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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
PIOw More Fire Guards.

The settlers Of western Kansas
need more protection from the raw
ages of prairie fires. 1t seems al
most useless for a farmer having 16C
acres to place a fire guard around
his earthly possessions when there
are thousands Of acres around hin
unoecupied and open to the full
sweep of a raging prairie fire.
The fire viii gain such headway
that with a slight wind and with
the increased wind made by the fire
it will carry the flames over any or
binary fire guard. 1t is almost I'M
possible to gain security under cir
cumstances Of this character. II
occurs to US that at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature a bill should
be presented giving each county the
right to vote upon the proposition
Of blowing fire guards.
Make it compulsory upon every
person or corporation owning tract
of 100 acres to plOW-not burn out
"a good secure fire guard around
it; and if not done by a stated
time let the work be done under
contract by The proper authorities
and the cost entered as taxes against
the land. Then the settler will
have some security from raging
fires and not feel that the accumula-
tions of years will be wiped out Of
existence in a few minutes.
Besides, the blowing will have a
beneficial result upon the climate.
1t is known fact that cultivation
of the soil tends to induce moisture.
We have not gone into figures as
to the proportion of soil this would
turn over, but it will make very
material difference in the general
appearance of the surface of the
country.
We hope this question will be
generally discussed, and if the pop
ulace of the county think it prac-
ticable, put in some tangible shape
by the time our Legislature convenes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
immigration to Kansas.
Correspondence to wichita Eagle,


[ am in receipt to-day of communica
tions from the German. Swede, Scandina.
Wan and Polish immigration agencies IL
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Buffalo, asking that the Kansas Immigra.
ton Bureau cooperate with them and
promising in that event to turn the entire
tide of their immigration into Kansas,
and stating that they are already tired OF
the northern latitudes and also the ex-
IRENE coast localities, and that their
people have, after careful investigation,
determined upon the rich fields and equ-
able seasons of Kansas as a home, pro-
vided the Kansas Immigration Bureau
can secure for them like advantages off
cred by other states.
Now, the arrangements which the bu-
reau are trying to effect for the meeting
of all the directors in the state at Kansas
City to perfect just such arrangements
with the railroads and other plans for the
carrying out OF the same is the very i'm
portant thing necessary to be able to deal
with these large immigration companies
and foreign immigration companies and
foreign immigration agencies. A circular
calling the attention of all the directors
of the bureau in this state to the meeting
is now in the press and will be mailed to
every delegate as soon as it is printed,
and we would suggest that every man
who has a home in Kansas look into this
matter and lend all the influence and CO.
operation they possess to the success of
This work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
oGALLAH oozINcs.
OeAnnAH, TREeo Co. Jan.


L. Warne has very sick child.
The township board met Monday to al
low bills.
I. R. Brooks and family were visiting
friends at Ogallah last Sunday.
Road Master McMahon was looking
over the Ogallah section Monday.
W. S. Knapp returned from Stockton,
Saturday. His case was laid over until
the next term of court.
Mrs. Il. Collier and children and
Miss Mary Collier went to Dorrence
Tuesday evening to make short visit.
Cards are out announcing the wedding
of Mr.. A. E. McCollum and Miss Nellie
Rhoades to take place at Wa-Keeney on
February 4th.
REPORTER.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
COLLYER CARVINGS.
REPORTER.
COLLIER, Jan. %.

OOLLHER, y an. ~.
Muddy roads.
Kinds Swiggett is attending school in
Wa-Keeney.
F. G. Swiggett made a flying trip to
Oakley, Wednesday.
J. Hickman and Otis Kessler are put
ting up ice this week.
J. Hallenbeck, of Colorado, was in
town Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Eberling went to Kansas City,
Saturday evening, to procure medical
aid.
T. W. Bundy went to Wa-Keeney Sat-
urday in the interest of his office as de-
putty sheriff.
Miss Pearl Kessler. assistant post mis-
tress, came up last week and will stay
the remainder of the winter.
The young people of this place attend
ed social hop. at the residence of A. T..
Groves, on the Saline, Friday night.
A brother of the late deceased j. w.
Burns arrived Saturday night from Chi
cago and will remain short time.
The W. r. c., of this place, will give a
mask ball on February 18th. Four pri-
yes will be awarded to the couples who
display the most ludicrous costumes, the
others the most elaborate.
w n
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
PIONEER POINTS.

PIONEER, TREGo Co., Jan. %, 1890.
Ben. Rich butchered beef last week.
o. A. Cortright lost a horse last week.
Geo. Stephens is expected home from
Rice county soon.
The Misses Pershing were visiting IL
Riverside Sunday.
Ed Hobbick made a call at the forest
ry station Monday.
D. Pershing and o. A. Cortright finish
ed putting up ice this week.
There will be surprise party on Miss
Dolly Carter on her birthday, the 2Sth OF
January.
There is talk of q valentine post Office
at the Union school house on the 14th OF
February.
S. S. Harvey is in bed sick with the la
grippe. We have not heard lately, but
hope he is improving.
Several of Pioneers young folks at
tended the literary at the Valley school
house Thursday night.
There will be a quarterly meeting at
Pioneer on the 4th and 9TH of February.
Elder Stolz will be present.
The question, at the Union school
house, for debate is Woman's Rights.
They intend to try new plan and have
the debaters questioned by chosen law
yers.
WnCDY WARRTER
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
Shall We Have an Exhibition of
the New Steam Plow2


the New Steam Plow?
Editors Western Kansas World:
/ noticed in your last issue that you
had received letter from the inventor of
the new steam pillow, saying that the pillow
would be shipped to Kansas as soon as
the weather would permit, and that it
viii be exhibited here if our people wish
it; and now as to your question: What do
you say?
From what 1 can learn, nearly every
body is very much interested in this new
invention which promises so much for
western Kansas; and they are very anx-
Gus to see for themselves what it can do,
and how it does it. 1t will give us a
chance 10 decide whether we want one or
more Of them in the comfy or not How
to seeure them is a question that it Is not
necessary TO try 70 answer until We have
more hight. For myself I will say that 1
am so anxious to see it in operation that
1 take tine liberty to answer the question
for fear that it will be neglected; for usu-
ally what is eyerybody's business is no
body's business
Yes, Mr. Gardner, come by all means,
and promise you very appreciative
audience; one that will not be inclined to
make sport of You and your plow il it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, Ills.
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she was
treated for month by her family physi-
clan, but grew worse. He told her she
was a hopeless victim of consumption
and that no medicine could cure her.
Her druggist suggested DR.. Kings New
Discovery for consumption; she bought q
bottle and to her delight found herself
benefited from the first dose. She con-
tinued its use and after taking ten bottles
found herself sound and well; now does
her own homework and is as well as she
ever was.-Free trial bottles Of this Great
Discovery at DR.. Jones's Drug Store, large
bottles SOC and $1.00. 2
- II
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
NFn1IE ID. SwREr. Teach,
Downer School Report.

Report of the Downsr school for the
month ending January a
Number of pupils enrolled, IL.
Average daily attendance, 12.I2.
Number of visitors, 2.
Names of pupils neither absent nor
tardy: Chester Snyder, John Snyder,
Fred Snyder, Bertha Freas.
Names of pupils perfect in orthogra-
ply: Ida Freas, Fred Snyder.
Pupils receiving greatest number of
credit marks: In G grade, John Snyder:
In grade, Katie Halsey; In P grade.
John and Frank Ballmas, each Z.
Average distance from school house.
two miles. LIZZIE CooPER, Teacher.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
Let The Work Go On.

Mr.. Wilder has no control over society
insurance, has never attempted any con
troll and has never interfered with then
in any way. But be has kept out of Kan
sas many insurance associations which
bear the name Masonic" knights
Templar," odd Fellows" etc, but which
are not fraternxl societies at all; they are
insurance companies organized for profit;
they are not controlled by grand lodges
and are not connected in any way, except
in name, with fraternal societies. When
they come into Kansas to solicit insur-
ance they violate our laws, and they
weaken the membership of our own fra
ternal organizations.
If the Capital speaks by author
ity in defining Mr.. Wilder's views
on insurance, we have nothing
more to add. We have always OPP
posed snide insurance companies
who were not able to pay a loss of
$1,000 in case one should occur, or,
as in one instance at least, where a
Kansas company did not have suffi-
cient assets to pay Office rent and
had to voluntarily suspend for lack
of office room in which to do bust
ness.
Mr.. Wilder ought to receive the
support of every citizen in the state
in his war against such institutions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
WINDY WARBLER.
School Report-District 8.

School Report-Distrlct 3.
Report for month ending January II:
Number of pupils in attendance, 20.
Average daily attendance, Ii.
Pupils present every day in the month,
Blanche Mapes, James Richards.
Pupil above 80 in examination, Edna
Mapes, SO.
Owing to sickness in the neighborhood
school has been small since vacation.
Number of visitors during the month, 2.
A.E. MCCoLLUM, Teacher.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01

"A gentleman in Union county, Mo-,
who is too modest man to have his
name mentioned in the newspapers, was
cured of rheumatism by Chamberlain's
Pain Balm, after trying other medicines
and treatments for thirteen years. so
cent bottles for sale by II. J. lille.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01

Two amendments to the state constitu-
ton will come before the people next fall.
One viii be TO extend the biennial ses-
sion of the Legislature to ninety days in
stead of fifty as at present. The other
will provide for the appointment of four
additional judges of the supreme court,
making the total number seven.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
school Report-District 81.

Report for month ending January II:
Number of pupils In attendance, 9.
Pupils neither absent nor tardy, Chloe
Britt and Henry Britt.
Those whose standing is 80 or over,
Josie Sweet, Chloe Britt, Charles Sweet,
Harlan MeCollum, Frank Sweet, Frank
Britt and Charles Smelling.
Visitors g.
NELLIE T. SWEET Taanba-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01

CALIFORNIA and Washington are
buried under mammoth hlockades Of
snow; in Iowa the mercury is down
to 80 :; Dakota has her billiards;
but in Kansas the mild italian
weather continues about seven days
In the week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01

-nyou want pure homemade lard call
at Geo. Bakers market, on Russell ave.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01

advantage with our city friends to secure the best
bargains in Silks, we shall give you first choice We
will not sell to the city trade until February 8.
Orders received from out-of-town friends Will
be filed from now on, before the sale.
Lowest Prices Ever Known
LOT I-1sin wide Changeable Colored Silk in Spring
and Summer tibts what you paid CSC for, now
ACC I'd.
LOT 2-Heavy Lustrous Colored Gros Grain in large
line shades, 20 in. wide, worth s125, will be
6oc I'd,
LOT s-Colored Satin Rhadsmes, worth 81, 90 will be
5oc Yd.
Los 4-superior quality of Cold Faille Franchise,
worth $1.0O, will be
6oc Yd.
LOT 5-Limited quantity Black and White Plaid
all Silk Surah, worth CSC, will be
2oc Yd.
LOT 6-Assorted beautiful shades of plain or figured
best value we ever sold, at
3oc I'd.
Finer qualities equally cheap for SIC, 75c, CSC
to $500 Yd,
LOT Tone large assorted lot of $3.50 Black Satin
Luxor, $1.43 Black Faille Franchise, S1.S8
Black Armur, 81. As Black Gros Grain, your
$I.o7 Yd.
Space forbids telling of the hundreds of other
grand bargains IN this Mammoth Silk Sale aggre-
eating over one hundred thousand yards.
If for any reason you become dissatisfied with any
silks you buy of THE STORE return them at once
and we will refund the money.
HoTE,-It is cheaper and easier to send goods by
Express.
If there is no express Office handy Silk can be
sent by mail. It should always be registered. The
postage on black silk is from &C to 3Izc per yard,
with 10 cents extra for registering the package and
on Summer Silks 1c to IL per yard, with 10c extra
for registering.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
Begins February 9th.

In order to give our out-of-town friends an equal
advantage with our city friends to secure the best
bargains In Silks, we shall give you first choice. We
will not sell to the city trade until February8.
Orders received from our out-of-town friends Will
be filled from now on, before the sale.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
KANSAS CITY, MO.

ssmpls eopisa ssat frss 70 any sdd.ssA
Ad1rs8
, JOHN D0UGALL 4 CO.,
1SO Esssu - Esq Y~G.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
From the Upper Levels.

= The following items are clipped
from Tuesdays Timos-R Review:
The silent majority ia the only
popular body not relished by tho aver
ago politician. i,,,g .at
@. G.. Judd says that Lew Eastman
has offered his band Of cattle for snie
at three dollars per head. fraut
Tho Elko stage arrived about 7 o.
clock last night. 1t brought no pms
sengers, and this IN ,rning's stage
took mono away.
This Is n blissful season for, tho
coyotes in the valley. Tho numerous
carcasscs OF starved cattle furnish
them plenty OF gorging material. and
they are as fat and saucy as u Carson
bartender during q legislative session.
Powning is lamonting because the
Reno water supply is cut off by the
breaking OF tho Orr ditch. Never
mind, Christopher, you will have
plenty OF II when tho now begins to
mclt-cnough to mako tho Powning
Addition worth q thousand dollars an
acre for q cranberry ranch.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
SILVER DOLLARS ALL oCT.

The Silver Dot,ar says that the
present month is likely 70 see the en-
tire coinage OF silver dollars in circu-
lation, either as coin or rs certificates
representing coin. Improbable as
thus seemed two or three years ago.
the past week has seen over $780,
90 in gold certificates presented by
New York banks at the Treasury in
exchange for silver certificates The
proximate cause for this is undoubt-
edly because the Government practic-
ally pays the cost OF shipping and in
surfing silver certificates, paying them
out at any sub-treasury in exchange
for deposits at Washington, while it
will not do this for gold or greenback
certificates. But tho broader cause
for the circulation Of silver dollars,
whether in coin or in certificates OF
small denominations, is in the retir,-
ment Of the national bank currency
1 and tho demand for circulation
III luo I0NtNihS ohu SAtShliho III
dustries OF the South, West aAd
Southwest In the New England
and Middle or even Central States,
where banks are common and the use
OF checks for all purposes customary,
It'll not easy to realize the demands
for coin in daily life in commodities
less well provided.
Three years ago 24G,6I2,3S6 silver
dollars had been coined up To No
vcmber l, 1856; over %one-fourth, or
s3,4S3,5o4, we're in the Treasury De-
cember l, 1856. Up to November l
last 342,636,0Ol OF these dollars had
been coined. In coin there are just
about as many in circulation now as
then, or 81, 76l,44s at the earlier date
and GO,O9S,5 $50 now.
But in three years the demand for
certificates has increased until De-
cember 1st last the silver dollars in
the Treasury were ~l3,54G,3l0. 4 week
ago yesterday this amount had been
reduced to 1890, 9oS, and this has been
still further reduced during the past
week.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
A MARBLE.

The following plaintive MARBLE for
warmer weather gets it's life from the
pen of the editor OF the Boise Demo
crat:
"We have all tho ice and snow We
want and are now praying for the
gentle chinook. o, wizard OF the
mysterious gulf stream, lot it come!
Fan mountain and plain with your
magic breath, that Winters icy fet-
ters may be broken! Our kline, wan
derins hither and yon, gannt specters
OF hunger and thirst, perish in myr-
lads by the wayside! Watt, watt,
hither, sweet wind, and warm the
earth back to lifel Our woodpile
runneth low and the fiour-barrel
giveth forth not the joyous thud Of
fullness but the sickening, hollow
sound OF emptiness, whilst our off
spring, shivering in the hy%Pcrborean
blasts, patteth their wrinkled bellies
and aching voids, and yearneth for
another pass at the fat shoat or to
bite off tho ham-bone end. Come.
blessed chinook, and give Jack Frost
q paste in the jaw that will mako him
silly until the roses fade again"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
Senator Rr,oe.

The New York World charges that
Calvin s. Brice, the newly elected
United States Senator from Ohio,
used money lavishly to secure h:s
election. The World says:
THAT an enormous amount OF money
was spent in Brice's interest in one
way and another is generally known
and not denied. Little by little facts
are being divulyed which show how
the money was spent, aud that much
OF it was employed in directly procnr-
ing votes in the General Assembly, il
not in purchasing them outright"
This is denied by Mr.. Brice who, in
an interview in reference to specific
charges made by the World, says:
sand generally, YOU may say, to
cover all such matters, that no men,
Der or Senator, received from me, or
any m for me, directly or indirectly,
in person or through others, any
money OF other thing Of money value,
before the election or. since, or tho
promise or hope Of any. And this
applies both to thu vote in tho caucus
and to the vote. in the Legislature"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
Nellie BLY,.

Nellie BLY, arrived at San Francisco
at $50 a. NJ, on Tuesday the 21st in.
stunt, vas taken or tho Oceanic by a
tug and carried to tho Oakland mole
whore a special train vas in waiting
for her. This train vas drawn by
The Qucen, n Of tho fastest engines
on tho road, driven by Hank Lightncr,
an engineer we'll known in this com
munity. The train reached Lnthrop
at11:10 A.. NJ. and Mojuve, aSl miles
from San Francisco, ut 7;45 p. 81.
having made that distance in n little
less than eleven hours. Unless she.
met with somo delay sho is now at
homo, having ciroumnavigated tho
globe in less than sovcnty-flve days.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
o OF FIVE"

The above expression which has
been current since the Presidential
campaign of 1888 is not understood
by many persons, and it may be OF in
terest TO them to know how the
expression originated and what it
a
During the last week in October,
1888, Col. w. w. Dudley, Treasurer OF
the Republican National Committee,
sent a circular letter to numerous
staunch Republicans in Indiana, Civ
ing instructions regarding the man
agement Of the voters of that State
OH election day, and the purchase Of
what is known as the floating vote,
in which letter occurred the following
passage:
"Divide the f1oaters into blocks of
five, and put n trusted man with nee
essary funds in charge OF these five,
and make him responsible that
mono get away and that all vote our
ticket"
This circular letter was dated,
Headquarters Republican National
Committee, 81 Fifth Avenue, New
York, Oct. "a, 1888. Numbers OF this
document, which contained many
other pertinent suggestions rs to tho
means TO DO pursued 10 secure votes,
having been sent out, it is no worder
that some OF them fell into the hands
of tho enemy" and thus became
public.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
DISSATISFIED PRorEcrloN.


One OF the most melancholy phases
of tho tariff controversy is the fact
that a supreme dissatisfaction seems
to reign among all the beneficiaries OF
protection. They are fiockiny to
Washington to testify beforctho ways
md means committee, and after
twenty-five years OF the highest tariff
known to the world they one and all
declare that unless they have o
and moro of its mid they will be utter
lyruined.
The tobacco, wool and hop growers,
tho sugar-of.milk makers, the cattle-
r~aisers, tho rice, seed, peas, and bean
growers, were present in force, all with
. grievance-foreign competition
aud they wanted to be protected
Imagine a duty OF so cents a bushel
on beans, and NIL the way from 100 to
1000 per cent. on wool, and some idea
OF the rapacity OF these state fostered
gentlemen and the nature Of their de-
msnds may be cleaned.
The curious part OF the situation is
that when a grower asks for a higher
dnty on raw material a manufacturer
stops forward and solemniy declares
that it will ruin his industry unless
he also gets On equivalent advance in
duties. =
Take, for instance, the complaint of
the Massachusetts, cutters. They say
they have to import the steel to make
the razor blades from England, be-
cause American steel does not run OF
even grade. So they want the duty
on steel taken off or reduced. On the
other hand, they say they suffer from
the competition Of German cheap
razors; 30 they want the duty on
razors raised. This is a sample OF the
condition Of a majority of the pro-
tected industries
The surprisingly strange thing
about these demands is that the
market which the farmers were prom
Used tor their products fails to ma
terialiZe. Thus j. Q. Brown OF York
county, Pennsylvania, spoke for the
farmers of that State" Did he tell
how prosperous protection had made
them? Not at all. On the contrary,
ho said that lands were rapidly de-
pr~eciating and that between 1870 and
1880 they had shrunk to the amount
Of sf0,O00,0OO, and that there was no
staple crop upon which a profit could
be had! Accordingly he vas backed
up in his demands for moro protection
for the farmers by Mr.. Victor E. Piol
let, who told Chairman Mckinley to
his face that he would tax everything
which completes with what we grow or
make, ever to a button" b
Now, then, if protection has failed
tho farmer in the very keystone of its
arch, what hope is there for the "muds
sill" States which lie buried in its
foundations?IChicago News. .