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The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
REACH.

Grandpa Payne is reported to be very
sick again.
Grandma Frazier 10 again reported
on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nyberg went to Red
Cloud Tuesday.
Jack Haresuapc made a business trip
to Lebanon Tuesday.
Mr. Smith gave another order to the
travelling man the other day.
Chas. Beardslee passed through here
Wednesday on his way to Lebanon.
Elmer Besrdslee and Ote Frazier
spent Monday with VIM. Forgey.
John George and family were visit.
ing with John Frazier and family last
Wednesday.
Grant Christy Is quite a twirler now.
He threw some Saturday that were too
dark for the boys.
VIM. Barrett and his brother.in. law
took hogs through here Wednesday on
their way to Red Cloud.
We are to have a new organ in the
church as our other one was taken
away one day last week.
Our blacksmith is doing a rushing
business these days. He says he hardly
has time to wash his face,
Joan Doyle reports his wheat looking
as fine as il did last year at this time,
and his wheat made about 25 bushels
last year.
U. s. Deputy McGarth was here last
Tuesday looking after that affair in ref.
erence to the misusiug Of the mails at
this place.
WA, Myers formerly OF our locality
who has been in Norton Center dsctsr.
ing is reported better and is comma
back Saturday.
The first quarterly meeting of the
United Brethren church will be held 4,
the Pleasant Grove school house mex,
Saturday and Sunday. Everybody /.
invited.
Some OF the farmers are listing ur
their cats and some Of their wheat. Ii
seems that the high winds and dusI
have played havoc with the SINAI.
grain crop.
As corn planting is over the ball boy.
lay they are ready to match a gam.
With any OF the local teams arounc
mere. Correspondence will reach then
W addressing D b, Frazier at TIL.
,lace.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
NAVALE.

Mrs. Chas. Hunter has been on the
sick list.
Herb Luce's little girl is quite sick
with pneumonia.
Sheriff Macarthur was IN this com.
munity Saturday last.
A. X. Davis is confined to his home
this week on account of sickness.
Mrs. Stevens, mother OF Agent
Stevens, is expected on a visit this
week,
j ID. Hartman and wife of Lebanon,
Kansas, were the guests of Elmer
Simons Saturday and Sunday.
Wasn't that a fine rain that fell on
Sunday? A fall Of half an inch is
reported.
Have you noticed Hunter swell up
since he won his money and new hat
on the rain; but the hat is too small.
Remember tho basket dinner at the
Christian church. Bring baskets aud
have a good timo. All are welcome.
Inavale has made quite a little chang
IN q business way the last week. G.
Hunter has bought the Wesley Wilson
building, formerly the drug store, and
will remodel it for his grocery and
hardware. He will also put in a stock
of dry goods about June lst. VIM.
Irons has bought the store room and
lots now occupied by tho hardwar,
store and will mcve the building ava,
to make more Oom tor lumber. Ina.
vale IS on the boom.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
GARFIELD.

We had q fine rain last Sunday.
Wheat looks fifty per cent better
since the rain.
Frank Dougherty was staying in
town the first Of the week.
Frank Abbey and family were out iu
Garfield the first Of the week.
The rain last Sunday caused some oil
the worshipers to remain at homo.
Ira Wagner is home from McPher,
son college, having finished the course
Myrtle Smith WAS visiting With he,
sister, Mrs. Reed, the fore port Of tn,
week.
A. b. Wiggins left last week for Ore,
gon, where he has gone 10 search OF 9
new home.
A. Harris and family started over
land on q summer tour 10 Wisconsin
the fore part OF the week.
Mr.. Murphy, the father of Mrs. A. b
Virgins, arrived here Tuesday for 9
short visit with his daughter.
the farmers are smiling all ovel
since the rain and they are now i'm
proving every minute getting their corr
planted.
Jesse Allies closed his school ia Dist
~ last Friday, and Sunday morning
started for Omaha to seek a more At
tractive field OF labor.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
STATE CREEK.

Planting corn Is the order OF the day
in our part.
While we are a little dry our small
grain looks tine.
Vim. Scrivsner bought 2 nice mich
cows Of ID. Mccartney.
Some Of the alfalfa in the bottoms
will soon be ready to cut.
Riley Lewis and family started fol
Colorado last Tuesday.
A.. I. Walker of Red Cloud vas doing
business in our part last week.
W. II. R~osencrans is treating his new
barn to another Goa of paint.
Mrs. j. +. Fruit visited on our creek
last triiay with Mrs. Scrivnsr.
The grass is starting, though con,
siderably later than n year ago.
MIR. Perry Beardslee has gone to Ok,
lahoma on u prospecting tour and will
be gone all summer.
Allen Carpenter and V. II. Scrivner
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
FROM OKLA.


EDITOR CHIEF-I will try to write n
few lines to the old warrior. Every.
thing is on the boom In Dewey county
Grass is splendid and the farmers are
about done plating corn, and some OF
the corn is up. We have had plenty OF
rain and gardens and fruit look we'll
There never was q better prospect for
plenty Of fruit. The peaches are az
large as hazelnuts, and the blackber'
ries are in bloom. Stock is looking
better and have some Of the old vim in
the n. A good many lost horses and
cattle last winter. Everything brings
a good price; butter is worth l5c, eggs
lOc, potatoes 81. so, corn 75c, oats SOC,
meat, dry salt, 15c. cows from s25 In
e35 per head, and a good horse will
bring from go to 600. Mr.. Benjamin
vanDyke has taken possession Of the
Fountain postofice and is now at work
for Uncle Sam with Frank Reese as
assistant. Our merchants report bust.
ness very good. There is as present
three dry goods and grocery stores,
a blacksmith shop. postofice and mil
linery store. We also have a store and
a blacksmith show and p~ostofice at a
place called Munich. II is only two
miles from where We live.
Although 1t is hard times q grea,
many are building and a log house will
soon be a thing OF the past. Land ID
changing hands and farms are selling
for from $1,000 to $500.
We will soon have . railroad within
half q days drive and some think with
10 six miles, but that Is uncertain
They are working on the Orion,
only half . days days drive from as
We have our new school house done
and it is . good one. The superintend
ent says the best one ia the county
out Of Taloga. Merit Fearn Is doing
splendid. He 10 busy clearing his claim
he has also bought eighty acres FOL
which he paid $500, which is very vel
improved. All who ceme down from
up there are doing we'll and seem to b.
contented. Our family is we'll excep,
Mr.. Guthrie. He was taken sick il
February and has not been able to dc
anything since. The doctor says h,
will not be able to do anything for ,
year and maybe never. Roy Boyc,
listed our corn for ms. Roy has a very
nice claim, and we expect some girl il
Nebraska will make a trip to Oklahom,
In the future. Now, Mr.. Editor. II thi
don't 60 to the waste basket. l will tr.
and write once q month. I hope Neb
raska will have a good crop and tina
we may never have another drouth.
Yours Respectfully,
MRS. j. n. GUTHRIE.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
WOMER, KANSAS.
Fine rain Sunday and Monday.

Fine rain Sunday and Monday.
Wonder what makes Gordie North.
rop 60 BY the livery stable so much!
Our town is very quiet since the rain
As everybody is too busy to even talk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mathes we're the guests
OF Mr.. Will Aliens folks over the line
Sunday.
Ans. Pounds has . brand new buggy
and harness and the gayest little driv.
ing pony in town.
Wheat and pastures r looking fine,
corn is coming up, early planted pota.
toes are up enough TO cultivate.
Mr.. Holdredge Of Riverton has be,
come = fixture of Womer three days
each week. Al Is a jolly good fellow.
Archie PAyne's little five.year. old
girl who has been having . tussle with
typhoid fever has been quite serious,
but 10 better.
Byron Gregg will start for the new
gold fields In idaho some time in June,
Byron is a hustler aud We wish him all
kinds Of luck.
Three new clerks ia Mathes Bros.
store. Mrs. Ben Bergard, Miss Sadie
Armitstead and Geo. Lehr make a good
looking trio behind the counters.
s. Womer has just purchased twenty
four ~two.year.old mules. He has been
handling mulss for some time having
just disposed of a bunch of twenty. six
as tine mules as are found anywhere.
There will be no more want ads pu,
in these items unless a guarantee
OF three cents or its e~quivalen,
is put up, as the last insertion has
caused some trouble and the writer ha,
had to answer 1903 disappointed oLe.
making inquiries about the last adver
tisers.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
DRY CREEK.

MIR. Schlosssr's sick child is better.
The wheat is looking better already
in these parts.
We had a good rain in this part OF
the woods Monday.
The farmers have begun listing their
corn in this week.
Miss Bertha Emick spent Tuesday
night with Dora Decker.
Mrs. Oscar Emick who has been very
sick is much better at this writing.
The pastures are getting good now
and lots OF folks have taken cattle
west to put in pasture.
Mrs. Charley Reigls spent Wednes.
day with her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
8. b. Robertson.
Mr.. Cunningham had . horse badly
cut on the wire last week and had to
get another team to do his listing.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
Items OF Interest as
Reported by Chief
Reporters at Several
Nearby Localities.
correspondence
Tuesday from Iowa.

Tuesday from Iowa.
j ID. Story made a business trip to
Red Cloud last Tuesday.
Ed. Sherer Of Red Cloud was in
Cowles n day this week.
Chas. Sine sold out and is going west.
Warren Edison IL the buyer.
Warren Harrington and family re.
turned Tuesday from a trip to Kansas.
Miss Georgia Adsmson is home from
Lincoln where she has been attending
school.
Ed. Benton, OF the Greenhalgh &
Benton firm, Sundayed ia Red Cloud
last Sunday.
Ernest Jones, one OF Red Clouds
young attorneys, vas in Cowles on
business Thursday.
Will Bennett lost one Of his work
horses one night last week; he had
served his time though.
G. M. Smith, former proprietor OF
the City Livery barn at Red Cloud was
Ia Cowles collecting last week.
Rev. Pierson, the presiding elder at
Hastings, called o. our M. +. pastor,
Rev. Ripyetoe, here last Sunday.
About az inch and a half Of rain tell
Sunday and Monday in Cowles. No
place on earth needed rain any more
than We did.
DIR. E. A. Thomas, the dentist, went
to Nelson to spend Sunday, but got
rained 10 and returned Tuesday. But
still he 10 glad 1t rainsd.
c. +. Mckeighan and Al. Reynolds
passed through Cowles Wednesday
morning On route for the northeas,
part Of the county after . Mr.. Moody
who 10 reported 70 b insane.
Dr. d. Griffith, the young doctor tha,
came here to locate, changed his mind,
and left for Steiuh,uer Nebraska,
which is only thirty miles from his
home, where he will be better satisfied.
F.. A. Thomas, son OF l.. ID. Thomas,
has decided to locate Ia Cowles a par,
Of each week to do dentistry work
Elmer comes among his many friends
very highly recommended and We wish
him unlimited success
G. f. Conrad came down from Blue
Hill Tuesday evening to give an enter
tainment at the Congregational church
with a moving picture machine and q
large concert monograph. His phono
graph was tirst.class, but his gas lamI
blew up and the pictures could not b,
shown.
A funny incident occurred on on,
streets last Thursday. John Burr wa
breaking q colt by the side OF q rec
bull hitched to q wagon. Chas. Ben
nett got q picture OF the team with hi
camera and Prof. Thomson got a pic
ture Of the team with Bennett, an,
Geo Hagar got n Of the team Will
Bennett aud Thomson both in.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

1t is the intention Of a certain rail.
road to put = train on its lacks be.
tween New York City aud Chicago
which will run tho distance 9l2 miles
between those two cities in III or pos.
sibly II hours. In order to do this II
will be necessary to run at q speed OF
about one mile per minute. The short,
est time in which this run Is mad a,
present is "a hours. II this train is pu,
0n il will be the fastest train in the
world.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
TO DELINOUENTS.

We would be much pleased il sub.
aoribers who are 10 arrears would call
at the office, or write, and settle their
ssopuns. We would like to get our
books in frst.clsss order, and your
avors will 10 highly appreciated.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

it u recommended that no proxies
bs allowed ia said convention, but that
tho delegates present cast the full vote
ofthe county represented by them.
J. W. JONES, Chairman.
ADAM BREEDE, Secretary.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09
COWLES.

Claude Rippetoe spent Sunday with
friends in the country.
Billie MOtter returned home las,
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

l.. T. Albright OF Red Cloud has some
friends behind him who think he has
the qualifications to make him a good
state treasurer. While not assuming
an aggressive attitude in state politics
Mr.. Albright mas been closely asso.
ciated with the party leaders OF the
state. Two years ago he was the
choice OF his home people for this
same office. He is we'll known in the
south Platte country as a substantial
business man Of irreproachable char.
acrer.-Stste Journal. May 4th.
The person who wrote the above is
evidently acquainted with MIR. Albright
and his qualifications for the Office.
Wa will say that Mr.. Albright will I'm.
doubtedly have the hearty support OF
Webster county's delegation, and in
fact the whole fifth district. His lsrRe
acquaintance in the north and cas-,
part OF the state is also . large item iu
his favor. He is eminsntly fitted fol
the position aud IL nominated would
certainly be elected.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

A dispatch to the st, Joe News, from
Kiverton says: There is considerable
excitement in this neighborhood over
recent oil discoveries that promise to
pan out we'll. A Denver syndicate has
representatives here now trying to SO.
cure . lease on 10000 acres Of land TO-
the purpose of prospecting for oil
They have already secured options on
"A portion OF the tract and the chances
are that they will secure all that is de.
sired. Other deals Of large proportion
are ia prospect"
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

The many old time friends OF Noble
Sanford will be pleased to learn OF his
appointment as postmaster ct Axtell,
Nebraska. Mr.. Sanford wa one OF the
pioasers. Of this county and resided
here . pumber OF years. We clip the
foi!9wing in regard to his sppoistmsnt
from The Minden Gazette: From
some OF the comments made in conuec
too with the appointment OF Noble
Sanford As postmaster at Axtell, the
conclusion is reached that there must
have been a failure to use It for the
purposes OF a political pull. The ap.
pointment is a good one and nearly
every patron Of the Office is satisfied
with it,"
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-05-09

We are pleased to know that Prof. q.
/, Kelley has been appointed by the
government as b~ook.keeper in the
Philippines, and he will go there in the
near future to assume his duties in that
far away land. He writes us that he
will 60 within ten days. Whether he
viii! be accompanied by his wife he
does not say, but we presume she will
go too We wish them a pleasant voy.
age aud a long life Of Happiness under
the tropical sun.-Ord Quiz.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-14
THE DEATH VALLEY BORAX.
Lucky Discovery Changed Lives OF q
SntfInr and IIis MlfR.

Lucky Discovery Changed Lives OF q
Settler and His wife.
In 1880 Aaron Winters lived with
his wife, Rosie, in a gulch known as
Ash Meadows, not far from the mouth
Of Death Valley. He was so fond Of
his wife that he would not allow her
to be long absent from him, although
their little hut on the side of the
mountain was 100 miles from the near
est neighbor, in a wild, rugged, for
saken country.
One day desert tramp came along
and spent the night at the Winters
home. He told the hunter about the
borax deposits of Nevada. When he
went away Winters thought that he
had seen deposits of the same kind on
his explorations into Death Valley.
Accordingly he and his wife went
together to make the search, having
previously provided themselves with
certain test chemicals, which, when
combined with borax and ignited,
would produce green flame.
Having procured piece of the sub
stance which he believed to be borax,
Winters and his wife waited for night
fall to make the test How would it
burn?
For years they had lived like Piutes
on the desert, entirely without luvn-
ries and often wanting for the very
necessaries of life. Would the match
change all that?
Winters held the blaze to the sub
stance with a trembling hand, then
shouted at the top of his voice: "She
burns green, Rosie! We're rich!
We're richl"
They had found borax. The mine
was sold for $4,000, and Winters took
his Rosie to a ranch in Nevada.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-14

On a recent occasion King Christian
of Denmark, while out for walk, met
one of his courtiers who was renowned
for his stinginess. AS it happened, on
a previous occasion the King had
treated him, but his majesty, finding
that he had no money, the courtier
had to pay for the treat" and it had
come to the royal ears that the court
ier had not yet finished grumbling at
having been "bilked" Full of desire
to repair the past, the King rushed
up to his subject: Now, my dear
count, l am really going to stand treat
on this occasion" Then, 10 and be-
hold, as usual on searching for money,
the King found none! Luckily, at
that moment he saw through the open
door the Crown Prince and his equer-
ry riding by. The king rushed out
and called to his son: For goodness
sake. lend me some cash. I've stood
treat to Count So-and-so again, and
if he finds himself done for the sec
ond time he will raise a rebellion"
The situation was saved, but the court
has not yet finished Its laugh.-Candid
Friend.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-14
CHAPTER XVI.

The moon was shining bright and
clear; the stars had gone to rest, leav-
ing sentinel over the sleeping constel-
lations that one diamond-shaped planet
the Kirkstall folk had looked upon as
the star OF Bethlehem, when Mary
Lockwood laid herself at the foot of
the awful tree and fell asleep.
Had her cruel destiny in its natural
sequence of events led her there? Had
the inspiration of her love brought her,
in pathetic sympathy, to the feet of
him at whose grim altar she should
complete her moral sacrifice? Was it
a pagan sacrifice? Or was it the out
come of the Divine love that was above
all love, the Divine mercy which had
received the penitent words of the sin
ner in those last moments of York Jail,
and selected this gracious time to give
them a sign of His Fatherly sympathy
and mercy? May it not be that under
this celestial inspiration His angels
seeking a supreme opportunity to sig
nalize the blessed eve-had interceded
for both the loved and the lost, and,
purifying the grim sign Of mans stern
Justice, scattering the evil birds of hell,
had brought poor Mary where they
had found her, to transform that
wretched symbol of mans unforgiving
creed into a ladder of angel gold upon
which she passed in their sublime COM
pany to the sunny land of everlasting
peace.
II was In some such strain that the
parson preached on Christmas eve,
seeking to enforce the Christian doc
trine, that even for such as he, whose
body was a black and stained thing,
there might be salvation; and perhaps
through the unconscious intercession
of their poor, distraught sister, who
had called the heavenly hosts to that
modern crueifixion of the modern thief
in a blind hope that. as Christ had
opened the gates Of heaven to the peni-
tent thief on the cross. so in His in
finite goodness might He open them to
herself and her betrayer-to him by
reason Of her love for him; to her by
sqsr1a OF her sufferings and her life.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-14
An Old Exclamation.

A man in Ness county got into print
the other day with the boast that he
possessed the most ancient almanac in
Kansas, the date of his book being
1919. And now comes man in Smith
county with a whole library of more
ancient almanacs. For example, he
has six consecutive annual issues of an
almanac bearing the title, "An Astro-
nomical Diary or Almanack," an Am
erican publication, the first of the six
having the date Of 1863. The owner Of
tnes~ ancient publications is Mr.. A. C.
Coolidge, who appears to be quite
collector. He has many old newspapers
and books, and Of one Of them, The
Smith County Pioneer" says: "Mr.
Coolidge has q book OF psalms and
hymns published in 1916 under the title
"Musica Sacra-" Did you ever wonder
why 1t is that song books have the
soprano placed above the other parts?
The reason given IN this book is: "As
female voices ara. in general, more nu-
merous,. the air in this work is uni
formly placed uppermost In the brace"
The Kansas City Journal.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-14

golden ladder for Mary up to heaven.
They had no idea who the old man
was; but they grew to love him, he
was so generous with his money, had
seen so much, could tell such wonder
full stories; and he brought to them one
morning such grand recommendation
from the bankers of Leeds, not to
mention 4 solicitor there, that when he
limited at a desire to live with the
young people at the farm, and he ac-
companied this with present OF
pair of the finest cart horses that
Wakefield market could show, and
when he said he had neither chic nor
child, and was tireu Of travelling, they
gave him the bedroom he said he liked;
and he became one Of the household,
living as such, pleasant companion
and friend to host and hostess,
grandfather in his actions towards the
children.
One calm summers morning they
thought he had slept too long, and
went to call him; he smiled at the chill
uIeH 81 peacefully CuiI IhoJ uiu iiN'
like to disturb him. And nobody could
or did disturb him again. They found
his last will and testament in a con-
spicuous place on table near the
bed. 1t was generous will for more
than the Meadows family as several
Yorkshire institutions of charity could
be cited to prove; and on slip of pa
per he had written, evidently on the
morning OF his death, THANK you for
letting me sleep in the room where
was happy, as boy. Jack Meadows"
(The End)