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1t is mentioned in Secretary Teller's
report that this season for the tlrst time
in the history of the fort Belknap agency
the buffaloa has failed tovisit that region;
heretofore the Blackfeet Indians have
been supported fairly bv the huffaIn mont
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
FIRST THANKSGIVING.

The following IS The first Thanksgiy-
ing proclamation ever issued in Kansas /:
A PROCLAMATION
FOR A DAY OF THANKSGIVING AND
PRAYER.
In pursuance to q long established
usage which has always found cheer
full acquiescense in the hearts OF CRATE
full people, and by direction of the excu-
tive committee of the Kansas Territory,
do hereby appoint and set
apart, Tuesday, the 25th day of Deem
Der next, to be observed by the people
of Kansas as a day Of thanksgiving and
prayer
While insult, outrage and death have
been inflicted upon many of our unof-
tending citizens.py those we despise to
recognize as brethren; while the at
tempts were being made to inaiet upon
US the most CALLING and debasing slavery,
our lives have been spared, and a way
pointed out by which, without imbruing
our hands in blood, we can secure the
blessings of liberty and good govern
ment.
The fields of the husbandman have
yielded abundantly, and industry in all
its channels has been appropriately re-
warded
For these and the innumerable bless
we are enjoying, let our hearts be de-
votedly thankful; from every altar let
thanksgiving and songs OF praise ascend
to that God from whom all blessings
flow.
Let the occasion be improved by the
people of Kansas for the advancement
of Freedom, virtue and Christianity.
Let the poor be remembered and the
day be wholly spent as wisdom shall di-
rect and God approve and bless.
Given under my hand, at the Office of
executive committee Of Kansas Territory
in the city of Topeka, this 18th day of
November, A. D. 1866.
ATTEST; j. H. LANE, Chairman.
j. K. Goodin, secy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
Prentls--Anderson.

A notable event transpired yesterday
at the Congregational church, at 2
O'Clock, it being the marriage of one of
Kansas pioneer newspaper men, Mr..
Noble l. Prentis, to Mrs. Carrie E An
derson, long and favorably known in
this city.
The church was well filed with friends
of the happy pair long before the hour
announced for the ceremony, and al 2
O'Clock the procession filed in and took
seats. The following friends and rela-
hves of the couple were first to arrive:
Mr.. & Mrs. w F.. w. Manspeaker, Mr.. &
Mrs. James Smith, Mr.. & Mrs. T, F.
Orner, Mr.. & Mrs. w, Cavanaugh, Mrs
VIM. Anderson, Miss Jennie Anderson
and Mamie Brier, all of whom took
front seats near the pulpit.
Soon after came Mrs. VIM. Campbell
sister-in-law of the bride, supported by
Mr.. Prentis, the groom, and Mrs. An
derson, the bride, supported By her
brother, Mr.. w. c. Campbell. Enter
ing by the left door they passed up the
aisle to the pulpit, where the ceremony
was performed by Rev. L. Blakesley,
the officiating clergyman, when they
made their exit by the opposite door.
In the vestibule an informal reception
was held, the usual Misunderstanding and
congratulations being in order.
H., Il n ~ IL
costume cosisting OF a royal purple bro
caded velvet polonaise and gross grain
silk skirt, with bonnet to match the pol
onaise and trimmed with bird of para
disc feathers, and gloves of rich cream
color. For the groom we may use the
stereotyped sentence: "He was attired
in neat fitting suit of conventional
black
MIR. PrentiS is well known to nearly
every Kansan, and especially the news
paper fraternity. He was for several
years resident of Topeka, and WELD
ed popular pen on the Commonwealth
and for the past six years or, more has
held the position of assistant managing
editor OF the Atchison Champion. AS
talker, he is no less conspicuous, as
his recent lectures for the benefit of our
high school will testify.
Mrs. Anderson is well known as
lady of high refinement and position in
Topeka society, and her many friends
regret her departure from among them.
The newly welded couple left for At
Gibson at 2.55 p. m, where they viii
hereafter reside
The well wishes of Topeka's quota of
Mr.. and Mrs. Pre- It's friends, not ex-
cepting the Capital, 60 with them to
their new home
The music for the occasion was fur
nished by the pipe organ of the church,
Mr. c. G. Leeper presiding, and pro-
nounced excellent. among the selee-
tons given were the following:
I. selecdo rs from opera Girofie Gil
rofa.
?. ..Can me Thine Own
5. '.Ever be Happy
4. Mendelssohn's Wedding March.
5. Wedding March OF the Huguenots
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
NUABER =.
OLD SHOES.


How much a man is like old shoes!
For instance: both soul may lose;
Both have been tanned; both are made
tight
By eobblers; both get left and right;
Both need mate u be complete,
And both are made to go on feet,
They both need heeling. oft are sold,
Aud both in time all turn to mold.
With shoes the last Is first; with men
The irst shall be the hast; and whan
The shoes wear out they're mended
new:
When men wear out they're men-deaa,
too.
They both are trod upon, and both
Will tread on others, nothing l0ath.
Both have their Ties, and beth incline
w men polished in the world TO shine:
And both peg out-and would you
choose
To be man or be his shoesP
-aHilO1l7y153O3ga
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
PHILLIPS COUNTY.
POlitics-Crops-Stock Interests
General Prospects.
-ARMony11aoits,

PHILLIPsBURG, Nov. 26, 1888. I
Correspondence of The Champion
The entire Republican ticket was
elected by large majorities, and it is to
be hoped that the Greenbark whim is
showed under'' for'atl time. w. II.
Mcbride was elected Rep't' to fill
vacancy caused by tue re ,igAation OF
John Bissell, appointed Register of the
U. S. Land Office at Kirwin. The
Greenback craze has so disguised our
people that hereafter Phillips county
may be set down, politically, as Repul-
Leaf.
PhiIhpsburg, the county seat, is
brushing up" SO to speak. Here is
the best court house in Northwestern
Kansas, costing $4,000; a good school
mouse; good church building, and the
MethOdists a e beginning to erect an
other to cost ST, 800. The secret soc
etles are the A F. & \. NJ, [. o. OF
G. A. Il, and K # p. There is also =
we'll attended literary society, called tue
Occidental
Real estate is looming up in this coun-
ty, and well it may, as Phillips is one
of the best timbered and watered couI
ties in the state. A large amount OF
stock is being brought in, and several
parties are buying up large tracts for
stock ranches. The sheep industry is
increasing very fast; in fact, there is no
better locality in the United States
tor sheep husbandry than Northwestern
Kansas, the splendid pasturage and
light, healthful air making it peculiarly
adapted to this branch Of stock raising.
There are one hundred organized
schooi districts in the county, and the
educational facilities of the county are
good.
Rlarge quantity of soghum is raised
in Phillips county. and a sugar factory
in this part OF the state would be pro-
ftable investment.
A large area of small grain has been
sown in this county this fall, and it is at
present looking finely; indeed, the
pros poets are that the county will have
big boom next year
Phillips seems to be getting along rs
we'll as most counties in Northwestern
Kansas. There was a fair crop of
small grain, AID corn is selling for 20
and % cents bushel. TIE ground is
now in the best condition for small
Grain ever before known, and there is a
larger acreage of wheat than last year.
The tact is becoming more apparent in
the minds OF our earliest settlers that
| the seasons are gre wing more favorable
for the farming community, and there
a better feeling as regards the future
welfare of what we think one of the
best counties i'll Northwestern Kansas.
Lands are changing hands more rap
idly than ever before. Those now COM
ing into the county are well-to-do. As
regards the value Of land, New York
gentleman recently paid 81, 900 cash for
tract of $50 acres. A number Of
oeher similar sales are reported. We
look for more prosperity next year in
every branch of trade than ever before,
and all we ask is a visit to our beauti-
full county before selecting a perma-
nent home in Northwestern kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
The Meanest Thief Out

CHICAGO, November 2S.-The Off
GERS at the Desplaines Street station
have ore of the meanest thieves lately
discovered under arrest at that station.
He Civ s the name of William Burns,
and his little confidence game Was to
rob innocent children. He would find
some small boy who had a good over
coat and employ him to go upon an err
rand This errand was always the de-
livery of some valuable package, and
the thief would induce the childish mes
senger to leave his overcoat as pledge
of fidelity. OF course the message was
sham, and the boy would never see his
employer again. Yesterday afternoon
Officer Mangold picked up man at the
Union Depot who was trying to sell q
couple of boys oVercoats, and locked
him up. The prisoner has been identi-
lied by Johnnie Teneyck, of No So EN-
erson avenue, and Arthur Wise of No.
275 Madison Street, as the man who
fleeced them of their overcoats. There
have been numerous conn laints of Burn
operations, and the officers would like
to have every one who has suffered at
his hands to call at the station. Leav-
enworth Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

Among the pleasing recpllections of
Mr.. John H. SteIl, who lives near Cali
fornia, Missouri, is that he once had a
fight with Andy johnson. Andy made
him suit OF clothes and they didn t fit !;
they fell out over it and had a severe
struggle in the shop before they we. e
separated.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

Some years ago Pennsylvania sold
three lots in Usage City, Kansas. for
twenty dollars, and a condition, speci-
fed in deed, thatno intoxicating liquors
should ever be sold on the premises.
The purchaser did not break the condi-
ton, but he sold the property; his pur-
chaser sold to another, woman, and
that woman's husband opened a saloon
on the premises. Suit was brought to
recover the property on the ground
that the condition was broken, and the
suit was sustained and approved by the
Supreme Court.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

This is the way the Mother Hubbard
dress started, says one of our ex-
changes: "Old Mother Hubbard went
to the cupboard to get her poor dog a
bone, when she got there the cupboard
was bare, and so the poor dog got none.
She was in a great stew to know what
to do, for of money she had not cent,
so she sold her last suit to buy meat for
the brute, and up town in her night
gown she went. All the ladies who saw
it and the string for to draw it, de
clared it the incest thing out; SO now
on the street, looking ever so sweet. in
their gowns they go racing about =
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

We have noticed, and with some
surprise. that there are good many
covered wagons moving west just
HOW. Immigration to a new country
at this season OF the year is something
unusual, but it is an evidence that
people III other states have learned
that Western Kansas Is no longer oa
the starvation list St,clzton Record.
Our observation is, that Phillips
county is gaining fastar III population
than eyer before At this tine Of war.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

Kirwin has haunted house. It
belongs to G. J. Lamb, and Is haunted
by the ghost Of the late greenOacil
party. STOCKTON Record.
We are surprised to learn that there
is enough left OF it to make ghost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
WASHINGTON, Ind, Jan. 2S.
High License,

TO the Editor On the Indianapolis journal:
l observe that a number of papers in this
State are advocating a license law, with n tax
of $500 or 81, 900, as a means of counteracting
the alarming increase of drunkenness and
at the same time a%ugmenting the revenue L
do not see how the measure can effect either
of these.bbiects. 1t is affirmed that it will
diminish the number of saloons; but will
that diminish the amount of liquor sold and
drank2 If the 800 saloons In this city were
condensed into thirty what would
be gained? Everybody that wanted
to drink could get the liquor without diff
Guilty or any considerable inconvenience
In behalf of sobriety there would be no gain,
and in the matter of revenue there would be
a loss. Tor $50 saloons at 800 each would pay
Sc, 900 more than thirty saloons at 81, 900
each. But it is claimed that this measure
will relieve the country of the low drunken
les. and leave us a few respectable saloons.
This is Just what is to be feared. No young
man of good sense or decent self-respect will
ever make himself a drunkard at low dives
or f~ve-cent saloons. A single glance at
the interior of one of these would
be a good temperance lecture to a decent
Young man. But let that same youth visit
the parlor of a 81 ,000-saloon, with its fine
carpets, its luXuriant reclining chairs, its
splendid mirrors and costly pictures to set
off the sparkling wines, the ruby or pale
brandies, and the mellow old bourbon, set
out in magnificent cut-glasS, with the accom-
parliament of music, etc, and he is capti-
waited at once, and without hesitation starts
on the road TO ruin. The liquor men are
getting uneasy about recruiting the ranks of
their customers, and are demand
ing that the business be made
more respectable. This measure is intended
to meet the present emergency. With a mo-
nupoly of the business, the 81 900 liquor
seller can well afford to grade his school of
vice, and make half a dozen bars, at each of
which liquors of a differept grade can be
sold, and drinkers at every stage of down
ward progress can be accommodated.
But this matter rests not on theory alone.
Michigan has tried a $500 license, and Ne
braska one of S $1,000. We are told that the
experiment is a success, because it
has diminished the number of saloons;
but that the quantity sold, or the number of
drunkards is made less, do not appear. Sta
Der of gallons sold is steadily increasing, and
with it, of course, the amount Of drunken
ness.
A Logansport paper proposes that the Re-
publican party should assume the high
license position. as opposed to the free
liquor of the Democracy. The outgrowth
of such an issue would inevitably be a third
party, pledged to prohibition. There can be
but one issue on this question, and that is
prohibition vs.. free liquor. In the matter of
license. we have exhausted the possibilities,
INDIANAPOLIS Jan. 30, 1888. r. T. BRowN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
Business.

To the Etntor of the Indianapolis journal;
Is there no better system than ours for the
transaction of probate business We have
tried almost every known system except the
Surrogate system, and none have proved salts
factory. Tit Surrogate system has been in
operation in New York from q very early
period. and has not been departed from. That
the system has been so long continued in
that State without change is a strong argu-
ment in it's favor, The system has many
valuable features. Like that of a justice of
the peace, the Office is always open for the
transaction of business. The surrogate is his
own clerk, There is no going backward and
forward from the judge to the clerk before
matters can be put in proper shape. His
familiarity with and thorough understanding
of each estate must needs be better than that
of a Judge, burdened as he is with other
business. He will, from the beginning to the
end, have sufficient leisure to listen and give
directions as the estate proceeds, step by
step, to its close.
The administrator is generally a relative or
friend OF the deceased, and will be able, in
the great majority OF the cases, ard under
the directions of the surrogate, to transact
the business of the estate. He will feel little
or no embarrassment this prescnce-an en-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30

New York Herald.
The millions which were intrusted to
Archbishop Purcell for safe keeping, and
which were invested in ecclesiastical build
ings of various kinds or used for other reli-
gious purposes, ought to be paid back to the
thousands of creditors who, with singular
confidence, placed their slender earnings in
the priestly bankers hands. The Catholic
church should not, and we are sure
will not, avail itself of the difference
between a legal and a moral obligation.
In religion moral compulsion is unneces-
sary when moral duty is clearly seen. The
hiding places which the secular law affords
are for the benefit of those who wish to evade
a responsibility not for a church which
challenges criticism because criticism can
discover nothing that can be criticised. We
have a strong hope that the public opinion,
which has heretofore been divided, will soon
become unanimous, and that the Catholics
will pay the debt at any cost to themselves.
1t will be a gigantic enterprise, but it will be
a noble one. When the proper authorities
reach this decision, the mass of the people
will quickly respond in the words of Shake
speare: Master, go on, and | will follow
thee to the last gasp.with truth and loyalty
and the cause OF religion will be advanced,
not in Catholic ranks only, but in every
church on the continent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Coal Mines of the State.
Editor of tine Tndiananona Tournaa:


In the Journal of the Goth inst. l see an
article from the Clay County Enterprise en-
titled the States Coal Mines" In looking
over the article l see some things that are
misrepresented, and l feel it my duty, as
Mine Inspector, to answer these erroneous
representations. If the editor of the Enter
prise was as we'll posted in regard to the coal
mines of Indiana as the inspector of mines,
he would not have published the article. 1t
is true Clay %county's coal production for
the year 1881 was a little over half of
the production for that year, as taken from
the Mine Inspectors report for that year. If
the Enterprise man will scan the report
closely he will see that there were no reports
from the mines that did not employ ten
persons on an average the whole year, while
every ton of coal that was mined in Clay
county was reported, If he will examine
the report of the Bureau of Statistics OF the
year 1881, he will see that the number of tons
OF coal mined was nearly double what the
inspector reported. He will also see that
there were III mines in the State, all told,
and in the year 1882 the number of mines
increased to pa. This increase in the
number of mines has not been
in Clay county; they are all in the southern
part of the State, or nearly so. The number
OF mines in Clay county is decreasing, conse-
quently the production of coal will accord
ingly decrease. The present year will see a
number of the mines worked out and
abandoned. In the year 1881 Spencer county
had nineteen mines, and more than that
number are now being worked. Some OF
these last mentioned are small mines and do
not come under the provisions of the mining
law. 1t is true that Pix county had only
one mine reported for the year 1881, but
there were a number of others in operation,
and in the year 1882 had eleven mines
that the law applied to, and will be
included in my report for that year. II the
writer of the article in the Enterprise lives
to see the end of the year 1884, he will see
two or three counties in the southern part
of the State either of which will lead Clay
county in the production of coal and num-
Der of mines.
The southern part of the State is just
in its infancy in the production of coal
in the State, as is fully shown by recent
developments, extensions and improve
ments. The production of coal for the past
year. as will be shown by my report for said
year, of the southern part of the State, will
nearly equal that of the northern
part, and will exceed the northern
part in the number of mines,
and would respectfully refer him to my
report for 1881, page II, in regard to new
coal fields.
In regard to the appointing OF the Mine
Inspector, 1 do not think the miners of Clay
county, aside from the applicants for the
position, care who is appointed or what part
of the State he is from so he fully under
stands his business and faithfully e%nforces
the provisions of the mining law.
THOMAS WILSON, JR..
Inspector Of Mines.
w AaII NcroN Ind Inn %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
The Artists and Programmes.

Adelina Patti is regarded by ali the world
as the first soprano now living. Her special
power lies in the phenomenal projections of
both voice and method. There is a singular
charm in her every tone, a silvery brillianoy,
strangely mixed with a fluty ~softness and
melting warmth, while every detail of exc
cution defies adverse criticism. Her voice
is the most perfect of instruments, and her
use of it is, iii the highest sense, a work OF
art. When she sings the poesy of the role
seems newly created in the listeners heart.
She will appear in several of her most cele-
lbrated characters, such as La TraviaJa,"
"Semiramide" and "Zerlina."
Albani is considered by all comparison the
greatest Wagnerian singer in the world, with
a possible exception of Materna, whose spe-
cialty is ne late Wagnerian operas. Her
Senta in The Flying Dutchman' will be an
limpersonation to be for a life
time. As to Nine. Scalchi Lolli, no one who
has not heard her can form the least idea
Of what she will be like. She is the
greatest contralto in the world, and GER
tainly vocal art cannot go beyond her. The
peculiar resonance of her tone is something
neither to be imagined beforehand nor to be
forgotten afterward.
Madam Furcli- Madi is a dramatic soprano
in the mort genuine and especial use of that
expression. There is in the voice of the dra-
matio soprano a certain tremulous, keen,
emotional thrill such as the sweeter lyric
voices do not possess.
Ravelli has been heard in Cincinnati be-
fore, and when he sang "Edgardo" he made
as great a furore as Campannini himself. His
voice is of lighter timbre than that of Cam
paninni, but it is equally SYM pathetic, and
his method is OF the purest Italian.
Mierzwinski is the phenomenal new tenor
who created such a profound sensation in
New York when he sang the role of AR
noldo' in Rossini's civilian Tell" He is
the typical tenore robu to. His extreme high
tones are simply marvellous. He can even
take the d Hat, a ninth above the middle c.,
and his chest A is startingly powerful, reson.
ant and effective.