The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-12-07
Highland station Items.

Highland Station has been as busy as a bee hive,
the past month
Our merchants are selling salt for 81 40 per barrel
How is that for lowf
couple Of roughs from Iowa Point were down
here. last Monday to clean ont the town. as they
expressed it; hut Ben. Martin, the mill man
from Buffalo Hollow, gave them both 4 sound
thrcshing. They went back to the town of by gone
days. and wiser than they came. 1t was a dis
graceful scene. and there is talk of having the par
ties arrested.
Corn is being delivered the rate Of thousand
bushels per day.
The death messenger has visited every house in
the immediate vicinity of Willow Springs school
house. There have been seven deaths, within q
short time.
critical condition. with typhoid fever. There is but
little hope of her recovery.
\ couple of doctors from Southern Kansa. have
bonsht a controlling interest in Eagle Springs.
l.. DtgGinger is having new store house built
The building is nearly completed. and he will move
in
W. 7. Richardson, the confectionery man at Eagle
Springs, will move his stock to Highland Station,
and occupy the binding L. Degginger is now in.
Several parties talkixg of starting lumber
yard here.
There is sharp d line in corn. thi, week.
The Chief will print hand bills telling all about
the handsome line Of holiday goods at Herring's
drug store, this week.
We see a great many hunting for land, and
they claim they offer four TO five dollars per acre.
aud can't rent for that. Put the same amount Of
work on half the land. and yoa will produce more
grain.
An individual in this neighborhood. who depends
lo.- N. q. IL. n
cratic paper, because 1t does not conform to his
despotic Puritan ideas. This individual also says
if Governor Glick had hi. way. he would ensIave
every negro in the United States again. Our hum
BILE opinion Brother Jonathan, is that you have the
same intolerant spirit and ideas that your Puritan
forefathers had Who Kidnapped and brought the
negroes TO this country TO be enslaved and whipped
gagged; Imprisoned and hung hundreds of men.
and especially women, for vitchcraft. and far differ
ing. and no; conforming to their ideas of religion
If the party TO whom this individual belongs had
their way. they would not only eonf-cate the prop
erty and imprison for foliovin. the example of
Christ, when he turned water into wine, but they
woud carry out the de,po;ic. iniolerznt ideas Of
their New England forefa;hers, that would suslavs
white men and negroes alike.
[Just let that rooster cool off, lie is sore ever the
defeat of his insect Saint He will feel better
when Il quits hurting The day u coming when il
viii be acknowledged that papers and men that
took the course the Chief did. were the salvation Of
the Republican party.-Pr.l
Missouri man has bought the old Dick Taylor
farm, and will make a fruit farm Of it. lie says he
will make speciality of budded peaches. Besides.
several other smaller pieces of bluff land have been
bought up lately. The ninety miles of bluff lands
along the Missouri River would produce enough
fruit TO supply the whole State Of Kansas proper
" cultivated.
Captain Baskins has bought Robert jenkins piece
of land anil will add extensively to his vineyard, in
the spring. The Captain thinks, since the election
of Click, he would like to marry, and settle down
for good Luxe