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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
LfouNp AMONG The RUBBISH.


Check for q Fortune That Lay in . WASH
ingtOn Storeroom for Months.
did / ever enlighten you with the
story of a great find I once nader
said an old government clerk to Post
reporter day or two ago.
During the war, and for some time
afterward, !" he said, Twas clerk in the
war department. Stanton, as you
know, was chief of that office, and a
mighty Big Injun' he was" put IN the
story teller, by way of parenthesis,
''and' Lafayette c. Baker, dead now
these many years, was chief of the gov
eminent secret service. In this capa-
city he was paramount in authority.
He had unlimited power and unlimited
means. He could do whatever he
pleased with the persons and property
of citizens of this great country, and
Stanton always sustained him. The
arrests and incarcerations in dun
geons and jails that were made by his
orders were legion, and when he made
an arrest he captured all the papers
and documents he found on the unfor.
tunate DEVILS premises, from a child's
primer to a deceased grandmother's
last will and testament. His bureau
i mean his official apartments were
filed to overlooking with books and pa
perS and documents of all sorts that he
had seized from persons suspected of
disloyalty After Baker left the de.
partment, after his death, in fact, an
immense mass of refuse was gathered
up by order of the judge advocate gen.
eral and carried into spare room of
the division in which l was employed
and literally dumped on the floor, and
there they lay for months, punched up
like, well, this bunch of decaying leaves
just here at our feet" said the gentle
man, stirring up the scattered leaves
with his foot as he illustrated his
simile.
Zone day I was directed to look into
this mass of papers and put them into
some sort of shape for examination, will:
a view to their final disposition. It was
not part of my current work. It was
not thought of sufficient Importance
for interference with regular duty, but
| was to go at it at my leisure, so I oper.
ated in a sort of perfunctory way until
one day | received a sort of thousand
volt shock by finding in the pile draft
on the Bank of Montreal for 10000
some hundred and odd dollars in gold.
This, / assure you, changed the char
acter of the search and made it inter
esting. /, of course, went at once tn
the chief of my division and startled
him with an exhibition of the wealth
lying around loose under his very nose
The chief clerk of the department was
made acquainted with the circumstan-
ces and the whole matter reported to
the secretary. The result of it all was
that the bank was communicated with
and it was ascertained that the draft
was genuine to the core. The money
it called for was still in the banks
vaults awaiting the order of the owner.
He, poor fellow, had gone on the
journey we all must CO. He was a
Kentucky man, and died in the old
capitol prison where Baker had placed
him. He left children, however, and
they benefited by my discovery. And
all this is as true as Gospel writ" said
the Posts informant. - Washington
Post
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

cutlery until I had passed beyond his
sight at the first turning in the road
/ pedaled serenely on, little realizing
what a commotion had left behind me,
end ths one funny thing about this
most regretable episode is that spent
an exceedingly quiet, peaceful and en-
Joyabie day, not knowing was pur-
sued, making no attempt to elude any
body, and yet eluding them in what
appeared afterwards to be by subtle
and crafty lodges. The magistrate
could not be persuaded that my sitting
Un the veranda of a restaurant in the.
main street of Intcrlaken, with the hi
cycle in plain view of everybody, was
not the brazen act of hardened Grim
mai, who knew the police would be
searching for him in the back streets.
When the man standing against the
doorway had recovered partly from his
amazement at my sudden fight on his
machine sae rushed to the police station
end told the authorities there pIausi-
BILE foreigner had engaged him in polite
Ollcndor6nn conversation, aud. while
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
MODERN QUILTING BEES.
The Woman of To-Day Is Taking Up the
Needle.

The WOman of To-Day Is Taking Up the
Needle.
Quilting bees are the latest form of
amusement in which the nineteenth
| century woman finds amusement and
delight.
Just such functions as those dear old
souls grandmothers- attended in
| the days when grandpapa was young
and handsome and thought it the height
| of pleasure to be allowed to look in to
| tea.
At the modern quilting bee gentle
men are admitted after ''early candle
| light" and will undoubtedly afford
amusement by lending a hand at the
| sewing, even if it must, perforce, be
| ripped out again. Dinner may be served
TO the assembled guests at seven o clock,
and more picturesque effect is the re-
suit if ladies dress in the mode of a cen
| fury ago, with lowered tunic, white
| kerchief, and a mob cap, or powdered
hair, with black court plaster patches
here and there on the fair face. Dancing
may follow, with a cotillon under soft
candle light, and while much sewing
may not have been accomplished, a deal
of sport may be derived from this novel
mode of entertaining.
Whether the modern dame can quilt
both ways" once the height of accom-
plishment, is doubtful, but she can prob
ably manage to hide her lack of skill
during the three hours time for which
she is hidden.
| For quilting bee of modern days the
| invitation reads from four until seven
p. m" and that is as much time as the
| fin de steele woman cares to spend in
sewing. But then she can drop in late,
| if she so wishes, and need not fill in the
whole time. The quilting frame con-
sists of two poles, upon which the
i quilt is stretched, and which rests upon
| two wooden horses. If the spread is to
be all white, with an appliqued border
and quilted center, the pattern is al
ready marked out, and all that is re-
| quired of the guest is to come armed
with scissors and thimble A pretty
| design of the border is the sunf1over,
| poppy, lotus or daisy, conventionalized,
in yellow, red, pink, or blue sateen, with
green leaves, or a simpler method still
| is to cut pattern of flowers from
French cretonne and applique it upon
the border, the edges being neatly
hemmed down. A center piece of these
flowers, prettily grouped, may be added
if so desired Chicago Times-Herald.
"A boys fshing-pole was fastened
to the root of a tree on the river bank,
and he was sitting in the sun playing
with his dog, idling the time away, as
he had been fishing all day and caught
1 u
man, passing. 'Yes," answered the
boy. Mice dog you have there. What
is his name?" Fish, Fish? That's
a queer name for dog. What do you
| call him that for?'' Cause he won't
bite Then the man proceeded on his
way.
Our distinctions do not lie in the
places we occupy. but in the grace and
| dignity with which we Gil them
Sjmms.
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LESS TRUTHFUL.
This Is q Mans Assertion In Regard to
Women Compared with Meu.

This Is Mans Assertion In Regard to
Women Compared with Meu.
A man who has made a study of wom-
en- and their ways remarked the other
day that women are, as a set, less frank
and truthful than men. Whatever
truth there is in this assertion we may
be sure it is at least not innate, but
due to the difference in the require
ments of the two sexes, and the con-
sequent difference in their education.
Men are taught to reveal true natures
from the cradle to the grave. Men are
taught that, being human, they are
subject to various passions and Iiabbs
TO fall into error which it is not neces-
sary for them to conceal, FOR if they
deviate from the straight and narrow
path the world will quickly forget and
forgive. Women, ON the contrary, are
taught that if they are not inward1y
statues of decorum, they must make it
appear that they are, for the world
is merciless to one of their sex who by
word or deed hints that the SMALLEST
lettering on her pedestal, not to mem
ton even a monentary descent from il.
is possible.
In short, women are required to con-
ceal their real human selves from all
beholders as absolutely as they conceal
their lower limbs in the conventional
draperies of feraininity, while men are
as free to reveal their real selves to the
world as to elothe themselves in the
neither garments of their sex. But con-
cealment, or lack of frankncss, is by no.
means untrHthfnlness. - hiladelphia.
Press
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ON STEALING BICYCLES.
BIZ LUKE SHARP.

ne w S
agency has tele-
graphed abroad the
report that I am in
Switzerland, not
for the benefit Of
my health. but for
thepurpose of steal
ing bicycles, and
added thatIwas an
expert thief, that,
for a time at least,
/ had succeeded in
battling the most
DraiSewOrthy a f
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

-Flogging as punishment for girls
= what the London school board
wants to introduce into the Industrial
schools.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
Uses for Old Corks.

Corks are thrown away In great
quantities, and very few people think
that there is any value attached to thac
material after it has served its purpose
once as a stopper of bottle. Never
theless it has become one of the mose
valuable components of a city's refuse.
Great quantities of used corks are now
used again in the manufacture of insu-
lating covers of steam pipes and boilers,
of ice boxes and ice houses and other
points to be protected from the infiu-
pnce of heat. Powdered cork is very
useful for filling in horse collars, and
the very latest application Of this ma
terial is the filling in of pneumatic tires
with cork shavings- Mats for bath
rooms are made of cork exclusively, and
it also goes into the composition OF
linoleun. Cheap life preservers are
now filled exclusively with bottle stop
oers, cut into little pieces. Chicago
Chronicle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

Our distinctions do not lie In the
places we occupy, but in the grace and
dignity with which we Gil them
SimmS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
THE TABLES TURNED.
AS 1t VIII Probably Be in the Ne
Future.

AS 1t VIII Probably Be in the Near
Future.
Laura" said the husband of the
emancipated woman, sternly.
"What is it, dear?' answered the lat
ter, in a conciliatory manner, for she
saw that trouble was coming.
Laura, in the last three weeks have
given you three letters to mail, adj
dressed to dear papa. What have you
done with them?"
MAILED them, of course" replied the
wretched woman, in determination to
bluff it out if possible.
Laura" the husband went on, ''that
is not true. 1 received letter from pa
pa to-day in which he says he has not
heard from me for month and anxious
ly asking if anything is the matter.
Now you have got those letters some
where about your clothes if you
haven't lost them. I know just as well
as know that am standing here that
you never mailed those letters. Now go
through your pockets and see if you
haven't got them"
The emancipated woman commenced
to look through her pockets and soon
turned out the missing letters, which
she laid on the table, with the remark:
"Well, could have sworn that put
those letters in the letter-box on the
corner
The man sneered. "You can't trust
a woman to anything" he retorted.
Hereafter I'll mail my own letters,
and won't occupy your valuable time
NTH ST10h 6C Before un1I
want SO for household expenses
The emancipated woman meekly laid
the money down on the table and went
away with the remark that she would
leave the Office early in the afternoon
and come after her husband to take
him to the matinee.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01

quent. Brilliant as his former eli
makes had been he was reaching one
still more inspiring. The sea of faces
seemed motionless, yet the intensity of
expression betrayed the raging of emo
tons which must soon burst forth into
an uncomfortable storm. At last the
end was reached. With voice as clear
as when the first sentence was spoken,
with a fervor worthy of the cause and
with a defiance as magnificent as II
was thrilling, the orator closed with
the immortal sentence: You shall not
press down upon the brow OF labor
this crown of thorns-you shall not
cruelty mankind upon a cross OF gold.
The hush which 1ell upon the audience
as these words were spoken continued
until the speaker had left the platform
and descended several steps. Then
came the storm. And such storm. 1t
was as irresistible as a cyclone and as
glorious as a revel of the gods. In
tellect and oratorical gift had COM
bined to captivate the largest audi
ence ever gathered at national con-
vention. A speech had drawn the line
of battle, pointed the road to victory
and named the next president of the
United States. Could triumph be more
complete-could laurel be more nobly
won?
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corner No. north So degrees 30 minutes
west 1860 feet to corner No. 4. o posi
marked No T. lot No. AS; thence sF5tafi,
6 degrees 80 minutes west so feet to a point
from which discovery stake bears north
SO degrees 80 minutes west, at a distance
of 500 feet. 100 feet to the place of be-
ginning. A description of which is also
found recorded in the recorders office in
said county of Tooele in book BIB of rec
oi,ls on pages 632 to 6S6 inclusive-
Nevertheless however, reservinS and ex-
Guiding therefrom all that part thereof
which is situate east of the center or
the ravine crossing said premises near
est the eastern boundary thereof, which,
ravine is further designated and identified
as the one in which living spring rises
a short distance above the north bound
ary of said premises. Together with ali
and singular the tenements, heredita-
ments and appurtenanceS thereunto be-
longing or in any wise appertaining. in
Guiding all hosting works, engines and
machinery, tailings and property therein
and thereon.
Also in the same district and near by
the same, and once worked in relation to
said mine, that certain mining tunnel
commonly known and called in that vi
cinity THE Aetna Tunnel
Upon such sale being so made, and the
purchase money paid, said receivers will
convey said property to the purchaser
within thirty DAYS after said sale.
This July 18th, 1895.
ISAAC BROOKS and
EDMUND A. STEDMAN,
Receivers as Aforesaid
And Marshall & Royle. Salt Lake City,
Attorneys.
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NOTICE.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Third Judicial district of the state of
Utah, county of Salt Lake.-Robert Mum
roe plaintiff. VS.. Sarah q. Boggs defend
ant Summons! The state of Utah sends
greeting to Sarah G. Boggs. defendant
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the district court OF the
Third judicial district of the state OF
Utah, and to answer the complaint filed
therein within ten days exclusive of the
oay of serVice) after the service on You of
th;= sl1mlnonS-if served within this coun-
ty; or, if served out OF this county. but IN
This district, within twenty days; other
wise within forty dayS-or Judgment by
default will be taken against you, ac-
cording to the prayer Of said complaint
The said action is brought to have iudg-
ment against defendant in sum Of 81, 2O9. 10
with interest from January s. 1895, al s par
cent. per annum. and for costs Of SUIT:
alleged TO be due CT . certain judgment
duly rendered by the court OF common
pleSs No. 2, in and for county of Alle-
ghany, state Of Pennsylvania, January &
1886 in favor of one s. L. Boggs and
against defendant herein, for the sum Of
81 2O9 10, with interest at per cent. per
annum from date; said Judgment having
plaintiff who is now the owner and holder
thereof, and being wholly unpaid and in
full force and effect. And you are hereby
notified that if you fail to appear and
Quired, the said plaintiff will take judg-
ment against you for the SUM of 81 209 10
with interest as above and costs of suit
Witness. the honorable Judges,
and the seal of the district court OF
the Third judicial district, in and
(Seal.) for the state of Utah. this 18th
day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six. G. L. STANTON.
By J. H sPRAGUE. Deputy Clerk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01
WAS QUITE CUTE.
A Novel Method BY Which a Forger
Got in His Work

"A mover Method by W hIch n E'0rSer
Got in His Work.
CHICAGO, July 31.-Sheriff Bentley,
Of Cumberland county, Pa, arrived in
the city last night to take charge of
William d. Fink, who was arrested a
few nights ago on charges OF forgery.
Since F'ink's arrest it has been discov-
cred that there is &, shortage of 81. 900
on the books Of Ellsworth & McNair,
at the stock yards, for whom Fink was
working when arrested.
Fink formerly was a blacksmith in
Carlisle, Pa. He went to Mechanics
burg, married the daughter of Adolf
phus Dale, a cattle dealer. Fink
bought cattle for lis father-in-law.
Four months ago Dale discovered a
large number of notes and mortgages
with his name attached which had been
used to pay for cattle. The cattle had
never been taken into his yard.
About this time Fink DISAPPEARED.
Dale investigated and discovered, it is
charged, that Fink had bought the
cattle on forged paper, sold them and
pocketed the money. The total amount
of forged paper found amounts to
$1,000
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RARE ENTERTAINMENT
For eTerJ member Of
the family is found in
the columns Of The
Sunday Herald.
NOTICE.


IN THE DISTRICT COURT, PROBATE
division, Third judicial district in and for
Salt Lake county, state of Utah. Guard
ianship of the persons and in the matter
of the estate of Johanna 2. Moray, James
NJ. Moray and Thomas II. Moray, minors
Order to show cause why order of sale of
real estate should not be made. Petronaia
Moray, guardian of the persons of. all
persons and the estate of Johanna P.
Moray, James NJ. Moray and Thomas H
Moray, minors, having filed her petition
herein, duly verified, praying for an or
der of sale of all of the real estate of said
minors and it appearing to the court from
the petition that it will be necessary and
would be beneficial to said wards that
all said real estate should be sold for the
purposes therein set forth, it is therefore
ordered that all persons interested in the
estate of said minors and the next of
kin of said minors appear before the said
court on the 22nd day of August. A. D.
1896, at 10 o'clock a. m, at the court room
of said court, at the county court house,
in the city and county of Salt Lake, Utah,
to show cause why an order should not
be granted to the said guardian to sell so
much of the real estate of said wards at
private sale as shall be necessary, and
that a copy of this order be published at
least four successive weeks in the Salt
Lake Herald, a daily newspaper printed
and published in said city and county.
Witness my hand this Goth day of July,
A. d. 1886
By the court. NJ. L. RITCHIE,
Judge.
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MNRcHANTs, LIcENsE.

large number of business men held
a meeting at the county court house last
night to propose against the imposition
by the council CT the proposed mer-
chants license. Sidney Stevens was
chairman, and w. c. Howell secretary.
Mr.. Stevens spoke briefly on assum-
ing the chair, speaking against the
proposed ordinance.
John Watson gave a report showing
that seven business concerns of Ogden
Already pay taxes on SO, 029, 521 worth of
property, which is over half of the as
sessed valuation of railway property
and taxes on property of that nature.
He held that the merchants and bank
ers were already heavily taxed
Similar addresses were made by a.
T. Wright, A. w. Putnam and R. l..
Clark.
A resolution was adopted declaring it
to be the sense of the meeting that the
proposed license was not only unjust,
but unconstitutional as well, being
class legislation.
A committee of ten was appointed to
present this to the council Monday even
ing, and to present with it petition
which is to be circulated among the
business men, praying that the pro-
posed ordinance be not passed.
The committee to circulate the petit
ton is composed of Henry Last. R. G.
Pratt and Will Howell. "A copy of the
petition will be left at HowelPs store,
where those not found by the commit
tee may find it.
The committee of ten to present the
matter to the council is composed of
John Scowcroft, John Watson, A. I.
Wright, James Pingree, Sidney Ste
vens, T. G. Burt. A. w. Putnam, r.
L. Clark, F. ]. Kiesel and McLaren
Bowie.
b.. The committee ask as many mer-
chants as can do so to accompany them
on Monday evening
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A HASTY EXIT.
Two Midnight Lunchers Get Too Gay
With the Modest Waitress.


MISSOULA, July 2S.-One of the all
night restaurants here has recently
tried the experiment of female waiter
on the night shift. The young lady is
a quiet, attractive little woman, and
her presence seemed to be a drawing
card for the place She is agreeable
and modest and there was nothing
transpired at the place to indicate that
the experiment OF putting her on the
night shift would not be a success till
the other night, when two well-known
men of the city went in for mid
night lunch. They had been having a
good time and were a little gay, but
they gave their orders in the usual
way and acted all right, so nothing
was said. The fact that the young
lady's husband was the cook in the
kitchen of the restaurant was not
known to many of the night patrons
of the place, and the two men were
not of the few who did know it. They
know it now and will not forget it.
When they had partly finished their
supper they got little gay and began
to chaff the waitress. They didn't
chaff long. In a moment two sports
came flying out of the door of the res
taurant, and they kept on flying for
some distance. They did care for the
man who was behind them with a
kitchen knife, though, and when they
take midnight lunches after this they
will go somewhere else or not go at
all When their chaff had reached the
limit prescribed by good society, the
waitress stepped to the kitchen and
gave the tip to her husband, the cook.
He took the tip and went out into the
dining room with a rush. Then came
the Hight. The two men settled their
lunch bill at long range. There is
quiet at the restaurant now and all Of
the patrons are very respectful to the
waitress.