Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-23
Good, growing weather.

Collyer is afflicted with the mumps
What's the matter with our cor
respondents?
a. Silver, of the south side, was il
the county seat Wednesday.
.Chinch bugs are said to be doing
considerable damage in Smith county
VIM Holmes circus colt committed
suicide by the hemp route last Mon
day.
A Mormon or Later-Day Saints
church has been organized at Gay
lord.
This section of Kansas now has the
finest crop prospects it has had fol
many years.
The seventeen year locusts are max.
ing their appearance in the suburbs
of Kansas City.
A. Lawson, Ed. Chalk and Ed. Bry-
ant are painting and repairing the
court house roof.
Hugh Tidball, of Collyer township.
transacted business with our mer-
chants Wednesday,.
The Beloft Gazette has become a
Semi-weekly, the only one in this Con-
greSSlOnal district.
Miss Florence Headley. CITY clerk of
Gaylord, has assumed editorial charge
of the Herald at that place.
Leonard Smith set up a header this
week and is making arrangements to
harvest his 500 acres of small grain.
June 10th will go down into history
as the greatest ratification ever known
In America. 1t will be Mckinley day
Hon. Willie Baker, who misrepre-
SentS us in congress. has given it out
that he is not a candidate for re-elec-
ton.
w. J. Shelton owns the finest cattle
ranch in the county and has the best
grade of Herefords to be had. They
are beauties.
Emery Cass. who owns one of the
best herds of Shorthorns in the coun-
ty, has added a thoroughbred Short
horn bull to his herd.
Some of the dealers in millinery
goods of our neighboring towns are
advertising to take eggs in payment
for spring bonnetS.
Chas. W. Sweet arrived home Wed
neSday evening from OSawatomie
where he is employed as one of the
TRUSTEES in the asylum.
If the pops of this district are onto
their job they will nominate Ben. G.
Rich for senator and Harry Freese
for congress. Two of kind.
We have only one wish and that
is that the pops will nominate Ben.
G. Rich. the Eureka Ranch" states
man as their candidate for state sena-
tor.
The Ellis band boys have decided to
disband. owing to the lack of interest
taken in practicing by some of the
members of the band. So says the
Headlight.
Eugene V. Debbs. the noted leader
of the great railroad strike at Chicago,
has been endorsed for president by the
Trades assembly in convention in that
city this week.
An Ohioan writing to one of our
county officers says: mckinley for
president, John J. Ingalls, United
States senator, big crops in Kansas,
and the country will boom"
Two more weeks of silence and we'll
give a complete report of the investi-
CATION. Then you can form your own
conclusion whether the money was
well spent.
Hudson Harlan, who is always in
tereSted in natural history, is going
cunning for an albinO lark, or some
other white bird, which is wandering
up and down the banks of the Smoky.
The stranger has been seen by several |
persons.
An exchange says: A poor man by |
careful management can support him |
self and wife: a poorer man can add |
three children and two dogs. while a |
very poor man manages to get along |
With wife, nine or ten children and /
rs many dogs as can lie in the yard,
The strike of the firemen of the
Armour packing company at Kansas
Jity has been settled. All the union /
men are reinStated without prejudice
1T 20 cents an hour for eight hours
work. and the boycott placed on the
,ompany'S products by the labor as
embly has been taken off
E. 2. Bradshaw. our new station
gent, arrived last Friday and was
July installed. He comes well rec
'mmended as he has been in the en-
hoy of the U. p. r. r. for the past +:
wenty-two years. Mrs. Bradshaw
md daughter arrived Tuesday and
re domiciled in the Allison resi- {
lence. Z
Last Saturday as a delegation of
Dung people from Bison were on the ;
Tay to the BuShton Epworth League !
one of the party. a young I
entleman mounted on bicycle. took :
tumble, completely wrecking his !
'heel. Capillary attraction is sup I