Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-06-17

in cloth. The price is so cents. free
| by mail; address the publishers, Will
| mer Atkinson Co.. Philadelphia.
Burk'S Big Pavilion Uncle Toms
Cabin company will show here for the
first time on Monday evening. June
26. Do not confound this with other
Uncle Toms Cabin companies, prom
ising much and doing little. We
guarantee complete and first class
production or money refunded. The
company consists of thirty people,
dogs, donkeys, ETC., and carry special
scenery and stage effects. Their big
canvas will comfortably seat 800 peo-
pie. Grand street parade at p. m.
Open air concert at 7:3O p. m. Price
of admission: Adults. 25c; children
I5c.
Mrs. III. G. Street and daughter Eva
departed Thursday evening forLamar,
Mo-, where they will make their fu-
ture home. En- route she will visit
her son Fred at Mcpherson, Kan,
thence to Baldwin, where she will
l.
will depart for Lamar. Mo-, where
Mr.. Street will engage in business.
We are very sorry to lose Mr. and
Mrs. Street from our midst. They
have lived in Trego county for twen-
ty-three years, and have made many
many friends who regret to see them
leave Wa-Keeney- We hope they will
like their new home, and that health,
happiness and prosperity will follow
close upon their tracks. About 60 peo-
pie went to the train to bid them god
speed.
A number of commercial travellers
were telling stories the other night,
and this was vouched for by one who
used to be a railroad conductor in
eastern Pennsylvania. "My tram had
always reached Lebanon just after an
express train, but the schedule was
changed so as to bring my train into
the station first. A voluble Pennsyl-
vania Dutch woman was a regular
passenger on market days, as my
train stopped at her station, while
the express train whizzed by. The
ahead of the express she was much
astonished and delighted. She rushed
up to me and exclaimed, in the high
key and peculiar dialect of that re-
gion: wy, you're early of late; you're
first at last; you used to be behind
beforer r--Gaylord Herald.
Ben Tilton, a former Wa-Keeney
boy, with the Nebraska regiment in
the Philippines, writes a letter in
which he says:
''The biggest bullies and blows in
the company, when they heard that
in short time we would start on
Malolos, were so unfortunate as to
suddenly take the rheumatism, dys-
fever and about every other
disease you could think of. On the
first days march some fell out and
others went back to the bull CARTS
With fifteen wounded there were but
thirty men in our company when we
reached Malolos. / know of three
cases in the regiment where the fore
finger on the right hand has been
shot off recently-accidenta Our
regiment. from d DOQy OIL SOU men,
dwindled down to 400 upon arrival at
A regular army physician
went through our regimental hospital
and broke the thing up, sending all
the cold feet to their respective COM
panies and those who were not able
to join their companies to the divi-
sion hospital. Before the war broke
put four soldiers were detailed and
drilled for litter-bearers, but that did
not work. The American army then
hired these Chinese coolies who are
used to the climate and have the
and endurance of a horse A |
good many thought that the coolies |
couldn't be got up to the firing line, |
but the majority of them always |
seemed willing to go where it was
necessary. These Chinese are paid |
s1O per month, Mexican money, which |
S equal to five American dollars. The |
government could get no one else who
S not enlisted for three times that
mount"