Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1898-07-23

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next Monday. He will begin on his
own grain and ship it Immediately.
This will probably be the first
threshing in this county.
The redoubtable editor of the Hill
City Reyeille doesn't do thing to
the editor of the Gem but strip him
of his epidermis and trail it all over
Hill City IN this weeks issue
1t will be an interesting item of
news to the people OF WaKeeney to
know that Rev. j. S. Hendricks will
probable be the populist candidate for
probate judge of Graham county.
The annual school meeting comes
on next Thursday. In the Wa-Kee-
ney district there is a director to elect
for the regular term of three years,
and treasurer to elect for one. Let
all friends of the schools turn out.
Frank Kings commission came
Tuesday morning from Washington
and he is now the duly installed re-
ceiver of the U. S. Land Office at this
place. Mr.. King comes from Dighton
south of here where he has been con-
nected with the bank for some years.
He is a western man like the rest of
us, having been in Lane county eleven
years, and comes to us warranted as
gentleman without wavering or
shadow of turning in private and bus
mess life and republican Republi-
can three hundred and sixty-tive days
N 10 wi
the handsome residence recently the
property of Mr.. Saum, and Mrs. King
and family will soon take up their
abode among u.s.
1.-THE stump orator of the future will
have to revise the old-style peroration
giving the boundaries of this land of
liberty"
That's all right. How is this for
starter? This glorious. star-spangled,
spread eagle Union, bounded on the
north by the Boothian Peninsula and
on the south by Cape Horn: on the
east by the Canaries and on the west
by the Philippine Islands. We hope
no one will worry about the patriotic
stump speaker. Hasn't he many
time woke up the echoes giving the
boundaries of his beloved country
in this sort of a strain: Bounded on
the north by Aurora Borealis and on
the south by Nadir of the Ecliptic, on
the east by Chaos and on the west by
the Day oy Judgment. Depend upon
it that the stump speaker will rise to
the occasion and keep in the front of
the procession.
Hal Jones writes from Chickamauga
that all the Wa-Keeney boys are well
except Buff Inscho who has been Sc
riously hurt in an extended order
drill. He says Buff has been recon-
mended to Washington for discharge,
and that Buff will never be a SOUND
man again. Hal is losing hope of
ever being permitted to get shot at
4he SpaniardS. He talks humorously
of the fellows who get sick every time
a rumor comes to camp Of orders to
go to the West Indies and who get
well when the rumor dies away. Hal
says he is heartier than mule. 1t is
rediculOusly funny to see the boys
washing their clothes on Sunday.
some use tubs, pals, camp kettles,
boilers, pans or any old thing. Hal
washed his uniform but it is not so
large as it was, he needs monkey
wrench to button it and thus he
writes, about once week in that
cheerful, lively, soldier boy strain,
and his only worry is that he will be
herded there at Chickamauga until the
war is over and that he will get no
shot at the Williams who blew up the
Maine.