Arkansas City Star from Arkansas City, Kansas • 2

It is "Joy Creek" now, but it is so The Arkansas City Star. simple a matter to drop tho and put in un KANS. ARKANSAS CITY, Infests the blood of humanity. It appears in varied forms, but is forced, to yield to Hood'a Sarsaparilla, which purities and vitalizes the blood ami cures all such discuses. Head tin's: In September, 1834, 1 made a misstep and injured my ankle.

Very Boon afterwards, A Soire (''xperlrnea lead many mother! to ay 'J-ePurkut'ii Uliwer Tonic," because it ia eupeo-Itilljr good for colds, pain Hint almost every weakneii. In olden times a common-law husband and wifo were ono person, and that one person was tho husband. Thnatt ltirentiiK Corn) Ead tliey are, Illudorcorni will remove thorn, aud ttii'D you cau walk and run aud Jump at you like. Under the old laws upon marriage tho husband became entitled to all of his wife's goods and also to tho rents and profits of her lands. "Love makes the world go round." Tho world seems to go round, but love makes your head swim; that's the explanation.

Boston Transcript. HIGH I'KICP FOK rOTATOEB. The John A. Salzer Seed La Crosse, pay high prices for new things. They recently paid $300 for a yellow rind watermelon, $1,000 for 30 bu.

new oats, $300 for 100 lbs. of potatoes, Well, prices for potatoes will be high next fall. Plant a plenty, Mr. Wideawake! You'll make Salzer Earliest are fit to eat In 28 days after planting. His Champion of the World is the greatest ylelder on earth and we challenge you to produce its equal.

If you win lend 14 cents in stamps Washington county streams yielded enough ice for home consumption, and some to spare for the B. M. stations. Miss Carol E. Kced has been admit-led to the bar in the Stafford county district court, after having passed a creditable examination.

A peddler of piano polish is tra veling through Kansas. Ho is reported as being very impertinent to ladies who refuse to buy his worthless stuff. One of the largest dogs ever raisod in Kansas was shipped from Leavenworth to Chicago Monday. The dog was a St Bernard and weighed 182 pounds. l'rof.

Dyche of Lawrence, says Nan-sen could not have discovered the Polo because it is now dark up there. Anyhow, Nunsen cannot hold a candle to Dyche as an explorer. The Globe is educating the people of Atchison in the use of the word "don't." Reform comes slow in Atch ison, but give the Clobe time and it will correct all bad habits. Lawrence recently revived her old skating rink. Later oa, the Indian band from Haskell institute was secured to make music for the youngsters on wheels.

If there are any other fossiliferous specimens laying around anywhere, Lawrence will pay a good price to have them sent in. Gold has been found on Joy creek, in Washington county, and Kansas City and St. Joseph, capitalists will be surprised to learn from the Atchison Champion that they "are rushing to the scene of the discovery by the hun two inches across formed and in walking to favor it I sprained my ankle. The sore became worse; I could not put my boot on and I thought I should havo to give up at every step. I could not get any relk-f and had to stop work.

I read of a cure of a similar case by Hood's Sarsaparilla and concluded to try it. Before I had taken all of two bottles the sore had healed and th swelling had gone down. My Foot is now well and I have been greatly bene flted otherwise. I have increased in weight and am in better health. I cannot say enough in praise of Hood's Sarsapo-rllla." Mbs.

H. Blake, So. Berwick, Me. This and other similar cures prove tbat KANSAS IT1CMS OF INTEREST. Diphtheria lius broken out in Atch kon county again.

Th lew price of butter lias closed the Alma creamery. An Atchison street car driver has become an evangelist. This is proof certain that salvation is barred to uobody. The wheat statistics fiend has not opened up for business in Morton county yet. Fanners are still sowing inter wheat there.

The Lawrence Journal published a picture of Frank Nelson, the Llnds-burg professor. This ought to complete anybody's happiness. Jess Mosely of Chautauqua county is looking for pasture for 15,000 head of Texas cattle. That's the kind of cattlemen the Chautauqua county buyers are. The young Englishmen who were brought to Kansas to learn farming have scattered.

One is at Cripple Creek and another is on the stage at Chicago. The rest have disappeared. The state board of irrigation will put in no more plants remote from town. A mile will be the outside limit, and the town will have to give the state a deed for the land forty acres. Empire City, once a city of 3,000 people, which went into decay when The Standard Oil company has said they intend to bore three hundred wells in Kansas this Chauncy Depew says he did not refuse to lecture before tho Kansas law students; he was not invited.

John Carey of Noblo county has been, convicted of tho atrocious crime of attacking a blind man with a corn cut ter. A Lawrence man swallowed a copper cent and it ate a hole through his stomach. There can be no idle money in Lawrence. Tho grand lodge old sports who were at Leavenworth lust week ought to supply themselves with a new lot of, newspaper cuts. By this time next week the Noble county gold boom will have thrown the Washington county, Kansas, gold boom into the deep shade.

Sumner county farmers are having good success treating hog cholera with coal oil. Kansas porkers and petroleum holes ought to work pretty well together now. "I am waiting here," explained Archie Williams, as he sat in Copeland county, "to buy a copy of this new book on Jim Lane. I've got his brother, the 'Pre-Historic She-Se-Wa-Ge, one of our red brethren from the Pottawatomie reservation, was arrested at II orton Saturday, for stealing a cake of toilet soap from a druggist. He was lined $1 and costs, amounting in all to 89.50.

J. II. Love, Elmer Hoffman and George Elliott of Galena have gone to far-off Alaska in search of gold. There is no gold in Galena, but there is what may be sold for gold lead and zinc in abundance and that's the place to go and dig. The Lanier boys of East Atchison have returned to the old habit of to the John A.

Salzer Seed La Crosse, you will get free, ten packages grains and grasses, including Teosinte, Spurry, Giant Incarnate Clover, and our mammoth catalogue. Catalogue 5c. for mailing, w.n. Building on rock is an investment that pays dividends Avith every thun der clap. dreds." The Champion also says that Sarsaparilla the One True Blond Purifier.

All druggists. JL. only by I'. I. Hood it Lowell, Mas.

it rii the best family cathartic (lOOd PUIS and livpr Rtlmnhint, 2.. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION the whole (iountry is "aroused" and awaiting full developments with much "enthusiasm and excitement" The 3-year-old son of Mrs. Maggie Scott was burned to death Wednesday At St Lou Ih. Jane 10, 1896. The Wabash road is the direct line to St Louis via Kansas City and is noted for its fast time and elegant evening at Fort Scott Mrs.

Scott equipment. Through Sleepers, Free noticed that a lamp was leaking, and Reclining Chair Cars and bullet Par picked it up, intending to carry it from the room, but as she lifted it the lor Cars to St. Louis without change. Dorff GET VET. FISH bottom fell out and the oil saturated Before making arrangements for j'our crossing over to the Kansas side and trip write to any representative of the Wabash Railroad for maps, time tables BRAND and Guide to St.

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Louis, Mo, CICER SLI If we could see better the world whipping newspaper reporters. They have been making these invasions about every ten j'ears since the time of Tom Stivers, the first "local" of the old Atchison Champion. John Wentworth of Butler county refused to sign a lightning rod contract. The agents said that was all right, and then pulled out a battery and told him to have a shock. The next day they turned up with a eon-tract signed by him aud made him put up and pay for a lightning rod for his house.

the child's clothing, which iirnited. The frantic mother threw a blanket over the child, but it was horribly burned, and died a few moments later. The irrigated crops grown in Colorado last year amounted to more than double the output of the gold and silver mines, and the Western Kansas newspapers think that if the farmers of Western and Central Kansas will improve their opportunity, the value of the irrigated crops of Kansas this year will be more than the value of the gold or silver mines of any state in the Union. YOU DRX WILL REE would be better. Coe'a Cough ItaTnam Is the oliloft and best.

It will break up a cold quicker THE AERiMO-. liwa naif the woiM's vriiiciinlll business, bin uuto It baa the cost o. wind poer to IO wlial ltwa.s.o It hits many branch umui anyuiiiic t'lsc. is always ivuauie. Try It.

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Treatiwand $2trul not tl free tit caw. Frames, steol Feed Cutters and Feed Grinders. (In application it will nauieooe-of these articles that it will furnish until 111 January 1st at 13 the usual price. It also makes When a woman's tear hits a man Tanks ana romps 01 an Kinas. sena tor catalogue.

I2th. Rockwell and Fillmore Streets, Chicago ivht it flattens him ouu Galena on the other side of the creek took the boom, is picking up again on account of mineral strikes north of it. Charles Bluejacket, chief of the Shawnee Indians of the Indian territory, who claims to know all about that tribe, says that the prophet of the tribe, who was a brother of Tecumseh, a famous chief in Ohio, lies buried in Wyandotte cnunty. A philosopher in Harper county says that poverty is a good thing- for young" men. This is sensational.

Ancient and modern philosophers have held to this always, but this is the first time a Kansas man ever was brave enough to say it. One of the swell members of Topeka's "400" in his effort to remove his overcoat at the opera last Friday night, also removed his under coat far enough to disclose a large rent in his shirt, much to the amusement of two young ladies who were watching him. An Atchison man recently caught three different men kissing his wife, whereupon he went to a lawyer. "You have very good grounds for divorce," the lawyer said. "I don't want a divorce," the citizen replied; "1 want to get out an injunction to make them quit The boys at the State university went out serenading Saturday night and the awful noises they made brought out the police who arrested the whole crowd and brought them into police court next morning.

The judge, who has an ear for music, let the boys off a promise to do better next time. 1 Wednesday at Chetopa, John Lewis superintendent of the Hall and Robinson Elevator company of Coffeyville who was in Chetopa on business, was struck by a northbound freight train. He was at once taken to Coffey ville, where he died a few minutes after reaching his home. After having accepted the position ns private secretary to Chancellor F. H.

Snow at the Kansas university, Albert Flintom received another offer from the management of the Lawrence National bank and finally decided to stay with the bank. Archie nogg has been selected as secretary and entered upon his duties. Mr. Hogg is a graduate of the collegiate department of the class of '95; he has been taking a 'Browk's Bronchial Trochks" are a simple vet most effectual remedy for Coughs Hoarseness and bronchial Troub Ml SMDK YMR MP AT WITU les. Avoid imitations.

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Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a The little town of Pierceville, in Finney county, is without doubt one of the most fortunate places in the state. It has never been incorporated, has no street railways, electric light plants nor water works systems, but, better than all these, it has no indebtedness. It is entirely free from debt, and while only a few people live there, all of them have positions of some kind and there is not an idle person in the place. i n. A.

Poingdester lost twenty-one head of horses, fourteen cows, twelve hogs and all his corn and other products and also farming implements and vehicles by the destruction of his barn by fire Thursday night. Among the horses were Altitude, 2:27, and Director, both valuable animals. He places his loss at $20,000, with small insurance. Mr. Poingdester lives on the Whitaker farm, two miles south of Leavenworth.

The fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary. An Ottawa music dealer had an organ standing just outside his business house, probably as a sign. A blind singer came along and finding the organ unoccupied, climbed upon the stool and sang and played until he had a big crowd around him. The music dealer was pleased. But imagine his surprise when the blind singer stood up aud began auction PATENTS JRAOE MARKS Examination and Advice as to Patentability of In vention.

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i uwugiiivH nj win OIL Abilene has an inspired weather prophet llcbduclarcs that he has received assurances from on High that there will be abundant crops this year, that Juno will be a wet month and the fruit crop a bountiful one. He avers that the wheat crop will be a good one though Hicks says not, but he agrees with Foster on the storm during the first week in March. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year at the state editorial convention at Leavenworth last week: F. II. Roberts Oskaloosa, president; W.

Y. Morgan, Hutchison, secretary; W. L. Brown. Kingman, treasurer, together with a half dozen vice-presidents.

The national convention meets in Galveston, Texas, in November and Kansas will be ably represented. There is danger of blood shed in Meade and Comanche counties between stockmen and citizens. Some stockmen fenced in grazing lands belonging to nonresident owners and drove in several hundred head of cattle recently from Texas. Several nights later the wire was cut in several places, the herd stampeded and scattered over the country and more than IOC lost. Clay Whiteman tells the following story and credits it to Sol Miller: A Troy girl once made a visit to neighboring town to visit the sister of her "steady." On the trip she took painting materials with her in order to give lessons in the art to her hostess.

When she returned, she forgot her colors, and in the next letter to her beau, asked him to bring with him the next time he called, ber paints. She left the out of paints, and caused much embarrassment to the young man, who was mucti too modest to attempt to execute the commission. The south end of Dickinson county continues much exercised over the alleged robbers' treasure said to be hidden in a cave near Hope. The story runs that many years ago when the county was inhabited by Indians, and a few settlers who liyed along the creeks flowing into tiro Smoky Hill riyer, that an immense amount of gold was deposited by leaders of a band of outlaws, and about the same time a. party who knew it was there, stopped with a man near Galva, in Mc-Pherson county, aud had sickened and died, and that after his death there was found among his papers a diagram of the cave in which the taeasure was deposited and he copy of a mark that was placed upon the stone under which it was buried.

The cave recently opened for the development of marble causes the story of the lost treasure to be revived. UilRtS WHf RFAiTFISF fAIIS. Host Cougti Uyrup. Tastes Good. Use Delav, and those twinges may twin your leg ola dt dniKirlsts.

OOOOCGQOOOCCOOOOQOec The Cat eering off a lot of old wa tches. The music dealer carefully totes that organ in doors every night L. W. Ilostetter, of Ottawa died Tuesday from the effects of injuries inflicted by a maddened boar about a week ago. Blocd poison set in from which he was unable to recover.

Mr. Ilostetter had served two terms in the legislature and was one of the largest farmers and stock raisers in Franklin county. He owned 1,200 acres of land, 800 acres of which is in cultivation. On this he had over a mile of stone fence, about seven miles of hedge fence, a magnificent residence, besides a number of tenant houses. He also had a fine orchard.

Came Back law course at the school. The sixth case of suicide in Fort Scott within two months occurred on Sunday, when Michael Clark, an ex-fireman for the Missouri Pacific, took his life at the Mercy hospital. The Sisters were attracted to i.is room by the 6mell of pas, and attempted to enter, but found the door locked They called the police, but before aid came two shots were heard in the room, and when the door was forced open Clark was found dead, having shot himself twice in the head. The jury in the nendry-Hoffman case at Abilene ran hings on its own schedule for a time Saturday night The jude, at the conclusion of the trial, sent the jury out with instructions to remain until a verdict was found. The jurymen did not find the case easy to dispose of and late in the evening came to the conclusion that they could not agree.

vFixing up a sealed finding to that effect they proceeded to discharge themselves and go home without waitine for any notification of the court. Judge Moore explained to them the next inorniiig that they had exceeded their authority but as their action had evidently been in good faith and through misun derstanding, it was overlooked this time. There are confined in the Kansas penitentiary 873 convicts; White males, 637; white females, colored males, 210; colored females, 10; Mex Because there was no place like the home where they used Clairette Soap ican males, Indian males, 7. The oldest convict is 73 years old and the youngest 15. Tho whole number of convicts having seryed sentence in the penitentiary, together with the number now confined there, is 7,083.

Wyandotte county has the largest nunfber of convicts, 83. Several counties are not represented at all. The number of convicts who have died while serving sentence is 110. There are now 20 old soldiers doing time in the prison. This Great Soap makes home, home indeed.

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