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of the Verdigris river, near where Independence now is, and just after they had crossed, they were met by a large body of Osages who informed them that the Osage people had orders to arrest any and all persons attempt- ing to pass through their country and take them to Fort Scott. Matthews told them they were friends of the tribe, but that they would never submit to be taken alive, especially as prisoners to Fort Scott. A battle then opened, and Matthews and every one of his men were killed. This is the statement as made by Little Bear, who was then Chief of the Osages.
The murders recounted in these raids were the inost atrocious and cold-blooded of any that had ever occurred in Bourbon County. The men killed were all good, quiet, peaceable citizens, not identified in any way as partisans, or even active in politics, excepting Horatio Knowles, who had been in the Legislature several years, as has been noted. It was probably not known at the time to what particular rebel command these murderers belonged who raided the Osage valley. The statement is made here that they belonged to the command of the rebel General Jo Shelby, although he was not present in person. The proof of it is given in the following extracts from page 447 of a book pub- lished in 1867 by authority of Shelby, called "Shelby and His Men ; or War in the West." The author says, in speaking of these raids into Kansas :
"No prisoners were taken, and why should there be? * * Shelby was leaving Kansas and taking terrible adieus. * * Hay stacks, houses, barns, produce, crops, and farming implements were consumed before the
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march of his squadrons, and what the flames spared the bullet finished. Shelby was soothing the wounds of Missouri by stabbing the breast of Kansas. For the victims of Lane and Jennison he demanded life for life and blood for blood. The interest had been com- pounded, but he gathered it to the utmost farthing. Fort Scott lay before him like a picture, mellowed by haze and distance, and the orders for its destruction had gone forth."
And the orders for its destruction would have been fully carried out had it not been for the prompt organi- zation and assembly of the militia.
Price had also determined on the total destruction of the City of Fort Scott. Marinaduke and other rebel officers, while prisoners of war here, repeatedly stated that Price had given orders for the annihilation of Fort Scott as soon as they could get to it.
SUSPENSE.
On the day of the battle of Mine Creek, and for some days previous, the people of Fort Scott and the troops liere were naturally in a state of great suspense. They knew, indefinitely, that there had been fighting up northı, and that Price was retreating down the border. They had good reason to fear the worst. They had no dispo- sition to cry wolf when there was no wolf, and they fully realized their danger if the rebel army should get at them, and they were nerved up to defend themselves to the best of their ability. They probably did not know at that time of the especial determination and order to destroy the town, but in a general way they
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knew Price and his men and his methods, and they had every reason to believe that he would attack and destroy Fort Scott, which was then rich in supplies and plunder.
A part of the defensive force was posted on the hills north of town. Entrenchments were thrown up at the river fords, and preparations made for moving the women and children.
About 3 o'clock on the morning of the 25th the cannon boomed forth the alarm. A scout had just arrived with the news that the enemy was at the Trading Post, and it was presumed that their march on Fort Scott would be unchecked. Every man was at his post, and all exhibited the coolness of veteran troops. The morning was rainy, but it cleared up later in the forenoon, Up to 3 o'clock that afternoon no definite news was had of the operations of the two armies. They could hear the boom of the cannon, but they did not know the result of the day. All kinds of rumors were flying. Late in the day large bodies of troops were seen marching on the city. But it was so011 ascertained that they were Union troops under Colonel Moonlight. They then learned of the victory at Mine Creek, and that General Blair's command and other forces of the Union army would soon be here. The revulsion of feeling cannot be described. The tense, rigid feeling of suspense and anxiety which had so long held the courageous militia to their work, gave way to exultation and joy.
That night Generals Curtis, Pleasanton, Blunt and Sanborn and their forces came in, bringing the captured rebel Generals and other prisoners, and the captured
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cannon. The next morning they again took up the march in pursuit of Price, except General Pleasanton and his command, who, after remaining a few days, left for St. Louis with the prisoners and captured artillery.
On the 28th, Colonel Stadden of the 24tli regiment, issued the following order :
Gen. Order No. 5.
The Colonel commanding takes pleasure at this time in thanking the brave men under his command for the heroism and fortitude displayed during the late crisis. Although not actively engaged in the field, the cheer- fulness displayed is certainly worthy of a veteran corps. Again he assures you that no one will have oceasion to blush for being a member of the "First Bourbon."
I. STADDEN,
A. DANFORD, Adjutant. Colonel Commanding.
PUBLIC MEETING.
On the next Saturday evening a large public meeting was held in Fort Scott. S. A. Manlove was chosen President, and J. R. Morley, George Dimon, G. A. Reynolds, N. Z. Strong and William Margrave, Vice- Presidents. General Blair, who had returned to his post as Commandant, was called on to speak. The General said he was not there to make a political speech, as he liad nothing to do with politics since the war be- gan, and would not have until it closed. He said lie desired, however, to do justice to the brave men who had left their homes and kept in the front until Kansas was out of danger. He closed with a detailed descrip- tion of the battle . Mine Creek, and the military operations along the Border.
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As has been stated, General Curtis continued the chase after the rebels, pursuing them to their final de- struction as an army.
This was the last time Bourbon County was threat- ened by the invasion of an armed enemy, and the people soon settled down to some degree of peace and quiet.
The general election was held on the 8th day of No- vember. Samuel J. Crawford was elected Governor and Sidney Clarke, Congressman; A. Danford was elected State Senator from Bourbon County. The Represent- atives were: Fiftieth District, L. D. Clevenger; Fifty- first, D. L. Campbell; Fifty-second, N. Griswold; Fifty-third, N. Z. Strong. D. M. Valentine was elected Judge of the Fourth Judicial District. D. B. Emmert, District Clerk; Win. Margrave, Probate Judge, and Nelson Griswold, Superintendent of Schools.
Bourbon County cast 960 votes for Lincoln electors and 126 for the Mcclellan electors.
The year 1864 had been a season of more than usual disquietude and apprehension, in this county. Besides the operations of the regular Confederate armies, there were many roving bands of guerillas, bushwhackers and marauders swarming along the Missouri border, who took every opportunity to slip into Kansas and commit murder, robbery, theft and any depredation that took their fancy or that occasion perinitted.
The bordering section of Missouri was practically without law, civil or military, and these inen hield full sway in their reign of terror. This state of affairs continued until Price's horde was swept down the Border, and the last remnant of rebellion disappeared.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
LINCOLN.
HE year 1865, while it was laden with events of vast import to the Nation, bore to us but few inarked incidents of a local nature. President Lincoln was re-inaugurated on the 4th of March, and was assassinated on the 14th of April. He had, however, lived to see the surrender of Appomattox, and to smilingly approve of Grant's direction to the paroled army of North Virginia: "Take your horses and mules home, you will need them on the farm." He had lived to see the rebellion crushed, and to realize that government by the people should not perish from the earth. Nor will his name. He had reached the apex of human greatness. The Infinite fittingly or- dained there should be no descent.
CITY ELECTION.
In the spring of 1865 the regular election was held in Fort Scott for city officers. Isaac Stadden was elected Mayor. The Councilmen were A. R. Allison, S. A. Manlove, Charles Rubicam and J. R. Morley. City Marshal, H. C. Jones ; Treasurer, C. F. Drake ; Recorder, Wm. Margrave; Assessor, J. W. Coutant ;
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Street Commissioner C. W. Goodlander ; Attorney, A. Danford.
THE SCHOOLS.
In January, 1860, S. W. Greer, Superintendent of Schools, made a report of the condition of the schools in the Territory at that date. His figures for Bourbon County are as follows : Number of districts organized, seven. Number of children between the ages of 5 and 21, seventy-four.
The first school district in this county was organized in December, 1859. It was what was afterwards Dis- trict No. 10. None wife organized in 1860, and only 45 were organized until after the war, when in 1867 the organization of districts again commenced. At the close of 1865 there were 3,261 children of school age in the county. Many of these were children of refugees who had come in to Fort Scott from Missouri and Arkansas. Through the efforts of C. F. Drake, and a few others, school rooms were furnished and fitted up in the old hospital building and in the old City Hall.
The few school buildings in the county were poorly furnished. The appliances were meager. There was nothing like uniformity in books. The children brought the books which had been used by their par- euts fifteen or twenty years before, and represented nearly as many different States and kinds of books as there were children. The daily routine was something like this: The reading class would form in line; one scholar read a verse from an old reader commencing, ' Rome was an ocean of flame;" the next would read one about
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"Lo! the Poor Indian;"' the next, not having anything but Webster's Spelling Book, read about one of the pictures in the back part, where the girl failed to be able to buy a new dress because the cow kicked over the pail of milk. And so on down the line, until the last one, a little fellow, read the best he could about the wonderful cat.
The facilities for acquiring an education in those times compares but feebly with our grand institutions of the present day. Our trained, competent and effi- cient professional teachers, with the paternal aid of the State, have wrought a wonderful change. Working through our Normal Colleges and High Schools, they have brought our common school system wellnigh to perfection. Not only that, they have caused the word "Teacher " to take its rightful place at the head of the list of the learned professions. And also, like Abou Ben-Adhem, "of those who love their fellow- men, their names lead all the rest." "May their tribe increase. "
COST OF PROVISIONS.
In July, 1865, J. S. Emmert, County Clerk, left among the records of the County an itemized account of the expenses of housekeeping, from which the following extracts are made :
One-half bushel apples, $1.50; one dozen beets, 50 cents ; four pounds of butter, $1.25 ; four dozen eggs, $1. 30 ; four heads of cabbage, 50 cents ; twelve pounds of sugar, $3.00 ; five pounds of coffee, $5.00 ; one-half gallon kerosene, $1.00 ; one bushel of potatoes, $2.00;
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six bars soap, $1.00 ; two chickens, 80 cents ; one peck of onions, 75 cents; one-half pound tea $1.50; fifty pounds flour, $3. 50.
MUSTER-OUT.
The Kansas troops had been or were being mustered out. Their old yellow parchments said they were "honorably discharged." "No objection to re-enlist- mient known to exist." But many of them knew there were objections known to exist-dressed in calico-and they were going to meet those objections, just as soon as possible. A farewell glance was given the faithful old camp kettles and mess pans, in which they had so often cooked coffee and beans and rice and desiccated potatoes, or the chickens and sweet potatoes, turkeys, and pigs, and geese, which somehow found their way into the company inesses. They were going home. The orderly sergeant called the roll for the last time. He skipped many names on the original muster-in roll. Some had been discharged for wounds or other dis- ability; many had left their bones in one or the other of a dozen States from Kansas to the Sea.
The record of Kansas in the war is grand. The State sent more soldiers to the war than it had voters in 1861. Its quota under the calls for troops was 12,931; it sent 20, 151, without conscription. Nineteen regiments and three batteries participated in more than a hundred engagements, six of which were on Kansas soil. The battlefields from Wilson Creek to the Gulf are conse- crated by their blood. Provost-Marshal-General Fry, in his final reports of the Union Army Roster, wrote
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this: "Kansas shows the highest battle mortality of the table. The same singular martial disposition which induced about one-half of the able-bodied men to enter the army without bounty may be supposed to have in- creased their exposure to the casualties of battle after they were in the service."
The regiments and batteries had all made an honor- able record. In the many battles in which they were engaged, there were none of which they were not entitled by General Orders to emblazon the battle-name on the white stripes of "Old Glory."
BUSINESS AND IMPROVEMENT.
The people of our county were now turning their attention more than ever before to the pursuits of peace.
For ten years there had existed among our entire people a sense of insecurity and apprehension. It was an epoch of unrest, -a decade of bloody strife. No one on retiring to rest at night knew what might occur before another sun. An enemy was always in striking distance. They became accustomed to this state of affairs at times, when the recurrence of some bloody deed would again raise up the nightmare of border strife or civil war.
But all that was at an end. The war was over, and the receding tide had taken with it the flotsam and jet- sam of border war.
Fort Scott was rapidly improving. The "Wilder House" and the stone "Miller Block," opposite, had been built sometime, and they were classed among the architectural wonders of the State.
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The Wilder House was thus named in compliment to A. C. Wilder, who was Congressman from this State, and afterwards stationed for a time at Fort Scott in the Commissary Department, and who was, also, a great friend of the Dimon brothers, who built the house. A. C. Wilder was a brother of D. W. Wilder, who is not only well known in Fort Scott but throughout the West.
The "Miller Block" was built by Dr. J. G. Miller, who, as stated, was a Representative in 1865, and a prominent man until his death, some time afterwards.
The military telegraph had been run down the road from Leavenworth in 1863, and its last months of use here by the military, the office was conducted by J. D. McCleverty as chief operator. George A. Crawford had erected a year before a large flouring inill of four run of burrs, probably the largest mill then in the State. Early this year he commenced the erection of a large woollen factory, the largest and best appointed of any one in the West. By fall of this year there could be heard the whirr of a thousand spindles, and the inter- mittent thump and bang of many looms. The best grade of merchant yarns, blankets, and woollen clothis were manufactured. The wheat and wool of this and adjoining counties were worked up here which found a ready market. This mill and factory were totally destroyed by fire on the night of November 1, 1870. There was no insurance on this property and its loss to Mr. Crawford caused much financial embarrassment. It was also a severe blow to the city of Fort Scott. These mills were the pride of the town, then struggling for a
SECTION OF MARKET STREET, 1865.
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place in the front rank of the manufacturing points in this State, and ambitious even then, to be rated as the principal city of Southern Kansas.
The establishment of a inilitary post at Fort Scott during the war was, of course, of material advantage to it. While much of the business was of a transitory nature, a very considerable amount of it was of legiti- mate wholesale trade, and the retail trade with the surrounding country was very extensive.
Among the largest business houses at the close of 1865 may be noted the following : Dry Goods-Wilson, Gordon & Ray, A. McDonald & Bro., J. F. White, J. R. Morley & Co .. Wm. Roach, Rosenfield & Co., San- derson & Thomas, Shannon & Seavers, A. J. Lagore, and Jones & Cobb. Groceries-Linn & Stadden, G. R. Bodine, A. Cohen, Ernich & Lender, E. M. Insley, Van Fossen Bros., Parker & Tomlinson, and Penning- ton & Secrist. Hardware-C. F. Drake and Rubicam & Dilworth. Bankers-A. McDonald & Bro. Book Store-S. A. Manlove. Livery Stables-Benj. Files, P. Clough, H. Dimon, S. A. Olds, and Chas. Walker. Watch Maker-D. Prager. Tailors-R. Blackett and J. Winter. Harness Maker-Hartman & Co. Plas- terer-A. Coston. Shoemaker-John Crow. Cabinet Makers-S. O. Goodlander and Wm. C. Weatherwax. Wagon Maker-John A. Bryant. Blacksmiths-W. H. Dory, Moses Boire and C. J. Neal. Drug Stores-D. S. Andrick & Co. and W. C. Dennison & Co. Barbers -Ed. Henderson and Joe Barker. Carpenter-C. W. Goodlander. Masons-John Higgins and Billy Shan- nehan. Physicians-B. F. Hepler, J. H. Couch, J. S.
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Redfield, S. O. Himoe, L. M. Timmonds, J. C. Van Pelt, etc. Lawyers-Too many, as usual.
The rest of the fellows kept saloons.
The principal business part of the town was then on Market street-called Bigler street then-and North Main street. A. McDonald & Bro.'s store was in a long one-story frame house, fronting on Scott avenue, and running along Wall street to the alley. The "Banking House" was in the rear end of it, with an entrance on Wall street.
The other business houses, on Market and Main Streets, were all one and two story frame buildings, many of them but little better than board shanties. Most of the business houses on these streets were burned in the great fire of April 23, 1873.
A very good county fair was held at Fort Scott on October 12, 1865. G. A. Crawford, David Gardner, A. Goff, and N. C. Hood, were the officers.
The general election for 1865, was held on the 2nd of November. In Bourbon County D. B. Emmert was elected as State Senator to fill a vacancy. The Repre- sentatives elected were as follows: 50th District, W. H. Green; 51st, J. L. Wilson; 52nd, Nelson Griswold ; 53rd, C. W. Blair. General Blair ran against W. A. Shannon, a very popular republican, and was elected by a vote of 264, as against 145 for Shannon.
The ruling prices of some of the staple provisions in the fall and winter of 1865, in the Fort Scott market were as follows: Wheat, $2. 50 per bushel; flour, $10 per hundred; corn meal, $2.75 per bushel; oats, $2 per bushel; corn, $2.50 per bushel; sugar, 33 to 5oc per
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pound; coffee, Rio, 6614c per pound; coffee, Java, 75c per pound; teas, $2.50 to $3. 50 per pound; rice, 3oc per pound; molasses, $1. 50 to $3 per gallon; butter, 5oc per pound; cheese, 4oc per pound; eggs, 6oc per dozen; potatoes, $4 to $4. 50 per bushel; turnips, $2 per bushel; green apples, $3.50 to $4 per bushel; dried apples, $5 per bushel.
In the summer of 1865 the Kansas & Neosho Valley Railroad Company was organized at Kansas City, Mo. The initial point of this road was to be at Kansas City. The Southern terminus and direction was undetermined. Official communication was opened with our County Board with a view to having Bourbon County take $150,000 in stock of the Company. After some cor- respondence the Board finally required that the naine of Fort Scott be incorporated in the name of the Company and road, and suggested "Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf" as such name. The Company at once agreed to make the change, and at a meeting on November 18th, the Board ordered an election to be held on the 16th day of December, 1865, on the question of voting $150,000 in county bonds. The election resulted as follows: Osage Township voted 41 for, none against; Freedom 65 for, 4 against; Timberhill 49 for, 33 against; Franklin 4 for, 87 against; Marion 17 for, 67 against; Marmaton 36 for, 29 against; Scott 493 for, none against. Total, 705 for, and 220 against. And the first preliminary struggle for a railroad through Bourbon County was over. This road was completed to Fort Scott in the fall of 1869.
In November, 1865, County Assessor, Mr. E. Brown,
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made his official returns, from which the following figures are taken:
Population - White males, 4,954; white females, 4,282; black males, 379; black females, 418. Total population of the county, 10,033. Fort Scott con- tained about 1,800 inhabitants, who were actual citi- zelis. The total valuation, real and personal, (which the assessor returned together) of the entire county, was $1,442,687.00. During the fiscal year of 1865 there was harvested and manufactured the amounts and articles following : Wheat harvested, 28,676 bushels. Rye, 3,621; Corn, 206,297; Oats, 15,352. Irislı pota- toes, 5,591; sweet potatoes, 821. Butter, 14,498 1bs. Cheese, 11,907 pounds. Sorghum molasses, 7,606 gallons. Hay, 15,565 tons. Total number of acres of land fenced , 34, 344.
Acres of land improved, 25,687. Number of horses, 2,702; number of inules, 301; number of milch cows, 3,630; number of oxen, 603; number of other cattle, 5,209; number of sheep, 6, 345; 1111n ber of swine, 2, 638. Value of live stock, $476, 295.
The population of the county had increased about 4,000 since the enumeration of 1860.
There was no census, even approximate, of the popit- lation of Fort Scott in 1865. There was a large "float- ing population" of refugees and indiscriminate and indescribable people, white and black, who had, prac- tically, no home or residence anywhere, to the number of 1,000 or more. The actual number of bona fide citizens was probably less than 1,800. The tax roll of the city bears less than 400 names.
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THE CLOSE.
The close of the year 1865, is deemed the fitting period to close this volume of the History of Bourbon County. It is the closing point of an Era. Old "Time" here rested his scythe for a moment, and turned the sand in his glass.
A final tribute should be paid to our men and women, one and all, the living and the dead, who came to this county in early times to help found a State.
They sacrificed all the established comforts of their homes in the old States to found new homes in this semi-wilderness. They came with no misunderstanding as to the state of the country or the political and social conditions. They came with their eyes wide open, each well knowing that his life here, for many years, must be and would be a life of hardship, self-denial and danger. As a class, they were a superior people ; superior in that stamina of character; superior in that native manhood and womanhood which goes to make up the "salt of the earth." Poor they were in purse, but rich in integrity of purpose.
At the old fireside, a young man, "the flower of the flock," the one widest between the eyes, stood out from the family circle and said : "Sis, pack my carpet-bag, I'm going to Kansas." "Sis" was probably to follow as soon as a certain young man had a cabin and ten acres of sod corn.
And so they came. Sometimes one, alone, sometimes the entire family.
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Many have passed over to the other side. Many have reached what the man of Avon called the "chair age." A few are still in the vigor of life. All passed through a life's experience such as will come to no other people. They all played a part in that grand drama which closed the heroic epoch in politics and war. They watched, step by step, the political legis- lation, and the unfolding, like the bloom of the deadly night-shade, of the divergent sentiments among the people of the two great Sections. They saw the result- ing partisan strife, of which Bourbon County was the storm-center, and the culmination in bloody civil war. They saw the primal cause-that exudation from the dark ages-go down forever on the very spot of its origin, "the Plantations on the river James." They saw the wayward sisters, as from a pathway through a burning forest, emerge into the sunlight. They saw civilization, -cradled on the rock of Sinai and crowned on the rock of Plymouth, -plant here another guidon under the rising battle-smoke of 1865.
THE END.
J. F. COTTRELL,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
BOOKSELLER,
Stationer
AND WALL PAPER DEALER,
No. 6 North Main Street,
First Door North of Opera House,
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
ESTABLISHED 1865 .- +
T. L. Herbert,
DEALER IN POLISHED
Plate and Window Glass
WALL PAPER, Window Shades, Paints, Oils and Varnish,
PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER.
--- 207 Wall Street.
Established 1869.
Incorporated 1888.
W. H STOUT, PRESIDENT. R. J. HARRIS, VICE-PRES'T. W. H. FOX, SEC. & TREAS.
THE FORT SCOTT
GRAIN ® AND IMPLEMENT COMPANY
(Suescesors to DURKEE & STOUT,)
Agricultural Implements,
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
GRAIN AND SEEDS.
FORT SCOTT,
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KANSAS.
JOHN GLUNZ,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
LEATHER
SADDLERY
HARDWARE
Saddlery, Shoe Leather and Finding.
Manufacturer of 117 MARKET ST., HORSE COLLARS. HIDES, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
W. B. Hunter
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST,
AND Manufacturer of Well Known Pharmaceutical Preparations and Proprietary Remedies. ALSO, A FULL LINE OF DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
Perfumery and Toilet Articles of Every Description, and Physicians' Supplies. Corner Main and Wall Streets,
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
FORT SCOTT FURNITURE COMPANY,
Nos. 10, 12 AND 14 Scott Avenue.
Furniture Undertaking.
Carrying the Largest and Best Selected Stock of
MEDIUM AND HIGH GRADE FURNITURE
In this Section. Buying all goods in car load lots for CASH enables us to undersell all competitors. We can sell Furniture at same price it costs small dealers, and
Guarantee to Save You at Least 20 per Cent.
UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT.
Scientific Embalming.
COFFINS AND CASKETS, Iron, Metallic, Copper and Zinc. SHROUDS, ROBES, Etc. A complete equipment of Hearses, Pall Bearers' Wagonette, Carriages, Hacks and Undertaker's Wagons.
No Extra Charge for Hearses in the Country,
This Department is under the direct supervision of C. W. Good- lander, Jr.,-18 years practical experience in this city and adjacent territory.
CHAN. B. CAMPBELL, Insurance
AND Loans. . .
FIRE, LIGHTNING, CYCLONE, HAIL, WIND STORM, PLATE GLASS, LIFE AND ACCIDENT.
All classes of Insurance at equitable rates. Loans promptly made on Farm and City Property. All kinds of Conveyancing and Notarial work done. Rents collected and properties cared for.
Call and see me when you want business in my line.
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
D. PRAGER,
Watches,
and Jewelry,
UNION BLOCK.
No. 18 Main Street,
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FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
C. C. NELSON. W. P. SMITH.
C. C. NELSON & CO., LOANS.
Loans Promptly Negotiated on Farm and City Property.
Low Rates of Interest and Easy Payments on Principal.
Office : 112 E. First Street,
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
J. V. DABBS,
The Old Reliable
Photographer, . .
GROUND FLOOR STUDIO.
New Process Portraits, Crayon Portraits,
Water Colored Portraits, Frames and Mouldings,
Colored Pictures, Photogravures.
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207 Market Street,
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FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
1858.
1894.
Pioneer Lumber Yard
C. W. GOODLANDER,
Lumber and Grain, . . . DEALER IN
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Cement, Lime AND All Kines of Building Material.
YARDS AND ELEVATORS. Fort Scott, Kansas, Arcadia, Kansas, Uniontown, Kansas, Garland, Kansas, Bronson, Kansas, Liberal, Mo.
T. W, LYNN, Manager.
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W. A. COSTON.
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Dentist,
No. 103 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
FORT SCOTT,
KANSAS.
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H. L. PAGE AND CO.
DEALERS IN
ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES. They buy direct from the manufac- turers, therefore are able and do give their customers the benefit of as low prices on all the different grades and styles of vehicles, as can be had of any dealer in the State. They carry a large stock of
Spring Wagons, Phaetons, Buggies, Road Wagons. Also, a fine line of Harness. They sell the celebrated BAIN WAGON,
Their long experience enables them to select from the different factories the best articles made for Farm Machinery. Their NEW IDEAL MOWER, with ball and roller bearing journals, serrated ledger plates, is without doubt the best Mower now made.
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The New Deering Pony Binder, With ball and roller bearing. FORT SCOTT, KANASS.
No. I Market Square,
STOVES AND
INGE
Warn Hardware Co.,
DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
Cutlery, Stoves and Tinware, 21 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
AGENTS FOR FAVORITE STOVES AND RANGES,
The most durable, convenient, economical and best operating Stoves and Ranges sold in this city or county.
1871. 1894. H. BROWN, Merchant Taflor.
FINE TAILORING A SPECIALTY,
NO. 211 MARKET STREET,
Fort Scott, - Kansas.
T. W. Tallman Lumber Company,
DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
New and Complete Stock of Builders' and Plasterers' Material Always on Hand.
Yards, Cor. National Ave. and Third St., Opposite Court House,
FORT SCOTT, KANS.
1870. 1894.
OFFICE OF THE
Fort Scott Marble and Granite Works,
Cor. Third and - Main Streets.
M. E. FARNSWORTH, Proprietor.
Dealer in Quincy, Barre, Clark's Island, Oak Mill, Mallowell, Concord, Black Diamond, Red Beach and Bay of Fundy Granites. Importer of Scotch Granite, Statuary Figures, Italian Marble and Finished Monuments.
CORRESPONDING OFFICES :
Aberdeen, Scotland, ... and ... Carrara, Italy.
All communications should be addressed
and remittances made to I. W. MOODY, Manager. All parties desiring work in our line would do well to call and see our stock and GET OUR PRICES.
€. W. GOODLANDER, PRESIDENT. C. H. OSBUN, VICE PRES'T. C. B. McDONALD, CASHIER. ORGANIZED IN 1884.
Citizens
National
Bank.
PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $300,000.
Directors. T.W.Tallman,G, W. Katzung, W. P. Dilworth, C.W.Goodlander,C. H. Osbun, F. M. Brickley, B. P. McDonald, Leo I. Stadden, W. C. Perry.
Bank on Main Street, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
Goodsell 9 Calhoun & Co.,
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
KID GLOVES,
CLOAKS,
Complete Line of Seasonable Goods AT ALL TIMES, Can be Found at our Store. GOODSELL, CALHOUN & CO.
DAVID F. COON,
J. J. STEWART,
PRESIDENT.
VICE PRESIDENT.
JAS. R. COLEAN,
CASHIER,
The State Bank,
COR. OF MAIN AND FIRST STREETS,
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
Capital, -
- - $100.000.
C. H. Haynes, John H. Mead, W. H. Harris,
DIRECTORS.
C. C. Crain,
J. J. Stewart,
Thornton Ware,
D. F. Coon,
Henry J. Butler,
Jas. R. Colean.
C. E. HALI
Druggist,
FORT SCOTT, KANS.
The Best is the Cheapest!
Prescriptions Filled at all hours :
Day
or
Night. G
Quality Pays!
We handle only reliable goods of the best makes, and sell them at prices as low as may be consist- ent with good quality.
TOILET
ARTICLES, PERFUMES, BRUSHES, COMBS.
MIRRORS.
C. E. HALL, Druggist, . . 112 S. MAIN STREET.
C. F. DRAKE,
President.
CHAS. NELSON, C. F. MARTIN, Cashier,
Vice President,
ORGANIZED UNDER STATE LAW.
The Bank of Fort Scott,
ESABLISHED, 1881.
Paid-up Capital,
$125,000.
111 WALL STREET,
FORT SCOTT
KANSAS.
DIRECTORS.
C. F DRAKE, CHAS. NELSON, C. F. MARTIN,
J. H. RANDOLPH,
J. F. COTTRELL.
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