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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Ladies' Class in Domestic Science

The board of trustees of the Trego
County High School authorized the
use of the domestic science labratory
for ladies' class in cooking. Miss
Parsons an instructor in domestsc
science will offer a series of ten les
sons to any of the ladies of Trego
county who will pay the fee of $500.
This will be all the expense attached
to it. This class will meet once a
week from to $50 p. m. on such day
as may be found agreeable to the
school and the ladies enrolled. The
number may reach fourteen and the
first fourteen who will hand their
names to the principal, J. H.Niesley,
on or after Monday, October %, 1911,
shall constitute such class.
Announcement of the first meeting
will be made through the papers next
week. Board of Trustees by J. H.
NieSley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Licenses Necessary

You can't even hunt rabbits or a
rabbit without license this fall. Of
course you s'can'' but it isn't safe. 1t
will be in violation of the game and
fish laws and right now Prof. L. L..
Dyche, state warden, is pushing a
case against Burlington man who
went out with his old blunderbuss
and shot a bunny. The Burlington
man had the opinion that rabbit
was fugitive from justice and that
anyone had right to kill him on
sight. Not so. The rabbit is pro-
tected so far as non-license holders
are concerned. On the rabbit ques-
tion Prof. Dyche says:
''It is necessary for anyone hunting
rabbits or any other kind of game to
have hunters license. The law is
very plain in this regard. Heretofore
every hunter who was caught hunting
without a license claimed he was
hunting rabbits. But at present
everyone must have a license to hunt
rabbits or any other game animal or
bird.'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
To Lay More Double Track

The Union Pacific will begin the
track early next summer. The an
nouncement of the completion of
grading and all plans for this work is
just made by President Mohler.
When this new stretch of 12S miles
is completed, it will leave only PAL
miles of the Overland between Coun-
Gil Bluffs and Ogden with single
track, and even on a large part of
those PAL miles, right-of-way for lay
ing the second track has been secured
so that within the very near future
the whole line from its eastern to it's
western terminus will be double
tracked. This double track is con-
tinuous now from Omaha, or Council
Bluffs to Julesburg, Colo, a distance
of 375 miles, and the total donble
trackage is 631 miles, or about two
thirds of the main line. Not only is
this double tracking being pushed,
but the high standard of the roadbed
which has distinguished the Union
maintained under President Mohler.
This feature, he is determined, must
be asways looked after, for the first
thing Mr.. Hartman, when he bought
the road, undertook, was its physical
reconstruction. Much of this i'm
portant work has since fallen for
completion to the Mohler regime.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Banking Law Satisfactory

The head of the Kansas banking
department says that once the guile
less citizens of the state were feeced
by the promoters of wildcat COM
panieS out of from four to eight
million of dollars a year. Now the
Kansas investors have ceased to be
dupe of oily tongued rascals and de-
ceptive prospectuses. There is a
seven months old law which requires
all companies offering stocks, bonds,
ct cetera, for sale within the state to
get the formal permission of the
banking department. For offering
his wares without getting it, Utah
mining promoter is now pining in
Jail.
When a company asks for permis-
sion to do business the banking de-
partment investigates it. The stand
ing of the men composing it and the
value of its physical properties are
looked into. That the department.
does its work thoroughly is shown by
the fact that out of 500 applications
only forty-four were acted on favor
ably. Had they all been granted the
consequences nave OcOl do
disastrous as drought or plague of
locuStS.
The man who has been unwise
enough to buy the securities of a
company organized for purposes of
fraud has no redress. The men who
swlndled him could be indicted, If he
could get at them, for obtaining
money under false pretenses, but
they generally clear out after they
have plucked their pigeon. So it is
better to do everything they can to
stop the palming off of worthless
securities on the ill informed and
credulous.
The Kansas law seems to be good
one. If after it shall have been in
operation little longer the banking
department can report that it has
saved millions of dollars, other
states will be likely to copy it. 1t is
not alone in Kansas that the pro-
moter has found easy victims.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Married Anyhow

The sheriff of Norton county made
wild goose chase the forepart of last
week carrying a warrant for the
arrest of James Friend, relates the
Norton Courier. Friend eloped with
Miss Gertrude Brown, who, her
stepfather, Alfred Miller, declares is
not yet of age.
As the Courier man CLEANS it from
Mr.. Miller, here is a case where a
lassie nearly Is years of age has been
deprived of associates, especially of
the male persuasion. She has had
no opportunity to make a choice of
last she met in Norton one James
Friend and there was love at first
sight. His smile and ways captured
the young lady and when, soon after,
marriage was proposed they repaired
to the Probate Judge and met the
first rebuff by his refusal to issue a
license because of the young lady's
age. So they waited. Sunday night,
by prearrangement, after the older
folks had retired, the young lady
made an excuse to go out of doors.
An younger sister saw that the older
one was not coming back and gave an
alarm. Miss Gertrude had met her
Friend and chase enSued The
stepfather took with him a shotgun
and ordered a stop. The young man
stopped, but the girl sped on. Miller
claims that James took a couple of
shots at him with a revolver the
leaden missiles coming within whist
ling distance of his head. The young
man then ran and caught up with
his sweetheart and continued the re-
treat, the parents keeping up the
chase. The shotgun was put to use
but the cartridge refused to explode.
The father returned to the house
and phoned to the sheriff, who called
up the county attorney who said a
warrant would be required to auth
orize the sheriff to make an arrest.
Mr.. Miller came to town and made
his complaint, the warrant was
issued and the sheriff made haste via
auto to serve it. He first went to
the scene of carnage and then made
his chase north to Beaver City. The
phone was freely used in all direct
ions but no trace of the Williams could
be found, and the sheriff came home
empty handed. The best thing for
the parents is to forgive, forget and
laugh.
The couple were married at Wa
Keeney. The young man was arres-
ted later and is charged with assault
with intent to kill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Liquor Business Booming

''Since l became Attorney-General
this department has captured and
contiscated trainload of liquor"
said Attorney General John S. Daw
son Monday. s'Not a branch-line
train either. The booze we have
taken and destroyed would fill long
mainline train
Last week Mr.. Dawson pulled off
big raids at Leavenworth and Wich-
ita. He made two raids on two diff
erent days at Leavenworth. He
tried the retailers of liquors first. left
town and rested day, then slipped
back through Missouri and gave the
wholesalers the surprise of their life.
He captured so much liquor that it
took every available team to haul it
to the court house grounds and later
attempts to haul it were given up
and the sheriff simply took receipts
for it and left it in the dealers hands.
II have just discovered, said Mr..
Dawson, that there is mint of
money in the liquor business. The
men who sell are violators of the law
and criminals, but they make money
while the good man who obeys the
law has hard job to get along
''In making raid in Leavenworth
the other day, we got hold of the
dealers cash book. The place was
the most vilainous of the lot. 1t was
in basement of rickety old build
ing, a place where a decent man
would hardly dare to go. When the
proprietor left he jerked the drawer
out of the cash register and skipped,
but he left behind the book showing
his cash sales 1t was surprise to
me. On ordinary days the total ran
around sixty to seventy dollars. Then
it would jump to 800. Soldiers pay
day showed earnings OF over S4OO for
that rickety old dump. The book
covered a month and the total sales
was over $1,000"
Mr. Dawson refused to discuss in
detail his raids. He admitted that a
good many peculiar things happened
during the raids For instance, a
driver would start for the court house
with a wagon load of confiScated
liquor. When he reached his desti-
nation he would have only fraction
of the original load Maybe he would
prove by his breath and his condition
that he had disposed of part of it
| personally
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Five Persons Murdered

The bodies of five members of the
family of Will Snowman. of Ellsworth
were discovered Monday, terribly
mutilated, in their home. The entire
family had been slain with axes SUM-
day night. From appearances it
seemed that Snowman and his wife
and three children had been slain as
they slept. The fe atures of the five
victims were crushed beyond recog-
milton. All three of the children
were under five years of age The
youngest, baby, had been beaten by
the murderer until its head was
severed from the body.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Otis L. Benton, the level headed
man of Oberlin, has taken up the
dam the draw question and if his
suggestions are carried out Decatur
county will reap a harvest that will
not only be of great help to the pre-
sent generations but will solve very
perplexing question Mr.. Benton is
offering a premium to the farmer
who will build a dam on his farm
providing his wheat yields so many
bushels per acre. This offer is made
to those farmers to whom he is fur
nishing seed wheat for next years
crop There is no reason why these
dams should not be built all over the
western country. Under proper en-
gineers one tenth of Western Kansas
could be turned into ponds and lakes
which would give US more RAINFALL
more crops and better conditions all
around. We should send a man to
Congress who would work for a nat
ional appropriation to help US out.
The price of a few battleships would
do the business and then we would
be willing to build a dozen battle
ships in return. The canal is nearly
completed, the Maine will soon be
ready to float itself, the Roosevelt
dam is completed and furnishing the
water for irrigating purposes to
thousands of farmers, the Missouri
river will soon be a deep waterway to
Kansas City, now lets have this dam
question settled in Western Kansas
in the proper way-let the govern
ment build four or five concrete
dams in each county in Western Kan
sas, TO say. on an average expense of
Sl25, 900 To each county. Uncle Sam
will never miss the money, it will
throw an enormous amount of work
into this western country, double the
rainfall and Kansas will feed the
world She is doing it right now but
would be able to improve the bill of
fare--Norton News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Paper Towels To Be Used.

In obedience to the order of the
State Board of Health, paper towels
are being used in the normal school
at Hays and the janitor says it is an
expensive innovation. 1t costs about
forty cents a day to supply towels,
which is about 80 per cent more ex-
penSiye than linen towels.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Remember '.The Blue and the
Gray the patriotic number of the
lecture course which is to be given
Saturday night of next week. This
is something quite different from any
ordinary entertainment and very
much worth while. Neither old nor
young should miss it. The date is
Saturday evening, October 81.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Just the usual Kansas weathereat
this season. No rain, some wind,
many pleasant days, and vegetation
in this neighborhood still not hurt
by frost
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Wendell w. McCanless of Lincoln
county, lawyer and K o. graduate,
is in the race in the seventh district
for the democratic nomination for
Congress.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Wanted

100 head of horses to pasture for the
winter; plenty of good buffalo grass
and running water; no loco. Price
so cents per head. Write or come
and see me at Banner, Kansas.
30-tf W. j. Dillon
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Teachers Examination

The next teachers examination
will be held FRIDAY and Saturday,
October 81 and %, 1911, at the court
house. EVA p. JONES,
County Superintendent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Don't let the baby suffer from ec-
zema, sores or any itching of the skin
Doan's Ointment gives instant relief,
cures quickly Perfectly safe for
children. All druggists sell it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Weather Report

Maximum and minimum tempera-
ture according to the government
thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the
week ending Wednesday noon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Money! Money! Money. on your
farms When you want loan on
your farm call on the Wa-Keeney
State Bank 27
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
Sunday School Convention

Programe for Wa-Keeney Town
ship Sunday School Convention at
the Methodist church, Sunday. Oct.
%, at 2:30 p m.
Devotional "a Mrs. Edith Courtney
Teacher Training. Mrs. w. Y.Herrick
Round Table DIR. r. E. Spencer
Music
How to tell the Story to the
Children. Mrs. S. L. Allison
Missions Miss NJ. E. Altman
Collection. Adjournment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

mound City Paints go farthest,
wear longest, look best Verbeck
Lumber Co.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21
For Sale

Choice Alfalfa hay at Courtney's
warehouse, 75c per bale. II. J. Simp-
SON 81
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-21

Fresh pork at Bakers
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01

wIxt-aJGgNgAl al
AfNOI1ES

The drains should be properly laid
out and carefully graded.
Encourage the boy 10 fit some live
stock to show at the local fair.
You give the weeds a big advan-
tage If you let them go to seed.
The best fertilizer for asparagus is
rotted n from granted horses.
The manure for peas, beets and on
ions should be fine, rich and we'll rot
ted.
Salt seems to add greatly to the
p~alatability of tankage, whether fed
dry or in slop.
Manure as we'll as fertilizers should
be thoroughly mixed in the soil before
drilling in the seed.
By sewing a pinch Of lettuce seed
every ten days there will always be
tender salad for the table.
There is nothing about good tank.
age or meat that is in any way inju-
rious to hogs of any ages.
The Peruvian guano substitute is
the standard truck fertilizer for quick
growth and heavy returns.
Rich horse manure and urine from
granted cattle is far superior to fer.
~tilizers and very much cheaper.
Truckers prefer rotted horse ma
nure for vegetables, as it is finer,
richer and can be spread easily.
A profitable crop cannot be grown
on land deficient in humus, which is
the same thing as rotted sod or rotted
manure with fertilizer alone.
The loss incurred from plant dis
eases is often undeivstimated by the
farmer, passes unrecognized or is re-
garded as natural and inevitable.
The size OF ule to be placed in a
drain will depend upon the length
of the drain. the depth and the dis
lance apart the drains are placed.
Expert truckers and market garden
ers apply, in connection with manure
spread in the drill or hill, 500 to &C:
pounds OF some standard bone phos
phate to the acre
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
TO oUENcH A SUMNER THIRST.

Don't pour a lot OF ice water into
you in order to quench the thirst 70,
the moment-not only does 1t not pro
duce the desired result, but it is bad
for you.
There is just one beverage that Ats
all conditions of heat and thirst
COCA-COLA.
Next time you're hot, tired or thirsty
drink a glass or a bottle Of this one
best beverage-delicious, refreshing,
thirst-quenching. At soda-fountains or
carbonated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Write to the COCA-COLA CO., Atlanta,
Ga, for a copy Of their booklet. "The
Truth About COCA-COLA"-you will
end Ii interesting.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
TO REMOVE STUMPS EASILY
Where Time Is No Object Hole May
Be Bored Through Center and
Fire Built to Burn IL.

An easy way to remove stumps,
where time is not an object, is to dig
a trench beside the stump and then
to bore a diagonal hole through the
stump SO that the lower end of the
hole will be near the top of the trench
and the upper end some distance
above the ground. Build a fire in the
trench and partially cover it SO that
the fame will draw through the auger
hole like it would through a flue. AS
soon as the fire is started a draft is
created through the auger hole and
this helps to fire the stump much
more rapidly. This method requires
no great equipment and will be found
effective though it takes time. Il one
is so situated that he desires to clear
a considerable area of stumps tl:e use
of the stump puller would be the more
economical method although it may
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
Dc Not Neglect Gardens.

The fact is notorious hat the farm
er'sI garden is not as we'll cared for as
that of the artisan. In fact, it is in
many instances entirely wanting. Usu-
ally the larger the farm the more in
significant the garden. The excuse
given is that the farmer hasn't the
time. The answer to this is clear. A
good garden adds to the comfort and
enjoyment of the farmers family, and
aids in promoting health. No farmer
is justified in being so busy that he
cannot furnish what is essential to the
we'll being of his home.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01

tomato or peach cans (3-pound cans
are best) then invert a can over each
leg and nail cross-pieces on top to
brace the legs with, and for the hive
to rest on; but be very careful not to
allow any holes in the sides of the
cans that the ants can crawl through.
This works on the same principle as
the tin pans used on posts under corn
cribs to keep III mice-no patent on
1t either.
Putting the legs of the stand in bas-
ms of water or oil will drown the bees
when the wind blows, and they miss
the alighting-board and fall down at
the corners. At one time | had fifty
hives on stands with the stand-legs in
water. / also tried oil.
Here is something which have new
er seen in print. Ants carry out the
queen, bees, and eggs from the cells.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
KEEPING ANTS OUT OF HIVES
Ordinary Table Turned Upside Down
With Empty Inverted Tomato
Cans Will Do the Wor k.

To the numerous inquiries as to
how to keep ants out of hives, why
not take Josh Billings advice as to
bedbugs-"just kill 'em ALL? The
best way to Kill ants is with the oft
repeated remedy, 1. e., bisulphide OF
carbon. However, there are places
which, for one reason or another, 1t
is almost impracticable to kill off the
ants; and then the apiarist needs a
Newsstand that will exclude them.
The illustration shows one Of my
hive-stands complete and ready TO have
the hive placed upon it, writes ]. M.
Caldwell in the G~leanings in Bee Cul,
ture. 1t is nothing but a table turned
upside down, and an empty tomato
can, with the top melted off, inverted
over each table-leg. The ants can
crawl up the table-leg and all around
Oh the inside of the can, but they can,
not make the turn around the lower
edge of the cans, and come up on the
outside of cans and thus reach the
hive.
The space between the table-leg
and inside OF cans must be at least
half an inch; but the ans rest on the
ends of the legs.
Just take an old super or box. Cut
four pieces 2x2x12, and nail one in
each corner. Round off the projecting
edges, then melt the tops off from four
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
How Seed Potatoes Are Cut.

near the stem end with a knife; in
cases of bad infection, the black spots
may run half way through the tubers.
Where the infection, is slight, it may
occur only near the stem end. OF
course, some of the tubers may be
free from spots, and these are safe for
planting on new land, but the disease
lives over in the soil as well as in
the tubers.
Where the disease has not pene-
trated more than one-third the length
of the potato, the half of the potato
seed with better promise. In such
cases, the knife used for cutting
should be dipped in a solution of cor
rosive sublimate, formaldehyde or car
bolic acid after cutting diseased tu-
bers, and before cutting others.
The usual seed treatment for scab,
etc, will be very useful to kill dry-rot
spores which may adhere to tubers
and may be applied to the healthy
portions after separation from the dis
eased parts of potatoes.
The can by which late blight is
carried from place to place is the
chief question which interests the ship
pers and planters Of seed potatoes.
This is restricted to tubers which
show the dry rot. These carry the
fungus in a semi-dormant state, which
develops after the tuber is planted,
and spreads to the leaves of the grow
ing plants. The purchaser has the
matter entirely in his own hands. If
he insists on all sound tubers and
plants, only such there will be no dan.
ger of introducing late blight with
them.
Blight is probably never carried on
the surface of the tubers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-01
Street Sayings Are Short Lived.

If some London slang has a short
life, the street sayings current for a
time pass away ever more quickly.
Most of these, such as Has your
mother sold her mangle?" who shot
the dog" and How are you off for
soap?" survive only in the pages of
contemporary novelists.
Some, however, have a long life.
Does your mother know you're out?"
has been traced back to 1910 and may
possibly have been current before
then. Others are revived, with slight
alterations. Ten years ago rude little
boys would shout, Where did you
get that hat?" when their grand
fathers would exclaim, What! the
same old hat" And the expression
of dissent emphasized nowadays by
"Not in these trousers!" used to be
conveyed thirty years ago by the tag,
Not in these boots!"-London Chron-
icle.