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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-14
DOWNER DOINGS.
LoNGFELLOW.

DowNER, Feb. Z, 1891.
s. ]. Spena lost few calves lately Of
black leg.
VIM. Stimits butchered beef one day
last week.
d. Y. Plantz was unfortunate to loose
one horse last week.
Geo. Woolner has determined to go to
Denver in few days.
j. G. Fisher, who is now at Pueblo,
Colorado, is expected home soon.
Anthony Ballmas has been talking in
favor of putting up ice this winter.
The universal opinion among our
farmers is good crop the coming season.
The ground hog saw his shadow and
the consequence is six weeks more cold
weather.
W. S. Taylor has assumed the manage
ment OF bachelors hall during the absence
Of his wife.
Woolner Bros. purchased some calves
of 0. A. COPYRIGHT last week. An aver
age price was $3.50.
A letter from G. F. Kearns, of Hamp-
ton, Iowa, formerly of this county, states
that he has been confined to his bed for
six weeks.
Joe Brezina contemplates departing
for Nebraska, in the near future, to be
gone about three months, where he will
rent farm, plant some corn and will
move hither the coming fall.
The shrewd coyotes are quite numerous
considering the fact that all over the
county, where ever there is an old
carcass, there is a viewless trap or two
waiting for the appearance and acquaint-
ance of the pests.
We have lately interviewed two parties
arguing the question of tapping the
Missouri river up north and running the
surplus water into the Gulf of Mexico.
One of the party said he would beg
leave to suggest to the citizens of Wa
Keeney to resort to some measure to re-
ceive the water power for the Touring
mill which is to be erected there in the
near future.
OCCASIONALLY.
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WILD HORSE.

WILD HORSE, Feb. IL.
Calvin Upjohn has captured five coy
ctes this winter.
George Young says Carrie Neuen
schwander has sprained ankle.
Edw. NJ. Dragoo and family viii move
70 MCPHERSON county this week.
Y. 81. Robinson has put homestead
papers on the northwest quarter Of 1926
Mrs. Martha Bollinger is visiting hel
sister, Miss Mary Robinson, in Wa-Kee-
ney.
Mr.. Lou Garriguess and wife visited
Clemens YoungIs folks the latter part OF
last week.
Mr.. ]. F. Jones wishes to thank his
uaighbors for their kindness to him
Turing his sickness.
S. G. Robinson is repairing his house
this week. Why are you getting such a
move on you Sam?
Emma Bollinger is having sore throat.
Ter brother David, who was threatened
With mountain fever, is getting better.
W. B. Robinson is employed to teach
2 third term of school In district twenty
seven. School will commence the middle
Of next month if the weather be suitable
Mrs. Chas. Shinquin. from the Hack
Berry, went to Wa-Keeney last Wednes-
day to see the doctor. She is staying at
the Robinson restaurant and the doctor
says she is not able to be moved.
George Young has been at I. F. Jones'
for some time, waiting on Mr.. Jones who
has been sorely afflicted with inflammation
Of the bowels. When Mr.. Young wished
to send any word to DR.. Jones as to the
condition of I. F. Jones he sent by Capt.
Jones, the mail man. We are glad to
note that Mr.. Jones is better.
Martin NJ. V. B. Storer, the cham
pion "storyer" of Western Kansas, when
about "three sheets" in the wind tells
some tall stories" He says that a GER
tam bachelor saw some one coming
towards his house and thinking it was a
Donny young lady from the south he
patched his pants and swept his house
quicker than he ever did before. The
visitor proved to be Hugh Fry. Mr.. NJ. |
V. B. how did you feel when you found it
was Mr.. Fry?
lJONGFEIIOW,
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COLLYER CARVINGS.
CoLLYER, Feb. II, 1891
Fine weather.
OCCASIONALLY.

COLLIER, Feb. II, 1891.
Fine weather.
Some are putting up ice.
Preaching tonight by Rev. Richards.
Mrs. Bower and son spent Monday at
Mr.. Reeds.
o. B. Kessler returned from Clay Center
Wednesday night.
Mrs. r. G. Kessler returned from
Topeka Saturday night
MIR. and Mrs. Moser and family spent
Sunday at Mr.. Hickman's.
Mr.. R. Owens will start west with his
family the first of the week.
Mr.. L. S. Myerly returned from Chey-
enne, Wyoming, Sunday night
1t is reported that Miss Mary Bundy is
dangerously i'll. We hope there is some
mistake.
Mr.. Nuke Cabak finished the contract
of filling the ice house for VIM. Bower
the latter part of last week.
Mr.. Charles Conner has started east
to visit his old home. Who knows but
there will be two when he returns.
DR.. A. B. Jones was in town Monday
and purchased some cabbage. He says
they don't keep itin Wa-Keeney. Good
MIR. Jerry Shehan returned from Indian
Territory Monday and says he will make
some money the coming summer. Say
Jerry give us pointer.
MIR. Geo. BLACKWELL gave a magic
lantern exhibition last Friday night in
the G. A. r. hall and will give one TO-
night in tie Banner school house.
MIR. Thomas Fike was brought home
from Culver, Kansas, where he is agent.
badly hurt. He was out riding and his
horse run away with him and ran into
wire fence and cut his leg badly. Dr.. A,
b. Jones is attending him.
.ss ToPsY,
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Trego Nick Replies.
TREGo NICK.
BIG CREEK. Feb. 9th. 1

Big CREEK, Feb, 9th, 1891.
FRIEND KETCHUM: You're off your box.
Trego Nick is still above turf, wide awake
and sound as dollar. You might as we'll
try to drown duck in a mule track as
he in P. P. ditch. Here is my hand.
Shake Bro. Maxwell! You are all o. K.
on the finance. How is it, Mr. Ketchum,
did you sprinkle salt on the tail of that
bird you have in your hand, or was it
by some other hocus-pocus that you
kotched it? Look at it. Its only cal
low, downy gosliH' and got the straddles.
Coddleit tenderly, handle with care or it
will never become mature gray goose.
Yours with Sympathy,
TREGo NICK.
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The New Discovery.
Ito be continued.)

You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it. You may yourself
be one of the many who know from per-
sonal experience just how good thing it
is, If you have ever tried it you are one
of its staunch friends, because the won
derful thing about it is, that when once
given trial, DIR. Kings New Discovery
ever after holds place in the house. If
you have never used it, and should Tbe
afflicted with cough, cold or any Throat,
Lung OF Chest trouble, secure a bottle
at once and give it fair trial. 1t is
guaranteed every time, or money re-
funded. Trial bottles free at A. B. Jones's
drug store. e.
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ELLIS ITEMS.
ELLIS, Feb. 2, 1891.

ELLIS, Feb. 2, 1891.
Mrs. Buchanan is expected home soon
We are all glad to hear that Mrs. Hem.
isegger is better.
Mr.. Smith, of Graham county, attended
the lecture Tuesday evening.
Rev. Il. N. Rogers gave a very enter
tanning and instructive lecture on Astron-
omy, at the school house in district eleven,
last Tuesday evening. At the close of
the lecture literary was organized.
The Ellis creamery and cheese factory
has been given over to the farmers, they
assuming all Indebtedness which is about
81, 900. Some of the farmers in this
vicinity were stockholders.
School Report.
Report of school in Dist. No. IL, for
month ending Jan. 80, 1891.
No. of pupils enrolled %.
Average daily attendance. .. IA.
Names of pupils not tardy; Charley
Cross, Charlie Hillman, Lou Buchanan,
George Glass, Fred Hemisegger, Lena
Hemlsegger, Samuel Glass and Willie
Hemisegger.
CAREY NJ. SWEET, Teacher.
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A Description Of Coyote Trego
County City of 1868.
fcontinusd frnn last uesl !

CONTINUED from last week.
Coyote was In the midst of the buffalo
country. For hundred miles on either
side carcasses dis6gured the land. The
meat cut into strips or lying on sheds,
thereby becoming merchantable 'jerked, -
was everywhere. AT night wolf baiters
armed with strychnine and lard, sailed
out aud daubed the bones. What the am
Der whale has been to the whaler, the
white buffalo has been to the hunter.
Traditions existed that there roamed, in
the inner circles of the vast herds, one or
two of these animals. Yet hunters who
had spent lifetime on the plains declar-
ed the report but an idle tale of green
horns, who had mistaken for a white buff
falo one covered with light clay from wal
lowing. Within the last year, however,
the dispute has been settled by the acqui-
sition of two individuals, one of which is
is now In the cabinet of railroad CON-
pany at Kansas City.
So numerous were the buffalos about
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hoof at This! It Tells!
4 RTICS-Men's, S1.2O.
95c.
Corsets, S1.2O.

15c.
IOOLLARS-Linen, lie.
Curling tongs, Ice.
Cabinets, &c.
Carpet binding, 19c
Crochet hooks, &c.
Cambridge oil cloth.
Cuffs, celluloid, 28c.
Carpet slippers,
Curtains with fixtures.
Caps, mems, 34c and up.
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DRESS stays. &c and 12c doz.
ORESS shields, 10c pair.
Dolls, 25c, 74c, 95c and 81.
Darning cotton. lie card.
Darning worsted. lie card.
Dickies, 15c.
Dictionary, Websters Unabr'd, 1925
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Our sales have been than Double what hoped for expected
The shewd best buyers the best posted best judges goods those
who are looking FOR bargains our best patrons
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Our competitors out Of business We think this Grea West large
enough for all We do sell goods at Bottom Prices and they
follow suit be reegd to the We have all employed
IN looking after trade WE ARE HERE TO STAY We are
not trying trade out We satisfied here and propose
our mail addressed M o., Wa-Keeney, Kansas for years
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RHLDOuAII 50 IIrrnDn
$3.50 OPERA HOUSE BLOCK
ITIHIlUIInLL ~ III UIIU
Are still Receiving and Disposing of Immense In
voices of Goods

You tell who Buys and Sells good who has the Trade by non
where Uncle Ben Sellers unoads the Boxes They marked M
u and noad Unpaekd and Sold at the Opera House Store
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FOUR TRIAL NUMBERS,

With great premium offers. on receipt Of
10 Gents, and address Of 10 Married
ladies', only 90 cents year. The best
monthly in the world for the price. Ad-
dress WOMAN'S WORK, athens,
Georgia. iz40 1T
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Embroidery cotton, &c spool.
lar muffiers.
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Prompt and careful attention given % any and a,
business before the q. s. Land once.
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All business before the o. s. Land once and In
terror Department promptly attended 20.
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For Trego and Ness Counties. School, syndipats,
Decided Land and City Property for sale. Special
attention given to business before q. s. Land once
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-23
In a DEN of Copperheads.

John Saley, deaf and dumb boy of
Pittsburg, went out with the intention of
picking raspberries. He had about filed
his pail, when his attention was attract
ed by an unusual motion in the bushes
near him. A moment later monster
copperhead snake appeared from under
bush. Before the lad could move the
snake had coiled itself and leaped at him..
The stroke was short, but some of the
green poison from its fangs fell on Saley's
trowsers. The boy became paralyzed
with terror. A moment later the reptile
had formed its deadly coil again, and
once more leaped forward to strike. It
measured the distance with fatal accur-
acy, for the deadly fangs were buried
deep into Saley's right leg. The pain
aroused the boy from his terror and he
jumped back The snake strove to hold
on to theleg. Then the boy tainted from
fright.
Neighbors ran to the spot just in time
to prevent the copperhead from striking
again. One of the men seized club and
with blow broke the snakes back as
it was recoiling. The reptile measured
eleven feet. a physician cauterized the
wound, but the poison had penetrated
the boys system Investigation showed
that young Saley had wandered into
den of copperheads. -------,
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Conscience in the sleeping Man.

Dreams have been regarded as an in
teresting subject of study ever since
scientific thought was born. Locke, the
essayist on the human understanding,
was of the opinion that a man did not
ttrink at all when really asleep, while
modern Investigators in this line of
research believe that thought no more
oeases during sleep than a watch prop
oray wound runs down in the night
According to their notion, under such
conditions the mechanical functions of
the mind are active, though uncontrolled
by the judgment, and thus it happens
that ones dreams are apt to be unreason-
nbie and even absurd.
Gould anything be more interesting
than to trace the progress of dream, if
1t were only possible? Think of the va
riety Of experiences through which one
would be conveyed. untrammeled by
the limitations of common sense which
restrict ones waking thoughts, and freed
from the moral responsibilities that en-
cumber the doings of ordinary life
Probability sets no bounds to the dream
aris vision, and even conscience is dor
Rant. since the most righteous Of men do.
sa occasions, misbehave themselves most
ah0ckingly in the strange Land Of Nod.
Washington Star
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rhe rea Houses or Janan.

Mousmees, rickshaws and tea houses
are the three institutions one associates
with Japan. Kipling has made the rick
shaws hardly more of a phantom than
the three-horse car, while Sir Edwin Ar
mold and Pierre Lott have pictured the
gentle. mousmee with such exquisite
finish that people ignorant of the mean
ing of the. word a few months back are
in love with her quaint beauty and raw
ishing smiles
Tea houses are simply inns or restau-
rants where the principal refreshment
(often the only one) is tea. In the cities
they are the favorite evening resorts, for
there you can hire the gaudy Geisha
girls to dance and sing or play the samo-
sin and koto between the intervals of
love making. She is a mistress of this
art. Nara, one of the most beautiful
places in Japan, hash other accommoda-
ton, and notice must be sent the day be
fore to tell the owner how many guests
he is to accommodate.
Rickshaws laden with supplies start a
few hours ahead, the coolies who draw
them acting as cooks and house servants
during your stay. Slowed in these use
full vehicles is all you require-food and
the utensils for cooking and eating it.
The teahouse supplies nothing but chop
sticks, fresh eggs and rice. The little
teahouse at Nara was like white parch-
ment box with wooden corners, and
stood in the shade of crystomoria
grove. In the heat of the day the parch-
ment walls disappear mysteriously into
the wooden corners; then the entire
house looks like platform, with high
wooden corner posts, raised few feet
frsm the ground, covered with dazzling
white matting.-Once Week
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Comfort for Corpses.

Among the inventions that commend
themselves to public notice during the
last fifty years are those relating to cof-
fins, graves and burials. One of these is
intended to furnish the tenant of grave
who has been buried prematurely with a
means of escape or arousing the neigh
borhood. This invention is simple af-
fair, being merely an open tube provided
with a rope ladder and bell and cord.
Should the occupant of the coffin awake
from the trance he could climb the lad
der and make his way back to the world,
or pull the bell and alarm the township.
For those whose only fear is that they
may not be allowed to rest undisturbed
considerate inventor has provided a
torpedo grave" which, if disturbed, ex-
plodes at once and scatters the vandals
to the winds.-Chicago Times.
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The present year will witness the if
tieth anniversary of the tonic sofia sys-
tenn, which has done SO much, and we
may safely say, will do so much more in
the future, to spread the knowledge and
the love of music among the people. Mr..
Spencur Curwen, son of the inventor
and most energetic propagator of the
system, seizes the opportunity for very
interesting review of its history and
characteristics in Good Words. Coldly
received, disparaged and even derided in
many influential quarters, it is now able
to confound its opponents by the incon-
testable evidence of its fruits.
As Mr. Curwen observes, in this
jubilee year there are hundreds of musi-
clans who have successfully climbed the
ladder his father placed for them-bache-
lors and doctors of music, fellows of the
College of Organists, associates Of the
Royal Academy of Music, vocalists and
performers of repute. Mr.. Ben Davis.
not many years ago, was singing in tonic
sofia choirs, and he constantly advises
opera singers who wish to read at sight
to learn the system.
A doctor of music who graduated the
other day at one of our universities testi-
fies that without the tonic sofia system
he does uot think he could possibly have
done the work. Such authorities as DR..
Helmholtz, of Berlin; Sir John Herschell,
Mr.. Bosanquet, General Thompson, DIR.
Bridge, Mr.. Henry Leslie, Lord Ray
leigh, Mr.. A. j. Ellis and many others
not less noteworthy have given their
sanction to the system.
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A Bird,s waterproef Ne.t.

Being out on a prospecting tour in the
mountains and having some knowledge
of birds and beasts in their native haunts,
was on the alert for anything could
zee. Cue day while we were wading a
mountain stream in Skamania county.
Wash, 4 saw a water ousel leave water
fa4f sDsne twenty feet above the stream
Fs1sVefsein. BY helping my companion
i4p the rocks he was enabled to reach the
place where the bird had left, and was
rewarded by finding the nest. splendid
waterproof nest, built in crevice of the
rocks where the water was pouring over
and partly onto the fore part of the nest.
I now have it and one egg at home in
Vancouver, WASH, as relic of our trip.
George Mitchell in Portland Orego-
rsafs
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Erankso-t.. system or p.nh..

OF all the schemes designed for small
savings and to encourage the poor to lay
by small sums the penny savings stamp
system, established in 1882 at Frankfort
on-the-M Main, is the most unique Frank
fort is distinguished among European
cities by the large average wealth of its
citizens, and by its exceptional promi-
nence in all that pertains to banking
and finance. Many great banking fami-
lies had their origin in Frankfort, from
which branches have been established
at Paris, London, Vienna and New York.
There are today not less than 200 bank
ing houses, public and private, in the
city. It might naturally be expected,
then, in view of these facts, that some
original features in the line of savings
banks should be found there.
The Frankfort Savings bank is a pri-
vate corporation established in 1923,
nearly seventy years ago, when Frank
fort was free city and independent of
all state allegiance and control. 1t be-
gan with 294 depositors, with Sc, ,934
marks to their credit. In 1899 there
were 56,697 depositors, with an aggre.
gate capital of 1926, ,697 marks, the re-
ceipts and Withdrawals that year being
6,3l9,276 and 5,151, ,602 marks respec-
lively.
There are three departments connected
with this institution. The Savings De-
posit bank, which comprises central
Office and two branches in different parts
of the city; the Weekly Savings bank,
a separate bureau, under the same man
agement, but differing from it in that it
collects from each depositor a stated
weekly deposit, and the Penny Savings
institution, which is adapted to the
methods of the humblest class of depos-
itors, whose savings are limited to few
pennies per day or week.-New York
Recorder
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4 Modern soIou,on.

A famous Chicago lawyer once had a
singular case to settle. A physician came
to him in great distress. Two sisters,
living in the same house, had babies of
equal age, who SO resembled each other
that their own mothers were unable to
distinguish them when they were to-
gether. Now it happened that by the
carelessness of the nurses the children
had become mixed, and how were the
mothers to make sure that they received
back their own infants? ssBut, perhaps" {"
said the lawyer, ssthe children weren't
changed at all ''Oh, but there's no
doubt they were changed" )" said thephy-
sician. Are you sure of it2" Per
fectly." 'fWell, if that's the case why
don't you change them back again2
don't see any difficulty in the case
Boston Saturday Gazette
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why women shoaid Help Govern.

Why Women Shoold Help Govern.
The eternal and ineradicable distinc-
ton of sex is one principal reason why
women in representative government
should be directly. represented. If law
yers alone cannot safely be trusted to
make laws for mechanics, if merchants
alone cannot legislate for farmers, if
every well defined class in society is en-
titled to its own authoritative expression
through the ballot, surely women, who
are the wives and sisters and mothers of
men, should give expression to the do
nestle interests from the feminine point
of view. If blacksmith cannot fairly
represent a physician, how much less can
man represent a woman!-He Henry B.
Blackwell.
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The Neglect of the Groom.

A person about to be married has sent
In a complaint for public consideration
against the constant neglect which the
bridegroom receives from the press, from
the friends of the contracting parties
and often from their immediate families
All interest centers in the bride, whose
whose bouquet is not considered beneath
mention, and whose face, blushing be-
meath her veil, is the most pleasing at
traction of the wedding.
The bridesmaids, lovely girls, futter-
ing in dainty colors, are worth more
than IA passing notice. The ushers, the
guests, and even the organist, are spoken
of in an appreciative manner. Some
times there is consideration shown to the
sexton of the church. But where is the
groom? There are columns of descrip-
tions of weddings in the daily press, and
in these columns the personality of the
groom is passed over without a g1immer
of apology.
How does the groom dress? What is
his choice of flower? Do his gloves fits
Are his shoes of patent leather? Nobody
knows these interesting details, although
they are undoubtedly important to the
neglected man. His presence is supposed
from occasional mention of the young
couple" and he probably may be seen
skulking around the corner of the pull
pit; but he is evidently in hurry for
the completion of the matter. It is not
his occasion. Unfortunate man, he is the
chief and notable instance of "Hamlet
left out OF Hamlet. Boston Journal