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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
LET THE SOUTH ALONE
That is the Unanimous Plea of the
Leaders of That Section.
THE WHITE RACE MUST RULE.
There is but One Southern Question and
That is the One of Race.
VIEWS OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS
Some Interesting Answers TO Couple Of Rather
Direct Queries.

In answer to questions the leaders of the
South give their views on the so-called
Southern Question" They are practically
unanimous in asking to be let alone to work
out their own salvation. Nearly all assert
that the white race must control the local
government. One or two say that there is no
such question.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

DIR. HAMMOND protests against the
American habit of gulping down a
great quantity of ice-water. He says
that it induces catarrh of the stomach,
which underlies dozen other troubles
and, very possibly, cancer of the
stomach. Ice, used in small quanti-
ties, is valuable remedy; but any
one had better swallow Goals of fire
than ice-water. It bisters and de-
stroys the membrane. Dyspepsia is q
sure consequence, and it does not even
insure temporary comfort. What,
then, can we do? Swallow instead an
occasional crumb of ice. Reasonably
cold, but not ice-cold, lemonade is q
convenient and wholesome drink. Bet
ter yet is the old-fashioned farmers
drink of one-half milk and one-half
water. This is refreshing and cooling
when far from ice-cold.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
Two Shocking Conundrums.

Until q few nights ago thought
that the worst conundrum ever per-
petrated was that William Black, in
the Strange Adventures OF House
boat" makes his spirited American
heroine, Peggy Rosslyn, PROFOUND to
shocked English people. why was
General Wolseley the most extraor-
binary general in the world ?" she asks,
and then replies, while the staid En-
glish folk are dumbfounded, Because
he not only took Cairo, but Damietta. 7
The night I found one to beat this l
was riding in grip-car behind lady
and gentleman who I discovered were
coming from session of reading
club. They got to talking conundrums,
and the lady posed the escort. What
is the difference" she asked, between
the Eiffel Tower and Queen Eliza
beth?" Give it up" said he, after
thinking while the car ran six blocks.
why" said the lady" one is wonder
and the other was a Tudor. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
MEXICAN EoR1u1KD HOUSE

upon our arrival, being used for cock
fight, and one or two hundred people
were jammed therein, yelling like
panthers. In the pit were dead, bloody
rooster or two that had been butchered
to make Mexican "holler" day. As
all of the rooms emptied by their one
single door into the little patio, the
beauty of the situation can probably
be appreciated by some. The only
other outlet was by grated window,
which made our apartments look like
prison, cheerful aspect that is
peculiar to nearly all Mexican houses.
I would rather have spent couple of
nights in an American prison. We
were crowded into rooms four to six in
each.
The road from Cusihuiriachic to Car
ichic brings us to the foot of the Sierra
Madre Mountains, beyond which all
roads cease and only trails are followed
by the patient donkey and the mel
ancholy mule. On the way over we
came to an adobe building that de-
parted in a very picturesque way from
the everlasting mud-box style of archi-
lecture SO common to this country. and
for which departure we have to thank
the Apaches, not that they built it, for
an Apache never built anything except
under compulsion, and at that time
compulsion of these Indians was the
scarcest thing in Mexico; but, rather,
they compelled the Mexicans to do it
that is, build corner towers on the
ends of the mud-box and convert it into
building of defense. In the pictur-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Howard Courant: The Howard NJ.
E. church will be reopened and dedi-
Gated on Sunday July q, at which time
Bishop Ninde, OF Topeka, will be pres
ent and will preach the dedicatory SER
mon.
Junction City Union: Rev. e. a.
Chaplin, of Lincoln, Neb., occupied the
Universalist pulpit, and gave couple
Of splendid sermons to large audiences.
Rev. Chaplin is pleasant speaker, and
is q deep thinker OF the modern school
He left very favorable impression.
Delphos Republican: Delphos is an
important religious center. A meeting
Of the Presbytery of this district VIII be
held here in September; the Spiritual.
lists campmeeting begins August lOth;
the N. E. district conferences VIII 30
held here in connection with the Meth
odist campmeeting tho first of Septem-
her. and It 10 understood that the Uni
vsrsahst general conference win cou-
veae hare this fhlL
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

- over, while the American farmer
would begin to wonder if the old farm
would stand third mortgage or not.
OF course, the American viii say that
about certain number of bushels are
sown to the acre, and after all 100 for
l, 30 for l, etc., really gives us crude
ratio after all in Judging of the fer
tllity Of the land. But would answer
that in Mexico so little attention Is
paid to even such definite ratio, or
any other in agriculture, that no one
can form any idea whatever on such
mathematics for basis of conjecture.
Some seven or eight miles from Gus
lhuiriachic (shortened to Coosey by the
Americans of this region, canyon Is
entered at its mouth, through which
runs river of the same cognomen. In
q few miles more the rocky sides OF the
canyon broke into the most picturesque
castellated rocks on both sides, in many
places hanging over our heads as IT the
faintest jar would send them tumbhng
down upon us. One of the illustrations
shows the view on one side of the can
yon; but, after all, it can give no ade-
quate idea of the scene, for there was
much color on the rocks, while the sun
was just setting in the west over the
panorama before us.
Arriving in Cusihuiriachic late in the
evening, We found the most primitive
hotel any civilized mans eyes ever
rested upon. although this is town
of six or seven thousand people, &C
cording to their own estimate.
The patio, or interior plaza of
the hotel Gf a place where one
can get nothing to eat and have the
privilege of putting his blankets on a
dirt floor can be called an hoteD was,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
Punishment In Turkey.

I witnessed this punishment in front
of the Pasha's palace at Damascus.
The culprit was lying full length on
the ground, with brawny Turkish
soldier sitting cross-legged on his
chest like q nightmare, by way of
making him comfortable, while two
men held up the soles of his feet in the
air and two others belabored them
with long sticks, as if beating q carpet.
The within himself never uttered q
sound, but the two who were thrash
ing him howled and screamed like
demons, perhaps to save him the trou-
BILE of doing it himself.
The moment the punishment was
over up jumped the two other men and
logged the foggers themselves, doubt
less for not hitting hard enough, and
then q fat Turkish major, who had
been watching the whole business
with smile Of quiet, heartfelt enjoy
ment, walked placidly up and boxed
their ears all around, as If he were
giving them his blessing, after which
the congregation dispersed.- CosMo-
politosa,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

DooRKEEpER LoEFLER, of the White
House, has a wonderful memory. He
was with Stanton at the time of Lin.
coins assassination, and during the
trials of 1865 was ordered to the White
House for the duties he is still perform.
ing. His recollection of faces Is re.
markable. "You called on Mr.. Gar.
field" or Il remember you during the
Hayes regime" he will sometimes say
to a man whom he has never seen but
once, and that years ago. He can tel
a "crank" on sight, and he saves the
President great deal of annoyance by
his acuteness.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

known people, Don Enrique Muller,
told me, the name of the camp or town
alongside ended in chic, as the ex-
ample have given above. Bibichic,
Carichic, Baquiriachic, and few 9TH
ers I could mention, all wool and q
yard wide. The rest of the word
plenty long enough for five or
six names yet-means, says my au-
thority, ~the place of the standing
post" When they ruled their own
country, many years ago, the princi-
pal means of punishment they had was
the upright post to which the offenders
were tied and treated to Delaware
dissertation.
Such is the origin of the big name
of the little Mexican town of Gust
huiriachic, lying about half way be-
tween the city of Chihuahua and the
great mining belt of the Sierra Madre
Mountains, lying west and southwest
from the city, and to which it is Sec
ondary distribution point. The dill
gence ride to it is made in one day, a
little over seventy miles.
We started from chihuahua long be-
fore it was daylight. Leaving Chi
huahua and bearing west toward the
Sierra Madre Mountains, one finds the
road even crowded with Mexican trans
portation, all from the rich silver belt
now being rapidly developed mostly by
American wealth. There are great
carts with solid wooden wheels of the
Nazarine style of building, the patient
donkey of the same period, and all SO
numerous that one would think there
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

Chicago Inter Ocean. We are now in
the land of the Tarahumari Indians,
of west central Chihuahua, and this
long-winded name at the head of nv
article belongs to them, just as the
same equivalent Indian names are
found in Maine and few other places
in the Union.
This large Indian tribe, numbering
from $1,000 to $4,000, was once scat
tered over considerable ground. and
their names are still given to most of
the places on the territory they owned
before the advent of the Europeans.
Wherever there is water, an old resi-
dent among these strange and little
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

New Msxico and Sesd thsm near CxiD.
Aeld next winter.
La Crosse Democrat: John Herman,
with . wheat crop OF about fve thou
sand bushels and Jake Herman and his
father-in-law, together, with . crop Of
four or five thousand bushels are
among the large wheat growers Of Big
Timber township, this county.
Springfield Republican: It is esti.
mated, by our most conservative farm.
ers, that the average yield of the wheat
crop OF Seward county viii be fully
twelve bushels per acre. While the
yield OF many fields viii exceed this
estimate, some win fall short of it and
will reduce the general average to about
the figures named.
Hope Herald: Before they began
threshing good many farmers were
certain that if they got from ten to
twenty bushels of oats to the acre they
would be in luck. Now these farmers
are being pleasantly disappointed by
finding the yield panning out from
thirty to fifty bushels, and it is q rare
case where anything less than twenty
bushels is realized.
Dighton Journal: Hod Harvey
threshed his wheat and it made an av-
erage of % bushels per acre and
weighed 62 pounds per bushel, stroke
measure. The kernel is plump and
fine as one could wish to see. His crop
is 1900 bushels. He also threshed some
oats which averaged so bushels per acre:
Hold and his father are both proud Of
this success, and well they may be.
Lindsborg News: Farmers in the
valley are losing no time in seeding
their stubble fields, principally to broom
corn and Indian corn; some are putting
in millet. The land is in good condi1
ton now, and few good rains no
doubt, will assure the late planting
Very little threshing is being done in
this locality. Farmers are waiting for.
the wheat to go through the sweat, and
in the meantime are busy putting in q
second crop on the ''stubble" fields;
Mr.. F. G. Hawkinson, the broom corn
king of the west, has 800 acres planted
to broomcorn this year; it is all IN
thrifty condition and promises an
abundant yield.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The new $23, 900 Union Pacific depot
of North Lawrence, will be ready for oc-
cupancy by the company this week. The
building is one of the finest along the
company's line of road.
M. Gasaway and sixty other citi-
zens of Ten Mile township, Miami coun-
ty, have petitioned the board of rail-
road commissioners for new station on
the "Paola cut Off of the Missouri
Pacific.
LIE Roy Reporter: A great many
stock trains are passing through here
for Kansas City: It is nothing strange
to see three or four extra trains of an
evening. The company takes great
pains to put the stock on the market in
good shape. The trains make very
fast time, if necessary, to get to Kansas
City by six o'clock in the morning.
Atkinson Champion: The division
superintendent Office of the Central
Branch, including the dispatcher's Of
fee will be removed from Atchison to
Concordia on the 9Th of August. By
this change the following persons will be
removed to Concordia: E. E. Calvin,
division superintendent; E. o. Man, G.
n. Johnston, I. Luke and j. Westrick,
dispatchers.
LIE Roy Reporter: The building Of
the LIE Roy and Waverly link is now
assured, provided the people along the
line will furnish the right-of-way. No
bonds will be asked to aid in it's con-
struction. A meeting of citizens was
held and committee appointed to work
up the right-of-way. The route has
been carefully surveyed and plated and
is the best that can be laid out between
this point and Waverly. We look to
the early construction of the road.
Topeka Capital: A passenger in on
the Union Pacific told Of thrilling ex-
perience IN a railway wreck west Of
Junction City. East bound express
train No. 4, in charge of Conductor
Fisher, collided with and demolished
three wild freight cars on high en-
bankment seven miles west Of Junction
City, but, strange to say. did not leave
the track. The night was dark and the
train was making thirty-fve miles an
hour when the crash came. The pas
sengers were we'll shaken up. but no
one hurt. The s'wild cars" were blown
from the side track at Kansas Falls and
ran down grade for two miles with re-
suit as above stated. One car was
splintered, second was teleecoped by
the engine and third was sent whirl-
ing down the track. The cars wero
loaded with wheat and when the col
lision came it was thrown over the pass
enger cars like sleet Two tramps riding
on top of the express car remarked that
the wheat cropmust have been unusual
" GOOD.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

ONE of the easiest ways to reduce
weight is to wear short flannel
sweater and ride brisk trot. IF the
horse trots roughly, and the rider
bounces up and down in the saddle, so
much the better. Ten pounds aweek
can be lost by this process. The best
kind of sweater is made by taking four.
six, or eight thicknesses of flannel and
wrapping them around the loins and
the lower part of the chest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
that he might slip away, and she had
given him one that he might not.

A STRIKING argument against tne
senseless multiplication Of public hoil
days is presented in the readable COL
umns of the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
The preacher, wise and eloquent
With many q verbal gem,
Had pictured to grand extent
The New Jeru salem.
-Oh. there" he said, there VIII be peace
And joy that lives Away;
And in its streets will never cease
perfect holiday
Spake then an editor-no Turk:
Meier may heaven see!
A holiday means double work
At single pay for mel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
STOCK AND FARM.

Clyde Argus: Our implement deal
ers have sold $1,000 pounds of binding
Irvine this season at an average price
Of II cents per pound.
Gypsum City Echo: j. r. Williams,
foreman at Clark's ranch, seven miles
northwest of this city, has gone, We are
informed. to France, to purchase draft
horses for breeding purposes.
Cris6eld Courier: A gentleman from
New Mexico was in tho city making In
quiries a to the price Of hay and other
fsed for cattle. He win likely bring
several hundred hsad Of cattls up ftom
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

A GREAT deal of printers ink is be-
ing wasted on the discussion of the
question, What is our national flower
The fact is we have great many ex.
cellent flowers which deserve to be ma
tional; and it would be unfair to all the
others to single out any one of them
The discussion may be considered as
fifty ended by the wag who writes te
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
"Say! What's der matter wild wheat
fur der national four?" This reminds
one of DR.. Johnson's preference. 30.
all flowers" said the great lexicogra
pher, II like caulifower."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

The Duke of Portland gives these
trifes to his bride: A pearl necklace,
q diamond hoop ring, q diamond and
turquoise bracelet, gold banglewatch
in red enamel, set in diamonds; pearl
and diamond brooch, q dressing case
and travelling bag with gold mounts
and initials in diamonds, gold hunt
lug watch, sable cloak, muff and boa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

The newest thing in electric loco
motion is the Ward omnibus, which
runs by electricity on all sorts of
tracks, up or down grade. Rails are
dispensed with, and all special tracks
and the van is run over asphalt or
wood, or pavements of stone, or COM
mon macadam. This is a wonderful
stride in advance of what had been
looked for. Are we to be entirely rid
of the cost of laying rails for cars ?
Probably not yet, but ere long. A
system of electric carriages, elf-guided
as well as self-propelled, is sure OF
coming soon into use Then we shall
have aerial navigation, and between the
two rapid transit is solved. The ex-
pense of travel will, at the same time,
be reduced to a small fraction of its
present cost.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

The best horsehair comes from AZ
RIGA, where it is imported in bales. It
has to be subjected to several cleansing
processes before it is ready for use.
The trade is constantly having other
material presented to it, purporting to
be as good, but nothing has ever been
found better than clean, well curled
African horsehair.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

D. P. ATKINS, of Tyler, Texas, an
hounces that wealthy old genius, who
had no direct heirs, died recently, and
ordered that his property be equally
divided among persons living in the
Southern States who were born the
same day he was, March 9, 1885. Mr..
Atkins should give his name, as that
would make his will monument.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

An exchange says, @Banish the pis-
toll" The best society everywhere
seconds the motion. A pistol in any
home is q menace to the lives in that
home. It is the poorest possible de-
tense against burglars or murderers-
nine times in every ten it shoots the
wrong man. Don't sell your pistol to
some other fellow to do mischief throw
it in the well.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

The Philadelphia man who offers to
be killed by an electrical machine for
the sum of $1,000, to be given to his
family, has got national reputation
for philanthropy without it costing him
a cent, or mourning any particular
danger, either. Perhaps he can get
into dime museum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

A PROMINENT citizen of Parsons,
Kan, determined to sup with q party
of friends against the viii of his wife.
He was resolved that he would, and
she that he should not go. His friends
missed him, and inst for fun invaded
his sidence, where they found him
and his wife sitting in their chairs fast
esleep. He had given her IN opiate
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

AT one of the crossroads in Brazil,
an idol carved from the wood of an
orange tree was placed for the Indians
to worship. On one occasion it was
noticed that an old red man omitted to
perform his act of obeisance. On be-
ing commanded to kneel, he stubborn
ly replied: "No; I knew him when he
was an orange tree"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

THE word "teetotal," says the Lon
don Times, had it's origin through a
suffering temperance orator, who
urged on his hearers that nothing less
than "te-te-te-total" abstinence would
satisfy temperance reformers. Some
one at once adopted "teetotal, " and it
sprang into general use.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

was an exodus out of city soon to be
put to siege.
In investigating some of the re-
sources of this country I ran across q
new Ito mel and interesting way of
measuring wheat; and the method also
applies to number of products raised
from the soil. I found an old hunter
on the Yukon River, of Alaska, who
measured the length of grizzly bears
by the fathom, and have had Mexi-
can charge me for a saddle by the
pound, carefully weighing it and esti-
mating the resulting cost, but when I
tried to find out how an exceptionally
fine field of wheat yielded to the acre
the reply was equally surprising. The
owner, as he boosted of the field, knew
nothing of so many bushels to the acre,
or to the hectare, which is their usual
measurement here, nor even of any "a
tho of pounds or kilograms to known
superficial area, but he loudly Dragged
that he raised one hundred for one,
while but few of his neighbors could
claim as high as fifty for one, forty for
one being the average for the whole
valley. Now, one hundred for one
means that he got one hundred grains
for every grain he planted, one hum
dred bushels for every bushel put in IS
seed, etc. Now, if he had planted .
bushel on an acre of ground and got
one hundred bushels in return it would
have simply been an enormous yield,
and . Western farmer would have
yelled with delight at such . result,
but if he had planted bushel on ten
acres Of ground and got the same old
hundred bushels as before, the Maxi
can farmer would have been q happy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

BRYCE WILLIAMS, one of the few sur
sivors of Waterloo, died recently in
Perth. He piped to the Seventy-ninth
Highlanders on the field, and also took
part in the entry of the victorious
British party into Paris.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

AMONG the deeds of heroism that
shine on that dark background of
misery at Johnstown is the unparal-
lelled self-sacrifce of Mrs Ogle. For
twenty years she has been the tele-
graph operator at Johnstown. She
was among the first to get news of the
impending danger. Instead of fleeing
for her life, she calmly called up all
the operators along the line of the
valley and warned them of the coming
calamity. She held her post in the
teeth of death until the last point she
could reach had been warned. "This
is my last message" she telegraphed,
and it was practically her last moment,
too. She had given her life for others
by as noble a piece of sacrifice as the
brightest page of history records.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
TRY BATCHELLER was told recently
that he looked tired. at makes me
tired to look at so much money in the
Treasury vaults" he exclaimed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

Mr.. BANCROFT, the English come
dian, thought to pay pretty compli-
ment to his wife at the recent celebra-
ton of his silver wedding by saying
"My dear, you ought to have married
q better man than I am" To which
Mrs. Bancroft replied: "My dear, I
d;d
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

THERE is a story floating about in
England to the effect that the new
courier who accompanied Queen Vic
toria to Biarritz was woman in mans
attire. Tut, tut!