The Leader from Protection, Kansas • 1

VOL. 1. PROTECTION, COMANCHE COUNTY, KAS, TJilDAY, MAY 4, 1888 5. H. Hinkle, Pros.

S. 8. 'alvin, Treats. A. E.

Coen, Soo'y. W3I. Jl'CAKTXHY, Attorneys At Law, ASIILAXD, KANSAS. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT COMPANY, CAPITAL STOCK $60,000. Proprietors of tlie Town Site of IVe seojby late dispatches that the president last Monday sent the nomination to the senate of Melville.

AV, Fuller, of Illinois, to be chief justice of tho United Stales.) Capt. Akors urrivod in the city this morning from California. Ho went out there last fall nml spent his time looking around and posting himself. He returns to this country linn in the conviction that Kansas is better than California for tho poor man or the rich man, for tho sick man or the well man. Better for everybody.

BEN E. PAGE, Attorney at i ASHLAND, KAN. R. R. EXCURSIONS i ANSAS.

A few evenings since while the two orphans, Harry and Ira, were strolling about the city, they happened on a bed of tempting spring onious which filled the two to overflowing with poetry and the following beautiful lines from their cherry lips was wafted to our sanctum by the gentle evening breeze: "How dear to my heart is theloud smelling onion, Which Restaurant keepers provide at each meal. The color of silver, the size of a bunion, With hades and its demons wrapped up in each peel It stings like a serpent, It burns like an ember, And smells like a horse that is silent in death, And yet with affection Fl 'always remember, The early spring onion that now scents my breath The loud-smelling onion, the bold-smelling onion, Tho all-powerful onion, that has ruined my breath." BUCKLIN, D.R.KEITH, Justice of the Peace Att'y at Law and Collector. All business entrusted to my care will receive piumpi attention. Mr. Akors brought with him a number of specimens of the productions of that country, including a tarantu Local Of- GeneralsOfJice at County, Kansas.

lice at Bucklin, Ford County, Kansas. AND COME TO Ofllce Main street. Lexington, Kan la and a couple of horned toads. He says that tho only inducement Cnli NO RIVAL TOWN forma has to offer is climate but he considers 5,000 an acre too high a UCKLIN AN. price for even California climate.

Kinsley Mercury. J. R. STROTHER, Att'y at Law Justice of Peace First door south of Smith's, Main Stkeet, ASHLAND, KANSAS. PROTECTION, KANSAS.

The Gaol, the livst journal published Is a ROCK ISLAND in Ford County at the in the interest of the Irish language lies before us. It is a sixtee-nf page monthly one half being Irish and tlie other English. It gives easy lessons in Irish, translations, poems, historical sketches, and general correspondence Junction of the Chicago, Kansas and KeDrasRa AND THE Arkansas, Kansas and Colorado Roads. Bothfof which are Rock Island roads. It is atao on the proposed line of in Irish and English.

Our Hibernian JOHN H.BLACKFORD, Abstractor and Notary Public To Whom the Shoe May Pitt For the beneOt of those who are in the habit of cruelly beating and torturing their poor work animals we publish the following from the Compiled Laws of Kansas: Page 309, 202. Every person who shall maliciously and cruelly niaira.beat or torture any horse, ox, or other cattle, hether belonging to himself or another, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and lined not exceeding llfty dollars. friends will be pleased to read this piece of intelligence, for, uptothe foundation' of tlie Gael, they had no journal in their The most Complete and Reliable set of Abstract Books in the county. old national language. Tho.Gael is tlie representative of the movement for the preservation and' cultivation of the Irish language initiated by the late Archbishop Mcllale, the Rev.

Ulick J. A thriving young city with line business houses, neat residences, church and schools and the most energetic set of business men and citizens that can be found in the west. This young city is beautifully located in the Great SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. OFFICE WITH HARRIS Sl'CARTNEY. Ilourke, anil other leading Irishmen.

"Wichita and Western Railway, "Whose track is now within live miles of this city. Bucklin is the Second Best town in Ford Count Main Street, Ashlund, Kans. It is published at 814 Pucille street, Urooklin, New York, by M. J. Logan R.

C. TURNER. and the subscription price is sixty cents Kinsley. Dodge City, Meade Center, Ashland and Coldwuter a year, in advance. Parties attending the Democratic and Republican conventions at Wichita, will find it to their advantage, both in way of finance and comfort, to stop at the are fronrTwenty to Fifty Miles distant, making BUCKLIN the Trade Center Occidental Hotel on Main street.

It is Resident Dentist, of a larger scope of fine AGRICULTURAL LAND than has any other the most centrally located and best re town in bouth western Kansas. gulated hotel in that city. Mr, Deming Artificial teeth, from one to a full valley In spite of the partial failure of crops this year, Bucklin is and has been Geo. W. Espey, of the Palace Drug Store, Ashland, was granted a permit a few days ago to sell liquors for medicinal and scientific purposes.

There will now be more sickness around Ashland than ever before known the sudden changes of weather we are now having is a breeder of pneumonia, rheumatics, etc. More of the etc. than anything else. Whenever any of our citizens are at Ashland in search of science and need anything to further the progress of their scientific researches they will find it in the Palace laboratory. We see by last week's Aibland Journal that it had changed hinds.

The stock company retiring and Messrs. Moore StevenBon control, Until of the above gentlemen are practical printers and there Is no reason why they should not make a grand success of tlie Journal and make it worthy of the support of the business men of that city. Hoys, here's our and we ish that you may fill your jeans with the root of all evil money. This week we are in receipt of the Plymouth (Col.) Progress. A neat sev plate, inserted.

Gold linings a specialty. All work warranted. Consultation growing rapidly, and property is constantly increasing in value, making the tree. Office Up stairs, Shields' Building town a profitable one for mvesnient. KANSAS.

ASHLAND, Busine and'Residence'Lots arejstiirCheairamrSoId on REASONABLE TEREVSS. is one of the oldest hotel men in Southern Kansas, and knows just how to eater to western people, The dining rooms are, furnished latest nml most Improved style, the tables me ladeu'withall'the substantial and delicacies of the season, and the chambers in this well known hotel will compare with any hotel west of the Mississippi river, lie sure to stop at the Occidental when yon go to Wichita. Our Hub Correspondent. L. J).

SAWYER, Buy now and Reap the Benefits of the Inevitable Enhancement in Value. For further information, address: Attorney at Law. E. L. COEN 1 PROTECTION, KANSAS.

JjOCAL SfCBETAHY. Kansas. Bucklin, The richest, most fertile and best watered Valley in the state, where the Best of farm land can be bought at $4 to $10 per acre. FOY BR AN AN, Goi.DWATKii, May 2, '88. Dhak Leadeh Democrats up this way are much plotted at tho removal en column folio, with A.

J. Show at its General Blacksmiths. I. B. KIRKLAND CO, head as editor.

The Progress has a line typographical appearance and is of tho Leadeh to Protection and extend to it and its proprietor a hearty -ALL KINDS OF- in i i welcome to Comanche county. The political pot is beginning to sim full of local news. Andy in his salutatory says he trusts in "God, Cleveland and Reform," from which we infer the Progress is Democratic, dyed in the EE PAIRING mer and occasionally an expression is eai Histate agency BUY AMD SELL wool and full 30 inchesnwide. Andy, in NEATLY EXECUTED. Corner of Broadway and Pine Street, PROTECTION, KANSAS.

we wish you and the cause you espouse A visit to our city and a look over its surrounding country will convince the loiird from this and that man for of-'icial honors. (J. O. Hlako and John Jones of this city and Mr. Cunuon, of 'tfoscatunga, are mentioned an proba-h candidates for representative on all the success imaginable.

After a three weeks trip to Liberal Frms, Ranches and City Real Estate, most skeptical that Protection willln W. HAYING BAZAAR, and other towns out west L. B. Sawyer returned yesterday looking fat and rugged. From his conversation we are led a short space of time be to believe that Liberal is highly over tho Hepublican side.

The Democrats appear to be at sea for a candidate, but occasionally tho names of AV. A. Teiiipleman, of the Keview, and V. V. Campbell, of ltnmsoy township are mentioned.

Tor clerk of the) district court, Frank Meyer and Hob Godclard On Commission. Protection, Kansas. Wc'CollecfRents and foriNTon-Resideuls. "Examine estimated and that one-half the people who go there and stay until fall will return to their former home flat broke. Our advice to those who contemplate New Shop.

New Furniture. AND NEW FI5ICES. Shave, 10 cts. Hair Cut, 20 cts. GOOD BATH ROOM In connection.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. BURGESS MAYHALL, One door east of Millinery Store, East Main Street. going there, Is to stay at home, as every Titles and Execute Deeds, The Best Business Town are spoken of by the utilorrifiod, but wo hour of no aspiring Hopublicaus for tho position. II. B.

Mitchell, of Mortgages, Contracts, Leases, Etc. No'Extra'Charge Made for Advertising Aviila, and T. (. Chambers, of this city, are mentioned by Democrats for county attorney and II. A.

Smith for AM) Our Hands. HAVE A GOOD LIST OF KANSAS. PROTECTION, tho same position by the Hepubliciuis. branch of business there is now already overdone. Messrs Foy Sabin about the first of February filled a glass jar with peas and gave every one buying 25 cents worth of garden seed a guess at the number of peas in the jar and the one coming nearest to the number the jar contained got the premium $2.

Tuesday the jar was opened, the'peas counted and the premium awarded to Norman Jacobs his guess being 4380 and the jar contained 4387. R. C. Turner, resident dentist at Ash Lands, First-Class. Stock Farms, with clear in the Southwest.

Qome now while City and Farm Lands are Cheap. For probate jiiilge, E. B. Widaumn will probably bo the nominee of the Ib'publicans, while among Democrats we the unities of W. T.

Kiuder.of running water, and Cattle And a large list ot PROTECTION CITY PROPERTY. Following is a partial List of Lands we baveforSale Logan, end Charley Morrison, of Valley mentioned, This city is making some tiolid iin- 1. 100 acres fine prairie. 40 acres un land, was a pleasant caller at this of der cultivation, splendid well of water, joins a good town in Edwards county, Kansas. Price, 1,500, prqvoiiionts tlie way of several tine brick 5 Jocks now in course-of erection.

LAND LAND The Southwestern Land Co. O-F Ashland, Clark County, Kansas. The Leading Real Estate Firm of the Southwest Reference The First National Bank; The State Bank; The Winton and Deiuing State Bank, Ashland.Kan-sas, and the First National Bank, Medicine Lodge, Kansas. "For maps of the county and information reparriin? the Southwest, address, J. BlancitArd, Manager.

Ashland, Kansas. fice Tuesday, lie informed us that he :10. KiO acres, 40 acres rbroke, sod house 10x20, line Cottonwood grove, living water, all good valley plow land except 3 acres thai the creek runs through, miles from this city. Price, flliOO. part cash, bal on time, 11.

A first-class cattle and horse ranch of 080 acres conveniently located with an abundant supply of everlasting run expected to make professional yisits to Coldwater once a mouth and would stop T. 3. 160 acre3 near Protection, good frame house with cellar, stable with in cultivation. 'Trice, $1 ,500. easy terms.

over here if he could get work to justify 4. 100 acres, 4 miles from Protection, ning water ana several large springs; him in doing so. Parties desiriugwork done iu his line should call on him, as he has had over fifteen years experience and understands his business. good improvements; price So per acre; fly a very a very Terms easy, inis is nmiouineuiy AND THE- Dr. A.

M. Jackman, of Creelsborongh, FREWARDED are those who read this and then at: richly: Kentucky, arrived here last Friday, and has taken up his headquarters at they will find honorable Our burnt district will soon bo block ot solid brick. We understand that the IwarJ of trade of this city is making preparations to have the county extensively advertised and made known to the outside world We think tho move a good one, as people have only to see oiu lovely val'eys to be captivated by them. Protection ought to lie benefited by this move as her lovely Santan-ta valley is one of tho finest under tho sun. Tho old Ked Front boys, Tfoumans Barcley, will rise from tho ashes and reopen, their business about the 1st of July.

Farming in this portion of tho county has been pushed this spring with so. acres under acres breaking, house and good frame barn 2 pood wel Is, 500 trees, miles from school, $1,500, a bargain for any one wanting a home. 5. acres fenced for pasture, bottom land, good 2 room house, first-class stable and sheds for 12 head of stock, granary, out cellar, corral and hog lot, forrest trees in abundance, 2 good wells and luniiing water through pasture. Price, part cash, best bargain on list.

6. 160 acres under fence, 2good houses and bam. 2 good wells of water, 5 miles from this pity. Price, $1300. part cash, bal time.

This is a gilt edge bargain. desirable place lor anyone who contemplates raising stock and is a rate bargain at the 12. 1C0 a 3 miles from this city, 20 acres in cultivation, price "$700. iOO cash ami tl is is very dirt cheap. 13.

100 acres, 3 miles from this'city, 60 acres in cultivation, good sod house, stable for 8 head of stock, 2.500 forest trees planted, good young orchard, price $1,200. the City Hotel. The doctor was here two years ago and bought property three miles east of this place, which he is having put in cultivation. R. W.

ROCK ISLAND RAILROADS Smith is putting iu between thirty and forty acres of corn for him. that will not take them from their hcinl and familes. The profits are large, an-' ure for every industrious person, have made and are now making hundred dollars a month. It is easy for urnne to make and upwards per day, who is willing to work. Either sex.young or old: capital not needed; we start you.

Everything new. No special ability required: vou. reader.can do it as well as anyone. Write to us at once for full particulars, which we mail free. Address My Stixsox Portland, Maine.

Last week we made a trip over the Rock Island road to the east part of the 14. 100 acres, 40 in cultivation Id i. imi acres, acres corn, 10 millet and oals. 50 to 00 acres under fence, plenty of water, over pm finerX hav land in the UU: sod house acres good plow land, forest trees. 2 and stable; casv terms, part Will run Excursions from the Eat on May Kth and 23d and Juno Gth and 20th.

Tickets good for Thirty, ys, which ill Excursionist ample opportunity to look over tho country. Hound Trip Tickets can be had from this station to all points South and Wet (with stop-over privileges) at One Faro for Hound Trip. state and came back with a team, which gave us a good opportunity of seeing how far advanced the crops were on ouf route, and nowhere did we find them looking as well as they do in this part cash, part slock and balance on time: more vigor than ever before and crops ska wondeks exist in this is a Xo. 1 rill-edge bargain. DEEP.

are well advanced, with the outlook miles of this city. Price, $1000, $io) in stock or cash, bal on time at 7 pr ct. 8. 100 acres. 40acres broke, 10 acres in fruit trees, grape, fclaeklierrv.

goose thousands of forms, but of the state. are surpassed by the marvels of invention. Thoie who are in need of profit berry, raspl ery and currant, hundreds more favorable than for any preceding season. Ljcal news that is of special inter- able work that can be done while living forrest trees, large 3-rooui house, sta- James B. Curry, who was the first su at home should at once send their ad perintendent of public instruction in this county, has purchased of Robert Crossuiau the Vilas (Col.) Democrat.

et somewhat scarce herealwuw. KvryKi ly is busy and have no time 15. ion jK i-s. 30 in cultivation, 3 miles from this city; price 1,300. terms, cash and time.

10. 480 acres adjoining altove per will sell the who.e frhi acres for 4.250: terms easy, will take some stock: there is no liner laud in the state. 17. 100 acres near (his citv. Wacres in cultivation: irood box Louse: price, il.5oo: a splendid Iwi'gaiii.

Information concerning Souuh western Kansas can be Lad by addressing JES for go iji. dress to Hallett and receive free, full information how either sex. of all aces, can earn from $5 to $2-5 per dav and upwards wherever they live. You are started free. Capital not required.

have made over in a single day at this work. All ble. 2 Xo. 1 wells, all first second bottom land. Price, 1500, part in cash and st.K-fc.

bal on time. 9 miles from this city. 9. 100 acres, 40 acres broke, good frame house and barn, forest trees, fine water. miles from this citv.

lYice. J10O0. part cash. We are glad to note that this paper has it 'a best wishes for the future of a jeffersonian Democrat at its J. B.

in your new Protection sua gallant J-iEadeiu we ceaoe, Don. head. Success to yon field of wol k. THE LEADER, Protection, Kansas..