Chetopa Statesman from Chetopa, Kansas • 3

-f 1 FKRSOXAL MEJCTIOjr. THE MURDERED MAHOBTKYS. Ml Boot and Shoe S1ore CiftWPUTATESIHII. it -ctiror uetopa. TIIUH-SDAY, APRIL 22, 13SC.

Smoks YVAIJASII No. 40. WAIiA JjII No. 40 C. We will not be undersold on anything.

J. B. A G. II. Spangle.

The WABASH No. 4Q Is the boaa Cigar. For 4le onljr by 0 'J ajjor. For Holiday present go to L'pangle'" Jewelry More, largest tock and lowest price. If you wtnt a Iady Cold Watch, go ioSpacgtVa.

They have thtru." Something new In I'Unter and rtts it. Willi oh A I.tox. The bt La Kansa for eale at t. C. TaylorV.

Ilt ito.k of Hrareleti and Neck Chain at panIe'J, UoM Hand and Gold and Toothpick at Sparkle'. The WAIIASII i't. i the test Cigar lot In the city. J. n.

ar.d IT. Spar.r;tw hare the and Wit JtM-k of WafrhM. Clfxks, i'eweiry and lrrwai in thi part ff thr country. hltn May I. in tte public Sfhcd building, ojf a school of two -sonth duration.

Tuiti.r. $1 per month. Jr.y sii: The srsiman otfi-e I.U? a full stock of Utinr.ry mrb fiat letter, fotu-xon note, hoM pa.kf', rote, bill pafrn, and at-to gent iiting ml ku'f card. Fine printing graran-l ed. Wabash N3.

40. RAILROAD RC.VBLE, GrariiM? Hr(an. Contractors on the Denver ar.d Mem-road are at work In this county tt Lake creek and other places. The right of way is ateo paid for, arJ ii a few days a hrge ad lltiocal force wljl be employed oh the vork of grading. Theee fact and others'glfen beloV "certainly Indicate the.t bueints Is the moXto now.

Train be running to the western line, of thl3 county by th Ith of July, and wa wfill Lavp big 'celebration on that day. Chf lop nnU 3tJ. The work of grading on thi road I being puhtd forvnrd at both ends of the line'. Tte section the depot and the rh cr will probably be completed next week and the forc4 transferred to another place. Vbrk is also going for ward, it li iaid.at several points on the line In Cherokee county.

Iltinol Central to Chrlopn Clobe Hemorrat, April ll: Veterdav S. H. Mallory of the contracting lirm of rifgeraldA Mallorr made a contract with If. L. Kox A o.

ol iSt. Inii for .) mile of railway material for the Denver. MeiuphU and Atlantic. fr the grading of which line lle-r. Fitzgerald A Mai-lory of fhetop sublet cor tracts thi week for Lahetto.

county, Kana, and alo ordered ties, ton delivered at Chrtopa ithou' delay. 'I he contract with iler. Fox A Go. includes tn of rail, which will be turnel out ly the We-tern Steel company of thi city. The steel-work, hich have leen hut down for l.rie paf.

will openel up on thi contrnct, which in the aggregate Involve S2.ii0.i)i.). The Denver. Memphh cn.1 Atlantic? rill form an Important connecting line, anil it is the evident b'teht ion of It projector to push it through to completion a rapidly po.iblfi. 'I racklaying i to be commence! a oon a the grade 1 leveled, and after the Completion of th line from Chetopa to CotJey viile. wblili it I estimated will early inJu'ly, work will at once be cotumenced on the Plaine and Fingman division, which i now grade 1 and ready for ties and iron It i under.itocHl that the Iilino! Central i interested in thU project, having m--cured the Che.ter and TamiP-a.

with the probahle intention of securing a direct line through Pilot Knot- to Indian territory, coniwt ting with the Denver, Memphis arid Atlantic at Chetopa. St. directly interested in the pre-ject, a it is understood, and generally conceded, that thw Illinois Central i-seeking a direct line of its own into the city, and the company very likely had thi intention and de.iro view when the Chester and Tr.u-aroa was sec ired. Columbus Advocate? We are creditably informed that the Gulf railroad company contemplates constructing ft line of from Columbu southwest, via of Chetopa, this season. Thi i the extension that they have been contemplating for years, am! we hope they will now push it through anil complete it before the Missouri Pacific get their cross-cut completed.

Mrmpblt lret clilnfj 'orfli 11" Ilnn.l. The new'fpapars atul I.usinefs people of Memphis are r.ow casting a longing eye toward (southern Kansas, and are discussing the advantages of a direct connection hitheruard. Of course Chetopa i now the prominent point In this section and ail the road hg the necessity of building to it. The following paragraphs indicattt the attention which this enterprise Is receiving: Memphis Avalanche: ft seem almost apparent to one ho examine the subject that the projected Memphis, Kansas and western road will he? one oft he best wetern connection Memphi can have. The line i to run from Memphi to While, river, helov Jackson-port, where it willcros White river and run south of th tt river through a tine productive portion of to the Missouri line, crowing the ponthwcMcru corner of Mionri bearing a far toward the youth Mis-oiiri line as practicable, and Into and thorugh the southern tier cf Kansas counties, parallel ith the Indian territory line.

Memphi Mr. Kirby of Kansas who spoke in the Merchants' F.x- hange Ve-terdav. ought to meet with the hearty encouragement of the people not onfy of this Sty but of -Vrkansa in hi endeavor build a railroad connect ing Denvef and Memphis by way of Kana. Such a road would make the people of Colorado and Kan-a independent of St. I oui ami Chicago, and ecnre to Memphi.

a very large. I ra.ie. It will aUn give railroad f.iclSiiic to a fruitful portion of Arkansas, now withonteren a mite of railroad, and make a way eay f.r its thrifty tanner to find a market. Mr. Kirby ty all mean be encouraged.

Ilev. It. MrOeery. ft vvr something of a urpri-e to learn that llev. C.

II. McCreery on Sunday last had tendered hi resignation a pastor of the Prebyterinn church at Ghcto-la. At a meeting of the congregation on Monday evening thi resignation wa accepted. Mr. 51cCrecry organised thi church in and with the exception of one year ha been it pastor ever since.

That year was devoted to rest and to the recovery of health impaired by so many year of constant labor. The church numbered six persons at it organization, and from that unall beginning it has grown to be one of influence second to none in this part of the state. The relation between pastor and people have always been of the most cordial and harmonious character, and (he severance now of the tie is the cause of much regret. Mr. McCreery leaves the pastoral work to accept the presidency of the Oswego college for young ladies, to which he has lately been elected by the trustees.

His extensive acquaintance ill enable him to do valuable work in building up and placing thi school on a basis for permanent usefulness. Mr. McCreery ill make this city hi home for some time to come. His many friend here will nnit in wishing him abundant success in hi labors. A display of horse and cattle at Os wego I.i-t eek brought out quite a r.um-b.

of both kind of stock. About twenty horse were exhibited Clyde? dais, Ilani-bletonian. rman and others. The cattle were Jerseys, Galloways, etc. It was a creditable display, and dhows that farmers in Labette rounty are awake to the value of imported toek.

The Liberty Light says a man named vn drowned lat week In trying to cross the river at that town. He live fi: Independence. Ltiler L. D. Santee.

Seventh Day Adveidlst, will preach nt Cecil on Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject, "Sinai an I Arrewt oflfr.t JlcCarty, one of tbe Mar-; tiers. fc As was Intimated In Statesman last week on.5,Af the murderers of tie Maho-ney brothers has been arrested and com-toittecl or trial. Ife wa? found a.t Dixon find Tyas wJthqa.i jtrouble to Muskogee, where, after an before Tufts, he wa 6ent to Fort Smith to'jail to await trial.

The Vinit-a Chieftain baa these The murder of these as they was made the tnoxc revolting ahef heinous from the faot that the Ma-honeys had fed and eared for the man in custody when ill, and through kindness were taking thelr' sluyers' across the country in search of work. McCarty small of statue. curJy. Jiaired, and his looks truly portray his character. He talks glibly of all the circumstances save the killing, an displays rioconqcrn whatever.

In conversation Xv'itb a guard he inquired how much time a mau got at Fort Smith after Bentence. When told about three months, he remarked that that was a- good while to live after sentence. Last fall he out tolled Fork with his wife a disreputable character, to work on the Frisco 'rail way. While there, the woman deserted him for another man, and when the road was completed the Mahoneys.with two teams. Fat McCarty and another man started for Fort Scott to work on a rid building east from there.

jt a placH some tiiifes south of Cotleyville, on Hickory creek, they stopped one' night with a'frlcnd of the Ma-honeys. Next night Jhe tradgey seems to have been perpetrated. A partial confession or admission of the crime has bten obtained from the prisoner and he will, doubtless, eventually give all of the particulars. The. other party to the murder still at liberty but, his capture is looked upon as a foregone Identified at I.avt.

Mr. P. B. Kinnicon was In town Saturday and furnished us some further particulars about those murdered men. Their identity has been settled beyond dispute.

Their names were John and Thomas Mahoney, and their ages twen ty-one and twenty-three- year. Their mother is Mrs. Barber, living at Neode-sha. She had the botliea uncovered bist week and recognized them as Ler sons, both by features tnd clothing. The young men had been at work on the railroad at Red Fork, arid were on their way They owned tlue mules, horses and wagon, but had very little money with them, having previously sent their 'savings home.

They owned a small farm- in Wilson county, and had Improved the winter season by working on the railroad. After Mrs. Barber reached Vir.lta and while she was attending to the case of McCarty, one of the murderers, tho mules winch had been bought by Cowan were run off to prevent her obtaining possession of them. 1 Notes From the Nation. IVinita Chieftain Mr.

Frederick Hoover, United States agent for the Osages. a short time ago resigned his ollice. The payis only ((H) a ear, while thu bone required is Sl.rtl.lKJU. A. McLean cf Neodesha, Kansas, who Is rtti uncle of the murdered Ma-honev came down to render what sis- he could In the search and prosecution of the murderers.

One day last week the seven-vears-old daughter of Matt Marlovv." living on the liill Davw. piace. winie pmytng witn ji neighbor's children fell Into a kettle of boiling soap. The child lived In horrible misery until next morning when it died. About the last experience of lie linn of Thompson and Rutcliir was the rob bery of their safe, or tow in currency and in checks; It occurred lust Thurs day night, and two and perhaps nil three.

of the thieves are unuer arrest, ine safe door had not been locked, and hence to dig'ont the cash box find chop it open with an axe v.as but little worK. Toe Ilnwest Form of Human Cruelty. New "York World: The Republican stronghold of Pennsylvania has paid out in twenty-one, years for the education and maintalnance of the children of soldiers, it Is now ascertained that more than of this amount has been stolen by the managers of these schools in that period. The stealings have averaged a year. The Investigation has been made, by the governor of the state, who has report ed the facts to the attorney-general in order that all persons who have defrauded the state and can be reached may be prosecuted.

The Infamy of the crime is increased by the devilish cruelty it has necessitated. The allowance by the state for the care of the children lias been early tor children over ten ears of age. I he children have been kept without proper accommodations, rugged and hungry, to enable the thieves to steal half the state allow ance. 1 he governor savs: "A sad der or more shameful story ol deliberate human cruelty could not be exhibited. Parsons Palladium: The county audi tor has disallowed the bdls presented for special deputies sent by the sheritl to Parsons during the strike troubles, on the ground of the absence of statutory authority for their allowance.

J. Lewis, a night yardman on me Mo. Pacific at this point, while uncoup ling cars pear the passenger depot last Thursday night, was struck by a brake-beam anil knocked under the wheels of the moving train, and so mangled and injured that he died in about an hour afterward. Rev. L.

J. Dyke, formerly of this city, but now pastor of the Baptist church at Cotleyville, was recently agreeably surprised by a large company of his members and" friends, bearing with them liberal supplies of good things of all kinds, and a starch box containing lifty-6even silver dollars. Galena Republican: On Thursday night Frank Gray fell into a shaft 53 feet deep. His companions missed him, but thought he was in the crowd about the scene of the lire. Upon theirreturn they passed the shaft, and hearing sounds issuing therefrom peeped down and saw Gray at the bottom of the 6haft, lighting matches to see where he was.

They lowered a rope and hoisted him out. With the exception of a few slight bruises he was uninjured. Arkansas City Republican: The much talked of steel barges lor the navigation of the Arkansas river have at last been completed. They are two of them, each lOx'jO feet. They" are capable of hauling three car loads of Hour drawing only about 10 inches of water.

Next week the "Kansas Miller" will tow them down to Ft. Smith with a cargo of Hour and other freight. With the Ft. Smith road and a line of steamboats ply ing up and down tho Arkansaw to this city, won't our boom be Immense. The Journal of Cawker, Mitchell county, tells of a Cawker man that attempted to give a pony a powder by putting the medicine in a glass tube and then placing one end of it in the pony's month and the other In his own.

intending lo blow it down the animal's throat, but the pony blew first and the man got the dose. Mr, of Cabin creelf was in the city on Jlonday. Mr, Fox of Rocky ftanch vas in the city op Saturday. 3Ir. J.

P. DeJarnettc rrade a visit to Parsons on Sunday. Mr. L. Pond of Lake creel: as looking around on Saturday.

li. C. Wood and daughter were In the city on Tuesday. IT. I'r.

Fowler, "which it postmaster" at Cecil, was In the city 9c Saturday. Mr. Geo. F. Lee vvac cbowing his good natcred countenance on the street on Tuesday.

Mr. A. K. L'artleli and the baby fYere In Hie city yeoterday, the lattpr taking In the sights. Mr.

I. M. Lay-ton of Turkey creei was in'tovn Saturday with a load of potatoes, hich he 80J tt 90c. ilrT. Brown of -Russell creel: called at these headquarters and set fc.iii.aelf ahead on the Statesman's Mr.

Baldwin of cani3 down to see the railroad center on Monday. lie thinks Chetopa is a bocmer. Mrs. A. D.

Martin, Mrs. K. A. Perdue, Mis fallie Bird and Miss Carrie King started yesterday on a vsit to Kentucky. Mr.

A. Austin of south llackberry wns in the city on Monday, and very sensibly concluded to take the Statesman with him. Pat Murphy and Mike Ilillegnuss, two staunch Democrats of Richlatxl, were drlr kins: In the springtime sun of Chetopa, 'on Saturday. Mr. Buttcworth was in the city on Tuesday -and Informed us that no clue had yet be.en obtained as to the burglars l.o invaded his houso.

Mr. Henry Holland of Big creek, In iIim territory was in he city Saturday. He says cattlj there are now doing well on grass and that corn planting is all completed. Mr. S.

M. Bracght of Pleasant Valley attended Firvices at the Baptist church on Sunday. He is an energetic and intelligent farmer and will be a reader of the Statesman hereafter. Mr. Geo.

F. King of Parsons has been in the city for eeverl days. He is one of the counsel for the defendants in the railroad caser, an has managed his side of the prosecutions with much- skill and ability. The luvoience of Of lce. Hamlet in his famous' 6oillbquy refers to "the Insolence of ofllce" as one of the things which make life a burden.

A case in point has just come under our observation. In 17; Mr. Fox of this county entered a tract of land, VhHh he has since lived upon. He paid it out in-three years, and wns then entitled tor 'patent from the government. He received what Is called v.

'duplicate," and patiently waited. Two years ago he wrote to the land ollice at Independence, asking about his patent. He received a curt 'answer in return to the effect that his patent wns in the oflice. About the of the present month Mr. Fox sav a Newspaper item to the ef fect that there vere about ten thousand patent in the' ollice at Independence, and requesting the owners to take them away.

It was also stated that depart ment was only two years behind in the work of issuing so that on all entries prior to Issl patents' were now reaily. Cnder date of April 7, ls6, Mr. Fox again wrote to the land ollice at Independence asking for his patent. In return he received the following reply, with a blue pencil on the same scrap of paper he had used." "Not issued yet when it Is send your duplicate and we will return patent Kegister Thi is from a public oflicer, who is paid a good salary on the supposition that he attending to olllcial business and I a man of courtesy and gentlemanly ijeportmtnt. The information Is cer tainly "stunning." Mr.

Fox paid up his entry in 170. It is reasonable to suppose tlrtt patent was Issued In For four or live years it ha probably been In the ollice at Independence. He has asked for it twice and only gets this reply: "When it i isued send your duplicate." How is he to know when to send his duplicate? Mr. Sand. McCullough entered a tract at the same time with Mr.

Fox, on the same term, paid up about thesame time, and received hi patent several years ngo. Doubtless if Mr. Fox would send a ten dollar bill to the register or to some law yer who stand in with that functionary, his patent wouul soon be forthcoming. Arretted. Charles E.

Wooden, who had chnrge of the jail at the time F. P.Myers was taken out and killed, has caused the arrest of Jack McLaughlin and Wash Ber-kavv of Parsons on the charge of having m.irdered Myers. The accused parties will have an examination on to-morrow. It will be remenjbered that Myers was taken out of jail on the night of August and two days afterward his body was fpund In the river. It will be also remembered that the doors of the jail were all found locked the next morning and that there wa no break In the wall by which a man could have escaped or been taken out.

The keys of thejail were used and Myers was killed to prevent his exposure of somebody's crimes. Wooden had the keys to the jail, and nobody has ever doubted that he knows all about it. It is to be hoped that the whole truth will become known. or IteniiH For sale at W. R.

Duncan's tor Farmers lo plant. The crop to be bought at the highest market price and manufactured at Chetopa. Time enough for planting for the next fifteen days. II. Maymkw Sox.

A gentleman from Kingston informs of a singular prodigy of nature near that town. A calf belonging to Mr. E. Staig about two weeks ago, at the age of eleven months, gave birth to a calf. The dam of this calf Is only three years old and there arc already four In the family.

Boston Store, VERALLS, JEAWfe Neck Ties; Etc. vaiHage to call and eee CHAS. MAY, Manager. ES51PE SISS fiENTS iHa.TIE.COSTJt HEATING ROOM BY USING 'T THE 7" Ross Table Bed. Tn Style, from $13 to $30, OP2N-Fuji 6 ft.a in.

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He was picked up a few moments afterwards by some passers by in an unconscious coDditon and at this writing Tuesday, has not revived. Whisky was the cause. ri si. BfflCagBBBt Sir mmcsm a iu Kit 5 1 c- a Eel 112. 5 or -s -Si- mr.

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Produce taken in exchange for goods. ttooil It 11 IeW ror Vouiie Men. Make few promises. Alway speak he truth. Keep good company or r.onp.

Never speak evil of anyone. Live.up to your engagements, lie just before your are generous. Never play at any game of chance. Drink no 'kind of intoxicating liquors. Good character above all things else.

Keep your own secrets if you have any. Never' borrow if you can possibly help it. Never marry until vou are able to support a wife. Keep yourself innocent if you wish to be happy. When you speak to a person look him full In the face.

Make no haste to get rich if you would prosper: Ever Jive (misfortune sxpected) within your income. Save when your are young to spend when you are old; 1 Avoid temptation through fear, you may not withstand it. Never run into debt unless you can see a way to get out again. Small and steady gains give competency7 with a tranquil mind. Good company and good conversation are the "sifiews of virtue.

If necessary to refuse an invitation from any one do "so politely and respectfully. Your character -cart hot be esentially injured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of you let your life be so that none will believe him. Fools the (Jttosc, Kansas "people like a good joke, even if it is at their own expense, and this is one: A gentleman from the eust was trawling in Kansas early in the spring. It had been bad weather for several day? and had somewhat moderated, and the geese were going r.orth.

The traveler stopped at old German's house, and in course of conversation remarked that they would now l.aye better weather, had seen wifd geese Hying northward. The old German replied: 'Oh, mein friendt, you cannot dell notings bout dot. Kansas' he fool plaule'sight pigger goose nor dose." A Itisr Henry Smith, Sleightburgh, is a palace-car conductor on the Erie railway. His "run" is between Jersey City and Chicago. He is well known' in Itondout, and has extraordinary large hands.

He tells of a good story that happened to him nt the. Chicago depor, one day, recently, lie hung one of his hands out oi a car "window. Shortly7 after lie feit some one pulling and feeling of first oih linger and then the other. He stuck hi-head out of the window and saw a man who sftid: "Say mister, how do you sell bananas in Kansa. About two months ago in Harper county Abel Shearer was killed in a light with three brothers named Weaver.

Last week the court continued the cases with bail in the sum of $10,000 each. Monday night a' band ot forty or fifty men took the prisoner's out of the custody of the sheriif and put ropes around their neckr for the purpose of hanging them. Fearing an attempt might be made to rescue the murderers a volley was tired at them and all three killed. Columbus Star: Ealer Dutcher of the Christian church is the r'eceipient of line gold watch and chain given by members of his church last -Monday evening. Such little courtesies bind friends closer and make ties of friendship sweeter anil dearer.

When a country editor is struggling along, trying to build up a town and reai a largo family on live hundred a year and discovers that a base ball pitcher four thousand dollars for a it makes him set down on a rollei box and think, If it were possible to rise abovi the atmosphere which surround. the earth we should see nothing bir an intense and sharply defined ball of fire, while everything elso wouh. be wrapped in total darkness. There could be 110 diffusion of light without an atmosphere, or some similar medium for it to act upon; but if the air about us extended to a height of 700 miles, the rays ol the sun eo'jld not penetrate it and we should be left in darkness. Ai a depth of 700 feet in the ocean tin light ceases altogether, onedialfol tho light being absorbed in passing through only seven feet of the purest water.

The most independent creature on earth is a Kansas firmer who lias 100 acres of land out of debt, with a little good stock, good health, a good wife and sense enough to keep out of debt. Unless tho wise and just admonitions of gener .1 master workman Powdcrly shall be promptlj accepted, Gould will win his battle simply because his friends, the enemy, aro fighting it for him. GROCERIES This I tfce Sulpc (hat Case and I planned With rub and gun and tripe, And in hu tf all day len snipe, 'just at even tide, While tramping 'Jong a ran Me struck seven in a line And sbot find killed nsJ-y one. A. C.

Mr lien ue 1 1 Sjpeeeh. The opsra 'bousa was, well filled on Tuesday, night with men, Vomen, children to hear i Mr. Bennett'3 speech oa temperance. It -was not the greatest tflbrt of the speaker's life. The burden of his speech seemed to be the temperance question is bigger than' anything eis'e, ami 'Demoorats are the whisky party the prohibition law is -a rank and the Democrats favor saloocs more homes-dramshons exist in the capitol building at Washington, and you always find the Democratic party in favor of whisky the of the country have done greiit things for cause of temperance, auxl the government is now in of wreckers.

Mr. Bennett took good care not to say that the prohibition law of Kansas, which he'-dcnoitnce'd so bitterly, Is the work of republicans that' the Kansas house of representatives, which had been so false to its duty, i composed of nine Republicans to 'one Democrat that the saloons In the 'capital building at Washington had flourished under Republican 'congresses1' as vvelr as under Democratic that liquors in the whii'e house had been as abundant as tea and cott.ee under all administrations, These things were left to "the coi'nmon sense" of his audience! we suppose; but thecon-nevtlon of the Democracy with the rum traliic, and that 'government is now in tbe hands: 'of wrecker" under Cleveland, was dinned r.nd drummed into their ears continuously. Mr. Bennett said he left the Demo cratic party four years ngo, nnd we charitably suppose that he Id now1 doing lm best to er.rn the of those in whose work lie is engaged. But he is evidently not at home, or lie is losing ii is "power of opitory; he need tq be making speeches in support of the Democratic party his words Hawed out nS smoothly is oj) through a greased faucet.

Those who have heard him speak when his heart was subject were reminded -of tte diti'erence between tl'ieti and now. 1 There are a great mar.y Democrats who believe in frohibition, but thev will not be attracted 'by speeches of the character of Mr. Bennett. IliiHsell Creek Xews. The weather is quite pleasant now and corn planting Is going on unite lively.

Sunday school -progressing finely, with quite 11 number' of visitors. Among the latter we saw Mr. Kile and Mr. Slaughter of Chetopa. Come again, gents you are welcome.

We had preaching on Sunday by Mr. Tipton of Baxter Springs. He made a a line address, and will be here again on the first Sunday in May, Mr. Mills has gone to Texns for cattle, and will be absent until about May 1. We learn that Mr.

Win. Landon of Vi-nifa has moved on' Mr. Mills farm, occupying the house vacated'by Mr. Stevens. We hope he may have good success.

Mr. Mills starts his outfit to Bird creek to attend the round-up. Trucked lty tloolliomilj. Immediately after the attempt 'to burn the railroad bridge at Marshall, Texas, bloodhounds were pat ori the trail to uncover the incendiaries. The dogs followed the trail direct to the quarters of the railroad ollicers at Xot satisfied ith this the dogs' were taken back to the bridge and put on another trail.

Tliis they followed to the room of the superintendent of the shops. These results were not sent out to all the world bv telegraph. irot at all. They smacked too strongly of an attempt to commit a crime and lay the odium on innocent parties. vn 11 es-Hoover.

Yesterday evening at o'clock Mr. F. P. Cavaness and -Mrs. Mary Hoover were united In marriage, Itev.

.1. M. Cavaness olliciating. The happy groom rejoices with the seventy-four summers which have passed oyer I''3 headj while the blushing bride boosts of the sixty springtimes the roses have bloomed In her path. The happy twain will spend a few days visiting friends in this state, and then betake themselves to the distant Oregon to grosv up with the country.

Four more persons accused of conspiracy to obstruct, at Parsons were brought before justice Calvin on Monday, Neither. the prosecuting witness nor his attorneys were present, and the justice very properly dismissed the cases. From this it would seem that that the prosecution thinks it might be as well to call a halt. That is the way most people look at it. Messrs.

Smith fc McEwen have removed to the room over Mr. drugstore, and are lifting it up in line shape. They now have comfortable quarters, and will be able to accommodate their friends in the loan business. Mr. John Shobe is building a frame house on lots he bought of Mr.

Iihodes and will occupy it as 60011 as completed with greater pleasure than ever. Pea Uidge Post 11!) are making arrangements for a camp lire on Saturday night. Baked beans, hard tack and s. b. will be among the dainty dishes.

A rule of business we advise sensible and truly wise: 'Tis simply this no more or less Make known your business through the press. Yes, advertise and never grudge it. And swell thereby your golden budget, A dollar spent in printer's ink Returns ten fold we surely think; Yea, advertise, and rise to fame. To all the world your wares proclaim; Early to bed and tarly to rise. And In the Statesman advertise.

Hhrfl Vxr.e and Um W.l Wheel i low. t6 I the latr inproved, and highly by thoe who have seen nd trie I it ttf 11.1.1.01- Lyon, New Spring Millinery at A. G. St. John's lnkr llc.

Hunter, fishermen and alt ethers auirht trpains; on the G.W.Owen property will be prosecuted. W. 8. Vex hraokD the WABASH No. 10.

Money. Jly goincj to Breekenridge A Gardner's Fine The largest stork and 'Je be-tt make in" the market. Ladies, Genta, everybody uited. Low-t price. Ilwarlrr.

Mr). J. C. Bnuiibatk prepared to iccommodatr. few.

hoarders In good style 'I wo nirc front room tc rent. Opi oitc residence of I'r. Koon. and Mice's line Shoea at ohr. StrieL roiumUsioner Johnson I hav-ng nntr.r.

much' needed work done on several fttrf-U. Mr. building an addition "Ix'JQ fevt, to hU OLA ery expect to preach hi pa, tor of the lrel.y te. ian Sabbath of thi month. ilirM-t aftpntion to the V.t.

O'Neil, wh ha lately ccme to t'hetpn. Ife i a good painter anil ill vtk right. Mesur." Iminjton A tarkey hs vj li-olved, the latter retiring hoia the tiiiine. Tte meat trade will be continued by Krmlngton A Marrs. ThU wtrk ill about comptete the rorn planting th! eottr ty.

The fir. Veatli ha t)t en diligently improved, tnd profaMy a larger acreage than ever before ha h'rn ln.ntd. The -ript'Mm 11 of the Statp-nan i having. a genuine boom thee day. New uberiber are coming right ilong.

and pr.opte Un on re teeome acquainted it fi it liki the paper better all time. Th rrnion at the Christian church nxt Sunday evening will be upon "The tfnitrd rate in Prophecy, or the Kutu'e inir Natien. What doe the 1-ible a' bout tit" Peron who go from C'hetopa on prospecting tour generally return better atified than ever with thi city and It There i no finer 5pol in Kana than that occupied by our city and It mrro'inding. A rigar factory will doitbtle poon bet'taMi-hed in thi city. I r.

Cheek, who ha a factory in a village up the river, ha abnf made up hi mind to remove to Chetopa. lie want to be in a live and grow ing city. If you ere going to travel by rail it i. better to buy a ticket than to pay the conductor. Paying on the train will s-vt you additional money follow: JU or le, l'e extra; from io to Ion uiiU I exceeding lt mite, Thi will be rough on the A contemporary very properly suggest that while farmer are planting their crop of grain they s-hould not forget to plant gool information in the tumd of their children by placing the local newspaper fre them.

The i far ahead of any other in thL-county. Mr. Kellerman ccme to the front thi week ith rn invitation to everybody to go to hi l.ou-e fr gr.M erie, proviion, etc. lb keep large Meek of the het good and el! nt price. which plea.

the purchajer. He i a ger.eron gentleman and the reader of thi paper are Inviied to remember him. Mr. S. J.

Mewart hang out hi card In thee column thi week. Mr. Mew-art corue among with th highet recorutnendation a an attorney and gc n-ttftuan. lie ftndied law with Hon. John Appleton.

chief justice of the supreme court of Maine, anil the entire bar Ilingor bear testimony to hi le al ah, l-ty and admirable quaiitie of mind aid heart. We trut he will obtain a generous patronage from people ofbothity and country..