Larned Democrat from Larned, Kansas • 1

'THE 1 UNT ERR I I UNWASHED, FIRST, LAST AND ALL THE TIME. NO. 10. Vol. 1.

LARNED, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1888. C. D. Holliday of Phillips county PRESS NOTES. Lawrence Ilundertonock, 35 years A.

P. COOK. E. A. IIANON.

raised and gathered, with the help of his thirteen year old son, 3,500 bushels There is talk of dividing California old, was found dead in his bed in New York city. The gas was turned on full force, and he had been smothered in his sleep. of good, sound No. 2 corn the past sea MAMADTAflfin into two states. son, from one hundred acres ot land.

A charter has been granted for a The showing is a good one and indicates that there was considerable rust Francis Murphy, tbe great temper Episcopal church at Harper. ling upon the Holliday homestead. i The poor fajm manager in Cloud ance evangelist, has been urgently invited to do missionary work in Chicago Capt. Couch gives good advice in county has skipped the country. 1 Dealers In where it is claimed he can rescue 20,000 perishing.

Taylor Brooks, a colored person of counseling the boomer not to attempt to enter the territory 4 for purposes of settlement until settlement can be made under the law. An attempt to Everest, has advertised for a wife. Boston Corbet, the slayer of Wilkes Booth, -and the man who held up the There is talk of dividing Kansas into Kansas legislature last winter, is now two United States court districts. do so debars settlers from making suclx in Mexico. He was placed in an insane It is rumored that a union labor pa asylum, but made his escape.

per is to be started at Pawnee Rock. The Hartford (Conn.) Evening Post A live toad 30,000 years old has been blasted out of the solid rock in Provisions, Boots and Shoes. We are at Present Retailing Goods at Wholesale Prices. We get our Goods in Car-loads lots, and we feel ourselves justified in saying that we can give BETTER BARGAINS FOR CASH, than any other firm in the city. Give us a call, and see for yourselves what wonderful bargains you can get.

now has its type-setting entirely done by machinery. Has the "intelligent comDositor" at last eot to Rive way to an entry. Until the commission reports, the negotiations with the are completed and public proclamation made by the president, no settlement can be made. An attempt in advance of the law is only inviting a failure ever to enter a piece of land in the territory. Two cases of small pox are reported in the city.

It is hoped that it may nrove a mistake, but the showing is Of the 175 members of the Georgia machinery It really looks like it. house of representatives, 79 are farmers A serious runaway occured in Ster and 46 lawyers. ling Wednesday, in which Misses For It is calculated that 250,000 people sythe, Fanner and McDiU were thrown Sat. will visit Washington during tne in Agents for the Hutchinson from the vehicle, the first perhaps fa i auguration week. very serious at.

present. It is supposed to have been brought to town oy a John Wehmer was killed by the cars Kansas. Lamed, Wichita drummer who stopped at the at Ellis. The company paid bis widow $4,000 cash in hand. Glenwood house a short time ago and was taken sick while there.

Mrs. tally injured and the second quite badly bruised. Geo. B. McClellan, a son of the late General Geo.

B. McClellan, has been appointed by Gov. Hill, of New York, aide-de-camp on his staff. McClellan is a member of the Eighth regiment National guards. -Headquarters For Mrs.

Cleveland has given out that their home will be in Orange, New Jer- Dolly Gibbs and Miss Nellie who were employed there, were lj0ta seyj after March 4th. stricken down with what the doctors (ft The Garden City literary society has MM 1 Jl Uff 1 II If II till An eastern man came to Thomas taken up the Oklahoma question for a Ml county last fall and purchased 120 acres series of discussions. uui mum of railroad land. He planted sixty pronounced small pox. T'ae houses-where the malady is supposed to be hav been quarantined and all due care will be taken to prevent its scattering.

Manhatton Signal. The barren lands of the gmit basiis between the Rocky mountains and acres of it in wheat, and this year sold sufficient wheat to pay out on his land, -AT- having wheat besides. A mountain peak in Cassia county, Idaho, 10,000 feet high, has been named after General Harrison. The alfalfa crop of Finney county is worth more than the entire product of the balance of that land district It is stated that there is more snow Two young boys who were playing on the river at Freeport, IE, broke through the ice and were drowned. (Opposite Opera House.) in the mountains now, than fell there all of last winter.

Heavy snows in the mountains means more water in the streams, and more rain on the plains next season than there was last, John Frame and Nicholas Ilammon, 10 years old, while skating on the Calumet river, near Hammond, Ind broke through the ice and were drowned. Frame's body was recovered but Hammond was carried away by the current. A sugar company with a capital of central Kansas comprise 1,300,000 square miles, or one third of the United States. Congress has appropriated $100,000 for the purpose of surveying these lands with a view to irrigation. Major J.

W. Powell with a staff of scientific men is at present busily engaged ill this work. It is claimed by those who are posted on the subject, that the project to irrigate and make capable of producing crops in at least three fourths of these lands is perfectly feasible, and that upon a proper presentation to congress of Major Powell's report, the appropriation necessary for this purpose will be forthcoming. Come don't get left oil the OF GOODS Early and CHOICE $25,000, nearly all oi; which has been subscribed, has been organized at St. John.

Congressman Springer says three new states and Oklahoma territory will be made before this congress ad journs. J. C. Bigger, formerly a prominent Texas republican and United States district attorney under Arthur's administration for the North Texas district Congressman Perkins, of Kansas, introduced a bill Monday, appropriating has been adjudged insane and taken to $50,000 for a public building in Arkansas City. an asylum.

Bigger was formerly Grand Army post commander. NOTICES FOR PCBUCATION. Land Office at Lamed, Dec. is, 1888. Notice is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to-make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before Register or Receiver U.

Land Office at Lamed, Kansas, on JanvaryS), 1880, viz: Harvey IS. Kinnison of Bird Nest P. O. Pawnee county, for the qr, of seo. 9, town 20 of range 30.

w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said viz: Frank J. EwelL William O. W. Bowlus all of Bird Nest Pawnee county.

and W. J. Faulkner of Flavius o. Hush county, Kas. d22-jai Henry W.

Scott, Register. The marshal of Arkansas City has given notice that he will arrest all boys ATTORNEYS AT LAW. The Murry shaft, operated by the Lehigh Wilesbarre Coal com found on the street at night after reas onable hours. pany has suspended work and 500 men and boys are thrown out of employ Practice before U. S.

Land Office and Departments a Specialty. DEAEESIN Anthony is to vote on a proposition to bond the city for $8,500 to complete ment. The company proposes to sink the shaft at a much greater depth for her new school building, replacing the one burned last summer. tke purpose of reaching a rich vein. The famous tally sheet trials at Col i1 and Ma ock Ranches umbus, are at an end, Prosecuting A Sheridan county man raised 10,000 stalks of celery on an acre of land, 7,000 head of cabbage to the acre, and 300 Attorney Hulling having nolled the Land Office Larned, Kansas, Dee.

18, 1888, Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make comuted final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Register or Receiver at Larned, Kansas, on January 28, 1889, viz Philip Hervey, HE xo. 9749, for the half, qr, of sec 8, te 23 ran8e 17 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land viz: J. Guilen, and Edgar Hoddle, of Garfield, D. AV.

Keller and Robert White of Larned, Kas. d22-j2G Henry W. Scott, Register. indictments against Thomas J. Cogan Money to Lmn on Farm Property.

and Charles T. Blackburn, of Cincin Office in Land Office Building, Larned, Kans. nati; C. R' A. and 11.

B. Montgomery, Algernon Granville and Fred Stuebe of Columbus. bushels of onions to the acre. A summer picnic was held at McKnight's Springs, Monday by young people. The gentleman wore linen dusters and straw hats.

A Ft. Scott burglar seems to think that spades are trumps and he holds a full hand, at least the spade is his only weapon of defense and egress. A stock company has been formed at Carthage, 111., to erect a $10,000 fire proof opera house with a capacity of Lawyer Thompson's room at the in Lyndon was entered the other night and about $400 taken from the pockets of his clothes while he slept. His watch was also taken but was found Land Office at Larned, Ka.s., Nov. 17, 1SSS.

Notice is hereby given that the following mulled settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Register or Receiver at Lamed, Kansas, on January 3, 1SS9, viz Thomas Kennedy, H. E. No. 7810, for the qr, sec. 24, twp 22, range 10 west.

He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: John English, Noah Funk, Valentine Dull, James Davis.all of Larned, Kas. n24-d29 Hesrv W. Scott, Register, Land Office at Larned, Kansas, Nov. 10, 1888. Notice is hereby iriven that the following-nam (Successor to V.

I). Bippey.) Dealer in among some papers outside the door, money tne vest pocket was overlooked by the thief. eat, Flour and Vegetables. seating about one thousand people. Mrs.

Mareillene Pinchon, a wealthy and fashionable lady of Chicago, who The presidential postoffices in Kan First Door North of First National Bank, Lamed, Kansas. ed settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Register oj Receiver U. S. Land Office at Larned. Kansas, on January 19, 1889 viz: George I'urtis, d.

s. No.7625 for the qr, sec. s.rnnge 20 w. He names the folfowiiur witnesses to nrove his sas comprise one hundred and thirty one. Topeka stands first in salary, Wichita second and Atchison third.

continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: Daniel Notestine, E. Snlson, George Notestine, Fred. Serverliug all of Bur-dett, rttwnee county, Kansas. C117-J5 Henry W. Scott, Register.

E. T. Friam's Keystone Lock works, Lancester, were destroyed by fire last Wednesday night. Loss, insurance, $8,000. Origin, accidental.

Land Office at learned. Kansas. Dec. 22. 1888.

Notice is hereby uiven that the followinsr-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Register or Kt- Board, Feed Livery. Best of care given to boarders and transient. Broadway, known as the Reed Yoder stable, Larned, Kansas. was arrested on Saturday last upon the charge of shop-lifting in a local dry goods store, has pleaded guilty, the charge having been changed to disorderly conduct, and was fined $15 after being severely rebuked by the police justice. The Springer Oklahoma bill seems to hang fire in the House, and the probabilities at present writing are that it will not be passed by this congress.

So confident are the cattle syndicates that it will not go through this year, that they have leased the Cherokee strip, much of which is included in the Bill, for $200,000 per annum. A barn and sheds, ten tons of hay, fifty bushels of corn, five head of horses one cow and two wagons, the property of G.W. McConnelL near Downs, burned last Sunday night. The fire is suppos Volunteer, the oldest trotting stallion in the world, died Thursday at the Walnut Grove farm near Washington-ville, Orange county, N. Y.

at the age of 34. A debating society in Cincinnati has eeiver at Larned, Kansas on February 6, 18S9, viz John Metcalf, No. 95S0, for the qr, si e. 29, twp, 22 of range 20 w. lie names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Joseph Zahn, William H.

Shapley and F. Johnson, all of Hurdette, Pawnee county, and F. E. Moore, of Larned, Paw nee county Kans. U29-12 henry v.

Scott, Register. decided that marriage is a failure. The saddest feature of thii fncident lies in the tact that all the members of the so Notice in herebv eiven that the fnflnwimr-nameri settler has filed notice of hi intention to make ciety are married. commuted final proof in support of his claim and inai saui proot win ue tnaae Before the Register The question of the annexation of or Receiver of the U. H.

Iind Office at larned. Larned House, GEO. E. HUBBARD, Prop. First-Class in Every Respect.

Special attention to commercial men. Kansas, on February 5. 1889. viz: Marmtrpt. Canada is again stirring the political Shonnessy, H.

E. No. 10,648, for lots 1 and 2, half of the qr, sec. 4, tw 23 of range 17 w. He names the following witnesses to nrove his waters and agitating the public mind.

Canada, sooner or later, will come in, continuous residence upon aud cultivation of said land, viz: W. P. Ouaintance, John T. Rog ed to have been caused by two travelers who halted there a few minutes before the fire broke out to light their cigars. ers, Hirtwis Greil.

James A. Temuler. all of Lar but it bothers our people to know just how it will stand politically. ned, Kansas. d29-f2 Hknry AV.

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