The Barnes Chief from Barnes, Kansas • 1

TOIDED. to Mrs. ixe Says: take pleas to in-Veg-etatie I cannot -70ur medi-s, indeed, One Dollar per Year. Barnes, Washington County, Kansas, Friday, June 17, 1898. Volume 5.

Number Home Market Report. Hissonri Pacific Railway We notice that the Washington SOME PEOPLE WHO TAKE Why don't congress adjourn? from Illinois eighteen THE CHIEF. Republican is booming Charles, sons, Claude and Benton, an daughter, Maude, is running i three hundred acre farm. She. purchasing this land, if It was not the big army of un- Woodford for a third term as pro-! Fast Mail Route.

RUNS DAILY TRAINS employed which volunteered to go bate judge of this county, and if with her husband, C. W. Hanan, then improved with a s' enough sunfiowers to si with fuel for a lone shanty burned down, to Cuba. we are to have any say on the sub J. T.

Maycroft, horticulturist and farmer, living less than two miles west of town, evidently has an unwavering faith in north cen ject we want to second the motion. came to these parts about the year 1875, and besides purchasing this fine body of land, opened up a Oregon has inst endorsed the In the first Place the office of pro- Batter Eggs. Hens Potatoes Apples 75c. Wheat, No. 2..

Mixed Corn Oats Hogs ..3.50 to 3.70. Steers stockers. .3.25 to 4.00. Heifers. ..3.00 to 3.50.

Cows .2.25 to 3.00. republican oartv bv a 10.000 ma- bate 3udffe is not a veiT desirable hardware store at Greenleaf, where he conducted a lucrative jority vote. BETWEEN Atchison and St. Louis EQUIPPED WITH Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars, Reclining Chair Cars seats free) and Elegant Parlor Cars. business for about nine years when he moved on the farm.

Mr. Ha The Atchison Globe is fighting nan was a native of Wisconsin, Stanley because he has a Sunday school record. IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE job, or very long on salary, and yet it is an important office to look after and one in which a fel-fow earns every cent that he gets. In fact there are a thousand little technicalities coming up out of the daily duties of this office that are not met elsewherey and a fellow must be very precise, besides understand law fairly well in order to keep from makinp- all kinds of tral Kansas, as a profitable fruit producing region. He has one of the most extensive fruit farms hereabouts, though his 240 acres admit general farming and he has 110 acres of corn, 25 of oats and 10 of wheat.

His apple orchard covers about 35 acres, and has 2,800 bearing trees, principally Ben Davis, wine genitalis and Missouri pippins. These varieties are believed by Mr. Maycroft to be the best for this part of the west. He had nearly 300 willow- and Mrs. Hanan of Ohio.

He died about five years ago, since which the widow and children have suc 2.50 to 3.00. THE ONLY LINE TO What has become of the Span- placed with a good hor en- -1 rt end of mine rounded with a fine led Lydia E. est and fruit trees. MPound' say treasurer of our BchootS one of the most activehe tumoful members that board evJt know ne hcY to alj A. W.

Spurgeon, i ives two miles south of town on a farm he purchased five years ago, which is in a good state of cultivation, with a young orchard set out two years ago. He has wheat, oats, corn and millet. Mr. Spurgeon is a native of Indiana, but came to Kansas fifteen years ago. His family consists of a wife and two children.

The Famous Hot Springs of Arkansas, cessfully wrestled with the bier Republican Ticket. isq soldier who was to lick two (THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA.) farm. An abundance of fruit of American soldiers. all varieties is found hero, all of For Governor Associate Justice Lieutenant Secretary of State Auditor All the pnncipul cities in the United State: E. Stanley R.

Smith, Richter. Geo. A. Clark. Geo.

E. Cole. are reached via the Missouri Pacific Railway. which was planted and grown bv Every married man is willing to blunders. In noint of exoerience.

Your nearest agent for tickets and Ask the Hanans, the land being raw particulars, or address Treasurer Frank Grimes, A. A. Godartl. Keep a secret me words ne used Mr. Woodford no doubt is better prairie when they got it.

Ciias. E. Styles, Pass, and Ticket, Attorney General. twig trees, which, after making a in proposing to his wife. qualified for the iob than anv mnn State Superintendent.

Frank Nelson, Agt. Atchison, Ks. Congressman-at-Large W. J. Bailey, growth of several years, blighted in the count', having personally Four miles southwest of town H.

C. TOWNSEND, Gen'l PaSS. and Congressman 5th District W. A. Calderhead.

L.J. Sprengle says that Gov- looked after it and not paid a and all but one died. He also had about 200 pear trees go the same Iicket Agent, St. Louis lives one of the youngest forty-year-old men, we have seen, T. H.

THE BARNES CHIEF ernor Leedy will be defeated by deput' fordoing all the work as 30,000 votes if nominated. some officials do. Of course some Kansas City Daily Journal 25 way. Failure, however, is a word which Mr. Maycroft ignores, and he is trying again.

He has a Mcl5erty, who received his first lessons in farming in his native W. C. Hallo well is another urge third term against him, but Weekly $1.10 The man who makes a dollar a wny not recognize a good thing New York Weekly Tribune. R. R.

TIME TABLE EAST. No. 40-1, 12:23 p. m. mail and express, daily No.

422. 8:30 p. mixed, daily. No. 424.

3:45 p. m. local freight. No. 426, 7:15 a.

m. freight, daily except Sunday Na. 428. 6:55 a. m.

freight. WEST. No. 403, 2 :07 p. m.

mail and express, daily. No. 421, 5:45 a. mixed, daily. No.

423. 10:00 a. freight. Ohio man, however, ho was but nine years old when his parents young apple orchard of several Kansas Mail and Breeze $1.50 day and puts ten cents of it on when we have it? Down in Don- acres just beginning to bear, be Ladies' Home Ideal $1.15 tured him loose on these prairies. interest is a coming financier.

hphan county the probate judge is Semi-weekly Capital The 240 acre farm he now owns sides peaches, pears, cherries and small fruit. Mr. Maycroft is a holding his fifth ten and the peo- 1 No. 425. 6:00 p.

freight, daily except Sunday Thrice-a-week N. Y. World, $1.65 hows but the -work of twelve Thousands of bushels of wheat Ple wm probably force him to 4-s, i-'d ana 4vs nave to oe nagged. J. P.

Shinklk, Agent. 1 IIHIWIH Wmwwwiliw Mryrraw native of New York, lived in IHi years in being transformed from will be lost this year as usual be- slana lor a sixtn- lastly, Mr. state, New York. He lived ten years in Michigan, then went to Chicago and spent two years as a street car man, but concluded to accompany the progressive band wagon, and came to Kansas. His place has been transformed from wild prairie into a pleasant rural home, supplied with all of the conveniences found on most Washington county farms.

Mr. Mc- 1 ij i nois twenty years prior to coming Woodford has won the admiration cause the loafers can't find work. wild prairie to a money-making place. He has 500 apple trees jWson, of the people of this county as a to Kansas in 1876. He was a blacksmith by trade and erected gentleman and an official and no Not a candidate on the republi the first shop put up in Barnes bearing; 1,000 peach trees, all high grade budded fruit and 400 of them bearing.

We never saw After two years he bought the can state ticket wears whiskers and four of them go without a mustache. democrat, populist, prohibitionist, mugwump, or animal with the combined characteristics can beat him in a race election day. place he now has so well improved trees more heavily loaded than his and from appearances he will sell which was then raw prairie. His an.a family consists of a wife, two sons1 3 gU'1S are 500 worth of peaches this jTear. and two daughters.

ueuubbuiy anu vaiuame on a There is only one criticism we larm as ooys. have to make of the republican He will set out another thousand peach trees next year. He says it pays to cultivate an intimate ac state ticket Frank Nelson wears his hair too Ion owns an eighty Half a mile west of McBcrty's acre farm adjoining his father on lives E. H. Schleier, who is one of quaintanceship with the peach R.

O. Wroody is a candidate for probate judge. He was a candidate for the same office four years ago, but being from Haddam township, when J. C. Morrow-was nominated for representative, Mr.

Woody arose and thanked the borer and he makes regular visits to each tree. Mr. Hallowell has west, wliicxi he is putting in our earliest settlers, havino- for a home later on. He ted on the land he now owns in How would it do for Colonel Bryan to crucify the Spaniards on has a wife and two children, is 1S69, upon which he has, built a 1 I I about 12,000 btishels of old corn and plenty of horses, cattle and a cross of gold and torture them Kiuwui-iiu u.ecornne nas acres comfortable home. He has 240 with a crown of thorns? tor, takes the Chief and of course hogs He has a wife and three convention for giving Haddam a man on the ticket, and when the various candidates were named for probate judge he withdrew his is happy.

bright daughters; has been trustee of Barnes townshipsixvearsand The American ship sunk in an- acres of land and his crop this j-ear is 110 acres of corn, 20 of oats, 13 of wheat, 18 of flax and 6 of millet. In 1873 he was overtaken with a virulent case of TVvns Adam Madison came from Den uago uaroor cost to say name Jrom the convention and nrxt 4-1. .1 Til mark to this land of the free thir WE ftr MAltf i 1 uululusul. im ooaru. it asked bis frjen(s to cast their is rather an expensive cork.

votes for somo candidatn in nnoth- G. W. Frceby, about three Poultry, Butter, And Eggs. Always at their office. Door south Dr.

Weaver's office. ijrKm vuais ago; poor, ouc non- tevcr, and it took him about two est and a young man. He first years and the necessary traveling settled Wisconsin, then went to to and from that benighted reo-ion er part of the couutv. So when a miles southwest, came from Indi Captured the Trade, Sunk High' Prices, When you see a girl trying to vote was taken Judge ana wen 13- years ago, having uigaii. inline with two to get over it.

Kansas-has been lellow countrymen heard of Gree- good enough for him ever since. trade her bicycle for a cow, a sew- was nominated and elected and is ing machine or a cook stove, make now serving his second term. Mr. up your mind she has landed Woody is acquainted all over the her man. eotintv Iind WOnlrl hn vurv sfmnir And now occupy the garrison with provisions, new cloth ly aaviee ami started.

They Mr. Schleier came from Hanover, crossed the river at Germany, in 1S6T, and worked ing and dress goods, candidate. He is esneciallvT auali- W.iito Cloud, and near there de- cabinet making two years at Ka- Katofl I t-m-r- or eo- cine, isconsin. when he came to shoes, straw hats, The republican state ticket is a fied as he has practiced law over kind nf vnnno- crnwi Tr for fifteen rears. To hiH-vn in tho raska, they would settle in, and Kansas and became fnll-flml nails, tinware, etc.

160 of Un- there is only one old soldier on it custom of the republican party finally decided it by vote, two vot- American citizen with 1 H. E. itichter, candidate for two terms and then out; that the Kansas and Nebraska, ele Sanvs land thrown in Please bombard us with your He has BUTTER AND EGGS. ESTABLISHED IN 1888. was no doubt Mr.

Madison's a wife, two daughters and iv 4. 4... 4.U..4- 1 iifuipuaui governor. i pui ty mat Keeps one man in pow lucky day, for he found an sons. One seven-vear old er term after term will soon be- traded his Indiana farm for the one he owns here, and although the trade was made without his seeing it he always thought the other fellow got beat.

He has 360 acres. His large apple orchard has been bearing for twelve years without a failure. 185 acres of corn, 33 of oats and other crops are growing on his place. A an Aermotor wind mill, a force pump and the necessary pipes and tanks keep both his house and stock yards furnished with water. We saved him a swarm of bees, about to leave, by standing at a respectable distance and permitting him to hive them.

Mr. Free-by is a young man and yet he seems proud of having fifteen grand children, while his own family consists of a wife and only exceptionally fine quarter of land was kicked by a horse last fall and We notice that the Preshvtprinn come a minority party. Mr. J. R.

Tripp. President. J. A. Butler, Cashier.

S. A. Butler. Assistant Cashier McKelvy Brothers. I "TXT church of this country have voted Wood.7 asks the republicans to to nomestead, and later a wife to had his skull crushed.

A piece of help him make the home they now the skull the size of a dollar was to do away with the church careiuuy consider this matter. DOES A GENERAL have If there is a thing that this taken out and the boy is now all "social" as a money raiser, and BANKING USINESS. country win produce which con- rio-ht we want to say amen. lhe Umaha exposition is not tribute to the necessities and hap M. SOLT, Dealer In just booming along in a way that Issues Drafts Available in all piness ot man that is not found Ii3 unnecessary for us to say The Kansas girl can jret conso- would ffratity the managers there- Parts of United States.

Real Es miiuug uu iu iarm, we mui iu. V. oavoie, woo lives tate Loans JSegotiated. Insurance failed to miss it. Besides being a about four miles south of town, successful farmer, Mr.

Madison is has been a thriftv and snenpssfnl of. The facts are, the managers of the concern thought the newspapers of the west should adver Lira xmn 4 hi Effected in Reliable Companies. lation or not out of the fact that the Kansas soldier boys arc being fed on cake by the California girls, just owing to how she takes it. also a practical gardener and fruit man. His twelve children is proof tise the thing for nothing, and grower.

Because of this and the enough to establish that fact, be been chumns while some have race mat the Madison latch string sides lie has a finely improved enough to do so, the bulk of the llllltt 111 I IH i I Thn old-fnshionpfl whinninof rkrot hangs out to everybody, the place farm and a promising crop about eight children. Like many of our old settlers, ho served Uncle Sam from 1861 to 1865, and was a member of the 44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of has been re-established, at Coffey- eLditrS, had to on is never lacking for visitors. If like this: 210 acres of corn, 12 of ville, and tramps are thereby the subject. The day has come when most any kind of a business fiF.ircp.it made acquainted with the fact that Shilo his regiment came out of the you are away from home near din- wheat, 35 of oats, 15 of flax, 10 of ner time just stop at Madison's, alfalfa and 20 of kaffir corn.

He You'll be treated Well, fed well, is a successful cattle feeder and and asked to come again. Here two weeks ago shipped two cars of IS UiSUSI L. JOHNSON, Prop. the town does not eniov visits has to be advertised to make it a success. fight with just nine more men from them.

Physician and Surgeon. Office on South Center, Street. Try our skill In Hair and Shaves. we saw some of the estlneadow, steers to Kansas City. Mr.

Savoie than half the number it took in. He was in the army of the Cumberland and Tennessee. Can be found nights at his -resi- with tame grasses, timothy, clo- came from his native state, Iili- Joe Lowe, the temperance lecturer, says that we are a religious pretender and Christian scoffer Spain may keep up her war spirit for a time by publishing false dispatches, but when the 2T Agent for the Concordia Laundry. ence acro the street from office. vcr, orchard grass and alfalfa any- nois, to Kansas in 1870, and home were our rounds.

steaded the farm he now lives on. and that he is going to skin us as soon as he gets time. Oh, why The candidates are beginning to Just west of Mr. Freeby, A. J.

Vrganbright farms an eighty and irmotor facts become known there will be more trouble at home than the officials can look after. J. C. Nelson lhs three miles call and shake again. About three miles southwest of town WP.

nnllnrl nf Afro TVIrl''o not let the matter go, and write and a half due wet of Barnes, has in sixty-five acres of corn. He has been here thirteen years, Wind Mills something about silver and wheat, Lyidow of Monk who dic(J nrannnon off a a lnimnn. 1 I on a homestead v.hich he located How much are the insurgents 85 a Specialty. Ninety per cent of the volun- .7 about four years ago, from the twenty-nine years ago, and from helping in the Cuban war? has a wife and five children and takes the Chief. We regret that Mr.

Arganbright was not at home Weils Drilled, Pumps, teers from Kansas are republicans. I 7. irtUc effects of a sunstroke received at the forest of trees, hedges and ltll I IIMI II III IUI' I w. Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the fruit there, it is easily seen that while ninety per cent of the com rijJB aim iflHAi rui- John L. Sullivan is now niteh to tell us more of his experiences I i r- w.

1 summer of 1863. while a memhor verv little of his time has been nisneo. ram impiemsiits, BUggl8S, ttC. ing base ball for p. living, and ho in the bull' west.

lhe papers say that John Col- 0f 53rd Iowa infantrv. Mrs. Monk snent in curbstone statesmanship missioned officers are pops. It is well that Governor Leody is so good at recognizing militarv ii I --j- ir r-j can't pitch either. 1.

ItL uub, anebieu ior me murder ot hs a native of Indiana, but has or waiting for something to turn his father, is to be defended by been in Kansas many years, hav- up. His buildings for his family, flfpmno B. P. Gilmer lives about two During the coming campaign in lawyeis, on uie piea oi insan- inp- lived in Oshorno rnnntr stork, o-rnin nnd imnloments. are Kansas few 25 cent wheat banners The papers are now filled with The plea is all right.

Any- twelve years, prior to coming here convenient and kept in order. His and a half miles southwest of town, owns a good eight- of land, seventy of which he has in corn, WWERTENSER8ER, I PROPRIETOR OF Livery 0 Feed Stable. will be carried in populist pro in 1890. She, together with two land holdings number 360 acres, the pictures of dressed-up officers one who is jealous of a girl is par-in the army and they look silly, tially insane, especially when cessions. sons one married and one single besides he has an extra eighty and like his neighbors, is running Pictures of Dewey and Hobson there are So many girls and more are conducting a farm of about rented.

He has a hundred head of a race with the weeds which the Joe Leiter," the fellow who made are all right, but a fellow should than enough to go around. ong wet spell has given the ad Can fit you out with the best of rigs and of teams. Best of accommodations. Patronage solicited. Barn north of railroad track.

four hundred acres. They have cattle with plenty of hogs, horses about seventy acres of as fine and other stock. Mr. Nelson is a make a name before he prints his fame and fortune gambling on the board of trade, had an unlucky vantage. He has a lot of hos and corn to fatten them, an orchard picture.

For the last six weeks we have wheat as any country produces, native of Denmark and has a fam day Monday and lost all he had been announcing right along that Squire Monk, the youngest son, ily of a wife and four sons and and plent' of fruit, a good farm made and then some. W.G. WEAVER, M.D. use, but no wife. This is not me army is oeing landed on who was severely kicked by a horse four daughters.

uban sou, because the daily pa- a few weeks ar0 is able to bo as it should be, rirls, for he is a PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Charles Bichte owns a desirable pers said so. Although the thing about, but cannot work much. young man and gQpd looking, besides is making agQod home and Half of the Palladium was spoiled again last week by Joe Lowe's diarrhoea of words and caustiveness of thought. As an editor, Joe is a failure, but as a temperance lecturer or calamity howler, lie is a crackerjack.

has each time turned out to be a eighty acre farm half a mile south Office North of Hub Grocery. We never heard over three persons in our life who could really make music singing a solo, and yet nearly every person who sings wants to appear in a solo. takes the Uhief. Gilmer is ne we guess we can. reii it tor the On the north side of the road, till 1 rw-t .1 tram mis weeK.

ihera has sn mimsib of Barnes, which his industry and. thrift have turned into a pleasant home. He came here All Calls Promptly Answered. a native of Virginia has been here nine years. A been a field battle or two.

ow lady, who with the aid of two.