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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
The Mission of the Book Agent.


That much-maligned and long-suf-
fering auxiliary to the enlightenment
of the people-the book agent-has at
last chance for his life, if not for his
living. In a recent issue of Donahue's
Magazine the following is presented
in his favor:
''Ten years ago the book agent and
the home library were rarities. To
day every village in the land knows
the former, and in the latter may be
found modest libraries that go far to-
ward completing and rounding off the
education which the children receive
in the public school. To more or less
extent the schoolmaster is a taskmas-
ter to the child. The book in the Ii
brary at home is never. 1t is recrea-
ton as well as an instruction, and the
lessons learned from it, and the ambi-
tions created by it, sink deeper into
the heart and enter more fully into
the lives of the young men. There is
q "AO4CSOAtC dUOuI q ROOO
book, which the child cannot help i'm
billing and profting thereby. The
parents realize this, and hence it is
that, no matter how riotously the book
agent may be caricatured in humorous
publications, he is always an interest
ing and ofttimes welcome visitor
to the home. The collector who fol-
lows in his wake may not arouse the
same feeling of hospitality, but his
mission is with the sordid end of the
contract. Books that quarter Of a
century ago were In the hands of the
exclusive few have come within the
reach of all. The book agent has re-
claimed field that for years lay un-
titled. He has reached the homes Of
the people, and created in them q
market at once the largest and most
profitable in the world. Increased de-
mand has made it possible for publish
ers to reducethe price of the st andard
authors, and thus two-fold has been
the blessing that followed the path he
trod."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

THE Wa-Keeney and Oberlin land Of
fees have been consolidated at Colby
If it were not for the humiliation il
would cause Brother Cowick we might
add that Wa-Keeney would make q
mighty pretty location for q graveyard.
Sharon Springs Times.
The gloomy, dense ignorance Of the
writer is only exceeded by his evident
-viciousness and-for some unaccounta.
BILE reason-his intense dislike of Wa
Keeney. The Wa-Keeney and Oberlin
land offices have not been consolidated
the Oberlin and Kirwin have. As to
the graveyard paragraph we might re-
tort by commencing the writer's
thoughtfulness in casting about for that
sort of location to which he is best
adapted at present, but we will refrain.
Sharon Springs is an snterprising city
and, we happen to know, is blessed with
live, energetic class of citizens, who are
not so jealous of a small city more than
Ia hundred miles away as to approve OF
such journalism,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

NEARLY all the inks in common use
IRE said by chemists to contain organic
matter as part of the coloring mat
ter. The great majority of them are
principally a combination of iron with
gallo and tannic acids, both Of which
are organic acids and quite readily de-
composed. The action of moisture,
light and other agents will, after a
while, decompose these salts of iron,
leaving only the almost invisible oxide
Of iron to show where the writing has
been. The only really permanent ink
Is that prepared from some form of
carbon, such as lampblack, Of which
the Chinese or India ink is composed.
Carbon resists destructive influences
to remarkable degree, and writings
made with such ink viii last as long as
the paper on which they are written.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

IT has become an accepted axiom that
Kansas always leads the procession, and
the triple lynching, in our neighboring
county of Russell, is corroborative. On
the night of January 18th, mob OF
about twenty men, entered the Jail at
Russell and took therefrom j. G. Bur
ton, William Gay and his son John Gay
and hung the trio to a railroad bridge
a short distance east of town. No re-
sistance was made by the officers or by
anybody and the mob had everything its
own way. They soon battered down the
steel cells and secured their victims.
After the ropes were placed around the
victims necks the mob very kindly gave
them an opportunity to speak. Burton
said he could tell many things about his
connection with cattle stealing, selling
whisky and other things, but when ask
ed to tell about the Dininy murder re-
piled, ''No Sir" Young Gay made a
prayer and said Burton killed Dininy
with an AK" Old man Gay said: awe
were led into this" The signal was
then given and all three were pushed
from the bridge and were soon strangled
to death. The crime for which these
parties forfeited their lives was the kill
ing of Dininy last July. Suspicion was
directed to these three and all were ar
rested. All confessed but their confess
sions varied somewhat. Last week the
body of Dininy was found where Burton
told them to search for it. The skull
showed that his death was the result of
q blow upon the head. The motive for
killing Dininy seems to have been to OBJ
tain few hundred dollars that he was
known to have. The coroner's jury had
rendered verdict that Dininy had come
to his death by William Gay at the
instigation of Burton. There seems to
be no doubt as to the guilt of these par
ties, and it is further well known that
they belonged to a gang of organized
cattle thieves that had been preying
upon the farmers in that neighborhood
for long time. We have never advo-
Gated lynch law and think now it would
have been much better to have allowed
the law to take its course. At the same
time we have but little patience with
that class of citizens who defy all law
and only live as menace to law abid-
ing. 1t will serve as an awful warning
and will therefore be productive of some
good results.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894.

The statement of Judge Osborn that
he will not be candidate for Judge O
this judicial district, at the fall election
will be likely to cause several of the at
torneys to pine for the judicial ermine
and lay their plans according. ]. F
Bryant, of Hays City, Ellis county, we
are informed, is candidate and, is one
of the best attorneys in the district
James Reeder, we presume, will not be
a candidate as he prefers going to Wash
ington in Father Bakers place. Attor-
neys Nicholson and Fuller, of Ellis, have
not yet declared themselves and this list,
we believe, exhausts the republican at
torneys of the county except Charles
Reeder, who will not be in the way OF
his brothers. aspirations. In Cove
county we have County Attorney Todd
who would preside with as much dignity
as any attorney in Western Kansas. B.
G. Jones, of Cove City, is also one of the
ablest attorneys in the district, but we
donot know that he has any aspirations
along this line at this time. In Logan
county K. E. Willcockson is the only
republican attorney that we know Of,
and the republican party of this sena-
torial district will not allow him to ac-
cept the nomination for the reason that
he will have two more years to serve as
state senator. Were it not for this fact,
Senator Willcockson would be a formid-
able rival. In Wallace county J. NJ.
Sanders is young lawyer of more than
average ability-and, we are told, would
not refuse the nomination if it came his
way. In our own county we have some
excellent material but none of them, so
far as we know, have bee of that spe-
cies in their bonnets, at least we have
no authority to speak for any of them.
This is a matter of much concern to all.
There is nothing more important than
pure, able judiciary. There is plenty of
time vet and it would be we'll to consider
the matter thoroughly. Let us nomi-
nate our best and ablest man and there
will be no doubt of his election. With
a candidate whose ability and integrity
is undoubted our success will be assur-
ed-fusion or anti-fusion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
SALE.
state OF Kansas, Trego County, IS:
Clara l.. Wrisley, plaintiff

state OF Kansas, Trego County, 50:
Clara L. wrisley, plaintiff
James n. Siebert, Ellen Siebert @. A. Boyd, exeu-
trix, John Johntz assignee of Lebold, Fisher
Co., Francis c. Swiggett, defendants.
Public notice Is hereby given that by virtue OF an
order Of sale to me directed and delivered issued
out of the Judicial district court OF the
state of Kansas, sitting In aud for the county Of
Trego, in said state, win, ON
Monday, February 9th 1894
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock a. m. and O'Clock
p. m. OF said day at the west door of the
court house in Wa-Keeney, in the county and state
aforesaid, offer for pubic sale and sell to the
highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, title
and interest of the above named defendants in and
to the following described property, to-wit:
The northwest quarter of section 10, township u
south of range % west 9Th p. n.
Lying and situated In the county OF Trego, in the
state Of Kansas, with all the appurtenances there
unto belonging, to be sold according to law to
satisfy one judgement in foreclosure of mortgage
In the sum $95635 with interest at the rate of u
per cent from date, and for the further
cost OF suit. and all accruing costs; said property
levied and to be soldas the property OF the above
named defendants without appraisement.
Given under my hand this 2Sth day of De cember,
A. D. 1898.
THEODORE COURTNEY,
Sheriff, Trego County, Kansa
T. e. Dewey, 8. R. Cowick, Attys. II 80
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
where Charity Begins,

In, descanting upon the growth Of
charity an English contemporary offers
the following sage suggestions on this
subject:
eve wonder whether selfshness in
creases or decreases among the poor.
We rather think the former is the case,
and is due, first, to an increasing con-
sciousness, which exaggerates self-pity
into disease; and, secondly, to the
perfectly marvellous development of
pity for poverty as the most hopeless
of all misfortunes. Formerly, the
lame, the MANNED, and the blind were,
as in Biblical times, and in the east
still, the grand objects of charity; but
now it Is always the very poor, so that
a hospital may appeal in vain where q
paper describing a street full of pecun-
larry want viii instantly elicit q re-
Spouse. The poor are still won
rously kind to one another, bnt we
fancy they take aid with less graft
tude and more of a sense of right
than they did. Certainly their advo-
Gates demand it for them with much
more of that tone, and with much more
forgetfulness that involuntary charity
is not virtue at oil, but only q
form of submissiveness to extortion.
''God loveth cheerful giver"-not the
man who has been slanged by evening
papers into an unwilling gift, paid, in
fact, as kind of ransom from obloquy
or Importantly. 1t is certain that the
bitter dislike for foreign poverty In
creases; that the starving, If they are
foreigners driven here by stress of pow
erty, are regarded with angry antip-
athy, and that there is more of de-
mand that charity should begin and
end at home. The new feelingis particu-
larry marked in America, where the
asylum of the universe idea, SO long
is now subject not only of
but ridicule, and it is develop
ing itself strongly also among our
selves"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

THE air brakes on railroads are be-
ing built with view to their use ON
trains of one hundred cars. The plant
on each train is being built so that 1t
can be used in such q way as to bring
the speed down from eighty to thirty
miles per hour within Ave seconds.
Great power has to be used, and every
part of the apparatus has to be perfect
to stand the strain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

ONE who knows says that the Pull
man porters keep tab on officials of the
road in the following manner: When
ever one of them finds out that he has
blacked the shoes of railroad official,
and especially an official of the road
upon which the given Pullman porter
is employed, he cuts a little nick in the
front of the mans heel. Every other
porter knows what this means. name
ly, that the owner of that pair of shoes
Is railroad official, and he treats him
with the utmost consideration.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

THE vacancies In the congressional
representation of Pennsylvania give a
journal of Philadelphia an opportunity
to say that for many years past the
Keystone state has been practically at
the foot of the list In both houses of
congress, and to express the earnest
hope that she will now send men of
the highest character, intelligence and
ability to represent her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

TREGo county has a candidate for
state auditor in the person of G. A. Hoar
the present county clerk. Mr.. Hoar is
well qualified for the position and should
receive the support of Ellis county in
his fight for the nomination.-Ellis Re-
view-Headlight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
Those Columbian Coins.

Mr.. Ellsworth, representing the
worlds fair commission, called at the
treasury department few days ago
and paid Acting Secretary Curtis $4O,-
800 to defray the expenses of the trans
porting and recoining the souvenir
coin undisposed of by the commission.
The amount to be recoined, it is stated,
is 81, ZOO, 900, and the object to be at
tanned is to enhance the value of those
now in the hands Of the commission.
The commissioners requested Secretary
Carlisle to recon the twenty-five and
fifty cent souvenir pieces at the ex-
pense of the government, but this he
declined to do and notified the COM
mission that unless it bore the expense
of the recoinage he would issue the
souvenir pieces at their face value.
This would, of course, reduce the value
of the souvenir coin in the hands of the
parties who purchased them on specu-
lation, and the commission fastened
to send Mr.. Ellsworth to Washington
to make the necessary deposit.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

CHAIRMAN McCREARY, of the house
committee on foreign affairs, has said {:
Zone thing is certain that the question
of restoring Liliuokalani to the throne is
for all time abandoned, not only in ex-
ecutive but in congressional circles. 1t
will never be heard of again."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

FIRST, after your county paper, you
should read the Topeka Capital for state
news. In fact if you want to keep well
informed in regard to state politics and
state news you can't very well do with
out the Capital.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

AT Great Falls, Mont, the mercury
has been known to drop twenty-five
degrees inside of Ave minutes. The
price of coal probably rises in proper
ton
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20

IT is reported that new church,
called the American Methodist church,
is about to be organized by some white
and colored ministers In the south.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
OHERIFFS SALE.
State of Kansas, Trego county So.
L. M. Buehler, plaintiff

Stnte of Kansas, Trego county So.
L. NJ. Buehler, plaintiff
vs..
Gilbert L. Folsom, Carrie M. Folsom. George W
Thomas. Martin v. Rand, defendants.
Public notice is hereby given that by virtue of an
order Of sale to me directed and delivered issued
out of the twenty third judicial district court of the
state of Kansas, sitting in and for the county OF
Trego, in said state, will, on
Monday, February 5, 1894
at the hour of O'Clock p. m, of said day at the
west door of the court house in Wa-Keeney, in the
county and state aforesaid offer for public sale
and sell to the highest bidder for cash In hand, all
the right title and interest of the above named de-
PENDANTS in and to the following described proper
ty, to-wit:
The southwest quarter of section Is, township Is
south of range "a west 9Th P. M.
Lying and situated in county of Trego, In tn e
state Of Kansas; said property will be sold without
appraisement, with all the appurtenances there
unto belonging. to be sold according to law to sat
isfy one judgment in foreclosure of mortgage in
the of 1907 AZ with interest at the rate of IL
per cent from date, and costs of suit and all accru
ing COSTS said property levied on and to be sold as
the property of the above named defendants.
Given under my hand this 2Sth day OF Dec.
A. D., 1898.
THEO. COURTNEY,
Sheriff Trego County, Kansas.
I. z. Dewey, 8. R. Cow1CK, Attorneys. IL 30
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
NOTICE.
SALE OF SCHOOL LAND.

Notice is hereby given that will offer at public
SALE at my Office in Wa-Keeney, Kan, the 10Th day
Of January, 1894, between the hours Of 10 O'Clock
q m. and three O'Clock p. the following describ
ed school land situated in Trego county Kansas to-
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SHOT AND STEEL.
Bloody Results Follow an Attack on Soldiers
by an Excited Mobilize BIuecoats Charge
With Leveled Bayonets and Fire
Volley After volley.

CHICAGO, July T.-Strikers and the
state of Illinois came together this
afternoon, and a pitched battle was
the result. The number killed and
wounded may never be known, as the
mob carried off a number of men who
were seen to fall, and whether they
we're dead or wounded, or how many
of them fell, it is impossible to ascer-
tain. As far as known the casualties
are rs follows: Dead-John Burke,
striker, killed by a bayoret wound
through the abdomen. Wounded
Lieut.. Reed, Company F, Second In
fantry, I. N. G.. hit OIL the head by
stones, condition critical; Thomas
Jackman, shot in the back, will die
John Kernberg, stabbed with a bayo-
net, will die; unknown man, shot
through the liver, will die; unknown
boy, II years old, shot through the
abdomen, will die; Tony Gajewski,
shot in the right arm Henry Williams,
shot in the left arm John Kerr, shot
in the hip; unknown woman, in the
right hip.
The immediate particulars of the
fight which occurred near the Grand
Trunk round house are as follows:
Again and again the mob, shouting,
bowling and using violent language,
made a rush, but every time Maher
met them steadily with his men, and
the crowd paused before the threaten
ing rifles. Finally, several toughs on
the edge OF the mob made n rush at
iardmaster Mckee, one OF them flour
lshlng a revolver. Mckee drew his
own revolver and fired, but the bullet
flew wide. The strikers, by this time,
were fairly wild with rage, AMI bricks,
stones, chunks OF coal and coupling
pins rained around the troops.
Lieut.. Reed was struck twice on the
head in quick succession, by stones,
and fell to the ground like dead man.
Kelly then concluded the time had
come, and his men quickly, gave the
word to charge, and the handful OF
militiamen sprungforward with leveled
bayonets. John Burke, who was
standing in front OF a mob, asthrow-
ing coal. One of the first soldiers in
the charge plunged his bayonet clear
though his body, the point contingent
at the back. Burke went down like a
log, and died in a few minutes. The
mob broke before the charge, but
quickly rallied, and after a short pause
came on again, sending pattering re-
volver bullets before it.
Troops, deputies and police waited
for no orders, but rifles came to a level,
revolvers were drawn, and a torn OF
leaden death swept into the mob. The
men fell right and left, but the militia,
deputies and police swept forward,
rapidly driving the crowd before them
in the widest confusion.
1t vas all over in three minutes, and
the militia marched into their train,
while the deputies returned to the city.
They looked as though they had been
through a battle when they disem-
barked. Their uniforms were torn,
hats gone, they werecovered with dust
and dirt, and many of them had been
badly bruised by flying stones.