Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-02-02


SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1889.
Our merchants have begun to receiv
garden seeds.
Judge Osborn has been holding cour
at Ness City this week.
Rev. J. T. Allen viii preach at the n
& church Sunday evening.
The county commissioners met yes
ter5sy to audit courthouse bills.
Homer Frick is back from Illinois
where be had been stopping for severa
months.
"A protracted meeting will be com
nnenced at the NJ. l.. church Sunda,
evening.
HRS. Jennie Edmundson starts to-day
to Denver, to join her husband. They
VII i've there.
w. 81. Cook is taking few weeks
leeee from work in Verbeck's store. He
is yisiting in Illinois.
Distinct Clerk Metz has his office
temporarily in the room with Judge Har-
Ian, In Opera Block.
The chemical fire engine for the city
vas brought up into town from the depo
On Monday. 1t presents pretty appear
anca.
j. D. Beard has been afflicted SO Sc
ciously with toothache and neuralgia as
70 be compelled to keep to his room for
the past two days.
"A meeting is to be held tonight at
Saum's Office TO organize a fire company.
Nearly enough men to fiji the company
lave already volunteered.
Owing to a defective fue, there were
40 services at the Presbyterian church
last Sabbath. Mr.. Brown preached at
The ID. E. church in the evening.
LET'S make the Farmers Institute g
grand success. The way to do thig is to
recognize it as an educational agency,
and everybody lend helping hand.
Rev. Mr.. Mahaffie and young Mr..
Wright have been down to st. Louis this
week,purchasing machinery for the shin
gle mill which they are about to establish
iu Washington Territory. Mr.. Wright
will go to that territory with the ma
chinery.
Albert Vests proof on timber claim,
mentioned last week, was rejected at the
Wa-Keeney land Office. The reason as
eigned was that the timber had not been
cultivated eight years, as required by
Law. He had the requisite number Of
trees, but they were not old enough
{ Cove City Republican, 7.
The news Friday evening OF last
week, that blizzard was raging at Wal
lace and on west, taken in connection
with the high wind which was sweeping
down upon Wa-Keeney from the north,
had any thing but soothing effect upon
the minds of our people. But, after all,
Smiling Fortune decreed that we should
have no blizzard that time.
"A telegram was received on Monday,
announcing the death Of an uncle OF John
Ronnquist's in Finland on Friday Of last
week. John was raised principally by
this uncle, and feels deeply the loss. He
says the message was delivered in the
Swedish language This rather puzzled
John. 1t argues, however, that there is
one more Swede hereabouts than he had
been counting.
We are in receipt Of large and hand
some calendar, with the compliments of
the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska, Crock
island Routs.) It is one of those articles
which are at once beautiful and practical.
The Rock Island has grown into great
Kansas institution. John Sebastian. the
general ticket and passenger agent,
With headquarters at Topeka, is one of
the most accomplished and accommods-
ting of railroad officials.
Samuel Covalt, who viii be remem-
bered by many of our people as having
peddled vegetables in Wa-Keeney for
Geo. L. Galloway during the past two
summers, died on January q ct his
home, in Fremont, Graham county, Of fe-
yer. He was sick for about two weeks. |
Mr.. Covalt, at the time Of his death, was
IN his 22d year. He was a remarkably |
Industrious and good-natured man, and |
hose who knew him were his friends.
"A. G. Frick, as justice OF the peace,
heard his first case last Saturday. It
vas the Kansas City Paper Co. vs.. Geo.
J. Shepard, for the recovery of 1857,
,laimed to be due for goods purchased in
1897. The defendant, through his attor-
ley, Lee Monroe, fled an affidavit to the
fleet that he did not owe the bill. The
psfica thereupon rendered judgment