Meade County Times du lieu suivant : Mertilla, Kansas • 4

dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby have a final affidavit bearing date THE TIMES. more simple ai.d cheaper. The speed of this new invention will probably surpass the old way.

GRAVES TWIST. Sunday. Timothy Nolan was a visitor to the Plains, Tuesday. Crops are looking fine. ident ical with that of final certificate and receipt.

In case payment is not made on day of proof a new final affidavit will be required with a supliment- Entered in the Mertilla. Kansas post office as second-class matter. DEALERS IX- We hear that J. C. Gordon, who arrested on a charge sworn out by A.

Sautter, P. ML, of Hel- PUCLISJIED EVERY SATUIiltAV Mr. Newhouse and family have ary affidavit explaining cause of been spending the season on Mt. delay, and stating that the land mi, sura, wast, ran, na, pnnss CROCKERY, ETC. vetia, for cutting down and carry- TERMS.

ing off 52 cottonwood trees from Nebo for their health. One Year, in advance iix months Blue Pete. i has not been alienated and is still owned by the claimant, and that he still continues to reside thereon the homestead of J. Armor, was Helvetia Items. which affidavit must be corobora- ommerclal Printing a Specialty.

We guarantee our prices and goods to bo equal to the best. Here you can find everything usually kept in a first-class store, and by prompt and corieous dealing ted. Further, proofs taken before ByH. L. It I SHOP.

district clerks and probate judges I we shall try to merit your patronage. KANSAS. tried before Justice of the Peace Claybaugh, of Meade Center, and found guilty of grand larceny and was bound over to the District Court to answer to the charge. We are glad to see that some one has taken it in hand to put a stop to these depredations, which have been goiug on for along time House rooves, corn, feed, etc. have, been carried off, and no one Plenty of rain.

Everybody busy planting. Fine growing weather. The last frosts wese somewhat severe on corn and potatoes. Bill McDonald is getting ready I of outside counties are allowed mr tr fifteen days for trauma! to uas GRAVES 8 TWIST, MEADE CENTER, KANSAS office. C.

F. M. Niles, 7 S. Thanhouser, Register. Receiver.

Uau-3 of standing advertisements ma le known on application Local notices, per line, single insertion 10c. Ea'4h suhseqnent insertinn, per line 05c. Local notices remain in, till ordered out. Marriage, death and church notices free of Charge. Advertising payable monthly.

Job-work, cash to leave for Iowa. Never tnke has been punished, but when it the back track, Bill. It is discour-conies to such villiany as cutting aging to see our best farmers down the trees of a neighbor it is leaving like tnis. BANK. WEST PLAINS Lumber, posts, coal, lime plaster, cement, hair, doors, windows, blinds arid screens.

Herzer WESf PLAINS, KAN. LOCAL ITEMS. WEST PLAINS, KS. Office of County Clerk, May 1, 18SS. Notice is hereby given that the Board Jacob Strohl was down to the rail road, Tuesday.

D. A. Perkins is taking in the booming town of Liberal this week. high time that an example should be made, and justice meeted out to the full extent of the law, and if the law is weak or inefficient to stop these raids in the a good dose of switches or tar and feathers will be of benefit to Such rascals, who are a disgrace to respectible citizens. These remedies would act on society like Hood's Sarsaparilla does on the body strengthens and purifies it.

A. TniNkER- $50,000, CAPITAL STOCK, A brother-in-law ot Mr. Wharton is expected daily from Republican county- He will occupy Wm. McDonald's house and rent his place. Such is life people who travel, Rolling stones gathar ho moss.

A. Sautter's black ponies know every bend, crook and hole on the road betwen Helvetia and Meade Center- Wm. Bell and Jeff Work have each bought a lister and are putting out big crops. There is a large crop of everything being put in by the farmers of County Commissioners will meet on Monday. June 4th, 1888, as a Board of Equalization, then and there to equalize all taxable property of Meade county both personal and real.

All persons feeling themselves agriev-ed at returns made by assessors are hereby notified to appear and have errors corrected. L. E. Brown, 23 w3 Co. Clerk.

Do a General Banking and Loan Business. Special Attention Given to FAbm Loans. No Dklays. We Pay You the Money, Soon as Papers an Recorded. CALL, AND SEE US.

B. B. BROWN, Pres't. W. COULD, Cashier Thos.

McAuliffe is putting out a crop on the McCann place, south of town. Norval High went over to Santa Fe, Wednesday. J. H. Ellis and son Chas.

were Over to the Plains Monday. Notice the new ad of the West Plains Bank, elsewhere in this Information is wanted as to the Bop, Notary Mertilla. Time Card of the A. T. A S.

F. R. Trains leave Cimarron as follows: KASTWAKD. No. 2, Atlantic Express 12 19, a.m.

No. 4, New York Express 11 14, a m. WESTWARD whereabouts of Chas. B. Plumer and James Ford, boys seventeen and eighteen years old, who left borne April 14th.

They carried a satchel, double-barreled shot gun and each a watch. The former wore a white canvass hat and the latter a white hat with shoe string through the brim. Any information regarding the boys would be gladly received by John N. Palmer and James Ford, Gres well, Marion J. W.

High, an old time Mertil- iian is erecting a residence in Wichita in this vacinity, and they are using every effort to produce good crops this fall, which present prospects indicate. A. Sautter's grey hound Motrse is cleaning up the jack rabits in great style. There i money to be made by No 1, Cal Mex Ex 1 40 a No 4, Colo Ex 2 44 a CHAS WHITING, Ajrt Miss Sherrill starts Monday for a visit to the old home, in J. F.

FARM LOANS A SPECIALTY. uigu uu uoflu mcuonaia n0 irniK over to Santa Fe, Monday. A Dl $1.00 for thirteen weeks. The OrMYIrLL POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed seenrelv wrapped to any address in the United States Hfi (J for" three months en receipt of UU I I L.O One Dollar discount allowed to post masters, agents and clubs. The POLICE GA A I ZGTTE of New York is the only IVlrMLLU legitimate illustrated sporting and sensationol journal published upon the American continent.

Apply for terms to L. L. i RICHaKD K.l OX, Franklyn Square New York Have Bill Dupree tell you about Cleveland's "ffV? banner. the man, woman or kid who will invent a machine, contrivance or any way to destroy the ground squirrels, that are eating up the corn. As time is money and the writing of items dosn't bring any we will stop, for this time and give you another dose in the future.

Next. Rettuas. As a consequence of the order temporarily closing the Lamed land office, the proposition has been revived to consolidate the Lamed and Garden City districts and establish the office at Dodge City. There are parties here who have been keeping shady, but ate working industriously in behalf of List of Lands for by. PERKINS BISHOP.

DEEDED LANDS. A. Sautter, of Helvetia, was a pleasant caller Tuesday. It is time for Cleveland to begin rubbing up his fishing-tackle as decoration day is again drawing-near. Delegate Perkins will start Furnished to Prove Up With.

Farms Bought and Sold on Commission, PERKINS BISHOP. MERTILLA, KANSAS KANSAS. the consolidation, and tonight it is Monday to attend the Republican ascertained thai they are quite This is the name which represents the highest grade of pros hopefull of success. A very distinguished and influential lawyer perity ever attained in the same formerly of Missouri, has been length of time by industry, and employed to engineer the matter Washington dispatch to K. Times.

convention, at Wichita. The Wichita Eagle comes out with "for president, Belva vice-president Mayoress Raymond, of nailed to its mast-head. Its platform is: Xo sex; no sections in politics." It is amusing to hear the old hatch el ors complain of the manner in which they have been out of nothing. The actual figures are astonishing and they don't lie. Though the last acre of government land has been taken up and the flat, black acres have to be The amenities of the press of THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR THE Garfield county are thus shown by bought, the people still go there the Ravanna inquirer: -'The pink-j by the thousand.

I 'and is good 1. 1G0 acres, 3 1-2 miles north -west of town, 80 acres breaking, frame house 16x22, sod stable. Price, $1,000. No. 2.

1(50 acree, four miles west of town, sod house 12x24, sod stable acres broke 00 living apple trees. Price $950. No. 3. 160 acres, live miles west of town, 40 acres breaking, sod house 10x30, 70 apple 100 peach and 2()0 forest trees.

Price $1,000. Xo. 4. 100 acres, five miles north ofliagan, 20 acres breauiug, sod house 10x34, sod stable, Price $Jj2V No. 5, k'O acres seven miles north-west of town, 40 acres breaking, sod house.

Price 1,000. No, 0. 100 acres two miles north-east of Jo-ash. Price $850. No.

7. I00cresa half mile from town, frame house 10x18, 20 acres broke. Price hKK). No. 8.

160 acres three and a half miles south of town, 20 acres breaking, sod house. Price 1 000. No 9 160 acres three miles from Lockport, 80 acres breaking, frame house 10x24, OO acres under fence, well, sod house -2ox3; frame house insured for 300. Price 1,600. No.

11, MO acres one and a half miles from Iiajran, 40 acres breaking, pod house. Price 000. 10. 100 acres three and a half miles from Lockport, 40 acres breaking, sod house, price 1,000. No.

12. 160 acres mile from West Plains 15 acres breaking, 80 acres under fence, sod house and barn, 200 fruit trees, price 1.5(H). No. 18. 160; acres two of town, 25 acres broke, dug out, price 850.

eved of the Call don't drowned out of their leaky houses and a fortune has been secured in every case of large in vestment and stop to think that 'Curiosity Hol MIEIRiFIILjLA Whose ad will appear next -wee of late. "Uncle AUq" Brown, S. M. Clev-fenger and Mr. Drake were up ietting out trees on a T.

C. and Mopped with! "nephew" Uncrll, Hjo first of the week. Win. Kuls passed through town Tresdav evening, en rout tb his home, at the Center. He has been plan ting his in Haskell county A.

T. Bodle, of Meade Cen low would be a much better place a competence from every small into go to than to be compelled to vestment in Krnsas lands, end our days in a town Eminence The old-fashioned excursions for instance where tm citizens will be begun by the Santa Fe have to use disenfecteuts to keep route, and this time they will take fram getting the scurvy and foot- in all points reached ty this line rot. Come over and lick from Lawrence west, at one fare ye poor, cowardly shyster." for round trip; see dates; Mar. 21, Apr. 4, Apr.

25, May 9, May 23, Dr. Huffman, a geologist of some June 6 and June 20. These tick-prominence, has made an inyesti-j ets will be good thirty days. You No. 14, 160 acres one and a half miles from gation of the salt well and 7te stir- can be ten days going and five town, sod house nxis, acres breaking and in crop-a bargain at 1,250.

roundings, and he gives it as his days returning, and can stop at opinion that there is a subteranian any point in Kansas on the Santa No- 1(50 acres half mile from cente of av.a .4 to vrn, 70 acres breaking, price 1: 500. ter wa the author of a neat Tittle description of Meade county and her county seat, in last week's Register, By special arrangements we can tarnish the Leavenworth Dairy Birtraui mmer mat country anu a pg lines. nen ine place to wmcn No .10. 100 acres 0ve miles north-past of large deposit of rock salt. A gen- you buy a ticket can be reached by tow acres leaking, frame house 12x20, tleman from the east wanted to more than one of the Santa Fe I well half mile of cottonwoods, one-fourth hnrMi lm.1l loot aolr tkJ.lj.-i t.

1 mile to chuich and school, price 1,700. "'V mi 11 11 iOL iicciv, 1-11 111C llIJ t'CL JlllO. Ul IUB OUlUUtl 11 JVU11- No. 17. 100 acres three miles north of tovn 0 acres breaking, dng out, price sas a choice of route will be given.

i unes and this paper for four dol- idea ot developing the same, but lars a year or the weekly, with could not make the purchase. Press Democrat. No. 18. 190 acres three miles north of town, acres breaking, dug out, price 950.

Perhaps you are fixed and don't want any Kansas. Well hundreds of people go just to see the country, to visit relatives, to have a No 19. 100 acres two miles from town, 10 acres breaklnsr. sod house (a irood one), sod I 'tis paper, at $1.50. J.

B. High. Thos. MeAuliffe and L. V.

Fisher represent Mertillr township in the Democratic convention at the Center todav. South-West Sayings. THE BEST pleasure trip, or to Satisfy them- barn and poultry house, three acres orchard. Iteii3 are scarct this week. selves that what thev sav about pric-1100 SPRiHG IU BUGGIES No.

20. 100 acres two miles from town, 65 6tine chickens are doins- well, this wonderful state is not true i A. II. Heber. of Meade Center, It is a pleasant land; it is a conn AND There arc some in the neighbor-; acres bleaking, sod hotlse 18x-29 with cellar, barn 18x58, poultry house, 40 acres fencl, barn lot, hog lots, well and horse power 300 fruit trees, price 1,900 I try people don't forget.

Use the hood who llflVP rows that oi'va fnnr and live galloDS at a milking, but P0'- For tickets for any we have then, e.nrrv it to th I ab0Ve dateS SeP T0Ur IieaI'- No. 9 160 acres three miles north-east of town. 40 acres broko, sod house 10x24, sod barn price 850. THE BEST Half price does not I est acre nt house in ri'x nnart bnokpr anrl it I Autu occur every day and with these was elected a delegate to the Chicago convention, at the Republican couventiou held in Gar-den City, Tuesday. Messrs.

John McDowell and J. K. Bouse, iff Cimarron, were in town Tuesday evening. T. H.

Bale and Henry Clark, of! Coldwater, are at work on a new plan for wind power. It has one advantages has never occurred before. FARM lilll AtfoCher glorious rain this week John Blair has finished plant corn. He has fifty acres in. Will isewhouse has a corner on IN THE MARKET Final Proofs.

The following circular has been issued by the land office: Iotice to Claimants. Under instructions from the de fan attached to a long arm and the the old folks now. action of the wind on this forces' rr I i lurf fuel keeps damp this wet it back and forth in about a quar- i weatijer tyy circle, and the length of the; Send for Catalogue and Price List psH Bros. Wagon Co. mm i-r-vT-i TITTCt I partment final proofs taken before i the register and receiver of the fj i mi gives leverage.

To all an- i Plenty ol ducks and water. RACINE, WIS. 1 nearanees thi is makes wind power Mr. and Mrs. Lou Fisher took I laud office will be required to.