Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
Adair Advices.
MENDOZA, May %, 1895.

". .. HUM, Vi OSdlld1, Was Ill AudII
on business last Friday.
What is there worse than a hog that
will eat chickens?
The fence on the Adair ranch is be-
ing fixed up and repaired.
Miss Bertha Hallock has been
troubled with severe cold and cough
for couple of weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Douglass were
in Wa-Keeney last Thursday and
while there made out the deed to
their homestead.
A. S. Barnes succeeded in digging
out nine young coyotes the other day
and the smile on his face must be
seen to be appreciated.
We were talked to one day recently
by a man in search of rhubarb and
who got his wants supplied by Mrs.
Morton.
Since her arrival in Illinois Miss
Marie Clark has united with the Bap-
fist church. Now don't get matters
mixed. Her mother is authority for
this.
T. D. Hampton, of Pawpaw, ILL.,,
has bought the Douglass place and in
the course of couple of years will be
resident here.
AS he is interested in irrigation, G..
S. Williams inspected DR.. Jones' irri-
CATION plants south of town when he
was in Wa-keeney last week.
There is pair of overallS down in
district four that possesses more gall,
cheek and ingratitude rolled into one
than anything we ever had the mis-
fortune to know.
It is said that Joe gave Jen a bottom
off his vest to remember him by. If
it could only talk, it would probably
tell in how tight places it had been.
Frank Eaton has charge of the APP
plemaD and Herb Douglass pastures
which with his own furnish him I'M
excelled pasturage for the large num-
Der of colts he has taken from other
parties.
Miss Florence Hallock, who has
been visiting her sister at Junction
Junction City for the past four weeks,
has had the WhOOping cough ever
since she left here. There appears to
be an epidemic of it around here and
in Ellis.
George A. Brabb has his wagon COW
cred and will leave this week or next
for the west. He goes to look at the
country and perhaps to locate, but is
not fully decided and may return here
after time.
Will Howe left week ago for the
Garden City country and got back
Sunday night. He went with a horse
and cart and reports it hard work to
find any grass between here and there
and work impossible to get. He found
out considerable about irrigation how
ever.
We believe that irrigation is the
salvation of this country and are not
alone in this OpiOniOn. d. Ell. Horton
is going to rig up a water elevator by
putting galvanized iron buckets on an
endless chain and running it by horse
power. Jesse Cockrell said Saturday
that if a number of the people would
put down wells and furnish the coal
he would give a years work with his
engine travelling from one to another.
If this isn't public spirit then what
kind of bush does it grow on?
If the people east of here report the
Saline out of it's banks in day or two,
and that the water has briny taste
let them read this and be enlightened.
1t is an overflow from Douglass
springs. They couldn't stand the
pressure and the tears of four tender
hearted and affectiOnate young peo-
pie burst forth in unchecked torrents
when they were forced to part the
first of the week. Now understand
that we used the word pressure" as
a figure Of speech and not as pressure
of a figure and if you imagine any
thing different you'll have to figure
for yourself.
G. HI. Douglass has sold his place to
Minnie HallOck's husband and the
family will start this week for south
ern Colorado. Mr.. Douglass goes
more on account of the health of his
family than for any other reason. We
regret to see them or any body else
leave, but as the place is sold to an
intending settler the loss will be more
evenly balanced than if taken by a
Spectator. And as a chronicler of
the news we can say that the young
ladies of the family will be missed
and by some more than others, yet
after the happenings of the last two
or three weeks we as an individual
cannot be expected to allow our SOr-
row to gush over.
From our latest adviceS the black
diptheria as it is called which was
raging five miles east of the county
line is subsiding. Two of the Gish
boys (both young mem died with it,
and family named Hiajk (we'll spell
and you pronounce) lost five out of
eight. Two are getting better and
one did not have it all. One of these
that got well the doctor said just
about died from fright, two others
having died in the bed with it. Both
of these were large families and in
limited quarters, in the last case
sleeping six in bed and the premises
were not in a good clean sanitary con-
dition, so that the disease spread rap
idly and fatally. One of the worst
features was that the disease was so
malignant that the neighbors were
afraid to volunteer assistance so they
had to very nearly do for themselves.
And then the health officers, if there
were any, appeared to be lax in their
duty because the relatives of the par