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The Stockton Review and Rooks County Record from Stockton, Kansas • 4

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PREHISTORIC TENNESSEEANS. BOOKS COUNTY BECORD. THE PORTFOLIOS OF THE tbs A Visit to tha llurlal Groisjitls of It has been quite a spell since Gen. Weaver has had a good Bucking hold on the public teat and he would like to get theie again if roTGic city FRIDAY APKJL 27. 1894.

Ars printed In Natural Plmtoirraplilo Coluriu Traditional L.lttla l'eowlo." "There- an old graveyard right oyer yonder, t'other side o' that ridge," ray companion said, indicating the direc mnrninar at Htnrkton tha poesible. Iowa offers no shadow Isued every Friday tin! uiarvvluiia boaiity of HimhIi nver stUluod by any uttior publication. County Seal of Rooks County, Kaunas. ol a chance lor him. In his dire THe 0d Reliable DRUG STgre.

extremity he turns a wistful ey Entered as Second-Class Matter ou Kansas, which since thecalam tute a liHrice aud Beautiful Oblong Volume, UxVSU iuclien. Illustrated with tion with a nod of his licad. "An old graveyard?" I exclaimed. "I didn't think there were enough people here to make a graveyard thrive." "We were traversing on horseback one of the sparsely-settled rough hill dis ity year of 90 has been the Mecca for political pilgrims and outcasts Mammoth Stock of Over 300 Grand Views, CpclJ.ly XSapxaaaxxtl.ja.g'. Oaa Year Four montbt Is moutbi 60 1 Two month.

of other states. Here in the sixth district he finds the opportunity All the Principal Bnlldlnua, Groat Paintings, he seeks. All the other congres tricts ot western Tennessee, and were, I thought, several miles at least from any human habitation. What purpose would a graveyard serve, especially an W. L.

Chimkki Publisher. foreiKO ana suite Huiuilnim. Celebrated Mlntuiirv. Uimorul Views. NT5.0DLSo sional districts are decidedly and Couiplrta Views of Art Uullory.

Jntnrlor Views. Character sketches on the Architectural Dotal. Curious forutKU Typos. hopelessly republican, emng in old one? last fall's elections majorities from 'Tan't twit," my companion said, And all tho Grand and Wonderful Fea Glass, Putty, Bte. one to five thousand, but the sixth compassionately; 'tan't no common human graveyard, it's the leetle peo; Republican Congressional Convention.

Tbe republican of the Sixth Congressional District of tho state of Kansas, will hold a deleft ate district convention at the olty of l'lulllps-Lmrg. Phillips county, Kaunas, ou Wednosday, Alay Zi. lHUt, beginning at 10 o'clock, a. for the nuruore of ulaolnic In nomination a candi went republican by only a paltry tures of the Great World's Fair, made at tho heipht of the of'the World's Fair, By a Special Corps of Artists, nropninTTAMn 300. "Here." said wilev Jim.

"is pie. 15een there since the Lord knows when they was all dead an' buried Carefully Compounded 3 njLObniriiuno mm wm mv only chance: here will I make long afore white folks come." my home; these people will I rep By a Registered Pharmacist, The little people! Who has not heard date for oonunuia, to be voted for at the goueral (Deluding the Official Photographer of 0, Eqv'aT. eleotlou lu 1XU4. The basts of ruprusoutatlun the Tennessee mountaineers' tradition resent in congress. Jjo, i will es In aald contention win I one aciegaie and one of the pitfmy race which once inhabited tablish my residence at Beloit be alternate at larva from each oouuty in aald din The Best is always the most Desirable.

trlct, audone delegate au I one alternate for fore May 1, that 1 may become their fields and woods? And here we were within a few steps of one of their eaoh two hundred votes an I uuo delegate and one alternate for each major fraction thereof, cast for Hon. Wm. U. Edwards for secretary of state, at tbe general election of as returned I solicit your Patronage. My Goods will please you, and my Prices will induce you to buy of me.

full-Hedged citizen by election time." There is one man, however, who objects to this ar burial grounds! It would never do to go past in this way. from each county to the state canvassing board, On receipt of a 1 lb. Cap Shean Soda wrapper anil tun cents, we will mail one number, or 18 wrappers und $1.00 will get the complete set. Address. DeLAND 6f Fairport.

N. Wait," I said, "I want to stop," which will entitle tbe several counties of tbe district to the following nu.uber of delegates In rangement He sees in the car and we turned our horses' heads away from tile rough road aud struck across said convention, to-wit: pet bagging scheme of Weaver's the ridge of low hills behind which lay the destruction of his long-cher the graves of that almost forgotten ished hopes of representing the people. WEBSTER CADD, district himself. Here are a few Two small streams, one flowing A 4 4 a 8 6 8 IS 3 8 3 Decatur 4 Ellsworth A Graham 8 Lincoln Mitchell 8 Osltorne 7 Rawlins 4 8 Sherman 4 Thomas 3 Wallace 3 Cheyenne Ellis Gove 9 Jewell 11 Logan 3 Norton 0 Phillips 8 Books 6 Sheridan 3 Smith 8 Trego 3 of Capt. Osborn's characteristic north and the other northwest, met ally vigorous objections to the here among the hills, and right at the confluence, in the angle, lay the ceme plan: rs'jrsrsmiSjimimisisEmisriSaia'jJsnisi susisisisiamm aaosaesa fcagresar-yai OKmn YOUR CtOTHCS 7 tery.

"Kansas should and does know two rows o' graves one enough to attend to her own business. Total Ill 111 I am radically opposed to the importa FROM- yonder by that wall an' t'ocher right here to the left. They're hid, the little of 'em that's above ground, by the WATCHES Clocks, Jewelry, Optical Goods. Fine Watch Repairing -A. Spcisatjr.

tu Itaynolds' Drua Store, Stockton, lin. tion of a man who has not stood the brunt of the battle in the district. No The committee recomme'hds that the caucuses or the primaries In the various townships for the selection of delegates to the county conventions, be neld on Thursday, May in, 1W4, and that the several county conventions for the brush." My companion had perhaps seen mv expression of disappointment, doubt a few politicians put up that scheme and the rank and lilt) of our par M. Born Co. selection of delegates to this district conven and dismounting he led the way to one tion, be held on Saturday, may 13.

John Q. Kovce, Chairman, Gbo. W. Holland, Secretary. ty know nothing of it and wouid not approve of it if they did.

Should the gen the places he had indicated, and eral come to Kansas and be in the dis thrusting back the growth of vines mm trict, say two years, I would then support him for that position, but I will The Great Chicago Merchant. Tailors. JUXE 1, 1S94. and bushes he disclosed the edges of a few rough slabs of gray limestone set in rude box shape in the earth. Some never sunnort a "carpet baecer" for an This is the date when the great curtons native had used his sacrele- office so long as my head is level.

There are men there who have labored for the party since the land was the haunt of offer of the Record and Inter' gious spade in clearing away the soil from one of the queer graves. the red man and the home of the buffii' Thcr Guarantee to Fit and Please You. Ocean for $1.25 will run out. After that date we will not be able to lo. There are a thousand men in the BAKER 'There's two rows of 'em," my guide repeated.

"They run a pole into the earth over there an' made sure thev're sixth district who are perfectly able and secure such favorable terms from competent to represent it in congress. done no dig- LOWEST PRICES, LARGEST ASSORTMENT the publishers of the Inter-Ocean lt is a mistake by the people of any there, but nobody ain't country to attempt to import anyone for gin'. They wa'n't noth in' but jest a and the combined price of both such a purpose. few bones in this one." i GRAIN AND LIVE LOOK AT THEIR SAMPLES AT Nothing but a few bones I told him COL. W.

F. HUGHES, of Topeka, that I would dig willingly until the sun turned cold if I only had a spade. 11 GOGLBAUGH GO'S. Mj who was court martialed for dis papers will be $1.70. There are still a great many of our readers who have not availed themselves of this remarkable combination offer, and we urge you to hop on TWO KEWSFAPHIS FOR ONE.

obeying the order ot Gov. Lewel-ling to slaughter the legal house of We were without an implement of any kind. "That's easy enough," he said; there's I representatives, has announced a cabin about a mile straight south THE RECORD himself as a candidate for secre- the band wagon at once and not from here; I can ri''L iSjn. The Oldest Bank in Rooks Co. if i iufo tarv or state before the republican want it" or course I i- PI An J.

Jni.nn I in nnlf an rn ha AND KAXSAS CITY -r 1 I IT! III VH I If 111. I I HI' I Jl fri out on the grass xxuxuuuw uuui ouuo tu fortw laceare w.c.Edwards, toiled with the spade. WEEKLY JEW AND remains open, whereby you can of Pawnee: Frank L. Brown, of There were, indeed, two rows of shal get the Record and Inter-Ocean Anderson; W. A.

Leigh, of Rooks; BOTH ONE YEAR FOR 1.25. Jay J. Smytti; J. b. McDowell, of bmith, and both for $1.25.

low graves, one along either of the long walls of the inclosurc. Altogether there must have been nearly a hundred Take advantage of this oiler and get A. b'myth, of Greenwood. SUCCESSOIt TO of them, although only a few were the Century War Book Freinium offered by the Kansas City Journal; one The country mourns because the Daltons were miles away and Gen. Weaves says he will not coupon and 10 cents each week for 20 The process of interment had evi come into the sixth district unless The First HSTeitioiial Bank, OF STOCKTON, KANSAS weeks uets the famous Century War were not killed in the recent fight dently been very simple.

A hole had Book the lowest price of which has in Oklahoma between marshals his call is unanimous. It is not unanimous by any means, say the heretofore been Si'i. A new departure been dug and the coflin of stone slabs built within it and the body let down, with or without grave wrappings, and and desperadoes, as at first report iu journalism Drafts Issued on the Principal Cities of Europe. half dozen candidates. ed.

THE BEST AM IS THE SAFES Money orders issued payable at any Address on the Continent. Funds transferred to any part of the Civilized World. The Clay Center Times' advertise IT MVS With all the mines of the shut down by strikers what ments are beautiful to look upon. NVESTMEN covered with a stone lid, the whole being then covered with earth. These were apparently the graves of the common folk, or almost without an the narrow stone coffins contained nothing but the crumbling skel EVER MADE.

IE 1 ri ill1 It is reported that Jerry Simpson will the poor editor do for coal cannot live longer than two weeks. next winter? is becoming ap General Banking Exchange Business transacted. parent that nobody wants to work Senator Lockard, a Norton county etons, with an occasional stone implement or weapon or a piece these hard times. widower, was married to a widow last of rude pottery. It was easy to see week.

how the "pigmy" idea came about, for Collections a Specialty. CORRESPONDENTS: aBtropolitaaa. aTa.tloaa.etl, Kansas City, Mo. 2Exi.a.-a.tZi, lTa.eii.od. New York.

DAVID B. SMYTH, Cashicr the tombs were truly of diminutive As predicted some time ago, Gen. It is quite significant that the home of the crank, has size, the bodies, with knees doubled up Artz offers his Eervices to the Coxey furnished no recruits for the Coxey army. to the chin, only requiring a space of four feet or so in length. l'hil Smith, a Phillipsburg hard rider, It was when the work of uncovering armies People rrt hrre have dead loads of spring work to do before they are ready for picnics T.

E. BALDWIN, Pres. E. J. WILLIAMS, Casbiei.

8. W. ALLEN, Vice-Fres. has gone to New York to join Buffalo the low mound was begun that interest was really awakened, for here I was Bill's show. and tours of the Coxey sort.

plainly getting into the company of Rev. Fleisher, who cleaned out the How quickly congress can check joints at Downs, is going to try his the magnates of the "pigmy" society. Here were regular mummy cases, some mate the Coxey movement by hand at Minneapolis. made of skins and some of woven simply adjourning. It no congress Lew Headley of the Gay lord Herald, hempen tabric, and in some cases so well preserved as to suggest that that is there, the Napoleonic tactics of There are single retail shoe stores in our large takes back some unkind things he said strange people must have been pos marching up the hm and down of A.

II. Ellis, and admits that he lied cities which sell 2,000 pairs of shoes a day, making a net prollt of (250,000 a year. We sell shoes low, but wo sell a great many pairs, the clear profit on our ladies', misses' and chlldrens shoes is at least again will be repeated, and the in. sessed of the secrets of the embalmer's art. An Uberiin man was run over by a The Exchange Bank, STOCKTON, KANSAS.

INCORPORATED UNDER LA WS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS Capital Stock, $120,000. Paid up Capital, $50,000 Directors T. E. Baldwin, Mrs. M.

J. Allen, S. Allen, Mrs. EIJh Randall, E. J.

Williams, H. 0. Raymond, J. N. Smith.

Correspondents Importers Traders' Bank, N. Y. Saxton Nat. Bank, St. Joseph, Mo.

dividual membeis will scatter in ten cents a pair, and on our mens' and boys' shoes cents nalr. We shall establish shoe stores in load of hay last Saturday and badly in The mound had been built up from each of the fifty largest cities of theU. If jured about the head and legs. the ground with one tier after another of these graves until they were four all directions to take the job that will suddenly be open for them when it is definitely asceitained may sell only uu pairs oi snoes a aay mey wouiu Switchmen Will McCIusky was knoc earn $525,000 a year. We should be able to pay a vcarlv dividend of 5.25 per cent.

ked down by a switch engine in the that no more efforts to repeal the yards at Phillipsburg and his foot cut McKinley tariff will be made. a year on tho investment. We sell the stock at (10 a share. Tho price must inevitably be much more than (10 a share. No stock has over been sold at less than this price, which is its par value.

Stock non-assessable. Incorporated, Capital (1,000,000. stories high. The beginning had been made by the construction of what seemed to be a small stone altar resting upon the natural surface of the ground, and around this were built half a dozen of the coffin-shaped re off. iVe have over 1,000 stockholders, and tbe number After all, the whole Coxey Eussell rainmakers ran up a lot of Is increasing daily.

Some of tho principal stockholders are T. S. Walling, N. Y. 1 1.

1. Potter, Boiton N. A. Bccil, Chicago J. B.

Csmpboll, Chicogoi W. M. movement, stupendous as it is be- 1 1 1 ceptacles for the dead, these all lying kites last week loaded with dynamite which exploded, and what do you coming, is notnmg more tnan a with the feet resting 'against the altar Does a General Banking Collection Business. think? It rained. great protest against democratic tariff reform, which has been the Jvavftnuugn, IjHUB IVOCK, am.

1. II. men. vnicnKU i a. r.

Timer. Fhils.l B. Harding, N. Y. B.

1. Payne, Battls Crock. Mich. F. P.

Hullette, Arcadt, N. Y. Write for a prospectus containing tho names or onr stockholders, or unit an order for ttock, tneloting eathier'i check, cath or money order. Orders taken for one or more shares. Price, (1(1 Greece has been shaken severely by earthquakes in tbe past week, causing the destruction of many buildings and a sharp.

means of spreading distress and ruin all over our fair land. One democratic paper recognizes this, and upbraids republicans with be ncvTcn ourir rn lit, in i.ri c. F. St JOHN, 1.11 UMUb uuii the death of 225 people. Agentt that no space might be lost.

Then when this first tier of tombs was filled a layer of earth was spread over it and a second tier was constructed in the same fashion. These were evidently the resting places of the more important personages in the race, as could be judged both from the mode of burial and from the greater wealth of the materials which had been interred with the bodies. Perhaps the distinction was one The descriptions of the great un ing the authors of the movement. known of Coxey's army, now deposed, GOOD NEWS. lead us to think that he was none other VMSM than Diamond Dick.

The protest is also directed against the populist members whose votes on the Wilson bill helped to create the havoc among American industries whereby so many thousands "-r jjj VISIT THE MID-WINTER FAIR AT SAN FRANCISCO. Some corn planted by I. N. Boyle in Graham county last week is reported to have put out sprouts from two tc are out of employment. You have long contemplated a t'ali of social position, or perhaps it was only one of wealth; possibly it was both.

At any rate, these coffins in the mound contained an almost variety of implements and utensils in three inches in length the same day of Paper Hanger Decorator. An investigation has been order- planting. ca. YTiU A couple living near Alton, named boys. Hupt.

Hitchcock is charged perfect. celebrated the noth flnnivnr- The above the Fencing made on C. F. Bt. John's machine, used with base board and top rail for an ornamental yard or lawn fence.

It can be made In 20 different styles for this purpose, surpassing lu beauty, durability and utility any fence on the market. It is also the cheapest yard or lawn fence made. stone, copper, earthenware and woven materials, and even through the earth of which the moun.l was composed these relics were frequently to be discovered, lying lose. with the grossest cruelty to the sary of their wedding the other day. fornia trip, and this winter offers you an excellent chance.

The holding of a Mid-Winter Fair at San Francisco' will be an incentive for many to visit California. Now, the "Good News" we suggest at heading is this: The Chicago, Hock Island Pacific has put on a daily Tourist Pullman Car from Chicago to Los Anireles, and it runs up to San One Block east of Opera House. They must have been perfectly suited for each other. It was ghastly work to unwrap these boys under his charge. Eefore Lewelling gets out of office the coming winter every branch of the state service will have had its J.

Keeler, of Scottsville, was killed on the 19th while harrowing his garden. Carpet weaving. Go to Mrs Slusser for all kinds of Carpet Weaving Satisfaction guaranteed. One door east of Commercial house, Main st. stiffened bodies and work over the crumbling fragments with tape line and pencil, but it resulted in finding that the bones were certainly those of a race of tall men.

Other explorers have found isolated groups of graves lie ieu over on tne narrow ana a pro i i jecting bolt penetrated his temple, causing instant death. I Francisco, and without change you can be transportated from Kansas City leaving there any morning and thirc day landed at Los 6candil in fact nearly all of the state institutions have had a whirl at it already. Mrs. Lease knew what she was talking about when she said that the populist administration was tha most corrupt ever known in the United States. It is also the most incompetent Mr.

Means, owner of a big ranch in Cloud county brought a lot of hogs up containing the bodies of children only, as was shown by condition of the teeth and other It was apparently their custom to bury their children apart, and it may be that the Write at once to A. H. Moffet, Gen' All Free. Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not, now have the opportunity to try it free.

Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial bottle, free. Send your name and address to II. E. Uucklen Chicago, and. get a sample box of Dr.

King's New Life Fills free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor, free. AU of which is guaranteed to do you good and cost you nothing. Coolbaugh iiros drugstore. from Arkansas last fall which had the South-Western Passenger Agent, Kan Beggs' Cherry Conpk Syrup. The greatest and best Cough Syrup.

It will relieve a cough quicker, surer and more effectually than anything on the marktt. Sold and warranted by Coolbaugh Jiros. cholera, and the disease was communi sas City, or particulars, ltemem cated to all the hogs in the neighbor ber, the car runs the Southern rout Tennessee mountaineers have come upon these segregations of small bones and mistaken them for the bones of a pigmy race. N. Y.

Herald. hood, causing the loss of many thous Lightning struck the school house at Smith Center on the 18th, paying no attention to the dozen or so lightning through the beautiful Indian Territory Ft. Worth, ElPaso, and Tucson, AJ ands of dollars. He was sued for dam ages Dy ms neignnors, but after a "Best female impersonator in the zona, to Los Angeles and on to i protracted lawsuit was awarded a ver A Uttlt weed has no more' right to west." Salina Republican, At opera rods of candidates for state offices which were up for that purpose. Francisco.

Jno. Sebastian, dict in his fayor by the jury. grow than a big one. Barn's Horn. house May 3.

G. P. Chicago, 111..

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