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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-03-27
NEIeRBORINe NOTES.
Points From Towns and Counties
Doing Business at
Wa-keeney.
4 Big Showing, But All the Better
for That.
Cove Ceunty.
GyfnneH Golden Bell. 20,

Grinncu Colder Bell, 20.
Several of our farmers are sowing oats.
Garden making is now the order of the
day.
J. M. Hammond paid Wa-Keeney a
short visit. Friday.
r. J. Stewart made flying trip to
Wa-Keeney, Saturday.
Cove county will have population of
over 5000 before next September.
Parties from blackberry report great
many houses building in that part of the
. county.
A Sunday school will be organized at
the residence of Mr.. Van Smith, the Dist
inst. Ali are invited to attend.
A. II. Jones, who has been clerking
for Joe Corrette, took the fast train Mon
day morning for Wa Ieeney, where he
will visit friends and have a rest Al.
has many warm friends in Grinnell, and
we hope to see him back.
Samuel Till has been commissioned
postmaster at blackberry, Van Smith
having resigned in his favor last July
Mr.. Smith served over four years, and
tANiA,6 ehoe sAiAC ou0 ttuCcl Aol q
lost registered package passed through
the Office, and that was found to be a
mistake at the mailing Office.
Crnnfeld CAP Sheaf, 10.
Mr.. McMath's sister is visiting here
now.
A horse thief was arrested by the
sheriff of a county northeast of here
Tuesday. The fellow was working in tie
steel gang.
Mr. j. H. Baker, the stirring business
man in charge of Hamilton, or Rushton
as it is now called, passed through town
Saturday.
T. B. Rhodes, foreman of the pool, was
up over Sunday. Reports 800 hides tai
lied so far, with more to hear from. The
leather market should be over stocked
this season.
A very successful reading club was
organized Monday, March Is, 1885, at
Mrs. Killean's, which is to be called
''The Grainield Browning Club and
consists exclusively of ladies'"
George Pinkham, formerly county
clerk, made us very pleasant call Fri
day last. He is pleasant man and has
made considerable money, besides lots of
friends, in this country.
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-Bennett & Smith have taken
the agency for the A. E. and II. A.
Warren lets, Parties interested
should call o.s them. 35G tt
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Thomas County.

COl6y Tom Cat, IS.
We suggest either Oberlin, Wa-Kee.
ney or Stockton for the congressional
convention.
The. search of last Sunday for Samuel
Stewardson availed nothing.
A large sized prairie fire was running
at large west of town Tuesday night.
Mr.. A. Stream was married to Miss
Camp, at Oakley, Sunday last. May
the little streams be numerous.
John Burge, living at Hughes, twelve
miles west, was arrested by Sheriff
Baker, of Trego county, Monday. The
crime he is charged with is using the
United States mail to tell fellow where
to caress him.
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Land Office at wa-Keeney, Kansas

Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
February a, 1886.
No. 1904. Notice is hereby given that the fol
lowing settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof In support of his claim and that
said proof will be made before the register and re-
ceiyer of the U land Office at Wa-Keeney Kan. on
April 20, 1885, viz: Alfred Lawson Homestead axpli
cation no. 1888 for the sw 4 sec 81, tp Is B. r22v
He names the following witnesses to prove his con-
tinuous residence upon and cultivation OF said hand
viz: John Ronnquist, Axel Wiklund, 8 Likens, OF
Wa-Keeney, o, Trego co. Kan, John Kelley, Of
Ogallah o, Trego co, Kan.
$50 BJF HANNA, Register
H Blair, Atty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-03-27

w. A. Wookey is running the
Photograph Gallery over Kritch-
fields furniture store. Give him a
call. 355
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-Cowick & Wheeler Bros. will
give special attention to final proofs
and contests. 366-tf
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No. 1863. U. S. Land Office, Wa-Keeney, kan.
March %, 1856.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Columbus A.. Carson against Anders Dieterich for
abandoning his homestead entry No l741 dated Jan.
range 20 ", in Trego county, kansas, with view
to the cancellation of said entry; the said parties
are hereby summoned to appear at this Office ON the
8th day Of May. 1886, at O'Clock p. NJ to respond
and furnish testimony concerning said alleged aban
donment. 369
B. ]. F. HANNA, Register.
A. H. Blair, Atty.
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Rocks County.

!. Stockton Record, fo.
0obody starts 8 new house every
DAY in Stockton.
Ducks are getting plenty along the
streams,
Tho Eagle says that Webster is to have
e bank.
The Plainville folks celebrated ST.
Ratiick,s day Oh thursday.
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1.na oa,e Z wa-Keeosy. x,n.,

February 10, 1854
No. 4O23.1 Notice IL hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice Of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and that
said proof viii be made before the Register and Re-
ceiver of the q. s. Land Office at Wa-Keeney Kan.
on April Z, 1885, viz: Homestead application
No. 1913 of Stephen H Likens, for the nv 4 sec 80
twp 13 of range q v.
He names the following witnesses to prove his CON-
tinuous residence upon and cultivation Of said land
viz: Ben Mapes, Thomas Caddick, of wa-Keeney.
Kansas, S. S. Harvey, Ben Rich, Of Ogallah, Kan
365 80 B. j. F. HANNA Register.
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No. 1894. U. S. Land Office, Wa-keeney, Kan.
March IA 12S6

March Is, 1886.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Frank Danford, of wa-Keeney, Kansas, against
Albert S. Ellsworth, for failure to comply with
law as to timber-culture entry No. 1921 dated
November II, 1879, upon the or of 8, town -
s. range % ", in Trego county Kan., with view to
the cancellation of said entry; contestant alleging
that said Albert s. Ellsworth has not since the date
of his said entry Nov. H. 1879, to this date incu-
sve planted caused to be planted and kept grow
ing ten acres any part of ten of trees upon
said tract. Nor has he planted or caused to be
planted seeds of trees within said period upon ten
acres of said tract or any part of ten acres
thereof and kept the growing as required by
law; the said parties are hereby summoned to APP
pear at this Office on the 18th day of May, 1886,
at 3 O'Clock A. NJ, to respond and furnish testi-
mony concerning said alleged failure. 1863
3. j. F. HANNA, Register.
8. R. Hogin, Atty.
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Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing described lots and lands situated in
Trego and Cove counties, Kansas, and
which we're sold September 4, 1883, fol-
the unpaid taxes of the year 1882, will, on
the 9Th day of September, 1886. be con-
veyed to the purchasers unless redeemed
according to- law before that date. In
terest and costs computed to the last day
of redemption:
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j. s. Land Final Proofs.

Land Office at Wa-Keeney Kansas.
No. 1908. March 3d. 1885,
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support Of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before Register and Receiver U. 8.
Land Office at Wa-Eeeney, kansas, June 8, 1886,
viz: George Brooks Homestead Application No
5l05, for the NV 4 6, town IL S, range % W.
He names the following witnesses prove his con-
land, viz: R. Kershaw, JOS Werlich, w. s. Harri-
son. W. s. Kyle, oil Of waKeeney p. o., Trego coun-
ty, kansas. J69
B. J. F. HANNA, Register.
A H Blair Atty.
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No. 57s1. US. Land Once, wa-Keeney Kan.

No. $751;. U. S. Land Office, Wa-Keeney an.
March IL, 1886.
Complaint having been entered ct this office by
Samuel C. Robinson against Nicholas J. Kaiser for
abandoning his homestead entry No. SSIl, dated
September 8, 1885, upon the eia sw1, and wiz se4
sec 8. town los, range 25w, in Trego co, Kansas,
with view to the cancellation of said entry; the
said parties are hereby summoned to appear at this
Office on the 9Th day of May, 1886. at l O'Clock
NJ, to respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment.
3G7 BJF HANNA, Register
Carson & Pinkam, Att'ys.
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], s, Land Contest Notices,

No. $685. Land Office at Wa-Keeney Kan.
March Is, 1886.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
William Stevens against Elliott NJ Mathews for
failure to comply with law Us to timber-culture
entry number 504S, dated February 10, 1885, upon
the Sc a of section Is. tp Is s. % W, in Trego
county, Kansas, with view to the cancellation of
said entry, contestant alleging that the said Elliott
M Mathews wholly failed to break pillow acres
or any portion of said land during or since first
year of entry or to cause the same to be done the
said parties hereby summoned to appear at
this Office the 18th day of May, 1856, at O'Clock
p. m, to respond and furnish testimony concern
ing said alleged failure.
B. J. T. HANNA, Register.
A. H. Blair, Atty. 1868
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
LOGGING on the Elbe River.

The principal industry of the Elbe
shores are the stone-quarries and the
timber trade, for which the immense for
ests of Saxony and Bohemia are the treas
uries. There are endless timber yards
and saw-mills along the banks of the
river, and also up along the tributary
streams which bring the tree-trunks from
the surrounding forests after they have
been run down the slides made for them
in the hillsides.
l have seen the course of a stream COW
cred with them for miles, and thence
through dams they are guided into the
Elbe by the raft builders, each log pushed
or pulled by iron-hooded poles into its
proper place, others joining it alongside
or above or beyond, until a great raft Of
100 feet or more is constructed. There
ore long, oar-shaped rudders fore and aft,
sometimes a little hut for shelter, and a
heap Of earth on which the men build
their fire, and so they start off on their
long journey down to the sea, hating by
night. past Dresden and Madeburg away
TO Hamburg and the German ocean. In
spring and autumn they thus float by
thousands down the pearly gray stream,
In summer the water is often too low,
while in winter they are blocked by the
ice.-Cor. Chicago Times.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
Driving Away the English snarrow.

III regard to a means of destruction,
let every state offer a small bounty for
birds and eggs, and the small boy will do
the work. A bird is not at all compare
bic with locusts or mosquitoes. Intelli-
gence or instinct as we may call it,
makes the vast difference. We might
prosecute insects till the end of time,
and they would still come upon us each
year; but birds are very quick to see
whether or not they are wanted, If
they are prosecuted, they instinctively
draw away from man, as in the case of
the crow.
We may not be able to entirely rid our
selves Of the pest, but we can at least
succeed in driving them away from the
cities; and once get them into the coun-
try, where they can be taught to fear the
shotgun, and we shall have them at
least under our control. They can be
driven away from the cities If their nests
are demolished as soon as made, and if
all the bird-houses are removed. A care
full use of poison might also work with
advantage, and in the large parks the
shotgun in the hands of competent men
could be brought into use.-Cor. Science.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08

AS l have witnessed two cases of said
to be death by catalepsy which were re-
stored to health again, let me give p pict-
ure of them that may help to all some
N in distress or anxiety about a sup
posed death.
All pains die out, the pulse gets slower
and weaker, respiration becomes fainter,
the eyelids culver and slowly close, while
tears appear at the inner angles. The
limbs and arms get cold, to slowly pro-
gress over the whole body. The limbs
n body do not become rigid as in real
death.
came near being expelled from a room
once in such a case, but after convincing
them that no one ever died with tears in
their eyes, a fact, was allowed to proceed
and restored the patient.
Ii a rigidity of the muscles (rigor
mortis) does not supervene soon after
death, wait, and apply a nail, blue hot,
over the brachial OF femoral artery, and
If it reddens up, there is yet chemical nc
ton and the person is not dead, and an
srt should be slowly made to restore
the suspended animation. If the limbs
car be hexed, and stay where you put
them, then it is not death, only a suspen-
sion of nervous action.
No one should be buried or even cof-
fined until satisfactory evidence is shown
comprehensive to the most illiterate that
death has established it's claim. I do not
believe there is one person in 10000 ever
buried alive.-"M. D." in Inter Ocean.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08


When in India Macaulay used to get up
at 5 every morning las everybody else
did,, and till 9 or 10 be read Greek or
Latin and went through the whole range
Of classical literature of every sort and
kind; one day in the government library
he met with the works of Chrysostom,
fourteen Greek follos, and he took home
first n volume and then another, till
he had read the whole through, that is,
he had not read every word, because he
had found that it contained a great deal
of stuff not worth reading, but he had
carefully looked at every page, and had
actually read the greater part.
asked Stepeen by what mental pro-
cess Macaulay had contrived to accumu-
late such boundless stores of informa-
ton, and how it was all arranged in his
head that it was always producible at
will. He said that he had first of all the
power of abstraction, of giving his UNI
divided attention to the book and the
subject on which he was occupied; then,
as other men read by syllables or by
words, he had the faculty, acquired by
use, of reading by sentences, of swallow
ing, as it were, whole paragraphs at
once, and thus he infinitely abbreviated
the mere mechanical part of study
Memoirs of Greville.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
A Row of MASKING Countonances.


A curious study of a quite distinct
type of dandy-the much-abused masher
of actresses-is just now possible at one
of the theaters, where q burlesque is
drawing scant audiences. Last evening
l sat three seats back in the parquet,
which was three-fourths empty, but the
front row of chairs had not a single va
cancy, and in them was as perfect ex-
hibits of the chasers of chorus girls as
could possibly have been gathered.
Some time | am going to beg the priv
ilege of thrusting the surreptitious nozzle
Of a camera throughthe hole in the seen
erv at a juncture when the calcium is
lighting up the scene SO as to photograph
that row of MASKING ~countenances.
They must be a ludicrous sigh from the
stage.-"Durandal's New York Letter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
Peculiarities of the Raccoon.

One popularity of the coon, which, like
most of his p%eculiarities, have escaped
the attention Of the naturalists who write
books, is that he never touches food until
he has quaffed at some spring or brook,
even if he is compelled to go far to find
it. Old coon hunters say that the coon
dips every mouthful Of his food in water
before eating it, but like all hunters, old
coon hunters say a good many things it
would bother them to prove.
1t is doubtful whether there are many
people who know that in no other country
on the globe besides the American CONT
nent can the coon be found, and that al
though he is a favorite game in the
south, he Is nowhere so gamy and excel
lent in condition as In the middle states.
ofhen the coon grows inordinately fat
IA large he lessons his chances offalling
tim to the hunter, for then he ven
les but a short distance from his hid
rng place and gives the dog small oppor-
stunity of finding his trail. 1t was rare,
for this reason, even in the days when
coon hunting was a science, that a coon
over twenty pounds in weight was "
Jagged, although they have been known
% attain a weight of forty pounds. Cor.
New York Times.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
Foreign Notes.,

LONDON, Jan. 1.-The government
has intimated its intention of opposing
the revival of the bill providing for
construction of tunnel under English
channel between England and France.
VIENNA, Jan. 1.-The newspapers
here state that Emperor Francis
Joseph is negotiating with a view to
buying the Gesteim Domain, includ-
ing the Hot Springs and the Badesch-
loss Hotel. the annual residence of
Emperor William of Germany.
ROME, Jan. 1.-The Pope has con-
verted personal presents Of many years
into money and has donated the pro.
ceeds, 10000 pounds, to the college Of
the Propaganda.
PARIS, Jan. Mime Bernhardt is
again complaining of poor health.
The pilgrimage to the house in
which M. Gambetta died was smaller
than usual this year on account of a
cold DRILLING rain.
{ BERLIN, Jan. 1.-The Berlin exhibit
ton has been fixed for 1888.
1.-The German Trade Review says that
the new year opens with a gloomy
outlook; that the commercial world is
uneasy on account of the governments
project to monopolize the spirit of
trade.
PARIS, Jan. In. Charles De Les
seps will start for Panama on January
9th. His father will follow on the
29th.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08

A S%tonington, Conn, man who has
chewed tobacco over fifty years has sud
deuly given it up. He states that when
q baby he was very cross, and no remedy
for his Immature could be found. One
day creeping ON the floor, he CHANGED
upon a chunk of tobacco put it in his
mouth, and the effect was magical. He
was q good-natured baby thereafter. So
he was given tobacco along with his
milk. Now, after fifty years, he eschews
the weed.-Chicago Times.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08

Lewis Selye, who represented the
Rochester district of New York in con-
gress, was an able man, but could not
speak extemporaneously. On one occa-
sion, when he was to read speech which
he had carefully prepared, he enlisted
the aid of two friends. The duty of the
a on his right was to hand him his
manuscript page by page, and of the n
on his left to take the sheets when he
had finished. He started in well, and
with the earnestness Of sophomore elo-
quence proceeded to deliver himself of
his views on the momentuous question
under consideration-an very sensible
views they were.
Suddenly he paused, looked perplexed,
4i scanned the page he held. "The
e1ust be-the tarif-why--it! I've
t before" His friend on the left
Used a page behind his back to the
nd on his right, and he had begun
tding it for the second time. The Con-
OCCASIONAL Record contained an expur-
rated report, with the profanity left out;
put Mr.. Selye manipulated his own man
ascript ever after. Ben: Perley Poore.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08
coon NIGHT.

A
MY dear, my own, so many leagrns
Between us lie, my heart fatiguss
In reaching toward you with its love.
The wind is still, and high above !.
The moon rides on in silent state
And shows the hour is growing late, {
lean far out into her light,
And softly whisper "Love, goodnight"
do not know where you may be, =
There's only love 'twixt you and me d
To hold us by its silken chain,
Until hands shall touch again,
Until our hands and lips shall meet
In some dear hour when all the sweet
OF life and love we'll claim as ours,
And earth be filled with summer flowers.
And always, be it months or years,
Until this cloud of parting clears,
And we shall venture hand in hend
Across the mystic border-land
Where hope has scattered fragrant
blooms
~ faith dispels the darkest glooms,
Pefore sleep comes with visions bright,
I'll softly whisper "Love, good night"
-Medora Clark in Inter Ocean.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-08

A Chapter of Accidents from Nazoo
Special to Commercial Herald.
YAzoO Cry, Jan. To-day has
been memorable for sad accidents.
John G. YATES, residing here but afeW
weeks, and employed as a wood work
er in the Harlans' carriage establish
ment, either from ignorance or from
desire, took an overdose of morphine
last night at the White house, and died
to-day at ten am. He had been
-spreeing heavily for ten days and was
on his spree when he swallowed the ia
tal dose. Hecame here from Springfield
Ohio, where he has respectable and we'll
to do connections. His family at that
place were promptly wired Of his sui
eide.
This morning, just before noon, at
the McLaurin house, Lee Anderson, a
young colored man, ana Eliza. a color
ed girl, employees of the house, while
cleaning up a boarder's room directly
over the kitchen, being engaged in
play, when Anderson pointed a Win
chester rifle at her, which he found ia
the room. In handling the gun, by
some means, it went off. The ball
passed through the floor into the
kitchen below, striking Nettie Perkins
in the shoulder, ranging down, innlct.
ing a fatal wound, though the girl is
still alive. She was an employe Of the
house.
The train brought in the body Of a
colored boy who had his head blown
off yesterday at Arding, being the re-
suit Of accidental shooting.