The Red Cloud chief., 1886-04-23
PICK-UPS.
Window shades at Cuttings.

On busibes-.
The supervisors will meet in regular
session Nay 1.
FARNEEs are very ousy jus, now
with spring work.
LIMA OVEN and 1.-The Leson were
in Guide Rock Saturday.
Miss RECORDS, sister Of Mrs. J. n.
Richards, is in Colorado.
A. HEYDE was in McCook the other
day look.n after his claim.
fence builders: G that wonderful
post anger at Morhart d Ful,on's.
BELLE SPASoGLE is teaching in the
public school in the place OF Miss
/, Sherer.
The eldest daughter Of Mr.. aad Mrs.
Geo. B. Gates is visiting her parents in
this city.
RED CLOUD is again assuming usual
vigoi. Large crowds of couatry peo.
pie arc coming to the city every day.
PROP. w. c. PIcKIsG has 100 cholera
hogs for sale. Oh his Kansas farm. The
Professor thinks hog raising is not al
profit.
Our friend. Geo. NJ. Plumb. is the
happy father of a bouncing baby boy,
II il Of the standard weight and is a
little brick.
Ma. GEO. CARPENTER, a former clerk
in sherer's drug store in this city was
recently killed by the accidental dis
charge Of a gun.
WITH the Rock Island, Missouri
Pacific (which we are almost sure of
and the b. & NJ, Red Cloud will have
plenty o: railway competition.
Mr.. 5. PERKINS is again on Our
streets after his recent illness. 1t was
the first time that he was eyer master
ell by disease and 1t went hard with
him.
News mas just reached our friend ID.
+. Scammon. %ianitor of our public
schools, that his brother, X. q. Scam
mon, died at Los Gatos, Califor nia.
April IL.
SEVERAL prairie fires we're set on last
Sunday while the wind was blowing n
gale. II seems To us a careless thing TO
do, especially so when the wind is
blowing hard.
TIE farmers Of Webster and adjoin-
ing counties. we believe, should raise
more white corn. 1t seems that there
will be IA better demand for that kind
Of corn in the market.
EY-GOvERNoR ST. JOIN, Of Kansas,
will lecture in the opera house OF the
9th Of this month. Everybody in
vited TO hear the governor on the
subject Of temperance.
THE roads between Red Cloud and
Amboy are in very bad shape. We
hope our friend Cox will get ont his
gang of men and repair the road be-
fore our next trip TO Amboy.
We noticed Sam Miller and Fritz
Richardson very hard at work one day
this week while enroute to Amboy,
This is something unusual for Hoosier'
and THE CHEF does not know JUS
how to account for this breach Of In
! diana etiquette.
! THE Rock Island surveyors are nov
engaged, we understand in ~locatin,
: their line % Red Cloud. and ere man,
more moons We expect that the corp
will he in Red Cloud, and later on W.
will hear the whistle announcing tn
u fact that the trains are beginning +
move.
> Nh. I. FRIsBIE had quite an acciden
the other day. 1t seems that he wa
at the depot when the switch engin
came nufinC up, frightening his team
n and in the attempt to get away hot
" horses fell. one of which got badly Gu
{ IN and will not be able to work 70
several weeks.
= THIS week we hear Of sever al farmer
who have been woefully bitten b
foreign lightning rod agents. 1t COS
two men in Garfield township abou
rs 500 each to get their houses roddes
J. The best way Is to let these fellow
severely alone and patrOnize count
agents Who reside here. Beware. an
H. don't get your fingers burned.
u FRANK GUNP and l.. II. Wallac
went on p;scstorial tour Tuesday
They had the usual fsherman's lucl
N added to which they had the exper
VI ence of having their team run ava,
leaving them on the river bank wit
the beautiful prospect of an eXtende
N walk To the city. The horses wei
" caught. however. ard after many tria
they arrived in the city at n little afte
" dark.
FRED bentley held chat,el NOR
'e gage on some Kansas horses. and aft,
&c the time had expired and the man ,
> money failed to m~aterialize, Fred an
: and Charley winfrey went int, tbs
IL state and brought the horses % RI
CLOUD. The owner of the nass can
III over into Gods country and wore OF
AS replevin papers, and Sheriff Scot. exc
10 cuted the same, returning the horse
the Kansas man according to law. Al
after he had furnished a good bon
What the fina! end up of the case "
"a. be we are At loss e know.
3. THE stockholders OF the Red Clio,