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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
STOCK AND FARM.

One Harper county farm raised q
thousand acres Of broom corn this year.
The crop is worth, at low estimate,
SIG, 900.
Syracuse Principle: John Donohue
was in town yesterday to buy grain
drill. He will put out 100 acres of
wheat this fall. John says that this will
be his first experience in wheat raising
in Hamilton county, but he knows that
he will succeed the same as other
farmers.
Gaylord Herald: Henry Miller, north
of town, is just completing one of the
largest and best farm residences in the
county. Mr.. Miller is good farmer
and has made some money every year
since he came to Smith county. He
owns one of the est.improved farms in
the county, his credit, il he wanted to
use it, is above par, his children are
among the brightest and most advanced
in our public schools.
Cimarron New West: Farmers are
burning the stubble on the wheat
ground preparatory to blowing. This
is good move for various reasons. It
destroys the insects and the ashes make
a good fertilizer; besides, the stubble
cannot very well be plowed under adj
vantageously. The soil IS too light and
porous to admit Of such work. Trash
plowed under VIII not rot readily in the
light and dry soil, and the moisture
sooner becomes evaporated with light
substance, holding the ground from
packing.
Clyde Argus: We have one of those
Cloud county nubbins on our table,
raised by g. w. Lowers, on bottom land,
which measures thirteen inches in
length, eight and three-fourths inches
in circumference, contains eighteen rows
of corn and weighs two pounds. Mr..
Lowers says he has lots more Of the
same kind. What blessing TO human
ity it was that the corn crop of Kansas
was stunted by drouth, else the ''snap-
pers'' would have needed cast iron mus
cles to have been able to stand the corn
picking this fall.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
FREE TRADERS IN TROUBLE.

Driven from one refuge, the defender
of free trade hunts another. Lately he
was pretending that prices of domestic
goods to consumers were greatly en-
HANGED by new and higher duties, and
he thought it proof enough to pick up
occasional quotations of single articles
out of many thousand, at one or two
stores out of many thousand, these
quotations being represented as sample
bricks of the entire edifce. But the
report OF the senate finance committee,
showing retail prices of more than 200
articles at different stores in each of
seventy cities scattered all over the
makes that line of defense par.
hot and uncomfortable. The
figures given for each article at each
city were the result of inquiries at ten
or moro stores, if 20 many had the ar.
ticle for sale, but of such summaries
by cities it was found that out Of H.
$50 only 1886 per cent were higher in
1891, than in June August,
1889, or about one sixth. while all the
rest had either declined or remained un-
altered. The rise, moreover, was mainly
IN articles of food, for out OF $3.50 city
quotations for other articles than food,
only LIT had advanced at ALL 12.7 per
cent, or about an eighth. while 1850,
or AL per cent, had declined, and the
remainder had remained unchanged.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
PROSPEROUS KANSAS.

Some Of Her Citizens Mourning for
the s'Good Old Days" When labor
and Products were Almost value-
less.
b. 8. Osborne. OF Rocks county, The
fusion candidate for secretary OF statA
in al his speeches takes evident pleas-
ure in referring to tho cslamities that
have been visited upon tho farmers Of
tbs present day and comparing their
conditions with that Of tho farmers OF
thirty years ago. He compares prices.
and wages paid to laborers. Tho writer
i not an old man. and yss he DISTINCTLY
rsunombers hauling corn over twelve
milee Of as muddy road a. could poe
eibly Be found in northern Indiana. and
sailing II for 8 cents . b1shel. That
vas IN 1S59-60. Fuel was scarce in that
mart Of the state. so ccokstoves we've
run With com A healthy. strong harm
laborsr received IS q month during
esven months Of the year, and giadly
p,cked up days work daring IL othel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

but H. vatse mahas B exponnfve %
control Ths ven - bssa ptpsd sad
On attsmpt w. ma6s 70 psi 4. but &
failed. and Mr. Nickerson went to Kan
80 City to get = packsr that win do
it, work This WELL No. /, has demon
strated that Ne have Ga, and now ar.
rengements are being made to bore sev-
eral other-
While Barnum 4 Bailey's CIRCUS WAS
at Emporia. burglars walked into the
rear Of Wolleson's clothing store and
stole pile Of boys pants. They entered
the residence occupied by F. G. Everett,
at Twelfth and State, and carried OF q
lot OF clothing and silverware. George
Farrelrs residence in the west part Of
town was also raided and lot OF cloth
ing carried of. The sheriff, deputies
and city police nabbed two Of the
thievea They are nov in jail and the
stolen property is recovered. One Of
the men is named Charles Dean. The
other Is boy Is years Of age, who gave
his name a. Lyman Bates. Bato claims
to be going home to Kansas City from
Colorado Springs.
Washington, D. C.-Colonel j. NJ.
McAfee, of Russell, Kansas, was buried
al. Arlington. The burial services were
according to the ritual of the Grand
Army, and conducted by Captain Israel
w. Stone. who is now in government
employ, but for many years lived at
Lawrence. The services were attended
by number of the Kansas comrades
who chanced to be in the city, among
them Department Commander Greene.
Colonel McAffee was thrown from train
at short curve near the long bridge.
The train was going over forty miles an
hour, and he was attempting to pass
from one car to another, and falling of
struck some timber and rolled thirty
feet down an embankment. He was
picked up unconscious and died some
hours later. His wife and four children
were on the train and knew nothing of
the accident until reaching Central sta
ton. The deceased was prominent
man in his county, having lived there q
number of years, and was well known
in Grand Army circles. He has Leen
in the pension Office for about one year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
WIS., FIN ANGLERS.

The populist members of congress.
who were sent to Washington by Kan
sas in a moment of delirium, have
shown their wonderful incapacity in all
matters affecting the finances of the
nation. Heretofore men OF but lowly
circumstances, they have branched out
into financial schemes that would have
caused the spectators of Lanes time
to stand aghast with wonder. Mr..
Cover, q clever. farmer of Cowley coun-
ty, who was forced to call upon his wife
to lift the mortgage from his farm,
which she did, introduced five bills in
congress calling for the expenditure OF
$29, 945, 10000 It was evident that
his stock Of ciphers ran out, or three
more would have been added. They
might as we'll have been.
Mr.. Otis, the man whose gigantic in
tellect had raised him to the dignity Of
presiding over mlk-route in Topeka,
was discovered and made congressman.
Immediately he became financier, and
was liberal enough to wish to dispense
but ST., 575. 600, 600, such modest sum
that he apologized and explained that
he would do better If he received q
second tern. His political friends had
enough Of him and left him home.
Mr.. Davis, the fat money crank OF
Junction City, who was 20 in love With
his own ideas that for years b has
printed little grssnbacks Of his own,
which be would accept as subscriptions
to his paper, when accompanied BY ono
dollar, endeavored to expend $780,
500. 600, though Just Why that odd
$500, 600 no ono has ever been able to
discover. It took five bills to accom-
plish this.
Mr.. Simpson. in three bills. provided
for the expenditure OF LOTS, ole, 600,
the odd $4,000 being for fellow Who,
in the line OF duty, made . perilous
ride, such = hundTeds OF Thousands OF
other soldiers made almost daily. His
Life was in danger, and now simpson
wants him to receive SIC, 900. but 1t
the same time turned over to . PEN
sion agent the claims Of men Who were
shot to pieces and Who ssked for the
pittance OF <12 month While they
lived. Simpsons suddsn slsvltion
from the mnrshalahip Of Medicine Lodge
seens to have turned his head
Poor NE Bakse introdassd but o.
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KAxsAs cnuncnn

Tougsnoxie Mirror: The Christian
church Wa dedicated Sunday by State
Evangelist Cook The house v.s pscksd
and 20 were tho ante rooms. Tho sing
ing was led BY G. II Biz. Of For:
Scott. After the preaching nearly $500
vere raised for lifting the indebted
nsss on the building, which has cost
81. 800.
Kansas City item: Rev. David w.
Howard, tho new rector Of st. Psufs
Episcopal church. and his wife, arrived
in the CITY and win take up their resi-
deuce here. Tho ladies Of the Guild
gave a supper in their honor ct the
church, and following that IN informal
reception Was beid- Tho nesting BE-
tween the rector and Tho parishionees
was very PLEASANT ooA ksv. Howard
i hard worker md win q once begia
M labos st this paaoe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
PAUPER SOLDIERS.

The Way In Which the Bloody ShiP,
Is Buried on the Other Side.
The attention of old soldiers who
have been urged to accept the leader
ship OF ex-confederates, is called to the
following extract from speech deliv-
cred by James 6. Brown, member OF
the democratic central committee of the
District of Columbia. 1t was published
in the Herald and Torch Light, of Ha-
garstown, Maryland. but week before
the G.. A. K reunion. Mr.. Brown said:
"The republican party and the Harri-
every dollar that is paid those who
played soldier thirty years ago and who
pride themselves on their work at that
time.
1.-THE Grand Army is dangerous and
corrupt political organization, always
ready to defend with bayonet the I'M
constitutional and dirty work of the
party that feeds them.
"These mercenary warriors, these
pauper soldiers, these hangers-on
around the leaders of the Harrison
party, I understand, ara soon to be
housed and fed in Washington city.
They are to be entertained upon large
sum of money which they and the re-
publican member in the senate lob
bed through congress.
"The parks and public squares are
also to be reserved for these defenders
of the negro, whose vote is always for
sale wherever he resides, and the re-
spectacle people are asked to open their
homes to them.
"In the capital of the nation these
men are to hold high carnival at. the
expense of you and me and others,
whose constitutional rights they
abridged. It was created by the re-
publican party, for conquest, as in the
past, is still utilized to further the
schemes of that corrupt organization"
Let every republican show this to
his neighbor who is thinking of voting
for Field and for Harris, at the same
asking him if the time has come TO
trust democrats with the government,
for that is the real issue. There may
be no democratic party in Kansas, but
the national contest is between the two
old parties, the populists being but
aids de-camp of those who would wipe
out the entire pension legislation of the
nation in order to please their brethren
of the solid south.
Is it possible that the soldiers of
Kansas are prepared to ignore the past
and assist in placing in power those
who publicly denounce them as ''mer-
cenary warriors? Will they do the
bidding of men and women who openly
aver their faith in the success of the
ticket, even when pleading
for votes for the so-called peoples
ticket? In every move of these persons
the cloven foot is SO plainly visible that
one can but wonder how so many hon.
est veterans continue blinded by the
dangerous teachings SO regularly the
portion administered by the demagoPues
and office-seekers of the fusionists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

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tance looked back and found his wagon
to be in flames. Straw in the bed caught
fire from a spark out OF his pipe. After
making the discovery he unhitched his
team and by hard work managed to
save the front portion Of the running
gears.
Gaylord Herald: It was a very grace
full act performed by the young ladies
who conducted the leap year bill last
Friday night. After paying all expenses
for ball and supper, they found . bal
ance Of s. remaining on hand to be dis
7 osed Of, and being unable to find any
person in the neighborhood who was
poor enough to donate it to. they gave
It to Gsandpa Blunt as present for his
92d birthday.
Topeka Journal Of September %: The
Rock Island noon train from Kansas
City came in to-day in two sections OF
eleven and twelve cars each. They were
loaded with passengers tor western
Ksusas on tho harvest excursionA Tho
night train last night went west With
fourteen corches, IN two sections.
Travel on the northern branch 10 said
to be equally heavy. The Santa Fe
had an extra train last night and an
other to-day.
Il. Nickerson, the drill owner, has
struck third flow Of natural gas in the
Etna Ligh. and Fuel company's Veil at
Indeperden.e at . depth OF s0msehmg
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-02

Getting married in England, to people
whoare not able to buy q license, is yer y
embarrassing matter. A license is expen-
sive, while marriage by banns cost only
few shilings, so most prefer the banns.
You have to be cried three times on three
separate Sundays, and if > fellow happens
to make mistake and go to church on
the Sunday when his banns are cried he
finds the proclamation Of his matrimonial
intentions to be very embarrassing, for of
course he 10 unmercifutly grinned at by
the rest OF the audience. Couples having
their banAs cried usually stay away from
morning service or prevail on the clergy
man to proclaim the banns at A afternoon
service when few are present. Very often,
however, the parson refuses to do this,
arguing thai as the. banhs are designed
to give publicity to the occasion, the most
public time Of ,proclau alton should be
chosen, % the afflicted man and bis un-
fortaAate conpanioa that is to he, Are
foroad to bear the gibes Of their acquaint-
ances for IT least three weeks.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-02
Advice Of an Old Married Man.


A lover should never go down on his
knees to propose to his sweetheart, for if
she should happen to accept and he
should marry her, she will remind him Of
it fifty times week. Whenever there is
the slightest difference, or when he gives
her the least cross word, she fires up in
an instant and tells him, "You didn't
talk that way when you went down on
your knees and begged me with teas in
your eyes to marry you.'' A man natu-
rally gets tired Of being reminded Of bis
folly, but woman never gets tired of
reminding him, and that is what makes a
kneeling proposal . peculiar unpleasant
"Reminiscences.
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they All Dodeod,

Father Andre, = Distinguished French
priest, while preaching against the too
free indulgence in filtration among the
lady members Of his congregation, threat
ened to divulge the name Of one present
As being the most culpable in this respect,
but feigning to pity her dread of exposure
By this means gave out that iii charity he
would only throw his skull cap in the
direction Of the seat occupied by the lady
for whom bis special remarks we're meant
A. soon = the preacher raised his hat a.
though tc throw It, every woman in the
church j. said to have ducked her head.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-02
I" PLAY GRAY Goose"

In charming suburban city of Coving-
tor, KY, lives distinguished and wealthy
citizen who rejoices ID two sons, both
thorughbreds.
But the minds of these two sons ap-
proach the solemn question of life in two
different ways. One seeks relaxation from
business cares in playing the races. The
other finds relief in the giddy whirl Of So
ciety. And through this differentiation
came curious mistake.
The names of the two are singularly
similar, and SO it happened that a tele'
gram intended for the lover of the races
was delivered to the wife of the lover OF
society. Being duly authorized, she
opened it in the presence of the messenger
boy and read as follows:
"Play Old Gray Goose to win."
Il don know what this MEANS" said
she, in a puzzled way. maybe it is one
of those cipher dispatches that my hus-
band occasionally receives:n
Then she looked at the envelope and ex-
claimed: $500.
''That's not for US; tits for our brother
in -law." 81 g.
The message was At last properly de-
livered. But meanwhile the messenger
boy, having caught the tip, got some of
his comrades together, with as much as
$40, played the horse and won $47. The
brother for whom the dispatch was in
tended, and who finally caught it, is said
to have pulled in $400. Gin. Enquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-02
Bulgarian Superstition.

When tho head of Bulgarian family
perceives that he IL about to die he sends
for the priest and begins TO baloain With
him about the cost of his funeral. The
moment he dies all pots, pans and kettles
in the house are turned upside down to
prevent his soul taking refuge in any
OF them, and great care u taken to pre-
vsut sither maa os auiinalA. especially eat
~ dog from stepping across his body, a.
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H. N. STEWART, Lessee

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No. $50.
Application for q Patent
Y. S. Land Office, Haley, Idaho,
March s, 1891.

U. S. Land Office, HALEY, Idaho,
March g. 1891.
Notice is hereby given that Nicholas 7.
Sullivan and Erik Anderson, whose ps.s
Office address is Ketchum, Alturas county,
Idaho. have this day filed their appI,es''oA
for patent for 1878 linear feet Of the
"TRAPPER"
mine or vein, bearing lead and silver orr.
with surface ground six hundred lee' ~
width, situated in Warm Springs OnsS
mining district, County OF Aiturss, s :.
State Of Idaho, and designated by tne 1s'a
notes and official plat on file in TINS on Jo'
as Lot No. 50. said Lot No. % oe''e ~
scribed as follows, to-wit: . .s.,o. q
Beginning at discovery point, tnen. wv
$50 AZ w 237 feet to fir post mslAeS 40
central end Trapper lode;;" thehc ;S.nt;c.l
so w 1918 feet to corner NO; !, iIe ot No.
with corner No. 2 Of "Ophlr. iooe, Nv ernsr
81: thence s go so, + 500 feet to cofn aoo
No. 2. whence u. S. NJ. NJ. No. 4 bears = -. "a,
Isl GO6.7 feet distant; thence n " y m.
feet to N w corner of sullivan Ioos Io Nj
SURVEYED. and corner No. ! OF up TX
lode, survey 927, I'LL feet to corner ~ 4
thence N go 3O' W GOO feet to corner ~ M
thence S $50 q, w 1873 feet to cotn ntario,
1, the place of beginning survey =. "a AREA
boundary of this claim, embracing a ~ ;r
OF l4067 acres applied for for r NO eoD
Magnetic variation $50 30 r. o,a-d in
The location of this mine IS leeo sonnty
the Recorders office of said Alturss 800 .se 4
in Book "En of Quartz claims, ssTin
The nearest known locations, a 1os,s -. Claims.
Top" sullivan" and "Opfir Ua a.arers&y
ANY anG all persons claiming a ",;ne or
any portion Of said "Trapgcl sIe their
surface ground are required c 70 n. Of shs
adverse claims with the hf & a;Iey. in the
United States Land Office at H nan aays Pc.
state Of Idaho, during the sky .Sev us iii b.
statute. w. i. hiLC H. foregoing
notice OF application for pah! .vs ten con.
iished for the period of sixty n.yKS IIsrosr.
weeks in the kE1ca ~ a. Ketchum,
! weekly newspaper published ~
Altura1 county, Idaho. ,rv Register.
First publication March q '''''
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From Penury to Wealth.

Jim Whitlatch, tho discoverer Of the
Whitiatch- Union mine near Helena, led
q typical Western miners life. The mine
4 in question is now owned in England. and
has produced SEQ, oo0, 900 in gold. After
/ Whitlatch had sold the property for H.
soc, 900 he went to New York ITO make
as much money As Vanderbilt" He was
rare treat to Wall street, which fattened
on him, and in one year let him 50 with
only the clothes on bis back. He returned
to Montana, began "prospecting" again,
and discovered mine for which he got
$3.50, 900. b
He went to Chicago to rival Mrs. Potter
Palmer in wealth, and returned just as he
did from New York-"hat strapped" as
he would have expressed it. He made
still another fortune, and went to San
Francisco, where he died poor man.
Another Lewis and Clarke county mine
the Drum Lummon-proyides another
such story. Il was discovered by an irish
immigrant named Thomas Cruise. Al
though he owned il, he could not get
sack Of -four on credit. He sold it to an
English syndicate for 81 500, 900. But he
remains one of the wealthy men of Helena.
There is an ex-State Senator in Beaver
Head county who owns very rich mine,
the ore YIELDED $70o to the ton net. He
is California "Forty MINER" who came
as prospector to Montana, and since
discovering his mine has lived upon it in a
peculiar way. He has no faith in banks.
He saya his money is safest in the ground.
When he has spent what money he has he
takes out wagon load of ore, ships it to
Omaha, sells it and lives on the return
until he needs another wagonload.
There is queer story concerning the
Spotted Horse mine, in Fergus county.
1t was found by p. A. Meadow, who sold
it to Governor Hauser and A. M. Holder
for $500, 900, three years ago. They paid
large sum down in cash, and the other
payments we're to come out of the ground.
The ore was in pockets, each of which
was easily exhausted. Whatever was
taken out went to Meadow, who got
about 100000. Then the purchasers
abandoned it, on the advice Of experts,
and Mr.. Meadow took hold Of it. He
found the vein, over which rails has been
laid for mining car. He has taken out
$500, 900, and it is still good mine. One
of these children of luck came to Helena
with money, picked out wife. who was
then poor seamstrcss, hired hotel,
and invited. the town to the wedding.
The amount Of champagne that flowed at
that wedding was fabulous, and it is said
the whole town reeled to bed that night.