The Lafontaine Spy du lieu suivant : Lafontaine, Kansas • 3

ijspi mm intuit ft. Musgrave, of Buffalo, was arrested at that place, on Wednesday by deputy tOicriil' White, and brought to Carry a urge stock cf D(k GOODS, XOTIOJJS A WD I the county seat. Musgnive has been conducting a drug store at Buffalo for some time, the store being owned by iG. 11. Philips, of Yates Center, whose permit was revoked by Probate Judge Wicks.

The indictment' ag ainst Mus-i grave contains four counts and it is said that damageing evidence will be produced against him. The case was ZPZEOVISIOlsTS- Give ur a call when in tho city. PAY! 6 WATKINS, IK CITY, KANS. Subscribe for (Jo to Lilly's for drugs. Go to Uobbitts' for qucensware.

Several drunimjrs in town tins week. Skinner's is the place to buy pure oils. Don't forget the Golden Kule Grocery. E. J.

Hobbins will move to Michigan soon. Some changes in the real estate this week. Go to Johnny Johnston's for cheap goods. Insure in the Old Continental of New York. Warm meals at all hours at the Globe House.

W. 11. Gastineau sold son.e fat entile the 11th. Thos. Hoover is talking of building a house soon.

Jas. lienell is talking of going to Finney county. Subscribe for the Spy. Only one dollar per year. Wm.

Sehlegel, of Fredonia, was in town Saturday. If you wish a stylteh rig at a low price 0 to Cole's livery. The late rains Lave made the roads heavy tins week. John Steward was caught in the storm on last Thursday evening, and sojourned with ye editor, and to escape having an arm taken oil', subscribed fortheSrv, like awise and sensible man. Messrs.

Woodring and I.oy, of Elk City, were in town last Saturday buying stock. They bought some of Mr. Williams and others. Can we not sup-' port a stock buyer in Fontaine? It takes some time to yet a newspaper in running order and if our jialrons will excuse our former errors, we will endeavor in the future to make the Sty a more desirable and attractive paper. licmember that the Spy is devoted to the interests and upbuilding of La.

Fontaine, and we desire that every one in the city will put their shoulders to the heel and help the editor boom her up, and in order to do this, it will take the hearty co-operation of all. So join the van and give us a helping hand. We understand that there has been a petition sent in for a postollice at the station between La Fontaine and Elk-City, with John John (our pencil took the look jaw in trying to write the rest of his name. So we give it up) as P.M. We hope they will get the ollice as it will be a great convenience to the people of the neighborhood.

A FONT AINE A ET Corn is ISO cents per bushel; oats, 30; meal, CO; hay, $2 per ton; ilonr, S2.20 to S2.00 per hundred; coffee, 0 to 25 cents 1 cr pound; sugar 8 1-2 ents per butter. 11; navy beans peas 2 1-2; 1 Dollar per Year brought in the court, now in sesson, and the accused was held for appearance from day to day in the sum of 5500. It is reported that this is the twenty-fourth time Musgraye has been arrested for illegal trafic in the ardent and that be has been convicted fourteen times under various laws. 'Wilson County Citizen. 3FE.0M QUREXGIIAHGE3.

(Clii'riyvule 1 in net in.) A nmiibu of our lailii'S liiivn oYclvnt lliuir intention to vote, nt the cluing swing elections. (3tnr.mil Kiinsuii.) As in as Hie wi.mcn begin In r-giter, the young men will consult Ihe Id oliiiwn (he ngc of lie younK hi 'lies. Tin; hulk's ought, to keep a closo wutHi on Urn men niel Bee Unit tlmy don't iipin'oiiriiite nil the iity ollie.ea co themselves An has been flout to Toncka for a rlmi'lor, for a hoard of trade, with the follow -ing genii emen iib trustees I'. V. flocked, L.

Melnniy, J. 1'. Otitt, Kufns Williams, FoHer, S. Ileekman, 1. Bro'leiiek, U.

Hood iinil G. Gottlieli, Thewoikof organization will proceed na noon its 1 lie charter BILLION CASELEY, Dealers Iu DEI GOODS, GROCERIES CLOTHING. Having recently located among you, wo would solicited a share of your palrouago. We uro located in onr new building in west Lafontaiue, and cordially invite you till to call and Bee; us there. Wo cary a full and complete slock.

Produce Taken in Excise for ail GOODS. is received. Lawyer Uill has ju.st written letter of Duncan received a car load of Hick II ill coal this week. There is talk of a new milliner store here at no late day. Peter Welch has rented J.

E. Daniel's farm for the coining season. Have yon saw those new goods at Koger'a? They are daisies. Quite a large number of our citizens spent Thursday in Fredonia. Mr.

Dillon's two sons spent Sunday in Elk City visiting relatives. Lewis Gore has purchased a lot in liowe's addition to La Fontaine. John Duncan, our coal merchant, went to Independence last Friday. 15. II.

rrigmore will plant thirty acres of castor beans the coming season. Mrs. Xewt Certain, wife of our lumberman, arrived here last Friday. advice to Senator Ifumplirry at Topcka, in which he mggesls Unit latter gemleiiinn wouM do well to labor for an iiiiieudinent to the prohibition law the extiaoriii-liiiry powers now conlercil upon I lie comity attorney in ini Matins; proceedings under that law and confering tiuni upon W.O. T.

U. (Fredonia Democrat.) lien. Dornblaser, who bus been braking in the Missouri J'acillc yards at llolden, Mo. arrived home lust week, minus a portion of one linger, wlucli he list by gelling naught, between two eo'liding draw heads. The linger was amputated at tlie second oinl, and is now he: ling eggs 10 cents per potatoes (50 cts.

per pork mess, to 7 cents per 1-2 to 4 1-2; fat cattle, "2 1-2; syrup, 50 to fill cts. per sorgum, SO; ard coal oil, 20 cents per gallon. AN ACCIDENT. On Thursday last, two of our prominent citizens went to Fredonia for the purpose of attending court. They took a lumber wagon, intending to bring back machinery for the brick yard.

They got through with their business, loaded the machinery and started back. When about three miles from La Fontaine, they jot stuck in the mud, and after MRS, STIMSON'S VARIETY STORE. Notions, Jewelry, Glass and Qccnsware, Books, Newspapers, 5 and JO eont counters, School Supplies, Musical Instruments and Sheet JIusie. lioonis opposite JJrick Hotel. ontgoniery Avenue.

Elk City. Kansas. JOhWy ToHNSTdfi." Successors to Swiiinuy 1'ros. Ii seems impos-ible for Ihe postollice department to keep pace with Hie progressive, railroads of progressive Kansas. Trains have been running from Hidden.

M. through to Indep endenee, Kansas, for several hut tbo mail car still stops at J.clioy. Last week tbo service was orderedi'xtcniled to Independence, the order logo intoeli'ecl i'ebruaiiy ill. About, that date a new Missouri J'acillc lime cunl will take effect, changing the routeof ihatcom-pany's main line trains for the southwest from the crdigria Valley lo the Valley iiiiul and linking the destination Sednu instead of independence, so tliut the mail car will have to beswitclieil off tit. Roper and go bobbing down Ihe jerkwater lino lo the capital of Montgomery county.

(Tribune Dr. J. Wood, the Chen yvale doctor sent to (lie penitentiary lor ni'fcon, has been discharged and bus been en; ployed by (he arison authority us dentist for the penitentiary. His Dealers Iu DpvY QoQDS, QOCiES, eye, AT THE SAME OLD STAND- Call Inspcol riccz. A full Slock lo Select Front.

EAST LAFONTAINE, KANSAS. THE" GOLDEN HUiE GRQCFHY! Still Leads the Van. Why? 'Zccaiize (Butcher sells Eancy and Staple Groceries, Queen ware Crockery and (Provisions cheaper ill an tlieclieapezl. Remember Butcher's cheap cash store. breaking the tongue out of the wagon to prevent any one from stealing the load they mounted the horses and came home.

They procured help the next morning and went hack, got their load all right. Moral never overloads ateam when you have spent the day in a city where all druggists have given up their permit to handle the ardent. TALLEYRAND IT! The small eeks are once more tilled with water. The cold, bad weather has been holding the farmers back with their plowing. Wm.

C. Vincent made a Hying trip to Kansas City last week on business. Mr. J. M.

Gilbert, who has been spending a few weeks with his friends and relatives, expects to return to his claims in the western part of the state some time this month. Several of the Talleyrand folks attended court at Fredonia last week. Especially A. E. Lamb, who is one of the jurors from this township.

Mr. Mike I redaline spent last week withTriends and relatives in Pleasant Valley township. Deputy Sherill Charley Kelley was seen subpoening witnesses in this township last week. Lyceum at the Steel school house last Friday night. The crowd was not as large as usual on the account of the night being so disagreeable.

Mossback. Cv.it: tfco Zr.t IsscUr, ssi Ecitc-r is 7ra. The printer's dollars what are they? A dollar here and a dollar there, scattered over ihe country miles apart, how shall they be gathered together? The paper maker, the building owner, the journeyman compositor, the grocer, the tailor and all his assistants to hini in carrying on his business have their demands hardly ever so small as a dollar. But the mites from here and there must be. diligently gathered and patiently hoarded or the wherewith to discharge the liabilities will never become sufli-ciently bulky.

We imagine the printer will have to get up an address to those widely scattered dollars something like the following: "Dollars, halves, quarters, (limes, and all manner of fractions into which ye are divided, collect yourselves and come home. Ye are wanted." Combinations of all sorts of men that help the printer to become a proprietor gather such force, and demand such good reasons, your appearance at the counter, that nothing short of a sight of you, will appease them. Collect yourselves, for valuable as you are, in aggregate singly you will never pay the costs of gathering. 'ome in here, in single file, that the printer may form you into a battalion and send you forth again to battle for and vindicate his credit Header are you sure that you haven't a few printer's dollars sticking about vour eld clothes? Jesse Williams departed for the west last 1'riday to be gone for some time. Preparations are being made to erect several new business houses this spring.

Dillon Casely will pay you the highest price for produce and don't forget it. For farm loans at low raes and quick money, see Barnes and Cryder-m a Spring stocks of general merchandise are already beginning to roll into La Fontaine. We are sorry to learn that Dr. Wells lost three cents on the renovating of Gilbert's well. Joe McCabe has rented his farm to E.

C. Moot and will move to town and si art a restaurant. Don't forget to tell your friends that La Fontaine is going- to boom and write it slyly to your friends. F. M.

Ilogers came near getting badly hurt by the falling of a large balance wheel at Mr. Lilly's mill. "VV. P. Swinnry, formerly of the firm of Swinney of this city, was up from Oak Valley last week.

The creek and branches higher last Saturday and Sunday than they had been for a year previous. FOJi BENT. 1(50 acres of land on Duck creek to rent cheap for cash. Inquire of Barnes and Cryderman. When in La Fontaine viewing her improvements, don't forget to go to the Swiney House for refreshments.

John Cryderman departed last Monday with Dornblazer's engineering corps, lie will not return till next fall. There has been fully two thirds more plowing done in ibid vicinity this winter than at any previous time for ten years. A petition was circulated last wck asking that F. M. Fink be appointed road supervisor.

Vice, J. It. Dood, resigned. D. N.

Montgomery has sold one of his farms just north of town. Consideration, We did not learn who was the purchaser. Win. Boles and M. C.

Swinney have purchased the entire set of machinery of Sullivan, of Fredonia, and will try making brick as soon as the spring opens. Mrs. W. X. Certain came in on the Mo.

P.last Friday. W.N. will be in some time this week. They will stay Willi Mr. J.

B. Certain till they can build in town. A member of the Mo. P. bridge and building Dept.

was along the line of the Mo. P. last week taking measurements of the depot. As he did not seem to be particularly communicative, wo did not enquire the reason for the Decaler In General Hardware Tinwnr Stoves Implements, Wagons and Buggies. II handlo tho jIoline Clipper l'ljw.

Mendin and pairing of Tit ware neatly don I carry a full stock of Garden seeds, Clover, Timothy and JJluerass Ii yt)it want anything in my yive nie a call. J. II. Kooek. wile was a recent visitor in our city as Mrs.

Johnson. Thayer, Kansas, Feb. An old man named John J. Miiler, of Independence, Kalians, had a narrow esetpe from being robbed Thursday night on tile toulliern Kansas train in the ladies' car, just as it. was pulling out from Ihe depot.

A lot of Miliums first tried the old freight hill dodge on him, the. express $()(. The old man refused payment, hen the four men seized him and tried to get, hisi pocket book away from him by lorce, although at the lime the train was full of passengers and not. 100 yards lroin the depot. The "bilking" man of the robbers had light, and small mustache, very small feet, and will not weigh more than MO pounds.

He wore a derby hut of a reddish brown color, and seeu.cd about years old. Kcho.) A wreck oce.urcd on the V. road bo tween this station and the water tank late Wednesday evening, 11. V. 15 irl'nganic, tank engineer, was returning to the station on 1 velocipede, directly behind an engine, when the velocipede left the track, throwing Mr.

against the ties, and then proceeded to pounce upon him in a mariner that was not agreeable to sav the least. A dislocate I arm and a broken veloc ipede handle were tin: results of the wreck, Last Tuesday Joseph Kiiaus, our cnlcvprin-ing druggist unveil his ware room onto to vacant lot cost to the building he is occupying, and as soon us the wcitber permits he will commence the erection ot a store building 20x.l wcti! like to rc aUat nty more such men as Mr. Knaus locate among us ami build buildings. Such men are a Jng help in a community. The concert held at Ihe C.

P. church last Saturday night was a success in every particular. There was it large crowd in attendance, and the sons, recitations ami esMiyg were most excellent, and were went through villi in a very conimeirlable manner. The people, in that vicinity certainly know how to g'd up an txcel- nt entertainment. The postal law makes it litrct ny to lake a newspaper and not pay for it A newspper in Illinois recently lirongl.it fniil against friy-Uirec men who would not p.iy their t-nh-scriplion and idVained judg'-merit in each for the fall amount -jf tbo claim.

Of these, twenty-eight men innde amdavi's that they owned no more propn-iy than tho law allowed (hem, thus preventing attachments. Thin they, under dt of thf Miprcmo court, were arrested for jetty larceny and bound over in the MUnof SroOoYacli. All gave bond tut six, who wont to jail. LiFgry Feed ill STABLE. mWmmm lls faniibo1 iu Goocl nnd at A11 mWm flt LoWfsL Itc; New Uigs and Good Boarded bv tho Dav or Week.

Hours Horses; at Iiovt Hates. Give iug a Call. J. COLE, PropY, La Fontaine, Kansas MM I II A AS I I I' Ii II Dealer In Drugs and Medicines Carries overything pertiiiuirif? to a drug store, necessary for the ac commodation of the people. Also dealer in Clocks, Books, and Groceries such as proccririfin carry, rlotir, Sugar, Co lie, teas, hpices Candicn and all l.iinl of n.inco oods, to accommodation of tho people.

Wo keep a full lino of show cuso GOODS..