The Seward County Democrat from Fargo Springs, Kansas • 3

THE OUTLOOK IS KANSAS. SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS, A Grmt Crop Tear Promised, this Presidential Tear. With its Inviting Fields and Genial Climate is the Place to make a Home. to examine his discount book. I is invariably granted.

In this manner I have learned that the business men are much more conservative. The cry of hard times comes from those wholesale people who experience a falling off in sales. Kansas always goes so far, then stops, becomes conservative and redeems herself. If Illinois has gone through Come and Share Some of the Advantages we Enjoy. Her Proposal.

She gently took hla passive band, And tenderly she placed Her arm, without a reprimand. About his willing: waist. She drew him close; a reverent kiss Upon his brow she pressed, He yielded, and a new found bliss Set all her fears at rest. Then in a wild, impassioned way. Her love for him she told, And begg-ed of him that he would say She'd not been over bold.

Without him all her life, she said. Would be a desert drear; If he said "No," she'd rever wed At least till next Leap Year. he heard her bravely through, And then he cooed; "Oh, la! This is so awful sudden, Suel You'll have to ask my ma She Stands at the Head. The Kansas Farmer this week publishes reports from a hundred and forty-eight special correspondents, in response to questions sent out concerning the weather during the past winter, stock, stock feed, wheat in the ground, crops successfully grown in the different counties grasses, fruits, losses occasioned by exposure to cold weather, agricultural prospects, spirits of the farmers, immigration, railroads, and the summing up shows a very en- the same crisis as Kansas there would be nothing' left. I am sure the state under, rather than over ten dollars a week.

At ten dollars a week the amount would be for twenty-six days in January and fifteen in February, seven working weeks, $1,400,000. Two weeks after the miners struck the iron furnaces in the Schuylkill region were obliged to shut down for lack of coal. The men here, whose daily average two dollars, lost twelve days in January and sixteen in February. Taking their number at five thousand, the loss in wages there is The losses to coal consumers by reason of the increase in price caused by it. In the New York market, which consumes 10,000 tons a day, this increase averaged 25 cents a ton to buyers in quantity.

Buyers of parts of a ton have perhaps paid as high as $1 per ton increase. As this increase will not be immediately overcome, it is reasonably to estimate this item at is from twenty-five or thirty per cent better oE than the grumblers would have us believe." Capital. Will Fight a Duel. A special dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean, from Hugoton, says a messenger from the Neutral Strip reports big excitement over a duel that has been arranged to take place early in March between Ticon, of Neutral City, and Frank Doran, two cowboys. They quarelled over a pretty beer-slinger named Kitty, in Yates City.

Both are pronounced the best shots in the Strip. The weapons are to be improved Winchester rifles, 44-calibre, at a distance of 100 yards. Suit Against the Santa Fe. August Kadau has a suit against the Santa Fe company, of 85,000, for ejectment from one of their trains. He claims that he purchased a first-class ticket from Winfield to Syracuse, Kansas; that he gave the same to a collector on the train and received in exchange therefor a slip of cardboard in his hat.

When the collector came around again his slip was gone and he was forcibly ejected from the train at a point some twelve miles east of Dodge City. The decision of the case will be watched with interest by the general I- nOX. JOHX SPEER. The following, from the pen of mraging state of facts. Every Oh merchant in thine hour of If on this paper you should And look for something: toapppp Noble Prentis, in the Newton Republican, is but a just tribute to a county is reported, in some cases by two or more correspondents.

It is agreed by all that while' there was some very cold weather in January, I our yearmajf lor greeuuttun i Take our advice and be thus Go straightway and advert ill. You'll find the project of some Neglect can offer no ex q. Be wise at once, prolong1 your a a A silent business soon k. faithful and tried friend of Kansas, one who has done much to build it up. At one time we felt like expressing sympathy for him in view of the weather then was dry, and no 000.

In the Philadelphia market considerable losses of stock occurred anywhere by reason of it. In some of the counties cattle have been on Those who are in positions to be pretty good judges of the signs of the times say that 250,000 people will leave eastern homes daring this year to make homes in the west. It seems like a large number, but what is there in the history of western immigration in past years to discredit it? These people coming should look the ground over before starting, with this query in their minds, "where is the best place to go?" A mistake in this matter may lead to loss and discouragement and ultimate return to the crowded east. A healthy location should be one of the first requirements. After that, climate is one of the most important things to be looked after.

Why should one migrate to the bleak north where nothing" can be done for nearly half of the year and the winter's expenses consume the summer's profits? Why should one go to the south with its sickly climate and its lack of energy, enterprise and pro the fact that he was obliged to comes rnence life anew, as it were, on the plains, but when he is seen and talked with, it is observed that he is as light-hearted and cheerful as when the increase was as high at times as $3 a ton, and inthe New England market 50 cents a ton increase was the open range all winter, with very the average. These two items may little prepared food of any kind. Winter wheat got well started in the fell, and it afforded good pasture he firgt commenced his Kansas career be estimated $500,000. The table of losses may thus be shown: in Lawrence 30 years ago and more. He is getting old in years, but bis heart is as young, in spite of all his misfortunes, loss of property being nearly all inter.

No one county reports any losses on account of shortness of food, and many pUDllC. Railroad men 240,000 Miners 1,400,000 Iron workers 280,000 the smallest, as it ever was. It is Consumers 700,000 now have feed to spare. The universal testimony is that stock never ache he feels very much like the common run of people. The Newton Republican thinks that every town in Kansas that has the small-pox should tell the truth about it.

The public will probably fail to see why the line should be drawn at small-pox. Kansas has heretofore afforded ample elbow room for a fair quota of great men, but the evidences continue to multipy that the state is becoming too small to hold John J. Ingalls and Joseph K. Hudson. Newton Republican: Kansas is not as dry a country as it might be; at Atchinson the other day, a hearse on its way to the cemetery stuck fast in the mud and it took an added team of horses to start it.

The opera of "The Doctor of Al-canatra" will be produced by a home company at Kinsley in the near future. People who have never seen the lyric drama as rendered by amateur talent in Kansas have a very imperfect conception of the possibilities cf real art. Colorado is excited over the discovery in a remote section of that state of a sand stone of the same kind that was employed in the construe tion of the Egyptian pyramids. It is a humiliating confession, but the fact can no longer be concealed that Kan-sas is losing her grip. The board of trade at Syracuse has adopted strong resolutions protesting against the passage of the bill opening Oklahoma to settlement.

Up to this time Syracuse has been known to the outside world principally in connection with the fact that it elected a female council last spring. Larry Peace, an intelligent colored man living on Coal creek, has given the Independence Tribune some facts regarding cotton cultivation. Last season he erected a cotton gin, but owing to insufficient power, worked to a disadvantage. However, he ginned for himself and other parties thirty-one bales of good cotton, and has two bales yet to gin. The cotton grown in this county is of good quality and sells readily in St.

Louis at from 9 to 9f cents, and what he ginned brought to his patrons $1-400 in cash. They have found cotton more profitable than corn and will increase the acreage next year. There is scarcely a home in this city but what has space enough for one or two fruit trees, and a very little space suffices for the growing, of shrubbery. The tree once planted in kindly soil with all the conditions wintered better. Wheat is in good known that he lost two brave, noble boys in the Quantrell raid and one daughter, Mrs.

Neff, by consump If the Reading company lost a condition very gqod, well rooted, with good tops. Rye was sown millidh by the strike, the total is tion. His old friends will be glad to KANSAS NOTES. Alex. Butts in K.C.

Star. North Topeka has three daily newspapers two too many. Jim Legate has placed his shoulder to the Ingalls presidential boom. A Lamed man caught three beavers in the Pawnee river a few days aero. The Chase county grand jury cost but $800, and found twenty indictments.

The latest pathological development in Kansas is the winter summer complaint. Rev. Anna Shaw, of Massachusetts, is fanning the equal suffrage flame in Kansas. The Sterling Bulletin stands up for its favorite musical organization, the Salvation army. The Emporia Republican thinks that the capital removal scheme is showino" signs of distress.

A bold, bad woman, with a pair of "fetching" black eyes, has caused the downfall of a well-to-do grocer pretty extensively in the newer counties, and like the wheat, it made good learn that one of his sons is a success as a railroad man, he being lately gress The Inducements Which This Country pasturage and is now doing well. promoted to the sunerintendencv of i Offers to the Immigrant. No section of the Union is attract- one of the divisions of the Missouri Pacific railroad in Kansas. But read Fugitives From Justice. Robert Minor and William Minor were arrested in Horace, Greely county, on the charge of having killed E.

R. Goode, on the night of August 30, 1887, at that place. It was a dastardly crime. They shot him, or are supposed to have, through a window while he was in company with a girl. It was about the girl that the tragedy ensued.

Free with her favors, she favored Goode to the exclusion of the Minor boys and they revenged themselves by assassinating him. They were incarcerated in the Hamilton county jail and effected their escape from it November 8, 1887, since when they have been at large. The governor offers a reward of $150 each, or $300 for the arrest and conviction of the brothers. bpnng work is far advanced in all the southern counties, oats sown, potatoes planted, gardens begun. A great deal of fall plowing was done in the eastern and northern counties.

what Prentis says: "A caller at the Republican office yesterday was John Speer, of whom Never before, in all the state's histo it is written that, on October 15, ing more attention at the present time than southwestern Kansas, which is by far the most fertile, and better adapted te the production of a varied class of crops. Southwestern Kansas is pre-eminently the poor man's country in the sense that it pays a larger reward to industry than any other section in the Union. To the 1854, he issued the Kansas Tribune, ry, was so much and so good preparation on the first of March for the a free state paper at Lawrence. Just pring work. largely increased acreage of oats and corn is promised and in the newer counties west the one month before, on the 15th of of September, was issued the Leavenworth Herald, a pro-slavery paper, and the first paper in Kansas.

Thus slavery had one month the start of farmer we can present three conditions essential to his success, a genial climate, just warm enough to ripen farmers will grow immense acres of millet, sorghum, rice corn and Kaffir corn, and alfalfa is a favorite forage In Western Kansas both of these extremes can be avoided. No section of the union can show a more marvelous growth in the past or a brighter outlook for the future. It is healthy, its soil is rich, its people have vim and energy, it is dotted over with schools, churches, and happy ponies. It is pushing the work of opening up new enterprises and building new railroads. In fact statistics show us that during the year just closed, Kansas led all other states in these particulars in the number of miles of railroad built, in the number of business houses put up, in the number of dwellings erected, in the number of school houses and churches built, in the number of towns started, in the number of new residents coming to the state, in the number of acres of new soil brought into cultivation, and in the increase of property values.

And the outlook for the year over whose threshold we have just stepped, bids fair for still more wonderful progress than the last year has seen. The question "Where shall we p-o?" ouo-ht to be easily answered. freedom in the newspaper way. But plant with many. Notwithstanding the Herald died tn 1801, and its hope that the last two yeurs have not been of making Kansas a slave state had died long before, while the Lawrence prosperous generally in Kansas, the farmers are in good heart and every Tribune is still in existence and where report most encouraging pros John Speer's idea of a free Kansas pects.

And this feeling is general Prospects for the Year. So far as men are able to see the prospect for an increased growth of Kansas this year is exceedingly good. The increase of population last year was 100,000, notwithstanding the fact that a great effort was made to carry emigrants to California, and that many thousand people did go to that land of many promises. But the California epidemic has subsided; those who went there have found that California is a delusion and a snare, many are returning, and those who remain are not enthu is an established and glorious fact. Through it fire and foray, everybody is hopeful and resolved in Topeka.

The Democrat intimates that there is a woman behind the municipal throne in Topeka. This is important, if true. One very material point of difference between the Topeka Commonwealth and Capital is that the former is an Ingalls paper. The next governor of Kansas should be a man that the people of that state want, but it is not altogether certain that he will be. Mile Rhea will frou" at Topeka.

It is said that the people of that city pronounce this play Rhea's "chef-de-oover." It is intimated that if John P. St. to make the best of a good year. The 'ground is well saturated with blood and famine, toil and sorrow, has lived John Speer. He has "changed ends" on Kansas, and now lives in Finney county, and is as enthusiastic about western Kansas, as he was, thirty-four years ago, about eastern Kansas, for somewhere in his heart springs the fountain of hope, and a hearty and brave man yet is moisture; wheat is in the best possible condition for this time of the season, and stock was never healthier or in a better plight in early spring.

The whole state is in good humor. siastic in praise of the golden state. The Pianist of the Period. There will be little emigration to John Speer. Commonwealth.

1NTJEUESTINO ITEMS. fully observed, requires little care after its early years are passed, beyond an annual trimming of deformed or dead limbs, and is forever an object of beauty in spring as its buds California this year. But there are always people who wish to emigrate. There are always many thousand crops and mature his fruits and vegetables, and not so torrid as to be unhealthy, a' soil of more than average fertility, with enough moisture to make the soil productive and a good market for what he raises. To the capitalists we offer one of the best places for investment on the continent; a city now in its infancy, but sure to grow in a few years to one of the most prominent commercial, railroad and manufacturing centers of the country.

To the mechanic we present the grandest opportunity that can ever come to those of his class the opportunity to secure an abundance of labor at good wages. To those seeking a pleasant place in which to make a home and spend life, as far as pos sible, at ease, we present a favored climate, a city delightfully situated, with good society, schools and churches, an atmosphere of moral refinement in which to rear and educate their children, and all the elevating influences of an eastern city. To all people who expect to labor, who expect to begin with energy and keep it up until a competence is gained; who will add moral, social, industrial and financial strength to the community, those now here extend a hearty welcome. Individuals that wish to live by their wits had better give this country a wide berth. Fossils to the Rear.

There are several classes of men Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "who knows a good thing when he sees it," and a bad thing when he hears it, commends the piano pounder in this fashion: "It was a young woman, with as young, energetic men in the east who feel that they can better their appear and daily open into leaf, in summer with full verdure clad, in Kansas is emphatically the modern land of promise, with, as the above shows, her promises gloriously fulfilled. The other question then comes, "To what part of Kansas?" Many make the mistake in their too great eagernesss to be in or near a large city. A big price has to be paid for lots in, or farms near Topeka, Emporia, Wichita, Atchison or Leavenworth, and the increase in value is not so great in proportion as it will be if the purchase is made in some carefully selected town in condition in a new country, and who have the pluck to pick up and go. many white muslin flounces about autumn when decked in the reds and yellows of the dying year.

Yes, Where will they go? To the country from which they get good her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it. She gave the music stool a twirl or two, and fluffed down reports. It is true that correspon and in winter, as well, for even then a well-formed tree, with limbs in proper balance, makes a pleasant break with its brown silhoutte against using dents of eastern papers are on it like a whirl of soap suds in a disuade mi grants hand basin. Then she pulled up her every effort to from coming to have a better the white back ground; or, perhaps the falling snow may cling to twig, Kansas, but they guide than these cuffs as though she were going to fight for the champion's belt. Then limb and trunk, producing an effect John "could have saw" the end from the beo-innincr he would never have seceded from the republican party.

The Commoner Publishing company has been chartered to publish a weekly newspaper at Newton. It will try to be independent in politics. John Snyder, of Eudora, preferred faith to allopathy, and now he is dead. A Kansas man deems it a great privilege to die for his opinions. Kansas can worry along tolerably well without a farmer for governor if she can only have the right kind of weather this year to make big crops.

The pastor of the Christian church at Emporia employs a blackboard as an aid in the work of saving souls. The end in this case justifies the means. The Brookville Transcript says the east side of the state has had the governor long enough. The Transcript's platform is: "Give the coy she worked her wrists and hands to comes to efforts to papers. Every man who the state is zealous in his that no ivory carver, however deft- limber 'em up I suppose, and spreads out her fingers till they looked as though they would pretty much cover the keys from the growling end to the squeaky one.

Then those two hands of hers made a lump at the persuade his friends to follow, and is constantly sending them good reports of this land; the papers of the state are filled from day to day with incontrovertable facts concerning the state, and these things will have weight and will outweigh the evil reports that are being spread broadcast by those who seek to injure us. It will be a great year for Kansas. A keys as if they were a couple of tig says the Topeka Capital, who cannot build a city. First, the fellows who ers coming down on a flock of black and white sheep, and the piano gave squeeze the "eagle on a dollar until a great howl as if its tail had been trod on. Dead stop so still you it sauawks.

Second, the whiners faho will do nothing themselves and could hear your hair growing. -Then As spring opens the Kansas boomer will renew his strength and start in another jump and another howl, as complain because some other fellow by his energy is trying to push if the piano had two tails and you otes a chance. afresh for another season of hard work for the state. And there is no field in which work is more effective along the city in all that tends to its The average salary of the ministers of the Southern Presbyterian church last year was only $552. After having regularly struck the hours for 509 years, the old clock at St.

Quentins, in Mayenne, has got out of order and is being repaired. The Western Kansas sheriff who was elected by a vote of 864 out of 865, has collected fees amounting to 50 cents since his installment. The cold weather has driven so many bears from the foot-hills into the town of Grass Valley, that no one dares stir out of doors after dark. It is now an imperial regulation in Brazil that persons who die from yellow fever shall be cremated, the state bearing the whole expense. Philadelphia is not far from the coal region, and yet the poor of that city who buy coal by the bucketful pay for it at the rate of about fifteen dollars per ton.

The French council has taken off the Legion of Honor list 157 persons who secured their crosses fraudulently, and ha3 suspended sixty-six others pending a more thorough examination. One serious obstacle to the candidacy of Mr. Anthony, of the Ottawa Republican, for governor, is found in the fact that no one on earth is suf-ficently well acquainted with him to call him George. Taking six trades as a basis, the average pay of a skilled laborer in North Carolina is $1.60 a day; unskilled sixty-five cents; farm labor without board, 55 cents, and with board, 30 cents. An English company claims to be able to make one ton of pure tin from thirty-three tons of scraps and waste tin and figures out a profit of $450 a ton for the business, counting pure tin at only $500 a ton.

At wedings the Greek church uses two rings, one of gold the other of silver. Tn Spain and Portugal three rings are placed upon the fingers of the bride at the words: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." material advancement. Third, the trod on both of them at once, and then a grand scramble, and a string of jumps, up and down, backward Richfield has a new hook and ladder truck, but it is doubtful whether the fire company can ever be induced than this. Hutchinson News. men who have accumulated fortunes the western part of the state.

Our own wide-awake town offers as good a field for profitable investment as any in the state. In healthfulness and fertility of soil it cannot be surpassed. Clark County Must Issue the Bonds. Mandamus proceedings were begun yesterday in the supreme court by the Southern Kansas Pan Handle Railroad company against the county commissioner of Clark county. The company claims that $50,000 in bonds was voted to it by Clark county on condition that the railroad be built to Ashland by December 31, 1887, and $120,000 in bonds were voted cn condition that it be built to Englewood, Clark county, by February 1.

The road is now built, but the county commissioners refuse to issue the bonds, and the railroad company, which belongs to the T. S. F. system, asks the supreme court to compel the county commissioners to issue the bond in accordance with the election held by the people. The supreme court yesterday issued the writ of mandamus directing the commissioners to issue bonds or appear in the supreme court room on 16, and show cause why they have not done so.

Capital. The Kendall building-stone quarries have started up with orders for seventy-five car loads of stone to be fingered can hope to produce. The wonderful progress of Kansas in the last decade astonishes everybody and elicits the admiration of the world. It seems to have been but yesterday that the world was looking with wild-eyed wonder upon the marvelous industrial developments of the great state of Kansas, and she is still eliciting the admiration of enterprising men everywhere on the other side of the sea as well as on this. The fertile soil and the cheap lands to be found in Kansas, and even more than those two alluring features, the assiduous and systematic exertions of individual capitalists and corporations largely interested in the development of their adopted state, have been the great operative factors in so rapidly bring-in or about such astounding results as have for the last few years been and are still showing themselves, almost a 3 miracles, in many localities and districts of this prolific region.

All this popular favoritism for Kansas, however, could not be kept up as it has been if there has not been good substantial merit at the bottom of it. It is not to be denied that our state and forward, one hand over the other What did the Strike Cost? lien if ns if. is -nninffifl brown in- through the energy of others, and who refuse to give up a dollar for a There are various estimates as to like a stampede of rats and mice, more than like anything I call the expense of the late strike. The t.vr i stead of red. Rev.

United Brethren minister of Hope, Dickinson county, has manufacturing establishment or other enterprise that will bring wealth to the citv. The classes named and music." but dol- writers differ as to the amount, none place it under one million lars. The following" ''rough eloped with a female member of his others stand as an adamantine wall "I like to hear "a woman sing, and I like to hear a fiddle sing, but these noises they hammer out of their wood fig- conp-recration. They have been ures," as the Sun callsjthem, is proba C3 heard of in Texas. acrainst the prosperity of many cities and towns." They are everywhere to The Herald with "apt alhter- and ivory anvils don't talk to me I know the difference between a bullfrog and a thrush." bly as near the actual cost as it is possible to determine- The railroad 1 .1 1 1 be found.

In some places they are the ruling- spirit. In others there are A. ation's artful aid," asserts that "Gar (men struse oegan tne last weeK oi den City is the gratuitous guerdon of enough of them to stab every move -a. I' a nrand and generous growth." Let December, and may be safely said to have involved 2,500 men, whose ment that is calculated to Duild a A Bradstreet Man Travels Through Kan sas and gives a Glowing: Account of the 'er grow, Gallagher. great and prosperous city.

Garden average wages were three dollars Basiness Prospects. Topeka We suppose day. They lost six days in Decem City we regret to say, hag some of this class, who are riding on its C. H. Cason, of Bradstreet's ber, twenty-six days in January, and Glick is called George Washington Glick for the same reason that three- shoulders and hampering its progress.

agency, has returned from an ex We need a general wakening of cap tended trip through Kansas. He has great resources, and that her splendid prosperity rests upon a solid foundation. The world is be fourths of the children down in Mexi- 1 1 .1 co are caueu.j caua. italists, businessmen and citizens to the fact that such a course will not said to-day: "I have been all oyer Kansas, and I am free to say I never build a citv. A united and harmo- saw prospects for a better year.

The nious effort of all our people is nec sixteen in February, making a total of forty-eight days, and wages amounting to $250,000. The railroad men are still on strike. The reading miners went out on Jan 1. They numbered all told about and included everybody, from the breaker boys at three dollars a week to the experienced miners who made twelve to fourteen dollars, and sometimes fifteen dollars a week. The average is doubtless essary to the upbuilding of the business community has followed the example of the national banks, which began hedging last uly.

The merchants are not stocking up large town. shipped to points east. This is an indication that the building season will commence early this year and that times are not hard in western Kansas. The stone quarries here have never before opened so early in the season and the owners look forward to a big trade. Kendall Boomer.

ginning to see Kansas through glasses that are not discolored; to understand her people and appreciate her attractions; to comprehend the brilliant opportunities she affords for incomparable investments, and the world is wise enough to avail itself of advantages and oppurtunities when it sees them. Young Mr. Holliday, of the Topeka Democrat, is holding up his end of the pole very creditably during the absence of his chief, the only and original Tomlinson, at "Washington. Barney Langtry, of Strong City, owns fifteen thous and acres of land in Chase county. And yet, when Barney has a boil or gets the tooth A home for ex-convicts has been established in Michigan.

The next thing in order is a criminal training ly and are in many cases discounting bills. When I find a man who does this, I usually ask permission schooL.