Solomon Valley Mirror from Minneapolis, Kansas • 1

flfle Solomon tkllcs Jllirror A MONTHLY LAJSD JOURNAL. C. OLNEY CO, Editori and PropriMori 8QLQMQI VALLEY 1IRB0R OUR OBJECT AN INTELLIGENT AND TRUTHFUL REPRESENTATION OF THE SOLOMON VALLEY. SUBSCRIPTION HATES. One copy one year 25 rive conies 1 00 Specimen copies to soldiers, and all persons wishing to learn about tho Solomon Yallev fees ADVariilNQ HATS.

MINNEAPOLIS, JUNE, 1882. NO. 4. VOL. V.

One square one year 5 00 Two squares 8 00 Fourth of a column 15 00 Half a column 25 00 i AN ILLINOIS FARMER IN KANSAS. country entirely dtstitute of his favorite diet fog. Famine at last drove us to a neat, newish looking house by THE LAND-OFFICE tho roadside, with a small boy and a o. it. ATTOKNE at LAW Netarv Public and U.

8. Commissioner. Will attend to all Law Business promptly Collections made a specialty. Office on Seoond street, Minneapolis, Kansas. big nocn (or "bunch," as they say here) of sheep in the background, and a long, low, rambling shed, painted with that fashionable msthetio tint, Tuscan red.

I am thus specific in de IT scribing the plaee for the benefit of C. X7. STEPHENSON, Attorney 1 Counselor NOTARY PUBLIC, "Allcolleotins placed in my hands will receive prompUtteution. Office in Snodgmss building, up sUirt. 51 La 19 famine stricken strangers that may henceforth pass that way.

THE DINNER SHE COOKHD. The door was opened to us and a greeting giyen by an uncommonly pretty young lady in a biue gingham dress and pink cheeks, who was much giyen to blushing and drooping her eyelids in a distracting sort of way, "I'm very sorry," she said, blushing crimson, to our pathetic appeal, "I haven't got a thing fit to eat. We have just moved out here and are not settled. I've no cook, and so far we haye just managed to get along, and that is all. I'm very sorry, indeed I am," she concluded in a very pitiful tone.

SOLEHQWOR OTHER. Life is a burden for every man's shoulder, None may escape from Its troubles and care; Miss It in your youth 'twill corns when we're older, And fit us as oiose as the garments we wear. Sorrow comes into our lives uninvited, Robbing our hearts of their treasurers of Boug; Lovers grew cold and friendships are slighted, Yet somehow or other we worry along. Everyday toil is everyday blessing, Though poverty's cottage and oruit we may share; Weak is the back on which burdens are pressing, But stout is the heart that is Strengthened prayer. Somehow or other the pathway grsws bright' er, Just when we mourn there are sons to befriend Hope ia tho heart makes the harden seem lighter, And, somehow or othor, we get to the end.

"BLEEDING KANSAS." The following from the later Ocean's special correspondent, Curtis, regarding Kansas, is right to the point, and we can assure our readers is a plain statement of facts. No text is truer the world over than that "the poor you have always with you." Kansas is no exception to the rule, but we are ready to compare with any country as to progress made by our people, considering the capital they had to work from. Scarcely a week goes by that one or more who had "gone back east," return to settle dowa, perfectly satisfied with Kansas and Ottawa county. In another column will ne found a few names of these parties, who have returned to this county to stay, after going back from here, thinking they were going to benefit themselves greatly. We still say to all, Come and see.

It is plain enough that the farmers are coutented and prosperous here and that they are full of great expectations; and right here a word about "bleeding Kansas." For several years the benevolent people of the Eastern Sutes have had their sympathies dilated and their souls all torn up by TBI HABROWING STORIES OF ANGUISH that have been told by tearful-eyed persons soliciting aid for the famishing and the suffering people ot Kan a I kann iLn V. A. JOHNSTON. W. KBKSViK JOHNSTON FHEEMAJf LAWYERS, Office oue door north Postoffioe.

MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS. AGENTS FOR THE Kansas Pacific R. R. Lands. D.

C. CHIPMAN, ATTORNEY at LAW, MNNEAPOLI8 KANSAS. R.r. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY at LAW MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS. "Couldn't you give us a bowl of AGENTS FOR THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY'S LANDS AflENTS FOR I collect claims and make prompt remittance THE SALE OF LANDS OF NON-RESIDENTS HAVE ON OUR BOOKS 600 THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF IMPROVED FARMS FOR SALE PAY TAXES FOR NON-RESIDENTS MAKE HOMESTEADS, PREEMPTIONS, TIMBER ENTRIES, FINAL PROOFS, C.

S. CLARK, XT Physician Surgeon, Office on Main MINNEAPOLIS KANSAS. DR. W. M.

CAMPBELL, gm fin Extracts from a letter from "Cur tis," the Inter Ocean special Wree-poudent There are a great many farmers in thiB neighborhood from Illinois, and quite a number from Iowa. I took a long drive this morning to see Mr. A. McLain, from Bond county, 111., who, I was told.aud it turned out true, has one of the finest farms in Kansas. He came here in 1872.

As you approach the place you see several acres of Cottonwood trees planted very thickly, which are intended as a protection from the wind for the cattle, and Mr. McLaia savs it is the best shelter they could possibly have. He has wintered something over a hundred head in that way, feeding them sorghum cane, or corn fodder upon the ground. The house is surrounded with fruit trees and berry bushes, all famous for their yield, and the entire farm of 860 acres is hedged with arbor vitro. I asked Mr.

McLain why Kansas was a better state for farming than Illinois, and he replied by giving several reasons. HI8 SEASONS. the first place," be said, "the climate is perfectly adapted to the cultivation of winter wheat as touch so as southern Illinois, hence we can get in the biggest part of our crops in the fall and have the entire spring for corn. We are thus able to cultivate at least a third more ground than in northern Illinois or Iowa, lor example. In addition to this, the winters are so much shorter that we caa begio earlier in the spring and work later in the fall.

We do most of our plow ing in March. Here it is the latter end of March and my spring plowing is almost done. Theu again, the ground cultivates easier than I have ever seen. can run a 14 inch plow here as easily as you can run a 12 inch plow in the eastern states. We never have excessive hut weather hare during the summer months, and the nights are always cool, so th? same amount of labor is less exhausting, and the satn amount of ret is more gratifying than in other "But." continued Mr.

McLain, "one of the chief advantages of Kansas is the price of the land. You cannot get as good a farm as mine in Illinois fnr less tbau $75 an acre and it only cost me 86. Your money will go ten times as far, and you can get LAND AS GOOD A3 THE BEST." "But ia there other land here as good as yours?" "Just exactly. Of course the land in this neighborhood is all taken up, but there is plenty of it in the county just as good sb mine that can be bought upon the same terms that I got mine. r.

McLain showed us about his place, and pointed with pride to the improvements he has made. He had a large herd of fat cattle grazing upon a field of winter wheat that looked as fresh and green as the sward of a lawn, and I asked him if he was not afraid they would pull it up or in a. siuau kjui -AND ALSO- Do you wish to make, A Timber Entry, Pre-Emption, Homestead, Soldiers' Filing, Final Proof, Or any Land Office Business of any COME AND SEE US U. S. Uxammiff Surgeon FOR PENSIONS.

Office and residence on Second street ad-Joining Ottawa Oo. Bank, Minneapolis, Kan Dr. V. ELLIOT, MECHANICAL AND SURGICAL DENTIST. KANSAS.

MINNEAPOLIS, Do you wish to make A Deed, A Lease, Having been in tucoessful practice over twenty-five years feels confident of pleasing all. All work executed with the finest material and warranted. Prices to suit the times, and teeth extracted without pain, by my new process, at 50 cents each. THE OLD K.EEIABLE Sol, Valley Drug Store, North Side Seeond Street. F.

L. FLINT, Practical Druggist, Succes-or to Dr. R. M. Rea.

D. R. CROSBY, Keeps a full line of Drills imA Mmumiu4k A Contract, A Mortgage, Or Papers of Any Form, COME AND SEE US. DO YOU WISH TO SELL LAND We can Help you do it, and it COSTS NOTHING at all Unless there is a Sale. bread and milk? said my friend.

"Or a cold pototo?" added I. "We are famished and don't mind much what it is." "Come in, come in," she said cordially, "I can get you something to eat" and she did. She loaded the table with good things, and we unloaded it. She was a bride, it seemed; had only been married a week or two, and was juBt "setting up." The gratification at having a Kansas bride, with blue eyes and daiuty fingers, for a St rving maid was second only to that afforded by her snowy biscuits and the delicious fruits she served, and she never suspected she was eutertainiug angels unawares. THE GROWTH OF KANSAS The meu who want to get good (arms at a cheap price in Kansas must come soon or they will find the land taken.

Immigration was never so great as it is this spring. Every town I visited was full of land prospectors, and they appear to mean business Most of the new comers are bright, active, intelligent young men, with plenty of vigor and capital enough to give them a good start. They are mostly the sons of farmers in the Eastern states whose families have grown too big for the old farm, and whose boys are striking out for themselves The record of the growth of Kansas shows an enormous increase in acreage an i crops for the past two years, and the increase in 1882 will be uo precedented. The wheat and corn did not yield as largely as in 1880, but the prices were so much higher that the income of the farmer was as large as usual, and the consumers suffered instead oi the producers. THE AGRICULTURE OF rAVSAS.

He told me he had lived and farmed in Illinois for a quarter of a century, having come from England with his parents when very young. I was glad to know this, as I had been seeking some one with experience and information enough to describe to me the difference between Kansas and Illinois farming, and the comparative advantages and disadvantages of each. In reply to my questions, Mr. Benny worth said that he had owned and cultivated a farm ot 1,000 acres in Macoupin county for over 25 years, and had raised all sorts of crops from hiy to onions. He had raised wheat, corn, hay, oats, barley, cattle, sheep, ad infinitum, and bad gained all the experience a practical farmer could secure in handling fancy, as well as staple crops.

I asked him why be came to Kansas, and Lis ready reply was that he thought he could realize a greater profit from hit investment than he could in Illinois. In explanation, he cited THE FOLLOWING REASONS 1. He could get five or six times as much land of an equally good, if not better quality, for the same money, 2 The laud was more easily cultivated and yielded quite as well. 3. The advantages of stock raising were superior.

4 The climate was such that ha could do more work with less exertion, and as he was getting to be an old man, this was an important fact. 5. The season was longer, and gave the farmer opportunity to cultivate with the same help a greater acreage than he could io Illinois. 6. He was able, ordinary years, to get a net income of not less than 85,000 per annum out of 1,000 acres of land in Kansas, which he thought was better than any Illinois farmer could do.

These were Mr. Beonyworth's reasons for preferring Kansas. In reply to a questioi as to whether there were advantages in favor of Illinois, he taid one only occurred to him and shat was the convenience of market, but it was being equalled very rapidly by Kansas. Do you know that your Land Title is all correct If not nail fur an Ab jure the crop? stract and have the flaws in it removed before parties, you need are dead or gone. Our books show hundreds of errors that we can correct.

Come and See Us. PAINTS, OILS, GLASS VV ARE, NOTIONS, ETC. Pure Wines and Liquors for medicinal pui poses. Prescriptions carefully) compounded Opposite Court Heuse. MINNEAPOLIS.

KANSAS, E. CROSBY M.D., DRUG-GIST, JtnpleleAssorltn nl oftDrugs and Medicines. Vef Office in Masonic Blook. J. MI.

JACK, CITY BAKERY CHOICE CONFECTIONERY, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC FRUITS, NUTS, FINE I'fUARS. TOBACCO, ETC. Ice Cream and Oysters In their eeanon Second Street, MINNEAPOLIS, KAN. A UOCU B1UU(J II HUD Ul this road for two weeks and have visited many towns. I have asked the question a hundred times of a hundred people "Where is the district in which there has been so much suffering?" and am always answered by a grin.

Some singular stories are told about the philanthropists who have visited the East from this very locality upon missions of mercy. A man bv the name of Bell, two years ago went to Illinois and succeeded in raising money enough in churches and among the charitable to buy two car-loads of corn. The railroad company brought the cargo here without charge, upon the representation of Mr, Bell that it was to be distributed among the poor; and when the pious and philanthrope pio Mr. Bell got his corn here, he sold it to the farmers for seed at the price of 60 cents a bushel. The proceeds may have gone to the poor, but if they did, Mr.

Bell was cartful not to let any one know it. The people here supposed that he had purchased the corn as a speculation in St. Louis, and were not aware that it was the gift of the charitable until many months after, when the town was not big enough to hold Mr. Bell, THE PLAIN FACTS. That there has been suffering in Kansas, told and untold, there is no doubt; that people io this vicinity and elsewhere have, at one time and another, been in need of the necessaries of life, is doubtless true, but more people have starved to death in Chicago than in Kansas, and there has been, and is more suffering there among the poor than ever has been known here.

Several years ago, during "hard times," everybody almost who was out of work went to Kansas most of them got farms by homestead eutry, preemption, or otherwise. Those who had experience and industry succeeded those who had not failed. Some of the latter class were able' to go back to their old homes to tell long and painful stories of the desolation and privation of Kansas; the remainder sought the centers ot population for employment, and the labor market was glutted. There was little to eat ami many mouths there was little money and many backs to clothe; and and as a natural consequence considerable want and suffering The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company was extending its lines into New Mexico, and gave employment to every man who was willing to work paying high wages $1.75 per day. Most of the unemployed were thus ta-ksn eare of, but there still remained many who were not willing to accept such employment, and they consequently suffered, until spring opened and they found something else to do.

The improvident and the lazy find it more difficult to get living in a new country than they do elsewhere and i'. is their cries that the anxioas and sympathetie East have heard. Curtis. Do You Wish to Buy Land We have Farms, Claims, Wild Lands, Town Lots, Large TrucU, Small "Oh, no, he said, "I always pasture my calves on the wheat. It is good for the calves and good for the wheat.

Last year was a poor year for wheat, but I wintered 106 calves on 100 acres of wheat and then harvested 1500 bushels Irora it. You see it didn't injure it much. THE PROFIT OF FARMING. I asked Mr. McLain about profits.

He said that the biggest profits were in cattle and sheep, but in mixed farming they were much larger than in the eastern states. Of course it all depended upon good management, as in every other sort of business, but he knew of no place where the farmer realized e) much upon bis investment, whether in grain, or corn or hogs, or cattle, or she or poultry or fruit as he did in Kansas. Hay costs nothing, beef is cheap, the mirkt i convenient, and the demand is always good. As to the climate and healthfulness, Mr. McLain thought Kansas could not be surpassed.

He Tracts, for cash, on time, near towns, near railroads, bottom lands, rolling lands. In fact we can suit all who will COME AND SEE US. Those who are Bound to Sell are sure to Come and See Us, and those who would Buy Snow it, ana so tney tome ana see us. Do you have Taxes to Pay Here It is important that you have some one here to tee that your funds are not applied to other Lands by mistake, and yours left to be sold. Many tracts are on the tax rolls to the wrong name, and are liable to be overlooked and sold for taxes unless owners hare some couldn't remember when they had a doctor at his house, except once about three years sgo, when one of the boys dislocated his arm.

on familliar with land titles here to look after the matter. We notify non-residents of A KANSAS BRIDE, After we had driven 5 or 6 miles the amount of their taxes as soon as the tax roll is completed. We see to paying taxes and forward the receipts promptly for a small fee. Money can be sent by bank check or money order. MRS, EMMA CROSBY, Milliner DressTnaker.

Late Styles, Good Goods, Low Prices. MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS. GEORGE SLATER, ContractoriBuilder All kinds of Carpenter Work done in good style and on short notice. SLAUGHTER, HARNESS MILL OPP. TRUESDELL HOUSE.

Asks yon to get his prices before buying If not the best, buy elsewhere. s.s. Mcpherson, GROCER? My motto "There's nothing so as the Beft." across the prairie, between the well trimmed hedges that surround the wheat fields and marked the section lines, we bpgan to rogret very sincerely that we bad declined Mr. Mc-LaiVs hospitable invitation to dine. A Kansas appetite is like the sorghum crop, it never fails, and none but the man who owns it can realize its size.

We discussed my friend and I the Do you need Counsel? Have you Collections to Make? Is there a Flaw in your Title? have you a Mortgage to Foreclose? Remember that Mr. R. OLNEY has had 20 years practice before the courts of New York. Wisconsin and Illinois, sad for 10 years past has made land litigation and the correction of titles a specialty, and we are thoroughly posted on U. 8.

Land Laws and Rulings, besides having the O'NLY COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACTS in Ottawa Coonty. C. C. OLNEY Minneapolis, Ottawa Kansas. possibility of reaching town before the dangerom period of starvation was reashed, a.id agreed that the risk was too great to run.

Dr. Tanner never eould go 40 days without eating in Kansas, and Griacom would find the.