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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

We are exclusive agents for the cell.
ebrated Acme flour manufactured by
the Wilson mills. Call and get a sack
for only Sl.l5. Trego Mer Co.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07
QUARTERLY STATEMENT
OF L. c. GLEASON.
COUNTY TREASURER,
TREGO COUNTY KANSAS

BALANCE IN HIS HANDS FOR
THE QUARTER ENDING
SEP. 30. 1906.
County Treasurer's' Office.
Wa-Keeney, Kansas. Sep. 30. 1905. (
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07
LANDS WANTED.

/ have customers for few unim-
proved cheap tracts of land; some we'll
improved farms: some small ranches.
and two large ranches
If you want to sell now is the time.
Come list what you have, or send me
descriptions, prices, etc.
For Sale-Lands.
A few bargains in lands-farm and
ranch lands
Irrigated Lands.
am agent for the Arkansas Valley
Sugar Beet & Irrigated Land CO s
lands in Southeast Colorado, where
farming pays.
Call on or write,
S. NJ. HUTZEL.
Wa-Keeuey, kans.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

Lands bought and sold by r. l.
Bolts Land Agency. Wa-Keeney
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

The best drill on the market is for
sale by o. A. Cortright. Buy the SUI
perior.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

To exchange for smooth Trego
county land-A fine improved farm
near county seat of Worth county
Mo. Also several well located Iowa
farms. j. Il. w. Cloud.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

Baker will pay cents per pound
for good hides until further notice.
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Pay us-we need coin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
IAYHAWEEI7 IOTs.

Morrill, talks of installing a small cleo
trio light plant
Smallpox has closed several of the Os-
| borne county schools
one Of the most pleasant Christmas
gatherings of Barton county was the Jol-
The Latham Mirror failed to reflect
some of its country correspondents the
past week.
Atchison's municipal records show that
there are more demands for coal shovel
lers than poets.
a Reno county man is thought to be in
sane because he carries about $500 In gold
around with him.
At Abilene the sheriff, the undersheriff,
the marshal and the deputy marshal are
all named John.
Emporia has 10 on its poor list. With
coal 81 a ton, the city should be glad the
number Is not 1000.
ceived ten handkerchiefs for Christmas
and one of them was point lace
Jack rabbits that bring five. cents apiece
at Chase are easily disposed of in New
York markets for rs cents pair.
Holton boasts of a family of Rockefel-
lers, while HiaWatha can show a family
OF Vanderbilts and one OF Goulds.
By a queer force Of circumstances a To-
peka man expects to have his umbrella
recovered, although never having been
One Hiawatha girl is revealing in three
pair of opera glasses for Christmas, while
another is the recipient Of ten cream
pitchers.
A sensible New Years resolution of an
Emporia woman is that she might as well
set hen on china eggs as to brood over
the past
Besides having the honor of living in
Editor Hoch's town, the Santa Fe agent
was one of eight TO get a $40 prize for
the largest increase in business.
A Hutchinson lodge turned an eagle
free with S. reward for its return, but
so far only a few cases of pneumonia
have resulted in the chase for the early
bird.
A wedding ceremony isn't considered a
success in Brown county without a hitch
in it somewhere The bull dog putting
the charivari party UP a tree was the
latest event at Robinson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03

dry and in some of the most important
sections no rain fell for weeks. In con-
sequence of the unfavorable start thus
made the crop was in poor condition to
face the rigors Of the severe winter
which followed, and in consequence
upwards of 100000 acres of wheat
were abandoned by May Of 1904, as the
result Of winter-killing and other
causes. Further unfavorable conditions
in the shape of heavy rains and floods
prevailed during the most critical time
for the whole crop, that Of the harvest
ing, SO that from all causes the crop
was reduced from an indicated yield of
492, 100000 bushels in December, 1903. to
a final outturn of about 33S. 600. 900 BUSH
els. The knowledge of the poor condi-
ton of the crop had led to an advance
in prices during the early winter
months of 1e03-1sO4, while values were
further enhanced by the threatened
Russo-Japanese war, nearly all branch
es of the trade fearing that other ma
tons might be drawn into the en-
brogliO- In anticipation Of such an
eventuality, heavy purchases of flour
We're made by all buyers, from the con-
sumner up and an unprecedented BUSH
ness resulted, which was an important
factor in advancing the price of wheat
On actual hostilities falling to result
in the complications feared, an easier
feeling developed, and lower quotations
prevailed for a time. Later on in the
spring prices again advanced on the
damage to winter wheat, and continued
in an upward trend during the summer
under the influence of fears of damage
and serious loss to the spring wheat
crop from rains and resulting rust.
This apprehension being later confirm
ed. prices We're advanced to the highest
point of the year in the early fall, and
although a reaction has occurred since
then. the protracted drought in the
winter wheat states. and the scarcity
of good wheat has sustained values at a
high level and prevented any marked
decline.
Lately the fear of manipulation in
Chicago May wheat has also tended to
cause buying. The poor quality of the
crop is a much more important factor
than the small quantity. the total yield
being placed at about 551, 900, 900 bush
els. against 637, 900 bushels grown in
1908
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
Mr.. STREET IS HERE.
Says Title to Water Plant VIII Be
Fixed Up.

President Street of the Topeka
Water company arrived in the city
yesterday. He spent this morning in
Kansas City, returning again to the
city on the noon train.
81 don't know anything about Mr..
Spencer's report upon the title of the
waterworks property" stated Mr..
Street, Except in an informal way.
We are perfectly satisfied with the
title of right of way which the com
pany possesses. We are going TO do
the square thing by the city and we
will give them a good title. I am
not prepared to talk about what we
shall do concerning the various points
which Mr. Spencer raises, as I have
not seen them fully"
When asked what the company
proposed to do concerning the claims
which arose in connection with the
Parkhurst-Davis fire which were
thrown out of court, Mr.. Street said:
1.-THE matter has been adjudicated by
the court and we are perfectly content
with that adjudication We can't help
what the city wants in that matter or
what Spencer thinks" The claims
in question, amounting to $4,000,
were thrown out of court, but the time
for appeal has as yet not expired. The
city attorney felt that the city might
become liable for that amount. Mr..
Street will be in the city for the re-
mainder of the week and will consult
with the city attorney this afternoon
as to the city's wants and what in
turn the city Waterworlzs company is
willing to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
PcTNTEp PARAGRAPHs.

lFrom the Chicago News.l
Some actors become tramps because
they get hungry at times.
If she znarries for money she earns a
lot more than she gets.
After men set up the drinks few times
the drinks upset the men.
If you would live long and prosper let
the other fellow do the worrying.
A girl should strive to keep her fiance
at a distance-from young widows.
Some men rossess the ability to turn
their cheeks of brass into pots Of gold.
This world may owe every man a liv-
ing. But only millionaires are preferred
creditors.
A girl may work hard to obtain hus-
band, but that is no sign she Will work
for him afterward.
Half the neighbors criticise a man when
he whips his children. And the other half
blame him if he doesn't.
An old bachelor says too many of the
roses that bloom on feminine cheeks are
transplanted from drug stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
The doctor would starve to death if he
knew everybody we'll
Even the deaf mute can't play tennis
without raising a racket.
All theories won't work, but a tramp
is far from being a theory.
When a fellow feels that he is all to
the mustard he must be hot stuff.
Some men can be bribed with nothing
more substantial than promises.
Truth often comes in the form Of a
capsule that we don't want to swallow.
1t is easier for woman to love man
than to let some other woman love him.
Many fellow who thinks he is making
a girl green with jealousy is really color
blind.
The clock salesman may have the gift
of CAB, but he should never try TO talk
against time.
Borrowed says he has an old
score to settle with you 'Wagg-s'Pe Perhaps
he means the 70 he owes me"
Nell-''I wonder why a lobster turns
red7" Belle-"It probably bushes at the
thought of things it is going to do to us"
To vaudeville we often go,
.'Headliners'' there to greet
We call them such, because. you know,
They Oft work with their feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
sHERIFF PRUETT HERE.
He Talks About Gas Trouble in Mont
gomery County.

Sheriff Andy Pruett of Montgomery
county was in Topeka today after a
requisition- He says in regard to the
natural gas trouble down in his
county:
Things have Quieted down consid-
erably, and yet it is hard to tell what
may happen. In my opinion there is
no doubt that the dynamiting was
done by the people down there, and
not by the pipe line contractors who
wanted to arouse sympathy. We have
some determined men down there in
our county, and when they take a
notion that they want a thing a GER
tain way, they are likely to go after it.
''Of course they will never gain
their point that way. The people who
did that dynamiting were in the
wrong, and they cont stop the piping
out of gas by any such methods.
st was away when the dynamiting
was done; that is I left the county at
midnight. and the dynamiting occur
red, I suppose, about the same time.
1t is not true that I posted armed
guards to watch the pipe line. I don't
know what the pipe line people did;
I suppose they are taking some means
to protect their property. So far
things are all quiet, and I don't much
think there will be any further
trouble
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e men on the street annoy her by star

ing.
Some one once wrote a book on What
one woman can do" and it hadn't any
thing to do with Mrs. Chadwick. either.
A Missourian, and Afissourians know
everything, says the light haired horses
and women are given to shying and act
ing frisky.
An Atchison man who went out Of busi-
ness several years ago says he knows
now Row a dog feels when people say to
it: Get out of the way
Some Of the country papers are pretty
bad, but we can find you big city papers
Of "A pages that do not contain a single
item of interest
W hen a woman chases q man modestly
ana discreetly there is very littI eobjec-
ton to it, Indeed, under such circum-
stances, Chasing almost becomes True
Love.
We will confess that we like a hardy
plant that takes care of itself better than
a hot house plant, and also that we like
an alley dog better than one with a ped
igree.
An Atchison girl is about to throw her
SELF away, and nothing can stop her No
Qoubt you have longed to speak to her -
NO use; her best friends have spoken to
her, and she has told them to mind their
own business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
GROVER HEARS FROM son.
He Says. Soldiers Are Still Slaughtered
i'm Philippines.

Judge F. NJ. Grover is in receipt of
a letter from his son Francis Scott
Grover who is serving an enlistment
in the United States navy on board
the Mohican. Grover is now in Phil
ippine waters and writes as follows:
Olongapo, P. L, Nov 14th, 1904.
Dear Father: Well am in the
worst of the Philippines, vet it is the
prettiest country I have ever seen as
far as mountains and canyons are
concerned. Papa, you would give a
great deal to see some of this cOun-
try. There are mountains on every
side except a. strip of water about one
mile wide, so you can picture your
self in the midst of large bay and
mountains on every side We are in
Subic bay but we are lying just off
OlonEapo and the town Of Subic is
about six miles from here. The climate
is nice and not too warm. AS far as
civilization goes there is none, as the
natives kill every soldier or sailor that
goes very far into the mountains. It's
not safe to go inland any distance,
unless there is a crowd and then they
have to be heavily armed
There is no land that have seen
that is cleared off, but it is under
large timber and underbrush and we
have all kinds of timber such as
mahogany, ebony. and all kinds of
hard timber. There are lots of fish
and all kinds of game such as deer,
wild boar, snipes, and as to fishing we
have all the way from the fine noun
tain trout to sharks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
BOYS MUST APPEAR.
Judge Hazen Refuses to Let Fathers
Assume Their Burdens.

-Four boys, Frank Bayless. Ed Bill
ings, William Bayless and Frank Har-
rison disturbed a literary society meet
ing at Six Mile school house in Auburn
township.
They terrorized the young folks who
made up the society and pulled down
the stove pipe.
Father Bayless, Father Harrison and
Father Billings were before Judge Nc
Cabe in the city court this afternoon,
acting under proxies from their sons,
to plead guilty for them and to pay the
fine for them.
Father Billings said: 1T was Mr..
Whisky that did all this and my boy
was in bad company" Then Father
Billings looked at the other fathers
whose sons he had termed bad COM
pany.
The prosecuting attorney, Car1ain
McNary, objected to the boys commit
ting the offense and allowing their
fathers to come to court and do the
pleading and paying of the fines and he
demanded that the boys be brought to
time and that they appear before the
judge.
Judge AIcCabe thought that the faith
ers were shouldering all the burden and
he ordered the boys before him one
week from today to take their own
medicine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
GTORE SIGHTS

lfrOfn the AtchiSon GloDe.l
why is a girl named Maria, when Dora
is just as easy?
After q plant comes from a reception it
looks as though it had been on a big
drunk.
An Atchison woman has been blanketed.
She has finished the Christmas trOt.
A woman takes her troubles to the
preacher, but the average man carries his
to the private door of a bank.
The editors of some Of the big city pa
pers seem to be all right during the week
but on Sunday they go crazy.
Be good to your friends: II they dress
UP in cotton as Santa Claus. this may
be their last Christmas on earth
Sometimes a girl viii make her friends
laugh at her behind her back by saying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
ALL AT MADAGASCAR.
Russian Baltic squadrons Are Nearly
United.

Tarnatave, Island of Madagascar,
Jan. S.-The division of the Russian
second Pacific squadron. commanded
by Real Admiral Voelkersam, which
after passing through the Suez canal
sailed from Jibutil. French Somali-
land, December 10, for the island of
Madagascar, anchored today in Pas
sandava bay, in the northwest part of
this island.
The squadron commanded by Ad-
miral Rojestvensky is at Antongil
bay, on the east coast.
It Is believed that the whole SQUAD
ron later will rendezvous at Diego
Suarez bay on the northeast coast of
the island.
VIII Not s'Butt In
Washington, Jan. 3.-Whatever
effect the fall of Port Arthur may
have on the ultimate issue of the war
the attitude of this government toward
the belligerentS has not undergone the
slightest change. More than once the
American government has let St
Petersburg and Toxic know that it
stands ready at any time to render
neighbOrly assistance whenever both
belligerents are prepared to welcome
it, Further than this, the government
has not gone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
LOCAL MENTION.

Eighty-one voters registered yester-
day. Mayor Bergundthal secured reg
istration slip 81 and Councilman Hughes
No Sc. The registration still continued
actively today and was well up in the
hundreds.
The fire department was called out at
TIPS last night to GA West Eighth
street. A chimney which was burning
out caused the trouble. No damage was
incurred.
The street commissioner department
is cleaning out the Potwin sewer to-
day The PotWin sewer is in a pretty
bad condition and it has been a ques-
ton as to the best method to be utilized
in cleaning it. The street commissions
has two of the water wagons at work
emptying water into the man holes, an
apron first being inserted which hoids
back the water to a. certain extent Civ
ing greater pressure in flushing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
JAPAN's FLEET.


AS soon as the fleet had been destroy
ed General Nogi had his problem clear
ly outlined. It was to capture all of
mountain and Sungshu hill one as
sault caused the fall of Keekwan an
other several days ago gave the Japa-
nese Rihlung and the end seemed only
a few days off because this position al
lowed a fire into all Of Port Arthur.
The deadly Japanese lull followed.
Then like a flash thousands of the lit
up the hill at Sungshu, fought their
way over piles of Russian dead, strew-
ed the hillsides with whole companies
of their own and took Sungsha, the
key to the inner line of Notifications.
Signal hills fall followed. The defense
was desperate. It was Stoessers last
gasp. Scarcely had Nogi cleared the
fort of the dead when the Russian ask
ed terms of surrender and one of the
worlds most famous sieges since the
days of Troy had come to an end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
NOT OUT OF WOODS.
Councilman Green Fears City Won't
Have Enough Money.

Though the city clerk and treas
urer in their reports show q balance
of 81, 491.S9 with all debts paid It is
still too early to make a claim that
the city viii come out even on It's
finances and not face a deficit at the
end of the fiscal year which is on the
31st of March. Councilman Green
stated today that he would be wonder
fully surprised If the city would bal
ance up at the expiration OF the year
without having to borrow from the
rest of the year. In July Of last year
the ways and means committee made
an estimate Of probable shortage of
$ZO,SS9. Ten thousand dollars of
this amount was credited to expenses
incident to the fire department in the
way OF equipment, the remaining
amount approximately $1,000 is cred
tied to a deficit in running expenses.
The first expenditure has been made
ana there has been no startling re-
trenchment policy adopted which
would make a saving to the city of
$11, 900 with the fiscal year ending
March 81, 1905. It must be reneu-
bered that the city has collected taxes
from the first half of 1904 and that
some of this Is in the city treasury
and makes a showing in the balance
City Treasurer Hale, in his report,
shows that there is on hand s111.1OO
in the city treasury. The money is de-
posted in the following manner:
BANK or topeka .....S 22,S9S.59
Merchants Nat. bank 14,343.SS
FIRST NauOndl l3.lO3.34
Central National .... 1888. 80
State Savings bank . 29.1O2.65
Fiscal Agency New York. 17,37O.e4
Park -.-... 2.3S
The s11,1O0 is credited to the fol-
lowing funds:
GenI revenue fund S 6252 SO
Gen1 imp. fund .. 760612
sinking FUND ..... 11,457.73
interest fund ......-... S,460.67
Water supply fund . 1,9O5.75
Library fund ......... 1,068.18
SIDEWALK fund ......... 111.6O
Street and alley paving
bonds $50 -. s5,s58.O1
sewer bonds ...... 537.34
Excelsior Coke & Gas Co.. 100000
Continental Oil & Gas Co.. 100000
Albert Case security fund
waterworks bonds ~ 100000
Fire1nen's relief fund $3.50. 16,29e.73
Judgment. Water Co... 2.67O.45
judgments ..-...-... 213.63
West Sixth st. macadam 2IO6
Central Park mortgage
fund ......... 12497
Construction fund ..... 6.320.12
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELoR.

Ifrom the New York Press.1
A man can be rescued from shipwreclx,
but he stays right under the holiday
ruins
The burnt woman plays with the fire
again to see If 1t will do the same thing
once more
When a man confides to a girl that he
has had a promotion in his business she
runs and tells her friends she has had an
other proposal.
Generally the chief ambition of a. wo-
man is to long to scratch out some other
Woman's eyes for having better clothes
band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03

before the terrific IRE from the Rus
sian walls. At last a Japanese COM
pany dashed through the hole and the
fighting was hand to hand in the fort
Russian reinforcements poured into
the fort from behind. japanese in
fantry swarmed into the fort through
the trenches. Where the two fronts
met the enemies were jammed to-
tugged and bit until they went down
and were trampled to death. The
press was SO great that soldiers were
unable to use their bayonetS. For ten
hours the awful struggle continued
and at last about thirty Russians, all
that remained of the large garrison,
were driven fighting desperately into
a gallery and escaped down the hill
to Port Arthur.
There was no rest for Nogi. The last
Russian had not yet reached Port Ar
thur when fresh men were poured into
the captured fort and others dragged
cannon into it to sink the Russian fieet.
When the second day dawned General
Stoessel in Port Arthur saw the reek-
ing muzzles OF Nogi's guns as they
hurled shells into the Port Arthur har-
Dor Ship after ship was struck by
japanese shells and from day to day
General Nogi reported the sinking Of
the costly Russian fighting machines
writhing in the narrow harbor to escape
destruction. Outside was the eager
Admiral Togo waiting for a dash such
as Cervera made at Santiago. On 203
Meter hill was Nogi, slowly and sure
~ smashing Russia's naval power. At
last came the announcement that the
Russian fleet, with the exception of one
battle ship and four torpedo craft, had
been destroyed. The one battle ship
which was taken out of the harbor, the
Sevastopol was attacked in a. blizzard
at night by Admiral Togo's torpedo
fleet and totally disabled. The four
torpedo craft slipped through the jap
anese lines and arrived in Chefoo. This
is the end of Russia's magnificent Port
Arthur fleet.
Following is a list of the Russian
Port Arthur fleet at the outbreak of
hostilities and the Japanese fleet which
sailed from Japan to blockade Korean
and Manchurian ports:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
THE uHEAT NfARKEr.

The principal characteristics Of the
year 1904 in wheat, says r. G. Dun &
Co., has beer -he high level at which
prices have heen maintained, and that
without the aid of manipulation except
In rare instances. The conditions which
combined to produce these unusually
high values commenced shaping them
selves in the fall of 1903, when the SOW
ing OF winter wheat was in progress.
The weather during that time was very
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

word has been received hare Of
the death of NJ. Lyon Conwell, which
occurred this morning of heart trouble
at St. Louis. Mr.. Conwell was AZ
years old and was the eldest son OF
Mrs. NJ. R. Conwell, Of sos Topeka
avenue, and brother of r r. Con-
well. of North Topeka. Mr.. Conwell
left this afternoon for st. Louis to
bring the remains here, and upon his
return the funeral arrangements viii
he announced.
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The next big event of the war is like
~ to take place along the Shakhe river
where two armies of nearly a half mil
lion men each, are passing the winter
within speaking distance of each other.