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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
NOTICE..
Land once at wa-Keeney. Kansas,

Land ONCE at wa-Keeney, Kansas, No ,,.s,
May 4, 1893. ''''S
Complaint having been entered at this office by
James 81. Selby against Jasper N. Clark for aband-
1892 upon the east half of the southwest quarter and
the south half of the southeast quarter OF section
IL township Is south, range 25 west in Trego coun-
ty, Kansas with view to the CONSOLATION of said
entry, the said parties hereby summoned to ap-
pear at this Office on the 3rd day of July 1888 at
8 O'Clock a. m. 10 respond and furnish testimony
concerning said alleged abandonment.
Tit 5t1h p. Wmsos, Receiver.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, ~, COTE
May 5, 1893. No' oo'o'

-'''-N 0''-'' "' A May :, n 1Sgss No. ss75.
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the register and receiver of the
o. S. Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, on June
10, 1895, viz:
Lyman S. Burt,
Homestead Application No. 13413. for the north
east quarter of section 1s township Is SOUTH range
% west, 9th ?. NJ. Kansas.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of said
land, viz:
Joseph Y. l.. Irwin and James s. Wright, of Will
cox, Kansas; Joseph A. Law, Wa-Keeney, Kansas:
James I. Ford, Brownell, Kansas.
Is ct LEE MONROE, Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
g M. HUTZEL,

Attorney at Law, Q. S. Land Attorney
and Real Estate Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U. S. Land Office, Wa-Keeney, Kan, I ~, ooz,
June 7, 1898. 1'o o''s

U. S. Land Office, Wa. Keeney, Kan, No so5a
June 7, 1S93 No' o''f
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support Of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the register and receiver of the
U. S. Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas on
July 10, 1893, viz
Anton Nawyet,
Homestead Application No. 21625, for the east one
half of the southeast quarter of section a. town
ship u SOUTH range 25 west of the 9th P. M, Kan
SaS.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation, of said
land viz:
James Yanda, Bosnia, Kansas Frank j. Spena
and Joseph Mlineck, of Colyer, Kansas; Frank A.
Krhut, of Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
10 ct LEE MONROE, Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

q. S. Land Office at wa-Keeney, Kansas, oo,,
May 5, 1893. NJ ooss
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of her intention to make final
proof in support of her claim and that said proof
will be made before the register and receiver of the
U. s. Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, on June
IL, 1898, viz:
Mary O'NeiI,
Homestead Application No. 1852, for the south
east quarter of section Is, township ID SOUTH
range % west 9th P, NJ Kansas
She names the following witnesses to prove her
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of said
Land. viz:
John Stewart, John b. Briggs, Andrew j. John
son, John ID. Briggs; all of Collyer, Kansas.
Is 6t LEE MONROE, Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, ~, ooo,
May 16, 1898. NJ ooSA
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim and that said proof
will be made before the Register and Receiver of
the o. S. Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, on
July 8, 1893, viz:
Frank Halbleib,
Homestead Application No. 1884, for the south
east quarter of section 81 township Is south range
II, west of the 9th P. NJ, Kansas.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said
land, viz:
Theodore Powell, of Brownell, Kansas: Frank
Edwards, Josiah R. Tunnel, Caleb Ferris; all of
McCrackeu, Kansas.
oct LEE MONROE, Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17

Does a General Real Estate Business. Money
Loaned Decided Property. Office in southeast
room of Opera Block, upstairs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
ToHN A. NELSON,
Attorney-at-Law & .. P. Land Agent

For Trego and Ness Counties School, Syndicate,
Decided Land and City Property for sale. Special
attention given to business before q. S. Land OGice
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

A recent article by c. Vincent on
the financial situation has attracted
unusual atten ton. It first appeared
in the Nonconfirmist Of May II, and
was reprinted entire by the Chicago
Sentinel. Vanguard and Boise City
(Idaho) Sen tinel, besides being used in
the ready prints issued from Sioux
City, Iowa, and Fort Wayne, Indiana
The July Arena will contain a paper
by the salae writer, replying to a
Spanish financier, and menu Der of the
New York Stock Exchange, Mr.. Jose
F. de Navarro. Mr.. Vincent has also
critically reviewed letter in May
Forum, by Western Republican,
which article is furnished fer our
readers. He has done an unusual
amount of writing during the past five
months and it will leave its impress
upon the politics of the future. In
July he will again enter the field for a
series of speeches in Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Missouri. Arrangements
for an address by him can be made by
addressing THE Central Lecture
Bureau MACY Block), Indianapolis,
Ind
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28
THE SHERMAN SILVER LAW.

Admission is now freely made by the
gold bugs and those who favored the
passage OF what is now known as the
Sherman Silver Law that it was the
conception of the enemies of silver
headed by John Sherman to stave off
and defeat free coinage bill that was
certain of adoption if the Sherman
bill had not been brought in as COM
promise.
They now openly acknowledge that
they practiccd deception to defeat freq
coinage of silver. by giving the people
law that in its application has proved
farce, and having served its purpose
they now have the effrontery to de-
mand it's repeal. and claim that it, as
fraud, has settled the question of
free coinage. The admission that the
Sherman silver law was but make
shift to defeat free coinage measure,
together with the application of the
law in making the silver certificates
redeemable in gold only, adds to the
already long list of crimes and viii
lainies laid at the door of John Sher-
man and his co-conspirators, and char
acterize them as the most dastardly
scoundrels, the most despicable char.
acters known in American history.
These internal pirates and thieves
now say the Sherman silver law will
be repealed without any substitute Of
any kind, much less any measure look
ing to free coinage. Well, we shall
see what we shall see. but unless we
are mistaken in the temper Of the
American people the gold bug con-
spirators will get the worst shaking
up they have ever had in the worlds
history in the next eighteen months.
1t may be well to say in this con-
nection, too, that the members of Con.
gress and Senators who are too weak
to resist the seductive influences Of
Wall Street had better arrange to mi
CRATE, as the climate Of tLis country il
not likely TO agree with them.
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

TIE congress of bankers and money
sharks at Chicago convened, delibsr-
ated, issued its edicts and adjourned,
and now every plutocratic sheet
in the country, big and little,
has taken its cue and Poll Par
rot-like will mouth over the
parts assigned it. In that congress
of bankers there were hearts (gizzards
might be more appropriately that con-
tanned more of avaricious greed, CAL
lous-hearted cupidity and internal
scoundrelism than ever Assem- led in
this country before. And yet to thess
cormorants with insatiate maws, this
class of robbers and pirates, the world
is looking to for financial wisdom to
regulate monetary systems. God can
reverently be thanked that bank rule
is soon to end in this country if the
signs do not fail.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

GAN honest dollar is the noblest
thing in financial philosophy" says
the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
land no country can afford to
tolerate any other" The Globe
Democrat is right, and this view
of the matter is bringing forward
rapidly growing sentiment that will
inside of ten years eliminate gold as a
material for money in this country
in short, gold will be demonetized. 1t
never was and never can be made an
honest money. 1t never fought bat
tie or saved country. It is cowardly
and hides when it is needed the worst.
No money is SO unreliable as gold. 1t
is too scarce to ever be made the basis
of monetary systems, and the world is
becoming too wise to much longer toll
crate its tyranny.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

We DON'T think we ever saw q nom
partisan that wasn't intensely par
tisan- What we mean by non-par-
tisan is one of those fellows that en-
phasizes the Importance of non-par-
tisanism. This is natural. In 900
cases out of LOCO your non partisan is
either Democrat or Republican. He
knows his party does not propose to
carry out the demands of labor organ
izations, and, therefore, not enlisting
the sympathies of the members there
Of, are apt to suffer from any indepen-
dent political action. Note all the
non -partisans you know and you will
discover that they are for their party
first and labor organizations incident.
ally.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28
SIGNING FOR AN AMERICAN COURT AND
ACCESSORIES.

Curing the days Of the last Napoleon,
wealthy American and his daughter
were doing Paris. In viewing the i'm
perial splendors of the French capital
the daughter was led to exclaim sAh,
if we only had court and it's access
cries in America" Her father was
more Thoughtful. He called to mind
the hardships and privations he had
endured in his struggles in the acquire
ment Of his wealth, and replied: eff
we had a court and court accessories
in America with all that it implies my
daughter would probably be at do
mestic service instead of. doing Paris
with servants at her command"
No'doubt there are many people in
this country who are signing for an
American Court and it's accessories, a
class of people commonly called cod
fish aristocracy, shoddy would-be
lords and ladies'" whose origin in
many instances is of the most humble
and obscure character, but who, by
fortuitous circumstances, became
wealthy.
The vulgar exhibitions Of toadyism
made by certain American people over
titled foreigners in the last few weeks
shows that these funkies would hail
with delight more aristocratic form
of government.
Those people are really tiresome and
it is pity they do not take themselves
of to those chimes where courts and
their accessories are in vogue. They
are class that can well be spared.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

Cannot some plan be adopted by
which soldiers who think as we do
may be known or heard? In that way
we might let the world know, before
we pass out of it, that we are not all
mercenaries, but that some served the
Government for the love of it,
Many man has watched with ach-
ing heart the advance of the pension
gorgon, not daring to whisper to his
bosom friend the convictions of his
own soul. It is only recently that a
few men secure in the possession of a
competence. and hence not dreading
the mailed hand Of ostracism or the
boycott and the blacklist, have sent
forth a blast that challenges the ad-
miration of the world and has sent
shiver to the center of the gang of
treasury hooters, who have controlled
in pension matters for quarter of
century.
No stronger evidence is needed that
the Pension Bureau has in the past
been used to reward party service than
the fact that the close States of Ohio
Indiana. Iowa and Ka nsas have been
the special recipients of favor as shown
by the table below from the annual
report Of the Commissioners of PEN
siOns.
Number of pensioners on the rolls
in the following agencies and years:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

The fellows who think socialism is
q great bugaboo, and who know moth
ing about it, will perhaps be inter-
ested in knowing that in Pennsylvania
the free school textbook system has
become q Law. The Boston Record
says: 'Inside Of five years. socialism,
or at least socialistic ideas, will be-
come more firmly ingrafted in the laws
of this State than anywhere else in
the Union."s
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

EVERY man elected by labor or
ganization on account of his connec.
ton with one, either as q Democrat or
Republican, has either turned to be
q Populist or deserted the demands Of
his organization.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

One of the first things the new
Mayor of San Diego, Cal, did after as
Stunning the duties of his Office was to
dispense with tf1 services of lot OF
useless clerks whose salaries aggre-
gated about SIC, o0C annually.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

If THE fool-killer would come along
now he has our permission to kill all
the snobs and hypocrites in the coun-
try that are groveling before the mo-
bility (?) of Europe, and making asses
of themselves generally.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

IF THERE was plenty of money, as
the bosses have been telling US there
was, what caused 50 many banks to
fail? The reports say 1T was caused
by stringency in the money market
By the way, isn't that one Of the COM
plants Of the people?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

A MAN that is blind In one eye ana
can only see little out Of the other
knows there is not one-tenth enough
gold in existence to furnish currency
conveniently, and on safe basic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

The Populists have said all along
that the money question was the main
issue. Now Cleveland comes out and
says the same thing, and you hardly
hear any other question discussed.
They thought they could hold it down
but they couldn't do it
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

IT IS now intimated on the authority
Of Gov. Flower OF New York that
Cleveland will be q candidate for =
third term. No doubt but that Flower
and other millionaires would like to
see him King or Emperor.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28
NOTES FROM me FIELD.

NOTES FROM RE FIELD.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat and
other Hessian sheets are telling tho
people that the only thing needed now
is coincidence" and they expect this
to lun the people to sleep again. The
masses are not swallowing narcotics Of
that sort now.
Money is said to be getting tighter
ever day. Money ought to sober up or
take the gold cure" BY the way,
have you ever thought Of the fact that
the discovery Of tn, bichloride Of gold
was the first instance in the worlds
history where gold is of any
pra' teal utility? Can you name
anything else in which gold
is used that it is an absolute ne
cessity, may not be dispensed with or
something else substituted in its stead,
and the world move along just as we'll
without it? If you can, name it.
Princess Eulalia bets on horse races.
drinks like fish and smokes ciQa-
rettes. She comes Of sporting stock.
Old Queen Isabella, her mother, has
a most salacious reputation. but
royalty covereth multitude OF sins,
Someone inquiries, "Who will be the
Lincoln Of the new industrial move
ment?" Why. there are millions of
them coming. who to-day have better
conception of liberty and the brother
hood of man than ever Lincoln had.
much as we admire his character and
revere his memory. Lincoln never
made greater mistake than when he
declared he would s.save the Union
with Tor without) slavery" This gen
GRAFTON is far ahead of such an idea.
From January ] to June /. 1898.
twenty national banks failed in the
country, with capital of SIS, $50, 900.
Since June nearly a dozen more
national banks have gone under. and
yet we hear great deal abo 1t 1.-The
best banking system the world ever
saw.
His grace, the Duke of Astor, has
recently purchased ducal estate in
England at q cost of ST., 125, 200, and is
negotiating for the purchase of game
preserve in Scotland. This lordly ape
never produced a dollars worth of any,
thing in all his worthless life, but is
simply drone in the great industrial
hive. When will laber cease support
ing such worthless creatures?
The "fat lunatics'' and .ssheretics"
are botheration to our gone-to-seed
conservative elements. 1t is a good
thing the days of the inquisition have
passed or there would be some lively
roastings. The freedom of thinking is
still in vogue-if it is not too loud.
Where is there sny injustice in an
income tax, when it is based on ability
to pay? The plutes and their lick
splttle organs are the only people kick
ing against an income tax.
1t cost the government $4,000 day
to entertain Princess Eulalia aud suit.
and $4,000 day to "board" Duke
Veragua and suit. As both were the
guests of the government for several
weeks, it would be interesting to know
the total expense
Old party editors and politicians
have about as much sense as an ostrich
who sticks his head in bush and i'm
AGNES his whole body concealed.
They rely wholly upon their ignorance
OF the growth of populism and imag-
inc it is dying out.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

Burn these lines into your memory:
The war closed nearly thirty years
ago.
1000, 1000 pensioners are on the rolls,
a number equal to one thirteenth Of
our voting population.
1926, 200 original applications were on
file last December.
100000 applications for increase
were on file at same date.
Let every comrade who sees this
article take the questions above pre-
sented and bring the subject to vote
in his post aud send the result to the
Noah L. Farnham Post, G. A. R., New
York City. A SOLDIERS FRIEND.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28

APPLYING new standard Of value,
as BY contraction Of the volume Of
money, is as much robbery as using
false weights or false yard-stick.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28
100000.

100000
Mr.. Warner proceeds: ct is not
necessary to go at length into un-
pleasant details which show how
largely tainted is the pen
sion roll with fraud, II
the contrasting figures of the longevity
demonstrated and the decrepitude
claimed are a sufficient evidence of
fraud. The question Is not as
to adequate recognition Of those auhose
patriotic serUtce entities them to consider
alton, and UhOsc injuries received II. SER
Uice entjtle them to rcconpensc; mcris 1t
one of remembering by national bounty
the mothers and 1CiUes 1UhO sent their
loued omes to the field, or the orpht ms
echo Were bereaued thnt our country
might be preserved. ALL ARE AGREED
IN GENEROUS TREATMENT OF THESE
Qtalics are ours.) But we are forced
to consider how far organized greed
shall be permitted to impose on patri-
otto sentiment, how far conspiracy to
defraud shall be shielded. and how far
the marriage relation itself shall be
permitted to be misused for gain.
There are known to
be thousands Of impersonators
Of brave men under whose names
they have skullcd; periurers who
have magnified, or forged bodily all
ments or who have attributed to the
service injur ies and diseases known to
have been received or contracted else
where; "re]icts" who never knew the
soldiers In whose name they ask relief
from the government; mistresses who
never dared to take the name of their
paramours until they were dead; s'pen-
sion Jumpers of both sexes, who are
drawing two. three or more pensions
under different names; and lastly, and
in increasing numbers widows who
were born after the war and who
claim to be special wards of the gov
eminent"
For the detection and punish
ment of such cases as the
above Mr.. Warner suggests that
there be published, arranged accord
ing to the present residence of the
pensioner, the name, age and descrip-
ton of each, and brief memoranda
of the time and place of his enlist
ment. service claimed, full statement
of the causes for which an original
pension and increase was allowed, and
a memorandum of the monthly rate or
rates of pension he is aud has been re-
ceivlng, as well as the dates from
which these rates have been obtained,
and the lump sums. if any. paid for
arrears, comuta ton or otherwise.
BY all means Jet the list be pub
llshed.
Armed with this record let strong
corps Of expert examiners visit each
locality AMI expose and disgrace and
strike from the rolls the thousands Of
frauds that now stain the pension lists.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-28
The Pension Gorgon.

The Pension Gorgon.
Pension" is the one word before
which all parties and most men arc
towards.
The writer of these words shares in
some degree the cowardice that infects
the majority Of men in the presence of
this fetish. though he is persuaded
that he does not lack the courage nee
essary to discuss the subject on its
merits. but his timidity partakes more
OF the feeling of one who would shrink
from the turgid nastiness OF bath in
a sewer. The vengeful spleen and
atrocious calumny that is piled. Pelion
upon Ossa, upon the critic of our pen
sion affairs leads the writer to seek
the refuge of an anonymous scribe
and thus divert the wrath of party
whips and compel consideration of the
facts upon their merits.
The high political standing of one,
and the long and honorable United
States army career of tho other will
protect the regulations Of the writer's
of the June Forum, while the reading
of the article will give wider pub
licity to some important facts, than
could be secured in magazine alone
We are now nearly thirty years
lscfo kho ~
yet with all that this implies of death
among the veterans, many of whom
were old when mustered out, we are
now paying about half million dol
lars day for pensions. or more than
is paid by any European nation to sup
port its army.
Notice the rapidity with which this
department is increasing its demands.
Appropriated. Deficiency
1889. ........x 81, 62LO0OA S2o OuU, Guo+
1886. Observation-Disclosures 6,936,000 :A,OOJ,UN
1891 .... ........ .l24,4lSo0o $40, 100
isss iasiedi "a, ooSSn w. "o'oo'
Section Of the Treasury. Report for 1892.
Hon. John Dewitt Warner in June Forum.
1t will be seen that most astound-
ing increase has taken place during
the Harrison and Tanner-Raum regime
Under the act of 1890, 44,31S ori.inal
pensions and eight claims for increase
have been granted, while there yet
remained on Dec. 10. 1892. to be ex-
amined and passed upon, 1874, BIT origin.
al claims and 231,9 claims for in
crease
The Hon. John Dewitt Warner,
Congressman from the Eleventh New
York disr"i- t, says:
My convit ton, in which l am not
alcns, is, that If our pension expendi-
ture for the year for which we are
next 60 provide falls below 5000, OOC,-
00n it will be on account either of
radical purging of the pension rolls,or
OF a radical reform Of the Pension
Office, or of radical amendment of the.
law;and unless checked by one or all of
these methods, the expenditures for
the next few years to come will aver
age but little, if any, less than $780,
100000, and for long time thereafter
will approximate the extraordinary
figures of the present year. The rate
at which the 'Vnnual value of the
pension roll, that is, the annual pay
ment involved after settlement of ar
rears in each case, has steadily in
creased of late is signifi can't
This annual payment after arrears
are settled has been as follows:
On June 30, 1889 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GA 2i6 900
On June 81, 1890 :. ............ ~ U1. on
On June 80, 1891 ...... .... 1921 OUO
On June 81, 1892 ................ 1l6S79OOO
Dept Est. for 1893. - 1873, sou, 100
The pensioners on the rolls are over