Seward Independent from Seward, Kansas • 1

-w- I -D L. STEELE, PUBLISHER. TERMS, 1.00 PER YEAR. VOL I. SEWARD, STAFFORD COUNTY, KANSAS.

THURSDAY, MAR. 6. 1S80. NUMBER 21. Give us a trial on sale bills.

The Ohio river is on a boom. OTTR, HOTEL Another light snow last night. Senator Allison of Iowa was reelected a few days ago. Iiev. Dunlap expects to leave us in a few days.

Eedaetd Cutes. Those wishing to attend annual meeting of the I. O. O. F.

ta be held in Kansas City- March 11 to 13, can get round trip tickets over the Mo. Pacific for good for return passage to, and including March 14. Tickets on sale March 10. For further information call on or address, J. M.

Dollar, Agt. Mo. Pacific Ey. Seward, bard by day or week. The supreme court says Jake Kilrain mustgotojaiL Sullivan's case comes up toon.

Dealer in Corn has been coming in at "a lively rate this week. Prices reasonable. -v iajn'Goonectidti; Three big moonshine distilleries in No-Maas-Landltave been seized byU S. officers. Miss'Jeonie Blunn is out at their farm far a few 'days.

Dry Goods, Boots and Shoos Hats, Gaps and Readymade Giothin; Preaching to-morrow (Friday) at 8 oclock. Fraud is charged in the leasing of the Alaska seal fisheries and the senate is investigating. A. W. BORDEWIOK, Propr.

KANSAS. SEWARD, Also a full stock of STAPLE and FANCY The Sterling Salt works ship two car loads of salt daily. John Jacob Astor Realty. The late John Jacob Astor owned high class dwelling houses, rented at an average of $2,009 a year each. He owned, besides, tenement houses in un told number and no end of real estate devoted to business uses! It all resulted from the sagacious act of his father, who bought jup for a little money a number of pastures and cabbage gardens that the growth of Xew York has now covered with a rent-paying population.

Boston Globe. A man buried in St. Louis was taken up by body snatchers and on the dissecting table. The Kentucky river is higher than it has been for vears. We are now selling our entire STOCK OF GOODS.

We notice in the Hoisington Dispatch that Sterling, with a population of 1,800 has fourteen churches. Vice-President Morton is in Florida getting warmed up. 9 Some of Oklahomas white citizens are making war on the negroes with the A beet sugar manufactory will be erected at McPherson. intention of driving them out. At greatly REDUCED PRIC ES.

Gloves and Flannels at COST; Sugar, 12, 13 and 14 lt for $1.00. l.OO. Dried supples 17 lb for Tobacco 17 cts. per lb. Other goods in proportion.

Beans 21 lb for Headquarters for l.OO. Mr. Barngrover and Mr. McDonald went to St. John Monday.

William II. Pope, teller of the Louisville City National Bank, has skipped for Canada with about' $50,000 of the banks cash. "1 Mr. Blunn has rented his farm and his folks will move to town this week. -OoO- lVe carry a fnll and complete line of Uuited States Land OSi.

Lamed, Kansas. February, 8 1800 Notice is hereby given that the follow mg named settler has filed notice of intention to make final proof in support of liis claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Ciora of the District court of Stafford county Kansas, at St. John, Kansas, on the 25th djy of March, 1800, viz: HoiriesteaJ Application PATRICK KEEK EX, No. Tlod, for the SWl of section No. 84 ia towuship No, 21 range 14 west.

He names the following witnesses to prove liis continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land viz: William Mat tin, Henry (lartuiig, James Kee-nen and Thomas MeGiuty ail of Seward, P. O. Stafford county, Ka 13-23 Hfkbv W. Scott. Register.

The Western Union are fighting Wan-amaker3 Postal Telegraph scheme. James L. Sheetz was indicted at Liberty, Mo. Tuesday for murder in the first degree, for the killing of John Lew-tori about a month ago. Cigars ek; Flannels, Underwear, Yarn, ool Blankets, etc.

GLOVES AND MITTENS. Chicago real estate is on a boom as a result of the Worlds Fair business. TWe also keep constantly a full line of BEGGS FAMILY MEDICINES. The Apatche Indians of Xew Mexico are on the war path again. The bloodthirsty Apatches had better be wiped out of existence and have an end of these massacres.

i The thermometer has been fooling around close to zero again this week. The decrease in the public bt for the mouth of February is about' AU kinds of country produce taken at the highest maiket price in exchange for goods. Eaaiago Items. GROCERIES fc market price paid for Cold, cold, cold. KANSAS.

SEWARD, Farmers are getting ready for spring work. Land OSiee at lairued, Kansas. a Jan. Grn 1800. Notice is heresy giveu that the foi.

owing-named settler has filed notice of his 11 lentiou to ike him! proof 1.1 support of his claim, and that id'prooi' ill be made before the or iu his absence, la-fore the Clerk of the District Court of Stafford county, Kansas, at Ct. John, Kansas, on Mtrc'i 4ih 1801, viz: WILLIAM IL DUNN. Homestead Application no. 8087 Tor the Lots Sand 1 aud the of til NVVa of Fee 2 Tp 23 of It 12 v. lie wimos the tofiovvhig ivityessss to prove his continuous residence and cult ration of said Iarri; II.

FrJmhrdiogr-tfenfy CL fiehnars. I ward Gieisberg and O. G. Porter, Since last Thursday, Texas has been having the worst blizzard experienced in several years. JOHN P.

PATTINSON fci, It is reported that Silcott has been arrested in Colorado while masquerading as an engineer. Dealer in A-WT Mr. Lincoln Porter shot a goose the 21th of Feb. that weighed 12 pounds. Mr.

Frank Mavcn is feeding 103 head of steers. .5 Mr, m. Dunns little child died recently with the grip. Mr. 0.

G. Porter raised 1500 bushels of corn on forty acres. Mrs. James Henry has her new house built. all OI ul.

i jo SuiSj.v! county Kansas. Building material, Lumber, IIemiy Scot Register. Richard Haws, who murdered his wife and two children near Birmingham Alabama, last December, was hung at Birmingham, Friday CHICKENS. KANSAS. Lead tir ginaise ol.l reliable ARTHURS SEWARD, Paints, Stone and HOME MAGAZINE.

Ed Young, of Great Bend, was found Mrs. 0. E. ood has lost a finger by a guilty of violating the prohibitory law and fined $100 and sentenced to 3o days imprisonment in the county jail. Mr.

oe King had his bouse burned a short time ago. The fire caught from the stove pipe. Ha has bought a house in Seward and moved it out on his farm. Smart Aleck Ollu-r so-called Home Magazines are. imitations.

This old standby begins its 3 9 til successive year of publication in 1890, and is CHEAPER, BRIGHTER and BETTER THAN" EVES. Arthurs is a magazme of ele good reading. Its stories are tbe best- and its Departments devoted to Housekeeping, Girls andbojs, Horne Ciree, Needlework. Motuers, Home Decoration are not onlv bright an I eh. but USEFUL.

There is never any Padding iu Arthurs pages. lJxice only ayear, Mill large a. low luces to Ciuh-mahci-s. Road the Club ites lor 18.10. Judge Caldwell of Arkansas, has been appointed judge of the Eighth Circuit, to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Judge Brewer to the Supreme Bench.

KANSAS. SEWARD, Douglas Items. Eight miners are entombed in one of ie Lehigh and YVilkesbarre Coal companys mines at Wilkesbarre, and no hopes are entertained of their still being alive. The highest market price paid for A The people are generally recovering from the la grippe. Silas Shaw Co.

have been threshing the people's millet, sorghum and milo maize seed lately. The cold weather interferes sumewhat with corn shelling and threshing, however. S. B. Davisson sold a three year old steer to C.

P. Ayeys Monday for $27.50. Frank Keenen broke down the stalks on his wheat field on Dr. Smiths place last week. Two Copies Lee by post, Three 4 83 roar, witn a free smhu to Cuib-getttr, 5.o Five 6.75 Six 7 Seven fi.

Eight 4 1.1.00 Sample copies. 10 cts. tell, but the price of the Sample maybe deducted from the price of a subsequent subscription, th is nri'sing the Sample Copy FREE. Clean copies of the Magazine always furnished to for their own file. Address.

T. S. ARTHUR SON. riiilaltlohia. Pa.

A Yalley Falls hank was robbid Saturday evening by one masked man. About $3,090 was taken. There was no one in the bank at the time but the cashier. J. C.

Coen. We carry in stock all kinds of shelf and heavy hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Glass. down his is breaking Dave Kneiper stalks this week. A three year old child walked off the platform of a passenger train going at full speed in Indiana lest Saturday and strange to say, the child was uninjured save a few slight Tli Leading "iMfrr Xvcj-O't mi trt' 1.. i-aisieU Uieabova title by alwnj'v leu- ihe hit-most rank ws papers in ad- Mr.

A. Adams had several of his neighbors in on him Monday helping him thresh millet. Mr. A. is now able to make about half a hand with a pitch-fork and a hand and a half with a for Charles B.

Kinkaid, the Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times, shot and badly wounded ex-Representa-tive Banlbee of last week. An article published in the Times of which Kincaid was the author, was the cause whieh led to the shooting. Pays the highest market price and. JBE0 KANSAS. SEWARD, cf the meu pm t.u voeatjiif! i ern muy as the l-l i-.

West, and tins the best "i i.e cm can have. Jt has not let its op! in, ins ja-4. but on every occasion lias uo.i--ah mils po.ver lovvard tho upbiuldiiiir ol tuis go-lit es.cra country. Among ihe it 1. a-advocated, some of which have oi-n mu c-ssful, are: Opening of Oh lal emu; Opening of tl.e Cherokee Step; Irrigation for the arid regions; Cheap Iran okvi on lor Kansas.

In this good Vurit liie i-o Ct in Timex solicits tbe stipiort of Vicsicrn man. Its Daily is the hslcliiest s.ud ediied in the West, and its Weekly, ns twelve large pages, ranks vv nn anj newspaper the world. The Karv-a Ci'u 1 a alsa ihe first to inaugurate mans out of Kansas Cits inrv let i smiar euition of the Siiitdcy 2 nos ai.it it si: it over Kansas two hundred ta lea -t oeloi a. three hours btnwo the iiiiea. i.am Kansas City.

IMPLEMENTS OF ALL KINDS: Corn-shellers, Plows, Harrows, Road Carts, Drills, etc. PUMPS A SPECIALTY. We also keep a stock of Machine Castor and Black Oil and Gasoline. Ve sell as clicap as the cheapest. Give us a call.

j. e. McDonald son, SEWARI), KANSAS. Mr. Andrew Adamson and wife and Mr.

Hufford and wife were visiting at S. B. Davissons on Sunday the 2d inst. We are all feeling the presure of the times financially, and also recognize the fact that spring is near at hand, and time for winter work is closing in and no doubt but several jobs of corn gathering will be crowded over into spring, I have taken some interest in the dis-cusions on the temperance and alliance questions in the Ixdepexdext, and tmy undertake to write up someth! on those subjects in the near future. Repectfully pours, Cuow vn.

To Parties receiving sample copies of this paper we will say, it is a respectful invitation for you to become a subscriber. Evey one subscribing or renewing after Jan. 1st is entitled to a show in our word so send in your name and 50 cents, and the list of words can follow any time before June 15. If not called form 10 days return ta CTC-EgCILSr Si: -exvnrd, Kansas. We notice in one of our Missouri exchanges that twenty men have annonn-ed themselves as candidates for county offices subject to the Democratic primary; and there are only six offices to be filled.

There i3 certainly some mistake ia the rumor that we hear so often here in Kansas about the democrats all being dead. MILLER BROS. Are AMERICAN, and the BEST. bTEEL PENS Dead Letter List. -Follow iiig is a list of letters remaining in the postoffice at Seward, Kansas, uncalled for, for the month ending Mar.

1st, 1833. S. A. Howchsus, Myrtle Hozen. Philip Blunn, P.

M. Ko. S7 Falcon And Nos. 75, 117, 1, Acme. LEADING STUB PENS.

27o.4 Carbon Stull Wo furnish Envelopes, Printed similar to the above for 10 cents a Not less than five bunches BANK 'OF SEWARD, Does a General Banking Badness: Exchange bought and sold. Money to loan on chattel mortgage Banking hours froifli 0 a. to 5 p. m. C.

WEBB, Cashier, L. II STEELE, Teller. SEWARD, KANSAS. And Nos. 119, 102, Gram Pen.

LEADING LEDGER PENS. -2To. 93 rkham II, We have made special arrangement with the Formers Friend Pub. Co. at South "Bend, by which we can furnish to all our subscribers who pay one year in od vance and 10 eents extra to pay postage, one year's subscription to the Farmers Friend, a sixteen page Agricultural and Family paper, publish ed twice a month at fifty cents a year, To those who have paid one year in advance we will make jthe offer the same; by paying us 10 cents more you get the Farmers Friend one year.

You tvv panels one year fqr only $1 .10. tf get printed. never go to the A Great Offer, By reference to an advertisement in another column it will ha seen that the I jtDETENTCTvr and the Kansas City Evening Xews will be sent for one year to new subscribers together for $2.50. This is an excellent change to secure yoar home paper and at the same one of tbe brightest evening dailies in the southwert at about half the regular price. Send in your orders at once, And Nos.

101, 505, 030. LEADING SCHOOL PENS. Ho. 23 Letter office when this bind Cu University i Ajtd Nos. 333, 444, 16.

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