Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-05
RUSSELL RUsTLINGs
Judge RuppenthaI in Luray Her

Judge Peacock of the Trego County
Probate court in last weeks World
brought out a fine lot of facts re-
garding probate courts, and it ap-
pears he has still more data of Trego
county's court of much value.
Barring the state house dome and
the university buildings on Mount
Dread, there are probably very few
objects in Kansas that can be seen so
far as the big electrict light at Rus
sell on top of the waterworks stand
pipe over 100 feet from earth.
IHow about the Wa-Keeney cleo
trio light, 135 feet above the "Best
Town on Earth Wa-Keeney is D.
463 feet above sea level, which over
tops Russell 635 feet, and Mount
Dread is nowhere in sight.l
If girl in Kansas has a taste for
law and the capacity to learn, there
is happily no obstacle in the way of
her admission to the bar. She is not
shut out by the constitution as hap
pens just now to a brainy Georgia
girl who completed law course in
school at Atlanta. Kansas is way
ahead yet on lots of things.
The city library at Russell has al
ways loaned books free to all resi-
dents of Russell county At Hays
this privilege has been given to all
city dwellers, but those beyond must
pay 81 year. The theory here has
been that the county seat gets ben
eft from the whole county and
should do what it can in return; that
the difficulty of getting and return
ing books will always keep borrowing
down anyhow much more than could
be wisht.
At the little library founded by
the ladies of Wa-Keeney all patrons
are treated alike, fifty cents per year,
regardless Of location.
1t is well-known that very large
number of people who go to great
trouble and expense and travel long
distances to make some statement
or attend to some trfiing business
rather than to write few lines and
send a letter or card. Men will
drive ten to thirty-fve miles to the
county seat to do that which they
could as well do with message on
half of postal card. 1t is not a rea-
son found in our spelling? Nine
tenths of the people are sensitive
about their inability to spell well
and go to great lengths to conceal
this. Would not simpler spelling
change much of this?
1t is said that there is no great
loss without little gain. Perhaps
our inability to spell may promote
the good roads movement.
Up at Quinter instead of burrying
their only lawyer in the city attor-
ney's office, or ignoring him altogeth
er, the people elected him mayor. He
is John r. Parsons, ex-county attor-
ney and a graduate of the law school
of our state university. That he has
ideas is shown by the issue of a syn
opsis of all criminal ordinances of
Quinter, very briefly stated, printed
on large card to tack up.
municipal criminals (?) are not
given so much consideration in Wa
Keeney.
The dailies say that Judge Aikman
of the 18th district does not admire
prosecutions of the Standard Oil Co.
to get costs and attorneys fees, but
says that the company is either
guilty or not guilty; that if not, it
ought not to be mulched, and if guilty
it should not escape with costs and
fees. This form of dismissal has
long been tolerated in criminal cases,
but when used, il is usually in cases
of guilty but not proven" as the
Scotch says.
Zone of these prosecutions was re-
Gently filed in the district court of
Trego county and we understand
that John d. already has or soon will
plead guilty in stipulated sum,
which sum may eventually become a
part of the county school fund
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