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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
CanYassing Board.

The board of canVassers met accord
ing to custom on Friday of last week
to determine the result Of the election
by counting the returns sent in by
judges for the various precincts. Short
ly after converting Mr.. Sample appeared
before the board and Insisted in behalf
CT the defeated republican candidates
that Deerhead precinct should be
thrown out Of the count for, he said, they
had all voted cOlored ballots out there.
Mr.. Sample piled up an luminous look.
ing pile OF books in front of him, pre-
sumably for the purpose of overawlng
the board, as his references were very
limited. by way of protest against the
unusual demand of Mr.. Sample, Messrs.
Martin and Beals explained the duty
OF the commissioners so plainly that
even Mr.. Sample evidently understood
it, as he and his statutes soon disap.
peared. The unwarraDted and prepos-
ferrous assertion that board of can
vasserS has the power to 90 behind the
returns is surprising, and can be pic
tured in no other light than clear bull
doze. A board of canvassers' duty is
to count up the certified returns as sent
in by the various judges of election,
and at no time has the power ever been
delegated to them to judge as to tech
nicalitieS Of the ballot. There are
courts for that purpose. II grievances
are to be offered let them be offered at
the proper place. But it Mr.. Sample
or his clients imagined for q moment
that the canvassing board was to re-
solve ITSELF into court of appeals they
were soon disabused of the idea; for
after an hours time being consumed
chairman Rowley declared that they
would proceed with counting the re-
turns. All the precincts were finished
bJ two o'clock, with result shown in
our tabulated statement in this issue.
Certificates Of election were then or
dered made out TO the successful can.
dldates, which order the clerk immedi-
ately complied with. A. l.. Noble as
chairman Of the republican committee
pAOIOohOu aSdlISb luC loouduCC vi a CcE-
tificate to Mills and commissioner
Stranathan entered his dissentlon, pre-
sumably on the grounds of Deerhead
voting colored ballots. 1t was another
very foolish move, for as we said before
the duty of the board is to issue certifi-
Gates to those having the largest num-
Der Of votes, and not suppoed to know
whether the ballots are black or white.
The board did not allow themselves 10
be hoo-dooed, however, and Mr.. Mills
received his certificate as was certainly
proper.
On Saturday several ties in township
offices were settled by lot, the names on
a slip Of paper being placed in hat and
drawn. Several hundred dollars in
scrip were Issued to defray election ex-
penses, and in the afternoon the board
adjourned.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
WANTED.

Cattle and horses to winter at the waynoka
Cattle Ranch o. T.
Cattle 80 cents per months per head for win
ter months. 25 cents for summer and autumR
months,
Horses 81 for winter months. so cents for
summer months. Liberal reduction on lots of
100 head or more. All inquiries cheerfully an
swered. Address D. T, Mcfarland. president,
or Jos. Haines, treasurer. Pratt, Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

STRAYED, from Kiowa. Sept 24th, one sorrel
horse, weight 400 pounds. branded G ON left
shoulder, white face. Also one bay horse,
about 100 pounds, in poor condition. no
brands. Scar on back. Address
e. OsTLER, Kioya
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

A GENTS (male or female) make $40 a day.
ANew invention. Every household must
have il. Small outlay. big profits. Perfection
Mfg. Co., 155 st. Clair st., Cleveland, y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
Teachers OF Barber County.

Compiled by the county superintendent. and
published by request.l
Names and addresses Of the teachers or Bar
Der county. Kansas:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

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the only bow (ring) which cannot be pulled
or wrenched from the case. Can only be -
had on cases containing this trade mark. wv
MADE ny
Keystone Watch Case Company,
Of Philadelphia.
the oldest, largest, and most complete Watch
Case factory in the world-Isoo employees;
1000 Watch Cases daily.
One of its products is the celebrated
Jas. Boss
Filled Watch Cases
which are just as good as solid cases, and
cost about one half less:
Sold by all jewellers, without extra charge
for Non-pull-out bow. Ask for pamphlet, or
send to the manufacturers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
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smashed just the
same but the man
was not laid mp an
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

WlCTf mistakes on the township TICKET.
One of them was emitting the names
OF John Hart and NJ. G Reed for road
overseers. Those names appeared on
the certificates of nomination but the
number of the districts were not given,
and the law provides that in such cases
no names shaIl:be printed for the places
Another mares nest found by the
Hazelton critic was the spelling of
"Shutts" instead of ShultZ. The name
was spelled on the ticket just as it ap-
peared on the certificate, so the mis-
take was not Mr.. Lewis fault. The
clerk makes out the tickets from the
certificates of nomination, and In ev-
cry material instance the mistakes we're
of the chairman and secretary of the
conventions. The Hazelton gun should
not be allowed to go off halt cooked.
Last Thursday Daniel Pierce's at
torbeys secured writ of habeas corpus
from the supreme conrt, and Sheriff
DobsOn was thereby notified to proceed
with Mr.. Pierce and appear before that
tribunal. They departed on Thursday
and on Friday the court appointed a
day in January for hearing the case, In
the meantime releasing Mr.. Pierce on
bond. The Pierce case is too well
known to need any explanation. Al
though it was an unpleasant spectacle
to see HIM confined in Jail, his own &C
tions have been responsible for it all,
even to the late incarceration. The
law is 10 respecter of persons, fact
which sometimes brings about pitiable
results but fact nevertheless. A SYM
pathy talk is heard by other ears than
those OF stern justice. We believe
Uncle Dan was misled by incompetent
advisers. and for that We are truly
sorry; but sad IS 9 launentatiOn mag Dc
made to appear we do not attempt to
say that the tears Of sympathy should
! wash away the law.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
Fl. STAFFORD, PUBL,

Stafford's Magazine,
P.O. Box 1854, New York City, N. Y.
Please mention this paper. IT
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
Bureau of information,

"The Burlington" has recently estab-
ished in q convenient quarter Of its ele-
CANT and commodious passenger station,
at Chicago, an Office designed to afford
travellers information on the thousand
and one things they need to know, with
regard to routes, rates, connections and
accommodations. 1t has been placed in
charge of an experienced man. supplied
with all railway guides, maps and time
tables, and is known as the Bureau Of
Information"
tits place to which all travellers may
apply for information and receive full
and correct answer. This is the only
Office OF the kind west OF the sea-board
cities, and it cannot but prove help and
convenience to the travelling public. All
trains of the burlington" enter and de-
part from this station, and the intelligent
and valuable service OF the Bureau may
be enjoyed by all patrons of this line.
A special pamphlet will be issued by
the Huntington" in the near future, CIV
ing accurate information as to "How to
get to the Worlds fair grounds" "Hov
to secure rooms and board at the various
hotels, boarding and lodging houses"
Trustworthy agents will be at the G.
B. & @. depot in Chicago. to impart al
information to visitors. Arrangements
will probably be made by which some
trains will be run direct to the Worlds
Fair grounds without change or delay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
Methads in Eiocution.

There used to be 2 few years ago
such Juror aboHt elocution that when
people met on the street instead Of ask
ing each other "How do yon do?' the
usual senseless form of address, they
inquired: "How do you elocute?" Men
and women paid fabulous prices to be
able to read one or two selections with
facial contortions that were supposed to
illustrate the text, and the pleasing ex-
hibition of reader trying to make his
features express the surface OF land
scape garden was offered to the pub
lie. Then came a new Interpretation
called the art of expression, which
was sensible and artistic. Still
there was one fatal defect. The
pupil could read her selection for
which face and voice were both
trained, but she could not pick up a
book at random and read any page
aloud with the modulstion OF voice and
soul of expression demanded by the
subject. She could do nothing without
her lines. Now this bids fair to be
remedied, writes an expert in the De-
troit Free Press, by the new education
which begins with the child and
teaches it to "elocute" gracefully, with.
out the tricks of elocution; to begin
the career Of instruction with the art OF
expression instead of bringing it in as q
postgraduate accomplishment. Among
the many complicated studies of the
public schools, surely the art of good
reading should be so well taught that
there would be no need Of a supple
mentary course.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
Absurd State Laws.

It is the common belief that Yer
gennes, VT, which was incorporated in
1888 and now contains only 1,773 in
habitants. is the smallest city in the
United States. People who hold this
belief, however, are vastly mistaken,
says the New York Tribune. They are
not aware of the facility with which
olties are created under the elastic laws
of the state of Kansas, which has no
limit on the inferior side to determine
when village may assume the dignity
of cityhood. In that state there are no
less than 1862 incorporated cities, while
the total number of cities in the United
States is only about 1857. Of the 1863
Kansas cities, only 16 have more than
5000 inhabitants, 315 have less than o.
600, 2ee have less than 1000, and 10
have less than 100 inhabitants apiece.
At the date of the last census the duly
Incorporated cities of Avilla and APP
pomattox in that state rejoiced in the
sum total of "a inhabitants each. The
absurdity of system which permits
such state of things ought to bring
about change in the laws that would
make it impossible.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

SIMON WING, of Boston, honored by
the socialist labor party as presi-
Dental candidate, is manufacturer Of
Photographic goods and general book
and job printer. He is sixty-six years
old, and, as his birthday comes on August
90, the nomination for president was a
birthday gift. When he was twenty
one years old he started in business for
himself taking daguerreotypes, and he
made success of it from the first. He
has been all his life in the Photographic
business, mostly engaged in establish
ing tintype galleries throughout the
west. He has done more, perhaps, than
any other man to make ferrotype pho
Biography popular. He was the first to
introduce tintypes, as they are gener-
ally called, and he was the first to intro
duce the postage stamp size Of photo
graphs. He went to Boston in 1860.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
Working Wives.

There has been good deal OF I'M
necessary gossip about marriages be.
tween young men of wealthy families in
New York, says the Sun of that city,
and young women who have made their
own living. The tone of comment, as a
rule, has been in the nature of sur
prise that the young men should have
chosen for wives women not ashamed
to work. The probabilities are that
the young men have the more fortunate
end of the bargain. The self-support-
ing women who give up personal indie
pendence to become the wife Of hus-
band who has no training in the &C
quirement of livelihood and whose
bank account, or an allowance from
the paternal bank account, is the only
shield against poverty is in fair way
to have to face poverty some day OF
another without the shield. On the
other hand, the young man who &C
quires a wife with some practical
knowledge of what it means to work
for living is pretty sure to have
prudent and thrifty partner.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

SURELY this is an age of reform. First
we have the Australian ballot law which
has already been adopted by q majority
of the states. Kansas has passed an ex'
ceeding stringent law aimed at corrupt
ion and bribery attending elections;
and now Judge Gibson, of Kansas City,
Mo-, has Just rendered decision sus-
taining the provisions of the city charter
which makes it obligatory upon all quail
fled electors to exercise their right OF
suffrage or pay poll tax OF $3.50
This is q good Law and We hope to see Ii
extepded 80 as to cover Kansas. Very
often the best citizens refrain from voting
on account OF Indifference or because
they do not care to lose their time, while
the hoodlum and vicious element are
usually looked after and their votes re-
corded. Every citizen should be willing
to do his duty and, If necessary, should
be compelled to Bear his share OF the
burdens and responsibilities. The high
est privilege OF an American citizen is
his right of franchise and he should be
compelled to exercise it, under penalty
il his patriotism is not strong enough
to serve as a motive power.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

CHICAGO is not alone among cities in
having a name of unsavory or petty
significance, though probably no city
in the world bears name of more
malodorous suggestion. 1t has been
conjectured that Rome Is from Groma,
meaning the ''cross roads," since the
city grew up around the junction Of
ways leading to the forum. Lutetia,
the ancient name of Paris, means in
effect mud town, the city when the
Romans found it being composed chiefly
of mud-built houses. London is pure
Celtic and means fortified hill. AS to
New York, its chief syllable is curiously
corrupted from the name Of the Celtic
tribe settled in and about York when
the Romans conquered Britain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
A Movement in Shoes.

The progress of the light-brown shoe
movement this year Is even more no
ticeable than it was last year, which
NAV have been the first year, If it were
not the second year, of that movement
in this vicinity. 1t is estimated by the
New York Sun that shoes Of this kind
are now worn by about a quarter OF a
million of the denizens OF New York
and Brooklyn. The great majority OF
the wearers of them are men, but many
women also wear them. If the move
ment In their favor continues to grow
as rapidly as it has grown for the past
two or three years, they will be the or
binary wear of New Workers before the
bells ring out our dwindling century.
The movement is interesting. 1t has
advanced quietly. There has been very
little talk, and there have been no lee
lures, so far as we know, in favor OF
the cause of shoe reform. Without say
ing a word about the subject, multi
tude have put off the black, put on the
hght-brown, and proceeded about their
other business. Few of them, so far as
we have heard, argued the case outside
of their own minds. They preferred the
light-brown, for one reason or another,
to the black. The change has affected
the leather trade, the shoemaker's
trade. the shoe-sellers' bushes s, the
shoe-string business, the backing bust
ness and the shoeblack's business.
Some men have made money by reason
of it, while others have lost.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

IT NOW appears that Kansas will not
be inflicted with an extra session OF the
legislature. Republicans are unit IN
opposition and it seems that the rank
among the populists entertain the same
ideas. The Clay Center Dispatch gives it
out that ninety five per cent. OF the popu-
lists ara opposed to an extra session;
while Chairman Briedenthal says that re-
sponses from letters sent out by him in
dictate that ninety per cent. OF the popu-
lists do not want an extra session OF the
legislature. In fact, if we except Judges
Doster, Webb, Clemens and perhaps two
or three more place hunters, the senti-
mept upon this proposition is unanimous.
An extra session at this time would be
a public calamity and no corresponding
benefits. Besides it would not be treat,
ing Chicago fairly to have rival show in
Topeka this season.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

ORIGINALLY gotten off, for the pure
fun of the thing, jokes have now become
a regular article of merchandise, and
the professional joker sells these prod
ucts of the brain at prices ranging
from twenty cents to two dollars and
fifty cents apiece, and joke which is
easily illustrated often brings as high
as five dollars. The magazines and
papers which pay for their jokes have
regular prices. Professional jokers
send supply of from ten to fifty jokes
to the papers paying the best, and the
editor in charge of that department
chooses those which suit him and sends
back the rest. These are then sent to
the next best paying publication, and
so on until they reach the papers which
pay but fifty cents. Such as are then
returned the joker considers useless. A
professional joker can make about one
hundred jokes week, and, as joke
making must soon become habit, per-
haps the brain is not too greatly tasked
in their manufacture.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

Mpa KkrEB. DoERING has sold the
IY,st<yn Times and, as che states 1p her
zaledictory, for the first time IN many
W.ars has become private citizen. MITE
Doeriue. in many respects, is remarka-
BILE woman and has certainly tougnt
GOOD fipht-and won. We say that she
has won, foE she has accomplished d.
most everything that she has attempted
and only i'll health has prevented com
plete success all along the line. For
wears she has owned and edited the 1'meS'
one of the leading papers in this District
During several years of that time she was
postmistress and, in addition to all THIS
has had the care of store on her HANDS
for . norton of the time. She has demon
strated what a woman can do, and sne
has done it quietly and unobtruslVely,
and With honor to her sex. That she
has made some enemies is very much 10
her credit. An editor without enemies
is always a non-entity. The courageous,
honest, conscientious editor who does hls
duty must necessarily make enemies.
Mrs. Doering's valedictory is short and
We give it herewith. "With this Issue OF
the Western Times vacate the editorial
chair, and bid good bye-as an editor, to
many friends, and just IA many enemies
For the last six years the Times has been
devoted to the good of Wallace county
and the republican party. liz lighting
for what thought was right L made d
good many enemies and received plenty
OF abuse too, but that is all over no"
and for the first time in years l find my
self a private citizen. In selling ont to
our old foreman, w. E. Ward, l know
that the Times will still work for the re-
publican party, because he is staunch
republican. I thank you all for your
patronage and for the many acts OF KIND.
ness have received at your hands ano
ask that the same kindness be extended
to my successor, Mr.. Ward. 1t is with
much regret that I resign my position
among the people and in the newspaper
field, but continued i'll health and need
OF rest compel me to make this change
With these few remarks [ step down and
out" Yours truly.
Mrs. KATE B. DoERING.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

A REMARKABLE case of longevity is
reported from Clarence, N. Y, where
Mrs. Lavinia Fillmore recently cele-
brated the one hundred and fifth an
niversary of her birth. She is the
widow of Rev. Glezen Fillmore, a cou-
sin of Willard Fillmore, formerly presi-
dent of the United States. Her hus-
band died in 1874. Mrs. Fillmore was
born in Waterbury, Conn, in 1857, and
moved to New York state when very
young. When twenty-three years old
she was married to Rev. Mr.. Fillmore.
The Fillmores lived in Buffalo in 1919,
when that city was burned by the Brit
ish. Since her husbands death Mrs.
Fillmore has lived quietly on her farm
at Clarence. It is said that she has
never ridden on railway train. The
old lady is said to be In good health.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

ACCORDING to Prot. John B. Smith, Of
the New Jersey state experimental sta
ton, katydids have done much harm to
the cranberry crop this season. De-
scribing one journey through the cram
berry region Of the state, he says that
In more than one bog caterpillars and
katydids had been caught and exam
ined in proximity to cranberry bushes.
In every instance he found that the
catePillars had only eaten grass. But
in the katydids were found cranberry
seeds, showing at once where the blame
lay. 1t does not eat the berry, but the
seed The katydid's eggs are laid on
the edge of the leaves, and the insect
only attains wings about the end Of its
existence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

JoHN A. STAPLES, of Newburg, n. Y,
who recently invented chair spring,
has sold forty-nine shares of his patent
for twenty thousand dollars. The In
pentor retains fitty-one shares of the
stock and the control of the invention.
Mr.. Staples idea originated in a dream.
He dreamed one night of the uncom-
Portable chairs that he had noticed in Q
far away hotel and how he would rig
up chair if he set about to do so. The
next day he thought Of this dream and
at once set about getting the idea into
shape. The scheme as outlined In the
dream was followed and as result Me-.
Staples rugged up novel and comforts
eble chair.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, No. STA
April II, 1893.
Notice is hereby given that the following named
nroof in support of his claim, and that said PROOF
Pin he made before the register and receiver OF the
n 8 Land Once at Ws-Keeney y, Kansas, ON may
William 8. Bedding,
uosstsad Application No. 1886, for the east half
~ he northeast quarter and the east half OF the
sntheast ouarter of section %. township II, south
Of range 81, west OF the 9Th p NJ, Kansas, s III.
Ne names the following Witnesses 20 prove me-
continuous residence upon and cultivation OF ssio
fosssnh Runyon, Alexander 3. Barnes, OF ELhs'
Kansas; John Sazapels, George Dop6iasS' OK Aau
dosa, y n LEE NoNRoI, Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29

An exchange gives an account Of q
twelve-year-old boy in Newark, N. J.,
who, a week or two ago, committed an
atrocious murder for the purpose Of
robbery, lying in wait in a hall for an
Englishman and beating him on the
head with a club. He confesses to the
murder, and does not seem to see that
there is anything particularly bad in it.
Among his belongings was found a
half-dime novel entitled: "Flipper
Flyn, the Street Patrol; OF Knocking
Out the Kidnapers," and an English
man is killed in the first chapter.