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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1874
Page
1
Rates listed for cardset ten lined talnion type one wear and various time units. One column and one year costs 100.00 with six months 60.00 and three months 15.00. One best column charges 60.00 yearly, 40.00 for six months, 25.00 for three months. One quarter column 35.00 yearly, 20.00 six months, 15.00 three months. Local notices at 0.15 per line. Regular advertisers pay 0.19 per line. Transient and legal ads must be prepaid.
A county roster lists officials including Judge J B Goodin Probate Judge John Paxson Treasurer William Thrasher County Clerk H A Needham Register of Deeds G M Brown County Attorney J C Murray Clerk District Court G M Simpson Supt Pub Schools J L Wooden Sheriff Deputy Sheriff ymaé Hheades Surveyor D Hopville 1 A W Howland Commissioners Isaac Bonebrake 1 4 C Jones Mayor L L Lowe Police Judge John Paxson 8 I Stauber EN Yate L L Sorthrup Treasurer H WeTalcott Attorney J N Woollames Marshal C D Briggs Assist Marshal Also church notices for METHODIST EPISCOPAL Bbert on Jefferson Ave and Broadway with services and Sabbath school times, BAPTIST on Sycamore Street with service times, PREBYTERIAN at Corner Madison Ave and Western St with service times, CHRISTIAN Bible class and preaching schedule, Elder Crocker Councilmen.
In these railroad days travelers should choose the Missouri Pacific Through Line from the West to the East via Kansas City and St. Louis for speed and safety. The line features Miller Platform, Western Air Brake, Pullman Sleepers and reclining chair coaches. Express trains from Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison and other cities land passengers in St. Louis at convenient times for onward connections. For maps, timetables, and maps, contact Through Ticket offices or G A Baxter Kansas City or E A Ford St Louis.
The shortest route between major regions runs via the St Louis Kansas City and Northern Short Line. The road has invested over two million dollars in two years on rails, ties, and new reclining chair coaches with toilet facilities. Six fast Express trains link the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, with safety measures and day and night inspectors. Tickets and information available from Lyman McCarty in Kansas City or P B Groat in St Louis.
The completion of the iron bridge over the Missouri river at Boonville enables two daily Hannibal to northeast valley trains and two daily St. Louis to Southern Kansas trains. Through Pullman palace sleepers run Chicago to Galveston with no change, covering Southwest Missouri, Southern Kansas, the Indian Nation, and Texas. Contact Thomas Darwin in Sedalia for maps and timetables.
Schedules detail onward and return trains starting in 1sid. Including stops at Leavenworth Lawrence Kansas City Ottawa Garnett To la Muniboldt Chanute Cherryvale Independence Coffeyville and end at Independence with daily service and connections to stages at Ottawa Hexxour Castle Thayer Parke and Independence.
In a assertive speech, the speaker argues for military oversight of Indian policy, condemns reliance on militia and civil authorities for frontier protection, and calls for the Army to manage treaties, funding, and enforcement to safeguard settlers against Indian attacks. He condemns soft views on plains warfare and insists on strong government action.
In the Senate on the 20th alt a bill to authorize arming Nebraska was debated. Senator Buckingham of Connecticut proposed arming Indians facing white encroachment, then withdrew and offered bonds to restrict use. Senator Ingalls questioned Buckingham’s intent, suggesting drastic motives or facetious aim to incite a race war.
A lengthy obituary-like reminiscence details the Sumner siblings, their fates, and a century old Boston family. It recounts Henry dying in Orange New Jersey, Albert lost at sea with a wealthy wife, George crippled by a railway accident and later paralyzed, Horace's dreamy life ending abroad, and Julia surviving. the article notes Charles Summer inherited their fortunes after multiple deaths and later returned his fortune to the wife’s relatives. It closes with a pivot to feigned progress and a piece on hair transplantation experiments from Kentucky, illustrating science and vanity.
The piece describes the Blue Mountains of cypress in Florida and the harsh life of cow drivers and cracker houses. It recounts fleas multiplying in buried pits, graves nearby, and villagers drinking coffee while observing fleas and garish garters.
A Berlin Boersen Courier tale claims the chancellor's daughter resists suitors including nobles and a lieutenant, choosing love over wealth and faith. The story hints at church state tensions in Germany and notes persistent gossip amid Bismarck's illness.
The comptroller reports 4.27 million unissued currency from the 1870 act, assigned to eighty six applicants in twenty states. Banks already organized receive 1.198 million, those in process 3.073 million, averaging roughly 50 thousand per applicant with distributions across North South Carolina Florida and other states. A note adds Kansas has only 27 thousand awaiting issuance, deemed insufficient to incite repudiation. Commonwealth references fashion lore from gentlemen in a playful aside about muffs and hoops.
The table shows public debt reductions for the first four months of 1874 compared with 1873, noting that despite the panic the yearly decrease is greater than last year. It argues steady payments will quickly reduce the debt incurred by the Civil War and claims since 1869 the debt has fallen by nearly four hundred million.
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