Sterling Weekly Champion du lieu suivant : Sterling, Kansas • 1

CHAMPION STERLING subscliption price, ei.50 a TEAK, STJCCBSSOR TO "THE SATURDAY REPUBLIOAU." ixvahiably cash in advance, VOLUME I. STERLING, RICE COUNTY, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1889. NUMBER 49. i About Madstones. The Champion's Bulletin Board J.

W. LOWRY, The Sterling Champion In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of JAMES MORRIS, Proprietor of the CORRECT AND RELIABLE. Successor to the Saturday Republican." recent date appeared the following let DEALER 1JT RAILROAD TIME TABLE. ter from Walla Walla, W.

written by a brother of Kr II. Mathews of this THE OFFICIAL CITY PAPER. AlchUon, Topeka Santa Fe It. R. RCSSISG WEST.

Also publishes the official county business, city, which will prove interesting to many of our readers, as R. II. is the oraerea oy commissioners. No. 1 California Erpress 8:47 am a Mexico aim Arizona fcxpress.

8:54 pm 43 Way Freight 6:40 a brother alluded to. and distinctly re ISSUED KVEEY WEDNESDAY, R0SSING EAST. From the Office over Hanna's store, 102 Broadway. members an the circumstances connected with the affair Being a constant reader of your val nnnnr W'WW 2 Atlantic Express 6:51 6 Kastevn Express 8:07 a 4G Way Freight 3:53 THOS. L.

POWERS, Editor. uable paper, and of late seeing several Through tickets to all points in the world on Drugs and Chemicals STATIONERY, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Soaps, And all varieties of Druggists'. Sundries Fine Cigars. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Broadway.

STERLING. KANSAS. ai. mis oiuce. j.

v. i u.uk, Ag pieces regarding the niadstone, I have Republican County Convention. become erreatlv interested in the mat Missouri Pacific Salina, Sterling El P. Div. WEST BOUND.

By direction of the Republican County Central ter, and will tell you what I know, about the madstone. It happened about Committee, at a meeting held at Lyons, June 1, No. iivs Pueblo mail and express p.m. thirty years ago, in Northern Indiana, 1889, a County Convention will be held at the and I think possibly may be the same court-house, in the city of Lyons, on Tuesday, August 20tii, 1889, stone spoken of in your issue of April 25. One of our neighbors living near io.

4Uo i.ocui ireiKiit EAST BOUX'D. No. Kan. City St. L.

mail .8:33 a.m No. 4iji Local freight 4:30 a.m Local freights carry passengers. Patterson. Agent mv father's place had a large dog that At 10 o'clock a. for the purpose of nominat GROCERY, Sterling, Kansas.

ing candidates for county offices to be voted for went mad. My brother was at their place at the time, sitting in the yard talking to one of tne young men De- OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. longing to the' when the dog AL. NATI03T came near them, and in sport he said to J. H.

RICKSECKER, in November, 1889, as follows: One Treasurer, One Sheriff, One Register of Deeds, One County Clerk, One County Surveyor, One Coroneri One County Commissioner for 2nd district, President Vice-President Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton STERLING, KAN. view on Broadway, looking north from monroe street. the dog, "Uite him, Watch." The dog made a jump at my brother's face, bit WANTED, PRESIDENT STATE BANK, ing him on the cheek. After biting my G.

Blaine Wm. Whulom Kedfield Proctor Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of War brother he started on a run, came to Secretary of the Navy Beuj. F. Tracy Pointers for Prohibitionists. our place and picked up a small dog be And election of a County Central Committee.

Secretary ot the Interior. longing: to one of our neighbors, and The delegates aud alternates are apportioned will make a hard fight for the nomination for treasurer; our present efficient sheriff is considered by many as enti AGENT FOR TILE jonn w. iNoiiie John Wanamaker W. II. II.

Miller Jeremiah Husk we could hear his bones breaking while Postmaster General Attorney General Secretary of KANSAS STATE the big dog was biting him. My fath on a basis of one for each twenty and a traction of ten votes cast for Secretary of State, at the general election held in November, 1SSS. and are OFFICERS. er being a blacksmith, was setting a wagon tire in the road in front of his Governor Lyinan U. Humphry Lieutenant-Governor Andrew J.

Felt as follows Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe R. R. Lands tled to a second term, and A. L. Perry, of Lyons, would like to be register of deeds.

Other aspirants may arise, but whether they do or not, it must be evi shop at the time, and being close to the Atlanta 6 All the Eggs and Chickens In Rice and Reno counties. JMS MORRIS. Pioneer 3 A'ictoria 5 Union 5 A'alley 4 Secretary of State A Higsrins Treasurer Hamilton Attorney (ieneral L. B. Kellogg Auditor of State Timothy McCarthy Sup't Public Instruction Geo.

W. Wynans 4 dogs lie KieKeattie mgaog, malting mm drop the small dog. The mad dog then turned and jumped into a pasture, bit dent that some of Sterling's candidates Center Farmer F'ureka Lincoln Raymond Sterling Rockville Gait -jm. City orXyons Correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean. 3 To the Editor: The fact that prohibition victories were almost uninterrupted until 1885, aud since that date prohibition amendments have been defeated in every State in which they have been voted upon has been variously commented of late.

Those who have watched the trend of pubUc sentiment in both urban and rural communities need not be at a loss to find satisfactory reasons for the results. The great bulk of the vote for the amendments in the several States has 24 AVashington 4 will be disappointed. She is entitled ing several animals belonging to father RICE COU'TY. Money to Loan AViison 3 and some our neighbors First published in the Sterling AVeekly Champion June 26th, 1839. Sheriffs Sale Under Order of Sale, STATE OF KANSAS, I a Rice County, f3 John P.

King vs. B. F. Hunter, Carl Saylor, T. A.

Scott and J. C. Terrance. I VIRTUE of an execution to me directed I and delivered, issued out of the 2iith Judicial District Court of the State of Kansas, sitting in and for Rice County in said State, I will, on Monday, July 29th, A. D.

1RS9, bet ween the hours of 1 o'clock p. m. and 2 o'clock p. in. of said dav, at the court-house door in the citv of Lyons, in the county and state aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, title and interest of the alwvve named defendants, in and to the following described real estate, to-wit: Lot twelve (12) in block three (3), in the city of Sterling, Rice county, Kansas.

Said property ordered sold as the property of the above named defendant, Carl Savior. Sheriff's Office, Lyons, June24lh, 1S33. S. STODDARD, Sheriff. Jxo.

N. Ives, Att'y for plaintiit. It was hot my brother weatner at tne time, ami to one, and may possibly get two, but in no event shall she be given three. This triangular fight in Sterling will Judge 20th Judicial District Ansel Ti Clark Senator, 36th District E. L.

Chapman Representative E. A. Deupree Clerk of District court John E. Davies Treasurer J. C.

Seaward County Clerk William Lowr I -came home, and with others started in The primaries for the purpose of electing del egates to this convention will be held on Saturday, August 17th, 1S89, -ON- pursuit or the dog. JSly brotner Became overheated, so much so he has been bothered with breathing whenever he ssnerill tttouclard certainly increase the chances of Messrs. Truesdell, Stoddard and Perry the chances of the two former are already ITobate Judge R. T. Speeut In the several townships, and the delegates shall is overheated yet.

This, ot course be elected by ballot. Polls to be open from 5 would make the bite take effect quick county Attorney J. w. BrincKernoit Resistor of Deeds Nash Sup't Public Instruction A. H.

McBride Coroner l)r A Adams quite fair and by asking for so much o'clock to 8 p. except in the township of come from the Republican party. In Farm and City Property. she may fail to get what she Avould oth Sterling and the city of Lyons, where the polls er than otherwise. Everthing was greatly excited, and every one was sure that my brother would have the hydrophobia.

There was nothing done that I will be open from 2 o'clock to 8 o'clock p. m. erwise be considered as entitled to. 1880 it is safe to say that 95 per cent, of the Republicans in the country and smaller villages of the Northern States The primary elections will be conducted in the manner and after the form of general elections know of for several days, when father A Veteran's Respects. heard or a madstone, and it was the -o- The Central Committeemen of each township will act as judges of the election, and in case of absence or a vacancy, judges will be elected by Taxes Paid and Rents Collected Sol Miller, the veteran editor of the favored constitutional prohibition.

In the cities this percentage ran down from 80 to 40 per cent, varying with the size Surveyor Lane Commissioners Howard, Chairman; Wilder, and Johnston County I'hvsician Dr Terry Sup't County Poor Farm Leeds CITY OF STERLING. Mayor Ofiskell City Clerk Thos Powers Stubbs, president of council, Higley, MaVay. McCrackeu, Stevens. Citv Treasurer Hamilton Irish City Attorney A Blackwood Police Judge. A Lindsley City Marshal W.

J. Clark Street Commissioner A Lindsley seventh day before he got it home. The directions Avere to apply it until it became full of the poison, then wash it Troy Chief, pays his respects to some Republicans present; clerks in like manner. Those receiving the highest number of votes in warm milk and water. It was ap of the city and character of its inhabitants.

In many country places to favor FOR NON-RESIDENTS. Office with State Bank, for delegates shall be delegates, and the dele of his patrons in a decidedly pointed manner. On the occasion of the thirty-second anniversary of his paper (last gates shall appoint their own alternates. 1S54 THE 18S9 KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. Able, Enterprising, Reliable.

plied as soon as possible, and stuck to the wound until it became full of a greenish looking water, then dropped from the wound: On putting it in the milk and water the green poison could prohibition Avas not only a necessity to good social standing but an admitted Credentials shall be made out in duplicate and one set delivered to the Secretary of this Com decoration day) he says: Sterling, Kansas Chief of Fire Department -Wm. C. McVay mittee previous to the calling to order of the adjunct to the creed of a good Repub This issue of the Chief rounds out convention. the thirty-second year of its existence. The primaries will be held at the following Although we have stuck to it through A Choice and Fashionable stock of Ladles' and Children's Hats, Infants' Lace Hoods and FLOWERS, FEATHERS, RIBBONS, For sale by Miss SUDBOROCGB, First building north of Electric Light building.

North Broadway, Sterling, Kansas. lican. That Avas before the day in Avhich third party prohibition began to cut a figure in national politics. In 1884 BTEKUXO TOWNSHIP. Township Trustee Jas.

S. Evans Township Clerk J. W. Lowry Treasurer P. Himrod Justices I.

C. Johnston. Joe Mitchell Constables W. J3. lladloek.

Kobert Findley all these years, we are not yet a nabob, can not ride in our own carriage be seen to spread on top of the water like oil. The stone became full two or three times, then would stick to his face but a short time, drawing less of the poison each time, untU it would not stick to his face at all. Mother then bound it on his face and let it remain over night. On removing in the the change began to come. In the cam W.

B. WIRSHING. but, thank the Lord, our eyesight is good, and we can see other people ride in theirs. When we want to ride, we paign or that year the third party peo CHURCH DIRECTORY. Contains the largest a mount and the ple avowed their intention of defeating The Daily Journals can pay our hack fare.

We can gaz best line of Tele-trrai 'hie news. The with pride upon the record of thous CONGREGATIONAL Services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.

Sabbath-school at 12 m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. J. H. Boggess, Pastor.

most accurate anv naner in the ands of dollars out of Avhich we have morning there could not be seen any poison on the stone. My brother is still living and never felt any effect from the bite, while everything else the dog satest tiimily reading and tin markst and railway reports of citv. i safest family reading and the markst and railway reports of Price the Republican party because it had not in a few years accomplished the work of a century. They were heedless of the fact that during the preceding named places: Atlanta, at usual voting place. Sterling, at the Engine House.

Victoria, at Geneseo, Union, at office of Dr. Young. Washington, at Jefferson school-house. Valley, at Alden. Center, at Fairview school-house.

Pioneer, at Liberty school-house. Lincoln, at Chase, at El Dorado school-house. Eureka, at Frederick. Rockville, at Libbey school-house. Mitchell, at Mitchell.

Gait, at Gait. Wilson, at Jarvis Creek school-house, City of Lyons, at the court-house. DEALER IN been swindled by dead beats. It is said that time makes all things even, but SlO.OO we are afraid that time wiU not even bit, as far as known, went mad. There iuuu 1 pel .11 The Sunday Journal Subscription per year Is and filled with interesting Home foreign cor- are plenty or living Avitneses to tins.

up our books. four years that party had carried pro liibition in the only State where the ru My brother, It. II. Mathews, is in Ster resnondence.so Groceries and And then proceeds to describe sever ciety's latest doings aud fashions, homeamuse- ling, liice county, Kan. The descrip al kinds of patrons Avith Avhom he has ral Republican majorities were lar: enough to justify the undertaking.

meuis aim employments, tnougiitmi editorials, and choice selections for all classes. tion of the stone in Te: i Haute given by Prof. Collett, is so near the to deal, and pays his respects to them METHODIST. Services every Sabbath at 11 ft. in.

and 8 p. tn. at 9:30 a. m. Young people's class every Wednesday eveninsr.

Prayer meeting every Thurslay at 3 p.m. A J. Bixier, Pastor. PR ESBYTEKIAV. -Preaching every Sabbath ai 11 a.

m. aud 7:30 p. m. Sabbath-school at lu a. in.

niej ing every Wednesday evening. Pi.stor's weekly reception at residence every Thursday, af icrnoon and evening. W. K-Scott, Pastor. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN, East Main street.

S'-rvices on every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school, 10 a.

m. Young People's meeting at p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. AVI Wright, Supply. Subscription Price per year $2.00 description of the one used on my as follows: The Third Party Prohibitionists suc Dry Goods.

brother's face I believe it to be the same F. TRUES DELL, Chairman. To the man who has no objection at ceeded in carrying out their boasted in Tri-Weekly JoumaiiHiil one. C. II.

Mathews. Rob't T. Specht, Secretary, all to hi' focal paper, but is already tak tention, but at the same time they strangled the cause for which they pro ing too many papers. iresh news, servediqmckly, is an object. POLITICAL.

POTPOURI. Subscription Price per year To the man who wants to discontinue his paper for the present, but will or fessed to be laboring. The Republicans ATere not humbled by their defeat. The What our Exchanges Have toSay For Judge of the 20th District: HON. ANSEL R.

CLARK, Of Sterling. der it again in a short time. Atout County Candidates. Soots and Shoes, parent did not prostrate himself before To the man who stops the paper because he is thinking of going away, but REFORMED PRES3Y FEiUA NT. Services at 11a, m.

every Sabbath, Sabbatli-si-hnol, 1 p. mission school m. P. 11. Wylie, Pastor, Lvons Republican.

the treacherous offspring. The politi WeeLlyJournaldgriculturist aviII send tor it again as soon as he gets We don want AI McMillan to ever cal Absalom is confronted by his her ANNOUNCEMENTS. settled. run for office again. The Gazette has C1I RISTI AX, Fifth of Main street.

Preaching every Lord's Day at 11 a. m. and 8 p. n. Sunday-school at 0:30 sv.

m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve. This is a gem for the farmer and his family. Sixtv-four columns of selected matter, chosen To the man Avho refuses to take his local paper because it is not as reditary enemy, the Philistine on one side, and an array of avenging Joabs been as insipid as last year's dish Avater CLOTHING, for its adaptation to the wants of a great con- FOR COUNTY TREASURER ever since he concluded to be an office cheap as the city papers. I am a candidate for Treasurer of Rice coun on the other, and the low hangin To the man or woman who would not ty, subject to the decision of the Republican seeker.

Brace up. Mac, and sass a lit bows of the oak tree causes him to ride BAPTIST. every Sabbath, at 11 a. m. and 8 p.

m. Sabbath-school at 12 in. Business meeting Wednesday evening beiore every first Sabbath. Eld. Mi.e, Pastor.

county convention. tr. w. ieuesdeii. have the thing in the house, but gobble on to it and read every word the mo it ij wiinoui.

trtrrr ui 119 own class, and no family knowing its value can afford to be without it. The Farm, Garden. Household. Market and Telegraph News, Stories, and contributions 011 various topics, all are embodied iu its quota of good reading. low indeed.

HATS and CAPS, FOR COUNTY TREASURER tle once in a while. The boys will aU support you just as cheerfully, yea, more so, if you have a backbone and I hereby announce mvself as a candidate for ment they enter the house of a neigh The Prohibition party has shot its FRIENDS. Services every Sabbath at 11 a.m. Sabbath-school at 10 a. m.

re-election to the office of County Treasurer of bor who does take it. bait. It has crippled the cause it start Rice county, subject to the decision of the Republican Convention. J. C.

Seaward. rub against them occasionally. To the man who sends away from home for his job work, or orders from ed out with so much bluster to espouse. The announcement of J. C.

Seaward UNITED BRETHREN. Services every Sabbath at 11 a. and 8 p.m. I'raver meeting Wednesday evening. W.

L. "Hinshaw, FOR REGISTER OE DEEDS every snide canvassing agent, rather Had the party never come into exist as a candidate for reelection to the of Gents' Furnishing Goods. I am a candidate for Register of Deeds at the The Great Through Line From All Points in Kansas to Kansas City, St, Louis and the Hast and North. Direct Connections in all Union Depots for Omaha, St. Paul, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Pitts-buig, and all Points East.

ensuing frill election, subject to the decision of ence the results of the recent constitu than patronize home. To the man who uses a rubber stamp fice of County Treasurer will be found tue repuDiican county convention, a ug. 20. tional elections would have been differ A. Li.

PERRY. in another place. Mr. SeaAvard has the man Avho pays in "truck," and charges three prices tor the truck. served in that position not quite a year ADVENTISTS.

Preaching at this church every Seventh Day, at 11 a. m. Seats free. STERLING Y. M.

C. A Meets in the Reading Room every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, and Sabbath afternoon at 3:30. J. Hauna. Pres't.

FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS ent. The cause of prohibition under third party direction has met with noth I hereby announce myself as a candidate for and asks for an approval of his work. To the man who writes his advertisements on brown paper, and tacks them the office of Register of Deeds, subiect to the ing but overwhelming defeat. Its old decision of the Rice County Republican Conven- He is so weU known throughout the up in stores. tion.

McMlLLAJf. Li. for friends have alienated from and no new county that he needs no introduction To the man who gets all his free Produce taken in Exchange Goods. FOR SHERIFF reinforcements are anywhere discem- printing done at home, and sends his ITPIEIEIMITTTIIVCS- The publishers have decided to offer Premiums to subscribers. Read the list of useful articles below.

The price set opposite any article there means the net cost of that and vear's subscription to the AVEEKLY JOURNAL AND AGRICULTURIST. If you desire fuller information about any of these before subscribing, send for a sample copy of the paper with Illustrated Premium Supplement, and they will be mailed to you free. BOOKS. Tour choice of ten out of forty books Si 00 Boys' Useful Pastimes 146 Ropp's Commercial Calculator 1 25 AVhat One Should Know 1 50 Mrs. Parker's Complete Housekeeper 1 50 AA'orth of Law for 51.50 1 50 Dictionary cf American Politics 1 50 Law AVithout Lawyers 1 50 Cyclpediaof Natural History 1 50 Volume for Universal Reference 1 50 Family Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge.

1 50 Farm and Household Cyclopedia 1 43 Everybody's Paint Book 1 36 Dr. Douelson's Counselor, with 1 60 LADIES' SPECIALTIES. to our readers. I hereby announce that I am a candidate for pav work abroad. able.

the office of Sheriff of Rice county, subiect to Sheriff Stoddard is out with a card SECRET SOCIETY DIRECTORY. STERLING LODGE NO. 171, A. F. A.

M. Meets in stated communications in Masonic hall on the first and third Thursdays of each month. B. H. A.

M. Thorne, Sec'y. To the man who takes the paper for tne decision 01 the Kepuolican county convention. John De Ford. saying to the people that he is a candi The Fast Mail Route vears and never pays.

STOPPED THE SHOOTINQ- W. B. WIRSHING. date for re-nomination as Sheriff of To the man who takes the paper ten FOR SHERIFF How Private John Klien Got to vears before paying, and then stops "it Av are authorized to announce that Sheldon S. Stoddard will be a candidate for re-election to be Full-Fledged Corporal.

because fifteen dollars is too much for STERLING CHAPTER NO. 50, R. A. M. Meets in stated convacations in Masonic hall on seeond and fourth Wednesday in each month.

W. B. Wirshing, II. C. II Brown, Sec'y.

liice county. The Sheriffs office is no sinecure, and Stoddard has been hard Avorking, painstaking, and generally the office of Sheriff of Rice county, subject to 3 DAILY TRAINS 3 a paper. tne decision ot the Republican convention. Just before the fight at Williams To the man who wants the local to be always puffing the town, but burg my company was on picket duty Between FOR COUNTY CLERK The State Bank of Sterling, STERLING, KANSAS. at the front.

The man on the left of A are requested toannounce that the under goes away from town to ao nis trading brought home his man sooner or later Avhenever he was called in while the traU was warm. The office of sheriff is KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS. me, as I went on guard at 10 o'clock signed wan De a candidate ior county tierK, at the ensuing fall election, subiect to the decision Crush Lace Pin 1 on KEYSTONE CHAPTER No. 47, O.E.S., meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month.

Mrs. J. M. English, W. Mrs.

T. H. Brown, secretary. FIDELITY LODGE NO. 123, KNIGHTS OF rythias, meets in Magoliin's hall every Monday evening.

J. P. King, C. C. W.

P. Morrison, K. of R. and S. 01 tne itepuDircan convention.

v. ai. jones. To the man who can't appreciate the difference between a live newspaper and a last vear's baking poAvder adver one night, was a Dutchman named Jake Klien. He was a good natured, obedient fellow, and not easily put out, not a pleasant one, and it is unavoida FOR COUNTY CLERK H.

C. TOWNSEND, General Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. tisement. I hereby announce mvself as a candidate for OFFICERS: J.

H. RIoksecker, Pres't J. K. A. M.

Thorne, Cashier, C. K. Stamping Outfit 1 13 Combination Package 165 Royal Stamping Outfit, 178 designs 1 50 Lady's ATork Box Package 140 MISCELLANEOUS. TheBov's Pride Jack Knife 1 30 ble that somebody's toes be trodden on occasionally, but the Sheriff has done but that night he was out of sorts, and Skiles, Vice Pres Howard, Sec'y. the office of County Clerk, subject the decision To the man who wants the paper to abuse his enemies, but not let his name as the rebel pickets were constantly fir 01 ine tiepuDiican county con vennon, to De neia his duty as he saAV it.

AUg. 2U, 1839. V. WILDER. ing in our direction Jake finally got his Combination Toy Package 1 IS appear.

"These men's graves once dander up. it was against orders to Chase Record. FOR COUNTY CLERK CAPITAL, $50,000. leave his post, but after awhile he came The nndersiened announces that he is a can TVe understand John DeFord. of Ster he says "this world would be a pretty didate for County Clerk at the ensuing fall elec lumbering through the bushes like au good sort oa MONEY 10 LOAN ling, intends entering the race for sher tion, subject to the decision of the Republican.

ox team and growled out: STERLING LODGE No. 131, 1. 0. O.K. meets I Odd Fellows' hall every Tuesday evening.

AV. Vickers, N. Rob't Fiudlay, Secretary. STERLING ENCAMPMENT Jfo.84, I. OOF.

meets on the first aud fhird Saturdays of each month, in Odd Fellows' hall. F. J.Roche. CP. J.N.

McGee, secretary. PEACEFUL LODGE NO. 112. D. of meets every second and fourth Friday evenings of each at Odd Fellows hall.

Mrs. E. F. Baird, N. Mrs.

F. J. Roche, Secretary. county convention. jt.

m. oonacott. "veil, shall Ave do sometmgs? iff. And right here we wan't to inquire what's the matter with Stoddard He Laws Poor Crops in Minnesota. nat can we do 1 asked in re Incorporated under the of Kansas.

Monday is the day set for the BT- We find in the Crookston (Minn.) has made the best sherifE Rice county has yet elected to that office. All his fight between Sullivan and Kilrain. The "Take 'em some prisoner, eh Tou'd better go back and keep aui Times, the following items in regard to the crops in that State, which are battle will be fought on Louisiana soil. et." enemies can say in opposition is "in Page Brown, "But dose rebels vhas shooting all der competency," and not one case can they gloomy indeed. The wheat crop for Kansas is MEADE POST Xo.14, G.

A.R., meets in their hall the first and third Fridav evenings of each month. Dr. M. Van Patten, P. J.

Allen Porter, Adjutant. waue uutcner itazor 1 50 Floral Photograph Album 1 50 Imperial Photograph Album 1 75 Nutshell Printing Outlit 135 FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. Lovell's Family Washer 2 75 Keystone Wringer 3 10 Perfect Bench 4 00 Crown Hanging Lamp 2 85 Imperial Hanging Lamp 4 70 Royal Hanging Lamp 8 00 Hand Deeorated Tea Set 5 35 AVhitehill Sewing Machine 18 00 Cook Stove, Fruit Dryer and Evaporator. 4 00 FARMER AND SrORTSM AN Sak Holder and Truck 3 20 Clipper Crosseut Saw 7 OS Face Watch, Horse Timer 6 09 Hunting Case Watch. Horse Timer 8 50 Hunting C.

AVatch, gold plate, horse tuner. 9 Bu Self-Cocking Revolver 2 13 Double Barrel, Breech-loading Shotgun 8 10 tl 44 It a. ifQ "..17 50 Any of these articles are worth the price at wholesale, named here. Remittances should be made by P. O.

Monev vhile. Dot vhasn't fair play. I belief cite where "incompetency" appeared. Hugh Thompson was over from 000,000 more bushels this year than last. Sterling, Kansas.

I go oafer nnd shtop him." Fisher yesterday. He is feeling blue SterUng's rustling candidate for sher eii, nurry up." replied with a Do a general Banking. Collect'n Business Exchange Bought and Sold, Good Paper Discounted. Directors. II.

Rickseckcr, K. Skiles, W. M. Quigley, AV. C.

McVay. C. 11. Howard. over the crop prospects.

He says that That means that the farmers this year for their wheat alone will get 9,000,000 iff John DeFord was in toAvn, Tues laugh; and to my surprise and conster many of the farmers on the Dakota border are plowing up their fields. He Money paid when papers are signed more than last year. day, looking over the political field. John looks so like a sheriff that as soon GE NERAL BENTON CAMP No. 5S, S.

of meets 2d and 4th Friday evening at G.A.R. hall. W. P.Benton, Captain; A.M. Thorne, O.S.

LADIES' ALLIANCE. Meets at the G. A. K. hall the lirst and third Fridays of each month, at 2 p.

m. Mrs. J. W. Mct'racken, President.

Mrs. D. S. Knouse Secretary. nation he startea on: in the direction of a rebel picket post.

I called to him, does not think the average yield in the Red River valley aviII exceed six or as he stepped inside our door we com Dat ne answered Dack through the darkness: ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Public sentiment is growing in fa eight bushels to the acre. menced thinking over what we had vor of Hon. A. K. Clark as a candidate "It vhas all right.

I make dot feller The Times has interviewed a number done that would necessitate the pres for re-election as judge of this (the behave himself or pring him in some prisoner." ence of that personage. Mr. DeFord of our prominent farmers during the past week, and is convinced from the 20 district. And public sentiment NOTIC3 FOR PUBLICATION. lie was gone half an hour before I For every piece of real estate in Rice county.

FARMS and TOWN LOTS For sale on easy tena. has many influential friends over the Order, Draft, or Express Money Order, payable to the Journal Company. Only for these will we-h responsible. C. JOHNSTON, Justice of the Peace.

will continue to grow in this direction. information gleaned that even with heard anything. Then there Avas a crashing in the bushes, some swearing county, and his race for the office will the most favorable weather from now until harvest, we cannot hope to obtain more than one-half of an average Topeka is all excited over an ostrich Address, in all cases, JOURNAL COMPANY, be a strong one. and growling, and Jake appeared with show. The inhabitants of "Topeky" Geneseo Herald.

n42-eow6 KANSAS CITY. Mo. a luii-rigged conrederate infantryman, having a firm clutch on his collar. crop in the Red River valley this sea envy the birds because of their long We have received the announcement son, in this immediate neighborhood necks which allow them to enjoy a 'Here vhas dose feller." he announc of A. L.

Perry as a candidate for Regis HOWARD ft CO, drink more. Abilene Reflector. the chances are that Avheat Avill average from ten to twelve bushels to the acre, but farther south of us and on the fill ed as they came to a halt. "He doan promise to keep shtilL und so I pring him along." We had an idea this envious feeling ter of Deeds. Mr.

Perry is a native Kan-san. He came to Lyons six years ago, and was for two years principal of the was the result of another and more Proprietors of lie Dakota side of the river, the indica Drat that onery Dutchman." growled prominent peculiarity. the Johnny. "He stole up behind me Land Office at Earned, Kansas, June 2Jth, 1889. NOTICE is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge, or in his absence the Clerk, of the District Court of Rice county, Kansas, at Lyons, on Saturday August 17th, 1889, viz Georee W.

Curl. Homestead Entry No. 8533, torthe NK SEU and EJ4 XEM, See. 8, township 21 south, of Range 10 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, land, viz: James Thompson, Jacob Hyman, Patrick Berry and Jesse Jordoii, all of Raymond P.

Rice county, Any person who desires to protest against the allowance of said proof, or who knows of any substantial reason, under the law and the regulations of the Interior Department, why such proof should not be allowed, will be given an opportunity at the above'mentioned time and place to cross-examine the witnesses of said claimant, and to offer evidence in rebuttal of that submitted bv claimant. HEIn'RY AV. SCOTT, n4M6 Register- and jumped on to me like a mountain Tho Original Wins. C. F.

Simmons. St. Louis, l'rop'r M. A. Simmons LivtT Medicine, Est'd 1S40, in the U.

S. Court defeats J. li- Zeilin, Prop'r A. Q. Simmons Liver Itejplator, Est'd by Zeilin 1S6S.

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for AT VMM Palace DruQ-Store Lyons schools. Since that time he has been an abstracter, and has at present an excellent set of abstract books. He her ore heard him. tions point to an average of not more than six or seven bushels. This is not a very encouraging outlook for the farmers, but it is hoped that the shortage in yield will be in a measure made up by an excellent quality of grain and good prices.

"Who vhas some Dutehmans?" said Official Vote The official vote of the recent elec Attorney at Law. Collections and lusurance. Office over Hodge Bros, drug store, STERLING, KANSAS. -pRED P. GREEN, Attorney at Law, Notary Public.

Office in Buckeye Block, up stairs, Sterling, Kansas JOHN N. IVES, Attorney at Law- Particular attention given to litigation. Office over Hanua's hardware store. Jake. ctrrcd Indigestion.

Biliousness. is a great worker in the party and has never before asked for office. He would STERLING, KAN. "You was." "Look oudt a leetle. ole feller, or I Appetite, Sour Stomach, Etc.

tion in Pennsylvania, as received and computed at the State department on -ver. j. ti. ueams, asior 3,1. n.

Church, Adams, writes: "1 -A naturally be well qualified for the office to which he aspires, and if he is Monday last is as follows: Our stock of Newspaper Laws. uiinc snouia nave occn dead but knock off your head! I vas only Dutch in my mouth; all the rest was Union. Come along and behave herself, or I make you dead as crowbars." For the amendment 296.G17 chosen will, we believe, make an excel against tne amenument 484,464 First. Subscribers who do not give express Drugs and Medicines, notice to the contrary, are considered as wish lent officer. Majority against 188,027 Jake had actually cp ptured a picket ing to continue tneir suDscnption.

to- your Genuine M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. I have sometimes had to substitute "Zeilin's stuff" for your Medicine, but it don't answer the purpose." Dr. J.

R. Graves, Editor Tkt Baptist. Memphis. Tenn- Bavsr Second, if the subscribers order discontinu on his post and brought him off a pris In the matter of asking for official PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, oner, ana ne aid it as coolly as any of ance of their periodicals, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are In eveiy deck of playing cards is a the rest of us would go out to drill. The paid.

Third. If a subscriber neglects or refuses to Toilet Articles and Perfumer', perfect calendar. There are 365 spots in reh was so mad he cried, but he was KANSAS. STERLING, I received a package of your Liver Medicine, and have used half of it. It works like a charm.

I want no better Liver Regulator and ccr tainly no more of Zeilin's mixture. a deck of cards, corresponding the 365 days in a year. There are 52 cards turned over to headquarters, and Private Jake Klein had "Corporal" as a plums, Sterling is in no wise backward. She has three candidates, all good men, who desire places upon the Republican ticket. The present county treasurer, J.

C. Seaward, is understood to be a candidate for re-election, John DeFord SCHOOL SUPPLIES, take his periodicals from the office to which they have been directed, he is held responsible until he has settled his bill and ordered his paper discontinued. Foukth. If subscribers move to other places without inforsnine the publisher and the naners handle to his name after a few davs. Blank Books, Stationery, A Great Club Offer.

The Topeka Weekly Capital and the Sterling Ciiampiox for 2.00. This offer is for cash, and enables you to have all the latest news from the capital of the State and your own local paper at the price of one. The Capital-Commonwealth will contain the most complete report of legislative proceedings published anywhere: SUBSCRIBE For the Sterling Weekly Champion 50 a year. True blue Republican paper. The rainfall so far this season in Kan corresponding to the 52 weeks in a year.

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The courts have decided that refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled foiv is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. with 13 cards in each suit, representing wouldlike to be sheriff, and A. L. McMillan aspires to the office of register of deeds. There are other condidates for these positions, however.

F. W. Truesdell has a strong' following and sas exceeds by three inches that of 1SS4, the best crop year the State has ever experienced. And the beauty of it all is that we Avill have a record breaker on emigration this fall, too. Jewelrj- and Silverware.

the 13 moons in each year, and the joker Any nerson who receives a nensna- OUSE and eight lots for sale in Lyons, 2 blocks from center of town. Great ba r-feain if sold soon. AVill trade foi cntlui or other stock. Call at this per and makes use pfit, whether he has ordered makes up for the extra day in leap year. tartest stjwk in (bp city to s-Oect front.

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