The Twice-a-Week Independent from Coffeyville, Kansas • 1

CmCIAL OrtGAU City of Coffeyville Kansas he lloNTGonnirsr CcuirTr XG. A. LLVUlJLHUJo JL C. W. KKNT.

Publishib, "HE TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FaIl WHERE THEY MAY." Tikms: Pib Yab ik VOL.111. COFFEYVITiLE, KAKSASi TUESMTu JANUARY 1, 1896. NO. 54. i FIELD AND FARM tax shall be levied and collected as are other county taxes." rhe St.

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"Mr. 1H. Smith of Montgomery county has purchased the John Craig farm of 320 acres in Washington township. 'He pur. chased it of a mortgage company, to.

whom Craig had deeded it, paying $1,800.00 for it, and at that price it was very cheap dirt. Mr. Smith was in Sedan Wednesday getting the deed recorded. He is pleased with his bargain and may leave his Montgomery county farm to occupy his new possession here. Ilia son has purchased and occupies a farm near by in Salt Creek township, Reduced Subscription Rates, by Mail, Postage Prepaid.

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Osborne?" We have not heard anyone in this section making any inquiries about where they were, but if either of the above named are in the field, they must have "started from some other part of the county. I desire to announce to my many friends in Cofiey ville and vicinity that I have taken a position in the shoe department of the WillardFos-ter Mercantile Co. on 9th Walnut streets, I thank you one and all for the many favors shown me in the past and cordially invite you to call on me at my new quarters where you shall always have the best attention. J. J.

Baker. A lady called at our office yesterday afternoon to tell us that she had read in a p'aper that pineapple would cure diphtheria and quinsy. She said that she knew it would cure qumsy because she had tried it herself and thought as the diphtheria had been in our city she would tell us about it and probably it might cto some one some good. At any rate it will do no one harm to try it if any one who reads this should be taken with diphtheria or quinsy. H.

Webb, of the Kansas City Bridge Company, came doffn from-4 Kansas City Friday flight-and yesterday in company with Commissioner N. F. Veeder, started out to inspect the damaged bridges over Drum Creek and over the Verdigris at Coffevville. These bridges need JOSEPH B0HILLY, The Dray Transfer Man, Will Lltend to all business In his line with promptness, care and at reasonable rates eive him atrial. LOCAL AND PERSONAL E.

M. Ingmire transacted business at the county seat on Friday last. Arkansas Cily has a new hotel called "The Midland" that is spoken of very highly as a moderate priced house. mm OYER We have a few Toys, Dolls and Holiday Goods left (others are in the same boat) and have, decided to make EXTRA inducements to sell all we have and the ROCK BOTTOM PRICES will do it by New Year's day. DO YOUR CHILDREN WEED That is ONE item we have prices on you can't resist, if you are going- to buy, and you will find others all thro' stock.

Blankets, Comforts, Men's and Ladies' Underwear, Men's and Boys' Mitts Boots, Shoes, Rubbers. You will see "cost sales ga- lore soon, but don't be fooled THE "BIG RACKET EYERTBOOY. Council Meeting-." -Council met Friday evening, Jan uary 3, 1896, pursuant to adjournment, with Mayor Wilcox in the chair and Councilmen Boothbv. Black. Levan.

McCov. Reynolds and 1 1 Wells in their seats. The minutes of the previous meet ing were read, corrected and ap proved. S. S.

Carnngton, police Judge, made his report for the month of December, which was read, and 'referred to committee on claims. The report of the city clerk for the month of December was also read and referred to the same com mittee; A request for supplies-for the fire company was granted. The resignation of M. C. Loving as night watch was offered and accepted.

Councilman Levan offered the fol lowing resolution, which was adopted Resolved, That the city engineer be. and he is hereby instructed to Dreoare plans and specifications, together with the itemized account or cost thereof, preparatory to the construction of the curbing, guttering and macadamizing of Walnut street from the crossing of Tenth street to Thirteenth street, together with the squares formed" by the crossing of Eleventh and Twelfth streets with Walnut street. The rules were then suspended and the following claims allowed and ordered paid: Lang Lape, stool, ww. 1 10 Wm Barnes. 2 50 Chaffin, ww 65 Bouilly, hauling ww.

pipe 75 Cabtll, coal, ww 35 Simon Edsall, ww 7 35 AJT Sullivan, incidentals, Dec 3 75 I Swisher, ww. 3 25 Ii Plunkett. bah Dec. ww. sal 31 67 Wilson, operating ww.

7 50 Saddler Operating ww 12 00 Walker, Dec sal. ww 100 00 Bloir, labor on 6 50 Raymond, night Johnson, marshal T. Tioving, -v city clerks -J Hoi liday; coal, (rw. 40 00 45 00 15 00 13 SO ICO 12 SO 11 53 40 C3 It Waters, salary. Spears, scavenger work A Sullivan, salary I Ley an, an4 34 C3 ICS 4r Ed Matt, layicj crexxir.

Ki cacit Eli Ear-zlli Wra Hirz. 1 wc3 i X. MS Every available pond in the viein- repairing and it will probity of Coffeyville was covered with Jlhly CC3t laite a um to make them skaters Friday, Saturday and Sunday Hlisolntely safe. It is likely that njjlta Mr. Webb will be given the contract Sec.

3. That it shall be the duty of the county superintendent at the time of disbursing the state school fund to disburse the county school fund among' the various school districts of the county in proportion to of months school taught by legally qualified teachers necessarily employed In the said districts the preceding year; Provided, that no school district shall be entitled to any share of the county fund unless it shall have supported, at least six months of school. Sec. 4. That in the disbursement of the county school fund, joint districts shall be considered as belonging to the county in which the school houses aie located.

Sec. 5. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Sec. 6.

That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Liberty Items Pap Bundy is on the sick list. G. W. McDaniel started for Indi ana Friday; School opened Dec.

30 th with a full attendance. The merchants of this place are doing a good business. J. S. Harding, of Independence, was doing Liberty Saturday.

W. P. Livingstone transacted business in Coffeyville Monday. For millinery goods go to Mrs. Mary Marchants on front street.

The Holiness people are holding protracted meeting at Round Prairie. Rev. Cargay is still holding a se ries" of meetings at the M. E. church.

Miss Knotts, of Coffeyville, is visiting Mrs. March ants this week. Misses Anna and Emma Laughlin went to Coffeyville baturday on business. Miss Nickelson, of Round Prairie, visited Miss Mollie Hughes during the holidays. The church and benevolent society will have their fair next Friday and Saturday evenings.

Miss Sadie' Martin, of Drum Creek, visited her sister, Mrs. H. W. Liv ingstone, New Years. Attorney Kercheval was up Mon day the 30th transacting business in Justice Moore's coutL Don't forget the fair Friday and Saturday evenings.

Everybody is expected and all their folks. -Joe Coleman is given up to be a crack shot when the neighbors have hogs to kill. Joe is ever ready. The party given by Miss Millie Allen New Years Eve was largely attended and a good time reported. Clyde Covey and Josephine Clark were united in matrimony Dec.

31 by Rev. Cargay at the M. E. parsonage. The joint installation of the Post and W.

R. C. on New Years night went off like clock work, after which the W. R. C.

presented a magnificient supper. Every body seemed to enjoy it splendidly. The Post Com mander, Dr. T. F.

Andress, not yet satisfied to go home, decided to turn it to a regular old fashioned camp fire. The Dr. made a splendid talk suitable to the occasion; Misi Anna Beam rendered a fine recita tion and also Nellie Marson. Then cam stories were in order. The i time was well improved by the com rades.

lt.was a close race, but we believe Senator McTaggart quit ff ahead. The proprietor of the city hotel is home again. Grabbeb. 'II II I I ALL (HHPS of jr h-nr cr-TTl www 1 1111 ll to do the work as it is very tjipl tQat -f done at once gun. A Column Devoted to the Interests of the Farmer, Special Reference to Hay and Grain Raising.

Communicated. Mr.Editob: It is evident that the farmers of Kansas can not compete with the Northern states raising wheat and corn, and therefore they will have to turn their atten tion to stock and stock growing, and instead of sowing wheat and planting corn they will have to raise grass es upon which, to feed and fattenl their stock. Owing to the continued cultivation of the land, prairie grass for hay will soon disappear and we will greetly rejoice when it does. From our observation, it is the poor est of all kinds of feed and especial- for young stock. The only reason they do not die upon this feed is be cause tne winters are not long enough.

We have noticed a remarkable change which has taken place around Ft. Scott. Farmers who understand sowing cane seed and know how to take care of the hay are bringing it into our city and offering it for sale, and the universal verdict is that it is better for cows and better for horses by 50 per cent than prairie hay. Again, we call the atten tion to another enemy of the prairie hay alfalfa clover, which can be grown any year, drouth or no drouth. Owing to the poor quality of prairie hay this year, St.

Louis hay dealers have gone into Western Kansas and bought, large quantities of this alfalfa hay which has been sold as high as $12 in St. Louis, to the dairymen who are well pleased with it. This will make three crops. The first crop can be "used for hay, the second for seed and in a vigorous seasonit will produce the third crop for hay or for fall pasturage. Our climate is splendid for stock grow ing.

Mild winters, early spring grass, stock can be raised cheaper by nearly 50 per cent than they can in the North where grain feeding is required from six-to eight months in the year. Interested. Fort Scott, Jan 4, 1896, BREAKINO COXTRACTS. Considerable annoyance and trouble is often caused by farmers refusing to deliver grain or hay which they have sold to dealers here at a certain price. For instance, one farmer sold three cars baled Jhay at $4 per ton to a certain dealer f.

o.b. cars at a certain country station, and to be delivered at a certain date but when the dealer went to take deliv ery of same and pay cash therefor, the farmer coolly informed him that he could not have it, as he had sold most it at an advance or ou cts. per ton. "But I bought it of vou at $4 per rejoined the. disappointed buyer.

"Well supposen you did," said the farmer, 4 'do you, think I would be such a darn fool as to re fuse an offer of 50 cts. per ton more than you agreed to farm er seems to have had rather a loose idea of business principals, when he would sell goods at a stipulated price to be delivered, and then de liberately sell them to another party because the latter bid a little more. This, however, seems to be a com mon practice among a certain class of producers. Contracts for sale andf delivery of wheat are made and broken nea.ly every day. Some farmers should try the grain business for a season and see how the other side of the question looks.

Business Coffeyville Ks. Jan. 6, 1896. A BUSHEL OF WHEAT. 1.

Tho farmer lives on it He raises it. 2, The shipper lives on it He ships it. 3. The elevator man lives on it He stores it. I.

The board of trade man: lives on it He sells it. 5. The miller lives on it He mills it. 6. The flour dealer lives on it He sells it.

lil VU Jfe UVb it. 8. The consumer lives ex it-He eats it. They all buy to sell pro-t exec-t t-s I'zt til Joint Installation-There will be a joint installation of the G. A.

R. and the W. R. C. held at the I.

O. CvF. Hall on Saturday Jan. IT at 2. p.

m. After the installation refreshments will be served by the Ladies of the Relief Corps. Members of the immediate amilies are invited and all ex-sol diers. Ladies don't forget to bring well filled baskets. Sec W.

R-C. Per Order President. Abandoned the "Well. Another failure in finding gas at Independence has just taken place, if we are to believe the following item in Saturday's Reporter: The gas well which the company has been boring on the Barr farm was torpedoed yesterday afternoon at the depth where 'a small flow of gas had been struck, in the hope that the flow might be made strong enough to be valuable, but the operation was not a success. vVe, understand that the well will be abandoned and a new one commenced at once west of the Grer well on Bud Wiley's farm." The City's Oas.

Well. On Friday afternoon the "drilling ot the city gas well ceased, the drill at that time being down 809 feet. The workmen felt it would be unsafe go farther, as the pressure seemed to be so very strong. On Saturday morning the pressure gauge was put on and when it ran up to 310 pounds the pressure was shut off for fear it would blow the casing out as it had not yet been anchored down. This shows th the city now has agas well with one of the strongest pressures in the Kansas gas belt.

It will cost the city, when all com plete and ready to turn on to the waterworks engine, just about an even $1,000, and should the city have had to pipe and pay for one year's gas from our local companies for these engines it. would have cost it at least $1, 200 A New School Law, County Superintendent. W. Huggins of Lyon county was highly honored at the recent meeting of th Kansas State Teachers' association. He presented a paper upon the sub ject of "Taxation for the Support of the Common schools," and presented with it a bill to be presented to the legislature at its next session The paper was endorsed by the association and the bill accepted ex actly as prepared by Mr.

Huggins. The next legislature will be asked to pass the bill which is as follows, for the relief of the district schools: AN ACT amending an act entitled an act for the regulation and support of common schools: Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state tf Kansrs: Section 1. That It shall be the dnty of the county superintendent of the various counties of this state to present to the boards of county commissioners at their meeting in July of each year, a certified statement showing the grand total months of school taught qualified teachers necessarily employed in the public schools of their respective counties the preceding year; Provided, that school districts supportingiess than six months school shall not be counted in making said grand total. Sec. 2.

That it shall be the duty of the boards of county commissioners at their meeting In July of each year levy a taxto be known as the county school tax, the proceeds of which' shall be added to and made a part of the country school fund, and said fund shalT be made sufficient to provide each legal school district In the county a sum. of money" equal to not less than $15.00 nor more than $25.00 for each month of school taught by legally qualified teach ers necessarily employed in said district tl3 rrscsiir 1 P-M Statement of the Financial Condition OK XJIV mm mi Of Coffeyville, Kansas, As Made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the Close of Business, Dec 13. 1895. BKSOURCES. Loans 148.001 73 Overdrafts V.i 07 Hanking house furniture and 9,300 00 Due from S.

Trensur -r 50 S. Bonds and premiums 00 Cash and sight exchange Ct.298 22 Total 52 LIABILITIES. Capital stock 50.000 00 Surplus fund 7,000 00 Undivided profits 4.GM 20 Circulation 11.250 00 Deposits 201 32 Total 236.115 52 The above statement is correct. THOS. SCURR, President, A.

P. KOSW ELL, J. T. WETTACK. Cashier.

W. H. SHEPAItD. Asst. Cash'r.

Notary Public. Correspondence Solicited Commercial Business Given Special Attention. WILL N. BANKS, Attorney at Law, Independence, Kansas, Office over A. Evans' Hardware Store, West of Postofflce.

For All Kinds of Boot ani Shoe Work CALL ON J. H. ROUT First door east of City Steam Laundry. W8th street. Kep.iinnj? a specialty, ah work guaranteed.

TO YOUR INTEREST! W. H. Clark, the second-hand store man, northwest cornel of the plaza, carries a good line, of toY33, Furniture add Coffins, as well as Fecond hand goods of every description, and also does a general repairing business. Persons wishing anything in Mr. Clark's line will ficd it to their interest to give him a call.

Hsosio Valley Irony. Ia heavily stocked and of very thrifty growth, with Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry, ana an Kinas oi trees Kept in Western Nurseries; also Grapevines Small Fruits, Evergreens, Flowering Shrubs, iorest Trees, at prices so low all can bay. A few good agents wan tad. Sena for price list. D'rect to KEOSKO VALLEY KURSERY, Chanute, Kansas.

Seventy-two conversions ported as the result of the revival services held at the Christian church at Independence. City Clerk Sullivan's report to the council for the month of De cember showed a balance turned over by him to the cily of $134.80. W. b. Irvin got out his Ranch and Range edition of last week on tinted paper and also gave a brief histoiy of the city of Nowata, 1..

T. The G. A. R. Relief committee at Emporia is reported to have spent $1,124.

G5 among needy comrades and their families during the past year. The skaters have been having an abundance of fun during: the past week in this vicinity, as the ice on the ponds was just right for skating. At Prince Albert, N. W. on Friday morning the thermometer registered 36 degrees below zero.

Talk about cold weather in Kansas. We're not in it. On Dec. 21st the Chetopa Dem ocrat gave its readers an excellent double number printed on nice tinted book paper with a complete write- up of that little city. Freight and passenger traffic is again resumed by the K.

A. V. Division of the I.VI. S. Ry.

between Coffeyville and Van Buren, Ark." T. B. Fogg, agent. T. W.

Brownlee purchased two acres of ground in Spruce Park, of J. C. Gillam last week. Mr.Brown-lee will commence the erection of a residence on this ground at once. The Earnest Workers will meet with Mrs.

W. L. Hayes on Thursday afternoon. At this meetingofEeerb will be elected for the year 1896. Mas.

W. Jj. Hayes, Sec. In the Police Judge's report for the month of December we find there were $270 in fines imposed and $267 collected. There were also $83 in costs assessed.

After deducting the expenses due officers there was- left a balance of $252 which was duly turned over to the city. re- i day's Reporter. BAY! THERE! WE WANTTO BUT FIVE HUNDRED TONS OF "CHOICE," and "NO. 1" PRAIRIE HAY, for which we will pay the highest rcRrket price. Call and see us.

Office first door east of the Christian Church. H. Li. STRONG. COFFEYVILLE The President has named- the members of the Venezuelan Commis sion.

The Commissioners are David J. Brewer, of Kansas, justice of the United States supreme court; Richard H. Alvey, of Maryland, chief justice of the court of aypeals of the District of Columbia; Andrew D. WThite, of New York; Frederick R. Coudert, of New-York; Daniel Unman, ot Maryland.

Tnis is considered to be a very strong com mission; Brewer and White are Re publicans Alvey and Coubert are Democrats and Gilman is President of John Hopkin's university and has no politics. Of unusual interest to every read- er of this paper, is the announce ment made elsewhere in this issue by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, unquestionably the greatest of American newspapers. The mail subscription "price of the Daily and Sunday Globe-Democrat is reduced at one blow, from twelve to six dol lars a year, placing it within the reach of all who desire to read any daily paper during the coming great national campaign. The Weekly Globe-Democrat remains at one dol lar a year, but is issued in Semi Weekly sections of eight pages each, making it practically a large semi weekly paper.

This issue is jus the thing for the farmer, I merchant or professional man who has not the time to read a daily paper but -wishes to keep promptly and thoroughly posted. It is made up with especi al reference to the wan ts or every member of the family, not only giv ing the news, bat also a great variety of interesting and ir "trust.