The Independent from Burr Oak, Kansas • 5

THE INDEPENDENT. BURR OAK, JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. C. A.

HARDY, Editor and Publisher TERMS, $1.25 PER YEAR BURR OAK STOCK GRAIN MARKET. Corn-18 to 20c Wheat-30 48c. Rye-230. Stock Cattle 3.00@3.50 PRODUCE MARKET. Eggs--16c.

Batter 10 12c. Potatoes-60. Flour 3.00 Young Old LOUAL ITEMS. Sunny days. Going, the snow.

R. W. Turner of Mankato was in this city Tuesday. Home-made Saur Kraut at A. C.

Shoup's Mrs. Fronk Jennings returnded home from alankato Teursday. For fresh pies, and cakes, and bread go to Bakery, Gov. Martin was inuaugrated the 10th inst, for the second term. do to the City Meat Market for your New Years' turkey.

W. LI. Cullie, of Clyde, arrived in the city Thursday for the purpose of orbing up the organ busta S. It you want a good home paper chive for INLEPENDENT Cood Chewing Todacco only the a pound. Our Scholl Library is soon to receive several Vols.

of new books soon which those on hand will make it the best school library in the county. The Kansas City Board of Trace has endorsed the sentiments embra.ed in the Inter -State Comanerce Bill. So we earn from the Blade. Choice California oranges at A. (.

Shoupe's. Sign that petition to call a school bond election and when the times comes don't forget to vote for the bonds. We must have more schoolroom. Pound, that you can buy strictly pure drugs, and all first class Patent medicines. Jennings Ross Buy your Buck Wheat Flour at A.

C. Shouq's. Fresh eggs and sausage at City Meat Market. REPORT FROM POMONA. Williamson Cumming have decided to sell their Baking Powder Prizes right out regardless of the Bakng Powder.

All the ladies have admired the ware and now they have an opportunity of purchasing it. it is that beantiful Pomona Ware. At Masonic hall on Jan. 8th the following named persons were installed as officers of Burr Oak Lodge A. F.

A. M. for the ensuing year. J. E.

Hawley, W. W. B. Spears, S. G.

L. Canfield J. Henry M. Stanley will be tendered the freedom of the city of London on January 13. Milton Toole, who died of, paralysis.

at St. Joseph Mo. on Sunday, left an estate valued at Secretary Lemar and Mrs. Holt were married Wednesday at Macon, Georgia. James Ryan the newly appointed postmaster of Apleton, is one of the pioneers of that town, and a vetran editor.

Shark meat is openly sold in the Havana fish market. Our enterprising merchants Williamson Cumming have opened trade direct with Japanese, Dealers of tea In a few days they will receive their first consignment of goods, their tea is cured by the Perfection Process" in cans of the same name. The cheapest Oyster House in the city is Hollenbeck's bakery. Go to the City Meat Market for choice roasts, steak, and the best bologna in town. Don't forget to subscribe for THE INDEPENDENT.

"White Pigeon" is the 170e of the best 90ct. flour in town, kept by Williarason Cumming. City Meat Market for fresh' oysters butter, nice lard, and the best of beef and pork steak. Go to Williamson Cumming and get a sack of their "White Pigeon" flour 90cts. per.

sack. Finest assortment of Candies in at A. C. Shoup's. 17 Go to Judy, Horner for choice cigars, tobaccos christmas toys.

Chas. Russell Co. lave receive another car-load of betel.1 11. wagons. Gene.

Stewart received a car-load of Fancy flour this week, and that, with a car-load of feed goes to make up one of the largest feed stores this side of St. Louis. Mr. Stewart thinks "Reciprocity" is the motto he have, for he gives a dollar's worth of goods for 100 cents every time The City Meat Market is doing a good business. Neither Royer nor Monbeck find time for other work than keeping their shop supplied, cutting steak, making sausage, and dressing poultry for their customers.

Albums and Ohristmas heap at hour's. 17 It is a fact that Jennings Ross keep on hand the best line of drugs in the co inby. Go to the Farmers store for the Harvest Queen Flourat 90c. per sack. WOOD WooD; Parties wanting woca, may have the same delivered to their fresidence by leaving their orders at this office or Carpenter's Stora.

C. Shoupe has just received a of of CHOICE C'aliforniaa itoney. LIBERAL REWARD For a better cigar bought for 5 cts. than can be found at The New Drug Store. Jernings Ross High Patent Flour $1.

30 per sack at the Farmers store17 If you want a nice cake. made to or ler, on short notice, go to Hoilenbeck's Buy your soap of A. C. Shoug and get 8 five cent articles for 'only 2. A good motto for '87 for ev.

ery one, and for every day, 'is this: "Seek joys to-day that yield no sting to-morrow." In Montana a great many miners receive $4.50 aday. Don't fail to be present at the R. R. meeting. Mr.

Easter, of Holmwood Township is reported very sick. Look out for the change in the Jenning's Ross Advertisement next week. Lee R. Gunter of the Randall Register made us a call Tuesday. Come again Lee we can tell you more about our railroad on your next visit.

The business outlook for '87 is cheering indeed. It will probably be the most prosperous year for a decade. The art of talking in an interesting manner is hard to learn, but when once acquired is worth all the time and trouble it has cost. State Senator J. W.

Bush of Larued, was presented with a god headed cane by the business men of that city, last week. OBITUARY. DIED--In Burr Oak 'Town-ship Jan' 12th, 1887, Trythonia, wife of Milton Johnson, aged 55 years and 8 months. We learn that Mrs. Johuson became a christain at 18 years of age and 111- ited with the Christian Union Church and lived the life of uhe just.

She passed peacefully away. Iler friends cherish a fond hope of a reunion in the Sweet Bye and Bye. Thusone by one our friends are going over to join the Great Majority. We miss the from our tony mother, We miss the from thy place, A shadow o'er our life is cast, We miss thy smiling tuce. We miss thy kind and willing hand, Thy fond and earnest care.

Our home is dark without, the mother We miss the everywhere. Sermon from Rev. With chapter. 13th verse, By Rev. E.

Thornburg. SCHOOL BONDS. The question of voting bonds build a new school building Will soon be submitted to the voters of this School District and it sho. Id carry by a unanamous vote for our present building is to small for our growing city. LOVE AND LAW.

J. K. McLain, late of this place, is having an uphill job in his divorco case, at Kansas city. Ilis wife peared against him and filed a Cross bill, charging him with some serious offences. and asking the custody of their child.

CONFESSION BY A WRECKER. In the trial at Wyan dotte, of Pamilon' one of the men acusod of wrecking al train during the strike. on the Missouri Pacific road, William Vossen, one of the accused, made a complete confession. swearing to the cir. cumstances of the wrecking of he train as they lave been published.

He testified chat Loyed pulled the spikes aided Dv Newport, while Hamilton 'Vossen, and others stoodgaard DISTRESS IN TEXAS. The Fort Worth, Texas, Gazette pablishes an official of the Convention of onuty Judges from the draught strichen district of that State. held in Albany. "The those total counties number of in people 111 now of fool, and clothing and fuel IS placed at 30,000, while thousands more are without seed to plant the coming year. An appeal is made to the State and Naticoal Legislatures, and to the country at large, to furnish at once $500,000 to relieve immediate wants.

Born--To the wire of J. Goodmon of Walnut Township on Thursday Jam 3th, 1887, a daughter' Born -Do Me. and Mrs, D. Scott a girl. Jan' 13th.

Burr Oak Townshsp' THE SEMIFAIRS IN CHICAGO. The "Citrus Fair of Northern and Central Califorina is" now in progress in Chicago. Included in the exhibit are watermelons, nuts, dates, oranges, olives, limes, lemons and various kinds of semi-tropical fruits, which ripened in the The open air in December. oranges are pronounced "equal to any produced in the world." There are ten boxes of raisins--nine from Placer, County, California, and the best groth, from Spain, and experts are challenged to pick out the Spanish box from the others. We stepped in and took a look at Dr.

J. E. Hawley's office this week. He has been decorating and papering it, is and it beyond a doubt the offce in the city. He also has has a very fine library of which the Dr.

is very proud. JENNINGS ROSS -Dealers InDrugs Chemicals, Medicines, compounbed, and Notions, 3, Varnishes, fuation satia Cigars, guaranteed; we Stationery, Pipes, keep no stale stock Chimneys, Lamps, goodseverything of Pens, Pen-1 first cils, and in class in fact every thing and marked -irst usually sold in down a bottom at class drug figures. All store. solicit We Standard Patent your trade as Medicines suring you that kept 1.0 tan tly conpains will be on hand. spared Pergive to scriptions you entire satisaccurately faction.

THE LEADING DRUGGISTS. HOWELL DEALERS LUMBER D. A. GALLEY, BURR OAK, TRAFFIC IN DEAD BODIES. A well to-do colored man of Cobb County, Georgia, went to Atlanta on Thursday in search of the body of his son, which had been stolen from the Smyrna graveyard the day before.

He was given police escort to examine the vats of the three medical colleges, He was unsuccessfulin his search, but found in one college seven bodies, in another four, and in another the half of one body. Out of the twelve thus exposed the officer's view there were only two whom he did not know in life. One body was that of a married lady who was buried with great pomp. Another was that of a person whom the officer had seen in perfect health but a week before, and of whose death he had not heard. Several were of generaly knowu in persons the city.

HOG CHOLERA. Hog cholera has broken out in Philips and Osborne counties. Farmers keep your hog quarters clean. The old adage an onnce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" will work in this case. A San Francisco judge, in trying a suit few weeks ago, brought agaiust a man for a sealskin sacque, purchased by his wife without his consent, decided thet such an article was a luxury unnecessary to the woman's support, and gave judgment for the hnsband.

The decision carries a lesson with it that those interested can readily discern. BRO'S. IN COAL. MANAGER, KANSAS. There will be a meeting this evening, in the Opera House, for every body on the question of railroad.

Farmers and all are invited to be present and debate the subject. It is to your interest, reader, to be there. There was a wreck on the Lenora Branch, last Saturday, by which two conches and the bagge car were derailed. There was no body injured. Uncle Jon Lawrence took a big load of children out to Alex.

Judy's last Tnesday evening for a general good time, and they report that they were not dissapointed in the least. The little ones say it is a jolly good place to visit. This is the way the Editor of the Summit County Leader describes the "range" in his coutry, "The cattle business is no longer a grass root bonaza. The range has been over in many places, and the feed matter has pinched out so that the pay-streak is no longer discernable. They may strike a new lead farther north but the profits will not be so high grade and it will requie closer and more economical working to make it pan out well." It may be all right to talk of your grass land in that way in Colorado, but in Indiana, where you was raised, you would have to give it to them a little more Colorado Maduro.

Ben. Chubick of North Branch who is on a prospecting tour to the golden State, writes home that he is well pleased with the country..