Kingman Weekly News from Kingman, Kansas • 2

C. II. Alexander has a new suite of county treasurer has published Harry Glllen'a new Have you seen THEWEEKLY NEWS. rooms fitted up in the Faught block. beauties and no buggies? They are mistake.

the delinquent tax list. Kingman is to have another new ha After manv months of close applica M. A. HULL. Manager.

tion to business Charles McCurtin has taken a lay off, and gone on a visit to The Hotel Ball has seventy board tel. The Laclodo will be moved back and a brick erected where the frame Indiana and Ohio. During Mr. Mc ers, none of whom are candidates for Curtin's absence Dr. W.

N. Home now stands. register of deeds. has kindly consented to assist Mr, Sawver in the drug store, but he wil "Keno Sam" was arrested by sher A change of time went into effect on the Mo. Pacific yesterday.

Notice not permit his patients to Buffer. iff McClelland last Saturday but re time tard in this issue. Mr. Chas. F.Scott, the accomplish leased on $2,000 bail.

E. II. Jones and I'UOFISSSIONAL CHARACTER. We are indebted to Dr. Bcnepe for the following extract: Every individual, on entering the profession, as he becomes thereby entitled to all its privileges and immunities, incurs an obligation to exert his best abilities to maintain its standing aud to extend the bonds of its usefulness; he should, therefore, observe strictly such laws as are instituted for the government of its members; should avoid all contumelious and sarcastic remarks relative to tho faculty as a body; and while by unwearied diligence he resorts to every honorable means of enriching the scince, he should entertain a due respect for his who have, by their labors, brought it to the elevated condition in which he finds it.

There is no profession from the members of which greater purity of ed and able editor of the Iola Kas. We heard quite a number of farmers Sam Welch going his security. The Itcgistcr, is spending a couple of days remark on Saturday that they would trial is set for September 1st. at in our citv visiting his old friend and have more corn this season than last college classmate, Mr. Dion S.

Hutch-ins. Mr. Scott edits one of the strong year. We are still ahead. Kinnescuh est and best Republican papers in Herald.

eastern Kansas, and is very influen Geo. W. Craycraf is having a hand tial in the affairs of the old second dis some residence erected on his farm trict. He is very highly pleased with western Kansas, and particularly with near Alemeda, eight miles from King Kingman, which lie regards tne aesi It. D.

Taught Is having some im- Erovements made in his handsome rick block. Work on the east end of the street car line is progressing in the Hock Island addition. Judge Willis is in New York. He will be present at the marriage of Preston Gillett. Thursday afternoon, between two and three o'clock the thermometer registered 108 degrees.

"We still have room for more candidate's announcements. Come early and get choice space. The water works at Newton have gone dry. We presume the Newton-ites will now use beer. We are authorized to announce that Albert Watkins will not be a candidate for register of deeds.

numerous strangers on the streets of Kingman indicate the growing popularity of the city. The new building of the city superintendent of schools is being erected to the northeast of the city public school building. Dr. Prank Foutz is at present an amateur physician, but under the skil man. It is 26x26, two stories with an town the southwest.

So say we man. Spivey Dispatch. Jos. C. McClelland came in from Kingman early Wednesday morning.

After transacting a "whole lot of bus- ines" and shaking hands with his many friends at this place he departed on the 11 a. m. train for home. John P. Moore, a republican candidate for register of deeds, was in the city a few days this week.

He is a very courteous gentleman and one that it is a pleasure to meet Norwich News. Our readers should remember that excellent cellar. all. W. W.

Berrv has purchased the character and a higher standard of moral excellence are required, than the medical; and to attain such eminence is a duty every physician owes alike to his profession and to his patients It is due to the latter, as without it he Parks barber shop and consolidated with his neat parlor near the Laclede Kingman will be the only county in the southwest which will have corn to export. We might ship a train load to the drouth stricken districts of Illinois, just for an advertisement, you Mr. Berrvwilf employ the very best cannot command their respect and con workmen in this portion of the coun fidence, and to both because no scientific attainments can compensate for the want of correct moral principles. know. try, and conduct his shop on strictly business principles.

lie is a first-class workman, and will make it an object to the business men to extend a lib the Kingman Iron Foundry, under the efficient management of Geo. E. Filley it is aiso incumbent upon tne lacui- More than three hundred tons of bi'oom corn were raised in Kingman ty to be temperate in all things, for eral patronaire. If you patronize Mr, Berrv vou can rest assured of cour Co. this year.

That crop pays and is teous treatment and the very best sure. The dry weather does not dam age it like it does other crops. Mul and Robert Milburn, is the only foundry west of Wichita in Kansas. These gentlemen have expended large sums of money in establishing this enterprise, and they should receive substantial encouragement. It isn't every the practice of phisic requires the unremitting exercise of a clear and vigorous understanding, and on emergencies for which no professional man should be unprepared, a steady hand, an acute eye, and unclouded head may be essential to the well being, and even to the life of a fellow creature.

work. The Missouri Pacifi has printed i circular announcing its control and fa ture operation of the Denver, Mem vane Jtecord. Joseph well known and re man who is willing to invest $6,000 in liable farmer has a field of corn which he says will average from sixty to It is derogative to the dignity of the phis Atlantic, now completed from Chetopa to Larned, Kansas, a distance of 292 miles. Trains will make close connections with the Missouri Pacific in enterprise of this nature, and profession to resort to public adver eighty bushels per acre. Kingman county will prove the banner corn Messrs.

Filley Milburn should be given the contract for casting every proper. The line runs through a mug' ful tuition of Dr. J. W. Light will soon blossom out a full fledged M.

D. Kingman city schools will open about the 19th of September. The city board will require all pupils to be vaccinated before they will be admitted. Col. Charles Gates foreman of the Leader, is doing some excellent pamphlet work for the city.

The Col. is indeed an artist in the job printing line. Certainly one of the very best indi tisements or private cards, or hand bills, inviting tho attention of individuals affected with particular, diseases; or promising radical cures; nificent agricultural country, thread growing county this year. ing the counties of Labette, Montgonv column to be used in the new brick buildings. They have put their money All ladies of Kingman and vicinity ery, Chautauqua, Cowley, Sumner, are invited to donate flowers to the Kinsman.

-Pratt. Reno, Staiiord and into the toundry and snould receive the entire patronage of the community. C. T. U.

to be sold at the booth to be Pawnee, and touching at the principal points of the territory through which it County Attorney S. S. Ashbaugh has returned from an interview with the conducted at the coming fair by this organization, the funds to be used to passes, comprising cations of confidence in Kingman is sedan, ueoarvaie, wmneid, the fact that all of our most consent carry on the temperance work Belle Plaine.Conway Springs, Norwich, tive home fatalists are readily lend Attorney General at Topeka. Some one has written the Attorney General that in Kingman there were fourteen drug stores violating the prohibitory law and four open saloons, and that the town Joseph McPeek, A. F.

Grimes and Kingman, Turon, luka, Stanford, llud son and Larned. ing money on city property. or to publish cases and operations in the daily prints, or suffer such publications to be made; to invite laymen to be present at operations, to boast of cures and remedies, to adduce certificates of skill, or to perform any other similar acts. The.se are the ordinary practices of empirics or quacks, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician. Equally derogatory to professional character is it for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument or medicine; or to dispense a secret nostrum, whether it be the composition or exclusive property of himself or others for if such nostrums be of Mr.

Maxedan, farmers residing in the Although the new four story brick A great sensation was caused yesterday bv a farmer from the south west part of the county, are having was over run with thugs and thieves. addition to the Hotel Ball is not finish While such a report is wholly unfound quite a controversy as to whom the ed the new proprietors have induced ed, even though it was true we fail to Judge Ball to renovate the wooden por belt is due for raising the most corn to tion of the building, and it has been the acre. They claim all the way from see what difference that makes to the Attorney General. Whoever furnished such an infamous and untruthful state re-papered and repainted and is very fifty to eighty bushels comfortable, clean and attractive. Mr, ment to the Attorney General, evident- Charlie Becker, who is getting out a Gumey, one ot the proprietors, is a has not the good ot Kingman real efficacy any concealment regarding neat little paper at New Murdock, it is inconsistent with benencience and accompanied bv his father, paid the at heart.

Mr. Ashbaugh says no action will be taken by the Attorney General, as that officer expressed him professional liberalty; and if mystery iilonegive it value and importance, News a visit Monday. New Mur self satisfied with the statement of such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice- dock is quite a small town to support a hotel man with a record, and with the assistance of his estimable wife and an accomplished and polite partner, is bringing the Hotel Ball rapidly to the front as one of the best houses in the city, which is saying a good deal. This house has some seventy among its guests many prominent business men of the city, and every day the number is increased. Mr.

Ashbaugh that there was no truth part of the conty stating that he was not a candidate for any office. The mail was believed to be insane. Work on the Culver block will be resumed as soon as the contractor who has had charge thus far has completed the foundations of the new block on Main, near Avenue B. The gas well is down 650 feet the drill going down at the rate of 25 feet per day. If this rate is kept up for one year the bottom of the well will bs be over 10,000 feet, or two miles, below Kingman.

Engineer Miller of the M. K. S. W. says there are portions of Lyon county where no rain has fallen for eighteen months.

He also reports very little water in the Neosho river and that standing in pools, covered with green scum. Ryden, the tailor, has commenced paper, but the citizens in that neigh in the report. borhood will find it a profitable Common Law American Physicians. AN OPEN LETTER. To the Honorable Mayor and City To those who are complaining on ac count of the dry weather we have had in Kansas, the following extract from J.

B. Marshall, the photographer, Council of the city of Kingman: We the undersigned resident citizens of some time ago purchased a large cam The brick addition will be ready for occupancy by the the Hotel Ball will then be the largest house in the a letter written by Preston Gillett on his arrival at Cleveland, Ohio, to his city. era and is now prepared to take life size portraits. He is also prepared to copy old pictures and enlarge them in uncle, Omar Gillette, will be of The word does not seem to be in a the city of Kingman, members of the W. C.

T. U. of this city, hereby petition your honorable body and represent that since the inauguration of the present administration of the city, we have watched with anxiety and up to the present time with satisfaction, the ef condition to-day to make people cheer ndia ink or crayon, and indeed, any I gob here all O. K. after one of the ful.

A milk famine threatens Chicago all the northwest is gloomy over the thing in the photographic line. Call hardest trips I ever have taken. Don't an action against the Water Works and see him. say a word about hot weather in Kan- Company lor $150, tor damages sus continued drought, though slight rains are beginning to fall, in some places the prairies are on fire sweeping over saa. I hope every man who is inclined M.

II. Vail, section foreman W. tained dunner the recent water test by ficient manner which the laws governing the city have been enforced. But we beg through this medium to express our dissatisfaction with certain i i i i i' having a large stock oi goods damp residing on Sherman street was ened and spoiled. II.

L. Strohm farms and consuming everything their way, the corn and cereal crops are reported to be so short as to cause jaws eiiiiuLeu unur luriuer uuumiiatii- to complain of the state will take the trip I have, and, if after he has taken it, he does not return fully satisfied with his lot in Kansas, I will say "he is brought the suit. The most cruel thing we have seen alarm throughout the nation. Famine tions and we ask a repeal thereof and enactment of a law more in harmony with the statutes of the State of Kan prevails in portions of Persia, forest tor a long time is the attempt ot our sitting up with a sick wife, giving medicine, and lay down on the floor to rest. He dropped off to sleep, when some one robbed him of a silver watch and $24 in money.

No clew to the theif has been discovered. joined to his idols; let him alone." fires are raging disastrously in Germany evening cotemporary to discourage the sas. candidacy ot Dr. ike tor coroner, The ordinance providing a punish Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are alike suffering, though Illinois and simply because the Dr. is not a Re the cholera is spreading in Italy, the coffee crop is short in South America, and all Europe, Russia, and part of publican.

Dr. Levy is a graduate of Asia are in trouble over the prospects Indiana are needing it much the most. Ohio, too, is in very bed condition. Knockabout University, and other wise eminently qualified for the posi tion. in Balgaria.

Still this is the only The early crop was quite good but corn world or whicn tnere is any written is gone up. LiOcai rains nave saved Daniel Nunnemaker Monday showed a reporter a tuft of blue stem grass, most of the stalks of which were eight feet and a half high when he changed them into hay. This growth would seem to indicate that the dry weather hasn't injured the grass very much in During the months of April, May, June and luly the city treasury was history; it is the only one of which the race knows anything absolutely certain; and since grief, sorrow and mur-murings are poor investments and pay enriched $1019 received from fines some pieces, xne creeK at Asntaouia is dry, a thing never known before to the oldest settlers, and the old, old $625 was collected from those having violated the temperance ordinance, $232 from women of ill repute and $122 ment for the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of the city fixes the penalty at twenty-five dollars fine while the State laws fixes the penalty for the same offense at one hundred dollars. We believe the city law was enacted at a time when the policy of the city was to create a revenue by the infliction of a light fine of this kind which should tacitly operate as a license to continue the business for another month. A continuation of such a policy under the act of March the 2nd, 1887, providing for the police government of cities, would subject our city to the provisions of that bill.

It is there fore our desire that the ordinance above referred to be repealed and another be enacted, fixing a penalty in men around the county go and look at the dry bed as a child would look at an this part of Kansas. He cut it off bis only bitter dividends, it is tne duty ot people "to eat, drink and be merry." The ills of life must be met; but they are best overcome by the earnest and cheerful spirits of the age. The dark souls of earth that "dwells in caves of place on the south side. Again it is our duty to call the railway company's attention to the gloom" never look well, and they are never the master builders in anything worthy. It is the hopeful people the imperative demand for light at the de elephant.

Fires along the line are quite common. Two or three times the train we were on was stopped to put out fires it had set. Grass that ought to be fine pasture now, is as dry as can be. The dead grass seems to burn much easier than that which has properly matured. I don't know what will be done for feed.

In many parts of the country they have to feed now, people with a future who are the salt of the earth. They can look on the apparent chastisements of Providence with composure. K. C. Star.

pot during train time. Last evening a gentleman at the depot fell on the platform and was hurt in attempting to find the depot. Total darkness reigns supreme on the platform, and barring harmony with the prohibitory laws of the state, in order thai? any attempt to Yesterday a reporter of the News examined the new foundry on the South Side and was astonished to charge the city with simulating fines for licenses, may be effectively denied, and for the better protection of the one feeble lamp in the station there was no lisht at the depot last night where they are milking. Kansas is in find one of the largest foundry build fine condition compared with many of Whatever. the eastern states.

Mr. A. Combs, one of the substan OLD SETTLERS PIC-NIC. tial farmers of Smoots Creek, was in the city yesterday. Mr.

Combs is a An old settlers pic-nic will be held in Wm. II. Starr's beautiful grove near ings in the state filled with all the latest improved machinery for casting and dressing iron. The building is 32x70 feet, 16 feet in the clear, with large furnace and engine, innumerable moulds and an enormous crane "for moving heavy weights. This crane has been constructed with the greatest care and it is so simple that a child could elevate many tons and place them anywhere in the foundry.

The foreman, Robert Milburn, is an English moulder of many years experience, and is said the pretty village of Belmont, Kingman countv. on August 25, 1887, veteran of the sixth Missouri cavalry, and stood shoulder to shoulder with our fellow townsman, Charles Kelley, in many a hard faught battle. Char city against the sale of intoxicating liquors. Mrs A Barnes, Mrs Anthony Mrs Morris Mrs Howe Mrs II Harner Mrs II Grant Mrs McGinnis Mrs Lawson Mrs Chadwick Mrs McKee Mrs A Holloway Miss Nellie Smith Miss Etta Harner Mrs Erwin Mrs EL Thorpe MrsM Lashmit Mrs Brandon Mrs A Gillette Mrs A Freeborn Mrs Hutto Mrs Billings Mrs Burket Mrs Frank Roberson. A.

F.Grimes, a substantial farmer from the western part of the county, was in town Monday and says the The following speakers are invited to be present and address the people lie was a mere stripling in those days T. R. Kinsev. J. uiliett, J.

J. 'o- butjie won many laurels for bravery of from other sources. Who dare say the laws are not vigorously enforced in Kingman. Mr. Charles Robinson returned from Manitou Springs, Colorado, yesterday.

Mrs. Robinson will remain at the Springs some time. Mr. R. says as the party pulled out of going west, the thermometer indicated 100 degrees, and forty-eight hours afterward they were at Manitou, with a fire burning in the grate, and the doors and windows closed.

Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Morgan Hutto, has a dog that is quicker than thought. Yesterdrythe boys turned him loose after six jack rabbits and he succeeded in bagging five out of the pack. The ears were cut off and sent to the editor of the Courier and it is said his tout en semhle is now in keeping with the character he so eminently personates. The Pratt Register is the only newspaper in the 28th Judicial District supporting Mr.

Whitelaw for judge. The Greensburg Rustler, the representative of democracy in Kiowa county, is for Judge Leslie. The Kingman Democrat, the only democratic newspaper in Kingman county, will support Judge Leslie. There is a Waterloo awaiting the man who makes the race against Mr. Leslie.

Prvtt Press. The wheat crop may fail and oats be only a memory while the promise of a lusty yield of corn grows more uncertain with each successive day of intense heat, but the "watermillion" is with us in countless thousands even though it may not stay with us long. In fact so bountiful and cheap is the supplv that dealers no longer take the trouble to remove the unsold ones from the sidewalk at closing, being firm in the faith that all have been so gorged during the day that theft will be a thing unknown. So far not one "million' has been molested an1 no more conclusive evidence of the sterling honesty of our citizens particularly the colored' element could be shown than is afforded by this simple which Mr. Combs speaks with much to be one ot the most expert workmen fealing and pride.

in the state. In fact, he can cast anything from a rot nail to a mammoth ley. Dr. Ilinton, J. W.

Aiton, Revs. Rowe and Sumner, E. N. Ilaag, Judge P. II.

Massey, W. A. Eaton and Morton Albaugh. Everybody is invited to come and have a jolly good time. Come and for get the cares which hang on mortal hands.

Husbands bring your wives; fathers bring your children; young iron column and put a finish on it equal The McPherson Democrat noticing to any workman. Tne castings turn the announcement of Mr. Il'ron for corn crop in his part of the county is good. ed out by the Kingman Foundry are register of deeds of this county says: just as good as those made at Fort "Mr. H'ron is an old settler of this Scott or St.

Louis. As a sample of fine Editor Brown, of Spivey, was in the county coming here from Wisconsin in city last Sunday. He says the weekly races at Spivey are becoming very work the street railway switch frogs, made at this foundry, are on exhibition, together with many iron columns, gentlemen bring your best girls, and everybody bring everybody. Come with your baskets well filled, and go back with them well emptied. the summer of 1879.

nehas parents, a brother and sister, and a host of door plates, etc. It is not necessary to send to Kan XOTICE OF PCBL1CATIOX. "A bit oi lun now ana uieu Is relished by the best of men. The Belmont Urass Band will fur In the District Court of Kingman county. sas City for castings or to get mowers or reapers repaired, as the work can be done at home just as well and the ex- of freight or express saved, hose wanting iron fronts for brick nish plenty of good music.

A 1 so, good ortran music and singing. Refresh Kansas, Cora ii. Cummins. 1 Plaintiff, I Action vs. tor divorce Charles Q.

Cummins, Dft To Charles Q. Cummins, defendant. Ynn ro hpnhT notified that you have been ments of any and all kinds will be on hand on the grounds. a hail will lie eiven at night, also friends living near Conway, where he farmed over two years for his father, earning his daily bread by the sweat of his brow. He clerked several months for the firm of Bowker Bros.

before the big fire in McPherson which burned the old court house and town hall, ne is noted for honesty, integrity and thoroughness in everything he undertakes, and is eminently a self-made man. We are glad to hear of his success, and hope he will be nom- buildings should patronize the home foundry, because they will thus be en abled to save tne freight from remote base ball, pony race, foot race, wheel barrow race and other things. iie-1 in the District Court of Kingman county. Kansas, by Cora B. Cummins, the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear points.

Our foundry purchases all the old iron it can get at from 25 cents to and answer the petitition of said plaintiff, thtsdayflledinsaidcomt, on or before the ftvA IOC" nJiw 111 Wa 65 cents per hundred, and duplicates War. 11. starr, rres. II. C.

Clark, Sec. Dr. Haggard will not be a candidate Din aaj 01 crpuruiuvrt iif juuiucui win tAkpn Airninfit vou for the relief demanded in eastern prices on all classes of work. The people of Pratt and Kiowa will in said piainun a penuon find it to their advantage to patronize for coroner. One term seems to nave satisfied the Dr's.

political ambitions. inated and elected to the office he aspires to." SJl-3t Atty for ITff. the Kingman Foundry..