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south ranch last week.
Richard CIotfelter has become a
resident of Trego county.
G.. w. Cross and son Matthew visit
ed in Glencoe Saturday night.
The school in district 13 closed on
good Friday with picnic.
w. F. Smith and family attended
the picnic last Friday week.
III. b. t'idler is the champion horse
jockey in the east end just now.
John McNaughton has filed a con-
test on Fred Egger's homestead.
There is considerable sod being
turned over in Glencoe this spring.
Mrs. Herbert's horse ran off with a
cart from Ellis one day last week and
went home. No damage done.
School in the south end Of district
IL closed March 3Ist with a picnic.
George Brooks was voted the cham
piOn bachelor cake baker.
RESIDENT.
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CLYDESDALE STALLION

viii make the season of 1896 as follows:
Monday. Tuesday Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday at my ranch miles south OF VII
Keeney. Saturday ut Mead's livery stable
in Wa-Keeney.
DISQUALIFICATION IS handsome bay horst
1900 pounds He is "A remarkably sure foaI
getter.
PEDIGREE-Bob was sired by l.. = D.: h,
was out of Beatrice by the famous hferbrs,si
horse. General. Bob's dam was Lady Bry-
ant "a; b. Am Clyde Book. by CIailsman:
second dam Julia. by Netherby.
TERMS > to insure living colt or nothing.
E. B. WEBB. Owner.
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SIIERIFFS SALE.

m the district court of the 23rd Judicial dis
trict. sitting in and for the county of Ire
go, in the State of Kansas.
A. G.. Wilson, Plaintiff.
John /. Robinson, Rosa ID. Robinson his wife,
Charles z. Robinson Sadie 3. Robinson his
wife. LueIla A. LOudon. Viola f. Flukey
and Layaffett A. Flukey her husband,
Udora A TwiseltOn and Samuel TwiSelton
her husband. William E. Robinson and
Henrietta G. Robinson his wife, heirs and
only legal representatives OF FOiney Rob
insOn, deceased William A. Scott and
Phebe NJ. Scott his wife. defendants.
By virtue of an order of sale issued to me.
out of said district court, in the above enti-
tied action. [ will. on
Wednesday, May 9Th. 1896,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. m. and 2
O'Clock d. m. Of said day. at the front door of
the court house, in the city of Wa-keeney
in the county of TregO. in the State Of Kan
Sas. offer ut public sale, and sell to the high
est and best bidder, for cash in hand. all the
following described real estate. to-wit:
The southeast quarter OF section thirty
go. township fifteen I'D south OF range
twenty-five IN, west of the 9Th p. 81.
Lying and situate in the county OF Trego.
in the State of Kansas said property is
levied on as the property of VOiney Robin
son. deceased. and is directed 10y said order
of sale To be sold and will be sold without
ADVERTISEMENT. subject TO all rights Of re-
deInption provided by law. 10 satisfy said
order of sale.
G.. W. LYNN,
"A Sheriff of Trcgo county.
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Saline Valley Items.

The back bone of the winter is
broken.
Have you planted your garden is the
topic of the day.
Fannie McCOllum has been quite
sick but is better.
J. w. Smith lost valuable heifer
with black leg last week.
w. E. Tilton is going to do his
own farming this summer.
j. w. Smith put up his wind mill
last week preparatory to irrigating
his garden.
Mesdames Aylworth, Moe and
Smith cleaned the First Baptist
church at Wa-Keeney last Saturday
week.
Price Sturgeon has leased the W.
NJ. Milligan farm and moved on to it
last week. w. H. will move to Ore
gon the first of June.
Carrie Sweet closed a successful
term of school Friday. The children
all wished she would come and teach
the next winter term.
G. T. Galloway, G. I'll. Aylworth, w.
NJ. Lemke and A. j. McCOllOm helped
J. W. Smith raise his wind mill Mon
day OCCASIONALLY.
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Midway Scrans.

A little damp Wednesday morning.
j. Harvey lost valuable mule last
week.
j. H. Brown is still laid up with
rheumatism.
Fall grain is looking we'll and with
a fair season will be good crop.
Miss Marion Hunt closed a very sue
cessful term of six months school at
Banner last week
Mr.. Wright, of Anderson county,
came last week to put in crop on his
land near Castle Rock.
A. b. Redmond came home last
week and brought with him wind
mill which he will erect in the near
future.
Blanche Mcknight, who is now
teaching at Buffalo Park, came home
last Friday night for short visit, re-
turning Sunday.
L. S. Myerly is now postmaster at
Collyer. t. L. Fike resigned and will
soon leave here for Grainfield where
he will engage in the drug business.
JACK.
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TO the gold Fields Of me West /!
Via the Burlington Route.
G. ". IL Nm,
Sheriff Of Trcgo county.

4 fast through vestibuled train
To Denver making direct connections
for Cripple Creek, Col: also fast daily
trains to the gold fields OF MOatana
and Black Hills 200 miles shortest
line from Missouri river: ask your
agent for information about the Bur
lington Route.
l.. w. WAKELEY. G. p. A.,
81. Louis, No.
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County Line Notes.

Samuel Glass winged wild goose
last week.
Pearl Smith is staying with Mrs.
Sam Anderson.
Charles Lofiin is talking of going to
Missouri this fall
Wheat and grass are growing but a
good rain would help.
ID. j. Wilson hauled hay from his
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First published April 4. 1886.
GHERIFF'S SALE.

In the district court of the Ord Judicial dis
trict, sitting in and for the county of IRE
go. in the State of Kansas.
Henry Gay. plaintiff.
G. w. Tunnel and Mary Tunrel. defend
ants.
By virtue of an order of sale issued to me
out of said district court. in the ABOVE enIi-
tied action. will on
Wednesday. May 9Th, 1896.
between the hours of 10 O'Clock "a. m. and 2
O'Clock p m. of said day. at the front door of
the court house in the city of Ha-Keeney- in
the county of TregO. in the state of Kansas.
offer at public sale and sell to the highest
bidder for cash in hand. all the following de-
Scribed real estate tO-wit:
All of section seven ca. township fifteen 30
south. range twenty-one (s1. west Of the 9TH
P NJ: and the west half of fhe northwest
quarter and the west half of the southwest
quarter of section six o., township fifteen 10
south, range twenty-One CID west of the 9th
p. NJ.
Lying and situated in the county OF Trego.
i'm the state of Kansas: said property is
levied on as the property of said defendants
and is directed by said order to be sold. with
out appraisement. and will be sold according
to law to satisfy said order of sale.
G. W. LYNN.
Sheriff. Trego county. Kansas
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MO. Pacific Time Table.
TreaSurer'S Final Notice.
COUNTY TREASURER OFFICE.
Wa-keeney. KaS.. April 4, 1886.

Notice is hereby given that the lands and
lots described in the following list were sold
on the 5th day of September 1898. for unpaid
taxes of 1892 The period of redemption will
expire September s. 1896. The amount set OPP
posite each tract of land and each town lot
includes the tax charges together with inter
est computed to last day of redemption and
fees for publication but does not include tax
of 1895. unless the amount is endorsed on the
tax sale certificate at this date.
The names set opposite each tract of land
or town lot, to whom it was assessed. are
correct according to the tax roll of 1892.
Now, therefore, unless the lands and town
lots are redeemed on or before September ).
1885, the same shall be conveyed to the pur-
chaSers their heirs or assigns, as prescribed
by law. TR MOORE,
Comfy Treasurer
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In the district court of the 23rd Judicial dis
trict. sitting in and for the county of Ire
go, in the State of Kansas.
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An Affidavit.

This is to certify that on May 18th,
l walked to Melick's drug store on a
pair of crutches and bought a bottle
of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for in
fiammatOry rheumatism which had
crippled me up. After using three
bottles | am completely cured l
can cheerfully recommend it, =
Charles III. Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
on August 10, 1894 Walter Shipman.
j. p For sale at so cents per bottle
by Jones & Gibson.
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Republican Convention.

A delegate convention Of the Re
publicans of Trego county is hereby
called to meet at the court room in
Wa-Keeney at o'clock p. M, Satur-
day. April IL. 1896, for the purpose
electing two delegates to the Appel
late Judicial convention at Oakley,
April %, 1896; two delegates to the
Congressional convention at Hill City,
May u, 1896. and two delegates to the
Senatorial convention at Stockton.
May 20, 1896.
1t is recommended that the town
ship caucuses be held on Saturday,
April 4, 1896 The representation of
the different townships is as follows:
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
a. 8. JONES.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
KANSAS
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HOMEsEEKERs'S EXCURSION.

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On April eth, and 21st, and May
9TH, the Burlington Route will sell
tickets at very low rates to points in
Kansas, Nebraska. South Dakota,
Minnesota and other territory. Ask
your ticket agent.
L. w. WAKELEY, G.. P. A..
ST. Louis, Mo.
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CaStoria.

"Castor1a is an excellent medicine for
&ildren. Mothers have repeatedly told me
o its good effect upon their children"
Dr. c.. c. OsGooD,
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City.
SOCIETIES..

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evening OF each month
T. K. MOORE, Sec'y. W. f. SAUM. W. NJ.
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a. meets the first and third Tuesday eye
nlngs of each month.
T o. o. F-Wa-Keeney Lodge No 3O4 meets
l. every Wednesday. evening. Transient
G. w. Cross. Sec'y. E. A. LEWIS \. G.
w meets last Thursday in each month.
EDWARD CHALK, V. G. @. W. CROSS. Clerk
r. A. R-Captain Trego Post. No 197 meets
" in the evening of the second Saturday
of each month.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
The CocoanuC Crab.

The cocoanut crab is, one of the odd
est specimens of the whole crab family.
lie lives in the South islands, and makes
q diet of cocoanuts. This species has
a pair of front legs terminated with a
strong pair of pinchers, and it is with
these that he husks the nuts and breaks
through the weakest portion of the
shell. The crab begins by tearing the
husk, fiber by fiber, and always at the
end where the eyeholes of the nut are
situated, that being the weakest place
in the shell. When the husk has been
removed the crab commences hammer.
ing the shell with his heavy claw, and
soon makes an opening, through which
he extracts the meat of the nut. Mr.
Darwin, writing of this crab, says: 81
think this is as curious a case of in,
stinct as ever heard of, especially in
structures so remote from each other in
the scheme of nature as a cocoanut and
crab."-Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
Ready to Compromise.

An Englishman at dinner once told a
tale of tiger he had shot which meas
ured pa feet from snout to tail-tip.
Everyone was astonished, but no one
Ventured to insinuate a doubt of the
truth of the story. Presently Scotch
man told his tale. lie had once caught
fl fish which he said he was unable to
pull in alone, managing only to land it
at last with the aid of six friends. 1T
was skate, and it covered two acres -
Silence followed this recital, during
which the offended Englishnan left the
table. The host followed. After return
ing, he said to the Scotchman: You
have insulted my friend. You must
apologize" II dinna insoolt him." said
the Scot. Eyes, you did, with your two
acre fish story. You must apologize"
WELL" said the offender, slowly, with
the air of one making a great conces-
sion, tell him if he will take ten feet off
his tiger 1 will see what can do with
the fish. London Figaro.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
WE'RE ROBBED" SHE MoANED.

and gave it as his opinion that the lock
had been tempered with. He worked at
it for a couple of hours and then got
it open. AS the wife had expected, the
safe was practically empty.
Il told you how it would be when
you got it," she sobbed. 1--WE never
were robbed until you got that safe"
The husband said nothing, but rushed
out for the police. Policemen in uni
form and detectives in plain clothes
hurried to the house and began to stare
with wrinkled brows at the safe. While
they were so engaged the maid servant
came in from her night out. She looked
upon the scene with amazement. Then
the light dawned on her.
'Have they robbed the safe?" she ex-
claimed, gleefully. Really and truly?"
"Oh, Mary" sobbed the mistress,
''they've stolen all my silver!"
What" shouted Mary, in sudden
alarm, and she rushed for the closet.
"What is it?" demanded her mistress,
Selling her in sudden hope.
1.-THE silver!" exclaimed Mary.
"Where did you put it?"
"Where but on the back shelf of the
closet?" and Mary broke away to search
her hiding place. There the silver re-
posed in safety.
Mary carried it out carefully and
looked over each piece affectionately.
Then she glanced in scorn at the safe.
You don't think I'd trust it in any
thing like that, do your" she asked, in
her most contemptuous tone.
The policemen and the detectives
went away. The safe man fingered.
He looked doubtfully at the silver and
then at the safe.
ITS funny" he said, shaking his
| head. eff that safe wasn't robbed, how
did the lock get out of order? 1t
couldn't have got out of order itsslf,
could it?"
The owner of the safe has two de-
sires now. One is to meet the man who
sold him the safe. The other is to sell
the safe for about sf5.-N. Y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

--Mulhall, the noted statistician, spent
over 40 years in accommodating the ma
terial for his one volume of statistics.
Prof. Drummer, rector of the Uni
vorsity of Berlin, has refused the use
of the university aula for lecture by
a woman. Fraulein Helene LANCE had
been invited by a students society to
speak on "Man and Woman" there.
Prof. B. Woulvin, of Brussels, Bel
GUM, now visiting Washington, holds
the chair of applied electricity in the
University of Client. He says that
while Europe is much further advanced
in the knowledge of the theory of cleo
tricity, in all applications of that won
derful power to commercial uses the
United States is far in the lead.
Mortality Among College Gradu-
ates.-It is marked feature of the
mortality statistics of American col
lcge graduates that there is excessive
mortality in the years Immediately fol-
lowing graduation. This, Prof. New
ton thinks, is no doubt due to the siren
uous efforts of young graduates to attain
good position in their profession.
DIR. Temple, the new archbishop Of
Canterbury; is very old man, and,
though his eyesight is described as
quite good enough for ordinary pur-
poses" it seems that one of the extraor-
binary uses for which it does not suffice
is the guidance of his own steps. He
can still read and write, but cannot see
clearly enough at a little distance to
dispense with the aid of friend or
servant when he moves about.
of all the religious enthusiasts the
Aubins, of Montreal, are perhaps the
most ascetic. They sleep at night in
collins, narrow and grim and black.
These grewsome resting places are not
cushioned or even lined, and year in and
year out the devotees occupy them for
the betterment of their souls and more
thorough forgetting of the vanities of
the world. They subsist upon bread
and water, and to vary the weird monot-
ony of such living they spend hours of
each day bent in prayer about an altar
In a darkened chapel, their necks laden
with chains of great weight.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
SAND SERPENTS.
The Terrible WhIrling Sand Storms o.
Central Asia.

Sehtrdi asla.
This name was given by an imagin-
alive traveller to the wonderful col
umrs of whirling sand that are so fire.
quently seen on the great plains of cen
trail Asia
Fancy what a terrible country to jour
pey through! For miles and miles one
unbroken stretch of dreary sand,
nothing to break the monotony, moth
ing to rest the eyes, unless one of these
fantastic exhibitions, which, knowing
the discomfort and the danger, 4 trav-
eler would rather not see, takes place.
The first signal is puff of wind, fol-
lowed by various slight disturbances in
the Loose soil roundabout; then it blows
| harder, and, as if legion of evil things
| had been called from the center of the
earth, tiny columns of sand lift them
selves and grow larger and rise higher
and higher, like the misty giant SIN
! bad the Sailor loosed from the great
| Caldron he found in the sea.
These columns have the form of SER
| pents, and all the waving sinuous mo-
| tion&, of those terrible creatures. Some
| times they will rise to a height of so,
| 60, and, if we may believe the testi-
lnony of some writer's, over 200 feet.
They sweep over immense stretches,
sometimes singly, sometimes in groups,
gathering size and force as they go, and
| then, as the wind lowers, diminish, and
| dwindle into nothingness.
But for the terror of being caught
in one of these sandstorms, and being
blown and beaten about, and having
one's sight and hearing almost de-
stroyed, the phenomenon would be al
most as grand as any in nature. One
could fancy the evil spirits of the world
at play, writhing, twisting, wrestling,
and exercising their mighty strength
on the playground of the desert.-De-
| troit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
A STATE OF AMERICANS.
forth Caroiina's Population Almost Err
clusively Born In the State.

| torth Caroiinas population Almost Err
| clusively Born In the State.
/ North Carolina is one of the oldest
| states in respect to settlement, having
been first colonized in 1887. 1t is one Of
the 10 original states, and by reason
of it's extensive sea coast and good ports
has always been easily accessible to i'm
migrants. Yet in the whole United
States there is not one of the AZ which
has smaller foreign-born population
than North Carolina, and this peculiar
| distinction it has retained for good
deal more than century. By the fed
| eral census of 1890 there were 1,600,00
| natiye-born inhabitants of North Caro-
| lima and only 3, ZOO born out of the state.
North Cardinals percentage, In fact, Is
SO much lower than that of all the other
states that it appears almost insignifi-
cant. North Dakota, at the top of the
list, has so per cent foreign-born popu-
lation; Minnesota, Sc; Wisconsin, "A;
Rhode Island, Al; New York, 35; Con-
necticut, 80; New Jersey, 20; Illinois,
IS; New Hampshire, %; Ohio, IA; Mary
land, 10; Indiana, Z, and Louisiana, A..
North Cardinals percentage is one
fifth of one per cent, and it has at no
| time been much higher.
This fact being undisputed, the ques-
ton naturally arises, what is the cause?
Some say that it is due to the fact that
without cities, and that as the foreign
born population of every state is to he
found chiefly in the large cities the case
is easily explained; but such an eXplana-
ton, unfortunately, does not cover the
case. North Carolina has one city, Will
mington, with a population in excess of
| 10000, and Raleigh, Charlotte and Ashe-
vile have more than 10000 population
each. Moreover, it is not always large
cities that count in the United States for
foreign-born population The state of
Iowa, for instance, with only one city
in excess of sc, 900 inhabitants, contains
60 per cent. of foreign-born population.
North Dakota, too, which was at the
head of the list of states in respect to
toreign-born population by the last CEN
aus, did not at that time have city with
population as large as Asheville, n. C.
Some other explanation must there
fore be found, and perhaps the most
plausible is the fact that Virginia being
the arena of the hardest fighting be-
tween the hostile armies during the
civil war, the tide Of immigration which
followed strongly while it lasted was
diverted from North Carolina, which
lies Immediately south of Virginia, and
thus practically the state was cut off
from this supply. Before the war, of
course, when slave labor ruled the in
dustrial market, there was no large for
eign immigration into any of the south
ern states, with the exception of Louis
lana and Texas. Oddly enough, while
there are only 3,700 foreign-born inhab-
itants returned by the last federal GEN.
sus, there were 1914 Indians, and it
seems a strange state of affairs that in
any American commonwealth on the
Atlantic border the proportion of In
dams to foreign-born citizens should be
80 high.-N. Y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
Texas.

In the Agricultural line, Texas leads all
other states in the variety of its products.
Cotton, corn and the cereals grow and are
raised in every section of the state and In
the central and southern portions sugar
cane and sorghum are profitably cultivated.
On the Gulf Coast two and three crops OF
vegetables are raised each year. Berries are
shipped six weeks in advance of the homo
crop in the north. Pears, peaches, plums,
oranges, figs, olives and nuts all grow abun-
dainty and can be marketed from two to
three weeks In advance of the California
crops. Large quantities of rice are now
grown.
If the land seeker, the home seeker and
the settler desires to secure farm larger
than the one he occupies, on vastly moro
reasonable terms; If he wants more land to
cultivate, q greater variety of crops to
harvest, with proportionately increased re-
Enumeration, at less outlay for cost of pro-
duction; If he wants an earlier season with
correspondingly higher prices; if he wants
milder winters, all the year pasturage for
his stock, improved health, increased bodily
comforts and wealth and prosperity, he
should go to Texas.
Send for pamphlet descriptive Of the re-
sources of this great state (mailed tree).
Low rate Homeseekers excursions via tho
Missouri, Kansas q Texas Railway on Nov.
8rd and 18th, Dec. 1st and 18th, 1896. II. A.
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