Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-23


uary $3.50, and the Retail Grocers'
convention is January &c.
p and .. The round-trip tickets are
on sale January % to p, inciusiye;
good returning including February /.
scIssoRINGs.
0Weyler may we'll tremble Mrs
Lease is said to be studying the Cuban
question
The birthday of Kansas as state
and of William Mckinley occur on
the same day of the month Kansas
will be SO and the president-elect 30
years old the 10Th of this month";
Governor Leedy will not recommend
the repeal of the police commissioner
law. He has given it out fat that he
will retain the commissioners because
of the political power in them and
the opportunities given to furnish pie
for hungry Pops
State Superintendent-elec Stryk err
has struck 'er-he has appointed his
wife bond clerk in his office. You
must be related to the Pop officials
elect in some way, if you desire
little of the pie-even a small piece.
Eureka Herald.
An exchange tells of man who was
too poor to take his home paper, but
all the same he read a notice in "a
back-East paper telling how to pre-
vent horses from SOLDERING and sent
$3.50 for the recipe. When the $3.50
worth came it said, ''Teach your
horses how to Spit
A gentleman remarked in the
Garden City Imprint the other day
that 1.-THE constitution of Kansas had
stood the test of grasshoppers, chinch
bugs, drouth and rain, booms and de-
pressions. good crops and poor crops,
sGineral' Artz and Pop legislature
and he thought sit was good enough
to do a while longer yet
While each citizen of the United
States pays AZ cents each year on the
National debt, every Frenchman is
paying S4.75, every Englishman S3 Is,
every Russian s1.20, every Austrian
or Hungarian 81 80, every Italian So. 80.
every Portuguese $3.50, every Spaniard
1926, and every German 80 cents.
There are Others who are in a worse
condition than we are, so let's quit
kicking.
Speaking of the Mitchell county
man who claims to be the champion
husker of the state, the Hill City Re-
publican expresses willingness to
put up Hon. Dave Hanna. cousin of
Mark Hanna, and try the Mitchell
county man a heat or two. The Re
publican says Dave tried his hand
without gloves a couple of weeks ago
and made a record of II bushels in
thirty minutes, and he has not been
at the business either.
| Frank Montgomery, who has herded
cattle and Populists for many years,
remarked on great similarity. He
says, "Did you ever see herd of
Texas cattle get to 'milling?' With
tails and horns in air and believing
the deep-lunged below of fright or
contrariness, they charge round and
round in an endless circle, paving up
the earth and raising a dust which
obscures the sky. BY and by they
will go slower. and then lie down and
go to sleep. That's what the Pop
legislature will do
We notice an item going the rounds
to the effect that our good Populist
friend, w. l.. Brown, secretary OF the
late senate, has recently sold a bunch
of steers for S35 a head which he
bought last March for S1I head.
That is all right as stand up for
Kansas item. But how is it from the
standpoint of exorbitant and out
rageous profits? Mr.. Brown admits
that the keep of the steers was prac-
tically nothing, and yet lie boasts OF
his profit of nearly 300 per cent. How
do these profits compare with the
profits of the hired man who took
care of the cattle while Brother Brown
saved the country with his mouth and
his lead pencil? And did Mr.. Brown
''diyy' any? If it is all right for
Populist to clear 300 per cent. profit
in six months on little cattle trade
in which there was practically no
risk, how much profit should IL great
railroad corporation be allowed to
earn? And if the railroads are get
ting rich so fast that the state will
have to pass law to get IA hold cf
some of their money, what is the
matter with setting the state On to
Mr.. Brown3-Iola Register.
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