Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-20

We were disappointed last week
when Fred Vandergrift and Charlie
Sessions showed up in town as we con-
fidently supposed they had come here
to work their sroad tax" but they
left On a freight train before the road
overseer could swarm" them to work.
Senator Clay of Georgia wants the
democracy to divorce populism, and
lead a better life hereafter. We
didn't know that any formal divorce
was necessary Democracy and popu-
lism were never married-they simply
took up together.-Larned Eagle-Op-
tic.
We notice from the Wa-Keeney
WORLD that Arthur Capper, editor of
the Topeka Capital, has taken
homestead down in Ellis county.
Capper has, probably learned, even at
this late day, that in order to be sue
cessful as the editor of great paper,
it is necessary to do little time in
the short grass country. The neigh
bors ought to turn out and help him
Dullu d ROOu L lilies.
The Havensville Review is authori-
| ty for the statement that an old Pop
pleased with the Fourth of July
speech at that place of John Dawson,
bond clerk in the state treasurer's
office, because there was no politics In
it. This leads another citizen to rise
on point of order. 1t is mistake,
the latter asserts, for the speaker
quoted Bob Evans famous order at
Santiago, Don't cheer, boys, the
poor devils are dying."-Topeka Her
aid.
Miss Helen Gould has given library
worth 81 900 and music box which
plays eighty-seven tunes, and which
cost $500, to the Young Mems Chris
tian association at Ellis. In making
the gift Miss Gould sJipuIates that if
ever the order should disband the
books and music box must be returned
to her. And those who have sat by
the music boxes as the years come
and go will wonder why this lady
philanthropIst has given cause and
inducement for the disorganization of
such a good sOciety.-K. G. Journal.
The Topeka State Journal says the
Trego county gold shale investors are
having more trouble than cranberry
merchants. Some time ago they inn
ported a gold extracting process man
by the name of Gage to work his rab-
bits foot on the gold shale and get
the gold out. Gage came to Topeka
a half dozen lots of shale shipped in !
from Trego and Ellis counties. Now
the report is out that Gage is buying
up all the land he can get in the gold
counties and is ready to put in one
of his secret process plants right on
the ground where the sllale is found
and beat all the other fellows in the
race for the position of millionaires. |
Last Saturday, July ID, 1901; Mrs. |
E. A. Wilds, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Theodore Courtney of Banner, died of
consumption. The deceased had been
in ill health for many months, till
death came and set the spirit free to
depart into blessed land where sor-
row and sickness are no mOIe- A
husband and three children are left
to mourn her loss, also a father and
mother and several sisters and BROTH |
ers, all of these have the sincere SYM
pathy of a wide circle of friends in
this their sad hour of bereavement
Sunday the remains were laid to rest
in the Collyer cemetery to await the
resurrection morn
Strayed-June &c. from my ranch
10 miles north of Wa-Keeney-dark
bay horse, 8 years old, weight about
1900 pounds, wire cut on right hind
Leg Address George Bowman, Happy,