The Preston Plain Dealer from Preston, Kansas • 1

5 'ml PRESTON, PRATT COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1893. NO. 27. VOL. 5.

T. RO Town and County. Rain wanted Apply nt this office. Hon fruit is now sixteen cents a dozen. Remember Hawkins when yon need nny eonl.

A remedy for hard times oomo in nnd settlo up, Joo Truitt Iiiih tho Indiana fover. but is still able to keep nt work. Grand, Opening OF Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Musical Instruments, Lamps, Sewing-machine at 4 Spring and Summer A NEW WRINKLE. THE INVENTION OK I). W.

DI.AfNK. 01" l'KATT, KANSAS. Tho Farm Implement News. Some time ago this paper announced that allien unknown party in the west was experimenting with a threshing outfit of a radically new po. in which a gasoline engine was built under the separator, on the same trucks.

An effort was made to locale the critter' but without avail, and now in the fulfilment of time, comes 1). W. Blaine of Pratt, Kansas, the well-known dealer, and acknowledges that ho is the responsible party. Mr. Blaino has been a practical threshernian for the past twenty years, active during that time as an operator or agent for threshing machinery, and ho believes that invention in this line has not kept pace with improvements in other agricultural implements.

Besides, the business has become so demoralized through tho cutting of the operators' margin of profit and the increase in the cost of his outfit that there is but a small percentage of men who follow the calling that are in any degree responsible. A revolution is needed to place the business on a new basis, and this is what Mr. Dlaine's invention is intended to accomplish. This new combination has many advantages that will appeal to thresher-men. It is entirely and the work of setting is only a fraction of tho old task.

In fact, it can begin al the end of a long stack, aud move up to the grain as it is threshed, in that way moving away from the growing Sheriff Whito says It will require considerable missionary work in luka, Carmi nnd llaynesville, but our private opinion Is ho will ketch hell all around. We doubt if Pratt county ever had a more pains-taking and obliging county oleik than tho present incumbent, Mr. W. Curtis, who is up for re-oluction and who should and will be retained in the olllco which ho has so acceptably fillod for another term. Mr.

nnd Mrs. Wni. Yeo returned from Chicago on Monday evening. Tho proposed Canadian trip of Mr. Yeo was abandoned, owing to ids wife being a little timid about making the long journey homo alone.

That was real good of him, especially as he had boeu furnished with transportation for tho trip. Mr. J. C. Wasson.

who is now a student in a Fort Scott college, writes in renewing his subscription that he considers The Great Religious Weekly invaluable nnd a key to Preston lore place it in tho college reading room." Judge Lester, tho editor of the Syracuse Journal, got tho nomination for clerk of Hamilton county, and now we hope he will got there witli both feet on the 7th of November. lie deserves to succeed. It seemed like bearding the lion in its den for tho Republican convention to nominate an agent of the Santa Fc for the position of County Treasurer courting defeat, as it were. In another column will bo found the quarterly statement of the Preston Bank. It is a creditable showing and reflect? credit on the financial qualifications of the popular cashier, Mr.

B. W. Hall. Give the statement a careful perusal. vVe hear of another Pratt county mau who has sold his claim in tho new T.

W. CSTKock Island Railway PRATT, YEO WfVI BARGAINS PRATT HARDWARE IMPLEMENT Co STOVES! HARRIS co. Where do you expect to find as good as at the PRATT HARDWARE IMPLE. All kinds of if A Great Variety of WIND MILLS. GUARANTEED.

Kansas. WELL WORK Ho candidates in this section for a week. What is tho matter A Pratt man is so superstitions that he won't pay his debts on Friday. Tho Pratt county touchers hold their first Love Feast in Pratt to-diiyi Hon. Dave Blaine was doing Preston on Tuesday, but not in political way.

Ex-Sheriff Nichols reports tho musk-rats are building their winter quarters very high. A wet season, sure. Our meat market has changed hands once more, Will I.uther and A. B. Gaskill are now tho proprietors.

Tho funeral of Deputy Sheriff tBrown took place on Sunday and the crowd in attendance was simply immense. There is said to bo considerable sparking going on about tho postoflice out of school Robertson. Coin, oats, wheat and potatoes taken on subscription, and tho last edition of Webster's dictionary for sale at this ollice. Rov. Mr.

Glondenning was in Trait on Salmday on his way to Burrtgu, where he installed a new pastor on Sunday. The Rock Island is now selling round trip tickets to Missouri river points for Jo It is cheaper to travel than to stay at home. Miss Blanoho Mason made one of the 775,000 at the fair on Chicago day, and there was no sprightlier gal in the immense crowd. Arn't we to have a re union of the old veterans befoie lie campaign closes? It will be a remarkable cam paign without one Miss Delia, daughter of Jos. Williams is on a visit to her sister at Rago, Kansas.

Misspella expects to be ab sent three or four weeks. Monday's Hutchinson News reports thai Judges Bnshore and Ellis were both al the Midland hotel in that city on Sunday. What's up Tho Topckn Capital of Tuesday re ports Attorney Crawford of Pratt in that city and Col. Chas. A.

Taylor as on a visit to Pr.it county. Four extra trains loaded, with Texas cattle passed east over I lie Rock Island on Monday evening. One of the trains was pulled by two engines. It is currently reported that tho Re publican ticket may be re-built. It would not be a bad idea, as it might then have some show of suuuuss.

The report was current in Pratt last. Saturday that the unseemly hour at which the morning train goes west would soon bo changed. Hope so. Madison Weisheimer has spruced up wonderfully of late and now driyes a spirited team to a handsome new buggy- Something in tho wind, boys. Mrs.

Cal Reed of Pratt is still quite ill and causing her many friends some uneasiness as to her ultimate recovery. Sho seems to gradually grow weaker. A hunting party, with Bill Farmer in the lead, left Pratt last Saturday for the Strip. A saddle of venison is to be tho Plaindealeu's share of the spoils. Judge Allen thinks Hayncsville has lost about twenty-livo voters, owing to tho Strip opening, and thai over two-thirds of them are of the Populist fail h.

N. E. Giest, a son of Mr. Wash's, is agent for tho Santa Fo at Wellsford, nnd lets us know that lie wants some Sunday reading." Only a dollar a year. Dave Blaine is in Abilono to-day for the purposo of meeting a gentleman in reference to forming a company to build his newly patented gasoline thresher.

Although wo don't hanker after the Topeka Capital politically, as a newspaper it is ull OK, ami its Sunday edition knocks the spots off anything in the west. Cashier Fell, of the Peoples' Bank in Pratt, went to Topeka on Saturday night to spond Sunday with Ms friend, Col. Chas. A. Taylor, the deputy supt.

of insurance. The rich delicato fragranco of the lively skunk permeates the evening air in and about Preston. They are making themselves quite at homo in many a chieken-coop. In another column will bo found an article from Tho Farm Implement News," the leading paper of its kiud in the United States, in reference to a recent invention by a Pratt county man. Read it.

Jim Hopper returned from the Strip the otner day, and is keeping mighty shady, not being in a presentable ap pearance, owing having- run into a bunch ot poison ivy. Both eyes were closed for several days, but he sue reeded in filing on one the best quarters, all the auiee." A. Kalb, Pratt, ROE S. Watch Inspector. KANSAS.

Manager. Kansas OF THE BANK. KANSAS ON TIME DEPOSITS 1 on Farm Property. Lumber 1 anL SATISFACTION Pratt, straw stack. No stacker is needed- and the bother and expense of one is saved, as the separator can carry as long a swinging stacker as may be needed.

The machine can be made so as to withstand belter the weight and strain of a band cutter and self-feeder, and last longer under the strain. An outfit, it would seem, would, if so con structed, last twice as long as oue of the now standard type. In operation, this combined outfit would of course be not nmie than half the expense of a steam rig. Coal and the expense of water hauling would be saved, as well as hands and time, by reason of the greater convenience of the machine. The loss in time in setting steam rigs is counted at one-tenth of the working hours, and this is almost entirely saved, as only the rear axle requires leveling in Mr.

Blaine's rig. Altogether, this invention opens up interesting possibilities in ihe thresher trade, and its uianutactuie and suc cessful introduction for "-eneral use will be anxiously awaited by all who are interested in this line. The truck that carries the separator is a complete traction ens-ine in and could be used as such, wilh Ihe separator removed, it desired. A lino engine, portable or traction, is not in ilsclf a new idea, this paper having given, (luring the past year, inform;" tion about their operation in the hands of inventors who are developing them. Mr.

Blaiue'sengiue is pi iced under the separator out of the way, the hot air and gas being carried to the lop by pipes. WHO WAS IT (Jail is perhaps a good thing in its place, but when it is worn on the outside of the face, people become very tired of coming iu contact wiiii it. Pittsburg World. We commend thoaboveto Ihc'cheeky' man who goes around to the county clerk and asks him to go back on his word of honor, in order that tin- printing of the ollicial list of candidates might ho taken away Irom the Times. Pratt Times.

You cawu't lay that on the old maid." About the most amusing thing wo have heard in many a day, came to light last Saturday. Crap shooting" is a game played for money, a species of gambling which is not tolerated by the laws of the slate. A well-known ex-oflicial, who now resides in the southeast section of the couuty, while holding ollice and living in Pratt, had a son arrested for shooting" the game, and the fine and costs amounted to something over $lt. A brother of the boy informed his lather of the fact and that tho money must bo forthcoming also that it was for crap- sbooting. lhat riled the old aud he remarked that that boy is eternally monkeying with a gun and I expect when we move back to the farm ho will bo 'shooting' the poor little sparrows." He iioally came down with the tiu.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Dielz, ou the 12th a daughter. Mi. Dielz had a terrible siege of it and her lifo was despaired of for several days.

Dr. Christy was the attending physician and Dr. Blackwell was called in for consultation on Monday. Mav her life be spared. Emmet Stiles, instead of taking Miss Smith's place in the post office, left for the Strip on Monday to file on a claim he captured in the great race.

He expects to be absent three or four weeks, but it is doubtful if the postmaster can wait that long without an assistant of. some kind. One ia needed badly U-' the office. Preston0 country for a thousand dollars, owing to sixty acres of tho quarter section being covered with a line growth of walnut limber. All of which we don't believe.

Deputy Sheriff J. E. Brown, reported in last week's issue, as having a relapse, died in Pratt on Saturday morning at 4 o'clock. Tho grief of the heart-stricken widow was sad to wit ness. The interment took place at luka, where a sister and a child are buried.

The deceased was a Select Knight and held an insurance in that society for $2,000, which will come in handy now. Tho girl that catehs Judge Ellis now would have apuddiu'. He owns tho Mrs. Kineh stock of milinery and the invoiced at something over fGOO, arc stored in a vacant room in the Peoples' Bank building. But wouldn't that be a nice assortment for some woman to begin houseKecpingoa! Mariied, at the residence of the bride's mother.

Mrs. S. W. Dake, a short distauce east of Preston, on the 17th hist, by the Rev. J.

F. Nessly, Mr. John B. Ashciaft to Miss Rada Edwards. The bride was a graduate of our public school last June and is well and favorably known in this section, also the groom.

They both leave shortly for Lincoln, Nebraska, to complete their education, and propose to devote their lives in the service of the Master. A largo nambcr of friends witnessed the ceremony, after which ample justice was done to a sumptuous spread." The fair urido has the thanks of tho Plaindealek lor remembering this oflico in au artistic manner. May her shadow never grow less. Fate has determined that Sheriff Williamson shall bo re-elected, but work for him until tho last vote shall be cast. He has been a good oflicor, saves money to tho taxpayers and will continue faithful as in tho past.

Judge Doster js announced to speak in Pratt to-day, Saturday, at 2 p. m. Wo anticipate that every Populist in tho county will be on hand to hear him, and a good many of the Republicans too. Tom Hedrick, who has been in Oregon for nearly two years, the last year of which he has not been heard from, and his folks supposing he was dead, had given up all idea of ever hearing from him again, but a letter arrivod last week, in which ho stated that in his next he would give tho cause of his long silence, also what ho had been doing. He still lives, at all events.

J. J. Martin, tho milk man of Pratt, is still increasing his business. He now supplies over eighty families and his herd is increasing correspondingly. Tho horso he drives in tho milk wagon insists on stopping nt every pump or hydrant aud ho says ho intends to break him of the habit or break his confounded neck.

Tho work of hauling the heavy steel rails, taken up on this branch of tho Missouri Pacific, has commenced. A train whs over the road for that purpose on Tuesday. The main track on the Rock Island At the Preston station has been raised, and the work reflects credit on the sagacity of the engineer in charge, Jas. A. Gossoell, and his force.

It is good job. Wm. M. McConnell. Hardware, Farming Implements In an Endless Variety.

BARGAINS, for the Cash! PRATT, KANSAS. THE BANK OF PRESTOI, PROPRIETORS. Their stock consists of Lumber. Lath, Shingles, Doors Lime Hair, Cement, Etc. YARD REAR PRESTON, C.S.

CALHOUN. I-hiss. GU8T.CAULANDEU, VickPues. II. W.

MALL, Cam. THE BANK OF PRESTON, PRESTON, KANSAS, Does a General Banking Business. FOR YOUR Drugs and Medicines GO TO BLACKWELLS DRUG STORE, PRESTON, KANSAS. INTEREST ALLOWED Negotiate Loans UlltJfKSl'ONIlKNTS: First National Bank, New York. X.

Y. The Missouri National Bank. Kansas City, Mo..