Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-13

his land: in 1899 he bought another
farm; in 1909 he sold this farm on
time to the ''poor ignorant Austrian"
| With a family of eight in 1903,
they moved to Oregon and bought
land on time expecting to pay for it
out of the proceeds received from the
Ellis county farm. In the face of
| the last three years adversities this
| farm produced little over 10000
bushels of grain for the Austrian,
also furnished him $50 acres of well
| fenced grass land with excellent barn
and lots; now the grass lands today
are valued as highly or more highly
than the titled soil. and this being
the case it made the productions of
this farm equal to 10000 bushels of
grain to the poor Ignorant Austri-
an" the world goes out to him in
| sympathy for not being able to make
his payments in full through these
three years of failure, high priced
feed, and the notorious horse disease,
but when he would not pay what he
could pay then the only thing for G.
| w. Thayer to do was to lose his home
in Oregon, return to Ellis county and
protect his rights through the courts
| for the home he had worked thirty
three years for and turned over to
the mortgagee five years ago, and
who had been amply rewarded for
his time and money of five years
spent on the farm and everything
Thayer asked the court for was one
fourth rent of the 1914 crop and not
the whole of crop 400 acres, and we
join hands in believing that Thayer
wa. Just in his claim and entitled to
his one-fourth rent.
Let us now take view of case No.
in this article and cases No. 126O-1-
3S-39 in the district court of Trego
county in which the writer was a
creditor and defendant.
Judge Ruppenthal in the Kansas
City Star, Sunday, November %:
He has found, too, that if in or
der to expedite justice and save costs
and accommodate htigants, he opens
his courts in the various counties at
times and places not by the statutes
designated and provided, his district
will not all crumple up"
We believe the court was made to
serve the people, and not the people
to serve the court. Now we find it is
much more convenient for this hon
orable court to call and adjourn as it
suits his personal convenience, and
not so convenient for attorneys and
clients to receive wire at MONDAY
that they must be in court tomorrow
morning if heard during this term:
and in many cases has been found ut
terly impossible both for attorney
and client, as in the above case men
toned; in the court of TregO county,
the case being called while the de-
fendant was in the state of Colorado
and knew nothing of the call until
after his return four days; this is An
other case of poor Ignorant Rus
slan'' living few miles north of Wa
Keeney, Kansas, getting discouraged
las it would seem) skipped out to
Canada in the fall of 1912, leaving his
poor Russian wife and seven children
(the eldest being IL years old) and his
personal belongings for the poor
woman and children to scrap it out
with his or their creditors. Herman
Long, attorney, brought suit for G.
L. Hubbard and some other credi-
tors and mailed summons to the
writer asking him to sign and accept
service in that way to avoid any un-
necessary expense which 1 signed and
mailed TO him by return mail.
/ believe there is too little judicial
sense in our entire judicial system
and those least able to bear the bur-
dens are the sufferers. There isn't
week goes by that 1 don't get letters
from some of the people of my dis
trict who complain of the failure to
get justice, and they don't under
stand it. These cases are especially
numerous and especially pathetic
among the very poor and the very ig-
norant and among women and child
rem and women with families depend
ent upon them.-Judge Ruppenthal
in Kansas City Star, Sunday, Novem-.
ber %.
Now will some one please explain
where there is heart throb put into
the decision of this case of a poor
Ignorant Austrian or Russian wo-
man and her seven children the
personal property disposed of accord
ing TO the journal entry. in the clerks
office, amount to s152.88. The courts
and receivers costs in the case by the