The Tregola Index from Tregola, Kansas • 1

DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF TREGO, GRAHAM, ROOKS AND ELLIS COUNTIES. Number 1. Tregola, Trego County, Kansas, Saturday; August 7, 1886. Volume i. TOWN SOTES.

Mr. Frank Ross is getting his hotel a housk painter, corn planter. I have only gone through Especially if he can make a cultivator, but it is now 'She Shegola Cst" it ROW. We arc here living in a new com- We herewith beg to introdude the nmnity, where politics are not in the Treco-Indsx to the pubHc. It will first rank as a matter of general in- painted.

perfectly clean and free from weeds. Mauy people think that sod corn cannot free of charge by simply sending in their name and address; It is useless to go more tnto details in regard to the coirtscjwc shall Dursiie in editincr this farlr. The What shidl be the cost of our new stone Saturday, August 7, 1S86. school house? be cultivated, but this is a mistake, and by following my method, which I have terest to the welfare of the greatest appear every Saturday of the, year and will never be printed in than M. C.

KRARUP, Editor and Publisher. number of the inhabitants. The re- uIho tried with success in Missouri, I nm sutiuficd that uny one cnu raiae a fine crop U-iii a Uoufca. of th'U eetiw tWcgiintiyittturo U1 shosr Jn; (JcWL iiat, we! One 1 vJ 1 H'W of corn im the eod. On trels, f37 acres which I have planted with com I however munificently bestowed by purport and what we are able to accomplish better than any promises useful also in other ways.

a hardware In this and all other lines of retail business Tregola offers as fine chances as any place, where railroads-have not come in yet. To any of the above enterprises the Tregola Town Company will donate lots and otherwise help them along. Besides this, enterprising men will find many other openings if thev will come out and look for themselves. nature, are as yet not developed to a have kept an exact account of the work I have done them in and tho work of break Let tho Americans try to get ahead of the Swedes mid Gcrmiuis; we want a mixed settlement. Mr.uS.

K. Oillett'a Jiouao is, approach-mg completion, and his family is expected to arrive by the time it is ready for their occupancy. Onr town has suffered tho temporary Iokbs of ono of our citizens, Mr. J. E.

DcLeo having gone to Omahii. Ho will not return till next spring. Mr. Bcysile, lately from Alney, Illinois, and a untivo of Switzerland, has lieen en- treat extent. The inhabitants of ing, plowing uud cultivating has taken terms or subscription: One copy one year, $1.00.

One copy sis months, 50. Extra copies five cents each. All communications ol whatever nature -hhould be addreasod to the publisher snt 3 Kansas. we could now hold forth, and we trust sincerely that our efforts will become appreciated by the public just so our town and the farmers around in the country, though doubtless rich in nutter of course that we cannot in stating. have one thousand bona fide subscribers, but we will send the paper around to almost everybody, for some time, without charge, and trust that our efforts to supply a good, readable, reliable, impartial, newsy weekly paper, free from the indifferent trash that fills the local col me just days iu all.

In breaking I used a 10-inch plow, drawn by 8 horses, and broke about 21 2 ucres per day, Ou a piece of old plowing I put in this year much as we shall deserve. advertising, bates. In conclusion a word to our con four acres with oats which yicldod mo 40 bushels to tho acre. The soil here is dif 0'ir genial hotel man, Mr. Frank Time.

i IUv. i A i ow. I Cw. Ross, will make their stay pleasant. ferent from what it is "in numy of the 35.

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ji.50. il.90. ia.25. '2 50 eastern states. It never becomes very One Incli, Two Throe lour Five Six expectations and well fjundedj hopes for the times to come, are not! rich in material means, as almost all of them were poor when they came here and have not had time to amass much wealth yet.

A man who will not make politics his business and means of earning a living will care more for such information and such Wlnit Troirole Can Sport. A NEWSPAPER gaged in plastering here in town for soino time. He likes tho country hero very much. Who will fiend us the local news and solicit advertisements at Wu-Keeuey, Millbrook, Nieodemus, Welwter, Stockton, Phiiuvillo, Hays, Ogallah, and Coll-' yorV Correspondents solicited from oil 85. 1.40.

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:5 6o I 40. :3.5c. 3.50. :4.4c :5.3c ,6.20 hard or but now nftor a very heavy ruin the soil is loose and ennily worked. C.

F. McLean, Trogo county, P. O. Ellis, Kansas. umns of roost country become appreciated by the public.

Thd subscription, price is only one temporary journals and weeklies: It will be entirely beyond our scope to attempt to ridicule or pick flaws in other newspapers published in this pint of the country and thus or otherwise try to show our own smartness. It is not our object to show off as smart but much more to be on That has sufficient faith in this glorious country to draw on the dollar a year or 50 cents fur a half future for the means of subsistence. the above towns. year, 'which amounts together with The Tregola Index is not yet self- During the past week Mr. Huber, of Business locals, five cents per lino eiich insertion, until ordered out.

Professional eaidn, 15 pqr year. AH transient advertisements must, bo paid for in advance. Advertising Manager, ULUS, KANSAS. full name and correct address should discussions as tend to increase his supporting, and does not expect to The sheriff of Ellis county has 'given notice that on the 11th of September next a special olection will be held in Ellis county for the purpose of voting on the proposition of issuing bonds in fuvor of tho Kansas, Texas Southwestern railroad company, a corporation which pro be for about one year yet. The pub Bnkovina, Austria, has been stopping at tho Tregola House.

thinks he will locate permanently in our midst. Thero is room for a good many of his indus a friendly footing with other newspapers, political divergencies not lisher lives on his past earnings and the fat of the land, but we. dare say that within long the country will owe trious countrvmen. be sent to the publisher, at Ellis, Ellis county, Kansas, in order to secure the regular mailing and delivery for the corresponding length of time. 0 titrates for 'advertising are stated wealth and the general material prosperity of the country where he lives, than for political debate of a far-fetched applicacility to his personal case.

Hence, we will not sacri Our town well is getting down ruther poses to construct mid build a railroad through Hays City from tho south or south went in a north or northeast direc deep for this country, where wolls ore only thirty feet deep as a rula. -There withstanding, that aim honestly at instructing the public according to their convictions' on matters of common interest, and we hope on the other hand that our contemporaries will use the same mild and impartial judgment in commenting upon anything that moy find expression through our columns. 1 tion. Thero is in the western part of Ellis county a widespread feeling that said railway will benefit only Hays City and the townships it will go through, and that the inhabitants residing elsewhere in CrDR.N.KIDD.-e physician mmm. Calls Promptly Attenied.

Discuses of the lineal onj rliest a specially. Office at Kida Rice's I'm- store, Ellis; Kansas. us a living. A BASE BALL Cl.Ufi. Every Saturday afternoon Iroro thirty to fifty farmers from the sur-lounding country have been enjoying an unsophisticated game of base ball.

Hard hitting is their strong point as yet, more than strict adherence to to nice rules, but to judge from the alacrity displayed and the vigorous, active frames of the participants, the Ellis county should therefore vote against the bonds. It seems reasonable, however, that tho sharp competition between rail fice much of our time and efforts to wrangles on political parly questions, we shall consider it irrelevant and not worth mentioning whether a republican got an office somewhere east tl'at democrats opine should have been given to another fellow, or vice versa, but we will devote our best endeavors to all things -which lots of good water in it, however. Are they going to make an artesian well? or do they expect to find conl? Ftov. Wallecn, the Swedish minibter of Essex, Iowa, has purchased a quarter section of land two miles cast of If sufficient number of Swedes follow bis cx-amplo wo shall havo a Sweodish church hero before The following Swedish Americans have bought in this' vicinity lately: Aug. Johnson, Ous.

Lloraquist, Ales. Johnson, Leastadt, Dindell, 1 Ed- road companies, if such a road is built elsewhere in this issue and wiil be strictly adhered to. In advertising we do not wish to mislead the public by making any private and paid for advertisement appear as an editorial notice. The pernicious habit of doing so has been abused to a degree which makes that sort of mention of tather dubious advantage to the advertiser; ar.d, as it certainly is degrading to the editors to lend a help-ins? hand to form of deception 'praduVcd-on-'lte -we wish SITP0BT would greatly promote the construction WHAT CAN AT ONCE. of Bomo other road that would more I WISH TO ('ALL THE ATTENTION OF THE directly benefit Ellis or at any rate tho time is nigh when the Tregola nine can take it up with the best.

The western part of the county. The B. M. tedt, C. M.

Talk, Liudbery. railroad company is contemplating a road credit for the organization of this directly concern the development of this part of Kansas where we live Last Saturday the following parties from lied Cloud, Nebraska, in a south westerly direction; and the building of wore in town attending base bull: Fremont Parish, captain, Arthor Adair, E1-. the proposed K. S. W.

nulroad 2 and the well-being of its 'citizens. Pol -sweh -f at jwuanui TO IV HOTEL. The Tregola House, through Hays City xvould naturally A CENTRAL. STORK. A man with some commercial connections and a capital of or could make a good living by coming out here and starting in --would tU'ro htoiUU a house at a cost of about perhaps less, and would immediately secure the bulk of the trade for tvelve miles around.

A LIVERY AND 1 STABLE. Supposing some one who knows a advertisers to bcr in nmid that it mor Gifford, Sumner Crockr, William Brown, J. H. PuiuduSl, William, Mijuwri Boss Titlor, Jay Titlor, William McKnna, Charles Appleman, Amie Bcn- bring Uie a. M.

to accelerate rw construction on a parallel line somowhat further west. It is difficult to calculate enjoyable sport belongs, we mainly to Mr. Arthur Adair. DUUC STORE No, not yet we are not sick and don't want to sign "death warrants" at Tregola. Sixteen miles is not too far to a drug store.

If we could have a decent high-licensed saloon and could use the proceeds to build some more and better school houses, we wiil be useless to ask its to insert imin Friend, John Hultshauer, Frank to a nicotv whether tKmds or no bonds Rosa, Joseph Grico, Mr. Suiunierlhi, Douglas Stone, Alex. Bar Ed. Scrivou and a good niHuy more whose names we will pay the best for Ellis, but in such cases of doubt it is well to remcmlwr that generosity ns a rule pays better than importance all, as the tariff question, prohibition and anything else that is each and everybody's affair will of course find the mention they deserve, but in an entirely impersonal manner, regardless of political parties and heedless of what any caucus may put up as political did not get stintryness in a new country. little about livery business comes out any -advertisements of this disguised character.

On the other hand we will take great care in securing a judicious display of a straight forward "ad." in most any desired place of the paper. In regard to other piinciples by which we shall be guided let it be miirht want that but as it is no! Mendota Items in Hays City Times: Another barrel of dried nwpliorries just It is rumored that tho new town of Tre Tbkuo County, Kansas. Raw, $1.10 per day; wnglo molds 35ela, Frank Ross, Kansas. opened, at Iiuchiman Ellis, Kansas. gola, in Trego county, about six miles west of hero is to have a new paper.

buys So acres of land (or a quarter section), near the tosvn and builds a barn in town of sufficient sue to accommodate twelve to sixteen horses, we dare guarantee him We copy the following suggestion from tho (Hays City) Star-Scntiuel. What is tho matter with Mondota that it is so fur behind the times, it having been established for tho past seven or eight years, and Tregola yet in it infacy." Hi's BAXIH1Y. Ellis, August 1, 18.SG. Editor Index: lJEAit Hut: -I started farming in Trego county last spring on a quarter section of land, part of which consists of a broad drow. In this draw I broke 15 acres, turning tho eod 0 niches deep, und put in Farming, in connection with cattle, horse and sheep raising, is to-day ol more importance to this community mam mwm im Uniformity of School Books.

-Tho school law provides for a vote at any annual meeting of the District patrons, for or against uniformity in text books throuhout the country. Thero ore reasons why such votes should lie taken on Well, here it is, and no more a rumor only. Mendota may bo suffering from the infirmitives of old age, but Tregola is said that our leading words are truth and push Our purpose is to present the true interests of Trejjo, Graham, Rooks and Ellis counties to a wider public than generally reached through rural newspapers and more Thos. Daly, DEALER IN millet on the sod. This millet has never suffered from the dry weather which fast outgrowing its infancy.

that he will find demand for livery almost every day and very frequently say week for three or four teams. He will have a monopoly on hauling from the nearest railroad station; he can do plowing on his land when business is dull; he can take a mower along and make money by putting up hay. TWO LLACKSMlTII SHOT'S. Thursday of next week. It is learned that such difference is found in text liooks in many schools, that teachers are hindered from making their schools as successful ns they ought to bo.

A little reflection than anything else, hence we shall give considerable space to a relation of the experiences of farmers residing amongst us whenever some one of them has anything to tell us in regard to improved or new methods prevailed here for nearly a mouth and is Pickles by the bottle, pint, quart or now an assured crop Rnd will yield from gallon, at Buchanan's, Elba will convince any one of the necessity of Lumber and Building Ho, there! don't fail to stop atBuchan- this measure. Tho law provides tho stops to lie taken. It would be a great benefit especially to push the development of that part of the above counties that centers in the little new town to children and to parents were uniform 1 to 5 tons per acre, Millet sold here hist whiter for 810 per ton. On the high ground I broko 45 acres, 5 inches deep planted corn on the eod. This corn is now a "sure crop and will yield from CO to CO bushels to tho nero.

During tho dry nn's while in Ellis, and lay in a supply of Fresh Groceries. He can and will save you money. ity auoptod. A first-class blacksmith, who fully understands to shoe horses, repair Go to C. M.

Buchanan's, Ellis. Kansas, for (loldcn Gate Nectarines, White Heath STEWART KINNEY, through which he has attained satisfactory results. Our school facilities are a feature toward which our attention will be constantly directed as nothing contributes more to bring a thrifty and spoil we had hero for nearly 4 weeks it plows and can do general job Material, Flooring, Siding, Studding, JuLita, etc. BUILDERS Ready Mixed Pi-ints in Yark-ty. Wagons AND peaches, etc.

vrork, will have more thaa be can never suffered in the least During the Laid, Loan Insurance Apts. of Tregola, whose name we have honowed for a heading. This nucleus of a town has, in our opinion, an unusually bright future. Tut Trf.iioi.a Isdkx wiil be utilized as a trumpet to announce to the outer word all the advantages rlnat- 'IWnla. IVnnU now to i nionwi uas rauca ueio U.

P. TIME TABLE. fast H'tiliounit Train. ind in the 1 it mined hard Improved and Unimproved lands, Itelin- Leaves -Kansas City, a. m.

Arrives iu .830 p. m. Slttw Wat-beund Train. qmsiiments on Homesteads, Pre-emptions and Trco Claims, and some choice Residence and Business lots for sale on Good Terms. leaves Kansas City, 10:40 p.

m. Arrives in .11:30 a. m. that we here have, and that have not yet been fully recognized by outsiders. 3 nights.

We need now no more rain to make crops (splendid onccees. I have formerly lit on tanning in Randolph i-ona-ty. Mi. I'onri, but consider the country here as fine i's any to be found and one iu which heavy crops o'li always be raised if tho jrouud is worked, but it takes work here i'8 elsewhere to raise erojir. In regard to my com I will state th'U r.rter 1 reukuig the ground I Fast East-bound Train.

Wa-Keeney, lillis cr Hays for their blacksmithinc, and are heartily tired of the long distances. A STONEMASON. To a competent man, who will quarry and dress the stone found right on the townsite, the use of the quarry -will be allowed free, if he will agree to sell the dressed rock at a reasonable figure. A man can make fine wages thereat. em -Machinery, Stoves, etc eic.

Ellis. Kansas. Leaves Ellis, a. nu Money to Loan on Rcnl Instate, quiet set of people into this country or to render the population which is here now more industrious and more enterprising. We "shall therefore be glad to receive contributions in regard to school matters from any one who takes interest in them and teachers in particular.

School teachers can have this paper sent to them We consider it our main duty to Arrives in Kansas City p. Slotu East-iovndl rain. further and encourage tho growth of FIIId. 1 3:90 t). m.

prosperity in this section of the on Best Possible Tonus. Office in New Block, South Washington Ellis, Kansas. "Correspondence solicited. Arrives in Kansas .6:00 a. m.

All trains step 20 to minutes at Ellis country where we expect to earn our went vrv it forcral times with a harrow and tliua. au. two-horse for meals. daily bread. 152 Washington Strest, Chicago, Illinois.

mid thought ho could teach tha English pi-iucijilos to tax a legitimate business iu G.imlietta mid and ho wis have obtained. There is no doubt that and Scotch voters in three months what order to prevent possible fraud; it is con- aval the misfoitnno of the hitter of eiif-ferinL' defeat of eherishod nlans toward it had taken him. hard working brain la- tended that the president must havo acted against his own convictions, otherwise ti. .1 mro a lifc-tinie to see info: that thero is around thoso who attempt great things more comfort in giving than in taking away. Truth works its way slowly; and it is even if they fail and Gladwne has proba- he would not have felt called on for Biich an apologetic message, and that tho whole thing intuit lie fishing for the farmers' votes.

Now, why be so uncharitable? The president has very clearly in bly never before in his life lw-u the sub- wiy tuat younger neaos man FOR SALE, (10,000 ACHES OF (HOKE Grazing and -FARM I11 tho vicinity of TEEOOLA. in Trego, Books ami Ellis count iu ioc-t of -so much svmnathv and admiration Gl ui-stoue's wid lie grey before English- is true courage, to admit one's ignorance to fifty millions of people ou a question that everybody else thinks ho knows all about We should all lie glad to note the pi obability of Laving a new extradition treaty with England brought about A treaty is under advisement 'hich will make tho journey a trifle longer and more dangerous for those of our brethren that contemplate embesizlement and who now so snugly can laugh at us from Canada's hospitable shores. It is to bo hoped that when tho treaty materializes it will not exclude wieb political transgressors as Ol it RASEJIEXT, la thin part of tho paper we shall every week give, a synopsis of tho events of the past week, as well as thoHO events that concern us immo'dintely having passed in-our vicinity and bi on our county and home ns of eni-h events! in the grei.t world around xin ii eni be to ubsorb a mure" general interest. IJuriii.T the pant week death lias called nway Frank- (he acknowledged first pianist of the world, the composer of the Hungarian. Rhapsodies, the Liaug- nnuuo and art belong to those things that I make life more enjoyable; kt us therefore 1 in onr struggle for tho prizes of life not be oblivious of those things that tend to cultivate the mind mid Sable us to draw pleasure from sources thai havo nothing to do with our annual "iheome.

Auotl) event ful life hr.n ciftw 'to iie close, oamuel J. Tildm ended l.r, ean-er. It is always a satisfw.tm to fee something tint is oomph to, that crdireiy "fiUb the bilk" Saimuil J. Tild-p' was a complete human life. lie hw miHicil mihtuin of Kn-hmd.

'ns hint Rich can bo made to see the comfort in dicated in the concluding lines of tho loosening Uie grip on tneir vicums. uiau. sU-uo was trying to hasten fate; so nro the 'Ixxmiers1 of the Oklahoma district It is not very flattering to the enforcement of our laws that people so generally think tho violation of the law tho shortest road message what his potation Ja Ho says thero that as the law is to take effect not before nine months after its enactment and the legislative body will meet one month thereafter, it will be possible by remodiary legislation to limit the duration of the law to ono mouth, if it fdiotdd seem lest to do so. now u'ter lis great scheme to reconiile the and Iridi interests has been defeated through the grot toadying of the Tories to tha prejudices and brutality of the average Briton. It.

is always ensior to tlio nmsscs by to their t-eiU and brutal instincts than by teachiry tUuu r.ew and nobler doctrhsi-e. if it dune wiiii lb'! gwt el juoie of viiieh the "grand c.ld man" is capi.Llc. 'iu to i i but litlio doubt tliiit even for himself it was only after to their selfish ends or, as they call to urat-ir tho Wagnerian era in Unnseirof the great Opi-onnn-Ufs country to honestly a fort une; he jaslice. Price, from $3 per Acre. Terms: 'Cish yvr Acre, in eight yti iy paynttnls; interest tit 7 ptr tail.

tho Anarchists uow under trial in Chicago. Riot murder, conspiracy for the distinction of property are crimes thit we do not want perpetrated under any name. Our most citizen is Presi dent Cleveland; he has it legally Li his It is evident that President ''Cleveland j- power to veto or to paes the oleomargarine simply did not know which was right and I jj he chose to experiment in order to find it I 5 bill as he sees fit and yet he enters into a His death iseomn of small importance to us who live hi a western country, whither the rctlnad eastern life! have not ot prog'ciwd but it might yet remind un of thr.t tho self-same civilisation hj which wo live producer, comctlin higher tiki t.bove the mere of a llw thi is not far utt whin thi3 country slunl bo secured in out This is perfectly human. Our severo v.ita hi: Eu.rlith nature lengthy explanation of why ho put his thirl lm finally beear.ie eonrinccd t-t Vie I imprimatur the WIL His meesnge is of the Lome a characteiistie document strongly indi- Our extradition treaties with foreign powers should include any crime sgaintt life and property, whether tho motive of the crime is said to be political or not; and with such powers as Rug an, Denmark, Prussia and others where the law is oppressed to subserve the wiil of one man or nu oligMreby fhonU Lave no extradition treaty alL iougiif, wiinout liver jcoparuiznaj ia esteem of others or his fyr tho political ews tla.t his cmivictions were in favor Ko did not alnu-etJ his great popularity tolH'come a demrjrogue, but quietly and without nssnaipti-in ei-erted his influence fir mesaurcs thrt Lo ilwuht would benefit his cnistry. Ho Wfs iv true vorl-hig viuo-j-3ii, who did not Jiiaiself to chiiufciie ftbhtrctionc, but combuimg Eonrd pclflalmess with bonovoknee i) mankind aimed at meomphVLii; inA so much as eotdd under the cirnm.st.m.ts Agent, M.

KRAI; IT. Offices tit Eilin and Tret-ola. Kans-P. GILLETT, tive of sincere desire to do tho right it maUcri frora the I nHKh pai presidents are not supposed to bo omni-seiant and wo ought to give them the "lienefit of a doubt" The expediency of the oleomargarine bill could oertiinly not be tested by vetoing it; tho oidy thing was then to do just what Cleveland did in bruiting its necessary ditirtion to a minimum of timo, leaving the legislative repaid to its material welfare and our r.iiikl wiil 1 lieu ho turned Upon other, kiss mr.lril. ata.

Ualcsa wo do thing. Everybody has abused it, as could lie exacted republicans, demo-ciaU and ncntrals alike. It is urged frora those who would have the bill vetoed that it is not tho government's business idiin.ut certain thit he yklJed to the Jru-h demands to? more a the interest of Eiu-h-cd herself, than prciapted by cuy ir.li ideal motives in behalf of the cat am. Then, lifter his become sftlled he lie. Carpenter.

Builder and Jotbsr. AU kindti of carpenter work done, by the job or y. M. Buchanan take die had in Staple sad Fancy Groecj' i Ha is sura comefliinir to elevate onr mni'U glut the unls uf i'-isua ns we shall iu our old not. be uii'y appreciate body free to take the mutter up, whu to protect one industry agrusH, another; to have ju.t what you vf sa4 6 JOuMi which defy xirjpuitA.i.

cneo is Lis lifo it is churned to lo cc.utnry to corrM I more exr-erience Lad been gained. That eamo ca we tten i he i Tregola, Kansas. aod. He wes 62 kiJ-J i.