The Plain Dealer from Pratt, Kansas • 1

THE PLAIN DEALER. $1.00 A YEAR. THE PLAIN DEALER SiCQ A YEAR. In the city. 15 cents a month, delivered.

Fir-si-t-lHSB iurapgcmcass hvc rte fo? doing Job Work. PHoqs Reasonable. i First-class Advertising Medium NO. 4. I N5gf vj -t I) r-l mrmn A A TTnTTQTI A 1000 PRATT, PRATT COUNTY, KAJHSAC, dai uwi, auviuq xooo.

iJ I FAIR- M-O-N-E-Y rAiK. Who is the Farmer's or laboring Man's Friend Farm and City Loans To loan on Farms in Pratt. Edwards, ri novlTli? off C. Stafford, Barber anrt Kiowcounues. HARRISON orBLEVELAND? LOWEST RATES.

No We close up loans immediately, delav. FA-RM LOANS. Farraera and Laboring Men need not worry themselves about our next President but if they wish to better their condition let them come to the 3" CP CD CD PRATT INVESTMENT AND MORT- Geo. H. Saunders, b.

i uebhaet. ORE RAP NEW CH CO CO are giving special OLD SMALL LOANS And putting on Larger Ones, ASH also TO PAYING OFF AND RENEWING LOANS HICH AKE ABOUT TO MATTTEE. la warms off old loans and putting on larger ones, we pay you too difference do not keep yon waiting till releases of old mortgages are obtained. Our loans will all toe made at the lowest current rates, and will give every reasonable advantage coneietentwithtbe business. While our loans are usually made for years, ret we can offer you Loans tor 2, 3, 4 or 5 years.

You pay all interest to us at Pratt. IF YOU WANT A LOAN ON Good Farm or City Property, Don't place your application until you have obtained our rates and terms. President. i i see. aua irra.

W. V. McConn, Vice President and Gen. Man. I DEW ALK I OF 1 THE HORSE SHOE STORE, THE HORSE SHOE STORE, THE HORSE SHOE STORE, THE HORSE SHOE STORE, THE HORSE SHOE STORE.

i CO (1 A Two-leggeU Hog. One dav last weekts q. poor emigrant OIONY. CD zr i as -s- was traveling through the jsoulhern part t-1 ir1 is the Labor Candidate, and his policy is to sell 9 of the county las wife, who had been sick for several days, noticed a large field of fine corn just ripenings into roasting ears. The poor woman, weak Tl 3 tB CO as co os oc t.

-O a ened by her sickness ami privations, ry-Goods, Clothing We hare private Money to invest, AND WILL GIVE OTJK Customers the advantage of it P3 p3 PC a F3 told her husband that she thought stie could eat some He thereupon went into the field "and plucked eight L. a co B5 rn ri fB rft ears, and they proceeded on their journey eastward. The inhuman hog who owned the field started hot pursuit, 5 Boots and Shoes, Hats, and Cheaper than any other Firm in Pratt Co. his miserable mustard-seed soul filled with stinnnes3 almost to the bursting by offering to tafce second mortgages on good, improved farms, ONE YEAR'S TIME at reasonable rates of interest. W.

H. THOMPSON Kansas. Office up stairs, one Door South Alamo Hotel. PRINCE METLEY. An Heir Apparent to an African Throne an Humble Denizen of Pratt.

tzj tzi 525 a a nj 'O U3 CO en oc co P3 p3 SO tO PS SO 3 fe pj to pd f0 IT point, and overtaking them in Kingman SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. county demanded two dollars upon pam of prosecution. The poor devil did not Rev. W. R.

Watson was in the city have a cent of money, but explained nis There are few people in Pratt who -Wednesday. he not the Farmer's and Laboring Man's Friend? Call on him and you will go home Is lie not tne Al. Coign's New Cheap Stobe. He will make more homes happy than any one now before the American people. situation and his wife's sickness, and offered' to return the corn.

This the ttj of Cairo, was in tfte are aware that we have a royal personage among us. It is true that a cat mav look at a king," but it is not every citv Wednesday. mean, dry-livered granger rejected with scorn, and riding back to Justice Thom Coet Beown was in from Liberal tne nmnmunitv that has a real live prince NOTWITHSTANDING son's swore out a warrant for.the trav first of the week every enort to mase mo iii'. meeting a success. Whoop her up! t.Tt1,,1vt mav look at.

Pratt Pnwrxsos. President of eler's arrest. The unfortunate man was WUUiu is thus favored. People have doubtless -THE- taken into custody, dragged.away from the Presbvterian college at Dodge City, BI i noticed on our streets a dusky gentle his invalid wife, tried before a judicial was here on Tuesday HARD TIMES The native watermelon is here in allite lusciousness. Talk about hard times! With plenty of this sweet and toothsome fruit we can laugh at the ills streetcar track is not kept in proper condition.

A sort of gutter is Ayorn between the tracks, and the rails up so high that it wrenches the wheels of vehicles which attempt to cross. When the principal public thoroughfare of a city, such as Main street is, is given nA-mnatlT. it 13 man. who sometimes when in royal N. B.

Carskabdon went east on le nincompoop, convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $1.50. Not having the 1 WILL gal business Tuesday. T.ate has been on our attire wears upon his breast a collection of medals. These are emblems of royalty and insignias of his rank. The distinonished individual is none other streets for several days of late.

amount he was brought to this city ana thrown into jail, where he laid over nio-ht. The facts becoming known to Loan Money iff Mr. Gtcorge W. Toms, President of of life. Our city contemoraries every little while come to the front with an item saying theirs is the best local paper.

The Plain Dealer needs no items of that up to a street ranwuj -Lw Av.tv to see that their road-bed is than Prince Metley, a son of King Met- the Ryan Bros, they, with characteristic the People's Bank, is in the city farm or city on good infringe cnMi rcmair as notxo Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Kinch, of Spring- eener0sitv, raised some money and pro- The Council unon the rights of others vale, were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. B. F. I cure(i his release, besides giving him Richakds the first of the weeK. enough money to enable him to rejoin property at as Rates Low Rates as ever before.

should look into the matter. There are three commissioners to IjOW be elected this faU, and the people The Earth to be Bored. Mr. R. D.

Blaine, accompanied by his wjfe ve regrct that we have been ley, of Africa, the sovereign of four million and a half of people. The other day the Plain Dealer street walker held a brief conversation with his royal high ess. He is a young man of more than average intelligence that is accorded his race, and talks with such an ingenuous air, and with so thorough a krowledse of the world, that one can should see to it that honest men are1 the Citv Council his best girl, worshipped last Sunday at abie to learn the name of the miserly the camp meetingin Carmi township. who caused the man's arrest held on Wednesday evening tnm instructed the Mayor to issue a cad for Mn. J.

K. Brink was in town over but for downright enssedness this Gove Sundav. having returned from a season township hojr outranks the hideous an election to vote bonds tor w. pose of defraying the expense of smk- as a granger on his iarm near Wichita. I hunchback Quilp, the most despicable elected men who have the backbone to withstand the allurements of poor farm jobs and so forth.

The candidates for the various county offices are one by one emerging from their They announce themselves through their friends instead of the newspapers, to save expense, we suppose. That's all right! 1 REPRESENT THE Kansas Loan fc Investrrft Co. ari'l have for the paat three years. And a very satisfactory business in Pratt County has determined to Offer Every Inducement offered by any one In the loan business. TVTr M.T,.

Carole and family arrivea taken all in all. of the lm- in a well, at the Doitou. expected we shall find salt, coal. home from the east on Friday, where mortal Dickens' many bad creations they have been spending several i guoh able, misev would a not doubt the genuineness cf his claim to a princely title. He says he was born at Cape Coast Castle in Africa, and is now thirty-two years of age.

When but thirteen he was sent to EDg-l md tc acjalro iva education, where he fTve vears. He then became months. immtit tn Rhoole to recover a mustara Oil, Ka3 o1" diamonds, rubies. May the under-, 3- I Mr. C.

O. Stiles was in the city on taking be successful. Monday, having just returned trom gincc th( above was writton we have The Haviland Tribune says that Mr. of Welisford township was there and new features not obtainable elsewhere. orado.

He was accompanied oy mr. lh th name was Erp, and Mrs. L. W. Stiles.

ana that of the constable who made the Attorney General Bradford was at arrest Waltermcir. 1 WILL MAKE the Alamo on Sunday morning last on Where was the Marshal? CD 0 rH CD 8 cn3 First Mortgage Loans Accidents. Willie Finan, soTof Thomas Finan, his foot badly mashed the other day. The accident was caused by his falling from a horsepower while it was in motion, at Simpson's elevator. Operator Tom Kate, at the K.

I W. depot, had his finger mashed while unloading freight one day last week. Complaint has been made to the restless and ran away, since which time he has traveled the world over. In talking with the Plain Dealer -reporter he began an account of hi3 wanderings. He went from England to Russia and Prussia, then to Italy and other European states.

He was afterwards in Jerusalem and Damascus, has quenched his thirst in the liver Jordan, and bathed in Tn.nv,r, whm- of Mrs. W. Plain Dealer sidewalker that on a re- last Tuesday buying wheat lor Jr. Miller of Pratt, and that Mr. Miller of Pratt shipped two car loads of wheal from that place last Wednesday.

The Register, in its last issue, calls upon the authorities to enforce the law. and says that it is the duty of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to "call upon the Mayor to fulfill the purposes aud discharge the peculiar duties mn! for cent evening a great deal of profanity FOE 0 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 13 vrs: Arcadia, where she will stay the turned the atmosphere blue mfi out of the Center House, the cause being the -r t. nse of red honor. There are JUgs- I al way: The WateFWorke. A movement is on foot which, when hav the money ready- J.

S. BARNES. llaviland xrioune: mr. jams juuao. i formerlv of this place butnow a resident a good many of these street rumpusses, for which ne was elected.

A very ex- town 1-ist Wfidnesdav. and yet we fected, it is hoped will render our cellent suggestion. VI iaLU, 1 n1on( -more 52 cd 1 havino- his furniture moved to Pratt. They had a big cot etc scare out in now worthless water w. 4-n nTfPTlfl 1.116 the duties of city marshal and street Mr.

and Mrs. J. A. Erwin have rc- effective. It is propou commissioner in one man, if the duties the waters of the Nile and Congo, lie has visited "many of "the kingdoms of Africa.

'Why," said he to the reporter, "I could" tell you enough of my travels to fill a book. I have beat Livingston as a traveler in my own and foreign countries." He came to America four years ago. By virtue of his position as heir apparent to a throne (being an only son) he is entitled to $25,000 a year, but cannot get it while from New Mexico ana other Tio madft seeondarv Kiowa county last week. An animal of that species supposed to be mad killed several and finally bit a boy named Farr. lie was taken to Great TtcTiA tw1 triil the virtues of a mad western points.

J. A. mains to the foot of Mam street, -well there, and force the water into the tank bv means of steam power. The country as being in the full bloom of to tae mwr. yu unjucuuj A Pertinent Inquiry.

Editor Plain Dealer Dear Sir. I see -in an ad of one of the merchants of your town the inquiry, "Who is the farmer's or laboring man's friend, Hairi-son or My answer is that it is neither of them, and now 1 ask the question, '-Are the merchants frienda to the above named class of men' Let ns see? In the first place, as a general prosperity, witn pieniy oi liioiatuic. remai The Plain Dealer was visited on street commissioner, Dumieiu .1 jT A. Wednesday by F. L.

Slater, Grant few people who are aware mat wc JLV-J1 stone. It adhered the body half a dozen times. The beautiful lawn in front of T.E. miiniinM was tne scene of TTo ofira in II. move- a marshal at an.

me bv all Council will award the contract uu loth. Contracts Let. The contracts foTbuilding the new school houses were awarded a follows: The east house to Al Rogers for a that on the west to right 8 rri out of the country- Occasionally, ncw-evcr, his kingly father sends him a few hundred dollars, but is not very gener shal should take precedence means. ment is strong in Grant, and still growing. He also left some subscriptions i i 5 i v.

A N9at Job for the Plain Dealer. M. E. church festivities on 1 uesuay e- rulsthey propose to vote against onr ening. There was a large social gtb- interests and for the monopolies.

He ering of congenial souls, who indulged )receiTes a DuT of goods, now much Nate "Robbins and his sister Maud The Premium List of the third annu were in the city for several days visit i i Ts-nH-. flnnntv Fair is out. It is issued in those small sweet plf a ures that go Sutton for $4,348. They have filed the iA WrlB. and jruarantee that the Nate drove in, fom Register printing House, and ing among old friends and made quite a splurge with his fine neat and attractive a piece ol as buildings shall be completed on or before October 27.

ous because he is incensed at him for not returning to the home of his nativity to share the glories of a crown. The last remittance he received was last November, and the amount $400. He has a wife that he married in this country, and thinks some day he will take her back with him to Africa and introduce her into the royal family. He is a good deal of a rustler, and when asked why to make tip the sum of human happiness in this vale of woe and tears. A new "fad" among the kid is, in the shadow of the evening, to attach to the tails of their kites balls of cotten pamphlet printing as can be done anj--i, Thi Uftiristftr not onlv has Minor Mention.

-Campaign Plain Dealer for a quar- UU1 first class mechanical facilities, but does he pay for freight, house rent, hired help, taxes county, state, municipal and railroad bonds all this is added to the bill of goods, and the consumer pays it. What does the merchant care for high taxes, high railroad freight? he never pays any of it. If thej would divide some of the profits with ua, by voting against monopolies, they would be helping those who help themselves. Yours, truly. a faCmer.

31 CO buggy horse one that looks as if he might be a kin to Maud S. The Plain Dealer had for a caller on Wednesday, C. M. Middleton, of the north part of the county. He was in quest of somebody to organize a Union Labor club at Lone Valley school house, saturated with kerosene, which they ig tre a a a a a a 03 wj crs i TVlarno 1 i I 1 tt-ola r4 til A they have a typographical artist with brains, whose skill and taste in display nr unsurpassed.

We refer to Mr. Al. lowers and mteawi seausKjwnm Via worlrfi with such a fortune in re- stars. Thev enhance tne pleasures ui V. y.

Bros. business is pickingup on the ti. P. kiteflving very much, but there is a cerve to draw upon, he said he preferred i. "tiAnrr Eompthinc to keep the Young.

Red-Hot. ThA wAather for the past week has mod. lOOSSlDie ui four miles souf of Preston. Rev. J.

S. Glendenning, probably tlifi ablest and most popular divine that iV. I VJ UC xjyjxi blood in circulation." That is on rea Mr8. L. B.

Weaver has oeen on mo fire uniegs the utmost car is SSggggoSoOpSpOB son why we credit hia story that he was Pratt has yet had, is enjojing a well- been scorching overhead and blistering S1CK11SU lrm. rr.i. woin noaler can De proeureu ina iain born in a foreign country, fiojoen auc j- i tli earned vacation. With the exception under foot. J.ne mercury uas iku of some short trips to neighboring upwards from the 100 mark.

The corn of the news aeaier. rPnfoH can born colored people work for that tmroose. Mr. W. V.

McConn informs mt.L nimipri lniantuni is mis- meaium. u- i amonfr the little ones. handed in a notice 01 ine nnumg ws that he knew the Prince in Arkansas OOQOfl t-1 1D2 ,1 il. If iUr, nit a in a a on co cc itv and that he told the same story T5 Hopper has recently movea goldcuam, remaraiug towns, the reverend gentleman will put has suffered seriously many piaces, in his time at home. and the tops are withered and drooping.

We had a call from Gregg Sawter, iamanity has also suffered sweat and a farmer living two miles east and three sweitered, puffed and poured forth south of Saratoga, on Tuesday. His er- much mild profanity- It has indeed GO TO THE- Pratt Mercantile Store FOR CHEAP GOODS. Three doors north First Nat. Bank. DRY-GOODS, NOTIONS BOOTS and SHOES.

Groceries, Flour affcf Meal Bargains for cash. Come and see. Excursions into Kansas and Nebraska. ffio from Iuka to this was not claimed he would pay the ma. does here.

We think that rti nrA Yesterday iur. nil soft wheats Laid for the notice, saying that the lest rand was to get some one to go down been a trying beu -v jr. ir ii LUC. enybody who will hold half an -hour conversation with the Prince will be convinced that ho is telling the truth, for he could not invent the knowledge of foreign countries which he certainly -im carded and hard substitu" ornament was his, and taat ne weum into McPherson County and organize An Assault Case. UUUt.

GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES; GROCERIES, GROCERIES, flthr have sacrificed dirty aoiiars clues, for the farmers down there are ted The State of Kansas vs. Thomas No- than to have not found it. Snda water, ice cream ana iruns all red-hot lor me union iour vui tried bv Jus Reason, at La Rue Son's restau- Mrs. J. Q.

Thompson has gone on a WILSON, WEAVER Bankers, make a specialty of CUTLERY, LIC3 lUUifiui i CUTLERY, rant. visit to nermotner nomBmwiuj, nnison. James i i II uaiuco ht Sam Phelos is now naggagc FARM LOANS. Iowa. She will remain away 1ai1 the complaint against CUTLERY, CUTLERR, trr TTi TUT TT -l 4 MnuAUU CUTLERY, CUTLERY, CUTLERY, CUTLERY, middle visit.

master at the Jf. os vb 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years, witn your interest ot beptemoer, anu puuty oharrinff him with as- of September, and possibly has. As heir to an African tnrone ue the equal in rank vi Wales in England, nd entitled to associate with the snobs that hover around the British throne, und by their extravagance and riotous living sap the very existence of oppressed peasantry, and make life curse where under other cifcum-taa it miabt be a blessing. And we In the meantime her hnsband J- evidence We are advised by Mr. Juo.

Setiu-tian, Gen. Ticket and Pass. Agt- of the C. K. NRyv whV now in CLioagu, that a seHes of Excursions have boen arranged for by the great Rock Island route, to points Kansas and Nebraska.

Wntin. Ohio. dis CUTLERY, CUTLERY, canir anil uullciy. piyable in Pratt. There are lots of people who want to Sample copies of the flam weaier At Prices, can be obtained at Dumenil's or at the will chew at a hotel, get his other shirt washed at the Chinaman's, and grovel alonff like a poor devil of a bachelor.

advertise awful bad, but when you call Tt. Office news stand feee closed the fact that Jenkins was pounding Noble's brother, and that he interfered in his brother's behalf. The jury brought in a verdict of "Not guilty," and the costs, amounting to seventy- them thev "havn got time to write ic on the following dates: August 21st. women ano woeu -We want o.uuu men, flk. Bnt.

the 0H.arc crtbo for the PW. DC- i.ht add here that we have more re- At Prices, At Prices, At Prices, At Prices, A3 LOW AS THE LOWEST, A.i LOW AS THE LOWEST, Sept. 11th and 25th, and Oct. 9th and 22nd; rates, limit of tickets, and further Last Friday Mr. Al.

Young, who has charge of the mechanical department of the -Register, packed his grip and started on a vacation to his old A MAcn cf royalty as a er. wmy tHrfini. particulars will be announced hereaiter. Solemnly says the Register," bix dollars auu uuicij otuu. to thfi comnlaininsr witness.

Costly ex rustler than we could have were he wa r.Tineel prerogative by In another column the reader will brio-hten up as soon as the busy Jf 1 tnhin. witii bia eompeers ac-i perience that. The Street Railway Track. THE FAIR Ha9 removed, to the PEOPLE'S BANK BUILDING, Ectrancs ocJTair-I street. season is over.

r. where Van keeps that jug. implicitly in the wisdom of advertising. ofAi-. and wastin? the sabstatiwB ol Illinois home.

Mr. Young has not lost a day scarcely since he has been in the employ of the Register office, and he is certainly entitled to a vacation.1 We wish him "dead loads of fun" while away. Ari LOW A3 THE LOWEST, -A 5 LOW AS 1HE LOWEST, AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. At the Horse Shoe Store The directors of the Prutt county Any man who advertises as buiuHuuw Vs people in extravagance, licentious uses nd debauchery. flr.nriot.

nr tinT fide, Those who drive public conveyances and private carriages complain that the fair want everybody to turp to and use i does 13 oouna to fueihem as a i eath as made,.