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1888 Burgundy Claret, and
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never raised. Our Salt Meats are carefully select
ed and much of which is home product and can
not be beat. In fact We keep everything that can
be found in a First-Class Market.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-05-17
Publication Notice.


IN the district court for the county OF Sherman
in the state of Kansas, The Railway RuilG-
ing and Loan association, plaintiff, Us. Jacob
Bos, Mary Bos, Leonard Fleckenstein and Mary
EieCkenstein, defendants, To Jacob B0s, Mary
BOs, Leonard FleCkenStein, Mary fleckenstein
viii take notice that the said Railway Building
and Loan association, plaintiff, did on tine LIST
day of May 1885, file its petition in said district
court, within and for tne county of Sherman IN
the state of Kansas against the said Jacob BIOS,
Mary BOs Leonard Fleckenstein, Mary Fleck-
enstein, defendants, and that you and each of you
must answer said petition filed as aforesaid on OF
before the 18th day of june 1895. OF said petition
viii be taken as true, and Judgment rendered
IN said action against said defendants, Jacob
BOS Mary BOS, Tor the sum of two hundred thirty
five and Seventy-nine one hundTedths dollars,
with interest thereon at the rate of 6 4-lW per
cent per annum from the DIST day of March,
1885, and for the further sum of $50 S9-lO0, with
interest thereon at the rate of I'D per cent per
anuum from the 9th day of April, 1895, and for
costs of suit; and a further judgement against
said defendants Jacob BOs, Mary BOs, Leonard
kleCkenStein, Mary EleCkenstein, for the fore
closure OF certain mortgage upon the follow
ing described real estate, tO-Wlt: Lots numbered
fifteen ti5l and sixteen l16l i'm block number
tifty-f0uT t5il in the original town Of GOOdland
Kansas, ar per recorded plat thereof lying and
situated In the county of Sherman in the state
of Kansas, and adjudglng that said plaintiff
have the first lien on said premises, TO the
amount for which judgment viii be taken
as aforesaid, and ordering said premises
to be sold with apPraisement, and the
proceeds applied to the payment of the
amount due plaintiff and costs Of suit, and for
ever barring and t0reCiOsiEg said defendants,
and each OF them, of and from all right, title,
estate, interest, property and equity of Fedemp-
ton, IN OF to said premises, or any part thereof
And that a receiver be appointed to take posses
sion, control and charge of said premises aud
collect the rents and profits thereof during the
tendency of this action. How ANDREWS,
Attest Attorney for Plaintiff
L. ii. HANEY, Clerk
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Publication Notice.
First published May 8,


TN the district court within and for the county
i of Sherman IN the state of Kansas: j. NJ.
Kennedy, plaintiff, vs.. LeftTick Moore, defend
ant, To LeftTick Moore, defendant you viii
take notice that the said J. NJ. Kennedy, plain
tiff did on the 1st day of May, 1895, file his pc
titiCu in said district court, within and for the
county of Sherman in the state of Kansas,
against you the said LeftTick Moore, defendant
and thPt you must answer said petition Iiled as
aforesaid on OF before the 18th day OF June 1888,
OF said petition will be taken as true and
defendant, LeftFick Moore, for the sum of seven
ty-three and twenty One-hundredths dollars with
interest thereon at the rate Of 10 per cent per an
mum from the 18th day Of August, 1893, and for
the further SUM Of SO with interest thereon at
the rate of 10 per cent per anHum from the 3D.
dav of Nav, 1891 and for the further sum of SIC
with interest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent
Der anHum from the Sd day OF May, 1924, and Tor
costs OF suit and a further judgment against
said defendant, LeftTlck Moore Tor the fore
closure of certain mortgage upon the following
described real estate, toWit: The northwest
quarter (NWii) of section twenty l1Ul IL town
shin ten (l0l south of range fOrty-One t4ll vest,
living and situated III the county Of Sherman, IN
the state of Kansas. and eGiGdging that the
said plsintif have the first lien on said premI.
ses. to the amount for which judgment VIII be
taken as aforesaid, and ordering said premises
TO be sold with appTaIsement, and the proceeds
applied 10 the sayment of the amount due plain
tiff and costs of suit, and forever barring and
fOreei0sing said defendants, and each Of them.
of and from ali right, title, estate, interest pro
perry and equity OF redemption. IL OF 10 said
premises, or any part thereof.
Attest: J. u. hENNED4, PiaintlH.
LII. HANEY. By HOYT ANDREWS.
Clerk, his Attorney.
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Publication Notice Case No. 1897


Tn the district court within and for the county
of Sherman, in the state OF Kansas. j. III.
Kennedy. plaintiff, VS.. MarCelluS Winters, Mag
gle Winters, John W. Peters, Sarah j, Peters,
DOwagiac Manufacturing company, defendants.
To Maggie Winters, John ". Peters, Sarah j,
Peters DOwagiac Manufacturing company, you
and each of you Will take notice that the said
J. NJ. Kennedy, plaintiff, did, on the 18th day of
March, 1895. file his petition in said district
court, within and for the county of Sherman
in the state of Kansas, against the said MARCEL
lus Winters, Maggie Winters, John j. Peters,
company, defendants, and that the said Maggie
Winters, John W, Peters, Sarah j. Peters, Do
Wagiac Manufacturing company and each of you
must answer said petition hled as aforesaid on OF
before the 18th day of June, 1888 OF said petition
will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered
in said action against said defendants Marcel
lUs Winters and Maggie Winters, for the sum of
two hundred thirty and no one hundredths
$3.50 00-lO0t dollars with interest thereon at the
rate of ten per cent per annum from the 18th
day of March, 1893, and Tor costs of suit; and a
further Judgment against said defendants Mar
cellus Winters Maggie Winters John ". Peters
and Sarah j. Peters, DOWagiaC Manufacturing
company for the foreclosure of certain mort
gage upon the following described real estate,
to wit; The southeast quarter II. h. li) of sec
ton tWentyOne (2l} In township go south OF
range forty l40l west lying and situated IN the
county of Sherman in the state of Kansas, and
adiuding that the said plaintiff have the first
lien on said premises, subject only to a prior
mortgage of 500 and accrued interest to the
amount for which judgment will be taken as
aforesaid, and ordering said prememises to be
sold with appTaisement, and the proceeds ap-
piled TO the payment of the amount due plaintiff
and costs OF suit, and forever barring and fore
closing said defendants, and each of them, OF
and from all right, title, estate interest, prop
erty and equity Of redemption, in OF to said
premises or any part thereof, and that receiver
be appointed to take possession charge and
control of said premises, collect and receive the
rents and profits thereof during the tendency of
this action. j. NJ. KENNEDY, Plaintiff.
Attest: By HOYT ANDREWS, His Attorney.
I. II. HANEY Clerk,
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WITH A SHORT GUN.


better than over-much disc0urtesy, for,
as the saying is, one can choke a guest
with curds. do not desire that any
children of thine should know that the
mugger of Mugger-Ghaut took his only
wound from woman. They will have
much else to think Of if they get their
living as miserably as does their
father"
''It is forgotten long agol It was
never said! There never was a white
womanl There was no boat! Nothing
whatever happened at all,
The jackal waved his brush to show
how completely everything was wiped
ont of his memory, and sat down with
an air.
Indeed, very many things hap
pened," said the mugger, beaten in his
second attempt that night to get the
better of his friend Neither bore
malice, however. Eat and be eaten
was fair law along the river, and the
| jackal came in for his share Of plumber
when the mugger had finished meal.)
81 left that boat and went upstream,
and, when / had reached Arrah and
the back waters behind it, there were
no more dead English. The river was
empty for awhile, Then came one or
two dead, in red coats, not English, but
of one kind all-Hindoos and Purbeeahs
then five and SIX abreast, and at
last. from Arrah to the north beyond
! Agra, it was as though whole villages
had walked into the water. They came
out of little creeks one after another, as
the logs come down in the rains. When
the river rose they rose also in
companies from the shoals they had
rested upon; and the falling Zoo
dragged them with it across the fcla
and through the jungle by the Tor
hair. All night too, going north,
heard the guns, and by day the shOd
feet of men crossing fords, and that
noise which a heavy cart wheel makes
on sand under water; and every ripple
brought more dead. Atlast even ] was
| afraid, for | said: If this happen to
men how shall the muggeF of Mugger-
Ghaut escape@ There were boats, too.
that came up behind ne without sails.
burning continually as the cotton
boats sometimes burn. but never sink
ing"
"Ahl" said the adjutant. Boats like
those come to Calcutta Of the South
They are tall and black, they beat up
the water behind them with a tail
and they"
Are thrice as big as my village. My
boats were low and white; they beat
up the water on either side of them,
and were no larger than the boats of
one who speaks truth should be. They
made me very afraid, and ] left water
and went back to this my river. hiding
by day and walking by night. when
could not find little streams to help
me. came To my village again,
but could not hope to see any Of my
people there. Yet they we're blowing
and sowing and reaping, and going to
and fro il their fields asquietly as their
own cattle.
WAS there stu good food in the
giverg asked the jacllal
More tEan 1 had any desire for
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-05-17
Publication Notice
First nnblished Nay 3

First puDllSneQ May =,
7 n the district court within and for the county
of Sherman in the state of Kansas: The
Railway Building and Loan Association, a cor
pOTatiOn, plaintiff vs.. William j. BlaCkwOOd,
Dora E. BlackwOOd, Charles W. Cribs, Ma
linda Cribs, Charles E. Porter and Mrs. Porter,
his wife first name unknown, defendants. To
William J. BiackwOod. Dora E. BlackWOod.
Charles W. Cribs Malinda Cribs, Charles E.
Porter, and Mrs. Porter, his wife, first name I'M
known, viii take notice that the said Railway
Building and Loan Association, plaintiff. did,
on the LIST day of May, 1898, file its petition in
said district court, within ana for the county OF
Sherman, in the state of Kansas, against the
said William J. BlackwOOd, Dora E. BlackwOOd
Charles W. Cribs Malinda Cribs, Charles E,
b. Porter, and Mrs, Porter, his wife, first name
unknown defendants, and that you and each of
you must answer said petition filed as aforesaid
on or before the 18th day of June, 1885, or said
petition will be taken as true and judgment
rendered in said action against said defendants,
William j. BlackwOOd and Dora Z. BlackWOOd,
husband and wife, for the sum of two hundred
tWenty-SeYen and ninety One-hUndTedths Z2l.g0l
dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of
24-lOO per cent per annum from the 9TH day OF
March, 1890 and for the further sum of SoS.24
for taxes paid by plaintiff with interest thereon
at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from the
I'D day of March, 1895, and for costs of suit and
a further judgment against said defendants,
William J. BlaekwOOd, Dora E, BlackwOOd,
10
Porter and Mrs. Porter, his wife, first name I'M
known, for the foreclosure of certain mort,
gage upon the following described real estate
tOwit: Lot number twenty-One I'll in block
fifty-nine (59) in the original town of GOOdland,
Kansas, as per recorded plat thereof, lying and
situated In the county of Sherman liz the state
of Kansas, and adjudging that the said plaintiff
have the first lien on said premises, to the
amount for which judgment will be taken as
aforesaid, and ordering said premises to be
sold with appraisement, and the proceeds ap-
piled to the payment of the amount due plain
siff and costs of suit, and forever barring and
fOreclOsing said defendants, and each of them
of and from all right title estate, interest, pro
perty, and equity of redemption, in or to said
premises or any part thereof. And that a re-
ceiver be appointed to take possession, control
and charge of said premises and collect the
rents and profits thereof during the tendency OF
this action. HOYT ANDREWS,
Attest Attorney for Plaintiff
L. II. HANEY, Clerk.
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passed between tooth and tooth-snose
small white hands. / should have
caught him crosswise at the elbows.
but, as said. It was only for sport and
desire to see new things that ] rose at
all They cried ont one after another
in the boat. and presently / rose again
to watch them. The boat was too
heavy to push over. They were only
women, but he who trusts woman
viii walk on duckweed in a pool, as
the saying is; and by the Right and
Left Of Gunga that is TRUTH
''Once q woman gave me some dried
skin from fish, said the iackal. u
had hoped to get her baby, but horse
food is better than the kick Of a horse.
as the saying is What did thy woman
do?"
"She fred at me with short gunof a
kind / have never seen before or since.
Five times, one after another" the
mugger must have met with an old
fashioned revolver); 'and I stayed
open-mouthed and gaping, my head in
the smoke. Never did I see such a
thing. Five times, as swiftly as I wave
my tail-thusI"
The jaekal, who had been growing
more and more interested in the story,
had just time to leap back as the tail
swung by like a seythe.
"Not before the fifth shot" said the
mugger, as though he had never
dreamed Of stunning one Of his listen
ers-'not before the fifth shot did
sink, and I rose in time to hear a thie1
Of boatman telling all those white
women that ] was most certainly dead
One bullet had gone under neck
plate Of mine. know not if it is there
still, for the reason I cannot turn my
head. Look and see, child. It viii
show my tale is true"
"I?' said the jackal. "Shall an eater
of old shoes, a bone-cracler, presume
to doubt the word of the Envy of the
River? May my tail be bitten off by
blind puppies if the shadow of such &
thought have crossed my humble mind
The Protector of the Poor has con
descended to inform me, his slave, thai
once in his life he has been wounded
by woman. This is sufficient, and
will tell the tale to all my children
asking for no proof"
"0Ver-much civility is sometimes ne
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-05-17
THE (gHeEaTAKEss:
BY RUBYARD KIPLIEG.
TIT


Now you do not call man cousin
in India unless yen think you can es-
tablish some isind Of blood relation
ship, and as it is only il old fairy tales
that the muggcr ever marries a jackal,
the jaclSal knew for what reason he
had been, suddenly lifted into the mug
gers family circle If they had been
alone he would not have cared. but the
adjutant's eyes twinlSled with mirtb at
the ugly jest
"Assuredly, father, might have
known" said the jsckal a mugger
does not care to be called a father Of
iackals. and the mugger of MuggeT-
Ghaut said as much-and a good deal
more which there is no use in repeat
ing here.
''The Protcctorof the Poor has claimed
kinship How can remember the pre-
else degree? Moreover, we eat the
same food. he has said it," was the
iackal's reply.
That made matters rather worse, for
what the iackal limited at was that the
mugger must have eaten his food on
that land march fresh, and fresh every
day, instead Of keeping it by him till
it was in a ft and proper condition, as
every self-respecting mugger and most
wild beasts do when they can, Indeed,
one Of the worst terms of contempt
along the river bed is eater Of fresh
meat" 1t is about as bad as calling a
friend a cannibal would be among
human beings.
THAT food was eaten thirty seasons
ago." said the adjutant quietly. "If
we talk for thirty seasons more it will
never come back. Tell US now what
happened when the good waters were
reached after thy most wonderful land
journey. If we listened to the howl
ing OF every jaekal the business Of the
town would stop, as the saying is.
The mugger must have been CRATE
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-05-17
"sHE FIRED AT ME

''sHE FIRED AT ME
full for the interruption, because he
went on with a rush:
by the Right and Left of Gunga,
when came there never did I see such
waters"
Were they better, then, than the
big food of last season." said the
jackal
"Better That food was no more
than comes every FIVE years-a handful
of drowned strangers, some chickens,
and dead bullock in muddy water
with cross-currents. But, the season I
think of, the river was low, smooth
and even, and, as the gavial had warned
me, the dead English came down touch
ing each other. got my girth in that
season, my girth and my depth. From
Agra, by Etawah and the broad waters
by Allahabad-"
"Oh, the eddy that set under the
walls of the fort at Allahabad!' said
the adjutant. ''They came in there
like widgeOn to the reeds, and round
and round they swung-thus!"
He went off into his horrible dance
again, while the jackal looked on en-
viously. He naturally could not re-
member the year of the mutiny they
were talking about. The mugger con
tinued:
Yes by Allahabsd, one lay still in
the slack water and let twenty 90 by
to pick one; and, above all, the Eng
lish were not numbered with iewelry
and nose rings and anklets as nv
women are nowadays. To delight in
ornaments is to end with a rope for
necklace as the saying is. All the mug
gers OF oil the rivers grew fat then,
but It was my fate to be fatter than
them al The news was that the Eng
ilsh were being hunted into the rivers.
and by the Right and Left OF Gunga we
believed it was true. So far as I went
south believed it to be true, and
went down stream beyond Monghyr
and the tombs that look over the river. -
Il know that place" said the ad.
infant Since those days Monghyr Is
lost city. Very few live there now. -
Thereafter I worked up stream very
slowly and lazily, and a little above
Monghyr there came down a boatful Of
white faees-alivel They were. as / re
member, women. lying under cloth
spread over sticks, and crying aloud
There was never gun fred at Us
watchers of the for6,s in those days AL
the guns were busy elsewhere We
could near them day and night inland,
coming and going as the wind shifted.
] rose up full before the boat, because
had never seen white faces alive,
though knew them well-otherwise.
A naked white child lsneeled by the
side Of the boat, and, STOPPING over.
he must needs try to trail his hands
in the river. It is 3. pretty thing
TO see how child loves running water.
had fed that day. but there was a lit
tie untitled space within me. SSH, il
was Tor sport and not Cor food that
rose AZ The child's hands. They were
50 clear mark that / did not even
look when / closed. and they were SO
sEaeiithat though my jaws rang true
I an sure Of that--tae child drew them
np swiftly unhr7.f. They must hays
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down fzcn the bridge and across to Tia
sandbar, where they stood 8dmiFing
the length Of the mngger. Then a ma
tive with an Ak cut OF the big head,
and four men dragged it across the
spit
The last time that had my hand IN
q mugger's mouth" said one Of the
Englishmen. stopping down the was the
man who had built the bridget, it was
when was about Eve years old-com-
ing down the river by boat to Monghyr.
was mutiny baby, y know. Poor
mother was in the boat, too, and she
often told me how she fred dads old
pistol at the beasts head.
well, you've certainly had your re
yenge on the chief OF the clan-eVen il
nay gun has made your nose bleed. Hi,
you boatmenl Haul that head up the
bank and well boil it for the skull. The
skins too knocked about to keep. Come
along to bed now. This was worth sit
ting up all night for, wasn'tit97
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Summons by Publication.


CTATE Of Kansas, Sherman county, S.: II
= Justice court before P. S. Darling a Justice
Of the peace Of GOodlsnd city IN said county
ana state. George Hess, plaintiff. vs.. Herman
Dresser. defendant Said defendant, Herman
Dresser, viii take notice tiat he has been sued
in tie above named court for upon balance Of
an account due and IL favCT Of plaintiff, and
must answer the bill OF particulars fled therein
by said plaintIh On OF before the 9TH day Of
June 1885 OF said bill Of particulars VIII BE- tex
en- as true and q Judgment for plaintiff In said
action s0r twelve and ninety enc hundTedths
sSi2 9o-f19j dollars and costs q Ehis SUIT and
that the gtssrhne1t issJed In sad cause viii
be f0reclosed and the property attached keseln
to wits one Mccormick binder aHEl one Tiger
Disk wiz he ordered sold II satisfy sand iHdg-
nenf. Dated tilis 27ta day Of A@Til, 1885
HCfT AEDEENs, 4. :. DARlIA6f
Attorney iof Plaintiff. Justice d tas Peace.
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Notice To- PubIication. 80
First published IN l9.

7 AND Office at WaKeeney, Kansas, April l5
~ 1885, Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has fled notice OF his IN
tentiOn 10 make final proof in support Of his
claim, and that said proof VIII be made before
the probate judge of Sherman county, Kansas
at GOOdland Kansas. on Nay 81, 1873, viz
John ". Watts homestead entry No. HlIl for
the northwest quarter of section 81, township 10
south, range Il west. He names the following
witnesses to prove his continuous residence
upon and cultivation of said land, viz: John
DOerfer, Fernando D. Dewitt, George Hamlin
John T. Bretz all OF LaBlanch, Kansas.
ABRAM FRAEEs, Register.
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Alias Notice
First published April 5.

TINTED States Land Office, WaKeeney, Kan
- sas, March I 1885. Complaint having been
entered at this Office by John N. Jordan against
Edward Dawson, deceased, his heirs and legal
representatives, for abandoning his homestead
entry No 2JI56, dated Sept. IS, 1889, upon the
north half, southeast quarter, section is, town
ship 10 south, range 40 west, in Sherman county,
Kansas. With a view to The cancellation Of said
entry, the said parties are hereby summoned to
appear az the Office Of E. S. knight, notary pub
lie GOOdlaRd, Kansas, on the 4th day of May.
1898, at 10 o'clock a. M, 10 respond and furnish
testimony concerning said alleged abandonment
and before this office on the 9Th day of May,
1895 at 9 a. m. for final hearing of said contest.
q. L. CALVERT, w. /. SAUM, Receiver,
Attorney for Plaintiff
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Curiously enough, the jaelzal and the
adjutant made the very same remark
not three minutes after the men had
left.
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THE END

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