Allen County Democrat du lieu suivant : Iola, Kansas • 5

PATTERSON. MONEY SAVED, IS MONEY MADE! GEORGE DAVIES You can save big money by trading with PATTERSON DAVIES. They carry a complete line of staple and fancy groceries. Teas and coffees a specialty. Give them a trial.

RAILROAD TIME TABLSE. Southern Kansas Railroad. GOING NORTH. 1:41 p.m. No.

-Through 1:87 a. m. No. Accommodation. 10:40 u.

No. 22-Stock 10:45 p.m. No. 80-Way 11:45 Nos. 22 and 36 will not carry passengers.

GOING SOUTH. No. No. 1-Passenger. 2:57 2:29 p.m.

8-Passenger. No. 19-Accommodation 1:41 p. 11. No.

21-Through Freight. 5:55 a. m. No. 35-Way 8:10 a.m.

Nos. 21 and 35 will not carry passengers. Close connections made at Kansas City, and through tickets for sale to all eastern points. J. S.

TURNER. Ticket Agent. St. Louis, Fort Scott Wichita Railroad. GOING EAST.

No. 2:46 p.m No. 6-Way Freight and 1:13 p. No. 8-Through 8:26 p.m.

No. 10, Through Freight and u. m. GOING WEST. No.

4:25 p. m. No. 5-Way Freight and acc'm. 11:07 it.

111. No. 7-Through 1:27 p. m. No.9, Through Freight and 10:13 p.

m. Nos. 3 and four have free reclining chair cars to and from St. Louis. Freight trains Nos.

7 and 8, do not curry passengers. Elegant Pullman sleeping, parlor and chair care uttached to all passenger trains running between Iola and St. Louis via Fort Scott in connection with the Missouri Pacitio vithout change, arrives at St. Louis Union deot in time to get breakfast and make nnection with all trains of other roadies 1 all points. Baggage checked through to stination.

No passengers allowed to ride on eight without tickets. For rates and. her information call on the undersigned. HEIDELBERG, Ticket Agent. issouri Pacific Railroad-Piqua Junction.

GOING NORTH. Mail and 11:10 a. m. 3:85 p. In.

GOING SOUTH. Mail and 4:34 p.m. Freight ..8:30 p. m. I.

0. 0. F. TOLA No. 21, Iola, Kansas, meets every Thursday evening, J.

CLARK, N. G. OTTO KREUGER, Recording Secretary. CITY AND COUNTY. local advertisements without definite instructions time that they are to run, will be continued and charged for until ordered nut.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1887. Fresh oranges and lemons at Sprouls. Welch has fresh roasted coffee every day. H. Sproul keeps the best coffee in town.

14 pounds granulated sugar for 95c at Sproul's. 16 pounds light brown sugar for 95c at Sproul's. Fine Japan tea for 50c per pound at Sprouls. For the best flour in town, go to Welch's. 18 pounds dark brown sugar for 95c at Sproul's.

20 pounds good Louisiana rice for 95c at Sproul's. Sproul sells the best tea dust in the world for 20c. Choicest meats of all kinds at Krueger Kreuter's. H. Sproul will sell you a 1-pound bar of soap for five cents.

For bargains in groceries for the next 60 days call on Welch. Come to this office and get a sample copy of the DEMOCRAT. Car load of choice seed potatoes just received at Klaumann's. My sugars are the cheapest in town. Come in and see for yourself.

H. SPROUL. Our "Imperial" four is the best in town. Try it. PATTERSON DAVIES.

Goodhue Evans have anti-Kalsomine enough to cover 100,000 square feet. Ladies, do not fail to call and see the new stock of millinery goods at Miss Brown's. Our motto "Largest sales and small profits." Come and see. S. H.

Patterson Co. Bring on your job printing. We are ready at all times to turn out good work at low prices. Go to S. H.

Patterson Co's for your shades. They have the nicest and cheapest in town. When you have choice butter take it to Kingsley Wharton they will the highest market price. Anderson DeClute bought their spring goods cheaper this season than ever before, and are selling accordingly. Miss Minnie Brown has received her new spring millinery goods, and invite the ladies of Iola and vicinity to call and see them.

Persons attending court next week should not fail to stop at Merriman's feed stable, opposite the Leland hotel. Rates low. Mr. C. F.

Merriman invites all lovers of fine horses to call at the Leland stables to see his horses. Mr. has one of the finest imported stallions in the state, and he will take pleasure in showing him to all who wish to see him. Brock Reed has one of the finest and coziest shaving parlors in Southern Kansas. He has moved his shop into the room formerly occupied by T.

M. Powell, and has repapered and decorated the walls and ceilings, and made the room the finest in the city. Mr Reed is the oldest barber in the city, and always takes great pains to please his customers. He is now running three chairs and persons wanting work done do not have to wait from one to three hours for their "turn." If you want to see the coziest barber shop in Southern Kansas and get a smooth shave and dandy hair cut, just drop into Brock Reed's shaving parlor, first door east of Kingsley Wharton's and you will be fully satisfied. Some of the ladies of Iola held a private caucus at a private house Wednesday night and put in nomination a private ticket.

This certainly is an extraordinary proceeding. Who ever heard of a dozen women setting up political jobs, and putting in the field a ticket, and demanding the support of 300 or 400 men? Why did they have a clandestine caucus? Why were not the people of Iola notitied and invited to attend? Surely one person has as much to say about the government of our city as another. This is a free country yet, and when men are placed before the people for office, they should be placed there by the people. At the meeting of the city council Monday evening an ordinance was passed calling a special election for the 2nd day of May to vote upon the proposition to issue city bonds to the amount of $3,000 to aid in the development of our natural gas. The annual reports of the city officers were submitted and reffered to the committee 011 finance.

Mr. G. Robinson, D. I. Scott and E.

J. Thayer were appointed judges and W. H. Evans and J. E.

Henderson clerks for the city election. A resolution was passed that the mayor and councilmen use their influence to prevent the taking into the city of the new carriage works for five years. Hiram Reagan, a son of IL. L. Reagan, who has for a number of years made his home with John Body, died of consumption early Wednesday morning.

The funeral services were conducted at Mr. Body's residence Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. Hankins officiating. The remains were interred in the Iola cemetery late Wednesday evening. Mr.

Reagan was a young man about 20 years of age, and has been a sufferer from this dread disease for over 18. months. He was a young man beloved by all who knew him. Ilis remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of people. The jury in the Rottermund case, after being out about two days, failed to arrive at a verdict.

We are told that the jury stood eleven tor giving the plaintiff damages and one for allowing him nothing. Mr. Rottermugd is evidently entitled to something, and it seems to us that he should be able to get it without so much litigation. Already twenty-three men have said he should have damages and one says he should not. There will be another trial.

We are glad to see Allen county farmers taking the interest in fine stock that is manifested this spring. Every stock raiser appears to be determined to improve the grade of his cattle. Allen county can now boast of some as fine stock as can be found anywhere, both horses, cattle and hogs. It costs no more to raise a good blooded animal than it does to raise a "scrub," and they bring nearly twice as much when they are placed on the market. Wm.

Pike and Cy. Richards very narrowly escaped a serious and perhaps fatal accident Saturday night. The boys were going with the Leland "bus to meet the north bound train at 1:37 a. and while crossing the culvert south of the court house one of the 'bus wheels run off the bridge, but fortunately the vehicle did not over turn. Both the boys were on top of the 'bus, one of them driving and the other holdpaying a large trunk, and it is safe to say that both were badly scared.

H. P. Gray has 46 head of fine stall fed one and two year old cattle, which he proposes to slaughter for his spring trade. This stock has been stall ted all winter by Frank Powers, especially for Mr. Gray, and is the finest lot of beef cattle ever bought for slaughter in Iola.

If you want a fine roast, steak or broil, go to Gray's meat market and you will get it. Last Friday night the house on the Howater farm was totally destroyed by fire. The fire is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. The house was occupied by G. W.

Thornton, who saved most of his household goods. The loss was about $500 or $600; no insurance. This place is now owned by J. H. Fisher.

Boom! BooM! BOOM! Feed at Welch's. S. T. Ellis is a boomer. A.

W. Beck is a boomer. E. J. Thayeris a boomer.

Mayor Cowan is a boomer. C. I. DeClute is a boomer. Celm Kreuter is a boomer.

Ohio maple sugarat K. W. The new ticket is a boomerang. Office rooms are in demand in Iola. When you vote Monday, vote for boomers.

See the new time card at the head of this page. There was a change of time on both roads last Sunday. Steel wheel carrigges from $5.50 to $25 at S. II. Patterson Co's.

We are informed that Judge Allison contemplates locating in Erie. John Gants made a trip over to Wichita Friday evening of last week. The Sunday train on the Southern Kansas is a great benefit to our people. We now have three regular correspondents, and we want about a dozen more. Special inducement in spring wagons and phatons at the Iola carriage works.

The Canetsey brothers have moved their billiard tables into the Charlotte room. Wm. Knapp has the thanks of the DEMOCRAT for copies of eastern papers giving and account of the gas, oil and real estate boom at Findlay, Ohio. M.I Snyder was in the city Wednesday and paid the DEMOCRAT a pleasant visit. Mr.

Snyder says he has his stock ranche about fixed up to his satisfaction Ile now has over 200 head of cattle on his place, and among them some fine Holstein-Freisian. Goodhue Evans have most of their spring stock of wall paper in stock The balance is on the road and will be in in a few days. If you intend papering this spring it will pay you to look at this stock. They have the latest designs of walls, ceilings and dea orations. English Spavine Liniment removes all hard, soft, or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavine, curbs, splints, sweeney, stifles, sprains, sore and swollen throat, coughs, etc.

Save $50 by use of one bottle. Every bottle warranted by Scott Son druggists, Iola Kansas. We have no persoual objection to a single person on either of the city tick'ets now before the people. But we always did despise a bolter, and as the ticket nominated Tuesday night was placed in the field by the persons instrumental in calling the convention a week ago Saturday night, it will be in order to call the ticket put up Tuesday night the bolter's ticket. By request of the state superintendent the W.

C. T. U. of Iola will observe a prayer service on Thursday, April 7, which will be held in the Presbyterian church, begining at 2:30 p. m.

Special subject "Sabbath Observance." Everybody invited, the pastors of the different churches will please take notice and make this announcement on Sabbath. Mrs. LIZZIE HANKINS. Secretary. N.

Hankins came very nearly getting a severe fall Saturday night. He was passing along the street. on the west side of the square a and a lose board in the walk tripped him. Had it not been for Jesse Parsons catching him as he was falling, he would perhaps have been seriously injured. Loose boards in sidewalks are very dangerous, and when one is discovered it should be nailed down or reported to the street commissioner.

No risk is taken in investing in real estate in this city and locality. We have a county unsurpassed, with more advantages than any other locality in the state. Farm property and farm lands have not been "boomed," but is yet selling below their actual value. Property can be bought to-day that will be worth the original price and big interest at any time in the future that the purchaser wishes to put it on the market. Last Saturday we were changing presses in our office, and before the press we now have was unloaded from the wagon the report was out over town that we were moving away from the city The wish was evidently the father of the thought.

Oh, no; we are planted right here, and here we propose to grow and prosper. We may however, in a few days move our office into an other room, but we will remain within the corporation of Iola. San Fransisco has a newspaper "devoted to real Kansas City dealers know a trick daily papers und have advantage of their worth two of that. "They advertse in the city large circulation. The Times yesterday sing contained sixty-six columna of advertising devoted to the real estate interests alone.

-Kan 86 City Times. Oh, greens! Our real estate men double discount your Kansas City men. They ouly advertise occasionly, and they have more leisure hours than they know what to do with. It 18 reported that a new passenger train will be put on the east end of the Sunflower ro.id, between Yates Center and Fort Scott, connecting with the cannon ball train, so that parties Call leave here and go through to St. Lonis on the evening train, without going by way of Kansas City as is the case at -El Dorado Republican.

The DEMOCRAT will next week move into the room over Welch's grocery store. When we. get fairly located in our new quarters we will have one of the finest printing offices in Allen county. This is a good room and pecially adapted for a printing office. We invite all our friends to call and see us in our new quarters.

The other day, we are told, Dr. Ful. ton wanted some whisky for a very sick patient and sent to a drag store after it and could not get it. Upon inquiry it was found that not a drop could be had at any store in the city for either love O1 money, not even for the excepted purposes. This surely is a fine state of affairs.

There will be a meeting at the opera house Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose of organizing a Young Men's Christian Association. Geo. De Wolf, secretary of the Garnett asso. ciation, and Dr. P.

Fallet, of Chanute will be present. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend. We respectfully call attention to the advertisement of HI. L. Henderson, which appears in this issue.

Mr. Henderson has engaged in the real estate business, and will occupy the room vacated by the DEMOCRAT to-day. We bespeak for Mr. Henderson a prosperous business. During the time the court house is being repaired, Probate Judge Arnold will office with H.

L. Henderson in the room vacated by the DEMOCRAT to-day, and Miss Mary Chamberlain, county superintendent, will occupy the county attorney's office, over T. M. Bartel's store. J.

E. Ireland, our postmaster has put an iron wicket or screen into each of of the delivery windows in the postoffice. But we do not believe it will be safe for any person to ask him. where he got them, or how much they cost or the amount of the freight bill. The Colony Free Press has been enlarged to an eight column folio, and shows every evidence of prosperity.

The Free press is a good paper, and we congratulate Mr. Burke and hope his prosperity will always continue. H. D. Smith, of the Inter-State, was in the city Saturday, and paid his respects to the DEMOCRAT.

Henry paid us a very high compliment on the change of our paper, and wished us abundant success. And again the old town swarmed with people last Saturday, and the coffers of our merchants were filled with the bright silver doilars and crisp bank notes. Everybody was happy and still the boom goes on. Saturday night this section of kansas was visited by quite severe wind strom, but so far we have heard of no damage excepting the blowing over of a few out buildings which were not securely anchored. J.

J. Casmire has for sale a fine lot of strawberry plants, raspberry plants and five-year-old evergreens. For prices and terms call at the store or on Robert Kittle at my place on the north side. J. J.

CASMIRE. Ray has sold the Bronson Pilot to a gentleman by the name of D. F. Peffley, who will, in the future conduct the paper. We extend to Mr.

Peffley the right hand of fellowship. Mr. Ling has moved the Adams express office into the room recently cated by Brock Reed. Mr. C.

L. Whittaker will also occupy the room as a real estate office. Miss Mabel Clark is taking lessons in the post office this week. We will soon be able to announce that she has assumed the duties of assistant postmaster. Married--At Iola, Kansas, March 23, 1887, by Rev.

Wm. Hankins, Mr. F. P. Stottler and Miss Lena E.

Vansickle, all of Allen county, Kansas. John Walters has been loafing around for several days trying to take care of a big carbuncle on the back of his neck. C. F. Scott made a business trip up te Kansas City the fore part of the week.

W. C. Jones has been in the city a few days this week. The nicest line of baby carriages ever brought to town at S. H.

Patterson Co's. Brock Reed has, moved into Jake Bower's property south of the lock factory. Clem Kreuter has built an addition to his residence in the southeast part of the city. Wehave just received a new invoice of stationary and want to do your job printing. The stone work on the walls of the south half of the new carriage factory is completed.

Jesse Swap has gone to Kansas City where he has accepted a position in a grocery store. One of Dr. Fulton' children was very sick the fore part of the week, but is better now. C. C.

Breugle and wife went over to Neosho Falls Monday to visit a few days with friends. Geo. A. Ainos was called to Illinois the fore part of the week by the death of his brother-in-law. We have had many compliments on the appearance of the DEMOCRAT since it assumed its new form.

The Iola carriage works are bound to reduce their stock regardless of Call and look over their stock. A. IT. Brown is making spring delivery of fruit trees, and his stock appears to be exceptionally line. Mrs.

N. S. Baldwin and son Sumner left for their home in New York Monday. Harmon Scott has been relieved of the agency of the Adams express, and W. I.

Ling has been appointed. Frank Wing was on our streets Tuesday. Frank is going to start to Ohio in a few days to visit his daughter. II. A.

Perkins was in the city Monday, and says he wants to start another Republican paper in Iola- just for funCall at the Iola carriage works and buy a buggy, carriage, phaeton, spring wagon or cart at greatly reduced prices. None of the men nominated for councilmen will have to cross the railroad to attend the meetingsof this august body. The cold weather of the fore part of the week retarded the work on the court house, but things are humming again. Frank Harland a former resident of Iola, but now of Arkansas, was visiting relatives here the latter part of last week. C.

L. Whittaker has launched out in the real estate business, and we predict for him unbounded success in his new venture. A. D. Hubbard has engaged in the practice of law, and he informs us that he will devote his attention to the real estate practice.

W. W. Anderson took in the Wichita and Fort Scott booms this week. He was looking after interests he has in these two places. Mr.

Parshall, the gentleman who purchased the Chas. Lakin property has arrived with his family, and taken possession of the property. The change of time on the railroads Sunday last makes it very hard for the mail carrier to make both trains. They come in about the same time. A gentleman told us the other day that E.

D. Lacy was opposed to the inter-state commerce law because he would have to give up his railroad passes. Too bad. Ed Kavanaugh is the father of a bran new boy. We are not informed as to the exact age of the young man.

But A. W. pledges his word that he is redheaded. D. Horville shipped about 115 head of fat cattle to Chicago Saturday night.

His son Lou, and Walt McNeil went with him to help care for the stock on the road. A. 0. Allen, J. S.

LaFary, W. D. Port and W. J. Evans went to Ottawa Tuesday to witness a Knights of Pythias parade and ball.

They report a pleasant time. Jesse Parsons, sheriff of Neosho counin the city shaking hands with ty, was old Allen county friends Saturday. Mr. Parsons paid the DEMOCRAT a friendly visit. The Fredonia Democrat says Chas.

Sweeney, of Fredonia, has been looking up the records and finds there are several thousand acres of government land in that county. Itch, prarie mange, and scratches of every kind cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary lotion. This never fails. Sold by Scott Son, druggists, Iola. A CANARD The Purported Confession of Willla Sells Pronounced Untrue in Every Particular.

Last Saturday while Sheriff Parsons was in the city we asked his opinion of the truthfulness of the reported confession of Willie Sells, the Osage Mission boy butcher, and that agentleman said a portion--in fact every material point of the story of the confession false." "In the first place" said Mr. Parsons, "the person who wrote the article to the Times soemed to attempt to convey the idea that he was present in the room at the time the boy is said to have made the confession. Tus know to be false, unless it was one of the lawyers or Mr. Woods, the guardian of the boy, who wrote the article, for I postively know that these five persons the three attorneys and Mr. Woods, the boy's guardian, and 1 Willie Belly -wore the only persons in the room at the time mentioned, for I unlocked the door and let them in, and locked it again until they were ready to come out, and no other persons were about at that time.

Then, again; the story that the deed was committed before Mr. Sells and the two boys had. retired is also false, for the boy's bed showed unmigtakeble evidence that the boys had been in bed, Willie on the front side, and his brother Watty on the back side next the wall. And every indication pointed strongly to the fact that Watty had been murdered in the bed, and while yet asleep, as the wall back of him was spattered with blood as it gushed from the cut in his throat, and drops of blood were sprinkled nearly to the front edge of the bed, and appered to have dropped from the blade of the knife after it had done its deadly work and was drawn toward the prepetrator of the crime. Thus the theory that the boy was murdered 111 the middle of the floor, and then carried and placed on the bed by his brother is exploded.

And instead of the father lying where it is said he had the scuffle with Watty, he was found at the foot of the bed, and all the evidence showed that he had been in bed some time, as the impression was deep and plainly visable where he had lain, on the back side of the bed, next to the wall, and that he had fell out over the foot board in sculling with his assailant." Thus it will be seen that the story of the quarrel, the light between Watty and his father, and the murder of Watty on the floor, and then afterwards being undresed and placed in the bed by his brother, is purely a fabrication, and is not substantiated by the appearances of the room or a single word of evidence before the coronor's jury. This purported confession was evidently published simply for buncome, or in order to start proceedings to get a pardon for the boy now in the "pen." There is no doubt in the minds of those best acquainted with all the circumstances connected with this fearful crime but what Willie Sells is the guilty party, and that the deed was committed in cold blood. But why he did it none are able to tell, unless it was because he was jealous of his brother. Mr. Woods, the boy's guardian was interviewed a few days ago by a reporter for the Fort Scott Monitor, and in answer to the question of what he thought of the confession, said: "I decline to say anything about it.

Willie Sells had a fair trial, a trial before an honest judge and an impartial jury, and now there is no appeal except for executive clemency. It is, however, one of the singular cases in the history of criminal jurisprudence. Willie Sells is convicted of a crime of which he is innocent." -But what have you to say of the truth or falsity of the above statement?" was asked by the reporter. "I decline to say anything about it. Willie Sells is suffering thepenalty for acrime he didn't commit." What evidence Mr.

Woods has upon which he bases the latter statement, we know not, but it will be a hard matter for him to make any number of people believe as he does. W. T.U. Ticket. A few members of the W.

C. T. U. and two or three gentlemen met at the residence of Mrs. Geo.

Davies, Tuesday night and placed in nomination the following city ticket: Mayor-W. A. Cowan. Councilmen at large- -E. J.

Tayer. Councilmen--M. G. Robinson, A. W.

Beck, D. Ewart, and M. W. Field. As will be seen by the above two persons who were nominated at the people's convention a week ago Saturday night have been endorsed--Mayor Cowan and E.

J. Thayer. The other three names are different from the regular people's ticket. For Sale. 80 acres of land adjoining the town of Geneva.

Will be sold very cheap on good terms. Partly improved and all splendid land. M. SPELLMAN, Geneva Kansas..