The Benton Call du lieu suivant : Benton, Kansas • 2

AMmntT TVEEICIW DRIFT. iff THB NKW STRIP BILL. Run Cut Reoion of Ti has. THE BENTON CALL la the vast "red clay- region of Texas 0 A VOTTT? TOWN" The bill paused March 4. 1803, provides that wlthiu tlx months utter the ratifica When ooal goes down loo goes up, scape Is of a brilliant red color, tbe strata tion of the bill by the Cherokee Council, composing the bills are interlaid with tbe president shall open to homestead set PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

BY J. M. WORLEY. thicknesses of gypsum, which look like I a ghost should tlement tbo Cherokee strip, Tonkawa and The tone in which epeuk is the tombstone. white sugar, This is sulphate of lime, l'awnee reservations.

Pubnoiiption price $1.00 per year; 60o. for fii whereas chalk is carbonate of lime. By In tbe Tonkawa reservation there are niiutb; 8'ia. per quarter. driving tbe water out of it plaster of parts to be TO allotments, iu tbe l'awnee raser is made.

From the same material a new vation 81 1 and in the strip proper 70 more FBIDAY, APRIL 14, 1893. sort ol well plaster is manufactured. For and the Secretary of tbe Interior is re both of these purposes tbe stuff is largolv quired to publish a list of allotments before Tbe bitfh prices' cause the Wichita pork packers to turn eveiy part of the hog to somo ntility, except the squeal, YonnR ladlen to this rule to keep Is best for your own sake ''Tis better to fast asleep Than to be fast awake," mined, as well as to produce an artiflck: Eleven hundred shop men nu tbe Bant the land is doclared open. stone called "staT," of which most of the Kafflrtna ia ntwl H(l In AVprv townuhln Fh at fopeka wmt ou a strike last Sat I F.xuosition buildillB-a At. are rosorved from settlement tor scuooi wu- nrdny.

'I'hey etruok for a raise in wages i i.i. struetea ami up to Jute uo compromise bas been pur unco auu will uo jeubeu vuw uiftueav blddcs for three years by the Governor to called "chalk" school crayons are No season but bas disagreeable things made out of tbe same substance, and also soon After tbe opening. in one or another directum; tbe summer jewellery aud other ornamental articles. Tuksdav'b storm proved quite Ct- Sections 13, 15, 10, 21, 33, 2.1, 24, 25 for bald beaded buwuess men bring the 'i bese gypsum beds were deposited on the iu portions ol KHintP, Missouri, 20, 27, 2ti, and the east half of sections 1 Buy the Light Running PLANO need of skull cape for protection. and Iowa; Willie, Everett and Powhatan, and 29, all in township 29, north 0f bottom of tbe reat lnlftnd Period 90 lone nrevioua to tLa nlinlk.fnrminir ItJ xl C11 TXT 1, 1 A three small viIIhs in southeastern Kun range 2.

east, are reserved ror tne use or 7." JjlHUCX Willi H1B IV IJ.tJl XX LLUU 11- i.h. -itH composed of lime derived directly M- VV sua were laid iu ruin by oyolone. from the rocks of the land and deposited mp lit SimtUeSt. StTOUfiTeSt. lieSt- tbercou.

This world is but a desert waste, full of all qare and worry, Heuven is our home, bo let's make haste. Aud get there in a hurry. 'W propose to deal," remarked Mr cbemicelly by the sea water, which was Anv person (man or woman) the bead Cleveland to a demo-pop seeker after a of a (amily or twenty one years old, cun enter a homestead of I JO acres upon tbe "pubiio tnit," "with live democrat only." And the dead democrat walked extremely salt, like the salt lake of Utah. Tbe gypsum sand in soutberm New Mexico look like beds of buow, streching for miles and miles. All of that arid region kown When a political leader is better than pensively out of the white house scratch log biB left ear.

Be Sure and Get the PLANO TWINE. It takes the Lead. We Sell the above, also IMPLEMENTS, HARDWARE, LUMBER AND COAL. (Try our McAlister Washed Nut Coal. Best for Summer Come and see us.

bis party the chances are that tbe party will become better. Tbe outlook ia bad when the leader is worse than his gang. provided they have not alreaJy enjoyed the benefits of the homestead and are either citizens of the United States or have filed their declarltory statement. If you have made a homestead entry pre- ttnna tn March '2. 1HHQ.

and (ailed to Der as the great basia is a stranpa and weird country. The rivers, instead of Cowing to tbe sea, disappear iu the plains, drunk up by the dry soil and evaporated by tbe hot Mb. LewbllinO is probably correot when be tars tbut there "is more or less deiimi'd from both parties for a special sun. Ibere, it is said, one "climbs for A Kansas postmaster proposes 472 fBet to UB t0 this time, haVe water and dig for wood." To find water efssion." The pops are making ''more" dittmml, and tbe repoblioana pounds of daughter as a poetal clerk at ol)tained iand under the straight pre-euu the great fair. She's appropriately de tlon or timber culture act, you are still uawnnce Journal.

signed on the eame lines as tbe Collin E- PHILLIPS SON, GREENWICH, KANSAS one must ascend tbe hills, which are green while the valleys are deserts. People dig up for fuel tbe roots of the desert plants. Which are enormously developed for the purpose of gathering moisture. Chicago bian stump. eligible to take a homestead in tbe strip, provided you do not own 100 land for any person ownin this amount of land In anv state or territory is barred out Thb farmers in tbe western part of tbe state are plowing up tbe wheat fields and ulanting oorn.

Too dry for Tbe good have been persecuted io all ages, and will eo continue to be until from entering any land iu Oklahoma the pood (if the pl.int. Small grain is GORGE LEM Ledger. tiE kNev too Late. LACKING TnE INFOUMATlON HE HAD BESS looking well in the eastern portion of the tbe end of time. Tbe guilty prosecutors may flourish for a day, but the resnr Ex soldier or i-ailors or tbeir widows oi( minor children an enter 160 acres by fclinir rectioo promises to bring them up stand a declaratory btatemeut either iu person Btate but rain is badly needed.

Thu country needs the republican par SCOOPED IN RIGHT AI.ONO. ing. Toe event is worth waiting for, or through an agent, aud have six months in which to make his entry and commence ly. for Kb principles and purposes and "Could I get a little information from you Asked a farmer like-looking man DEALER IN Groceries, Shoes, Boots and Tbe writer of tbia department finds Dry Goods, his settlement. policies underlie every Areriean iDter est, and are allied with its true growth Any person cab initiate his homestead either bv ebinir updtt the land tirst and that it is impossible to raise a garden and be good natared about it when your and advancement? It can oeane to exist at tbe North western atalion in Chicago.

"YeB, sir," replied the officer, "Well. I Want to know how these confidence men nearest neighbor keeps several strains of filing afterwards Or by going to tb land Pants "In varions Ways. sometimes they choice poultry and insists on turning oSice and Cling first and going upon tbe tbe whole collection louse every tnoming land afterward, but tke former way is before you feel like getting tip to wring the safest and best, us tbe first in point of and Overalls a Specialty. GREENWICH, KANSAS borrow money and give a worthless cheque on a bank." the tecks of finch as mv rt within time holds the land and wben YOU 0 to the land oCfice and file upon a piece of land "Tbey do, eh?" gasped the man, with a reach of the hoe handle. without having ert Upon it, Borne other sudden start, tonly wbeu American institutions exiefi Governor MoKmley.

A nsv Uw of the state nf New York bv which one per Pent Of all estates with 'over 1 personally; goes ti the state, promises to wring from the estate of jay Gould some $720,000, or more than he was voluntarily known to" give) to the public in all his life. This is irony, cold) cold ir6njr. Heckrtak Mobton has announced Iiis intention of inangnrating a series of borrow money I person may have settled upon it before the "Yes; or perhaps they How fast tirbe Hiesl It seems but vpb- krtH nf fllin nud tkeV would cousb- and turn over a check for a trunk; when terday that I bare footed, to tbe school house ran. And minified with the I ttle is not to you RO to look for the trunk it E. S.

SHA.RP, quently gt tbe load be found mes at play; tn.Tself as young end inho- -dkaleb id- "By George i1' muttered the man. "Then again they sell you a bogus bond, Ottly 'a few can get a cbahre to success fully file before a'l the land is settled upon on the day of opening, so the surest and best wav is to sro upon your land first cent as they. And now my auburn locks are growing gray and my own children nail me "the old man." or borrow money ou it. and make settlement, then go and file. "Sakes alive?" "And they sometimes hire their victims Every settler in the strip must live upon hia land five years before he can obtain title aud must also rav S2.50 rer acie for to boss a mill or factory some where, aud then borrow money to pay a freight moral and pbyeioal examinations of applicants for plnees in bis department.

This is'olparl another device of a heartless administration for decimating the ranks 'of the office seekera early In the faght. What earthlv show baa a demb 'crat in a moral examination, anyway? HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE. Implements Bought and Sold for CASH 'Four different ways shouted tbe man The "Drift" department bas learned something ab at raising peas aud is free to give it lo the readers, Peas should be planked iu well pnlveriaed soil, in rows eighteen inohes apart. Clover to the depth of two inches and then lie as he jumped clear ol the floor. "Yes" 'And I'll be banged if I haven't been Eves the democratic newaoapers are taken in on eveiy one of 'em ia a ride of astounded by thn dexterity and raptdltv KANSAS a hnndi ed miles I Bay, come down and I BENTON, down on the enfa and elep two hours before dinner.

By that time the peas will be "up" aDd your neighbor's poultry will be ripe for the sacrifice. with wf'drh Sporetarv Gre'hnm iispb bis Shew tne tne river tbe deepest spot in tbe river the place where 1 can drop in and land east of 97 degrees west longitude: Sl.fiO per a re for land lying between D7J and CsJwest longitude! and $1.00 per acre for all land west of 98 4 degrees and shall also pay interest upon the amount so to be paid for Baid land from the date oi entry to the date of final payment therefor at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. No person shall be permitted to occupy or to enter upon any of the lands herein referred to.except in the manner prescribed by the proclamation of the President opening the same to settlement, and any person otherwise occupying or entering won't never come to tbe surface again with my dough filled head." Wichita Don't forget that Cronch sells the best 83 shoe for 82.50, $2 .60 for 82, $2 for 81.75, at tbe "Hole in the Wail." Opinion. It is very often the case that marriage is a failure because tbe saloon is a MAN asd BEAST. A kind hearted woman in the westerh part of the city had her sympathies appeal DON'T REPEAL IT.

upon said lands eball forfeit all right to 'official axe, So far he has removed tvo republicans to one disposed of by sny of 'bis, colleagues' in the cabinet, tt is nothing ont of the onfrtranh run of Thn aal of the bew eonVri has been remarked from the earliest historical periods Ed Btbatpobd is going tn start a middle of tbe rond Pennle's party paper in El Dorado. We wish E1 euccessbnt it will be the hipcrest fool trick he ever did The Toddvonatn bss pot ewav with the swasr and pnt th People's nurtv in sneh shape jn the oortntv that the aid of tbe Democrats it car'not ptsitd e'one in the mid'-tle of thn rond. will be ID? W. DILL, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON STILL RESPONDS TO CALLS. DEALER in DRUGS Patent Medicines BENTON, KAN.

admire any of suld lands. The secretary ed to a few days ago by the spe tacle of a of the lnteriorr shall, under the directions thin, attenuated horse attached to an ash of the president, prescribe rules and regu cart Which Stopped before hs door. The National association, through its legislative committee, Hon. Owen Scott, chairman, secured at the last session of congress an act prohibiting the post master general from printing return requests on envelopes. These requests were printed by the government free of "It's a shame." she said indlirnantfv to latiOns, not tucoMwteat with the act, fo; the man who had the horse and in be occupation and sett emeut of lands, to be incorporated in the proclamation oi tne tv.exidsnt.

whijh shall be' issued at least charge, "to drive such a poor, thin, half, starved beast. YoU ought to te punished for The man approached the srood woman twenty days before the timo fixed for the opening of said lands. Before any of the rnn over by everything. Douglass Trib- lands are open to settlement it shall be one. the dutv of the searetary of the interior charge; and the post master general says 313, S55, 000 envelopes were thus printed by tne government in 18915.

The post master general in his report attacks the law, and gives the large number printed to show that the old way had become "popular." If tbe government would furnish envel A FACETtntJS director of tbe Missouri to divide the same lute counties, Which shall contain as near as possible and not PaoiflV railway recently moved that tb J. H. SIMPSON, DEALER IN and extended his hand. "Fale me arrum and me ribs, ma'am, and you'll see for yourself I'm as thin as the horse," he said The equine sympathizer suw that he was speaking tbe truth, and be at one set a more substantial form of her sympathy before hiin. Detroit Free Press.

tiokt 'agent at Jefferson Citv. hp reoalled and tlv office closed until the passes in thn hands of the members of less than 500 square miles in each county. In establishing said county line the secretary is hereby authorized to extend the lines of coanties already located so as to make the area of the counties provided for opes free of charge, as some congressman has proposed, no doubt it would be simil the leattislat.itro. and their families arly "popular" and hundreds of millions Flour and Feed. Giocenes, should expire.

It is said that only one would be called for in a year. So a law ticket whs pnjrnha.se'1 at the statioti dnr- Trees jn Medicinb. The medicinal uses of tree's are various, to furnish any useful article free of charge would become "popular." lhg a period of seven wpok, but nf says the 'Independent'. It is not only BOt would that make- it right? Is it A And Shirts. oonrse that sounds too ranch like a populist campaign yarn to deserve creslenoe that cinchona ia aii its forms, from the in this act; provided, that range 1 west nd ranges 1, 2.

3 and 4 east, in township 80, shall be attached to and become a part of Payne county as soon as the county lines are designated by the secretary, he shall reserve not to exceed one half section of land in each county, seat purposes, to be entered under sections 2,887 aud 2,388 right to tax all tbe people to furnish a fcj ALiLO crude bark to the delicate and tasty quinine part with free envelopes, print on them It is anhonnoed that tbe eenaforeh'p KANSAS. or the quassia made into a cup of bitterness, meet tbe terrors of the dread malaria return requests, free Would it be rignt to thus break down the envelope trade BENTON, nurrinrl on bv mivate Individuals! Is it or help to give tone to impaired digestive organs. Through all the ranges ot spicos Of the revised statutes. And all reservations for county serfts by the governors of Wyoming. Montana and Washington will he sealed in accordance with the majoritiy r'pnort of the committee on privilege and elections.

This will mak a precedent and atop a good deal of windy debte in the right for government to interfere with the rivate printing business by doing such work for nothing? Or by doing it at all! St- Louis Stationer. shall be specified in any order or procla- and bitters, of resins and gums, of leaves, of WOod, of bark and root, there is a variety with which we could not easily part, while the bttds and leaves and flowers are mation which the president shall make PATRONIZE YOUR HOME TOWN LUMBER YARD! Phillips Son, Greenwich, Kans. (Agents for Bock Island Lomber i Manafacttiring Con) for the opening of the lands to settlement. Tatnre. It would, have been a violence often salutary.

Most of these are an tl Any persen can secure one or more town lots by settling upon, improving RIDDEN ON A RAIU 7 TnftEE'GIias MaKS a pbctac1.b or Mb. William Fbim. septic, and the air probably owes much of them and paying a small fee therefor. to the principles of representative gv-erenment to leave the people of these 1 states lacking a senator for the nex two years. 'its ozone and of its exhilirating quality to these lutstancea.

thus "it is that particles ei t. Ant-it A William i Townsites caa ba established at any point desirable and the same entered and Fritz, self-satisfle young man Kving In CafTV ft all OI art wafted to hud fro for onr lungs aud title secured at once by payment of $10 the village of Clare, is the laughing-stock of the country round. For some time TaII HI fir, J-lEtn, tonics are 'provided for 'our bodies. We therefore toave reason to rejoice ia the per acre. Shingles, Sash, There will be 16 or 17 counties In the strip and one on the Pawnee reservation Fritz has been urging his attentions on the I of a well-to-do fariner.

t)OORS, TOS fS, SAND ETCfJ 5, SAND ETCf3 Relative to the opening of the Chero ltee strip on a plan different from a pell-mell race, the. following plan has been snggested thai would be just to the hon-settler and calculated to be simple sanitary and medicinal properties and healthful influence of tbe trees, and hope (part of which extends down into Payne Ho was repeatedly eiven to understand this utilitarian view of them will not shock Good Goods-Low Prices. onnty as far as the Cimaron river.) that his attentions were unwelcome, those who only associate "with them "ideas Kickapoo lands will open at tne lame of the poetic and the sublime. but he persisted in forcing timsolf upon Tr the family. Fritz called one evening when Kye Are Here to Get our Trade.

We Are Going to Hustle the girls parents were not at home, and or It. UOLTbJ AHQ oee US. as he had been drinking, made himself I especially oljftoxious. The girl ordered! H1J1 JT 00 fLll, time at SI. 50 per acre.

All parties interested in the strip should cU our worthy Post Master, Mr. B. F. Mathers for map of Oklahoma and home, seeker's guide, giving full information in regard to the late bill that passed Mar. 4th 18U3, he has them for sale at 25 cents, space here will not admit of giving it in talL East Bill, him out, but he refused to go.

bne tnen Kan called he two sisters to her assistance, and jrg9n. WlCLl, Tub Las Tun Best of Alu 1st Boy. "I have to take sulphur and molasses every morning." 2nd Boy. "We take turns to drive to town In tbe buggy every day. 1 st Little girL "I get the chromos every time we get a hew packet of colee." JJrd Boy.

"My father lets me ge and the three girls tied the young man arms the manner of execution. It is 6 follows: 1. president could issue a proda-mation declaring the land subject to' homestra-l entry. 2. Each homesteader to draw from a 1bk)x a number containing the land be is to file on.

8. After the land has all been filed on president to isaae another proclama-tionyeclflri'rig tbe land open to at which time each homesteader eonld go ont'at once upon tis land as the only claimant. This would do away with the and ruinoas contest system that is a scandal rid fraud on the nettiement tf K. ROBINSON, and secured a stout hickory rait Fritz -was perched upon it, and while two of the I. -ii.

n. -ail Ana halil the victim A. FaTSB. A- L. SALLE The Always Ready Eonsc him 4 Decorator in position.

Fritz was given a free rule Uant tSlCltO IlKSUrunCVX whiln till who Raw tlT9 I who saw the Short Tiina Loans. the plucky T.nnor flnd strange rrocesaion applauded Klris. iMily Times. drown the kittens and puppies. 2cji Little girl.

"We take the home paper, knd I write news for it and get a paper sent free to iry aunt at Goshen, Indiaaa, and the (ends uie a paper from her town. cXil'dre'v 'y donft Vno'w What's iood'yet." When you want Strictly work wire Al. Collections. Farm Fob Sale. 1 will sell my farm of 70 acres adjoining the- town of Benton for what tbe improvements would cost, if taken'iD the next ten days.

"2 tf "jGHnCKow First Clas That delicious Bjrup is going fast at EL DORADO, KAN BENTON, Tatterson's..