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SANTA Vcl. 1. SANTA FE, HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1888 No 42. GOOD TEMPLARS. HIGHLAND AUDITION.

SANTA FE. HASKELL MONTY The Bnnk of Santa Fa This bank commenced business the 20th of last June. On the 23rd of January at the close of business hours its The Santa Fe Lodge Will Organize. On next (Tuesday evening the Independent Order of Good Templers, of this place will organize, J. D.

Grave.of Garden City, will be present in company with a large number of young gentlemen and ladies of Garden City, who come to witness the organization and remain over night. A good program of music and a lecture by J. 1). Grave is on the tapis, and a general good time is expected. Every body is invited to turn out and hear the lecture, Good Templars especially Benton Axtell This is the oldest real estate firm in Haskell County and probably the oldest in this part of the state.

They have built up a large business and are well and favorably known everywhere and number their patrons not only throughout Kansas but many of the eastern states. They buy and sell lands and town property, collect rents, pay taxes, and make investments of money for non-residents. The character of this firm, their manner of do ing business for their customers, the care they bestow upon business intrusted to them by non-residents make them a most satisfactory one with which to do business, Their investments are always safe and the very best. They are also proprietors of a large hardware establishment here, and in making loans are always pre pared with the money and give the most satisfactory terms. The Literary society had an election of officers last Monday night.

The con test was spirited and lively between the different candidates and the evening developed lots of fun. An orator won) get up to nominate some friend and be fere ho was turoudi would wander off into the good qualities of some compet itor and wind up in his support. The result wras that the candidates got to making speeches in their own support and it was a common thing for the gen tlemen who were running to hold the floor from ten minutes to a half hour portraying their own excellent qualities and fitness for office. Few of theni, it is true, got elected. Some of them however ran for every office, and made a roaring speech every time in their own support, and every time got left.

It was midnight before they got through and the circus ended. The following are the officers elected at the Literary last Monday evening: President, C. L. Davis. Vice President, Miss Nola Huff, Secretary, Miss Maude Turley, Treasurer, Mrs.

M. A. Wadsworth, Marshal, Geo. T. Crist, Critic, W.

W. Poultney, Chorister, Miss Belle Witharn. Town Lots at Auction. About the 1st of March Hall and Johnson will commence the sale of lots in Highland Addition at auction. From one to twenty lots will be put up every day and sold.

This means business and wiil be a go. There will be no by bidding but from one to twenty lots will be sold at auction each day and deeds made to purchaser on the spot. Look out for it and be ready. The columns of the Chamfion were tendered the Board of Trade this week for anything they might wish to say in advancement of our common good. The tender was probably made too late in the week for anything to be furnish, ed, but the same offer will hold good in the future.

The executive committee of the national republican committee consists of Clarkson, Conger and Clayton. They favor Blaine for president, but will not the alliterative be as fatal as the famous "11" of four years ago. Those who are getting in on the ground floor in Hall and Johson's addition will mase a pile. Dr. Keller, of the Republican, is clearing his decks ready for action on the silk worm problem.

Dr. Hall is in Scott and Wichita counties looking after hia interests. The Boom that Hall and John son Have Given the Citv- New Buildings Going up, and the En thusiasm grows Greater every Day. Times Easy, Money Tlcnty and, Carpenters, Tcamxters and Everybody Kusy aw Keen. As we have before stated, this addi tion, which comes so close to the center of town, has many natural advantages.

It is high land, very pretty and aptly named. It is really where the business center of the city should have been lo cated in the commencement. Before the present Town Company was organized, Mr. Grayson, the president of the Company, wa3 connected with a Wichi ta Co. that made a start here, and r.

Grayson hadlthe foresight to see this, and selecled that as the center of the future city of Santa Fe. He was not properly supported by that company, and the matter fell through. Broad way, aa laid out on Highland Addition, is on the direct line of travel north and south, and is now nearly, if not quite, the center of population. There has always been a tendency it seems, to drift that way, before there was any effort to boom it. Its first big boom commenced only last month when Dr.

Hall and Mr. Johnson con tracted with the county to build a court house and furnish it free. At that time the boom commenced and it has grown greater every day. Building after building has been located and commenced, some of them completed and a score or more are just being commenced. Several business houses will be on the ground in a few days, the court house will soon be completed and occupied by the county officers, a bank a hotel arc to in asd when or where the boom that has just commenced is to stop is hard to tell.

If it fails in anything that Dr. Hall predicts for it. it will be the first time he has not guessed the future right. Ite has always been lucky. lie built Scott City and made it what it is.

Everybody concedes this; and he bore the largest part in tne building of Leoti, that splendid little city of Wichita county. But his luck is due more to clear judgment, enterprise and daring than aliening else. Liberal, open-handed, with larg9 means, he accomplishes in a few months or weeks, what other men would lay out as the work of years. JSTow that he as come onto the ground and taken hold of this addition you need not be surprised at anything he undertakes and accomplishes. That Lit will go, and go in a hurry you may rest assured.

And it has made things lively in Santa Fe, made money easy, given employment to many people and been an advantage to our city in every way. Program for Haskell County Teachers Asso- e'uition. The following is the program for the Teachers' Association, to be held at the school house in Santa Fe, Saturday, Feb. 25, 1888: 1. Roll Call.

2. Music. 3. Discussion of the adoption of peer's Course of Instruction for the schools of the county, G. Michaels and Miss Nola Huff.

4. Alphabet and Word Methods compared, Miss Sadie Moore and Mis Emma Whistler. 4. To what extent should resident teachers of a district be favored, Mis3 Nichol3 and Mr. C.

W. Brewer. 6. What school hcips and apparatus should we endeavor to secure for our Schools, W. L.

Wilson and J. P. Burnett. 7. Sod School houses vs Frame and bonds, James Falkner and S.

A. Davis. 8. Report of condition of School houses and apparatus, ail. 9.

Miscellaneous business. SUPT. McKlNLAY, J. G. Michaels Com.

In OLA llVVY. DRESSMAKING All work promptly and" neatly done VTe guarantee apt-rfect fit, and would respectfully solicit the patronage ef tha ladiM of Santa Fe Room above Sante Fe Bank. The Misses With am. A Bright, Pushing and Lucky Town. In the Pathway of the Coming Railroads, Good Fortune and Other Good Thing3.

Santa To has been a bright, pushing and energetic town from the first. Somehow it seemed to start out right. It started off the right foot, and it has kept step to the general and rapid progress of the Southwest from that day to this. It has been lucky too, almost marvelously bo, and there is lots in luck after all. Jay Gould, it is said, wont go into an enterprise, or be in any way associated with men who are unlucky.

It is in the center of the county. It has round it a whole county of land of tho very richest character, that will before long justify and support a city of eight or ten thousand people. It is, and has been from the beginning, managed by one of the strongest and ablest Town companies in the Southwest; men of means, standing, liberality and enterprise. No wonder it has grown and is growing bo rapidly. It has the country and people around it to make it a good town.

It is on the line and in the pathway of the Rock Island and other roads making their way from the eaat of us to the west. It is the permanent county seat of the county, made so without litigation, or content, and without expense to the city or county. Santa Fe has always been looked upon by other towns of the Southwest as a kind of special favorite of fortune, and we belie; it is. Subjects within the scope of a fifteen or twenty minutes talk should be rejected for at the Vu question debated we questions t-hs Senate of the United States would not tackle without fear andtrembling, with a whole winter's session before them, and yet the debaters are supposed to say something on these questions in the ten or fifteen minutes time allotted them, in which the judges who sit as solemn as owls, are expected to discover an argument. One night the question was "resolved that war is an evil and could and should be averted by compromise." Again it was "resolved that conscience is a true moral guide," and next Monday night the question whether "the signs of the times indicate the downfall of the Republic" is to be settled.

To select such subjects is unfair to the orators and we suggest the party selecting them move Ins roost to a lower limb. Investments in Hall and Johnson's Addition now are similar to what investments would be in a new town just laid out whose railroads and county seat importance should be absolutely assured from the Ktert. Property is very cheap there just now, but it is going to be very valuable and that in a little while. We conclude tlna from what has already been accomplished and the short time in which it has been done, and from the character, enterprise and ability of the management. It is said of Hall that he stops at nothing and don't count the expense when he starts in to boom a place, and as the saying is "always get3 there.

Highland Addition and Broadway we predict, have not commenced to boom yet in comparison to what you will see in the next three or four weeks. The coming two weeks will show great changes and improvements on Broadway in Highland Addition. The spirit of our coming tremendous spring boom seems to be hovering over that particular locality. There is more musical ability in San ta Fe than any town of its size in this section. If you go to church you will hear as well trained voices as you ever listened to in the older cities.

The young lady elocutionist who will entertain us at the literary Monday evening is said to be talented. There wdl doubtless be a crowded house. And Southwest Kansas. Haskell county is just twenty-four miles square. In tho wl 'ile county there is not a dozen acres mt i3 not fine agricultural land, and Vv mean this that it is all alike, fine undulating prairie, with a soil of great depth and richness.

In a few of the extreme southwest counties of Kansas the best crops were raised last year that were raised anywhere in the state, and Haskell is one of these counties. One advantage the county has over the others is that every foot of it is good land, though they all have good land enough the Lord knows. Another advantage we enjoy over many others is that the county wa3 organized and the perma nent county seat located without any contest. The permanent county seat was located at Santa Fe last October to the satisfaction of a very large majority of the people of the whole county There was no contest over it and there is not a dollar of indebtedness on the county. The county has absolutely no bonds or other obligations of any kind out to pay which will necessitate taxa- tion, as is the case in many counties.

There is probably no county in the state where taxes are so low, and they will always be so, as there will be no revenues to raise except that which i3 necessary to pay the simple expenses of the county government. The people of county are above average; euternnsnisr and mdusUHuu. Lvery where the farmers are plowing and preparing to put in a very large acreage of crops of all kinds. There'" is now ev ery indication that wewill have a splendid crop season. It never looked bet ter at this time of the year in any of our best years.

Already the ground is wet down to a depth of or. four feet and only last ni ir wns another good ram. An. i -U come to Haskell countv and vox ft vm have himself a fine farm, be of debt with plenty around hiui in two or throe years. What it takes years to accomplish in the east, can be accomplished here as many months.

The Election. There wa3 scarcsly any attention paid to the city election last Tuesday as it was only to fill a couple of vacancies, a kind of a two for a cent affair, and a very light vote was polled. Everybody voted for just whoever they pleased without any buttonholing going on, except when Charley Cohn George Crist were being voted for and they made an effort to stop it Mr. Funk-houser and Mr. Elliott were elected to the vacancies in the council.

L. A. Crull, Register of Deeds, got back from his trip to Iowa and Ohio Thursday, lie says he went sleigh rid ing in Iowa and waded mud in Ohio. That a great many are talking of coming to Kansas, and that there will be more people come thi3 spring than have been coming heretofore and a good many of them will have con siderable money for investment. There is considerable talk and growl among the Republicans in Congress just now about the inadequate mail fa cilities of the Southwest.

No wonder! With so many new towns and postoffi-ces springing up, and so many changes as are necessary and demanded, it is certainly difficult to keop track of matters. What is sufficient for one week or month is wholly inadequate for the next. SENSATIONAL The Record Beaten. Six When Only Twins Were Expected. Santa Fe Lwuler.1 The new editor say3 to Miss thanks, for the sextette of babies pre sented however, twins is enough at a tima deposits were $14,053.00.

Of course ordinarily speaking this is no large amount, but considering the fact that it is a period of the year when there are not dollars to where there are hundreds of dollars at any other time, in a new county like this, it is a good showing not only for the town but for the good feeling entertained toward the bank by the people. That it de-seives it all there is no question. It is managed on sound principles does nothing but a strictly banking business, its officers are courteous and accommodating and with the revival of all classes of business and activity in monetary circles, holding the good will and confidence of the public as it does, it is bound to have a year of great pros perity. The officers and directors of the Bank of Santa Fe are all well known men in southwest Kansas. Mr.

A. W. Stubbs is president and J. L. Kennard cashier.

The directors are Milton Brown. J. A. Grayson, J. L-Kennard, A.

W. Stubbs, and Geo. Shreeve. We are not sufficiently familliar with the situation in Hamilton county to know how the decision of the su preme court will leave the county seat question. If it sti 1 leaves it open to another vote, Syracuse will be all right.

But the county seat decision will be on the same basi3 as that of th3 treasurers office; of this, Syracuse may rest a sured. Syracuse lost the temporary when it would have been easy to secure it, and then won the permanent county seat against desperate odds, and when to do so required cool her.ds and steady nerves, and now if she has lost it, she has lost it when to have kept it was no more than boys play. The past week the trouble between Painter and Gregory ul Garden City, culminated in the former having the latter arrested before Justice of the Peace Ilerbeson on a charge of crimi nal alibel. Gregory made no defense, was bound over in one thousand dollars which he refused to give, and a com mltment issued by the justice, sending him to jail. A writ of habeas corpus was then got out before Judge Abbott and the case set for (J o'clock this (Sat urday) morning.

Th5 editor of the CnAirr-iON and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs, Sanborn at Conductor last Saturday evening. It so happened that there was a meeting of the Farmers Club of that vicinity that evening and we had the pleasure of meeting a number of substantial farmers of that section, The questions discussed by tho club were farming and gardening and the manner of people out there generally indicates a community above the average in intelligence, culture, and enterprise. Eastern people who think they know it all would have been surprised and interested to have been present. In fact much of the west, as we have often observed, is made up of the cream of the east.

Conductor has a good future before her. She is surrounded by a class of people who will make her acoodtown. Mr. Sanborn is the business manager of the Town Company. Garden City voted bonds to drill for gas, coal, artesian water, or what they might find.

Ia Santa Fe a company was organized, and the money sub scribed, for the same purpose. The same contractor put3 down both wells and the machinery is on the ground to commence both about the same time. The Oal7 One. The well-known firm Rinehart Co. are the only furniture dealers in Santa Fe and Haskell county, but not withstanding this fact, they are the cheapest house in Southwest Kansa They also carry a full line of groceries and dry goods, which everyone admits they sell cheaper than any other house in the county.

If you are wanting dry goods, groceries or furniture, give thfm a call before buying. They want your trade and will make it an object to you to trade with them..