Cherokee Strip Guide from Arkansas City, Kansas • 2

A 7 MATTERS OF MOMENT. BITS OP PLEASANTRY. CURIOUS CONDENbATION9. NEW STORE! NEW GOODS! of kind word, well wishes and patronage, as well as the boomers on the line of the strip, we are, respectfully, TlIE. PUBLISHERS.

EAEDISQ BIDDELl, Publishers aaJ Propr'jtors. Wm. Hamilton Co. is Ban Store. t.

Only One Priced Cash House IN THE CITY! ARKANSAS CITY. KANSAS LUMBER! D. WAUGH, I am prepared to Furnish Lumber and all kinds of Building material to parties who are going into THE CHEROKEE STRIP at Lowest Cash Prices. Estimates furnished on application Will fill orders from my yard here or from J. Sherburn's yard at Ponca station: Address either.of the above at Arkansas City or Ponca, AREW OLD RELIABLE HARNESS SHOP.

i Ventilated boots are among tho in footwear. A Philadelphia taxidermist lo appropriately named Stuff er. Only naturalized citizens will bo employed on Philadelphia pubho works hereafter. A stepludder which, when not In uso, may be readily folded up and kept In a small box, is a new invention. An Italian boy In Newark, N.

wa seized with an epileptic fit whllo whistling a few days ago, which ro-ulted in his death, The movement among Now York's bartenders to have all the member of their union total abstalneri no doubt a good thing, but It la a ourlous comment on-the goods they soli One of the steam digger recently put in the mine of the Yt al com pany at Allenport, operated by 003 has averaged the output of eight hand diggers daily for lomi time. 1 The bronsse cents of the year 1877 have become 66' scaroo that coin dealers pay apremium'onthem. They are the only ones of tho oentt issued since tha war that have anything more than thejr face value. A case is now in tho supreme court of the United States that goes back to 1009 A. matter of disputed state lines Virginia and Tennessee, and hinges on the interpretation of early English grants.

Michael Hofrlch, a Hungarian laborer of Salem, Ohio, hat been notified of the death of an undo, Martin Hofrlch, In California, by which Michael will come into possession of mining properties on the Paclflo slope valued at nearly $1,000,000. Mrs. Lovejoy Aldrlch of Seattle, is the.widowof a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and, by her oecond of a soldier of the war of 1812. She Is reported to be the only person known to the pension office who stands in this position. A nbw metal has been discovered by Dr.

Purcell Taylor, who names it armarium. It has a beautiful violet color, a high melting point, a speciflo gravity of eight and two-tenths, 'and is hard and chrystalllne. Its. rarity will prevent it from becoming more than a scientific curiosity. It began to snow in Pike county, Pennsylvania, early last November and snowed until April.

In some places the snow, drifted fifteen feet high. Nearly all the roads were impassable. No marriages took place after Christmas and several engagements were off. At the February eloo-tion there were no votes polled in half the precincts. HE.

AND SHE. No jewelry should be worn with a dress suit. 1 The man who is ruled by his feelings will always travel in a zig-zag course. Dinners given by women to women exclusively are the social fad of the hour. Kier Hardy, the coal miner member of still wears dirty miner's-clothes and a greasy little cap.

A Michigan man quit smoking on the 18th of January this year, and in justAme week's time, he asserts, gained four pounds of flesh. An independent man is said to be one who can live without whiskey and tobacco, and shave himself with brown soap and cold water without a glass. All the leading brands of soap, six bars for 25 cents at Moore Bros. Well, why does every one go to Smith's 9c. store? Because they get great bargain at 413 Summit street.

SMITH'S NINE CENT. STORE. The Cheapest Place in the city. Ladies and Childrens BURNISHING GOODS. -Everything in- t.

TINWARE ANI) NOTIONS No 415 Hummit Arkansas City. E.1 A. BARRON, Insurance of all Kinds RENTS COUNTED, HOME NATIONAL BUILDING. C. J.

Peckhain. V. Beekmen. P. H.

Brown. J. V. BEEKMAN, Of Peckham, Beekman Brown. llttirotey at $an.

Winfield office, rooms 1, 3, 4, First Natiouel Bank. Arkansas City office, rooms tyi, 3-, Hess Building, opposite postoffice, ARKANSAS CITY, KAN. C. S. ACKER, M.

D. Physician and Surgeon. Office, Pearson Block, Residence, Gladstone Hotel. Day Telephone, Sollett Swart. Night Telephone, Gladstone Hotel.

MRS. ADA NICKERSON, pASHI ONAPtE Dressmaker. PARLORS. Room 5, Hill Block' Arkansas City, Kansas. Her facilities are surpassed by none in the city.

A perfect tailor fit in every respect with all the Latest Eastern Styles from Chicago to New York. Dolly How few scandals there have oeen In society this season. Kitty-Yes, it's been an awfully dull season, "I've changed my polities," said tho counterfeiter as he was handed over to the warden. "I am no longer a freo ooinage man." Clergyman I hope you llkod my sermon on charity this morning, Parishioner I assure you it made such an Impression on me that I was longing to bocome a beggar Uncle Peter This confounded thermometer isn't worth keeping any' longer. "What's wrong with it?" Uncle Peter Why, one day It says one thing, and the very next it Is en-tirolydift'oront.

Judge Why did you not return the pockotbook you fouud the same evening? Defendant It was too Judge Why, then, did you not doliver it in the morning? Defendant No use; nothing left la It. Miss Wouldbee It seems to me all you typewriter men charge awful prices for your machines. Dealer-There is more in one of those machines than you Imagine. We sold one a week ago to a girl not' half so pretty as you and she's got a diamond ring on now. "Mary Jane," said the Dakota farmer to his spouse, "it seems like flying in the face of providence to name the boy Elijah.

It sounds too much like the old, fellow in the bible that was carried away by a cyclone. I don't think it's a proper name at all for this country." Little Johnny I got even with the teacher to-day. Little Dick How? Little Johnny It was my turn to speak a pleco, an' so I got up and spoke, "Don't kill the birds, the pretty birds," and I pre tended to cry an' made it real aff ectin' an' there she sat with one in her hat. Young Man I cannot understand, sir, why you permit your daughter to sue me for breach of promise. You remember that you were bitterly opposed to our engagement because I wasn't good enough for her and would disgrace the family.

Old Man Young man, that wais sentiment; this is business. AMUSING CHATTER, 1 A man with a broken leg' Ifr'npt 'to do a good deal of 'darning while the leg is knitting. Mrs. Minks Mrs. Leadem Is aging very rapidly.

Mrs. Binks Yes, poor thing. She is worrying herself gray trying to look young. Gent Why don't you go' to work? Tramp I ain't able to work. Gent What's the matter with you? Tramp I was born that way.

Mother My dear, you will have to chop some wood and bring up the coal. Father Where is son John? Mother He's gone to the athletic club. Uncle Daniel Mollie is powerful handy about the house, even if she is rich. "What did she do?" "Made me a real comfortable bed out of one pf her book-cases." Mr. Hogan Phwot's the matter wid the kid? Dr.

Bowless Scarlet fever. Mr. Hogan Little did I think thot a son of mine would be havin' a fever of thot color on St. Patrick's day. Shopping Woman Have you any silks at 85 a yard? Clerk Yessum.

Shopping Woman And any others at 83 a yard? Clerk Yessum. Shopping Woman Well, I want some at 84.50. He Remember that you have promised solemnly to be a sister to me. She Yes, but you mustn't act as if you thought you were the only relative of that kind I have in the world. "I say, Davie," said one boy to another in a Scottish town, "our meenis-ter was veesitin' us last nicht." "Fail wis he really?" was the reply.

"Our meenister disna come an' see us until we're dekL" Little Sister Don't you like peppermint candy? Little Brother Yes, indeed. "Then why do you always buy some other peppermint smells too far. Half the children in town come runnin' after yeh to beg some." Little Girl The doctor said mamma must take a constitutional every What does that mean? Little Boy That means walking. "Then why didn't he say so?" "I don't know, but I guess may be if he called it plain walking he couldn't charge for it" NEAR AND FAR. A band exclusively for the colored race has been organized at Anniston, Ala.

Amoy, in China, bears the distinction of being the most dirty and unhealthy city in tho world. A young woman in Chieago has lost her reason from the effects, it is said, of hypnotized. Rome is to be illuminated by electricity generated twenty miles away by a cascade at Tiber. An electrical steamer- to be run by means of a storage battery, is being built at Tacoma, Wash. An attachment for screwdrivers by which a swew may.

be held tight to the end ol the driver until firmly fixed in the wood Is'among the latest inven-Hons. The race track at Columbus, which was laid out fifty-nine years ago, is generally reputed to be tho oldest continuously used race course In the country. Carnegie music hall in New York city is probably the only building of the sort which is ventilated by introducing fresh air at the roof and removing foul air through the floor. It costs about 8140 to have a ten of goods transported by carrier from Matiddi to the Pool in Africa, a distance of 230 miles. An American railroad will forward a ten this distance for 81.4.

We have had many pleasant callers among temporarily residing here, awaiting the opening of the Strip. Would be pleased to give each a personal notice, but owing to the fact of our having so much work on hand In getting out the first issue of our paper, it to do so. However, wjfcordially tnvite one and all, who are going the St rip to reside to call aPJ- time, and be assured you are welcome. We may be near neighbors over the line, A normal school girl ell ned a au-Mge us a thii tied up at both endt td hide its contents. A woman applied at police headquarters Albany, N.

the other day for permission to carry a revolver. Montana is larger than Now Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania put together. The Michigan cremation association reports tjiat the membership is 133, and thut thirty-five incinerations have taken' pinee during thoj'ear, Threo young WIhco.imii boys are in jail under a charge of highway robbery. followed an old man, and coming upon him in a lonely spot, robbed him of all his valuables. The prick of a pin caused the death of John J.

Maynard, a New York man. He had used the pin to remove a liver that had got in his finger, and the poison from the brass point caused blood poisoning. While a laborer was digging a well on the ranch of John J. Forshoa, at Ruthorford, the bottom fell out, and the unfortunate mnn plunged headlong inti) an underground river and was drowned. The supplies of winter vegetables received in the East mm California were much larger last season than in previous years, During January the Southern California railway shipped to the East over 2,000,000 pounds more of cabbages, cauliflowers and celery than in the same month last year, an increase of 100 per cent.

The reclamation of the land covered by tho Zuyder zee in Holland has been commenced. The dam. or sea wall, necessary to accomplish this object will be eighteen miles long. It will be built through the water from thirteen to twenty fect deep. The estimated cost of the undertaking is which, it is expected, will be more than repaid by the 1,000,000 acres of land which will be recovered.

CUSTOM AND SUPERSTITION. Playing cards undoubtedly originated in Asia, and were introduced Into Europe by the racens about the close of the thirteenth century. A curious superstition prevails in Norway, When pooplo ure in quest of a drowned body they row to and fro with a rooster in the boat, fully expecting that the bird will crow when the boat reaches the spot where the corpse lies. Tho inscription on the sig i board at an ancient inn in England, the "White Horse," bore this allusion to four rival nns: My White Horse shall bite tho Boar And m.il;e the Anad lly. Shiill turn the Ship bottom side up, Anil drlu It tho Tnrfe Ciujh dry.

People who have taken the Lake Superior, steamers at i'ort Arthur have noticed the high, long dyko of basalt that pushes into the water from the northern limit of Tliun lor bay. The Indians believe that this is the" grave of Hiawatha, or, as he is called there, Manibozho, and few red men pass the spot without dropping a few beads or a pipeful of tobaeco in the water as an oblatoin to his spirit. A touching old rural custom still prevails in the western parts of France during the harvest season. On the edge of a field bordering the highway a sheaf of grain is left standing, to which all the peasants of the village contribute, and which is called "the stranger's sheaf," as it is the property of the first tramp or other homeless wayfarer who may care to carry it away and profit by its price. They have no hearses in tho City of Mexico.

Those vehicles were bought in by a street railway company and destroyed or sent away. The company now has a monopoly of the funeral business. It runs funeral cars, white for children, black for adults, and are sometimes half covered with flowers, and the mourners rido to the cemetery In a richly upholstered special car, with lace curtains, that follows the car containing the coffin. ZOOLOGICAL NOfES. The water in a mine at Ashland, is said to be full of eyeless fish.

The largest truck has been built in New York and requires five horses to move it About 200 dogs are used every year by the university of Buffalo' for purposes of physiological experiment. An ounce of pure gold is worth 820.64; therefore, a ton of pure gold, which contains 24,000 ounces, is worth Every steamer that plies along the Atlantic coast is a refuge for birds that are blown out to sea, mostly small and not strong of wing. A stowaway from Central Africa in the shape of 'a "banana rat," a strange little tropical animal, was found in a bunch of bananas in Chicago the other day. In the bayou flowing through the large sugar plantation of Gabriel Montaigne, lying seven or eight miles south of the Thibodeaux, there was recently killed an alligator known to be something over 120 years old. A resident at Green Lake, has an old cat that has become strongly attached to a cow, and spends the greater part of the day, it is said, curled up on her fast asleep.

The cow is said to return the friendship, and is never more content than when the cat is perched on her back Mr. William Samson, a resident in the Argentine, having ordered a consignment of 100 larks from England, received the survivors of the voyage a Sw weeks ago and set them at liberty, lie birds, twenty in number, were released in a field in which the barley tad recently been cut. A few chirps Showed their delight at being once more free, but, owing probably to their long confinement, none of them took a heavenward flisht There is no star in the constellation of American states today, that shine as dimly as Kansas, yet four years ago she was the peer of all. How will she stand lour years hence? 'Tis to be hoped iat no dummy like Peflcr, nor nonen4fke Martin, will disgrace those places so honorably filled by Plumb and Ingalls. tillered at the Posioffico hi Aikaiuus City hh Second Clung Mail Matter, Temporarily published at Arkansas City, Kansas, until the opening of the Cherokee Strip.

The Guide's Advent. We If no bow to make, no long windjf rrrry to tore the 2,500 reatSf tluf paper with. reap jrears ago, when first launching into-- the' journalistic field, we wrote salutatories, and read them, with perhaps more interest than our patrons. Like many others we cherished them, and looked upon them with that degree of satisfaction and complaicency that a boy graduate out of a city high school, looks on his diploma. Those were helcyon days in journalism.

But as years come and go, as decade succeeds decade, man becomes more mature in judgment, less given to frivilous things, learns more the wants of the people and learns to consider their interests paramount to his own selfish ideas. In short and plain, simple English language, he learns more sense than to bore the thousands of readers of his paper with long-winded salutatories, more interesting to himself than to the average reader of his paper. The only apology we have for launching the Guide in the endless field of journalism, is to make it a success financially, that we may be better enabled thereby to earn a support for ourselves, our family and contribute to the wants of any worthy suffering human beings vhos may merit our help. We also expect to replenish our now depleted bank account. While we expect to do this, we expect to give the readers and patrons of the Guide, the worth of their money for every subscription and every line of advertisements carried in its columns.

We know that the success of the Guide, and every other paper for that matter, depends upon the energy, perseverance, integrity and perseverance of those who pilot over the waves of adversity as well as over the calm sea of success, and without these a newspaper, as well as any other business must fail. Another reason for this editorial venture is, there is 10,000 pepole assembled on the line of the Cherokee Strip waiting for homes. Thousands of these people are old soldiers, who spent the best years of their lives defending our homes and our flag. In their declining years they come to the line of a vast government domain, seeking homes where they can spend the last declining years of their lives in peace and quietude and leave a goodly heritage to their families and be buried in the soil that was once drenched with theif comrade's blood. These men are on the border, without an organ to champion their cause; this the Guide will aim to do.

The Guide will at all times aim to champion the cause of the homeseeker and show up the injustice of the cattle bar-rons using the land in the strip at will to the exclusion of the honest homeseekers. We are of the Boomers, with the boomers, and for the boomers. We will endeavor to make their interests our interests and our interests their interests. The Guide will be republican politically, but of a reform type. It will advocate a protective tariff equal to the demands of the government' so adjusted as to be least oppressive to the laboring men of all classes.

It will contend for liberal pensions to honorably discharged union soldiers and an early adjudication of all claims pending before thepension office, not-1 withstanding democratic policy to the contrary. It will defend the cause of free coinage of silver, limited to the production of our American mines. The Guide will always be found on the side of trades unions, against -money kings, boomers against cattle barons, the weak against the strong, the poor and oppressed against wealth and opulence. It will favor reform in the republican party to the end that all salaries government officials from janitor to president, be reduced in the same proportion that internal revenue and tariff on imports has or may be reduced and this to apply to state, county and mianicipal offices. While it will occupy this position politically, it will always consider the interests of the town where it is published and the interests of its patrons paramount to every other interest.

Thanking the general public of Arkansas City for the encouragement given us in the way General and particular. The olirysophniao is the fashionable Bm. It is anttto. Asbostos is utilized for makinjr pejier lamp shades. Jumes Uailey, the circus manager, began by selling apples and peanuts at a show.

Mr. and Mrs, John Hugo of New Haven, Connecticut, have been married for 00 years. Mrs. Marcolla O'Rourke died at Toronto, Ontario, a few days ago, at the great afro of 105 yeurs, A Baltimore yonnfr man is suing a young woman of that town for possession of his love letters. Twenty-five pictures by modern French painters, now exhibited at the St Botolph club, Boston, are insured for 8248,000.

A man is repot ted to have committed suicide at Sai'utog-a, N. a short time ago, because the train lie went to the station to catch was an hour late. There are about twenty men in New York city and about half as many in other large Eastern cities who earn a living by cateliing rats. They are mostly employe I by hotels. A.

sheep on the fiirra of Dr. Samuel Jessop, at Kittannin is said to have lately given birth to a lamb that had "eight well-formed legs, two backs, tut only the usual number of heads. Ohio's capital rejoices in the possession of the only fourfold string quartette in the world played by women. Four first four second violins, four violas and four "cellos complete the ensemble According to the police statistics, the arrests for drunkenness in London are at the rate of one to every 175 inhabitants, in Birmingham one to 153, in Manchester one to 71, and in Liverpool one to 50. Philadelphia is noted for palms.

It Is the great supplying station for the Northern states. Palms have to be slowly acclimated when removed from their native habitat, and it is in the Philadelphia greenhouses that this procesB of adaptation takes place. AH the mountain sheep in Colorado are owned by the state and carefully protected. The penalty of slaying a mountain sheep in Colorado is ten yeflrs the penitentiary. This is probably the severest game law upon the statute books of any state, but it is Occasionally violated.

There are Douglas firs in the state of Washington and for some distance north of that which are honestly said to be as tall as the Brooklyn bridge towers. Planks from these trees, sixteen feet wide, have been exhibited, and a straight mast IS 5 feet long, unmarked by branches, was cut on the shore of Puget sound. The birth notice of what is said to be the fi.st Dutch baby born in the San Luis Valley recently appeared in the paper published at Alamosa, CoL The notice was written by a Dane, set up by a Mormon printer, the proof read by an American; the type was placed in the form by a German and a Mexican printed the paper. NOTES AND NOTIONS. Since the organization of Yale college 15,350 students have graduated.of whom 7,800 ire living.

The statistics show that Iowa stands at the head of the corn producing states with 220,000,000 bushels to her credit in 1892. A box, weighing nearly 600 pounds, fell on the head of a colored man at Brunswick, one day lately, without causing any injury. A man at Riverside, recently succeeded in extracting from eighteen pounds of orange peel oil in the proportion of fifty pounds to one ton of peel. Havana is noted for its numerous clubs, and one, the Circulo de Astur-ianas, with a membership of 13,000, is supposed to be the largest in the world. Seamless steel boats, each made of only two plates, each plate riveted to a bulb keel bar, which forms also the stem and stern posts are being made by a firm in London.

A woman.in New Hampshire is a street railway magnate, a good housekeeper and cook, a fine shot with the revolver, a first-class swimmer, an excellent business woman and worker in the church. She cannot, throw a stone or strike a nail on the head. Jesse Everly, a young lad who lives near Mnrgantown, West Virginia, fell over a cliff forty feet high one day last week, and alighted on a rock about two inches thick, which, it is said, was broken by the force of his fall; but, it is stated, 'not a b.ine in tha boy's body was broken. A novelty in news publications is reported from liwla-Pesth. The editorial office colloc.N all the news of the day and summarizes the information into brief paragraphs which are transmitted by teleph nj direct to the various subscribers hour by hour.

The service lasts from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. An ash tree was cut down on the farm of Andrew' Shaffer, near Bristol, which took two li iif a day to saw through.

The itvc measured twenty feet in circumference. Mr. Shaffer secured twelve io'oU of wood from the tree and two wug.m loads of chips. Several ol 1 mlian arrow heads were found imbed, led In the tree. The artesiuu water nystetn is now being largely vised in Queensland, Australia, and some very successful results have recently been obtained.

On the Charlotte Plains i nn. neur Cun-namulla, an pixv mens supply of water has been struck at ti de th of 1,848 feet. It is cstii'i thai, i he supply Is between on I gallons dally. ThMs 'K'rfJ to be the greatest artesian supp of water yet struck in Australia. Young man, on show day, before you "lay your girl out coldjeike her to Cusick's, and secBJ Gyathose beautiful photos LAP ROBES IN KANSAS.

HAS GOT THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT OF AND NETS HI FQ IN THE CITY TEN YEARS ESTABLISHED. i i -I The Largest Stock of A AND AT PEICES TO SUIT ALL. Call and See us Before You Buy. PROS. com PLUMB EKS, STEAM and GAS FITTERS ENGINE AND BOILER WORK A SPECIALTY.

AGENT FOR J. I. CASE and RUSSELL CO. Threshing Machines and Carney Hot Water Heaters. Best Cylinders for Sale.

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The .1 4uar in the united stales. 'y Vania. A I' IV id MB lyliyt 1VM- ana Repairing CaUbef-VfJ of tha Pia uH ner and warranted. only manufacturer goodNij 108 E. Fifth Av.

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