davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Same Peculiar Disease.

S0m0 f6COIj0T DISooS0s
PORTSMOUTH, O., July A.-At Rarden and
0tway, villages not far from Portsmouth,
he same peculiar disease that nearly de-
populated those places Last summer, has Ne,
turned. A lady Is said to have died in two
bours after having been stricken. The ex-
mayor of the city is reported in dying con-
lition. Physicians have been unable to
sheck the disease or agree upon its cause.
Il il an affection of the bowels and many
link the cause ID to be found in the drink
m9 water taken from the wells.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
For 100000 Damage.

TOR SIOOsOON Ddud8os
KANSAS CrY, July 19.-Suit has been in
stituted by the Cherokee Brilliant Coal COM
pany against the Kansas City, Fort Scott d
Memphis road for $4,000 damages. The
coal company alleges that the railroad COM
pany charged such e1horbitant rates for
carrying its product that it was rendered
insOivent by OvercharRes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Better Than Oklahoma,

100 acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under
fence, water-rights secured and bitches
ready for use. It will be sold as whole or
in Quantities to suit the purchaser. 1t is the
either farming or stock-raising. For price,
terms, ETC., address HENRY A. BuTTIRs,
Alamosa, Colorado.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
WiIIba Turned Over

Will be Turned Over.
NEW YoRK. July 22.-Acting District At.
torney Golf said that acquisitions for the
parties and principals in the resent KIlrain-
Sullivan fight had not yet reached bus Office.
''The men" he added, "vho were identified
With the tight, when arrested, will of course,
be TUNED over to Governor Lowry, and it IL
certain that Governor Hill will consent a.
long as the necessary papers are shown"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Balancing the Books

Balancing the Books.
New YoKK, July 2.-The Graphic say,
that the national democratic COMMITTEES
still owes over $4,000 for campaign ex.
penses, and that Messrs. Brice, Gorman and
Scott have made up $40, 900 Of that sum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
CrankS In Idaho.

BOISE CrTY, H., July 2-In the conven,
ton the propositions for secret ballot an6
educational qualifications for voting were
defeated. Prehey wanted to prevent The
payment of funds for religious institutions
or for chaplains of the Legislature, classina
religious services as having come down
from barbarous times. His motion wa
lot
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Favorable Crop News.

Favorable Crop News.
81. PAUL, MIMI. July 23.-Much of the
more recent crop news is of favorable ma
ture, and the grain men in the twin cities
are consequently much rejoiced. Grain
men who have just returned from their trips
over the territory, say there will be probably
two thirds or three quarters of crop in Toe
Dakotas, while it is generally acknowledged
the condition OF affairs in Minnesota il
much more favorable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Was West Murdered?

WICHITA, KAN, July 19.-Sherif Hays
says that he has evidence that E. W. West,
the Kansas City travelling man, who disap-
drugged, murdered and robbed. The Of
fcials says that if present indications prove
true some very startling Developments viii
be made
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
New Elevator,

LuDx1l, KAN, July IA new 1900
bushel capacity elevator and $4,000 schod
house IL being erected here.
The wheat crop ID th finest ever Known Il
nogthWeGt KansaA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
Department Rulings Modified.

Department Rulings Modified.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 23.-Secretary
Noble in letter to the commissioner of
the general land Office, modi6es in a very
important particular, the application of the
rule as to time of cultivation in timber cul-
ture cases.
The timber culture act of June IA, 1873,
provides that any person who shall plant,
protect and keep in healthy growing condi-
ton for eight years, ten acres of timber on
any quarter section of the public lands of
the United States, shall be entitled to pat
ent at the expiration of eight years. Section
2 of this act pro ides that no final certi6-
cate shall be given or patent issued until the
expiration OF eight years from the date of
entry.
Land Commissioner McF arland, February
!, 1882, held that one half of the trees must
have been actually growing for eight years,
and the remaining half four years to con-
form to the terms of the act.
This Interpretation was sustained in 8
subsequent decision which held the time of
preparations of lands should be computed as
apart of the eight years required in the tlm-
for three years cultivation of land before
planting. The effect of the ruling was to
compute the period of cultivation from the
date of entry.
On June "a, 1887, Commissioner Sparks
in circular to registers and receivers, d.
rected that in computing the period of cul-
ovation, the time runs from the date when
the total number of trees required by the
act are planted, and the final proofs of entry
men not having compiled with this rule
were rejected.
Secretary Noble in his letter sustains the
ruling made by Commissioner Sparks, but
says inasmuch as the department from time
of the passage of the bill up to the date of
June 81, 1887, erroneously construed the
true spirit and intent of the act and in pur-
suance thereof numerous entries have been
made under the law as thus promulgated,
amounting to some 2. 800 or more, that such
entries should be protected under the con-
struction thus given the act, giving such
construction all the force and effect of law.
Were it not SO, great wrong and inconven-
fence would result.
The secretary therefore directs that the
rule in tho case of Henry Hooper In point
be so modified as to hold that all entries
made under the act, as construed, from
February 1, 1882, up to June q, 1887, should
pass to patent, and all entries made after
the announcement of that doctrins should be
governed and controlled by the principles
therein enumerated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27

Of this, Il was generally beiieyoe thaSimncr1;
tant developments were pending, and fhaA
m Official announcement of the absorp1ion;
Of the Chicago d Alton would be made.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
CLAIM CONTEST
Decision of Government OFF,
Gals In Oklahoma.

three Men Claim the Same Tract
ofLand. But Right OF Entry 10 De-
MED to Each--Thoy Had Each Got
There too Soon on Proclamatiob
Day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
ABetter Sentiment Apnearinr.

CHARLESTON, S. c., July O.-Dr. Nc
Dow, the slayer of Captain Dawson, has
been expelled from the South Carolina Med
ical society. At special meetang of the
society resolution was passed declaring
hum guilty OF immoral unprofessional snd
ungentlemanly cond
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27

G. r. Brecklnridee's Seat.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2a-Hon. Powell
Clayton, Of Eureka Springs Ark, has arrived.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
"A LABOR CIRCULAR.
All the Great Labor OrganiZa-
tons Save One.

Knights Of Labor The Federation
Of Labor--Locomoti Firemen'
and Other Labor Organizations
Take Steps to Pool Their Inter-
eSts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27
MORE MAD WATERS.
The kanawha Valley, West
Virginia Rinsed Out.
- Cloud Burst Floods the Country.
varying off Property. Running
Ctops and Destroying Life
Houses Knocked Together and
Broken up.

FARKxRsvnLK, W. Va, July 2-The
greatest disaster which ever befel tho little
kanawha valley came IN the shape of ter
r1ble cloud burst which completely flooded
the country, destroying many lives, carrying
ON thousands of dollars in property and ruin
ing crops for miles. In three hours the
hanawha raised six feet and run out with
such velocity that 1t carried everything be-
fore it.
At this point thousands of logs and
numbr of boats went out or were sunk. Mrs.
Isaac Tucker, Martin Lawless and an un-
known man were drowned. Big Tygsrt
valley is ruined. A big mill near its mouth
went out and took Tygart bridge with it.
Fences and crops and much live stock was
lost.
At Esterville, fifteen miles above, half q
dozen residences were carried off bodily and
left in corn fields. In Clay the fine church
and three dwellings were wrecked. Several
steamers on the river were wrecked.
The worst story of all comes from Norris
creek, where the cloud burst concentrated,
coming down about midnight and totally
destroyed it with many OF its people. The
6rst report gave the loss at eleven, but later
news seems to fix the loss at a greater num-
Der. Houses are said to have been picked
up and hurled against each other in such q
short space of time that 10 chance of escape
was given the people. Among those dead at
Norristown are:
Jake Kiger, his brother Joseph and
Thomas; man named Bailey, Orville West
and child.
Another Norristown victim was found on
q farm.
At Pill Brush bridges and culverts are
washed away and it is impossible to reach or
communicate with that point or any other
upon the upper waters. It is impossible now
to enumerate the loss, even here, as the river
is still rising. A family boat containing
three or four persons went out during the
night and it is believed all are lost.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKERY.

Ed. Atkinson in Popular Scle nee Monthly
The custom of cooking quickly is in
part a matter of choice, ,and in part due
To the necessity TO which great many
working people are subject, to cock
their meals quickly or else to 90 with
out hot breakfasts and dinners.
Another great obstruction 10 i'm
provement in the art of cooking is the
almost universal misconception that the
inner cuts of meat are more nutritious
than the coarser portions, coupled with
an almost universal prejudice among
working people against stewed food.
The prejudice is doubtless due 10 the
tasteless quality of boiled meat; boil
ing tGughens each of the fine fbers, and
deprives the meat almost wholly of it's
distinctive flavor.
All these blunders and misconcep-
tions must evidently be removed before
any true art of cooking can become
common practice.
The more necessary, however, does
it become to invent apparatus in which
meat can only be simmered and cannot
Doll, as In the Aladdin cooker, and also
to invent stove or oven in which
neither meat nor bread can be over
cooked, dried up or rendered indiges-
tl6le by too much heat, as in the AIad-
din oven.
Next, people must be persuaded that
a better and more nutritious breakfast
can be made ready to eat as soon as the
family are out of bed by putting meat
stews, oat meal, brown bread and
many kinds of puddings iuto the cooker
and slmmering all night by the use of
single safe lamp than in any other
way.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
THE MOURNING OF TO-DAY,
From a History of Mourning. /


Private mourning in modern times
has been greatly altered and modified
to suit an age of rapid transit and ira
vel Men no longer make a point of
wearing full black for a fixed number
OF months after the decease of a near
relation, and even content themselves
with black hat band and dark colored
garments. Funeral ceremonies, too,
are less elaborate, although flowers are
largely sent to the grave.
The following are the accepted rea-
sons tor the selection of various colors
for mourning in different countries:
Black, expresses privition of light.
Worn throughout Europe.
Scarlet, mourning color, occasionally
worh by French kings.
Yellow, the sere and yellow leaf
Egypt aud Burmah. In Brittany,
widows caps among the peasants are
yellow.
Purple and violet, TO express royalty.
Mourning for cardinals and kings OF
France. Violet, color for mourning in
Turkey. -, "
White. emblem of "whitc banded
hope" China.
Deep blue, Bokhara mourning.
Pale brown, the wilhered leaves.
Persia.
Grapish broth, earth. Ethiopia and
Abyssiuia,
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09

n an ld-world temple two blocks Of stone,
Where the sky OF Athens burns holly blue,
Have been standing stately, and still, and
lone,
Dreaming together the ages through.
There were two pearls hid in the self same
like sweet sea.tesrs that for Venus weep :;
They have whispered secrets that none may
tell,
Side by side in the heart of the deep.
When Boabdil ruled 10 the land of Spain,
TWO roses grew In Il garden rare;
Ihey drank OF the fountains silver rain,
And mingled their scents in the drowsy
air.
| In Venice. 10 rest on a golden dcme,
| Two doves came floating on pnIons white ::
And they loved each other, and made lleir
home,
Under the stars on still May night.
But the changeess laws that our lives in
Are the laws of death, and cold decay:
so the temple falls, and the pearl. dissolve
Inc birds and the roses must pass away.
Yet each. by a strange metamorphosis
Is born anew In some falrer form:
SO the rose may liye IN red lips that kiss
Inc marble In limbs that are white and
"dTm.
| And In hearts of lovers once more may greet
Those doves who dwelt on the dome Of
gold;
And In mouths of velvet the pearls may
meet
To CLEAN more white than those pearls Of
old. "
For how otherwise grew the wondrou, birth
Or the strange and sweet affinity,
That warns two souls in this desert of
earth,
They must claim each other where'er they
be?
They recall, in new found ecstasy,
The dreams OF their mystic long ago.
fiy the marble temple, or stormy sea,
Or Moorish garden where roses blow.
And they feel the flutter of snowy wings
On the golden dome of u stately fame:
Ana the faithful atoms the wild wind brings
Must find each other. and love againl
80, my heart that within me burns and
glows, '
would read your heart, and ask YOU
whether
lDu were pearl, or marble or dove. or ro>e
In that ialrer world, when we were In.
gethery
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
THEIR PLACES WILL BE FILLED.
lFrom the Atlanta titufionI

From the Atlanta Constit ution.I
Some of the worlds greatest men are
about to leave us.
Bismarck and Won Moltke are prac-
tically dead men.
Gladstone can not live much longer
IN the natural course of events, and
Parnelrs health is exceedingly bad
The Prince of Wales, too, should be
included in the list.
1t Is natural that Germans and Eng
lishmen should attach an undue impor.
tance to the lives of these men, but thew
Will not be long in finding ont that
there are others equally qualified for
leadership.
No man is indispensable. One NAV
appear TO mould the destlnies OF
nations, and thrones may totter at his
nod but when he joins the silent major.
ity, his place in this world will be
instantly filled, and his followers will
transfer their allegiance to his success
sor.
The fate of states and nations does
not hang by such brittle thread as a
single human life. The greatest mas
tiers OF statecraft-the abIest generals
the leaders OF great refDrms-all ese
have their day, and depart to be sue
ceedef by others who tate at its flood
the tide in human affairs and rush
along with it.
Death brings no irrPparable loss with
1t. Great men merely pass II vay to give
place to other great men.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
A NOVEL MALADY.


Poor, suffering man in these days ol
progress and civilization is exposed f0
new dangers and diseases. He j.
asphyxiated with gas, stricken by the
deadly c-rrent used in electric lighting
and blown skyward by the explosion
of mains which convey steam for
heating purposes in the cities He has
writer's cramp, telegrapher's paralysis
and the base ball habit. Cigars develop
cancer, ice water gives him dyspepsia,
and whisky brings on jImjams. Rail
road travel jolts his nervous centers
out of plumb, the electric light has
developed special form of opthalmIa
and now comes Mr.. Gelle, of France,
with an indictment OF the telephone.
He says he has seen men who have to
use the phone daily suffering from
"aural overpressure," caused by the
strain of the auditory apparatus re.
quired to use that instrument. The con-
slant tlnkle OF the bell irritates some
ears, and the nearness of the sound in
the tube Especially when it splutters
from too much inducliup) irritates
others into a state of oversensitiveness
which makes them intoerant of sound
as inf1amed eyes are of light. Those
afflicted with telephone tinnltus," as
some authorities call it, suffer from
nervous excitability with buzzing noises
in the ears, giddiness and neuralgic
pains. The only cure is rest-a com-
plete disuse OF the telephone. We
can't help but wonder what will be the
next evil to befall us.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09

lanai
perate, not ..--
i'm their eating, ana in TACT ia 20
thing. Therefore, | do moi hesitate 10
say that do not object to the nse of
unadullerated beer" The speaker was
evidently q minister of the gospel, and
he was conversing With a party of
ladies and gentlemen in the parlor ol
hotel in Little Rock, Ark. Ills tone
was so earnest and his panner wilhal
so sincere, that / became interested and
waited to hear what further he might
say on the subject. One of his auditors
! ven'ured to express surprise that n
member of the cloth should SO openly
! pronounce in favor of what she pro-
nounced the "curse OF the age" "Beer
is not whisky" lie replied; 'far from
ii. Beer is the very best weapon with
which the honest and earnest advocate
of true temperance can fight the liquor
Why, the very fact that yOu can find
the Anherfser- Busch beer in every land
where civilization has a fOothold is
proof that beer is not bad thing. ft
has been my expcrience-and / have
travelled some and studied the subject
httle-that the good drives ont the bad
In all things. | will not 90 into a tire
beer, but only say that good beer has
bat very small-in fact, an infinitesi-
mai-aInount of alcohol in II, sud ali-
solutely none of the deleterious aud
hurtiul elements of that can be found
In 90 per cent of the ordinary dishes
placed on the table. Many of the
dishes of vegetables placed before hus-
bands, sons and daughter by conscien-
tlous wives and mothers every day
contain more alcohol and other harmful
ingredients than barrel of beer, and
one glass OF pure beer contains far
more nutriment than all the canned
corn, canned tomatoes, sO-calIed
French peas, ETC., than can be eaten in
Inc three regular meals day that
man considers himself entitled TO.
Mind You do not say that beer is such
good thing that people should quit
eating entirely, and depend wholly
upon 1t to sustain life; but | do unhes.
say that good beer is such
good thing that people who drink any
thing should drink it. 1t is far pref
erable to coffee, of far more benefit
than much OF the milk procurable in
large cities, and even water as il comes
from the hydrants contains
more impurities than are found in good
beer. Take drop OF undistilIed water
and look at it through powerful mi
croscope and what do you seer Moth
ing of the kind can be seen in drop,
Or in fact in whole keg of beer such
as is made by the great st. Louis firm.
hence, say beer is not bad thing
Tor the people,"
BY this time the reverend gentleman,
whose earnestness amounted almost TO
enthusiasm. had quite an audience, and
MS confusion was quite noticeable
when he discovered that what had
begun as private conversation had
grown almost to public lecture, and
some one raised quite laugh by sug-
costing that perhaps the gentleman
was regularly employed agent OF the
famous firm. NO." said he, 81 am
not in their employ, but | know some
of the gentlemen connected with the
great establishment. | am proud of the
concern, AS a st. Louis ins,i-
luton, and l do not hesitate to speak
my sentiments when occasion calls
Tor il -
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
as provided
subject such pc.
than one hundred
hundred dollars, TO
hIm in the name of thu
cnnri hoforo oru inufina

than one hundred
| hundred dollars, TO
| hIm in the name OF thu
souri,, before any Justice
| of such county wherein thu
| situate and the accident occurred,
such fine, when collected, shall be pai1
into the county treasury for the ust
| and benefit of said county, (LaW:
1887, p. 222, 5 10, amended
Sec. 645sg. The governor shall ap.
point an inspector of mines, who shall
serve Tor two years, and shall have d
practical mining experience, but moi
be Interested in any mine, and shall re.
ceive salary of s. 800 per annum, and
his actual travelling expenses. He shall
have his Office in the office of the com.
missioner OF labor statistics, and when
not inspecting mines act as a clerk in
said Office, giving his whole time to the
state. Laws 1887, p. 222, 5 II,
amended }
Sec. 6l58W. All miners or other
persons employed in or about a mine,
using gun or blasting powder or other
explosive shall have and keep a strong
box in which all surplus gun or blast
ing powder or other explosive in the
mile shall be kept; excepting so much
only as is necessary for immediate use.
These boxes shall be kept locked. and
not opened unless ii be to put in or
take out powder,nor must these strong
Cor powder) boxes be nearer than one
hundred feet from the place of blast
ing. And in all dry and dusty coal
mines or mines discharging light car.
donated hydrogen gas, shot. fires must
be employed to fire all shots after the
employees and other persons have rent.
ed from the mine. Provided, however,
that the above section shall refer only
to mines working ten or more men.
Approved June 10Th. 1889.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
"STUOK" ON MISSOURI.


S"S
Last week we were talking with a
man who had just returned from the
tabled lands OF Kansas, Texas and Colo
rado. He said he had seen some fine
country in the further west, but after
boarding the train at Kansas CITY, as
1t bounded through the heart of Mis-
souri,, he looked out and saw the fine
fields of corn OIL every quarter section
tons upon tons of hay and grass i'm
every meadow fiat cattle and fine horses
on every farm: neat cottages on every
side, surrounded with orchards bending
beneath the weight of their golden
fruit, and all the countless conveniepces
which cling and cluster round the
farm homes of Missouri, and he turned
to his wife and family and said: "There
is no place like this where we have
been. Had we never seen this country
before, here we would pitch our tent
and call il the Oasis of Earth.'" He
says no man knows what a great state
Missouri is and what grand thing it
is to be Missourian till he has a taste
OF hardship in the land that we read of
i'll railroad folders.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

Furnished weekly to the Inteligencer b,
Captain j. ID. Conner. recorder of deeds O
| Lafayette county, Mo.
Abstract Of the deeds filed in the Office O
Recorder OF Deeds from Saturday, Oct. 20
1889. to Saturday, Nov. 2, 1889. ONLY
such as contain covenants of warranty con.
tanned in list.
jas. F. Dobyns to VIM. f. Gal
braith, TX l52 feet in NV NV l. 49,
90 ....... ......... .'s............... .S 800 90
Grove Young and wife to W.T..
Brown, lot 3. blk IL. Southside sub
division to HigRInsviIle ,.:.......... 100 90
Grove Young AMI wife to John
Hoffman. lot 4. blk 4. SOuthside SUBJ
division to Higginsville. ...... 100 OO
Grove Young to VIM. Whitsett,
lot 2, blk 6. Southsido sub division
to lIigginsvlle. e............. IN OO
NJ. Bruins ct al 10 III. Schamhust,
lots and ?, blk -, NJ. Rruns' add to
COncOrdia 15O M
NJ. X. Rcna.Oe to X. II. Perry,
lots and 3, Blk u. Waverly. 555 90
Grove Young aud wife to Jas. f.
Drum, lot 10, blk l3 SOuthsIde sub
division to Higginsvlle .... 100 90
David }. Moore to +. X. Twente
~ acres, hf ne 26, 80. 81, except 27
acres OF e end nd..aS. 3 I3O On
l1s- No INSTRUMENT Will be filed until the
fee Is paid. -ASE