveyors surveyed into Tven- houses. That class' of house-owne. whether in Sinun or America, gen of said tract to tree, Peeds trcuttine- dur-intr the third or year of entry or at an'v th-3 fa-'d parties are hereby sufruiionei to rppear at this office on the Sta ay of June, at9 o'clock a.m., to respond anil furnish testimony concerning said ailej td failure.

P. J. r. IlANSA, Register. V.

II. FilkXTOS, Receiver. G. M. Brooks, att'y.

NOTICE NO. i0i3. U. S. Lan-1 Office, Wa Kecney, Kan lUv'S.

l--7. fell to the ground, destroying mauy lives, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment The Tribune sap 'Bi'Jdciisick's sentence is 'a warning that wiTI be heeded by builders of this kind. It ill learn them that they cannot shirk responsibility for a single life lot through their nediaencc. Ten "ally produce a large- number of cs-iHeuiny eligible vkiim' for She wuritc. of east, leaving at the casloin line, atjnetli last week and the boys consider about the center.

Sard creek, flowing this almost equivalent to a railroad, east, in the central portion, is tlie prin- l-pace ill not permit jis to sax more graunai-os Three cf cipci tributary cf the Solomon. The in regard to i er-neth or her people 111 Xcrth Fork of the Solomon enters the this article, were more than corntv at the ffosteni line, ten Wiles favorably impressed with her snl Milwaukee col ege are ou a years in prison is a ont rof the strike. O'tnp'alnt hain? been entered at thi office by Jact ib Katt-dt arfiinM i-cott HiuVt for aban'Joninr hi homestead entry- Nos. The competition for tuc pre- south of the northwestern comer, r.nd. stantial appearance and tlie wide- one whit too severe for the wanton and tlaf-a Oct.

ana Aup. yuj, 1-C9. noon the 4 of ne and of nw two. essays was between ladies. The 'three, who vsV-r.

awake enterprise displayed ov her 1 carelessness rt wine'i ne ana inej r.crlheast. cros section 4, township lo south, rar.re 3 west. 10 non natation yevmt ycrc hot 1 11 liir sincs3 men. and ws are pleased at have been guilty in every quarter o. Jhe-eanciiation entry; the rr boundarV seven miles -we-st of the! declare the ruling to a .1 ,.1.1 tkirrr Tiil are hereby suinnionen to appear mi' the citv, There woukl be rewcr Laa- tbu day of Jane, 1.

at o'clock .1 w-tr if ir. ro fewer cao'tal-! a. to resi-ond atc furnish testimony con-dellsicks 11 uiclv. WliC IUti cap.u.i cerui abaT.donment. noiHieslei-n.

Prairie Dogj an dpiortuuityx to record that ira- crcck runs northeast across the ObeVlia Herald. westc'ni corner, Acres in courtv. 1 1 1. li. J.

HAXSA. nejnsivr. Am: unfair -ind. with their friends, propose to break up the commencement xercise. The troop have been vdlcd cut i iris ana reai esiue ciecuiuiui3 1.

PiLKtsxox, Kewiver. j-ploy thcia G.M. Brooks, Atfy. 1 A'ne vtoJLua pel.