Santa Fe Champion from Santa Fe, Kansas • 1

PI A "IT FBI A 171? 1 A I 8 1 A Uiiiiifll lUli VL 1. SANTA FE, HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY NOVEMBER, 19 1S37. No.29 wi jitiM. xwwiwwawianiM HASKELL COUNTY; Its Past, Fkesext and Apples Dr.Av., And now iLo houent farmer packa His applet) up for town. Tliii i (he top ro-w of his SHckn, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 And this i farther down oooooooooooooocooo.

One man in we tern Kansas made 180 out of acres of alfalfa lie has harvested his fourth crop. Miss Lee Powell who has been lying sick at the Santa Fe House for some time 13 much belter at this writing. We 'have not as yet beard from that sugar project which the Champion advocated so strongly and which it is being demonstrated all around us to be, a grand idea for the development of agriculture. Kansas is a great broom corn State. The crop in the western part of the State was very largo and tine this year.

It is now being hauled to market; and the price ranges from $Vitv $35 per ton. We are going to "renovate" our ads. shortly and generally improve the appearance of the Champion. As an advertising medium we wiil be unequalled. J.

F. and Jack Goodwin, the two boys who have been quite sick in the liiti-' building near the lumber yard, grow beivcr and started for Ohio Thursday morning which we understand is their home. Santi Fo real, estate men are doing an excellent business, in spite, of the late time of year. So we are told by a reliable dealer, nod the iruth of his statement may be seen by a visit i to the recorder's office and a discovery of the repid transfer of land. Every county in the state of Kansas eilhp.r has or will have within eighteen months, a completed rail road.

The Atchsson Pa'rint, remarks that the finished and projected liner, of the Atchison. Toneka, Santa Fe will strike every county seat In the State. F. A. Robison reports a good trade in Benton Axtell this week report a good trade in the hardware line, and also some good real estate transfers that they have superintended.

These gentlemen are right at the front with their competitors in the county, and Santa Fe can boast few more enterprising and energetic citizens. Would that we had a thousand more such citizens. Take extra copies of the paper, if you wish to help your town along. Take a half dozen or a dozen occasionally, and send them east to friends. Let eastern friends find out what we have here and discover the attractions of our country, if you want them to coma west.

Our immigration itr what is going to build u.s up, not our present population. Dozen men have called on 0, Livingston, in the past week, in the attempt to rent business houses. What we want and must have, among other things, i3 capacity for mere business. One hundred mora store buildings can find occupants by spring Five hundred private dwellings can find renters by spring. We are not booming, but earnestly calling the of our speculators and capitalists to splendid opportunities of investment in objects that are pressiugiy needed.

The CiiAMiiox is now six months old, and starting under obvious diilicul lies, it has gradually gathered an advertising patronage and reading circulation that is not equalled in the city. Those who hive taken the paper for the past six mouths are re quested to call oa and oee us to the amount of their subscription, and in return we shall i'nnsWi you one of the most newsy sheets i.i this part of the state. We have no county seat nor election fight to make, neither have we any irrevaleut ouUhle issue to espouse but will devote our best energies and i D. W. Pitts and M.C.Calhoun of Garden city, were on our streets Thursday.

Soon our ambitious people will be rattling pro and con in the debating society, Steps should be taken to induce our band boys to come out and practice at least semi-annually. The majority of th'i people in southwestern will live on canned goods this winter. Miss Nola this week organized a school district, and did considerable work pertaining to her office. The La Jara excursion hi reported to have been a grand success. Garden city was literally crowded.

Mr. Weaver, our landscape photographer, is doing considerable scenic work. MissF'oranee Reed, who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Potter, of the Santa Fc house is ill.

A new Store! New, fresh goods! Call and see them, ladies. Above the bank of Santa Fe. The ladies nrc rejoicing sinec the rat-vent of the new millinery shop over the Santa Fe Bank. New Grocery store will bo opened in a shot' time in the D. F.

Hall building. Firm name, Floyd Gray A W. M. Johnson has been busy this week, manufacturing stakes with which to mark town lots in the new ad lition. Miss Lou Brown paid us an agreeable visit yesterday whk-h wo acknowledge with an invitation "com 3- often'.

Judging from the amount of time spent in practising, the entertainment on thanksgiving evening will be a decided success. Eastern firm ers have their eyes on Haskeli (Vui'ty. a nun bci of them were in the city this week looking for cheap farms. Wads worth Crist can make loans and close them even if money is hard to get. fcVe tho boys beforo making arrangements.

2 1 A VALUAKLT3 RE SI DUX OH LOT given away to the customers at the new millinery store. One chance given with every dollar's worth of goods. Wadsworth Crist do the best abstract business of any firm in the county. Attend toidl work promptly and guarantee accuracy. The temporary court house begins to present an oll'lal appearance, f.H-d wi1U officers, olsi'k ail copyisti, and piles of huge books.

If you -vant your hoots and shoes repaired, take them to lnton Ax.Wu's. Prices reasonable and work guaranteed by Levi Snider. 15 liter still ram tins at 3) cents. IToiv eastern dairymen I chuckle did tl'ey but know of the unimproved advantages in their line in this country. A 0 I at the new millinery store, Xov.

32 Come early, ladies, and secure the first choice. W. T. Uemieson, of Wichita has been in the city for the past ten ivs, doiiv a neat and creditable job of book binding and covering on the county books A. inborn, who is running hotel at Conductor, whie'i is one of tl i Iwfc in southwestern Kansas, made the Champion a brief call, on Thursday.

The Champion is going, to get on crand advertising boom directly. IV i and with your ali. an I indw locals if you want to keep up with tin rest. Mr. O'Brien the abstractor-bnsy swearing annUcants for loans mv' this in-licatfs Ins fi)vr i rntitUng or that he is an una rustlor.

An envioti- caving) rem "Thf dicovsry of an inexhimuiV.e o' Ro.Vi: 3ilt in ms i an The people of th.it st.tt.- have hereto fors been altogtlv-r toe fiesh." a Imrbd h' Of tlv Ci.MrriON has no aim, desire, incentive, intention or reason kick on tlu-little persona! in the JRecieir. He has pmd for everything in advance that can be given iim from ta.it quarter. The above is the title of the now book now being compiled by J.C. Livingston and E. R.

Galloway of this city. There can bo no question but that such an one will find a place in every home in the county, a3 it will contain an entire history of Haskell county from the earliest date of settlement up to the present time, noting in turn its progression in agriculture, gradual development, organization and establishment. While true that the county is but in its infancy, yet now is the opportune time to put these matters of history on record now fresh in memory. No county is so new but that it may boast a history. For here, only a few years in the past, the roving buffalo browsed in tranquility wild horse scampered in unchecked freedom, an the aborigine upon his pony swept into view and vanished beyond the ho-rison, on the trail.

But the ambitious and dauntless white man pressed resist-lessly forward, surmounting every conceivable dilliculty, suffering unwritten hardships and prtvattoas, and hu lived to jee the abundant fruits of his labor. The wild game lias been slaughtered or frightened away, and the red man has been compelled to turn mournfully to lh; setting sun. Where the campiire glowed and the wigwam wa3 pitched now rises the substantial dwelling and "business kouse of the whi'e man. Villages and cities have sprung up with apparent spontaneity; church spires, the grandest tokens of civilization, now lift themselves toward heaven; and the multitudinous eciioea of the ham mer, the anvil, the school bell and the steam whiistle proclaims Haskell God's new country for the poor, the enterprising and the free in conscience and social liberty. The metamorphosis is complete.

It is wonderful. The human aonceplion is dazed and bewildered by the wonderful revolutions of the progress. Tho "History of Haskell County" will treat of and contain every possible subject Hative to the circumstances, location, climate, valuation and produc tious giving histories of its towns, biographies of its pioneers and the prominent county men of tday, and v.ili discuss the future railroad and industrial prospectus. The book wiil be issued in or boot January, 1813. We understand that Messrs.

Livingston Galloway will be sole agents for as well as authors cf the book and owners of the copyright. These p-ntlemen will thankfully receive and acknowledge any information or reminiscences of historical value that may be contributed them, and will receive correspondence at this city. We this week note the departure of J. McDonald and family, for Spring-field, where they go to take charge of a prominent hotel. The family will be much missed by all who ever had the privliedge of knowing them, and we record their departure with regret.

Miss Jessie in particular will be missed by the young folks of the city, as she w.ls a good musician and they largely dtpended on her for their Siieceas in the coming entertainment Alex, their son is the only one of the family who will remain as he owns a farm noar this city. The people of Springfield are fortunate in securing so estimable a family. Haskell county will shortly assume the appearance of settled and well organized county. Her county saat is now located, her county officers elected and all the proper stepa taken to insure her prosperity aud mmiiiy. Her every acre of fertile soil will bold its own against any oWia; in world.

Her cliraat is the oua iavalids lay hold on health, and whera old age is brought to fdel thu pulaa of youth; and shti extendi a vlcoming hinl and invitation to aT tba eu'erpdainj and ambitins to come to Cana land while yet there's room and share in er City and County. Cool weather. ain't it? Bants Fe booms. 2s snow as yet. Dust, dusty, dirt.

"Douse" the dogs. Beckett is Treasurer! Lcok ou for the McDonald have gone. Lay in your winter coal. The boys want to debate. Ravenna is booming now.

Subscribe for the Champion. Garden City has a new bank. Eggs are selling for 25 ceril3. We want more business houses. Take stock in the Artesian Well.

Another addition on the east side. It is time to look for a heavy frost. Attend the IWcrary Monday night. The city is full cf iriii.eiis this week. Phoenix Club Thanksgiving evening.

Prayermeeting every Thursday night. Real estate is also taking a Santa Fe is to hove a X. of P. lodge. LH's take a drink of Artesian water.

Entertainment on Thanksgiving night. Ex-commissioner Joe Comes was in town. An elopement last week. Let 'em elope. Several big deals in city property this week.

Somebody talk uo a lodge of I. 0 G. T. Vincent i3 left Gilmore downed again. Evfiry body turn out to the literary society.

Get ready for a treat Thanksgiving night. Doctor Mills ha3 a neat addition to his store. County commissioners held a mouthy Thursday. A number of travelers say tint, Ulysses is ileiid. Poly Davis is now clerking for High Jill and High.

F. M. Jay was down from Garden on last Monday. S. P.

Axtell has moved to his claim south of town. Remember the literary society next Monday night. Read the notice of the History of Haskell county. Uev. Crouch moved his family t( town on ml if.

New residences are being erected in all parts of the city. Read the program of the Thanksgiving entertainment. Mack Highlill is to erect a $10,000 business house soon. See the new ads. of Lacer Marshall in anoih' colnmn.

Santa Fe has now a good Literary and Debating society. Thacity now runs the engine and furnishes water. The demand for buildings to reat far exceeds the supply. Ed Frisbie in building a barn on his farm south of town. Mr.

T. L. Hughes is little or no belter as we go to press. Have oil seen those lovely hats at the new millineiy store A large number of outlying farms changed hands this week. J.

C. Plymell is erecting a neat dwel-ing on Johnson's addition. A. TV. Stubbs and J.

A. Grayson were in the city Sunday and Monday. Birmingham1 will shortly' moved to Johnsons addition to Santa Fe. Warlsworlh Crist still lead the van when it comes to making loans. Mr.

Cain and William Gilmore are off on a hind in No Man's land. Laok out for th 5Ii ry Haskell County, abo-at January iwi. A large number of Ulysses people were over the first of the week. Listen to Wa Isworth Sc Ct. They ta'ik farther down in our columns.

Higmil! A High ha73 sold their stock cf groceries to W. 0. Bro. Clark Buckles of Example, will open a meat market on south Main St. Stags traTel in still gool.

The fare for the round trip to Garden is now The ('itamptom is the best advertirlnij medium in the city. Bring in your ads. The- best place to get everything in fcbe hardware liucis at Benton A.xtell. grocery hue this wesk. Frank wili soon hive on a' good large assortment of holl'dav goods for Ids una-tomers and sliil keep his reputation as one of oav best grocerymen.

F.M.Jay sold out to They in turn sold out to ('barley Ten Kyck and then bought him out aga'n. They then rafdod off and disposed of the fixtures of the rev a irant and Mr. Se'gendolla? and family now occupy the building. This i3 rather cool itlier for prom-enadin yet eouples of oar young folks jde tli-3 street ror al'iriy, regardless o-C temperature. Love may act in a small degree as a stimulant, but it is a pon- for a square meal with a man w.io is a angry.

It will surprise homebody if Surprise gets the county seat of (J runt county. And yet. with J. A. Grayson, the veteran towu-bui'der, at the heim of the concern, anything novel that occurs will be a small surprise to those know him.

A man who raises thirty bushels of corn and seventy five bushels of oats and thirty tons sorghum cane to the acre, as thousands of families in Western Kansas have done tms year, an of the crop failure in Kansas with cheerful! ness and pious resigna-liou. The ejection board of Union Township in Rush count were arrested the other day for raising the returns of that district in order to a Walnut City man for Register of Part of the board have turned State's evidence. Part of them became Mannc'd and burned ail the books raid ballots. The day that the iron horsu co nes MimUng into Santa Fe wid be the oddest in the 4i story of the town. hal day is not far dUuut.

But a few months, and our iundtt dreams will nw.Ji'Acd. Willi our laipaud and ar-csian well prospects we are booming sure enough. The pro.mt. ets for a railroad through laskejl countv rmd Sama Pg -At an dale are very ri itt-rmg. Tho work of securing the right of wcy is lnj runMlv forward, parties workinc to both sid3 of town.

They are meeting with no in their efforts, the farmers being aware of the advantage to t'temseives and the county at irge of a railroad, and are signing the contracts without a word of demur. center them upon Santa Fe, Il.uskell county, and local and general news. Come in, bring in your friends, and subscribe. In response to a call for a meeting to convene in the City Hail on last Monday afternoon for the purpose of discussing and arranging for the drilling of an arteaiau well at this place; quite a number of our beat citizens assembled. The meeting waa called to order and and organized by electing Dr.

G. M. Keller chairman and Jos. Rosenthal as secretary. The chairman stated the object of the meeting.

A number of gentlemen spoke in favor of a regularly organized stock company fyr the purpose of developing the resources of ll county. Mr. Rosenthal produced a form for a charter which was accepted and filled out. The name of he company is. "The Santa It Artesian Water and Prospecting Company." Its determination is to dig for coal, gas, lit and to develop generally Ihfi reoureP3 of Santa Fe and Il.iskfh 1 t.

divided into 1,0.) shares of each. Subscription to the stock of the cotn- pany wis thm solicited, everybody present respoding with alacrity, takiug stock to the extent of their mean with an eagpniess that showed the move to be a popular one. A meeting was then held by the stockholders or the purpose of electing officers and seven directors. The foli'iwlag gontlomeu were chosen directors of the company: Joe Rosenthal, D. F.

Ha 1, A. W. Stubbs, Z. II. Powell, 0.

V. Wadsworth, Dr. Keller, and J.M. Spayde. D.

F. Hall waa elected president, G. M. Keller vice-pres-idt-ut, Joe Rosenthal, secretary, and 7j. U.

Puwi-11, treasurer. Subscription to the stock of the stock of the company can be made at the Haskell County Band, with Joe Rosenthal, ths secretary. This is a solid company, composed of the very best men in the city, and the work of drilling for artesian water wiil bo pushed to a successful termination at an early date. Suoh men as D. F.

A. W. Stubbs, Jod Rosenthal, Z. II. and others connected with this i 5s a si fri ient guarantee to the people of Santa Fe and Hafkeil county tint the quesdoa of artesian water will bo settle as soon aa mousy can do it.

Let everybody take held and assist by a liberal subscription to toe stock of tho Buy one of those lets in Powell's ad dition to Santa Fe. They are as chea as dirt..