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ri I fry DENISON NEWS VOL. I. DENISON, KANSAS, JUNE 8, 1888. NO. I.

will each have their church edifice in grain can and will be handled at Hol Tenth For the preservation and calling up reminisences of those days. for president and vice-president respectively, Denison IJews. SUBSCRIPTION, 1. 00 per year. J.

It McKEEVER, Editob Puor. 1 OUR VIEWS. The thriving town of Denison is already so widely known and talked of that the discriptive articles, published elsewhere in our columns, would be almost needless were it not for the extensive circulation of the News abroad. These articles are communi cations from reliable correspondents and are not exaggerated, but plain facts. Denison is ten miles from any town of importance, and being in a country that has been settled for thirty years, and is now one of the most wealthy and thickly settled farming communities in Kansas.

And being located on the Kansas City, Wyandotte North-Western road, which runs directly to Kansas City, which is seventy-two miles distant, enables Denison to cope even with the prosperous town of Holton and Valley Falls, which are located ten miles on either side of this place. Nature could not create a more beautiful and suitable location for a town than the town site of Denison. The adjoining country is settled by wealthy and substancial citizens who own their own land, borrow a very little money, but have plenty of it to loan. We have here now three good stores, and others moving in. Various, lines of business are now represented and are all prospering, but there are still openings Mr.

Editor; In reading Frank Chase's article in the "Recorder" of May 81st, I could not fail to be im pressed with the idea that the old soldiers owe a deep debt of gratitude to Democrats of the Cleveland, Voor-hes, Chase stripe, for standing so nobly between them and temptation to their honor and manhood, by doing all in their power to prevent pension legislation. True, boys, Grover called you some ugly names in his veto, but he was then dealing with the stricken and needy, and felt the necessity of making it so impres sive and emphatic that no old veteran with the darkness of death closing down upon him, would dare again lift his eyes from his stricken and needy amily to the government he had saved, for aid to keep his family from the poor house. Besides, boys, the dsy Grover vetoed the Dependent Bill, Frankie had been out calling all the forenoon, and had dinner ten minutes late. Now every old veteran knows from experience that when a man goes long enough without his meals he will get hungry and wolfish. But boys, how fortunate, that when more than a quarter of a century ago we, striplings then with our education unfinished, just at the age when the habits of life are being formed, many sacrificing their prospects in life, stepped forth to save the nation, how fortunate, I say, that other youths stayed dutifully at their mother's apron strings, where, amid the civilising infhesca of hers tzl society, tity iabfted crdi t.

tions of heser and caihoci, Cd they now nisbly step to vent the old soldier from staining' their manhood by accepting what the nation has owed him for twenty-five years. Oh! Why was not this warning voice raised in time to' prevent the old veterans of the Mexican war from sacrificing their manhood? Now boys, vote the Democrat tick-' et; keep Grover in the White Honse, and a good round Democratic major ity in congress, and your honor and manhood are safe, so far as the temptation to accept a pension is concerned. They will effectively remove it from your path. M. HOLTON ITEMS.

Holton, June 4th. Decora tion day was beautifully and appro priate! observed. An immense crowd in the city park was addressed by Judge Guthrie, of Topeka. A procession of three hundred or more vehicles repaired to the cemetery where the graves of the honored dead were covered with flowers and watered with tears. The Grand Army and the Woman's Relief Corps were in attendance.

Excellent music was rendered. Miss Addie Jones returned frca a week's visit in Whiting Saturday. The ladies of the M. E. church will give a strawberry and ice cream festival at the church parlors Tuesday evening.

Mrs. Ira S. Taber entertained a few of her friends and former school mates at a garden party Thursday evening. Her guests were royally cared for; delicious refreshments were served. Miss Lillie Jones has just closed a very successful three month's school term near Whiting and returned home.

Campbell University's spring term ton and Valley Falls prices and farm- ers'supplies furnished just as cheaply and there can be no reason why a very large business should not be done here. We need a bank here, and can as sure any party who wirhes to engage in banking, that he will find this an exceptionally good point. We need a furniture store, a hard ware store, a stove and tin and seed store, a harness shop, a shoe shop, a livery stable, and in fact, we need every branch of business that will justify in any small town, and no mat ter what you want to engage in, here a good opening. Remember that there are very few towns in Kansas, in the midst of a fine country as this, that has no competition in less than 10 miles. Come and investigate you cannot help but be pleased.

'PE0HIBITI0H PLATFORM. The following is the platform adop ted by the prohibition party at Indianapolis, Ind. last evening: The prohibition party in national convention assembled, acknowledging Almighty God as the mover of all power of government, do hereby de clar, Hirst, That the manufacture, im portation, transportation and sale of all alcoholic beverages shall be made public crimes, and punished as such. icond, That such prohibition must be secured through amendments of oar national and state constitution, enforced by adequate laws and adequately supported by administratiye authority; and to this end ins organ ization of the prohibition party demand, iit stats and nation. Third, That any form of license taxation or regulation of the liquor traffic is contrary to good govern ment; that any party which supports regulation license or tax is in alliance with such traffic aud becomes the act ual foe of the states welfare, and that we denounce the republican and democratic parties for their persistent attitude in favor of the licensed in iquity, wbereby they oppose the demand of the people for prohibition, and through open complicity with the liquor cause defeat the enforce ment of law, Fourth, For the immediate aboli tion of the internal revenue system whereby our national government is deriving support from our greatest national vice.

Fifth, that an adequaie public rev enue, if necessary, may be properly raised by import duties and by an equitable assessment upon the prep erty and legitimate business of the country, but import duties should be so reduced that a surplus shall not be accumulated in the treasury, and that the burdens of taxation shall be removed from comforts and necessa ries of life. Sixth, Civil service appointments for all civil offices, clerical in their duties, should be based upon moral, intellectual and physical qualify tions, and not upon party service or party necessity Seventh That the right of suf frage rests on no mere circumstance of race, color, sex or nationality, and that where from any cause, it has been withheld by custom from those who are suitably, and morally qualified for the exercise of an intelligent ballot, it should be restored by the people through the legislatures of the several states on such educational basis as they may deem wise Eighth For the abolition of po lygamy and the establishment of uni form laws governing marriage and cuvorce. the town. The country for miles around in all directions is a nice smooth, rolling prairie, well improved and in a high state of cultivation. It is dotted over with elegant farm houses, barns and out buildings; painted up in good tyle, attractive in appearance, sur rounded by the garden with paling ence; the bluegrass covered yard, with rose bushes, and beds of flowm great orchards of apple, cherry, pear and plum, loaded with delicious 'ruits, extensive acres on all sides upon which are growing great crops of flax, oats, corn and potatoes all in the most promising condition, to which may also be added hundreds of acres covered with nature's green, upon which may be found great herds of horses, cattle and hogs, fat, sleek and valuable, and every day adding to their worth.

This is no overdrawn picture but a veritable statement of facts, and un der such circumstances and with such surroundings, it can not be otherwise than that the town of Denison should flourish and grow and build up and shortly become a fine business point, and take its place in the ranks of the thriving young cities of Kansas, MORE ABOUT DENISON. In an article appearing elsewhere in this paper, the location and surroundings of this place has been par tially described, and now we shall say something of the town and its needs and prospects. Last year where the town now is, was a corn field and there was nothing to indicate that there ever would be a town here, but a couple of enter prising men of Holton conceived the idea that the location and surroundings, warranted the belief that a busi ness point of no little importance could be established here as soon as the K. C. W.

N. W. railroad was completed. In accordance with this view they purchased the land that is now plot ted into lots, paying for the same an exorbitant price compared with the value of other lands round about But they had such faith in the future prospects of the place, thatjthey did not hesititate to take the risk, and in September, 1887, they plotted 80 acres into town lots. It was supposed that the R.

would be completed for business in October and building material could be shipped and building operations begun at unfortunately there was delay, and by the time arrange ments were made and lumber ship ments commenced, the winter had set in and closed operations till opening of spring 1888 since then matters have been progressing finely. We now have a first class lumber yard, doing an excellent business- two general stores, one grocery store, and an agricultural implement house, a few other business houses nearly completed, and a goodly number of residence houses done and occupied and several others in process of con struction and will soon be finished. A good hotel building is under con tract, and will be pushed to comple tion. An elevator will be built and renrfv tn finnln tVifi frnrs this sonsnn. A stock buyer is here ready at all times to all the shipping stock offered, andn we will be able to accommodate ui so journer in our midst with good comfortable lodgings as well as to buyV the farmer his grain and stock.

Our population now about 100, and we have no doubt it win be three or four hundred before the enW the aa TTawa ita linvA a Villain aq tVN in one of the best improved anU is for many more, especially the following: Bank, furniture store, hardware and tinware, shoe shop, livery stable The sniping business is now well represented by a stock buyer and shipper, who has already built first class stock yards, and by a grain shipper, who will im-incdiatly erect an elivator. defense of the Sabbath as a civil in stitution without oppressing any who observe the same on any other day than the first day of the week. That isjhe Christian, economic method of; settling national differences; and the same method should by judicious legislation be applied to the settlement of disputes between large bodies of employes and employers; that the abolition of the saloon will remove the burdens, moral, physical and social, which now assail labor and rob it of its earnings and would prove to be the wise and successful way of promoting labor reform, and we invite labor and capital to unite with us for the accomplishment thereof; that monopoly in land is a wrong to the people, and the public land should be reserved to settlers, and that men and women should receive equal wages for equal work. Eleventh That our immigration laws should be so enforced as to pre vent the introduction into our coun-tiy of all convicts, inmates of depen dent institutions, and others physically incapacitated for self support, and that no person should have the bailor in any state where not a citizen of the United States. Recognizing and de claring that prohibition of the liquot traffic has become the dominant issue in national politics we invite to full party fellowship all those this one question, are with us agreed, in the full belief that the party can and will remove sectional difference, pro mote national unity, and insure the best welfare of our native land.

Do 70a see any thing wrong with this platform? En.j CEDAR GROVE ITEMS. Editor Denison News: This corner of Cedar township has always been too modest to write itself up through the columns of the Hol ton papers, but as we have one nearer home, I will venture on a few items. Naturally the most talked of event of the past week, was the wedding on Batchelor Ridge. Mr. James E.

Gilleece, of Cedar, to Miss Sally Scott, of Jefferson Co. It was sup posed that the batchelors of Batche lor Ridge were invincible, but when Jim went back on them, they became demoralized. Robert Wiley, Joseph Mann and others of the band are hiding, while John Higham is trying to find some one to surrender to, with fair prospects of success. There are rumors of another wed ding soon. There was another excursion to the reserve last Saturday, fishing.

have not heard that the fish suffered to anv ereat extent. There were about 25 in the crowd, and an enjoy able time reported. There were no upsets reported, but Joe was not along this time. It has been reported that Jim took unfair means to test the amiability 0: his bride's temper, by fixing his stove flue so it would not draw. I have not heard with what result.

A detatchment from G. A. R. post No. 277, met with the citizens of the Cedar Grove Cemetery, decc-raion day, and decorated the graves of the eight soldiers who are burled there, while the friends decorated the other graves.

Rev. Otto, of the M. E. church, delivered a very appropri ate address on the occasion. Was glad to meet old time neighbors, Mr and Mrs.

James Raney. In the afternoon there was an im promptu old settlers' reunion at the house of Mr. D. Morrison. Present D.

Morrison, James Raney, S. Elliot and I. C. Myers and families. who each held down a log cabin in one mile of each other during the log cabin days of Kansas.

Several hours were spent very agreeably in WHEN the democrats of the state wish to atone for some of their misdeeds, they bring fourth from his retirement Judge John Martin and place him up as a candidate for governor, and about three-fourths of the voters go to the polls, commiserating his in glorious fate and wishiner he was 1 a republican and knock him out, not that they love him less or that they love their country more. Boston Corbet the slayer of John Wilkes Booth, last week, while out exercising, and while his guard's back was turned seized a horse which was hiched near by, and escaped from the Insane Asylum at Topeka, vowing vengeance against the state officers and also the persons who were occupying his farm in Cloud county. Nothing has since been heard of him and it is feared he may carry out some of the terrible threats made during his con- finment. This shows a reprehen sible neglect on the part of the guard. Judge Thurman announces that he is a candidate only for a seat in Heaven.

The "Old Roman" may succeed in securing by a small majority, a seat with the redeemed, but when it comes to holding down the vice-presi dential chair under a democratic, free trade, Cleveland administra tion, he will have not only his own political sins, but those of the other end of the ticket to answer for, which, we think it safe to predict, will preclude any possibility of his eyer reaching the lofty seat to which he aspires by any process of promotion. DENISOtf, KAVSAS. ITS LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS. This town, Denison, is located about midway between Valley Falls in Jefferson county and Holton, County Seat of Jefferson county, being about ten miles from either place, on the line of the Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railroad. On the south of the town, and in close proximity, runs North Cedar creek, skirted as all eastern Kansas streams are, with a fine growth of timber, adding greatly to the beauty of the situation beside being useful in furnishing cheap wood for fuel and many other purposes.

Good building stone abound near by and are easily and cheaply pro cured; thereby greatly lessening the expense of building over localities where they have to be transported for several miles. This stone is of the Blue Limestone variety, and it is said, makes an excellent quality of lime. Good sand is also abundant right on the town site, which is another element of cheapness to be consider ed in building. It costs nothing only the loading Into wagons and hauling a few rods. Water as clear and pure as heart could desire is running from numerous springs in different places on the town site, and has been found by go ing down to a depth of fifteen feet on nearly as high ground as ther is in the town.

The Reformed Presbyterian church a large and commodious structure, with a numerous membership, is very beautifully located within a few rods of the town site. The United Presbyterians also have a fine large church and a great many adherents, who gather here from the country surrounding. The Methodists, Baptists, Chris tians, also have organizations in the neighborhood, and no doubt ere long The entire town with a small exception has been built up since spring opened. Those who have settled here have come to stay, and are building permanent and comodious res-idences. church ri represented here, and itmr build or move cnurcn candi here soon.

of a school build- rdy being earnestly dis-1he Si Smiths ion we woujd say, a large juson to live and to do A 1 1 A rv td ou cannot ao Detier. ,7 Ed. 2 a wb "is from all parts of the to the effect that the has been sufficiently year pi, growing crops. r. rr tied voluf ne Knights of theleioaaid to be becoming binoulissolved.

An invest-ea'nierht disclose the fact t(t was shaken from its found dp by the explosion of the or is and mouths of some of its members. ma i 1 NflfGH M. Brooks, alias Max- to 1 on who, old settlers will re- wlber, killed his room-mate, at Mfouthern Hotel in St. Louis, ttyieen sentenced to hang July If a few more delays are 3l in the execution of the sornQrsV will die of old age. tharesul-the empr Lincoln sailed for week, now wouldn't irgraceful act for this country low its confidence in two dis nhrnnrl Kv llight testimonial of its re the Repulican nominations 1 1 closes inursaay.

rupus 01 tne first, second and third rhetorio classes will deliver public rhetoricals on Tues-day, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings respectively. Miss Mamie Scott, of is the guest of Mrs. Ccrk er. Kn. wealthiest neighborhoods in northern plinth For prohibiting all corn-Kansas, with no competition to speak binWons ef capital to control and to in any direction nearer than 10 miles.

incMse the cost of products for popu-Oui facilities are such that stock and lar CGuumption. A.