The Settler's Guide from Chetopa, Kansas • Page 3

GUIDE 3 SETTLERS THE Win. McCaw and family have arrived fron Cass county, Mo, and purchased the fine farm of Isaac Woods, about two miles northwest of Chetopa. Mr. p. Stocum, of Adrian, Mich, reached here Saturday last, and will remain a short time.

He is looking exceedingly well is in much better CHETOPA, KANSAS, APRIL, 1879. Only 25 Cents a Year. If you want to keep posted about the best JWil 11 iuuiS "11! luiN LTu 11 ll 10 11 0)1111 Lil ill! ill ifm" I l' 1 mmmr- -f i health than when he left us last summer. Mr. II.

Freeman, from Pennsylvania, an old neighbor Of Mr. J. A. Graham, reached here last week with his family, and has taken possession his farm near JMmerva. lie was accompanied by Mr.

McKinny, a young man, portion of Kansas, where there is" the greatest rainfall, the best land, the most timber, coal, and stock water, subscribe for the The Settleks' Guide. If you want to keep posted about the Indian Territory, now soon to be opened, where fortunes will be made in a year, subscribe for The Settlers Guide, only 25 cts a year in postage stamps. If you have been receiving the paper heretofore please state that fact. Address J. B.

Cook Chetopa, Kansas. We present in this number of who thinks of remaining permanently the Guide several illustrations this country. Messrs. X. Shoemaker and Harvey of an improved apparatus for Spencer, of Clinton county, have a been spending a few days here the drilling Artesian wells, manu- guests of A.

M. Strode, Esq. They factored by The total enrollment of the four de prised finding so fine a country, and C. 1 BE0C1TT partments of the Chetopa schools is 256. are trying to make arrangements to ocate with us as soon as possible, to engage in stock raising.

Thev are both gentlemen of means and intelligence. OF KANSAS CITY, M0. This apparatus enables wells Prices of Stock, Grain and Mer Sixteen wagons of immigrants passed through our town one day last week going westwardly. The Hutchinson family has recently given two concerts here, and were greeted with crowded houses. chandise to be cheaply obtained in Idcal- Stock.

Horses, 6a to 8100; mules, $75 to S125 cows, $20 to $30 yearling wxiere oiner means OI to $12 2 year old steers $12 to $14; obtaining water from the ground 3 year old steers, $18 to $22 oxen per Anderson Butterworth have 375 head of cattle at Timber Hill creek, yoke, $60 to $80; butchers stock, $2 to are it also enables 3 nor -foft Tirrra nor Vmn 1 about 10 miles south of Chetopa. a 1 wens xo dg Dorea mucn more Mr. P. M. Reamer has leased the Grain.

Corn, 30 cts wheat, 80 cts econnmirallv than hv mptlinflQ ioSu Farmer's Mills of Mr. A. D. Sturges, Pine Ltimbek. Fencing, $2 per commonly employed.

The for five years, and is rushing the busi hundred; siding dressed, $1.50 per hun- ness. ucPl" lu veus ma De A Young Men's Christian Associa glazed sash, common boards, $2.50 carried by these machines is npr nnnnrpfl narrl Inmhflr $1 tn A1 tion was organized at Holton last week A library and reading room is to be per hundred. practically unlimited, and at the maintained by the Association. ukniture. xJeusteads, $2.75 to same time tnev $20; chairs, $3.50 to $12 per set; wal can penetrate, and grarel or nut extention tables, $1 per foot, large not only earth Mr.

Jacob Slagle, of Ross county, Ohio, has leased a farm in the Territory, about 10 miles south of Chetopa, stock of all styles. I Hardware. Cook stoves, $15 to quiCKsand, but can penetrate and is purchasing a herd of cattle. $40; double-walking cultivators $20; w.V a 4 12 inch plows, $10 to two horse are not Mr. J.

L. VanXote has shipped all thimble skein wasrons, $40 to $65. onlv valnahlft fnr frnilnncr. wollo the hogs and fat cattle from around groceries. Susrars.

6 cts to 12 cts nimFiiTm nrm morn Chetopa, and is now training his fine per lb; coffees, 15 to 25 cts per lb; but for Water, but afford a rhaan Fill. 1. bnULlVt 11 rAl 1 JLLU iiUUCH. Bashaw mares, and, planting ever greens around his residence recently cts to per lb; flour, $1.90 to $2.75 method of testing mineral lands for coal. lead, silver or any other valuable mineral.

per 100. i ix'li of vanAxr in nmmAnfft nnprafinn.r purchased from Mr. Marsh. One week from last Sunday, a Sun day school was organized at the Russell creek school house, in the Cher With this auger two men will bore a well in any Rind of the hardest earth, cley, soap stone, any size desired from eleven to fifteen inches in diameter, seventy-five feet deep, in one day. Fig 2, Represents the Auger striped of all attachments.

IFYOUDESISE Reliable Information ABOUT okee with the following named persons as officers: P. Lough rig, rtepresenis tne latest Improved Artesian wen lriiung rviacnme. vvnen aru ouuu ton; Assistant A. Mills; Sec. Jennie Nix; Librarian, Wm.

Fields. Southern Kansas, rock has to be bored through the ViT The Garden Spot of the West, its resources, Real estate agents at different points fiHT Ulllff fliTP koh, cumaie, people, improvements, pro on the Gulf road have received, lately ducts, advantages, tec. SUBSCRIBE FOR many inquiries irom ana Germany regarding the price of land .6 4 X' I I ft 15 3 I i 1 5 1 THE CHETOPA ADVANCE and they all state that large numbers of emigrants from these countries are The oldest and beat weekly in this section the line of alonsr preparing to settle ot the State. Matters pertaining to the beautiful the Gulf road. is brought into use.

This machine is shown in illustration (Fig. 3) and embodies many improvements. The mast is 22 feet high and takes apart, the two sides serving as skids to load the machine on wagon, and the arrangement is so complete that one man can load the machine or unload and set it up ready for work, although the! machine proper weighs 2150 pounds, and with horse power and drilling tools, not shown in cut, weighs 3700 pounds. This machine can be operated by Farm Exchanged. Mr.

R. S. Glass IiDIAIV TEKRITORY of Premont, has exchanged his Receive our especial attention. This home fine farm, just south of this city, for a of the noble Red man of the forest is one of I woolen factory at Columbia City, Ind the hnest, lovliest, most fertile, most sa The purchaser of this farm is Mr. John lubrious sections in all the United State'.

It P. Tremble, of Mattoon, Ills. His son is now admitted by those familiar with Mr. II. Tremble, has arrived, and Territorial matters that Congress will soon take some action looking toward the will farm the place the coming season But is usually operated by horse power.

It so complete that the driller has complete As Mr. Glass is a practical manuf ac turer of woolen goods, and Mr. Trem ble is a farmer, they will both be great Opening of the Territory for settlement. The people in the Territory themselves think something will be done in this direction. The Advance publishes all ly benefitted by the exchange.

Dr, Cass, who has been occupying the trust-worthy information on this subject. farm for his father-in-law, Mr. Glass will now return to Ohio. We are sor ena ten cents tor specimen copies. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

ry to lose the Doctor and his estimable. wife, who will be much missed from our social circles. The exchange was control of his drills and the machine, and without changing his position or stopping the horses, can pull the tools out of the hole or lower them in the well, stop the machine or start it, work the jars or let out rope. To experienced well drill-ers these improvements will be readily One copy, a year, if paid in advance, $1 60 One copy, eight months, 100 One copy, six months, 80 One copy, three months, 50 If paid at close of year, $2.00 made through the agency of J. 13.

Cook Address, J. M. CAVANESS, Editor, Chetopa, Kansas. Personal, Mr. S.

J. Hershberger, of Oregon lo has recently located with his ami FIG. 2. appreciated. As to the capacity ot the ly in Chetopa.

machine the manufacturers warrant it to drill from Mr. John Eastham, from McCoupin has located on a farm one Wholesale and Retail Dealer in mile north of Chetopa. Mr. Robert Stephens of Holt county Mo has purchased a farm two miles south of Chetopa, and moved here with wami PRDFISIOIS, lus family. John Wood, of Chilicothe, Ohio, is at present located at Chetopa, and twenty to forty feet per day.

In the hardest flint rock it will drill twenty feet, and in hard limestone rock from thirty to forty feet per day. It is so complete in every way that there is no lost time in raising or lowering the tools, and most of the hard work which has to be done by men operating other machines is accomplished with this machine by the horse power. The Company also purchasing young cattle to herd in the Territory. Gilbert Troutman, of Dauphin coun cjiiid ty, has arrived here with his fami I Maple Street, Clietopa. ly, and located on a farm a few miles west of Chetopa.

Mr. L. J. Thompson, of Girard, 111., has located in Chetopa, purchased A fi. Herman, Wholesale and Betail Dealer in manufactures several other kinds of AH Kinds of Furniture fill Ss1 liliiU E-OF THE BEST QUALITY.

And their reputation is fast spreading, not only over thefptltfl Picture Frames Made to Order. wesi, uut mrougn mmm 1 residence and opened up a large stock goods, in Marsh's lirick I31ock. Harry Mattoon, of Danville, Hls is the guest of W. J. McClintick, Esq.

understand he intends remaining here if he can find suitable Mr. D. IL Flowers, from Westmoreland county, arrived here with his about a month since, and located about 15 miles westof Chetopa, near Kingston. Hr. Ed.

Martin returned from his visit to Ohio a few days ago, and reports hard- times back in the old Buckeye state; and people crazy to sell out and come to Kansas. He says the rush the coming spring from Ohio to Kansas will be immense. Mr. Alexander Stuart who moved from Union Ohio, some three years ago to St. Francis Arkansas, has left his farm there, and located two miles southeast of Chetopa, and says 'he has had enough of Ankansas to do him all the remainder of his days.

Where they are sending many of their in Fig. 3. Latest Improved Artesian Well DrillJ READY MADE COFFINS OF ALL SIZES ALWAYS ON HAND. Maple Street. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE SITMI'S ill, ONLY 5 CZ2IT3 A YEAH.

For further information and prices address the Manufacturers i 3 ni; Who will send their Illustrated Catalogue free to all who ask it..