The Goodland Republic and Goodland News from Goodland, Kansas • Page 3

MY COUNTRY. liy country, may you erer be A land of lore and liberty A land so brave, so true and strong. But still my country, right or wrong My country, let your cause be just, And ia the peopia yoa can tmst. While honor shall yonr fame prolong My country always, right or wrong My country, happy bo your days, And may yoa 11 tht moctha of praise. And may yoa lire in Joy and song God ble? a my country, right or wrong Joha A.

Joyce. SHERMAN COUNTY. fertile Acres Awaiting the IIomecke' Bctoarcei. The following by George R. Caldwell appeared in the Sunday issue of the Rocky Mountain News: Goodland, the county seat and chief town of Sherman county, northwestern Kansas, is a passenger and freight division point on the main line of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad; and has railroad machine shop, round house and fine depot and eating house; has a population of 1,200, and excellent public schools and exceptional social and religious advantages, and has both city and railroad water systems the railroad well being ISO feet deep with 40 feet of water.

The county had last year 30,000 acres in wheat, 16,000 acres in corn, and 4,000 acres in rye the "wheat yield approximating bushels, the corn crjp reaching bushels, or an average of 30 bushel3 per acre, while 00,000 bushels of rye were harvested. This year the 30,000 acres of wheat will be 75,000 acres, the 10,000 acres of com will be 25,000 acres, the 4,000 acres of rye will be 6,000 acres, while the vi' Id of all kinds of grain will be, owing to the exceptionally favorable agricultural conditions of the present spring, nearly double per acre that of last year. For the year 1303, Sherman county confidently expects 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, while corn may reach the same number of bushels. The county had on the first day of March, 1307, 5,000 head of cattle, a figure which has since been more than doubled by import and the natural local increase. There are in this county about 5,000 head of horses, well graded in both draft and speed strains.

From the first of October, 1S07, to the first of June, 1S03, the county will furnish the Denver market with 1,000 hegSj the porkers averaging 250 pounds. These figures will be ery largely increased next season. Sherman county has about acres of arable land, of which only 8 per cent isMn actual cultivation, all of the balance over 000,000 acres being ia the market at various figures the prices running from $2 to $10 per acre, with small cash payments and the balance on easy time. For homes for eastern settlers these lands are of superior attraction. To the esatern renter who pays annually from $2.50 to io per acre for land which has been cropped and recropped into utter exaustion, the proposition of unlimited acres of soil of virgin and alluvial fertility at a purchase price equal only to the yearly rental per acre of worn-out eastern land must be, indeed, in the nature of an agricultural Mecca.

To the natural advantages of these western and Sherman county lands must be added the stock interests kindred to and intimately associated with these lands. The farmers from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri or Indiana intending to come to Sherman county can gather up a few head of cattle to bring with him and, on arrival here these cattle, on the nutritious grasses of the ranges, will give him and hia family a good living until he can make a crop. Again, these cattle by their natural increase, will bring their owner a herd which in the course of a few years, will be competence in itself. The annual loss of cattle on the ranges here is, on a conservative estimate, les than 1 per cent a loss which cau only be quoted as merely nominal while hogs and horses can also be counted as a large and lucrative adjunct- of the stock farm. prmmmmmmmmmiiiftmiriiriiji J.

L. Warren's Jewelry Store. 3 CO CO Is 2 5 A FULL LIME OF Watches, Jevelry, Gilvervare, Optica! GoodG. VORKMAH-LIKE AND ACCURATE RE PA! niflC DOf.E. rr I i i iwivu owl rz, UiililUiVui if 1 A GOOD The Outlook Very Favorable for the Urow.

in Crop. Sunday afternoon rain began to fall with the wind southerly, bat during the evening the wind veered to northward and there was a steady fall of rain late into the night. Reports from Grant township are that the precipitation in that locality was very heavy. South and east of Goodland the fall was copious, but south and west it was light. There was a good rain here and north ward.

Farmers report small grain looking fine and grass coming on nice ly, and that the outlook for a crop wa3 never better at this time of year. RATES TO OMAHA. Railroads More Liberal Than to World's Fair at Chicago. he Rates and arrangements on account of the Omaha exposition were completed April 11 by the Western Passenger association lines. The rates are more liberal than those made for the Chi cago exposition.

bummer tourist tickets will be sold at 80 per cent of double locals to Omaha from all sections of the country, with final return limit to November 15 From all association points east of Colorado a rate of one fare and a third for the round trip will be made from June 1 until October 30, with a 30-day return limit, provided, however, that in no case the rate from the following points to Omaha shall be less than from Chicago, from Peoria, $17 from St. Louis, from Colorado common points and $15.75 from St. Paul and Minneapolis. For the opening ceremonies a rate of one cent a mile will be made from all points within 150 miles of Omaha. From points beyond the 150 mile limit, the rate will be one fare for the round trip.

All tickets of every character through Omaha, in either direction, will be made good for stopover at Omaha not to exceed five days. The minimum rate for any round trip ticket 13 to be 50 cents. Oratorical Content. The following i3 from the Salina Union and the A. S.

Warriner, winner of the contest, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Warriner of thi3 city: The third annual oratorical contest of the Ionian Literary society was held in the Wesleyan chapel Saturday evening.

A good audience was present and the efforts of the contestants were ap preciated. The orations and the orators were: uOar Commercial Age," A. Warriner; "Progress of F. P. Roby; UA Plea for International Peace," C.

A. Beauchamp; "The Rise and Fall of Nations," J. V. Gould. The judges gave first place to Mr.

Warriner and second to Mr. Beauchamp. Attempted Burglary. Burglars took out a large window glass in the front part of the Wellman racket store Saturday night, but they broke the glass and the crash awaken ed Mr. Wellman who lives over the store and he came down stairs and they were frightened away.

They secured a few ten-cent knives that were in the show window. It is supposed to be the work of some of the numerous tramps that were in town Saturday night. An Old Firm D1o1ts Partnership. Ennis fc Walker, one of the oldest firms in the county, have dissolved partnership. Mr.

Ennis retains the drug store and Mr. Walker the implement business. Ennis Walker have been partness ior the past 12 years, engaging in busi ness at Eustis in 1SS7, and when the county seat fight was settled and Good- land was declared the capital of the county, this firm was one of the first to move to Goodland. Goodland Girl a Doctor. Miss M.

Martha Mac Ye an, formerly of this city, was one of a class of 25 that graduated from the Gross medical college at Denver April 12. Miss MacVean has been attending the college the past few years and her friends here will be pleased to learn of her success. Cheering reports come from all parts of the county as to the crop prospects. Si -3 Si i t3 ivi i I 1 1 1 i i i rtiuos.u, James Henry wa3 here from Concor dia this week. J.

J. Mo ran of Ilatings, was in the city Tuesday. Ed Tapp of St. Francis wa3 a visiter in the city Friday. Travelingman J.

E. O'Neal was in town Wednesday. W. P. Troth of Atchison, was in the city Tuesday.

Al Prewitt i3 clerking la the Milli-sack store this week. John Rodgers of Salida, was in Goodland Saturday. W. E. McLennan of Norton, wa3 in the city Saturday.

Mat Maddigan of Wallace, Kaa, was up to Goodland Saturday. A. L. Schott of St. Francis, Kan.

was over to Goodland Friday. Ilenry Burkholder of Kanorado wa3 a visitor in the city Saturday. J. W. Klauer will leave to-day for a business visit to Beatrice, Neb.

Mrs. A. P. Linder returned from a trip to St. Joe Monday morning.

Miss Mary Seaman i3 at Burlington to-day with a line of millinery goods. Billy Tuttle, representing the Rock Island Plow company, was here Monday. T. B. Raines and W.

M. Dunn of Chicago, 111., were in Goodland Tuesday. Miss Rachel Walker is in Wichita as a delegate from the W. R. C.

of this city. lraveiingman ii. J. neeier, or a Chicago shoe house, was in town Mon day. Mrs.

W. E. Dust in was called to Iowa last week by the serious illness of her mother. D. Hudson of Denver has been stop ping at the Commercial since last Saturday.

John Steinlein and Charles Kollmer of Denison, were in Goodland Tuesday. Kenney McCloud left Tuesday for Mena, where he will engage in farming. George R. Caldwell, representing the Denver News, was in the city Mon day evening. C.

A. Grant left Wednesday evening for St. Joe where he will remain a couple months. Mrs. Susan Kellogg returned Monday from Chicago where she has been for the past two years.

Capt. Emerson of St. Francis was in the city Wednesday evening and left on No. 5 for Colorado Springs. Albert Dunbar, head clerk at the Millisack store, has resigned and has gone to work in Dawson's store.

Ida Moore, who has been teaching school in Sherman county, started to scb ool here Monday. Colby Free Press. Miss Carrie A. Brigham of Omaha was in the city this week and made proof on a piece of land located near Edson. M.

McPherson of Cheyenne county was in Goodland Saturday. Mr. McPherson is one of the pioneer settlers of that county. Mrs. Brown, mother of B.

F. Brown, left Wednesday evening for Cambridge, after several week's visit with her son here. George Montgomery left the first of the week for Abilene, where he will commence work for the Piano Harves ter company as a collector. George has secured a good position and will probably be absent all summer. Travelingman Ed Page, representing Doniphan candy house, of St.

Joe, was here Wednesday. He brought Mrs. Page with him, her first visit to western Kansas. Mr. Page has been making this territory for the past nine years, but resides at Phillipsburg.

He is a youngerly man, but says that he has hunted antelope and buffalo in this very locality. Laphain-Larick. Asa L. Lapham of Edson and Miss Bertha Larick of Kensington, were married by Rev. R.

C. Smith Wed nesday morning at ten o'clock. The groom is employed on the rail road at Edson and the young couple will go to housekeeping at that place. Teachers Notice. The next regular teachers' examina tion for county certificates will be held in the court house at Goodland, April 30, beginning at 7:30 a.

ra. R. C. Sxith, County Superintendent. Pleasant-Home Items.

From Our Correspondent. A good attendance and an interest ing time was had at the Endeavor on Sunday evening. The meeting was conducted by Albert Grimes. Byron Lister spent a few days on the Beaver hunting and visiting. Witten Townsend wa3 transacting business at Brewster Tuesday.

The meeting Wednesday evening in the interests of the music class was well attended but the desired number of pupil3 was not obtained. Miss Mary Lister and Miss Ettie McDaniel will take instruction in music in Goodland this spring. Bennett purchased a cow and calf cf Mr. Baker, of Brewster last week. I -H-1 i 1 4 I 1 i iiUu i lulu Evcrv Saiur Wi.LaLs day KILLED.

Frank TrontXetter Knocked OCT a Caboose I'-j the Spent of a TVater Tank and Ilia Skull Is Crashed. Brake man Frank Troutfetter of the work train was knocked off the caboose at Mattiscn, a station 5G miles this side of Colorado Springs, Thursday fore noon last, by being struck on the head by the spout of the water tank, and tne injuries received oeing so serious he died Friday evening. The train left Goodland early in the morning and was bound for Peyton where work was to be commenced by the pile driver. Troutfetter was stand ing on top of the caboose while the train was passing through Mattiscn running at a rate of 30 miles an hour, When riearing the water tank it 13 sup posed he was fn the act of getting into the cupola of the caboose when he was struck on the head by theEpout, knock ing him off the car and his skull was badly crushed. The caboose and en- engine were detached from the train and the injured man was taken to Colorado Springs to the St.

Francis' hospital where hi3 skull was trephined. The injuries, however, were too severe and he gradually declined and at nine o'clock Friday night he passed away, never regaining consciousness. His parents reside at Colby and the remains were taken there for burial. The funeral was held at two o'clock Sunday from the Baptist church and there was a large attendance, the services being conducted by Rev. Smith of that place.

Abe Miller, Earl Thorson, Burt Farley and N. Matlock of the trainmen's order attended the funeral. Troutfetter was 24 years of age and had been working out of Goodland about eight months, coming here from rortn i'latte, JeD wnere ne was em ployed by the Union Pacific as a brake man. He had been laying off about two weeks and had just returned to work. He was a good moral young man and had made many friends among hi3 fellow employes who regret the sad ending of the young man.

RAILROAD Jf EWS. The new train3 start May There were three 97s Wednesday. Wednesday was payday for the railroad men. Freight business has been good for th9 past week. Charles Sherman returned Tuesday from Tecumseh, Neb.

Engineer Sam Crooks is sojoirning around Cripple Creek. John Lamb is at Cripple Creek running an engine for a mine. Charles Sellers ba3 taken A. P. Lin-der's place in the water service.

Engine 913 has been sent here from Horton to be used on passenger. Engineer Charley Ross returned Friday from a visit to Greenleaf, Kan. The concrete work on the Ruleton bridge will be completed by May A. P. Linder of the water service has quit and has gone to Cripple Creek.

Tom Edwards took a layoff last week and went to Pueblo to spend a few days. Several round house employes have been examined and they may be made firemen soon. Boilermaker Ralph Owens at Ros-well ha9 quit and has gone to work for the Rio Grande. Engineer Stanton of the Roswell-Pueblo run brought the 510 down Tuesday for light repairs. L.

A. Pratt was here this week visiting his brother, Sidney Pratt, the round house foreman. Frank Gandy and Jim Hesson will go to work as brakemen on passenger the first of the month. A west end brakeman is named Mixer, and he is a jolly good fellow, too. Phillipsburg Dispatch.

William Taylor, a brother of George Taylor of the general foreman's office, has secured a position as brakeman. Engine 90G came up from Horton Saturday and will be used in the passenger service. The engine is equipped with electric headlight. Engineer Joe Berry and Fireman Charles Sharrah brought their engine down from the Denver run Wednesday to have some repairs done. Gus McFarland, son of Section Foreman McFarland at Roswell, was run over by a street car there Tuesday and one of his legs had to be amputated.

Ed McBride has resigned his posi tion in the Alton shops at Blooming- ton, as head of the boiler depart ment and is expected here thi3 week. Freight Conductors Lustig.High and Edwards will have passenger runs by the inaugurating of the new fast trains which will make- their initial trip on May Brakeman Frank Gandy went to Denver Tuesday night and will take the run on 0 and 10 between Denver and Limon. E. J. Tippins, who has been on this run, will resume hi3 position on freight.

The Rock Island flyer is one of the fastest of western trains now. Sixty miles an hour is no unusual speed for it, and the other night it broke its record for fast running by making 74 miles an hour for the run between Willard and Paxico, near Topeka. Railroad men have plenty of trouble with bums but here's a case from the Wellington Mail that i3 unique in train pdom: Things are getting pretty "bcqnj" when cst3 go "on the bum." Yesterday a real live cat boarded Conductor Loos-ley's train at Caldwell and arrived here safe and sound last evenirg snugly ensconced on the trucks of a ear. The fancy bam was evidently bound for Klondike cr ctLrr northern pcnt, 'w wr 1 1 War with its inevitable train of blood and death and desolation appear to be an unwelcome visitor of nations about every generation. The dogs of war have been let loose between the United States and Spain.

But while this appalling and unwelcome contest is going on, the Wizard will not flag in the warfare he has always waged against high prices, but keep straight on the march for for the right goods at low prices that will continue to expand his business and please the crowds of buyers always to be seen at the Daylight Store. Dross Goods. The great volume and variety, of our stock, the limited advertising space, the close" proximity of all the patrons of Goodland, and the fact that every article in our mammoth stock is marked in plain figures, make it hardly necessary to publish long minute descriptions and prices 01 so many goods, we can surprise and please you with the great variety and elegance of our line of dress goods. Ladies' underwear, hosiery, lace, embroideries, should be visited at once by all means. These departments please everyone who looks at them.

Shoes! Slioos! Our shoe department should be visit'd when in want of anything in footwear. LOCAL ANO GENERAL. The grass is getting green. See B. F.

Brown for insurance. The Social club held a dance Wednesday evening. There were about 25 tramps in town Satuiday night. Two of J. B.

Rubison's children are reported as being very sick. The council has appointed H. F. Wheatley assistant marshal. Try Comer's Liquid Chicken Lice Exterminator.

MSnre Shot." There is no pathway through life that does not have some rose3 in it. A look through our grocery department will profit you. The Wizard. The saloons have to close at ten o'clock nights hereafter, by order of the council. C.

II. Lee is fixing up his house on his farm adjoining Goodland on the east preparatory to occupancy. William Walker, is setting out trees and otherwise beautifying his yard at his residence in west Goodland. Photo galery to rent. Good location for a good photographer none in the city.

B. F. Bbown. 1 am prepared to furnish German carp for spawning purposes. James E.

Wallace, Goodland, Kan. Jacobs Bros, have opened up a gen eral merchandise store at Brewster. They are brothers of Burt Jacobs of this city. H. M.

Rees bought a residence house located in the west part of town and moved it to his place near Topland Wednesday. J. B. Penn is still in the lead with choice meal-fed beef, having just returned from Jewell county with a carload of twy-year-old heifers. The best terms for county, school township and other warrants in cash or trade.

Approved checks and drafts cashed. C. M. Millisack. Little Rock, has a paper called the Arkansas Thomas Cat, and its motto is: wRub my fur the right way and I'll purr; pull my tail and 111 scratch." The ladies of the Eastern Star will cive a social at the residence of Mrs.

R. J. Jones this (Friday) evening, April 22. Refreshments 15 cent3. All are cordially invited.

A couple of boys from Smith Center entertained the population around the Commercial hotel Friday evening with vocal and instrumental music. They took up a collection. A new pair of shoes were stolen from the wagon of George Clark Saturday evening. The thief i3 supposed to be one of the numerous tramps that were in town that evening. The republican paper will make its first appearance thi3 week.

It is to be called the Banner" and will be a five column quarto in size. Denison fc Krow are the publishers. Our to, and $10 line of men's all wool suits will compete with any market and yoa will not be justified in buying elsewhere before looking through them. C. U.

Millisack. John L. Sullivan declares he can lick any man who offerers hini Spanish onions with his beans. Oh, if John could only give Don Weyler one good sos-ker on the point of hi3 awful jaw! Several boys Goodland will viiit Will Filey's school to day. TL13 Cijc-Z school and lz i tj rrrcrriite ex-j A Giolliing Dent.

If you have never been in our clothing department you should make it a point to pay it a visit. We can show you a stock of clothing which in volume and low price will do credit to a city of 10,000 people. Lion's urnisfi- mgs. I 1 Mo Millisack, and he has proved himself an efficient teacher. Friends and neighbors of Mr.

and Mrs. George McClellan of Logan township made them an unexpected call Friday night and the affair was turned into a party. Games were played and refreshments were served and an enjoyable time was had. Rev. T.

N. Hazen has moved his family to Goodland and will commence to carry the mail from that end of the route on Monday next, arriving here at noon instead of evening J. M. Adamson came up from Goodland on Saturday last, where he has been for some weeks past assisting in one of the leading stores of that place N. Krow contemplates moving to Good-land in the near future.

Cheyenne County Rustler. The Atchison Globe, which sneers at everything, says: "Miss Emma Kelly, the Topeka girl who is in the Klondike, writes that she will be back in Topeka by September. Do you know what this means? A female Klondike lecturer. The people will be asked to pay to see a woman dressed in a dog's skin tell of the many offers of marriage she received daily from Klondike millionaires. For every bullet wound Fred Funston boasts, she will boast of a wound she made with an arrow.

Why not marry the two, and get a double bill for one price of admission?" patronise H3ome TTnbustr The Coodland Roller Mills 117 pay the highest market price for Wheat, 22 cents per bushel for Corn in trade, and will give from 24 to 32 pounds of Flour for 1 bushel of wheat-Corn Meal and Graham Flour constantly on hand AM Our Fiour Warranted. C. V. CHELF El CO. SAMPLES FOR Spring Summer SUITINGS ARE IN.

SI6DP SUITS MADE TO ORDER FROM Repairing and Cleaning Done-All Work Guaranteed First-Class JOE KOLACNY, Hie Tailor. IM. ROBINSON I REAL ESTATE and BROKERAGE. Wertpra Ladj for is tnd trade 1 1 i a Ajrctj for tzxt JccAjnief i 4 lac-is, oxer Uj quarters I J-JU to tjJ taa, balAoca on fcrnr to year 1 per cent irtret, wili gr.rn Una to ruit ptrcaiers. fj I CajJ xnd e9 rut.

I sbrtraets ri I kin-is ci tctsT wotk perfor-red. tteade-i to ar coD-resi ieiit ROBINSON Hans." 3. I X. ST J3 While we have always kept a good assortment of men's furnishings, we have never been half so well prepared to interest you as now. To Colorado California Take the C.

R. I. P- Ry. Great Rock Island Route Elegant Equipment, Pullman Service, Chair Cars Free. It Is the BEST LINE to Colorado.

Through Service to California in the Phillips' Tourist Cars Do you want a farm in Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas Send to address below for our new Emigration Folder. Also Descriptive Folder, giriog full particulars as to rates, to Colorado and California sent oa application. Address JOHN SEBASTLVX, O. P. Chicago.

In. iG. L. CALVERT ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LA Notary Public and Justice of Peace. Special attention pirn to collections and U.

S. Land Office practice. Real Estate ami Emigration asrent for Rorlc island Pactiie Railwar. ACRES of smootb land Nortbwett Kauxas (ur sale or trade. Farm land and city property in Eastern No-raka to trade for clear land in Sherman Kansas.

0 ft Correspondence Solicited. G. L. CALVERT, GOODLAXD, KAKSA4. k9 Goal, Flour, Having bought out TEAGARDEli Tie will continue the business at the same stand.

Ve will keep in stock constantly tbe bert p-ades of COAL, FLOUE. GEAIX, CnOPPED FEED aad BAILED HAY. We also carry a fall line of POULTRY FOOD, inclndirwr Ground Oyster Shells. ETf Maker. Jlite Exterminator and Eocp Pills.

Call and See Us Before Buying Elsewhere. V. V7. G. TZ A OA Hen' 7ti cf Calif, 1 i.