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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29
Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas.

Ianu OmC6 Ht Wa-K66ney, Kansas.
May 8, 1886.
No. j Notice is hereby given that the follow
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 the register and re-
ceiyer of the u. 8. land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kans
June 10, 1886, viz: Carey Beavers, REDEMPTION
Declaratory Statement No. 1908 for the southwest
a sec IA, town IL SOUTH range % ".
He names the following Witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation Of said
land, viz: J. W. Wilkin, J. A. Stayt A. B. Mumert
Benz Gaisford, all of Wa-Keeney P. O., Trego
county, kansas.
376 BJF HANNA, Register.
A. H. Blair. ATTY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29

-Drouth-proof seed corn so cents
per bushel at the new feed mill.
374-tf II. S. DAVIS.
Call on Trego County Bank for
real estate loans. m 372-tf
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29
Land ONCE al Va-keenev =

Land Office at wa-keeney ksnsas
May Il, 1885,
No. 1893. Notice is 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 will be made before the register and re-
ceiver OF the q. 8. land Office at wa-keeney kansas
on July 6, 1885, viz: John Ptasck, homestead entry
No. 1879, for the southeast IA section l. town Is a
range Is W.
He names the following Witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation Of said
land, viz: Frank Ptasck, Frank Zeman, James
kuchta, John Hajek, all of Bosnia p. O., Treoo ooun-
ty, kansas 3 F HANNA, Register
A H Blair, Atty 376
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29

No. 3245. q. 8. Land Office, wa-keeney, kansas.
May 8, 1886.
Complaint having been entered at this office by
Grant W. Marshall against Eric Leksell for failure
to comply with law as to hmber-culture entry No
$3.50, dated July rs, 1879, upon the southwest IA
section 8, township Is south, range % west, in
Trego county, Kansas, with view to the cancella-
ton of said entry contestant alleging that the said
Eric Leksen wholly failed to break pillow, cultivate,
plant replant 10 acres any portion of said land
to trees seeds cuttings during since 3rd year
of said entry, that all said failures still continue,
that said tract is wholly devoid of timber trees;
the said parties are hereby summoned to appear
at this Office on the 16 day of June, 1885, at O'Clock
p. m, to respond and furnish testimony con-
corning said alleged failure.
.376 W. H. PILKENTON, Receiver,
A. H. Blair, Atty.
No 6266 q. s. Land Office; wa-keeney, kansas.
May II, 1886.
Complaint having been entered at this office by
Daniel 4. Robbins against william Roberts for
abandoning his homestead entry No S177, dated July
l6, 1885, upon the northwest quarter of section a.
township Is range % ", in Trego county, kansas
with view to the cancellation Of said entry: the
said parties hereby summoned to appear at this
Office on the day of July, 1886, at one O'Clock m
to respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
376 ". PlLKENToN,
william Wilson, Atty. Receiver.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29
SEEDS! SEEDS!

stock:
TREE SEEDS.
Box Elder, Honey Locust, Native
Ash, Usage Orange.
GARDEN SEEDS.
A full and complete stock Of fresh
garden seeds in bulk. Examine our
stock before making purchases.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-29
]. s. Land Contest Notices.

U. S. Land Office, Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
No. 6295. May Is, 1886.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Newton Willmeth against Martin Sweeney for
abandoning his homestead entry No. 1886, dated
August IT, 1885, upon the or section IS, township
15 8, range Is W, in Trego county, Kansas, with a
view to the cancellation of said entry; the said par
ties hereby summoned to appear at this office
the l4th day of July, 1885, at O'Clock 2. NJ, to
respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
378 BJF HANNA, Register.
J Nelson, Attorney.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-27

to his lips. The sight of this sim
pie beverage alarmed Wilton he
started like a man awaking from
nightmare in horror, snatched the
glass from her trembling hand, and
emptied it on the floor, drop by
drop, apparently seeking in it some
frightful thing which he remember
ed with horror.
George" said she, growing pale
in her turn, "what are you looking
for in the glass?"
"For poison" answered Wilton.
Caroline gave a cry of and
with her eyes fixed upon this new
accuser of Lady Baniste, she said
kneeling at his feet
"George, you had better have left
me to die by the hand of the execu-
TONER"
"Therc is the poison" murmured
Wilton, letting fall the last drop of
sherry.
Then said Caroline, with the
gloomy anger of despair:
eyes, did poison Sir Edward.
and you are my accomplice, loved
you always, and love you still.
1t was my love that ruined me. |
was determined to live for you; and
l killed the husband that had been
forced upon me. Now answer me !
Which Of us is the most guilty ?"
Lord Wilton did not answer the
question he crushed under his
heel the glass that had fallen from
his hand, muttered some unintelli-
gible words, and from that moment
ended the intellect and eloquence of
the celebrated barrister. Lord Will
ton was mad
Caroline accepted her punish
ment. Day and night she devoted
herself to him. Sometimes. when
suffering intensely, she said:
Il have no right to live except to
suffer; after the pardon of man,
now let me endure the justice of
God"
Time, suffering and crime were
powerless to Caroline's lofty spirit.
Face to face with her terrible mad
ness, she lost none of her romantic
exaggeration, none of those poetic
ideals which from the seventh heav- =
en- sometimes precipitate one into q
most unpoetic reality. For want of
higher ideal to realize, she now
dreamed out poem ofexplanation,
as she had formerly dreamed one of
sacrifice.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-27
what an Editor shou1d be.

A man who runs paper should know
every human caper, and hold up the
torch of knowledge like a cleaning
midnight taper.
He should be profound as Plato, plant
as boiled potato and as humble to
his patrons as street and crossing
scraper.
He should honor in his journal every
captain, crank and colonel, and dish
up their proud achievements in a
hodge-podge cooked diurnal
He should puf-the hardened liar-clubs
and concerts. church and choir, with
long adjectives sonorows-sweet, SER
aphic and supernal.
He must write the funny column that
makes all his readers solemn, with
the fashions, frill and flounces, fur
bellows and-what-dye-call-em?
Quell the copy fiend's wild revel, squelch
and massacre the devil, and put on a
brow of thunder that shall petrify
and appall 'em.
He must be a news reflector of the lyce-
um and lectur', and rain down his
tahy torrents on the vetern milk in
spector.
He must a prompt adviser to each for
eign king and kaiser, and keep out
his keyhole telescope to dodge the
bill collector.
Linnrl (Mass I HMM
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-27

L have in my possession a postal
card on which is the inquiry
(Which is the best way to pop the
question:" l have had talks with
several hundred men in my time on
this very point. These talks partook
very largely of the character of ex-
periences, and 1 may say that |
have yet to hear of a single happy
connubial union that sprung out Of
a purely commercial proposal. Nor
have 1 known anything good to
come of a marriage springing from
a proposal that had been carefully
prearranged. The happiest 1 have
known were those which grew out
OF moment that seemed created on
the spot for the very occasion. A
man may have loved woman ten
years without having such a NOM
ent as this burst upon him-though
L wouldn't give much for love that
couldn't come to a head sooner. But
if it is love, the moment will come
1t may be in the subdued light or
on the steps of the portico; or on
the gate; or in the solitude of the
forest, where only a bird is swing
ing and singing in the tree-top or
somewhere by the sea. The place is
OF no consequence necessarily. but
1t ought to be secluded to some
extent; where the words are in uni
son; where when you say some
thing, no matter what it is about it
will touch the invisible wire and
send a current of life into her soul
II she does not respond by look or
word you can depend upon it
young man, that you are on a cold
trail. But if she does Then mt
on some more fuel as it warns. fan
1t, and as the flames brighten her
cheek, and her eyes sparkle as if
they were breaking into fragments
and her words wreath about yorr
own, so that your hand is as gentle
IN Its stroke as the step of a fairy
50 that she has to look up at you
from under the silken lashes-tben
II you are not moved by this time
to forget where you arc and who
you are-and if you do not saw it
then-you deserve to be tootbless
bachelor and you run the risk of
making one woman miserable all
the days of her life. But there is no
liked rule for it. And when il IS
over-Iong years after, maybe when
you are sitting by your fire-side and
the winds of a cruel winter are
sounding death taps on your win
dow, II you cannot go back to tbc
place ard the time, over and ove,.
again, and sit down by it. and feei
something like incense steaIino ito
way INTO your soul, God pitv Won
IN your winter Of loneliness. for Won
didn't pop to the right woman
Chicago Herald,
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-05-15

vc luuuei ne .p clai advice snd treatment) win no cure. Sl 50 bottle, or four times the ausn. c. U D.. in private name If desired, by pr. Mintie, il Kearry Si, s. F. Cal. Send for list of questions and rsmplet.
 SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE will be sent to any one apply ing by letter, statn symptom sex and age. Strict secrscy ip rs9ar Al baa1nssa transactions.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-05-15
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY,

Is a certain care fos
 Nervousness, Prostator
 loea, and all the evil
 fleets of youthful folliss
 nd excesses, and iu thinking intoxicating llouors, Dr. Mintse. who is 6 regular physi. ;ian graduate from the University Of Pensyivs.
 lis, will agree to forfeit } 70 for q c4ee of this
 Sind the Vital Restors-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26

IL recent storm Eugene Burleson, a
homesteader from Michigan, WAS lostwhile
hunting cattle near Sterling, Col.
II La Porte County, Ind, hog cholera
was raging to an alarming extent on the
18th. Three-fourths CT the swine in the
county had died from the disease.
On the 18th Jones Spry (colored), the
murderer Of Ada Coleman, was hanged at
Natchez, Miss, and Fong All Sing, con-
victed of the murder Of a Chinese woman,
was executed at San Francisco
IT has been proved that the iron oze re-
Gently discovered near Denver, Ind, is
both rich and abundant, the trail covering
twelve square smiles of territory.
In Lake Huron the. schooner Lucerne
was wrecked during the recent storm, and
her crew Of nine men persisted.
A FIRE few days ago at Jersey City, n
j., DESTROYED Freitag's embroidery factory,
valued at $4,000
Two WHITES and six negroes were pub
licly whipped on the 10Th at Newcastle,
Del, receiving each from five to twenty
lashes.
THE little daughter of Mrs. M. Bryant, of
Lima, O., was burned to death on the Doth
by her clothes catching fire from a stove,
and Maggie McKinne, aged eleven, of
Wellsville, o., met death in similar man
ner.
CHARLES DREGER, Chicago bartender,
on the 21st killed Mrs. Emily Smith, who
had refused to accept his attentions, and
then took his own life.
NEAR Henderson Springs, Tenn, in a
quarrel on the Goth Mrs Tucker killed her
husband with an axe
NEAR Dickinson, d. T., vein of coal
twenty feet thick was recently discovered.
CHICAGO advices of the Goth say that the
marine losses on the lakes during the re-
cent gale foot up d total of $123, 900. The
number Of lives lost was thirty
DURING recent storm in Nebraska
ninety head of cattle persisted and large
numbers of hogs were lost.
On the 21st the Missouri Pacific railroad
ran its train into Omaha, Neb., over the
new belt line, which had just been COM
pleted at cost Of over 81, 000,00G
THE other day the wholesale clothing
houses of Mack, Stadler & Co. and Marcus
Fechheimer q Co., at Cincinnati, were de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of 100000.
Several fremen were injured.
OK the Goth the last Of the militia left the
Chicago Stock Yards, and the force CT
shcriff's officers was also reduced. Many
Of the old employees were at work
JOHN S. PHELPS. Ex-Governor Of Missouri,
died on the Goth at st. Louis.
THE California grape crop this season is
valued at Sc, 100000.
A FEW days ago sixty feet of solid salt
was struck at Port Huron. Mich
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

A GALE on Lake Michigan on the 18th
wrecked many vessels, causing loss of
over 100000. Several sailors persisted in
the storm.
AT the recent election the official plural
ity received by Mr.. Robertson (Rep) for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of Indiana was 1919.
Mr.. La Toilette (Rep.), for Superintendent
OF Public Instruction, received 2,3t7 more
than the head of the ticket
THREE section-men were run down bv a
snow-plow on the 18th near Panora Ia
James Farrow and his son were killed and
Joseph Davis was fatally wounded
I'VE official returns on the 18th from the
recent election in California give Barrett
(Dem.) plurality for Governor of $50 over
Swift (Rep.) The Republicans elected
the Lieutenant-Governo Attorney-Gen-
eral, Superintendent of Public instruction
and Surveyor General The Legislature
has a Democratic majority of ten on joint
ballot, Of the six Congressman four are
Republicans.
EIGHTEEN times in seventeen years the
planing-mill of j, K. Russell & Co., in Chi
cage, has been Quilted by flames, the loss
on the 18th being $4,000.
OK the 18th the dwelling of James John
son, farmer living near Landisville, Ind,
was burned, Johnson's two daughters,
aged eighteen and twenty years, and a hired
man perishing in the fl"mes.
AT the recent electio in Ohio the official
vote for Secretary Of State was: Robinson
(Rep.), S41,095; Mcbride Dem), 9,314;
Smith CPro.), 2S,9S3; Bonsall (Greenback),
2,Ol0. Robinson's plurality, 11,7S1.
THE death of Isaac Shelby, the son Of the
first Governor of Kentucky, occurred at
Danville, KY, on the 18th, at the age of
ninety years.
CITY TREASURER DUEsTERBERG, of Vim
cennes, Ind, was on the 18th said to be
short IN his accounts to the extent of S12,00
THE American Humane Association on
the 10th closed its annual session at Cincin-
natl. A resolution was adopted calling
upon all school authorities in the country to
set apart one day in the year as kindness
to-animals day"
A. A. ANIEs, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Minnesota in the late election,
commenced a contest on the 18th, although
beaten by McGil, Republican, by 1850
votes.
On the 10Th the first Confederate monu-
ment erected upon the field of Gettysburg
was dedicated in the presence of a large
number of veterans of both armies.
THE schooners Marinette and Menekau-
nee were wrecked of Frankfort, Mich, on
the 10th, seventeen lives being lost.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
LATER

IMPRESSIVE funeral services were held in
New York on the morning of the 22d over
the remains of ex-President Arthur, Presi-
dent Cleveland, Hon. James G.. Blaine.
Chlef-Justice Waite and many other public
officials attending. The remains were
taken to Albany for interment by the side
OF his wife. The executive departments in
Washington were closed as a mark of re-
spect.
The wreck of the schooner L. J. Conway
was discovered on the 22d seven miles
north of Montague, Mich. The entire crew
of five persisted
JOHN R. TANNERS official majority for
State Treasurer OF Illinois, as canvassed
by the State Board on the 22d, is 36,472, and
richard Edwards for Superintendent of
Public instruction, 1854. The majority for
the constitutional amendment is 1885.
SEVERAL buildings were wrecked on the
I'D at Pleasanton, Kan, by cyclone, and
two persons were seriously injured.
One HUNDRED women filters at the shoe
factory of Wolf & Co., in Cincinnati, went
out on strike on the 22d because of the
discharge of foreman
A HOTEL, five dwellings and two stores
at Marysville, Pa, were burned on the 22d
ALL the Russian steamers on the Danube
were on the ed ordered to proceed to
Odessa. Germany refused to protect the
Bulgarian conspirators.
A COLLISION of freight trains on the 22d
on the Illinois Central road, near Savoy,
H., killed four men and fatally in ured two
others.
In the ciralit court at Springfield, H.,
on the I'D Judge Creighton refused to en-
join the State canvassers from declaring
the result of the vote on the convict-labor
amendment.
CHOLERA was reported on the 22d as pre-
valilng in the Argentine Republic.
BALDWIN GARDINER, prominent stock
broker of San Francisco disappeared on
the ed. 1t was estimated that he owed
customers 500, 900.
A CYCLONE struck Girard, Kan, on the
22d, wrecl1ing AL light structures and de-
molishing the Presbyterian Church. A
number of persons were injured, some fa-
tally.
THE will of ex-President Arthur was
made last spring, and provides for his fam
lily and relatives only. The property to be
distributed amounts to 100000 in real es-
tate and about the same amount in securi-
ties.
THE main and three annexed buildings of
the Newburg On. W wooden mills were
destroyed by fire on the 22d, the loss
amounting to 100000.
THE last of the deputy sheriffs left the
Chicago Stock Yards on the ed. But fifteen
special policemen remained on duty in that
territory.
THE canvass on the 22d Of the official vote
of Wisconsin at the recent election gives
Rus5 (Rep.) a majority over Woodward
Dem.) of 18,71S The vote in the State on
Governor stands: Rusk (Rep.), 1913, 247;
Woodward Dem.), 114,529; DIN (Pro.).
l7,0S9; Cochrane Labor, 21,440.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
A PEACEFUL END.
Death in New York of Ex-Presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur.
A Stroke OF Cerebral Apoplexy the I'm.
mediate Cause = Funeral Arrange
ments-A Presidential Procla-
mation-Biographical
DEA4H OF Ex-pRrs1pESr ARTHUR.

New YORK, Nov Colchester Alan Ar
thur, ex-President of the United States,
died suddenly at his residence, 123 Lexing-
ton avenue, at five a. N. yesterday The
immediate cause Of his death was a stroke
of cerebral apoplexy which came in his
sleep between Tuesday night and Wednes-
day morning, the result of the bursting of
blood vessel. His death was painless
1t was like the slow going out of burned
down candle, and for hours before the end
came she dying man vAls unconscious. His
son and daughter, his sisters and Sherman
W. B-nevals, his former law partner and
intimate friend, were at his side when the
summons came.
For many months General Arthur hal
been very sick man, and although imme-
diately prior to the fatal shoSh he was APP
parently brighter and more cheerful than
usual, his death was not unexpected by his
intimate friends. For two years he ha |
been suffering from complication OF
Bright's disease of the kidneys and an en-
feebled and enlarged heart 1t was this
latter disorder that weakened his robust
constitution and prepared the way for the
rupture of the blood-vessel in his brain
which caused his death
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
TIE NEW s.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON

THE President reinstated NJ E. Benton
as attorney for the Western district OF
Missouri He was discharged for making
campaign speeches.
In the United States there were 207 bust
ness failures during the seven days ended
on the 10Th and thirty-fve in Canada.
THE PostmaSter-General on the Goth re
ported 1854 post-offices, Of which 1924 are
Presidential There were p, al postmas-
tiers appointed during the year. There are
1Sl free-delivery Offices The total revenues
for the year were $43, 949, 422, and the excess
of cost over revenue S, 254, 157.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
S1901, Al, 723 against 81 OBS, 578, 1873 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the decrease amounts
to 8.8 per cent.
DURING the past year the disbursements
Of the Government on account of the
army were S13,444, 733.
In his annual report on the goth for the
fiscal year ended June 30, General Hazen,
chief signal officer, says that during the
year the percentage of verifcation of wealth
er indications was 95 2-10 per cent.
THE Secret Service discovered on the
10Th that some parties were plating two
cent coppers and passing them as silver
quarters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


THE Canadian crop reports on the 18th
showed a decrease in the yield of wheat,
| corn and barley. Oats and peas showed an
| increase.
THE Knights of Labor in British Columbia
have inaugursted a system by which the
twenty thousand Cinnamon employed in
the province will be boycotted.
ADvIoEs of the 18th from Ottawa states
that the disintegration of Canada was rap
idly coming about, and that thoughtful PEG
pie were looking forward to annexation
with the United States as the solution of
the present troubles.
BANDITS have burned several fine sugar
plantations in Cuba, and have carried off
five planters, holding them for ransom
On the 18th the cashier of the military
office in Madrid absconded. He was short
100000 in his accounts.
CHARLES MCAULAY, while drunk on the
18th, kicked his aged father to death at
Toronto, Ont.
CANADA observed the 18th as Thanksgiv-
ing Day. A snow-storm prevailed all day.
NEAR Kingston, Ont, two Pullman Sleep
ers were burned on the 10Th, the passen-
gers escaping in their night-clothes. The
loss was $4,000.
IN a battle at Micogee, Burmah, the other
| day, sixty Burmese were killed.
In the insane hospital at Buenos Ayrcs
cholera broke out on the 18th.
ABERLARDO TEJERINo, a noted desperate,
the terror Of the Mexican from tier was re-
Gently captured and shot by Mexican sol
ders.
Mrs. REEKIE and her three children were
| few days ago asphyxiated by escaping
gas in Cuparfife, Scotland She was about
to leave for America with her children to
join her husband.
THE news was received at London on the
10Th that a ship crowded with native labor
ers returning from Queensland plantations
foundered in the Pacific Ocean, and 40
lives were lost.
AT Tondo, in the Island of Luzon, the
largest of the Philippine group, one thou
sand houses were destroyed by recent fire.
LONDON Socialists paraded on the 21st.
The various bodies were headed by bands
of music, and Dinners were carried bearing
incendiary inscriptions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26

HENRY BERGH says when he first be-
gan the society-for-the-prev
cruelty-to-animals movement the only
donations he received came in 81 and
So lots Later on 800 checks began to
take away his breath, but now immense
fortunes float around his way and he
guides them into the society's ex-
chequer without any excitement
Speaking of the contest of Miss Wei
tons will, just decided in his favor, he
said; "It has already cost the con-
testants $4,000, and l think they will
not appeal"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
Knights to Build Paeklng-House

CHICAGO, Nov. 22-The Chicago Co
Operative Packing and Provision Company
is the title Of new corporation just
licensed Its formation is the outgrowth
of the Stock Yards strike, and the stock
holders will be drawn mostly from the
ranks of the Knights of Labor and the
trades unions, although any one can hold
stock, each individual being limited to the
ownership Of ten shares at ten dollars
each. The capital stock has been fixed at
$4,000, and the first assessment of S2.5
per share is to be paid when 100000 has
been subscribed. The nominal incorpo-
rators are Venier Waldo, James Bancroft,
Herman jacobson and Michael j. Crotty,
all Of whom are Knights Of Labor.