City and Farm Record du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 2

y- nsW-erbr S-5F1FU -a u. gmmmi HOTEL DIRECTORY! WILLIAM McCOY, The Secretary will ba unable to dis-tiibute the usual number of these books within the State, the bulk, a3 said before, being at the disposal of the Commissioner for Kansas to the New Orleans ilij itb Jjartu I. W. PACK, Editor. The Leading Whole-sale and Retail Muslo Dealer of Topeka, keep3 constantly on hand Grand, Square and Upright SHORT FORM SYSTEM FOR ABSTRACTS of TITLE to REAL ESTATE.

After many years practical experience in the business, I have Invented and Copyrighted a system of Abstract Books, which for Simpli city of Construction and Comprehensiveness, excels anything of the kind ever befoie offered to the public. It needs but to be seen be appreciated. Send for descriptive ciicu Addiess, Benj. F. Othick, lola, Kansas.

Jetmore Reieille: A credit of one half years subscription to this paper will be made on the 15th of November to the person leaving at this office on or before that date grown in Hodgeman county first, the largest ear of corn; second, the the largest Irish potato; fourth, the largest head of cabbage; fifth, the longest Btock of sorghum; sixth, the best sample wheat; seventh, the best sample of fruit; eighth, the best sample of tame grasses. The above offer is open to all. we have no regular fair this year we make an agricultural hall of this OF THE BEST MAKES. Also, Sheet Music and Music Books, Violins, Guitars and Banjos, and the Finest Stock of Harps ever in the City. 240 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.

ft D. M. Bronson Son. REAL ESTATE AND ABSTRACT AGENTS, El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas. PUBLISH THE BEAL ESTATE MONTHLY Send lor a Copy.Y3a TOPEKA KANSAS KKlOHT OF TIIK STATS HO VKI OF AGKICI LTUKI7.

Vt the called meeting of the State board of Agriculture in June last, it was ordered that the beeretary enlarge the monthly report for September, by the addition of items of general information concerning Kansas, and that tin bulk of the edition be ol'ced at the dnp i'-al of the OuninisMoner for Kansas to the Worlds Cotton and Industrial exposition, to be held in New Orleans, 'lhe poit h.i'' just on issued, Inning been rep urpi -t ly ilelax ed be 1 jr issii tig the Sej'tt mis monthly, in order bring the information eoneern- the u-ual time mg crop1, The is In pamphlet form, and on r-c enty-f. air pags of closely piinUtl nait'er relating to aiuuJ sul-jtets of mt-rt to thoo -eking information concerning th re ome of Kansas. The hrst ihirtee i pages ared-oled to a topographical do-ei ip km of the State, its sirfate fatuies, drainage system, ponal ihar.u teiistios, calleys, soils lamls) up to th laU st date and minetal res carets, suth a toal, had and zim, sat, g) p-um, clialk, potters clay, tire clay, hydra lhc limestone, building stone, hiiumtn, gas tils and arte-siau wtlB. A ompaiutive statement of the population of tl.e State since bi.U, is next git on, together with a table bv counties, show ing the tin piare mslts in tah county and the of population ta the square mile of bjili the total numbt and rural population. Follow ing this is a table showing the populati oi March 1 lb" 1, of the ities of Kansas hating oer Il.bt inh loltants on Match 1, lS'l, i 1,000 ini abhjuK plat ed according tin ir si.e.

The total of the State as .01 1, the by the tirst table is total poj ulatiou to the square mile 1 07, ami of rural imputation 1U.1I. There ru 7J cities in the Sta tnat returned a popll ition of ocr bile ibu know to 1 a er 1,000 did not return their Pati sepaiate-ly from the tnv 3 in win they lie. the Kihj vt of ajTiealtuie. Iltcbormuf the tie crops gio.Mi in the State are treated sc aiati ly, and the progtcai or d-vhne i uh for a eiiod cf eleven years given. In the pi miipal crops r.f wheat, re ami oils, extra rdii ary fields in lvrl are imte.l.

The largest yield of wheat reported is that of S. Cornell, of Eilsuurth county, pi -tolueo Bnnktr Ilill, county, wlo threshed od pr aeie, fto'o a held of lt acies. Frank Buula, of llson, Ells-w riu roviuty, and August lleinsen, of Ih-nui ilk. lane ln co i.Uv, cm tt.rnsb- i Oi) busheN per acre. Tie acres, bn-per am of tlie mo and airage ield pio'idnent lield erofsf lbl, and the aeage yield per acre for a peiio 1 of eleven e.

lows rs is as fol- We will insert atwo line card of Hotels this list for Two Dollars for one year, ir.d send the paper for the same length if time. OTEL COOLAGF.J EMPORIA, KAN. DOW El EVV 1irril AVENUE HOTEL. KMPOKIA, KAN. Til FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL M.

L. NOKRlJj A CO. TOPEKA, KAN. ASEW KOUTE. 31 Loiis, Fort Scott Wichita KaATJUR-A-OD.

New Short Route From end to Southeastern aud oil hern. ANSAS AND MISSOURI, and for all points East North and SOU riUVIA. FOJIT SCOTT Connections made with all trains of other roads at Fort Scott, lola, Piqua, Eureka El Dorado and Wichita, For the Noth South East and West. QUICK TTMF, LOW ItATES, GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS, obliging Conductors, and evey facihtv ottered for the Comfort and ease of passengers. J.

W. MILLER, J.W. MILLFR. General Sup't. Gen.

Pass. Ticket Ag't. LAND BUYERS. If you want information in regard to to stock ranches or fine farms write to Bartholomew McClenathan. "Wichita, Kansas.

Sherman Hicks, llki ESTATE LOAN AND DANCE BROKERS, Cambridge, Cowley Kansas Inv ite correspondence We can suit the man of moderate means, and please the most fastidious millionaire. Farms shown tree of charge. Give us a call. Shermax IIicks. Cambridge, Cowley County, Kansas.

VV. J- COMBS, REAL ESTATE AGT. And Notary Public. Hartford, Lyon County, Kansas. Special attention given to Collections.

KANSAS. Tliero is to-day a great interest aken in Kansas, and in order to ive atholies all the information 4 society has been formed with headquarters at Leavenworth for the purpose of distributing cir eulars. Any information will be given immigrants by addressing, FRANK T. LYNCH, Leavenworth, Ks. SAMPLE COPIES.

We send out many sample copies. We do it hoping that those who receive them will, if they like our paper, not only sub scri be themselves, but get others to sub cribe also. OFFICIAL FACTS! ABOUT jEsZYYHSr S-A-S I COMPILED FROM GOVERNMENT AND STATE REPORTS FOR 1883-4. By C. B.

SCH2JDT, Commissioner oi Imigraticn. TOPEKA, KANSAS. The above entitled little book is one of the most valuable ever issued in Kansas. It is beautifully printed and illustrated in colors; showing the increase of all products of the soil; the increase of population, increase of stock, Valuable im urination for everybody. You can get one of those books free by addressing Mr.

C. B. Schmidt, Commissioner of Immigration, Topeka, Kansas, and say you saw in tlie City and Farm Record. OUT SCOT? AND WICHITA ItAILROAD Emigration Society 1 fer the purpose of informing Emi he good Farming and Grazing Lands, rsratiizet er nits of the Uimr al ng line of the St. Louis, Pt, Scott Wichita Railroad D.

BRONSON, El Dcrado, Kas. President. VAN UOSr'EN, Ft. Scott, Kas Vice I IS. FRY, Yates Center.

Kas. heasvrer. MARTIN, Yates Center, Kas. Secretary. Bronson, s.

GEO. A. BOWLES, lola, Ks. .1 Ot TON, "Wronte, Ks. W.

S. RIECE Riece, Ks. ri. F. MEDERI.ANDER Wichita.

IM. MATLACK HP1. K3CAL KSTATK Loanand Insurance Agents and Abstracters. Having a complete set of abstract of Cowley County, Kas. "VYe publish the Arkansas City Land Record A paper devoted to the interests of Southern Kansas, 13? Send for a copy) EVERYBODY 1 1 Photographic Apparrtns complete, onlv COe postpaid.

It contains a.l the needed cbemica for working. Everybody wants one. Any boy or girl can make a good photograph at once. 'Address eyery thing to C. B.

Tbnrber, Publisher, Drawer 18, Bay Shore N- far to lar. the Exposition. MUCK Syi'lU'j. Points ami Items About Kansas Stock. The Holstein Breeders convention is tobeheldNov.lt, and not 17, as was stated in a recent notice.

The Shortdiorn sale of A. S. Bryan, ad ertiaed to take place at Topeka, has been postponed indefinitely. Trank 11. Shaw, of Salina, intends making an exhibition of Clydesdale horses at the Worlds Fair at New' Orleans.

Hodge City Globe: Mr. E1. Rusell will start seven hundred head of beeves the Eastern market from Dodge in a short time. Cube Live Stock Journal: It. L.

Harper shipped Friday near nine hundred head of as line cattle as have left the yards in some time. W. Uuy MeCandess, Cottonwood Tails, Kas, this week received live imported Cotsw old sheep from the herd ot J. G. Snell Son, Edmonton, Canada.

J. G. Otis, Shawnee county, lately pur-tlnv-ed a pure-bred Holstein bull at Topeka. he animal may be seen on Elmwood Dairy Farm, southeast of the city of Topeka. The manager of the stock yards at Coolidge denies the statement that the 1rame Cattle Company had lost cattle at that point by Texas fever.

He says there has been no Texas fever at Cool-idge that he knows of this season. Messrs. G.S. Miller and J. P.

Hall, of Emporia, and George 1. Harrop, of Manhattan, recently jurchased some purebred Holstein cows from the Iowa association repiesentcd by Thomas B. Wales, Jr. Secretary. Dodge City Live Slock Journal: Beeson ami Harris will ship live hundred head of beef cattle as soon as the market comes 'up a little.

Their stock is on their own ranch and they can ship later as well as now when the market is low. Porter Moore, Parsons, Kans, lias quite an establishment of English Shire horses and Holstein cattle at that place. Last vtek he hail at Grants stables, Kansas Citv, a carload of these horses that at-ti acted considerable attention and favor able comments lioui visitors at the Fat Mock show. Burr Oak lltvald: A disease of some kind has attacked Will Greeusides cattle which he keeps in his yard in the northern part ot town. Three have died.

I8ev eial otliers in this vicinity have had their herds attacked the same vv ay, los in! quite a number. Mr. Greensidehas sent lor Dr. Marsh, the veteiinary surgeon, and vve will probibly learn the nature of its disease, and the cause of it Lawrence Journal: A. P.

Clarke sent to his farm at Baldwin vesteiday 15U Ik ad of the finest 2 year-old steers that we ever saw in one bunch. These steers will be put on full feed until August hen they vv ill be called exports. Mr Claike has gone to Kansas City, to look at the markets as he has now on hand seven ear loads of good ripe cattle he wishes to ship next week. He is paying 25 cents lor corn and cannot get enough as tlie fields are too wet for the farmers to gather. IT Doialn Iicjuibhcau: John II.

Bett and H. O. Chittenden were out west am while there pureha-ed three hundrec ht ad of steers for Winter feeding, two hundred htad arriving last bunday by extra Lain over the Santa Fe. They are said to be a good bunch of cattle weigh mg nearly eleven hundred alter 18 hours shrinkage. We dont know what they paid and it would be hard to find out.

1 he other hunch will be here this week Mai. H. M. Falls delivering them. 0.

KA.VS.1S FAKHINO, Notes ami Incidents Among the Farmers of the state. A farmer near Sedan lias sown hundred bushels of blue grass seed Fall. Sedan Turns: We have on onr table some string or snap beaus of a sec ond crop, fully formed, green and succn lent, gathered trom the garden of Benton Smith. one this Oswego Independent: Our farmers neex one or two dry freezes to fit their corn tor marketing. Nothing takes all the moisture out of the cob like a dry ireeze.

LeRoy Reporter: Elias Vickrey presented this office with a bunch of very fine apples. They are of the Pippin variety, and there are six on the same stem as close together as they could possibly grow. Burlington Patriot: J. A. Benedict, ot Long creek, near the old Lamb place, raised about 1S5 bushels the Red Peach Blow potatoes from three-quarters of an acre of ground this season, and they are the finest we have seen offered in this market.

Fhillipsburg Herald: Some gentlemen from Crete, Nebraska, have been delivering a large number of healthy looking fruit trees to our farmers hereabouts. It having been fully demonstrated that this i3 a good fruit country, our people are taking advantage of this fact, and their homes will soon be supplied with luscious fruit of their own production. Eldorado Republican: Kansas has been defined to be a slice from the juiciest side of but Cole creek is the best of the slice. Mr. S.

Lamb brings us a couple of big onions, samples of 124 bushels raised from a quarter of an acre and it wasnt much of a year for onions, either. Onions are worth a dollar a bushel, so that $1 124 $124, from that acre. "Wichita Eagle: There is on exhibition at the office of the Wichita Land and Loan company, a squash that must surely take the cake. It is of the Mammoth Pie variety, is in shape much like a horseshoe, is 5 feet eight inches in length and weighs 55 pounds. When it was just plucked from the vine it weighed ten pounds more than at present.

What a handsome watch charm or scarf pin it would make for a dude. Lincoln Banner Charley Heaton raised 4,000 bushels of wheat on 122 acres of ground on his farm in Pleasant township. That is nearly 33 bushels per acre and is a wonderful yield for so large a field. Mr. H.

says he has seven acres that he has cropped fourteen successive years and never put on a shovelful of manure. Ten of the crops raised were wheat crops. This year the average yield per acre was 31 bushels. Dodge City Globe: The Neis- wanger Bros, raised on their ranch on Tndian creek a 50-acre patch of Early Amber sngar cane that goes oyer 20 tons to the acre. It was planted between the let and 6th of June with Union drill, using from one-fourth to three-fourths bushels of seed to the acre.

They are growing this plant exclusively for sheep feed, and will graze the most 'of it, although about 300 tons have been cut and and shocked, to be used In foul weather. of As will a are is the by of at to 4 i i 1 i lj i HENRY A. JONES, REAL ESTATE LOAN AGENT, GREENWICH, KANSAS. My list of Lands comprises all classes, from best bottom to the best impioved uplands. I can furnish money at lowest rates interest and ith but little delay.

Well Improved Farms a Specialty Call and see me. We make no charge for showing these Lands, L. S. STEELE, Abstracts Title REAL ESTATE LOAN AGENT, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. PETER BELL, H.

G. McILRAVY, Notary Public Attorney at Law, BELL McILRAVY, REAL ESTATE LOAN AGENTS Lawrence, Douglass County, Kansas. Have for sale a large number of choice arms in Douglass and adjoining counties, and City lhoperty in Lawrence. Also Loan Money on farms and city property. Parties ha ing money to invest will find it to their in terest to correspond wdth us.

All business entrusted to us will be promptly attended to, and satisfaction guaranteed. References giv en on request. KANSAS LANDS! A Large List of Land FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE For Lands in Other States. Wm. LEONARD, Bourbon Co.

Bronson, Kansas. THE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE XT 3ST I 1ST, ELDORADO, KANSAS. Incorporated under the Laws of the Stats of Kansas. C. E.

LOBDELL, Manager. A Co opeiative Association of Real Estate! men in every State and Territory in the Union. If you are not aheady a member, write lor circular. ANNUAL EDITIONS OF DIRECTORY. 'p MATRIMONIAL NEWS OSers better advantages, and strives to secure more desirable correspondents for their adver Users than any other Matrimonial Journa pub lisbed.

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jr. STOKE cC CO. iical Estate and Loan Agts. Cor. 6th and Kao.

Ave Topeka, Ks. (Under Topeka State Bank, rooms formerly occupied by Gavitt ds Scott.) Buy, Sell, Exchange and Rent Farms and City Property. Money to Loan on Real Estate on Favorable Terms. I.s. iselln T.

B. StriugQeld. H. S. ISELIN CO.

Wi and Improved LANDS for sale, Laud Journal, free. Send for Sheldon, OBrien Iowa. JOHN GDTHRIK, President N. STBICKI.BR, Cashier Tie IflTBslfflent Banking Go. No.

171 Kansas Ave. Up Stairs, TOPEKA, We have 3Ioney on Hand In any amount, and for any time desired, on approved Real Estate, at the lowest current rates. Money always on band. Call and be convinced t-SCorrespondence solicted. ITrank ATTORNEY aifl COUNSELLOR Practice in State and Federal Courts.

Rtal Estate Law, Conveyances made by Commissioner of Deeds for all States in the Union. 125 Kansas Ave Topeka, Kas. LIVE AND LEAEN If you want a GOOD FAMILY PAPER, one that will interest the young aud old subscribe for THE FAMILY HEARTH, A 12 page monthly journal devoted to the interest of the household. Subscribe at once. Onlv 60 cents per year in advance.

Send 3 2-eent stamps for sample Address all ooramuiu-aatious to JNO. B. CLEVENsTINE. Reading, Berks. Pa.

Agents wanted. J. W. McWilliams. CHASE COUNTY LAND AGENCY, Cottonwood Fnlis, Chase Kim Special agency for the sale of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R.

R. Improved and Wild Lands for sale in the Outre of the Great Stock Raising Region of Kansas. Fifteen Years Experience in the busi- ness In Chase County. The farmers of Kansas can save several thousand dollars this Winter by putting all their farming implements in good dry shed. Material, stone and hay, exceedingly cheap so much so there no excuse for any one.

I the amount of losses on farming implements caused laying out in the weather were invested in some State charitable institution the world would he much bettered therebv. Fifty per cent, of the money invested in farming implements each year is made necessary by the misusing those that have already been purchased. The subject bliould he closely scrutinized by all farmers. GUANO A KM GI.KAMINGS. Particulars Pertaining to tlie Posts.

George Ellis Post No. 171, G. A. at Illis, held their first camp fire on Nov. It was a eueeess.

At Yat es Centre the Star Dramatic Club produced One Hundred Years Ago, in the interest of the G. A. R. Post that place. It is estimated that 7,000 assembled to witness the clash of arms at the sham aattle that took place at the Fol filers Reunion at Sabetha.

The Spy of Atlanta was presented to the citizens uuder the auspices of the Os-wego Post No. 150 at the opera house recently, and was played four nights in succession to large and appreciative audiences. The Post made about sixty dol-ars. The G. A.

R. Tost at Eureka have secured the services of Capt. II. B. Seeley deliver his lecture on the buttle of Gettysburg, aud his twenty months experience of Southern prison life, on the of November 11, at the Opera House.

Smith Comity Bulletin: The camp fire at McDowell's Hall last week, was an enjoyable affair. The speeches and stories were short and pointed, the music was good, and all seemed well pleased with the entertainment. We hope the old soldiers may live to enjoy many more such occasions. Belle Plaine Neivs: The members of Belle Plaine Post, G. A.

R. held a camp lire on Tuesday evening, for the pm pose of having a general good time and receiving the election returns, vv hich were announced from a bulletin during the evening. Regulation soldiers fare hot coffee and hard-tack was served to all, free. Republicans, Democrats and all parties alike. Atchison Patriot: The entertainment of Post No.

220, G. A. at Apollo Hall drew a large audience and all were am ply repaid. The programme embracer a large number of pieces of music that were rendered most acceptably by our amateur aitists, and recitations given admirably; and after this came music and dancing until a late, or rather eaily hour. Everything passed off as pleas antly as heart could have wished.

Lyndon Journal: The association of ex-pri'-oners of war met at headquarters. Mr. J. G. Ellis was elected tieasurer, and acting secretary, Theie ere present J.

G. E.lis, George Wtler, Janies McDaniels, W. J. 'Washburn, "William Haas, David Finlay, Milford White, E. Wood-al, II.

Holyoke. The association passed a resolution that the president ask through the comity press tint every exprisoner send his name, company and regiment and where imprisoned; also his present residence, to J. G. Ellis, at Carbondale. Gen.

W. T. Sherman, in an address before the F. P. Blair Post at St.

Louis, spoke of the noble avork the G. A. It. had done during the war, and said very few people weie aware of tlie importance of that Avar. He had read lettera which he believed had never been published, and which very few people had seen.

These letters showed the rebellion to be more than a mere secession it was a conspiracy most dire. Letters which had passed between Jeff Davis and a man whose name it would not do to mention, as he was now a member of the United States Senate, had been seen by the speaker and shoived Davis position. He was not a secessionist. His object in starting the rebellion was not merely for the secession of the South, but to have that section of the country so that he could use it as a fulcrum from which to fire out his shot at the other sections of the country and compel the people to do as he would haA'e them. Jeff Davis would have turned his hand against any State that would secede from the South after the South had seceded from the North.

Had the rebellion succeeded, Gen. Sherman said, the people of the North would have been slaves. Therefore, when the members of the Grand Army gave the South battle, they were doing more than suppressing a rebellion. They had done one of the grandest things man eer had achieved. Not only did their own welfare, but the welfare of their children, of all the people who come to this country, and of all who will reside in this grand Republic for hundreds of years to come, was at stake in that war.

He wanted to see the members of the Post hold their heads up high, for they had accomplished something of which they might well feel proud. Preparing For Peace. Brooklyn Eaaje. It is amusing to see what efforts France and Germany are both making to keep the peace by preparing for war, For ten years there has not been such activity as France is now displaying in the creation of her navy. At the present moment four iron-clads, two being turret ships, are in the course of construe tion.

In the meantime Germany is busy with her fortifications. Her experiences in the late war have led her to adopt a certain model of fortification to which all the great forts have been assimilated. Strasburg, Metz, Mains, Koln and Posen have been thoroughly fortified after this model Ivustrin is at present being reconstructed. The citadel is historically interesting as being the scene of Frederick the Greats imprison ment during his fathers reign, but much of the old building will be pulled down, and a camp capable of accommodating 40,000 men will be laid out. It is to be protected by six forts, each four miles from the town.

Some idea of the prevalence of opi um eating in this country may be gainec from the records of the San Francisco custom-house. When notice was given that the duty on opinm would be raisec from $6 to $10 a pound the California dealers imported seve million dollars worth. This has become recently ex hanstedand the first shipment under the new rate netted the Government in duties. Spurgeons eighteen hundredth sermon has juat been published. hotbt KAKSAS.

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John D. Co. OF TOPEKA KANSAS. Have for sale in Topeka about lOO LOTS within to 10 minutes walk of th Capitol Buildings, at low piico and on Ihrree years time. Also a largo quantity of 3L A-TST ID in Marion, McPherson and Butler counties, and quite a number of ZEbALRIMIS various portions of Kansas nvEOnsriE'" City Property, loaned on good Farms or Lands.

202 Kansas Topeka, Kan. SNIDER HUTCHISON THE iRELIABLE OLE Land Agents -OF SOUTHERN KANSAS, AT Arkansas City, COWLEY CO. KAN, TBs Kansas LOT ani LAND Co. No. 171 Kansas Avenue, Upstairs.

TOPEKA, KS 400 LOTS FOR SALE On Monthly payments from $75 upward. STH yon want to buy call on or address J. N. STRICKLEK. Sec'y 3 tii TOPEKA, M.

L. MORRIS Rates Chicago AStonRy NChaijJ of 0 ars of any da ss Between Chicago and Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis and "Kansas City. TJ nio Dopo In Chicago. St.

Louis and Kansas City. No other line runs S3 PALACE A RU Between Chicasro and Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis and Kansas City. Meals equal to uuy served in a first-class hotel, only 75 cents. r-HE FINEST PALACE RECLININ OliaJr Cars In the world are run on all through trains day and night without change and free of extra charge.

PULLMAN PALACE SLEETING CAES. The Finest, best and safest in use any where. The best and quickest route from CHICAGO TO MEMPHIS MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, And all points south via St. Louis. The short line to and from Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas.

Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nebraska, California, etc. THE GRSAT ROUTE EXCURSION BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH And to "and from Kansas lands, Colorado health resorts and mining districts. Special Notice. All passengei trains of this road now leave Chicago from the magnificent general passenger dept, corner Madison and Canal streets. For tickets and information apply at any coupon ticket office in the United State or Canada, or to JAMES CHARLTON, Gen.

P. and T. Agent, 201 Dearborn, ue Cor. Adams Chicago. TICK ST OFFICES.

In Chicago 80 South Clark street; Grand Pacific Hotel; Palmer House and General Union Passenger Depot, west side, corner Madison and Canal streets, and 23d street depot. In St. Louis--117 North Fourth street, under Planters Hoae, and Union Depot. In Kansas City 533 Mam street, Union depot and Grand Avenue depot. J.

W. CURNS. G. S. MANSER.

(Established 1873.) CURNS MANSER Land, Loan and Insurance Agents, wxiltifiieiejId tzjajet Improved and Unimproved farms and city propei ty for sale. Negotiate loaus aua make Collections. Have the only Complete SET OF ABSTBACT BOOKS For Cowley Qouniy and the city of Winfield rlt sum whi at bu e. i Oats bu Mi. lit jui.t IIuii ganaii, tone live stock are given, and the per cent, of increase of eath sinte 1874; the value of animals slaughtered and said for slaughter, and the pounds of cheese and butter manufactured in 1SS4 are also given in this connection.

Tables by counties show ing acres and product of the various field crops, numbers of the different kinds of live stock, statistics of horticulture and miscellaneous subjects, close the subject of agriculture. FoIIowiyg agriculture is an article on the public school system of Kansas, prepared by II. C. Speer, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In this article is given statistics relating to the common schools, and brief mention of the three educational institutions under the care of the State.

Information relating to manufactures, churches and valuation, showing the various manufacturing interests of the State, the assessed valuation of each county for 1884, and the several religious denominations, and the institutions of learning that they control, follows the article on schools. The subject of vacant public lands is next treated, and is divided into theffour subdivisions of Government, common school. State institutions of learning, and railroad lands. A synopsis of United States laws and rulings of the General Land Office as to the disposal of Government lands is followed by the number of acres remaining vacant, by counties, in the various land districts. The location of land offices and the names of Registers and receivers is also given.

The State laws in relation the acquirement of common school lands ar8 condensed in order to answer- the many inquiries on this subject, the synopsis being followed by a table by counties showing the numj ber of acres of this class of lands still unsold, and the average price per acre at which they would probably be appraised at this time. The statement regarding lands belonging to the State educational institutions shows that nearly all of these lands have been disposed of, the Agricultural College still having a few acres in three counties. The number of acres yet unsold, be-longing to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe and the Kansas Division of the Union Pacific railroads is next given by coun ties, together with the terms on which they can be purchased. The meteorological record for Septem-fccr, compiled by the Meteorologist of the Beard, closes the volume. 4.