Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-22

Wa-keeney last Wedneyday.
We have heard it stated that Attor-
ney Bryant. of Hays City, will be
candidate for appellate judge.
Lou. Gleason came up from Salina
last Monday morning, called home on
account of the illness of his mother.
The Cove County Gazette has taken
pains TO look the matter up and conf
IDENTIFY asserts that John the Baptist
is dead.
A son was born to Mrs. and Mr..
Harvey Penny, of Hays City, on Feb
ruary 18th. Mrs. Penny was formerly
Ella Magrane and is well known here.
Dr. Raffington, the dentist, of Ellis,
will be in Wa-Keeney on Friday and
Saturday, February 28th and 10Th, pre-
pared to do all kinds of dental work.
Last Saturday was the last day of
Miss Mile Stradal's school and the
event was celebrated by Literary per-
Torrance in the evening-fOllowed by
a dance.
Several weeks since we mentioned
the fact that Miss Hobbs had her
purse and about 81 stolen. This week
she recovered her purse and So. 1t
was found under the school house.
Quick in effect, heals and leaves no
scar. Burning, scaly skin eruptions
quickly cured by DeWitt'S Witch
Hazel Salve. Applied to burns, scalds,
old scores, it is magical in effect. AL
ways cures piles. Jones & Gibson.
James Shocks, of COllyer township,
was brought before Squire Croft last
Wednesday charged with cutting and
stealing a number of trees. T. r.
Moore was the prosecuting witness.
Shocks plead guilty and was fined SO
and costs which was certainly lenient
on the part of the state.
Mrs. A. L. Gleason was taken seri-
ously i'll last Saturday. DR.. Perkins,
division surgeon for the Union Pacific
with headquarters at Kansas City,
was telegraphed and arrived Monday
morning when he and DR.. Jones per-
formed successful operation from
which her patient rallied quickly and
it is now thought that a permanent
cure of an old complaint will be the
result.
Young Kerfus was convicted of as
sault and robbery at Hays City last
Saturday and sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at hard labor. His victim, Ar
thur Williams is wreck. mentally
and physically, as the result of his
brutal beating, and it is doubtful if
he ever entirely RECEIVERS. For such
crime we do not think the punish
ment is too great.
Some time since Mrs Fred J. Har-
ris, of Junction City, received So, 900
insurance on her husbands life and
placed it in bank. The money was
then garnisheed on an old Judgment.
Judge Moore, of the district court,
held that since it was the same money
received on the insurance it was eX-
empt from attachment under the new
insurance law which makes policies
exempt.
Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnelton.
West Va, has been subject to attacks
of collie about once year, and would
have to call a doctor and then suffer
for about twelve hours as much as
some do when they die. He was taken
recently just the same as other times,
and concluded to try Chamberlain'S
Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea Remedy
He says: Il took one dose of it and it
gave me relief in five minutes. That
is more than any thing else has ever
done for me-" For sale by Jones &
Gibson.
There will be several conventions
toilet this year and we believe Wa
Keeney might get one with little
hustling. What do you say? Shall
we try for it? We have the best con-
ventiOn hall in the Sixth district, our
hotel facilities are ample and we can
easily muZZle the marshal and turn
the town over to our visitors. These
inducements, together with others
that we might mention, ought to
have their weight with the commit
tee.
Mrs. BOyce and another evangelist
or two are holding protracted meet
ings in Cove City, but neither J. L.
Cook, Tom Kirtley, "NOsey" Jones
nor Ike Purcell have been brought
into the fold Wa-Keeney World.
Givler, you SANDER the whole crowd.
Brother Kirtley has been member in
good standing for over year; NoSey
has gone to Chicago for the genuine
article, and as for Ike and We editor
we believe in the christian religion
that will bear an every day test; none
of the hypnotic kind.-Gove County
Gazette.
The little daughter of Mr.. Fred
Weber, Holland, Mass, had a very
bad cold and cough which he had not
been able to cure with any thing. /
gave him % cent bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, says W. P.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at
West Brimfield. and the next time /
saw him he said it worked like a
charm. This remedy is intended es-
pecially for acute throat and lung
diseases such as colds, Group and
whooping cough, and it is famous for
its cures. There is no danger in CIV
ing it TO children for it contains moth
ing injurious. For sale by Jones &
Gibson.
Mrs. Kendall has been circulating