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


do so.
The above clipping taken from the
Kansas City Star, purported to be
part of the three column Hot Air
article for the purpose of boosting
the political aspirations of some one
character (Hon. J. G. RuppenthaD to
some fat job, or 3rd term, all at the
expense of the poor ignorant tax pay
ers of the 23rd judicial district; but we
are willing to concede Ruppenthal
good judge, but do not concede that it
is any reason why we all may be expect
ed to sit down and close our ears and
mouths to all the hot air noncom-
bustible film fam that the columns of
the eastern papers have been dosing
up year after year, not excepting
Governor Hodges privite secretary
column reports on Kansas or j. G.
Ruppenthal's Common Sense in
the Star, all for the purpose of fu-
ture political fencing. and all at the
expense of the poor taxpayer of west
ern Kansas.
Now, the above copied article
would have the reader believe that
some English lord of i'll gotten gains
seeking to devour more, had fore
closed on the poor ignorant Russians
home and four hundred acres of
wheat and all saved by a heart
throb" being put into a decision.
But in the case of Melancholy Days"
where the court so ruthleSsly brush
ed aside an ancient and honorable
obstacle to report human right (the
poor ignorant Russian) against a
property right (who was a poor ignor-
ant born American citizen) who
swept the cObwebs from the sod
shanty on the homestead in Ellis
county thirty-three years ago, and to
protect the rights of any future po-
litical aspirations this poor ignorant
pioneer citizen of thirty-three years
feels justified in giving both sides
of this broad daylight holdup. AS
the columns of the Star of Sunday,
November 23rd, would infer the
poor ignorant American born citizen
&C.. W. Thayer the mortgagee) was
born in Highland county, Ohio,
March 1St, 1854, moved to Taylor
county, Iowa, in 1857, moved to Holy
county, Mo. in 1876, and was married
in Holt county, February 10, 1877, to
Miss Eliza Louden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thayer spent their
honeymoon overland to Ellis county
accompanied by Mr.. Thayer's mother
and two sisters. On May 81, 1877,
they landed in Hays City with one
good horse, without dollar in the
AL.
one dollar to his sister, he having
borrowed the last dollar from his sis
ter while on the Saline river near
Lincoln Center, Kansas. In August
of the same year he bet Uncle Sam
$1,000 against 160 acres that he could
live there five years without starving,
and in August the same year he took
homestead on the Saline river
miles from his nearest neighbor, and
all who know G. w. Thayer know any
citizen who has ever lived in ac-
quaintance distance of him, let it be
one mile or thirty, was his neighbor,
and as thousands have done he used
cow chips for fuel, picked bones and
sold them to get flour and coffee, and
during those early days Thayer had
his mother and two sisters dependent
upon him, fact corroborrated by
the Ellis county commissioners
whereby as they we're compelled to
assist Thayer to the amount of $4,000
in caring for his aged mother, and
the truth of this is substantiated by
the records of the county treasurer
Joe Schafer while county treasurer of
Ellis county prior to Thayer's leaving
Kansas to make his home in Oregon
in 1909. He called on the treasurer
Joe Schafer) and told him the cir
cumstances of the $4,000 and Qong
forgotten by the officials) said he
owed the money to the county, and
no longer needed it himself and paid
it saying that it might be needed
again some time for some poor needy
homesteader, the writer now holds in
his hand (as the authority a $50. 90
receipt signed Joe Schafer, treasurer,
Ellis county, and the Ellis county
paper of this week will contain in ar
ticle on this subject.
Those desiring TO return to their
storm caves will now be permitted to