Osage County Times from Scranton, Kansas • 4

7 fifty-four. This day was the saddest Written for The Times.1 RETROSPECTIVE. WM. ANTHONY, one the little pioneer company had a unique; table. The Chicago Iuter-Oceau anticipating that inquiry will be often made as to how many words occurred in the inaugural addresses of certain I'resi- nnl at the Pcwt -Dealer In- yet experienced, for it was all disappointment and nothing else.

Instead of a river we found a ditch or drainage called Switer's creek. It EAKLY SETTLES EXT 'SIYIT-ZLEK Mind class SC'HAXTOX, JCT hditor. dents, and how often the big personal was so named tor a mitii mat nan pronoun 1 was employed gives this in it. YEAR. Pin A Pioneer of lJiirliiijrame Gives Incidents that Transpired in the Past ii5 Years.

formation, the record beginning with starved to death, or was killed and buried on the bank of this great the first President Washington and One inch, per mvk including the twenty-third 5enjamin 2 river Ileuce the beautiful name "Switzler creek." To sav that we in Harrison. Every President except Fillmore made an address on assuming BURLIWCAME, KANSAS, othee. The hrst tigure column gives the number words used and the second 'irciuiimKrimimn -At One inch. three months 1 One inch, six uumths Oneinch, one year Local for thp insertion nud five cents for each wibseouenti n-sertion. Kotu-cs nailer the heu.i of "Special Advertisements" three cents a line ach insertion.

Schaxtox, Mauch 15, 1WJ. CHAPTER I1L Our Emigrant Pioneer Colony on our way to Kansas had to take a steam boat at St Louis' to Kansas City, or where Kansas City now is, for there was then only one small brick warehouse and an old log cabin the warehouse located near the river and the cabin further up against the bluff. The the number of I's: Words. I's. Washington (first term) 20 don't invite you to look at old shelf -worn goods, but a brand new stock, and tlio best manufactured.

Washington ocoud term) 134 6 John Adams 2,314 13 Jefferson I first term) 1,528 19 Jefferson (second term) 2,123 16 Madison (first term! 1,170 11 Madison (second term) 1,142 4 Monroe (first term) ,322 19 found no water here would be saying what was not true. We found a little spring near this great Switzler. Its flow of water was about four gallons per hour. The stream was two inches deep a maguitieicnt place to fish in. I scraped away the snow here again and put up my little tent, and commenced to chop a limb off from a large oak tree that stood on the bank of this river.

When I was asked by a lord, or an agent, what I was doing I told him I was getting wood to warm my wife and children. He said this timber belongs to somebody else and that I could not have it. This made me mad in less than a minute, and I said: "I will have it at the hazzard of my life; hill was very steep, and to make the lloor level blocks were used instead of stone. This left it all open under the Superb selection of Fine Shoes. Clothing from, a Child's Waist ta a Fine Prince Albert Coat.

A Complete Line of Dress Goods. Dig stock Dry Goods and Notions. Elegant assortment of Hoots. floor, a good place for hogs to sleep, of which there were plenty running at will in the Missouri river bottoms. This cabin was our only snow as a hotel.

It had not been occupied for COME AND SEE ME. long time only by bats and owls. The Tiik Kansas City Times is vigorously working for the speedy opening of Oklahoma. Wii'iiK liable to loose our lie's after the Chilian Mission, and the S1O.0OO a year. Pleasant weather, a big crowd, and glorious times at the State encampment, now in session at Emporia.

The fast trains on the T. S. between Kansas City and Chicago, were put an Sunday. Time, fourteen hours mid thirty minutes. Tintorcii the thoughtful kindness of Secretary Jloliler we are in receipt of the Sixth I Jiennial Hepoi of the State lioard of Agriculture; also their eighth annual meeting.

oor was laid with loose boards, leaving urge cracks between each board. I patience and Christian forbearance Monroe (second term) 2ti John Qnincy Adams 2,944 14 Jackson (first term) 1.U6 11 Jackson (second term) 1,167 6 Van Bnrcn 3n William Henry. Harrison 8,578 38 Tyler 1,643 15 Polk 4,904 18 Taylor 1.098 18 Pierce 3,319 25 2,772 13 Lincoln (first term) 43 Lincoln (second term) 588 1 362 15 (iraut (first term) 1,138 19 Grant (second term) 1.382 24 Hates 2,472 II! Garfield 10 Arthur 431 1 Cleveland 5 bought a cook stove and set it up to do the cookmg for as many as we could have now ceased with me to to be a virtue; you have lied to us in the repre I extend a cordial invitation to every one who reads this paper to give me a call. Come in, whether yo buy or not. Wm.

ANTHONY, Burlingame, Kans. iccomotiate. At mgnt our uetts were sentation ot tins country, and now you will deprive me the use of a little wood made on the floor, and we went to bed to keep my family warm. The best without saying our prayers, as we were in the habit of doing when our minds thing lor you to do now is to leave me were tranquil and quiet. Hogs are until my temper cools down to its normal degree or you will be the first like chickens, you know, they will come SPECIAL BARGAINS.

pioneer to be buried here." A hewed home te roost, and so it was with the Missouri swine. They came in sq uads FOR SALE! BUFFIUlP Benjamin Harrison 15 15y the above it will be seen that the What difference in the mechanical make ti of Tue Osage County Times! Looks asthougl George Hoover is a printer. Allen Tidings. log house had been built near this spring two or three weeks before we OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO EVERYBODY. Harrison's were the most voluminous and that Cleveland was the most came here.

The owner had left. I put We raise our hat to you, Mr. Tiding' s. E3T" Advertisements under this heading will my family in this house, without floor, and modestly remark that with nearly be charged for ut the following rates Five cents from all directions to their sleeping place, which was under the floor of our hotel. Any person that has ever studied hogology knows something about the habits of this animal.

Invariably every night they had from four to six modest. IMPORTANT. COCHINS line for every insertion, nothing les than 15c. door, window, or the crevices between the logs chucked or daubed, and made a fire in one corner. I pulled dry prairie grass and stopped the cracks to For Sale.

Two roan geldings, seven Those withdrawing from a co-partnership will protect themselves from a possibility of trouble in the future by years old. They are 16 hands high, lights for the best bed in the house. Might, with this class of animals, as ALSO 13 for $1. keep some of the wind and snow out. weigh 1,300 pounds, and are without mark or blemish.

I warrant them true in eyery respect, and will give anyone We were now fixed for Kansas house with the two-legged ones, makes right. publishing the notice of dissolution. A recent decision in Cleveland shows After the right of bed was settled a keeping. Had it not been for the the importance of this precaution. An H.

A. THOMAS, Scranton. a quarter century's experience in and about a printing ollice, and a small amount of brains, we ought to know how to shape tilings up. (riionoE Hoovkk, formerly foreman of the Times, in this city, is now "ninning" The Osaoe County Times Scrantou, having recently purchased it. George is one of the finest printers in the State, and a mighty clever fellow besides.

So hero's to his success. LJlurion ltecord. Tf did not feel proud of the opinion of Mr. Ed. Hodi, one of the straightest men newspaper or otherwisewe ever met, we would not have published this.

Ever yours. wanting to buy a chance to satisfy himself as to that before purchasing. Will sell on time, with good security, or trade exchange states it thus: bravery and womanly courage of my wife I would have done as did the majority of the colony, cursed the country continuous growling and fault finding was kept up until about midnight, when all became quiet in both rooms. J. M.

GIDDIXGS, A note for $2,500 was given by a former member a firm and the firm's name waB signed to it. It was discounted at the bank and the maker of the note appropriated tho proceeds to his own for young stock. They can he seen at the residence of the undersigned, two and fled as a man lleeth from his enemy. I was offered forty acres of land for two hundred dollars where the great business center of the city iiow is; But I couldn't think of makiiirr so miles southeast of Scranton. (TJnixersity of Pennsylvania.) I To Do continued 4t5tf Jas.

McAllex. use. The bank brought suit against the firm for the amount. They showed that his connection w'ith tho firm had ceased before he made the note but as they had not published a dissolution notice previous to that time, as required by law, General News. For Sale.

A one story, two room great a sacrifice. I was going to the frame house in Bluetown. The house balmy Italy of Kansas, where peaches Jeff Davis no longer enjoys the dis -Physician and judgment was rendered against the old firm. grew spontaneously in the woods, and tinction of being the only living Dem will ba sold without the land, or the land without the house, or bcth together. Inquire at the City Meat ocratic ex-Pi esident.

There are two of A Great Mistake. milk and honey could be gathered from bushes; where oranges and lem them now. There were not fifty men in the Kan Office on Brownie avonue, Market of J. T. Hoover.

ons grew without toil, and labor. Xo, Kepresentatives of the six leading sas Legislature who believed that the I could not think of giving up my an A Bargain for a Newspaper Man. A coal companies in the east met and reduced the wholesale price of coal fifty 13 Schanton, Kansas. ticipated paradise of Kansas, where I would have peace and plenty for the Hutchinson reformatory is necessary or can be made use of by the State to any advantage as a prison. Still the legislature appropriated 870,000 a year cents per ton for stove, sixty-five cents No.

1 Washington hand press prints an 8-'column paper in perfect condition; cost when new $275. We will sell cheap, or trade for stock. J. AV. CASSELL.

for chestnut, forty cents for egg and taking of it. The inducements of real fifteen cents for grate. izing a million and a half of money in a few years was nothing compared Baxter, the English Clergyman-pro to be oxpended upon the construction of the buildings, and so much more money will be practically wasted un Just Arrived. Mrs. Kobt.

Nelson with the luxuries of the promised land phet, fixes March 5, 1897, as the day on has just received a nice lot of millinery Blacksmithing of Canaan, where I would have almost which the earth will be destroyed by less the buildings can be used hereafter perpetual summers, with beautiful as an insane asylum. fire. This will just enable Harrison to serve ort his second term, and have for the spring trade which she would like the ladies of Scranton and vicinity to call and see. 45tl rivers of clear, cool water, flowing the County The asubhr W. Y.

Duew, of Lyndon, was in the city Tuesday. The above was clipped from the leading paper of Osage County, i. the Osage City Free Tress. some cases such things might be so. For instance, the Democratic papers will say: "President Blaine did so and so." Of course Y.

Y. Drew was not elected, nor is lie in any way connected with the County Treasurer's office. Josiah Drew runs the ollice, and runs it well, too. Of fifteen births in Blue Rapids daring the. past six months only three were Exchange.

What an army these United States can raise in a few years, if the foreign powers will only hold off long enough. We've been publishing birth notices down here for about a month, and "a line boy put in an appearance at so-and-so's house" has got to be a whiskered chestnut. And they do say where there are so many male births that it is the sign of war that year. Siieuiff FiiANKHousER put his smiling countenance into onr front doorway last Saturday, and kept it there enough to ask about a day of well earned and completed year round; where I would have noth Horses carefully shod. Buggies and wagons re And yet a few charitable institutions scattered over the State like the Home for the friendless, St.

John's Hospital of this city, which are doing immense ing to do but catch fish and hunt; just For Sale Cheap. Lot repose. number 43, paired. Plow and general blacksmith work promptly done. The demise of Hon.

Richard W. such a place as I had been longing for Brownie avenue, Scranton. Apply to 45t4 Robert Willis, Scranton. good, are refused a few thousand dol- a number of years, and 1 was bound to have it. We looked round and hired Townshend, of the Nineteenth Congressional District of Illinois, makes the second gap in the ranks of the lars to help them in their work which Job Printing5.

We have an overstock WACON REPAIRING AT LOWEST PRICES. teams to take us to our destination, is being done with faithfulness and of stationery of all kinds, and in order members of the Fifty-first Congress We loaueaour enectsoiie forenoon, i economy. to diminish it will do all kinds of Job which death has caused. Hon. James could not get my cook stove in the The Hutchinson reformatory is the My shop is on Brownie avenve, Work at very low prices for the next X.

Barnes, of Missouri, was the first to wagon that my family and household result of making bids for public insti sixty days. drop from the Congressional list in this KANSAS. tutions by eities and real estate syndi SCRANTON, goods were in, so we had to leave it behind. We started in the Pasture Land, Two or three quar wav. cates and the advocates of schemes for FOR THE BEST OSAGE The Grand Army spent during the the treatment of prisoners which have ter sections of pasture land, convenient to both Scrantou and Burlingame, can afternoon to make a ten mile drive.

It was a beautiful, pleasant day, and proved to be pernicious. The Legisla ture made a grave mistake, Leaven be bought cheap if a purchaser is found when we got across the Missouri line. past year the sum of 875,915.85 in aiding old soldiers and their families, who lacked the necessaries of life. Each year thins the ranks. Each month the our health, business prospects, and when soon.

Call at this ollice. and upon the borders of the promised worth Times. Livery Barn. A livery barn well Canaan, I fancied that I smelled the tropical fruits of the new found Italy; State Items. old veterans are passing away.

But as stocked with horses and buggies, for but it was only fancy, for the next clay I long as there remain any survivors of sale at a bargain. Information given membership llll it snowed three inches, and the The Grand Army Kansas is the splendid host who went forth to at this office. we told him that "everything was lovely, and the goose honied high," lie left in a manner that conveyed to us the idea that he was very glad of it. There is no better man or ollicer in Osage county. Carbondalian, Jth.

AV'e hope our friend, the editor of the Carbondalian, will always receive this kind of a visit from the Sheriff. Of course Kick is a good ollicer, and he keeps his eye on those who need weather changed from a Sunny South save the union, it will still be the Grand Kansaf City is to have a half million Old Papers. We will sell old papers Army, whatever its number. for nutting under carpets for 20 cents to a uortnem climate, jsiy hopes now of finding a paradise began to weaken, a hundred. for the further 1 got into Kansas the dollar dry goods store.

Governor Humphrey has appointed Hon. J. M. Balderstone judge of the new court of Sedgwick county. Sol Miller says the legislature that Newton Watt, who died in the Joliet prison last week under sentence for the famous Rock Island train robbery, and murder of the express messenger, was worse it got.

We finally reached Bull HARRY ISAACS. creeic. Here was an Indian cabin, occupied by Dick McCamish. Tlis bed was hired by Joseph McDonald, the The Liter-Ocean, one of the most probably the victim of one of the most has just adjourned was no worse than pernicious customs ever permitted in a the one before it, of which he was a member. free and respectable government, con yimftsin Scranton and two and one-half miles When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, southweHt oi town.

victed on the testimony of professional The legislature of Xew Mexico has man I named in a previous article, for himself and his friend to sleep in. But on account of Mr. McDonald's sympathies for my wife and the little ones he could not think of occupying the passed a meat inspection bill almost criminals and professional secret detec tives, whose sole object in his conviction was to obtain the $10,000 reward, LOWEST QUOTATIONS. identical in its provisions with the one the Kansas legislature refused to pass. reliable papers of the country says: "There is no reason to doubt that the civil service law will be honestly enforced by the present administration.

It has been shamefully evaded for the last four years; but we have a President now who is not a hypocrite, and the party that he represents does not ask that he shall play fast and loose with any of the laws which he has taken an oath to execute in a faithful and impartial way." bed and he gave it up to them. For His entire life previous to and after The Kansas Medical Journal stock COAL! this kind act alone the name of Joseph conviction has been a lie to the charge. company has been organized at Topeka and he died with the words on his lips. H. FJSjM, for the purpose of publishing a State "I am innocent." journal of medicine.

The first issue Simon Cameron has just completed will appear May 1. McDonald has ever been dear to my memory. The next day's drive brought us to Willow Springs. Here a new trouble arose. Our oldest daughter, Sarah, took sick.

Doctor Kerr, one of our company, treated her Will practice in all the Courts, State and Feder. Mrs. M. E. DeGreer, attomey-at-law, his year of age, George Bancroft is 8it, Theodore D.

AVoolsey 88, Neal Dow al. Tompi attention to ail tmsiness. BurlinRame, Kansas. announces herself as a candidate for Police Judge of Topeka, and says: "If 85. David Dudley Field 74, John Whittier 82, and Hamilton Fish, Jeffer lKIi.ATEY, son Davis and Robert C.

Winthrop over Stock and General Auctioneer, elected 1 pledge myself to discharge the duties of the office in accordance with our laws impartially, conscientiously, and in the fear of God." and next morning we were all able for another day's experience in Kansas, which brought us to Mr. MeGee's, at One Hundred and Ten, near where your town (Scrantou) now stands. Here we 80, while Oliver Wendell Holmes, Han Ryan tS Company Have for sale, at lowest market prices, coal from their shaft southeast of Scranton. This is con-ceded to be what it claims to bo The very best Osase Shaft Coal. nibal Hamlin and at least a dozen other Scranton, Kansas.

persons known all over the country are It is now almost an assured fact that Kansas will have a crop of peaches this year, tho first for several years. Tho winter has boon so mild that the buds have not been injured, and it is not likely that the weather will get cold enough to harm them this spring. It makes our mouth water to read the above. It's a long time since we picked a peach. This part of Kansas used Jo raise luscious peaches a few years ago, and in the Southern part of the State the crop was good two or three years ago.

"We hope the fellow Guarantees to cive satisfaction. Will cry Heretofore the annual school meet sales as cheaply as any other nood auctioneer. bordering o'm the four-score-year mark orders at the imes oluce. ings in Kansas have been held in accordance with law on the first Tuesday These individuals furnish living evi did not fare quite so well, as the house was full. We had to drive to the creek bottom, and scrape away the snow, set up our little tent, make our beds on the ground, and put in a cold in June in every year.

The law has dence of the falsity of the assumption that the American type of manhood is W. H. KKTC'IIAM, Attorney at Law. Address just been changed and it provides for annual school meetings to be held on the first Thursday in July each year, RYAN I will uivo my personal attention to all bus who "writ" it knows what he is talk night the best we could. Now my heart began to melt within me, as it were, from disappointment.

LTp to ing about. iness entrusted to my care, ollect ions a speciulty. Write to me at Mahion, Kansas. 31 Scranton, Osage county, Kan, The St. Louis Globe-i )emocrat thinks that James G.

Blaine, as a head of the Apropos of the name of Davis county being changed to Geary, the Troy Chief gives the history of an almost forgotten town in Doniphan county, named thirty-one years ago for Governor Geary. The place has now gone to decay, the SUTHERLAND HOTEL, this time in my life it never entered my mind that man was a liar, and that he was depraved from his infancy, and that the promptings of his heart were Department of State, has an opportun JOS. CHARLTON, The Harness maker OF BUliLIXGAME. KANSAS, CAKBONDALE, ity to render his country some service such as has not been ollered to any Most iiomilar and convenient, house in town, postoilice and voting precinct being Bample rooms for commercial travelers. I'reo physically deteriorating.

Once more the holdings of the New York banks have got down to low figures, the surplus reserve being now but little above the $8,000,000 mark, a drop of oyer .3,700,000 in the past week. For the next three or four months the demand for money is likely to be active, but no legitimate interest will suffer for the want of funds to carry it on. A party favoring liberal bond purchases and a rapid reduction of the public indebtedness is in power. The present administration will not permit money to pile up in the Treasury, to the detriment of general trade, so long as there is an avenue open to disburse it in meeting te Governments obligations. I Exchange.

other man in his position since Wm. II evil, and that continually. He lied when he said the land produced milk and honey, for there was not one cow or bee in all the region of this country. about all that is left of a once prosperous little town. Evening News.

'bus to and from all trains. J.B. MUXGKR, Proprietor. Seward, and such as was offered to but The Oldest iu tiie Town, ami always l.eliablc. few heads of the country's foreign of A Great Club Offer.

Miss Clara JHarlntt would an fice before Seward's time. An unusual The milk and honey could only be got iiouucc to the ladies of Scranton The Weekly Capital-Commonwealth and The Osage County Times for Missouri and no where else, and there you had to pay for it, which was number of delicate and important questions of diplomacy affecting the that slic is now prepared to do drossmiikinjr in the latest and $2.25. This offer is for cash, and en the worst of it. The next clay brought I am doing honest work for fair prices. I keep no cheap, shoddy work.

My harness are hand made, of the best material, and the people of this part of the county will subserve their interests by calling an mo. United States will undoubtedly present themselves in the next four years. The country hopes that Mr. Elaine will be auies you to nave an the latest news us to our final destination, it being the most fashionable style. Call at the residence oi Judge Garaghty from the capital of the State and yom 14th day of November, in the year of our near the school house.

own paper at about the price of one. Lord one thousand eight hundred and found equal to the duties of his post.