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BIG CREEK.

A little dry for wheat.
Warm and somewhat dry
Some complaint of colds lately
G. M, Lofiin is reported tohave
big land deal on.
The farmers all have their field
work about done for this year.
A man. shot himself in Ellis
last Sunday, but we haven 4
learned the particulars.
Johnnie Herbert and Fred Egg
ger are stacking feed for l.. G.
johnson these fine days.
The Ellis telephone man is
putting some of his lines on poles
which will be quite an improve
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Lofiin and
mother and Mr. and Mrs. John
Herbert attended the Nemecek
wedding last Tuesday.
Ye; scribe learns that a good
time was had by all at the Mem
Geek wedding last Tuesday.
There were sixteen kegs of beer,
also fifteen dressed geese, one
beef and four fat hogs butchered
for the feeding of the guests, and
that dancing and card playing
were the order of the day Tues
day and the guests continued the
festivities until Wednesday even
ing.
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Library Notes.

More shelf room is needed
greatly.
A complete list of the new
books will be given next week.
Mrs. A. j. Ellermeyer. recent
ly presented The Prospector'
to the library
We were complimented re-
Gently on the high grade of
fiction in our possession.
Plans are being made for an
entertainment to be given soon
after the holidays for the benefit
of the library.
The new case of books has ar
rived and among the contents
are a number of juvenile selec-
tions, so that the young boys
and girls may find something to
interest them.
The Spoilers and The
Northerner'' are missing from
the case of books to be returned.
Will those having them kindly
bring them in next Saturday,
November 30.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-11-30

Fine weather for the wheat.
Everyone is planning on a big
time at the Holt dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Fl. Yewell
spent Wednesday at Banner.
The pupils of this district are
enjoying: i few days vacation.
w. d. Guilbert went to Kansas
City with a carload of hogs, Sat
urday.
Miss Lucy Boice is spending
her vacation at her home south
of Bosnia.
Mrs Carson, the teacher, is
spending the vacation at her
home south of the river.
Miss Mabel Holmes, J. J. Heck
man and Ray Stevens, of Quinter,
spent Sunday at Bosnia.
Mrs. J. B. Biehler and little
daughters are spending this
week with relatives in Cove
county.
The switch board will be open
from z to 8 a. m. and from to 6
p. m. unless a doctors call or
something urgent.
Several from this neighbor-
hood attended the chicken pie
social at Banner Friday night,
and all report a good time.
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send $500 to pay a debt in the east
The chances are that the eastern
creditor has authorized the bank
to accept the money and receipt
for it, but if not the debtor has
to send the money or it's euqiva-
lent to the creditor Tt would
be risky for him to send the cur
rency, even if he had it, besides
| taking it out of the community
Instead he goes into the bank,
gives the banker his check for
the amount, receives a draft on
New York for it, mails it in a
letter for two-cent stamp, and
in due time receives his receipt
In a multitude of ways a bank
| helps the business of a commun-
ity. 1t is true that some bankers
may be grasping, but it is not
the rule; the average banker is
as accommodating as the inter
ests of his depositors allow him
to be. If it were not for banks
our complicated business of to-
day would be greatly restricted.
In fact, it would be impossible
to carry on business as it is.
The present situation is un-
parallel in the history of bank
ing, yet it is working compara-
lively no hardships When Wall
street took the action it did in
refusing to ship out currency
that it owed to outside banks,
other cities were afraid some of
their big depositors would draw
out funds and ship them to New
York, attracted by the high
premium on currency offered
there.
They also wished to prevent
depositors from withdrawing
their money from the business
community simply to hoard it
and to prevent small banks from
| draining the@larger ones.
So they placed limit on the
amount of currency they would
pay each depositor but gave out
clearing house certificates for
all each depositor wanted above
that limit Then the banks in
the smaller towns took the same
action. This compelled New
York to go to Europe and ship in
it's currency from there in the
shape of gold, instead of draw
ing it from the west.-Topeka
Journal.
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V0DA.

j. Malinosky has gone back
east on an extended visit.
Wonder what has become OF
our mail route out of Collyer?
Will Cox ate Thanksgiving tur-
key with home folks at Hays.
J. and P. Krhut, r. and @.
Kristof spent Sunday evening at
w. D. Austin's.
Mrs. Price is very sick at pres
ent and hope we can report her
speedy recovery
Will Cox's uncle from Hays
has been visiting at Hotel de
Voda the past week.
r. Owen, A. Schwanbeck and
Will Cox attended Masonic lodge
at Wa-Keeney Monday night.
A. Tegtmeyer, II. Ehrichs, J.
Finch and Yewell's are deliver
ing wheat to the Voda elevator
J. Krhut has a 6-power engine
to run his corn shelter. He is
doing a good job and is now shell
ing for VIM. Lorimer.
Misses Emma Wascho from
near Sylvan Grove and Annie
Thiel of Collyer spent a few days
with Mrs. w. ID. Austin this
week
G. M. Krhut and family, v.
Malinosky and family and Mr..
and Mrs Mlenik took dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. F. Krhut last
Sunday
Guy Banta went east Satur-
day He expects to locate in
Jackson county 1t won't be long
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THE UTILITY OF BANKS.

Some people do not approve of
banks. They seem to think
banks have no reason to exist
and that the country would be
better off without them.
This idea, fortunately, is held
only by those who have few deal
ings with banks and who know
little about their workings. In
telligent persons Of means
realize the benefits that banks
do. In fact, modern business
would be impossible without
them.
munity where there is no bank
wishes to purchase a $4,000 farm,
but he has only $4,000 with which
to do it. He wants to borrow
the other $1,000 and give
mortgage on the farm for it. One
neighbor has $3.50, another has
$500, another 800, and others
various amounts that they are
not using. In order to get his
comparatively small loan, the
borrower would have to go to
SdSlI I'll OhCSC 1hCu 1l1O SO1lN11S
them that his investment was
good one Then he would have
to give each one a separate mort
gage if they consented to make
him the loans But the chances
are that few of them would wish
to tie up their spare cash indefn-
itely, even if he thought the in
vestment safe and though he
wished to accommodate his
neighhor. Consequently it would
be impossible for the first man
to purchase the farm.
But a small bank is started in
the community. The owners
put up capital of $4,000 or
more as a margin on which to
do business. The bank opens to
receive deposits, promising to
keep money in safety for who
ever wanted, making no charge
for the service. A dozen men in
the community bring in their
spare cash and deposit it until
the aggregate is $1,000. Then
the bank makes the loan of 81 900
to the man who wants to buy the
farm, yet at the same time it
stands ready to cash checks for
each of it's depositors. 1t is
presumed. of course, that only
part of the depositors will want
their money at a time, yet the
bank assumes all the RESPONSE
bility in the matter.
Then, again, one of the depos-
itorS ships carload of wheat to
Kansas City. AS soon as he gets
his bill of lading from the local
railroad agent he can take it to
the bank and his pay for the
wheat is Immediately placed to
his credit and he can begin to
check on it. The bank sends
the bill Of 1ading to its cores
pondent bank in Kansas City
along with draft on the con-
signee. The purchaser of the
wheat pays the Kansas City
bank for it when he gets his bill
of lading, and the Kansas City
bank places the amount to the
credit of the country bank
Another depositor wishes to
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COLLYER.

Chas. Glenn is getting better.
4 Beautiful weather for Novem-
/ ber.
Monday was a busy day in
Collyer.
/ Chas. Thiel and family spent
Sunday at Voda.
We hope all will have a bounti-
full Thanksgiving.
John Mulhollen has returned
to GrinneH to work.
Mrs. Price is critically ill at
her home near Voda
| The stores look very attractive
in their holiday attire.
J. DIETRICH. Sr., was a caller at
James Powers Sunday.
Geo. York marketed some fine
porkers here, Saturday.
Belle Glenn is in town taking
care of her brother Chas
VIM. Bower left Sunday even
ing for his home in Ottawa.
Many cattle and hogs shipped
from here Sunday morning.
John Nelson, of Wa-Keeney,
was here on business, Monday
i Mrs. J. J. Hladek marketed
some fine turkeys here, Mon
day.
Services at ST. Michael's
church December End at usual
hour.
The school children are look
ing forward to their Thanksgiving
vacation.
The Palace hotel did a rush
ing trade Monday and we noticed
Joe Powers had to rustic for
| himself.
The teachers of this locality
attended the Golden Belt meet
ings in Wa-Keeney the last of
this week.
Wheat is on the advance and
some farmers got scared enough
to haul some, even at the small
advance.
Our new doctor has been kept
busy since he came here, and
his recommendations are the
very best.
Mrs. Street, formerly of Wa
Keeney, and Mrs. Shaw of Wa
Keeney, we're the guests of Mrs.
Gubbins, Monday.
Roy Powers is home from the
hospital at Ellsworth and it will
lbe some time yet before he is
able to get around.
Misses O'Toole and O'Dwyer.
who were the guests of Belle
Glenn, returned to Wa-Keeney,
Thursday morning.
Mrs. Ed. Guschewsky presid-
ed at the organ at the Baptist
church Sunday evening in a
most satisfactory manner.
Work on the foundation of the
new Catholic church began Mon
day. The contractor from Grin
nell has the work in charge.
The little boy who stole the
cake at the party Monday even
ing, we hear had to go home hat
less and without gloves. How is
this Archie?
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Loosen Up.
Fraid the banks IL go. to smash
En- raise the deuce?

Fraid the banks II go, to smash
En- raise the deuce?
Hangin' on to all yer cash,
Like a goose,
Surest way to fetch q crash.
Amt no danger of d splash
Timber up with yer cash
En- turn it loose,
F'raid to trust another man?
You hide bound pup.
Hoardin' money in a can
Or rusty cup!
Theirs a heap better plan
Beats old socks or t'mater can
just be honest, like man,
En- loosen up.
Jericho.
All street hats at the Trego
Mercantile at SOC each.
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until he is sorry he left the prom
ised land
Mr. and Mrs. r. Owen of the
Agate Spring ranch entertained
a few of their friends at dinner
Sunday. Those present were:
Miss Emma Wascho, Chas and
Ralph Kristof. A. G. Schwan-
beck, VIII Cox W. d. Austin and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Thiel and
family
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-11-30

Regulate the bowels, promotes
easy natural movements, cures
constipation Doan's Regulets.
Ask your druggist for them. 25
cents a box
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-11-30

DeWitt's Carbolized Witch
Hazel Salve penetrates the pores
- thoroughly cleanses and is
healing and soothing Good for
piles. Sold by W. w Gibson.
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We extend welcome to the officers, teachers
and visitors attending the Golden Belt Association
and wish to remind you that we have fine line of
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Postmasters are Kicking.

A Washington dispatch says many
fOurth.class postmasters throughout
the country are registering vigorous
protests with Postmaster General Mey-
err against the recent order of the de-
partment requiring the daily weighing
of all incoming and outgoing mails.
During the past week an unusually
heavy lumber of designations have
been received.
One postmaster in a sparsely settled
western state wrote that as his pay
from the government for handling the
mails at his %postotfice amounted TO
about Sl.95 a year he did not think
that he was justified in undertaking
the additional labor and mental effort
OF weighing on an average a letter a
week. He returned his commission
with thanks. Another postmaster was
evidently fretted by the instructions
he was receiving from those in charge
OF the work. He wrote the department
saying that he had been in receipt OF
a of stuff that he could not un.
derstand, and wanted to know what i,
vas all about. He ended his letter
with the injunction that no more such
be sent him, as he vas closing the Office
and intended t take a weeks vaca.
ton.
The weighing of the mails was or
dered by the last congress-, which ap
propriat about $500, 600 for the work
1t vas undertaken in order that the
postoffice department might get an &C
curate knowledge OF the amount o,
mails by weight carried by railroads
and vessels in every section Of the
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dicates that Oklahoma will probably
be a democratic state, a circumstance
that is cause for considerable specula-
ton among the politicians. The i'm.
mediate political effect of its repre-.
sentation ia congress is discussed by
the Butte Inter. Mountain in this re.
view:
The territory becomes a state in
time TO save the democratic party in
the United States senate from falling
below one.third of the membership of
that body. This is important. for a
minority of more than one.third may
exercise a veto upon all treaties and
other questions requiring two-thirds
majority in the senate. The democrats
have had more than one.third Of the
sen ators since 1900 until now, except
during the civil war, when the south
ern states were without representation.
The senate of the sixtieth congress,
not yet in session, is more than two
thirds republican. The two demo.
cratic senator's from Oklahoma will
again give the democrats one more
vote than the necessary q third, so
that the party, if united, still has a
limited veto power in the senate.
Oklahoma will have five members of
the lower house. although entitled by
it's population to seven. Four of the
five are democrats: one is q republi.
can.
Not to magnaminity may be attrib-
uted the admission of Oklahoma by q
republican congress. In spite of the
fact that General Charles H. Grosve-
nor, perhaps the greatest of political
forecasters. repeatedly declared that
Ok ahoma would be democratic, party
leaders thought otherwise. The terri.
tory had been sending a republican
delegate to congress, but when the
real test came later, Oklahoma was
found to be overwhelmingly demo-
cratic. The new state was not the
first to prove itself a political sur.
prise to the party in power. In 1875
the democrats, then controlling con.
gress, had great hopes of electing the
successor to President Grant. They
were ISSUED that Colorado favored
the democratic nominee. So they ad.
mitted Colorado in 1876. The Seen.
tennial' state voted for Hayes. II
the state had not been admitted, Sam
uel J. Tilden would have occupied the
high seat he missed so narrowly.
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OKLAHOMA is A STATE.

The number Of states was increased
70 forty.six Saturday, when the presi.
dent affixed his signature to the official
proclamation comforting statehood
upon the two territories that will here
after be known as the state of Okla
hOma. The residents of Indian Ter
ritory and Oklahoma have been fight.
ing for statehood for many years
past, and have finally achieved their
ambition.
The enabling act passed by congress
under which the constitutional con-
vention Of Oklahoma was held was
approved on June IL, 1906. In the
following November the convention
began its labors, which extended over
a period Of eight months and early
exhausted the appropriation OF 500.
600, which had been provided for its
expenses. The constitution received
the approval of the citizens of the
state last September with a majority
of more than loo, 900 votes.
Under the prohibition clause of the
constitution, Oklahoma enters the
Union as q dry state. Indian Terri.
tory has long been arid, by fiat of the
government and for the protection OF
the Indians. Prohibition will now be
extended over what was known as Ok
lahoma Territory, and with Kansas,
which adjoins Oklahoma on the north,
will make the largest dry territory in
the country.
The result of the recent elections in.
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CHUNG THERE WHILE THE TRAIL RUM
BLED By.
with a desperate effort he drew him
self back to the track and started on n
run to find his daughters.
In this he was Joined by the train
men, the express having com to Il
stop just on the other side Of the
bridge.
They found Margaret unconscious
north Of the track. but little injured.
She had struck a decllvity and bound
ed into some bushes. which broke the
fall.
Elsie vas on the south side Of the
bridge. halfway to the stream. She
had fallen twenty-five feet and rolled
down the slope. The child was moan
ing, and examination showed that two
bones in her left arm had been shat
tered.
The three we're put on the train and
taken into Edwardsville. where their
hurts We're Immediately attended. The
mother tainted when the children were
carried into their home, and the entire
family was in Il state of nervous eX-
element all the afternoon.
Yelling IS chief engineer for the Ed
wardsville Coal company's mine No. 3
and resides with his family on Cherry
street, in the south part Of Edwards
vile. He said:
1T was a fearful predicament. The
bridge is eighty feet high at the cen
ter, and, while We had run some dis
lance oward the west end, l had no
Idea how far 1t was to the ground at
the point we stopped. l was afraid 1t
meant death for my children when |
threw them from the bridge, but l
knew they would be mangled II we
remained another IN and took
what seemed to be the best course"
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CAUGHT ON ATREST-.
Father Throws Two Dsu....::
Into Valley Below.
THEN HANGS BY HIS F!NGl1;
Train RumkIes Over Him-All Three
Escape With Their Lives as by e
MiracIe-One Girls Arm Broken, tbs
Other but Little Injured.

Other but Little Injured.
Caught on Il trestle with his two lit
tie daughters by a fast passenger train
and too far from either end TO save
himself or his children, F. II. Yelling
Of Edwardsville, Mo-. tossed the girls
into the valley and, dropping over the
ends Of the ties. chung there while the
train Numbered past.
Yelling and his daughters, Marga-
ret, twelve years old, and Elsie May,
aged eight, had taken a long walk into
the country, and as hazelnuts are
ripening the young folks insisted that
they take along some baskets.
Returning with we'll filed baskets
shortly before noon, they chose to
cross the Mooney valley. just east of
the town, by means Of the Glover Leaf
railway trestle instead of the more
circuitous route the highway offered.
A little to the east Of the trestle is a
curve in the track which shuts off the
view sharply and conceals trains until
they have almost reached the bridge.
The Yehlings were halfway across
the 500 foot structure when they
heard the rumbling of a train. They
looked back and saw nothing. but
FASTENED their steps.
Almost in a moment fast passenger
train No. I. from Toledo to St. Louis.
roared out on the bridge. The en-
gineer saw the trio fleeing along the
ties and, with n warning shrek of the
whistle, sent the air brake lever to the
emergency notch. He knew that he
could not stop In time and forebore to
whistle again for fear the three would
lose their self possession and become
hopelessly %entangled in the track.
Yelling fed toward town with a girl
by either arm until a backward glance
showed that the train was almost up
on them. Then he showed Margaret off
to one side and, grasping Elsie by thu
arm, swung her free of the track and
dropped her into the valley.
He did not know how deep it was at
that point and had no time to pick out
a spot for her to light on. but merely
threw her from the bridge with the
idea that one fate was not so terrible
as the other.
Almost with the same movement
Yelling threw himself over the edge
of the trestle and. gripping the ends Of
the ties with his fingers, chung there
while the train rumbled by. Then
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WEDNESDAY. NOV. 20, 1907.
HARD TIMES IN WALL STREET

The recent financial furry in the
east is explained by a writer in the
Saturday Evening Post as being due
to the prosperity of residents of the
western states. Financial conditions
have undergone a radical change. the
west having paid a large proportion
of its indebtedness 20 eastern CAPT.
tslists and accumulated cash
with which to conduct its own business
enterprises. The effect of these changed
conditions is discussed in part to this
effect:
These big deposits in western banks
are the millions that used to flow east
in q steady stream to Wall street and
its e%nvirons. Under conditions exist
ing a few years ago, probably $780,
600, 600 Of Iowa and Kansas bank de.
posts would have gone east. With
this supply cut off and a similar flow
from other western states ceasiug, is it
any wonder that Wall street finds it,
self short of funds: Wall street could
not realize for some time tn at the food
Of gold would possibly cease. 1t kept
on speculatingland spending its money
recklessly on inflated values, until it
awoke one day to the fact that its
pocketbook wasybecoming fat. 1t vas
short of cash. Crops were good, and
the spectators could not understand
why the money did not keep on flowing
into their Golfers. Interest rates adj
vanced. Little by little Wall street
awoke to the serious fact that it was
hard up.
When Waltz street realized the
dreadful truth last spring there was
q decided furry, resulting in a big
slump in stocks!and securities. Wall
street held its bre atheto see what the
effect would be on the rest of the coun.
try. 1t confidently expected ruin and
desolation to spread. The ruin was
confined to Wall street, and there
wasn't any desolation t speak OF
anywhere. The rest Of the country
did not know anything had happened
to Wall street except when the subject
was mentioned in the newspapers.
Wall street could not understand it
and probably does not yet. 1t blames
its troubles largely on the corporation
baiters in general and on the gentle
mar in the White house in particular.
1t talks about "contidence' having
been "destroyed.' 1t believes that
the presidents policy and the expos
ures Of wrongdoing in corporations
have made the public afraid to buy
stocks and securities. This may be
true to a certain extent, but it is not
the real cause Of Wall streets trou-
bles. The real cause is that w all
street has been living beyond its In.
cOme-and thatralways makes trouble.
Naturally some of the facts that
have been made public, and some OF
the things that have happened in the
financial worldIin the last year or two
have not increased the eagerness oil
the public to speculate in Wall streets
wares, but that is not responsible for
the high interest rates and the scarcity
Of money. The fact that the rest o.
the country is no longer indebted &c
Wall street, and is, therefore, nc
longer sending its surplus cash to the
country's financial center to the ex,
tent it once did, but is investing it ir
enterprises of its own-there lies the
secret Of one of the main reasons fol
Wall streets present hard times.