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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

MHIrE OAKS. y. NJ. March

WHITE OAKS, y. NJ, March q, 1881.
EDITOR KANSAS CHIEF = | trust n letter from this
distant point, rapidly acquiring prominence as rich
mining region will not be unacceptable YOU your
MANY readers. have been here long enough, tnow
nearly a year,l to have had ample opportunity of
Judging of the grounds upon which rests its claims
to this character and of the probabilities of its be-
coming place of no little fame. Apart from its
mineral resources it has superior attractions in the
pleasantness and healthfulness of its climate Not
only NV own experience may be invoked as n vouch-
er for this but concurring with it, is the sentiment
of all; and beyond and above these, the fact that
there has not died here. during the last year,
person who had any just right to expect continued
life BY this mean not has died really natural
death. and only one by violence. Two have died
one who came here in the last stages of consumption,
and one who was thoroughly burnt out by the most
inor,linate use of whiskey-the latter the famous
Jack Winters the discoverer and principal owner of
the ..Homestake.- the best developed and most val
uahe mine here. The development has been made
by his associates as you may well know from what
have said of him, that he had lie had
sold his remaining interest, before his death, for
slOO,OoO it is said, and cash payment was to have
been made the day before he died. but could not be,
by reason of his incapacity, having been in ndnia
po;H craze for some three weeks, and continuing
to his death
The site of the town is very attractive and pleas
ant one. being on a beautiful plateau surrounded by
mountains whose tops are visible at distances vary
ing from two to six miles, and one, through wide
canon, at perhaps twenty miles new road, re-
Gently opened between and Socorro, little north
Of east brings us by much shorter railroad
communication with the East than We have hereto
fore had by way of Las Vegas.
.tofu "a
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

ten twelve mines, under the name OF the Sierra
Blaneo. JicariIla pronounced Niekarea) and White
Oaks Mining Company with large capital stock.
shares sl0O in which think their development will
insure something pretty grand to the stockholders
The Sierra Blanco and the Jicarilla Mountains
on opposite sides from White Oaks, at about equal
distances fifteen miles, or less, both Of them
promising. As well those Immediately around
White Oaks, to be immensely valuable. Although
mention only two three by name, could easily
enumernte 4 score, all of which being more or
less developed, with such results as justify their
owners in holding them at high prices
Besides the veins aud lodes Of the mountains and
these slopes there has been steady washing Of gold
from what is known as the '.IIomes stake Gulch until
the winter and there is in process of
struetion piping from large spring two and Il half
miles distant. to the water the head of this
gulch, so us to make such an abundant supply us
shall satisfy all demands for this purpose. The Jac
arillas said to be superior to this in its
abundance of placer digginss and to remedy the
scarcity Of water there, n company is actively
Mt work sinking artesan well This becoming a
success, fine opinion is universal that an immense
yield Of gold will be the result.
bnve thus given you n very brief sketch of our
prospects, by which it will easily be that while
Iresions in growth and capital, have this advan-
tage them, for the mass-s, that little money
will go great deal further here than there.
Yours truly.
SAML. ID. LECOMPTE.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
APair of Toadies salivated.

We have given the late Legislature, as a whole,
credit for doing very little that was of public
h.nrlit; hnt we must not neglect to give the
Senate, as body, credit for doing some very
righteous acts Two of such acts consisted in
sitting down very hard ON a couple Of eonsuIn-
mate liek-spts as the State Affords and nasiIing
them most efiectually.
Willis Brown, of Seneca, was Colonel in the
State Militia. His shoulder-s,raps were just aw-
fnl, and for year he had been Haunting them
for the glory of 81. John. Whenever st. John
wanted to have parade to help along his own
BOOM Willis Brown was there, az head man, in
ali the glory of his uniform. When st. John
wanted dirty work done in Nemaha County, in
in the way of securing delegates, Willis Brown
was ready to do il. lie had bern booked for the
Senate, but overreseled himself, and got ''sOt
back, - like the boy in Texas, who was banished
from the family table. But his labors in behalf
of st. John entitled him TO something. So the
Governor sent in his naruc to the Senate, for the
Office of Major-Geperal of tie State Militia, and
in very brief space If time, in executive session,
the Senate eternally seooped him. Then the
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
Another Boomerang.

Speaking of the effect of the temperance law
upon immigration, reminds us that the law Is
proving boomerang all around, hitting those
the hardest who were most instrumental in Sc
curing the adoption of the amendment. The
Kansas Pacific and the Atchson, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Companies have done more
than all else to induce immigration to Kansas.
They had immense quantities of lands for sale,
and set forth the resources aud capabilities oil
Kansas in every conceivable manner, in order TO
attract purchasers for their lands. Both Compa-
nies had agents in Germany, to direct eniSra-
tion to Kansas: but both have now Withdrawn
their agents, because they find themselves no
longer able 10 accomplish anything. There Is a
most intense feeling Of hatred toward Kansas IN
Germany. The papers Of that country, as well
as the German papers of America, are filled with
denunciations of the liquor law, and with advice
to Germans to avoid Kansas; and the advice Is
being followed. Hence, Kansas railroad agents
are useless there.
Those two railroads sold themselves to st.
John. and he sold himself to them. The mutual
sale was on the condition that they should go in
and re-elect him, and adopt his Prohibitory
amendment, and he was to stand between them
and the passage of laws for the protection of the
people from their cxtortions. All will remember
how, along the lines Of these roads, where the
real sentiment was known to be against prohIbi-
tion, immense majorities were cast for 1t. They
have noticed that men known to have been cleo
ted to the Legislature in the interest of and by
the Railroad Companies, and who had previous
ly been decided anti-prohibitiOn men, were its
strongest advocates in the Legislature. They
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
German Emigration.

Accounts indicate that this year will witness
the heaviest emigration from Germany to Amer
lea, ever known. 1t is stated that most of it
will go to Illinois and Nebraska. 1t will sur
prise no one that this emigration avoids Kansas.
st. John and his Puritanical followers, compris-
ing an apparent majority in the State, have un-
dertaken TO regulate mems tastes, appetites, and
religion, and the State must take the consequen-
ces. The flow of emigration that poured into
the State for years, will stop short, or pass
around. Nebraska will enjoy the boom that
Kansas formerly boasted, and Missouri will re-
ceive population that is repelled from Kansas.
The Puritanism of New England has been en-
grated upon Kansas and New England decay
must follow. New England has been steadily
losing representation in Congress- for years past,
and were il not for her cities would fall off in act
nal population. The German, with his ready mon
ey, will go where he is not compelled to abandon
the social habits of lifetime, and where his ap-
petite and opinions are not regulated by law,
leaving Kansas TO the enjoyment of a single class
of immigrants. The exOdusters from the South
will still flock in, and appeals for their support
will still flood the East. Only few years ago,
Kansas appropriated money for the publication
of documents TO send especially TO Germany, to
induce emigration from that country to this
State, and one of the principal inducements held
ont, was the adaptability of Kansas soil and
climate to vine-growing and wine-prOducing.
But new set of people have come in, who are
more pure and righteous than their predecessors,
and who proceeded to confscate the vineyards
and the business of the people who were invited
to come here. Next, we must have laws to sup
press the Quakers, and TO hang old women for
witches. The New England Puritan and the
Southern negro, who are TO occupy this State,
have a horror of witches. If the Puritaneal
portion would adopt Noudooism into their relig-
ion, all would then he lovely, for there would be
nothing to prevent n harmonious union of the
two great ruling elements.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

CLAIMING THE CREDIT.-The POst-Offce De-
partment has increased the mail service between
Highland and Highland Station to two trips daily.
The CentraI Slate publishes correspondence which
is mainly intended 10 create the impression that
the credit for increasing this service belongs to
b. S. Campbell. The facts are quite to the con-
trary. Citizens of Highland wrote Congressman
Anderson, asking him to apply for an increase of
service. Anderson replied that if the business
men and citizens would petition for it, he would
secure the increase, A petition was got up, and
signed by nearly all the people of the surround
ing country, and by every business man in High
land except b. S. Campbell. He was the only
one who refused, and his only reason was that it
was started at the pOst-Ofice, which was in the
hands of a man whom he hated. The petition
was sent on, and in due time the increase was
ordered. This happened TO be about the time
that Campbell returned from Washington, and
he now causes the publication of letter from an
officer of the Post-ofice Department to Sena-
tor Ingalls,, (and which Ingalls, forwarded to
him. to create the impression that he was the
man that did the business.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

TUNE CHaNGED.-SOme weeks ago, the Rocks
County Record made gratuitous assault upon
us as an individual, in which gall, spleen, bile,
etc, figured copiously. The principal cause of
the attack. we presume, was because we gave
an opinion of st. John and his crowd in our usu-
al unvarnished language. At that time, st.
John was under promise to bestow Judgeship
upon a citizen of Rocks County, and the Record
felt in duty bound to volunteer as his dog, to
snap at interlopers. Since then, st. John has
gone back on his promise, and played off ON the
Rocks County man, whereupon the Record pro-
cseds TO heap abuse upon him, saying harder
things of him than the Chief ever did. Liar,
and bought up by the railroad corporations, are
among its mild charges. How about bile, and
spleen, and gall, nOwi Hereafter, the Record
will do well mot to put in its shovel until the
truck is ready. st. John has never broken n
promise to us, because he never made us any.
He has never refused us favor, because we
never asked one at his hands. Therefore, our
opinions of him are not biased by any personal
feeling. We felt confident that he would go
back on the Rocks County man, and that the
Record would he forced to swallow down its own
slobber.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONs.-St. Louis has been
carried by the Republicans, by a sweeping ma
jority. They elect almost everything.
Cincinnati has gone largely Republican, except
for Mayor. The Republicans were divided on
their candidate for that office.
Chicago has gone mixed. The Democrats elect
the Mayor and some of the other city officers,
while the Republicans elect some of their officers,
and a majority in the Council.
In Kansas City, the Republicans have elected
everything.
Atchison goes Republican. There not a
strict party fight on Mayor. Our old friend, Sam.
King, of the iron grip, is elected TO that Office.
He went around shaking hands with everybody,
and whenever he got ones fist in that wise of his
he would squeeze until the man begged for mer-
cv aud neomised TO vote for him.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

~ b. p. Waggener, a leading lawyer, Vim.
Hethrington, the well-known banker, and George
b. White, all prominent men of AtchisOn, have
announced that they have east their last Demo-
cratic vote, and will hereafter vote the Repuhli-
can ticket. This does not surprise us. The sur
prising thing is, that live, go-ahead men like
them should have stuck so long to the moss-back
Democracy
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
Desirable Farm for Sale.

NE Of the best farms in Doniphan Cauny. about one
" mile Of Troy containing either 20 30 TO
suit purchaser There the place severol
springs and abundance Of running water The farm
be fenced into large small lots and the running water
distributed that there would be plenty each lot
There the place good dwelling fine we'll excel
apple orchard and abundance Of peaches grapes and
all small fruits There is good hedge fence around the
farm and everything is in good shape The Land is
and rich and produced the past season 100 bushels Of
wheat ON forty five acres
For further particulars inquire a, the Chi.J office.
Nov. T. lsS0-6nl.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

~ 1t is significant, that but few Repub-
lican papers, scattered here and there, take sides
with COnkling, in his fight upon the administra-
tion of Garfield: while large majority sided
with him, in his differences with Hayes. The
reason is plain. Hayes made war upon Conk-
ling; Conklng makes war upon Garfield, be-
cause he is not allowed to run the administra-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

y The Arkansas Legislature has authorita-
lively declared that the proper pronunciation of
the name of that State is Arkansaw. Because
the members of the Arkansas Legislature say
thar, and kyards, and sab, would their official
declaration that such pronunciation is correct,
be binding upon outside bsrbariansf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

rR- A correspondent of the st. Joseph Herald
says that st. Joseph liquor merchants are send
ing circulars to citizens of Hiawatha, giving
prices at which they will supply kegs, jugs and
TASKS of liquor, after the first of May. Is this
anything new: While Hiawatha, in the past
years, has been putting on the appearance of vir-
tue, by refusing to license saloons, her citizens
have consumed an immense amount of liquor, on
their own private account. Less than year ago,
railroad man, who is in position to know, told
us that this road shipped more whiskey to Hia-
watha without any saloons than to Troy, with
its two saloons
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

x Here is an unfailing recipe for securing a
Court House in any County, without any tax
upon the people: Get mp petition for vote to
relocate the County Seat. The people of the
town that has the County Seat, will pitch in and
build a good Court House, without any expense
to the other parts of the County.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

e Mixed in among the marriage notices in
the last Hiawath Dispatch, is an advertisement
of n set of double harness for sale. But perhaps
the best place for such an advertisement is among
the announcements of those who have hitched
themselves to work double.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

II Gen. Benjamin +. Loan, of st. Joseph,
died suddenly, of apoplexy, on the morning of
March 30th. He was one of the oldest and most
prominent residents of the city. lie served in
the Union army during the rebellion, and sever
nj terms in Congress since.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
An Only Daughter Cured Of
Consumption.

When death was hourly expected, all remedies
having failed, and DIR. II. James was experiment.
ing with the many herbs of Calcutta, he acciden-
tally made preparation which cured his only
child of Consumption. His child is now in this
country, and enjoying the best Of health. He
has proved to the world that Consumption can
be positively and permanently cured The Doc
tor now gives this Recipe free, only asking two
three-cent Stamps to pay expenses. This Herb
also cures Night Sweats, Nausea at the Stomach,
and will break up fresh Cold in twenty-four
hours Address Craddoek & Co., I032 Race St.,
Philadeiphia, Pa, naming this paper.
f7uch4g
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

ITO sum il up. six long years Of bed-ridden sick
ness costing $500 per year total 81 aOO-aII of this
expense was stopped by three bottles of Hop Btters
taken by my wife. She has done her own housework
for year since, without the loss Of day, and
want everybody to know IT, for their benefit
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
Road Notice.

GOLD !: 9: !; : J: :: !: !;
become Q saceessfnl Agent Siz elc-
Gnnt vcrks Il art given fes % suoscbers 1bs price
low that almost everybody subsrrbe. One axe1t reports
taking I'D snh>rihers in day lady agenf reports max
ing over eoo eisar proet IN TN d.y1 An who engage
make neeey fast You devote al your time 10 the bus
ins> o. osy your spare ume You nee Dot be AMY frgn
bone over night rea do it - ve - sshera faa d.
yen want psuaaass work seA yyar sddress st enes
IL eosts Dethng 70 try ths busnee No eee Who sngzges
PGdaA xaaA Hu5E
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

When a medicine performs such cures as Kidney.
Wort is constantly doing il may truly be said to
wonderful power. carpenter in Montgomery Vt.
had suffered for eight years from the worst of kidney
diseases and had been wholly for worf
He says. .'0ne box made new man of me, and
sincerely believe il will restore to health ali that Arr
similariy afflicted Ii IL sold in both Iiouid
and dry form.-Dasbsry Eees.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

y Some paper recently stated that y. L.
Prentis, upon his return from his Southern trip,
would marry Topeka lady. We believe it; for
he is writing love poetry, and publishing it in
the Commonwealth. That Moslem poem is bad
svmDfom
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

~ The Governor has pardoned Major E. P.
Bancroft out of the penitentiary. The ends of
Justice could have been as fully subseryed, had
he done this act year ago, when he was petit
toned to do so. But We set it down as one act
to his credit if the suspicion does force it.
self upon u.s. that his refusal to do 50 before, was
for the purpose Of making capital for his re elee-
tisn, by putting on the appearance of determ-
ination to perform his stern duty, regardless of
person or position.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

II Monday, the 4th inst, was the fortieth an-
niversary of the death of President Harrison.
There are many yet living, who firmly believed,
and still do, that he was poisoned by political
onnonauts
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

TREAsoS.-The Republican party elected james A.
Gafeld President of the United States. and if that
gentlemen is unwilling to act, he should turn the
office over to Chester A. Arthur. who elected
vice-presidcnt. and not to James g. Blaine who
not elected to anything -D,IaOerat.
That's one way of looking at it. Here is an
other: When the friends of Blaine found it was
impossible to nominate him, they cheerfully
turned in and helped to nominate Garfield.
Conkling and his crowd bull-headedly kept on
voting for Grant, and after Garfield was nomi-
mated, lac sulked through half the campaign.
Therefore, Garfield should kick out Blaine and
his friends, and let Conkling run the administra-
q,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

Il The White Cloud RerieT is at liberty to
copy whatever it chooses from the Ckicf, bnt it
will confer favor upon by not butchering
what it copies. Our grammar is bad erongh, at
best but we never said ''his plea of guilty is
what done the bnsiuess for him.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
REDEMPTION LIST.
Taxes for 1877.
CorSTr TREAsrREs's OFFIcR. }
Nnxrpn .N ls.,UT,ry EaNaNE

CorxTI TKEAsrREs's 0fFIcR
TROY. DoSIrHAN COUNT, kASsAs
March 3ist ISL.
NOTICE il hereby given that the following described
IN lands AID lots sold for the for the
l the III day Of September ISIS that the three
years allowed by lAv for the redemption Of the viii
expire the 9Th day Of Septmbcr ls and tract Of
land lot unreced BY that time viii be conveyed
to the purchaser by Tax Deed..
SAMUEL " JOHNSON
County TREASURER,
Duuiphan County KansAa-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

II Several weeks ago, a German was brutally
murdered, in Mitchell County, by one r. W.
Knox, Methodist class-leader. The cause was
a claim dispute, in which the decision was in IA
vOr of the German. We have no doubt that
Knox whooped it up lively for the prohibitory
amendment, last fall, because liquor is the canse
of all the murders and other crimes
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07
PEDIGREE AND DESCRIPTION.

Robin ood years old the 18th Of May dark bay in
color seventeen hands high weighs 1910 pounds sired BY
Young Robin Hood beautiful dapple bay sixteen and
half hands high and weighing 100 pounds His colts in
hert in striking degree his magnificent and kind dispos
ton They invariably black hay in eolur He
bred in Canada frum Percheron mare weighing llOo
pounds impaired fom France in lsc0 She sired by
0ld Nspolron whose wright was 1870 pounds. Young
Robin Hood sird by the celebrated stallion, Old Robin
Hood who of black the property Of Mr..
W. Jordan Low Caythorpe Burlington, Yorkshire,
England. She took the first prize several times Mt the
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Agricultural meengs tnpen
all England for being the best broo in England
for breedng rntire horses for agricultural puoes She
got by Black Acive. the pgnrr-fy af Nj =. Royd-
house Jr Heon- Old Robin Head got by Old Black
legs dam by Little John grand dam by Old Heart Of Oak
T. c. HAYS. Keeper
j. J. BRAptFr Pruprietor. l7aprell
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

IT Because the Chief in speaking of Law
renee minister threatening TO dsobey the liquor
law and administer wine at communion, called
him Bently instead of Beatty. the Girard Press
says nothing Of the kind happened. That is
pretty good prohibition argument: but it is the
best there is.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-07

u The Holton Recorder has been enlarged,
and Mr.. Sinner has sold his interest in it to his
partner, Mr.. Beck.