The Independent Press from Humboldt, Kansas • 1

C. dent Ptpaci CJ 1 tjDDo epen VOL. 1. HUMBOLDT, ALLEN COUNTY, MARCH 15, 1882. NO.

2. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cunningham, llvlne The Independent Press. been sufficiently Investigated to determine whether coal exists In paying quantities, Lehmann Iligginson, all Coffey couuty presents a better condition of things today, than the ever did.

Truly, the farmer hag reason to rejolc Burllnton Independent, Allen county makes the same WAKEFIELD'S DRUG STORE, about three miles east of Jeddo school house, were made happy the 8th Inst. It's a girl. Clinton Hawley will move In a few days. He bad rented the widow George's farm, but has concluded to go into other business and gives up the farm. The widow will take possession as soon as he moves.

Sail'isi. In the event of John's nomination it is claimed that a bolt will be made and another Republican candidate for that office nominated, endorsing the remainder of the state ticket. New Advertisements. Public Sale. I will sell, at mv residence.

2V? rullm we.t and 1 mile south of Cookville, adjoining the Waldrip farm, on Wednesday, March 80 acres of improved land, 5 milch cows, four S-vear old heifers. 3 vcarlinc te.r yeafllng heifers, 1 yearling colt, 1 wagon, 2 cultivators, i surrmg plow, horse, years old; 1 mare, 7 years old; 1 Taylor Farley organ. Terms The farm will be sold for one-half cash, balance oa time. Personal property, cash. Johm Rom, Armstrong, Auctioneer.

NOTICE. JACOB L. MYERS, rioriaeoa of Water Witching. WILL LOCATK A WELL FOB TWO DOIXARL. All work warranted.

No wa bo piy. Ha-tnr seventeen years experience at tbe barlnena I guar-antee ell work. Kosldencd on Bridge street, near a. depot. vluitf MILLINERY Dress Making.

I bare Jnat received mj New Spring Millinery Goods, Of the Latest Styles, and would Invite an In- pecuon oi pncea ann goods Del -re purcbaalof elsewhere. 46TPRICES A8 LOW A8 THE vln2tf UKSULs NOBLH. NOTICE. Notice Is given to our patrons and the general public mat i nave received a New Assortment of Choice Groceries, ALSO. The Wisconsin Early Home Potatoes, Which are the bost iu tbe market.

All brands of Flour and Neal Constantly on hand Would be pleased to recolve a share of the public pat ronage, i wu pay tne HIGHK8T MARKET PRICE FOR Butter Eggs and Dbickens. I make a specialty of paying tho highest price for Hides, Pelts, Fur, Wool, Feathers, Old Iron, Copp'r and Brass. Come one, come all and try your chance at U. KXIIVG'S, n2 East side Public Square, Humboldt, Kansas. aa-Thankim my old patrons for pnat favors, I hope to merit ynur trade in IDo imurc.

WGEHLER, 7 1 1 Boot and Shoemaker. I make a specialty of Fine Work. Repairing done n2 on short notice. Give me a oall. FOR SALE.

A Splendid Bargain. On account of poor health I am obliged to eeU my farm containing 80 acres, in East Cottage Grove township, 7 1-2 miles southeast of flumboldt a mile west of New Scotland school house 60 acers in cultsvation; all fenced with a thrifty hedge that turns stock a good dwelling house orchard of ten acres 500 bearing apple trees, 230 peach trees. 160 bearing cherry trees, also plums, 1-2 half acre grapes, 1-2 acre of blackberries, 1-8 of an acre of raspberries and a lot of nursery stock three good springs and a well at the door; good shedding for stock and a pasture of four acres fenced in. The soil Is the best limestone, black and Jed. I will give any purcnaser a bargain for cash, or one-half cash and balance on time at 10 per cent, mortgage security.

William C. Reynolds, imj Hnmboldt, Allen H. sr-aar; Building etc. Lime and sand stone, of good quality, abound through the county. Every township in the county la well supplied mostly ltmostone, A mineral wall has been opened at Iola, which is claimed to possess remarkably curative properties.

Railroad Connections. --Tho Lcavsnwortb, Lawcrnce Galveston Railroad runs through the western portion of the county, from north to south, passing through Iola and Humboldt. Tbe Missouri, Kansas Texas Railroad enters the county on the west, running through Humboldt, and thence south, parallel with Leavenworth, Lawrence Galveston. Agricultural Statistics. Acres in the county, taxable acres, under cultivation, cultivated to taxable acres, 81.48 per cent; Increase of cultivated acres during the year, 16,204.98.

Value of Garden Produce, Poultry and Eggs sold during the year. Garden produce, poultry and eggs, $2,628.55. Old Corn on hand, March 1st, 1878, 215,338 bushels, or an average of 120 bushels to each family. Dairy Products. Number of cheese facto ries, capital invested, 500.

Manufactured in 1875, 7,174 lbs. in 1878, 16,454 lbs. increase, 9,280 lbs. Butter manufactured in 1874, 269 in 1878, 156,983 lbs.s, Increase, 16,713 lbs. Farm Animals.

Number of horses, in 1877, in increase, 995. Mules and asses, In 1877, 430; in 1878, 546: increase, 116. Milch cows, In 1877, In 1878, ln- crerse, 531. Other Cattle, in 1877, In in 1878, increase, 790. Sheep, in 1877, In 1878, increase, 493.

Swine, in 1877, in 1878, increase, 9,284. Sheep Killed by Dogs. Number of sheep killed by dogs, 85; value or sheep killed by dogs, $105. Wool, -Clip of 1877, 9,045 lbs. Value of Animals Slaughtered.

Value of animals slaughtered and sold for slaughter during the year, $114,688. Horticulture. Number of acres nurseries, 68.25. Number of trees in- bearing: apple, pear, plum, 841 cherry 10,610. Number of trees not in bearing: apple, pear, peach.

plum, cherry, 15,147. Herd Law. The herd law is not in force in county. Our reporter states: ''Such a law discourages stock raising, which has been proved by actual experience to be the most profitable business for the farmer." Fencess. Stone, 20,578 rods; cost, 30.

Rail, 220,153 rods; cost, $308,214.20. Board, 47,240 rods; cost, $06,136. Wire, 24,978 rods; cost, $17,734.88. Hedge, 234,895 rods: cost. $129,192.25.

Total Ah of fence, total cost, $559,346,13. Apiaculture. Number of stands of bees, 248; pounds of honey, wax, 37. Value of Agicultural Implements. Amount invested in agricultural implements $39,780.

Manufactures. Geneva township: steam saw mill, capital, $500. Humboldt township saw mill, mill and elevator, cap ital, steam flouring mill, capital, $0,000 water flouring mill, capital, furniture manufactories, 2, capital invested, harness and saddlery manufactories, 2, capital invested, paper mill, capital, $4,000 carriage manufactory, capital, wagon and plow manufactory, capital, cheese factory, capital, $560; brewary, capital, $2,000 cigar manufactory, capital, $3,500. Iola town ship: saw mill, capital, saw aud grist mill, capital, mill aud elevatorkcapital $000; brewery, capital, $3,000. Osage town ship: saw and grist mill, capital $350.

Valuation and Indebtedness. Assessed val uation of personal property, railroad property, total assessed valuation of all property, true valuation of all property, total indebtedness of county, township, city and school districts, per cent, of indebtedness to as sessed valuation, 11-. Churches. Baptist: Organizations, 6, mem bership, 294; church edifices, value of church property, $9,500. Christian: Organizations, membership, 350.

Congregational: Organizations; membership, 35; church ed ifices, value of church property, $3,000. Episcopal: Organizations, membership, 10; Luthcrn: Organizations, membership, 100; church edifices, value of church property, $2,500. Methodist Episcopal: Organizations, membership, 450; church edifices, value of church property, $9,900. Presbyterians: Organizations, membership, 364; church edifices, 5, value of church property, $23,000. Roman Catholic: Organizations, me mber ship, 225; church edifices, value of church property, $5,000.

Schools, Number of organized districts, 00; school population, 3,949 average salary of teachers per month, males $31.90, females $28,89. School houses built during the year, 3 frame; total number of school houses, 63 frame 58; brick 1, stone 4. Value of all school property, $45,183. Jeddo Items. March 11.

Items are like hen's teeth this week scarce. The storm of this week was very severe ajid I fear all Our early fruit will be conspicuous for its absence. Besides It has been very bard on stock. Richard Clinchy is adding to his herd of cattle. He has a good herd for this country.

I think he has the best bull In Allen county the best I have seen anywhere, and I have seen quite a number. The bull Is a 3-year old and weighs 1,800 pounds. Pretty good for Kansas. There was no meeting at Jeddo Wednesday evening, owing to the storm, but will be on Wednesday evening next, if the weather is favorable. Mr.

Burnett came home on Saturday instead of Monday, as stated last week, and expects to remain until after corn is planted. Mr. Dunham has, I understand, lost twenty head of cattle this winter. Two died during the last Btorm. Mr.

D. lives four miles east of Jeddo school house and is engaged in buy ing hogs this winter, being at Kansas City now with a car load of porkers. L. A. HoiTMAX Editor.

AVKDKSS1JA A 11C 11 We jrnaraiitop a circulation of five hundred from tliebrglnuiiig of tbe Jlrt number of the Independent Press. No; we have no polities. Its a ltd disease to have uiiIcps there, Is a postoffice to cootbe the qualms of coiiFcieuce. We are independent as a little bull in fly-time. It is reported that the MUaoui'I "border rutliiins" are organizing secretly with tbe intention of raiding the ballot boxes of Kansas this year for the purpose of defeating tbe prohibition ticket.

Madison Hews. Shift. That kind of talk might bsve done lu territorial days. 1 The following arc Tice's predictions for the balance of March: 11th to liitn, clear or fair; lath to 10th, heavy ruin storm about the 15th: 10th to the 18th, clear or fair; 19th to 82d, elouding threatening wheather; with very heavy storms about the "let; 23d to 24th, clear or fair; 25th to 20th, cloudii' weather, ending lu severe storms about the H9ti; 30th, clear or fair; 31st prbbahly fair, though ther may be a continuance of cloudy and wet heather. The Ft.

Scott Monitor gives a summary of the actions for violation of the prohibitory law, brought lu that county. There have bceu 18 prosections in all. In ten convictions where obtained, in one cae an acquittal, and in seven a nolle was entered, the defendants paying all costa. Fines figgregat-fhg 11,055 have been paid into the echool fund; the defendants have paid costs aggregating $050; and the county has paid costs aggregating $00.50. The Monitor therefore concludes that, in Bourbon county, prohibition prohibits.

The Independent Press, publiubed by Smith Hoffman, begun Its career in Iliimboldt on 'Wednesday morning. It is a neat, nix column folio, and looks we'll mechanically. It has no politics and straddles the fence 6o the prohl-tion question. Union. All correct Bro.

McElroy, except the last sentence. Read a little sloser and see if you will not chance your mind. We did what the Union has thus far failed to do, published the constitutions and'by-laws of both prohibition and anti-prohibition organizations. We pre pense to give both sides of this question, yet we entertain deemed opinions doa will ex press them at the proper time. at Parsons to oppose the prohibitory law and umuuuiiieuT.

xis consuiuuon ana oy-laws Wpr nllhllKhpil In several tinnorc; at iVif tlma but we did not consider that It amounted to much aud so did not copy it. It is claimed that this is the same constitution aud by-laws under which the anti-prohibition league of Humboldt and Iola are worklnc: alteouirh we do not know it to be a fact. The title of the oineers are the same, however. We publish and for the present vrhitout comment. Iola Register.

Will the Register name another nnrjer In the state that has published the antf-prohibl-tiou constitution and by-laws, 8ide from the Press? In a lengthy article in the Reporter on what the Nights of Honor have accomplished to Jan. 1, 188IJ. ve extract the following: The actual cost to a member under forty five years of age, who joined the order in 1H73, has been, lor eight vears, jyi lu assessments, or an average ot i.oi per vear. If to sum of $01 for usiPtsmeuts. $4 per year be added for lodge dm lor eight vears, and ten dollars tor Initiation lee, the total cost to such a member will be $138.

Di viding this by eight, we have the average an nual cost tor initiation ice, lodge dues and as sessments during eight vears, Orato- tal annual cost for each one thonsuud dollars benefit, to each member, of $8.81. No beneficial society In the world cau pro duce a record tor eight conseemive years, liicli equals this. Vol. 1, No, I of the Doniphan Weekly News, a small but exceedingly neatsnd well printed paper, published by Welsh Sou at Doni-phan, is received Its columns show a fair' advertising patronage and his ability suf ficient to commend it to the people of that eoinniuiiih As vie write this, our memory goes back to i lie days when T.J. Sey publish cd the Constitutionalist iu that place; when James Redpalu issued the Crusader of Freedom iu the town; when Geo.

Rees published the Post and Nelson Abbott the Democrat; in fact when prosperity seemed to bold sway and Doniphan on the road to the proportions of a city. Hut all went and tbe town plodded on without a paper until the Ksuiug of the News, vhieli we wish success. The following small dose of advice given by the Leavenworth Times will be good for some of our readers: "The bnsiness man who will run down and bemean his own town, is certain ly standing in his own light, and isn'tmuchof a business man after all. If a man is doing business in a town he does not like, let him pull out, or else go to work and myke business and help to build up his town. The chronic grumbler is an abomiuation in the sight of wide awake men; and wide-awake men are never No one man, or two men can make a lively town; but if all, or half, the business men of a town have a mind to try they can build uy business, induce trade and en- nance Dusmess luieresi io a gieai cxieui.

town is what the inhabitants make it; and the man who grumbles about hjs town has ac knowledged, so far as he is concerned, that he has been a failure. ThebnsiDrss man who is wide-awake has no cause to grumble." From information gathered from all parts of the county, we can say that preparations for spring planting are further advanced and are in a much better condition this spring than has ever been in the history of the county, It Is now generally understood by all tillers of the soil that the early planter is th one that fills his cribs. A great many of our farmers have their plowing all done and there are few but what are more than half or nearly through and are only waiting a few weeks longer to rut the seed in the ground. beat Is grow ing finely and gives promise of su abundant croV a heavy crop of fruit Is bound to come if the late freeze has not injured it; stock of -n i.t.,.i ia in o-nnd condition. nd taken all In WHOLESALE GROCERS, Humboldt Kansas 43-BMt Assorted Stock la theStatef Tremont Hotel.

K. B. Probrlster. THIS HOU8 LOCATED OS TBI OLD LAN-dreth oorner. and la One of the Best Hotels In Southern Kan- sas and is Centrally Located and tax Commercial Trarel it is Vnanrpassed.

H. HERMANNS. O. K. Barber Shop, Bridge Btreet, HUMBOLDT, KANSAS.

O. W. WATSON JropSftf. WILL give tbe latoat style of balr catting and a clean shave. Has tbe beet Hair Too to in tbe State, which will stop hair from coming out in five days, and leave the hair soft and glossy.

E. R. ROSE, PHOTOGRaPHER WILL MAKE FOUR GEMS FOB 25 CENT9. Photos at per Dozen. Mjr Parlors are over Rislcy's Hardware Store, I'm man Building.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. 43-Call soon, as I Intend leaving 1a a short tlmet M. A. REDMON Lock and Gunsmith, of all kinds of. Sewing Machines, Also Machine Needles, Oils' and Attachments for all Machines.

EaBt Side of Public Square, Humboldt Kansas. L. McGEHEE, Dealer in CHOICE FAMILY CROCERIES, FLOUR Etc Etc Ets I also keep a full line of Teas Co-ffees and Canued Qxvda Especially for the Botail Trade Satisfaction Opposite Brown's Lumber Yard, Bridge BREAD always on hand and as good aa hs best and at lowest prices. M. T.I.

KEMMERER, Bakery, Groceries, flour and feed. Price P.iid for. and EGGS. Corner Whan Bridss streets. 55 Went Hide Square.

fr.fh and complete stock Drags, Medtciora, Patent H.dlcUio, Paints, Oils, Vara lanes TolM Artioles. Iiceiiael to Sell Liquors. PBIBCRIP'IONS earafnlly Oiled W.kallald aan baeoniulH it the nor at ai Mm Pictures One-half the Usual Price, -AT- Mr s. Larimer's Art Gallery HTJMBOIDT. J.

P. BROOKS, LIVERYMAN, north of Tiemont Hotel. All my old cuitomers will Ind me bere, and I ask a contiacance of their favors; also a share ef the public patronage generally. Good Rigs aud Drainmer Wagon. jt9-Commerclal TraTst a Specialty tl Call and see me at my new a and.

Heck Hettinger, in. DRUGS, PAINTS, OIL8, V1RNI8HES BRUSHES, And Homeopathic Remedies LICENSED Bridge Street Humboldt Hutchinson McManus, Carpenters and Builders for WALLACE Has less machinery Has more power Has less points of friction Runs with less wind Will take the wind from any direction without changing position Is protected by a roof and movable shutters The shutters may be closed, thus protecting the wheel when not in use Is almost noiseless in operation, and is an 'ornament to any farm. Screen Blinds a Specialty. Aiao- Prepared to move buildings. Corner New Sork aud Seventh atroets, vlnlyl HUMROLDT, KAS.

-Job The Independent Press Job Printing Office, II. D. SMITH Proprietor, OFFICE next door west of Holtschnelder's cigar factory. Bridge street. It has a complete and satisfactory Job Department, where a full line or BILL HKAD3, PACKET NOTI HBAD3, STATEMENTS, FLAT PAPERS, POSTERS, BUSINESS CARDS, Commercial Printing Promptly executed In the beat modern style of the art Will find here cuts to suit them, in fact no business man can to sendaway for their work trying our work.

pricca are graded quality material, aud. Always Please oar Customers. Eemembor yoo get your work In tablet form FREE and to customers from a distance we inducements. prices and samples, or Call on ns when in the City Tours H. D.

SMITH, Job Printer. b-Val JkM bat A i.r.- THE CITY OF IIUMUOLDT. One 'of the first bouses in the city was built upon the lot now owned by Mrs. Mary Noble, West Bridge-st. It was built by William C.

O'Brien, who used it for a store. The building was primitive in style, being made of rough logs, with a square hole cut for a window and a larger opeulng for a door. The roof and door were of shakes riven from native oak. In those days a ground floor was fashionable aud everybody enjoyed life, oppa-rentl, more than now. Mr.

O'Brien and Orlin Thurston made tbe first improvements in mills. They put up the fu-bt steam mills for sawing lumber and grinding com the lattar article used mostly then for bread. This was In the fail of 185tt. Mr. Cuiley built the store house now occupied by Mr.

iioUscbaeider, in the same year; also the lilaulou building, now owned by E. Iligginson, who has the honorof owning the first public building erected in this city. It wa the town hall auu wai used also as a court house. Next is the old church, erected by the United Brethren. It Is now owned and used by E.

P. Dunliaugh as a barn. This church was once the pride of the city. The different denominations, which now own large and modern churches, used to gather at this house to worship the U. B.

at 10 a. the M. E. at 11 a. the Presbyterians at 1 p.

and the Baptists at 2. All through the Sunday of each week it was kept in uniform and earnest work. As the city advanced each society built a house of their own, the Methodist society having the largest building, the Presbyterian next, tbe Catholic next; and no one coming here from the east or west, north or south need have any excuse for not going to church for want of a place. True, It is now-a-days that the clothes a person wears often keeps him away. But however rigid fashion may be, the vesture or garments is not the historical enslgna of Christianity, taught and in by our societies.

Our churches are orthodox and financially a success, except the Baptist, which will be sold by the sheriff, caused by a schism one part holding to the doctrine of the second advent of Christ as pre-millenial and the other post-millenial, Neither society now have an organization, The Presbyterian church is out of debt. It was organized by Rev. James Lewis, whose sincerity and christian zeal and energy, to gether with the united action of his society, inaugurated the most popular and prosperous church here, which is enloying the liberty of christian worship. The Methodist society is gaining ground, having a very large house in which to worship. The Christhlu church is active aud have had additions thereto.

They are cordial and earnest and invite the closest examination and scrutiny of their doctrines, believing the Word of God to be the creed of their church and faith. SOMKTHIXG THAT SHOULD BE UK AD At and Home Sent Eust to Parties Hunt ing Homes In Kansas. take the following, regarding Allen county, from the Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture, it being the best and most impartial description of the county that is obtainable. The statistics are valuable and reliable aud we take pleasure in laying them before the public; but it should be borne in mind that the next report will largely nug nient the figures here given, in favor of the couutv. Read it and send it east: The tirst settlements in the county were made in tbe spring aud summer of 1855.

Early in that year II. D. Parsons and B. W. Cowden settled iu what is now Iola township.

James Parsons, Jesse Parsons and James Parsons, Jr settled in Doer Creek township about the same time. During the same sum- II. II. Hayward and others settled in what is now Humboldt township, and Thomas Day, Giles Sater and others, within the present limits of Osage township. The Fuquas, A.

C. Smith, Martin, and in what Is now Geneva township, about the same date. The tow of Cofachique was started In the summer of 1855, by Daniel Woodson, Charles Passmore, J. S. Barbee, and others.

Geneva was started in 1857, by Merrit Moore, B. S. G. Stone, G. Northrup, and others.

The town of Humboldt was organized in the same year by Hartman, Searle, Singnor, Coffey, and others: aud the town of Iola, January 1, 1859, by J. C. Clark, H. D. Parsons, J.

W. Scott, and others. The first school house was built at Cofachi que, ana tne nisi Dusmess uouse, siuau store, at the same place. The parties to the first marriage where James Johnston and Marinda Barber, August 14, 1850. First post office established at Cofachique in the spring of 1857, Aaron Case, postmaster.

The county was organized in 1855. Population in 1800, In 1870. 7,032: in crease years, population in lbi5. decrease in five years, 384; population in 1878, increase In eighteen years, 5,882. Rural population, city or town popula tion, per cent, of rural to city or town population, 67.20.

Timber. Average width of timber belts, one mile; principal varieties, black walnut, hickory, cottonwood, oak, sycamore, hack- berry, elm, etc. Cultivated timber reported, 315 facrcs: varieties not stated. There is a heavy belt of timber along the Neosho river, whichSnns through the entire county. There is also good timber along Deer Rock, Elm, Coal, Owl, Big and Scatter creeks, and Mar-maton and Osage rivers.

Principal Streams. Neosho river, fed by Indian, Martin's, Deer, Eim and other creeks; Little Osage and Marmaton rivers. General course of the Neosho and Marmaton, from northwest to southeast; of the Osage, from southwest to northeast. The county Is also tolerably well supplied with springs, 'and good well-water from 20 to 30 feet. Coal.

Charles P. Ives, of Humboldt, reports that only surface coal has been found in their county in paying quantities, and that only enough of this has been found for immediate home use. On Little Osage river, and in townships 25 and 20, of ranges 18 and 19, and township 24, range 23, this is found; has not mft'.