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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
CITIES Of KANSAS
MADE GOOD GAINS
Figures of Secretary MohIer
Show That 142 Have Pop
uIation of 1000.
OIL TOWNS ARE CROWNS FAST
Radley in Crawford County Made Laro-
est Gain With Eldorado Sec
ond-How Leaders Rank.

Topeka.-Kansas gained more city
jewellers in the past year than came
to the farms of the state. J. c. Mohler,
secretary of the board of agriculture,
has compiled the population statistics
of the cities of more than one thou
sand population and he found that
more than the total gain of the state
was shown in the gains of the cities.
The state, as a whole, gained twenty
one thousand in population in the past
year, while the cities gained 24,344, in
dicating an actual loss of the country
population.
A considerable part of the increase
in city population may be attributed to
the awakening in the oil fields of the
state.
There are now 142 cities of Kansas
having a population of one thousand
or more. Last year there were 139.
Scott City, Dunkirk, Arcadia, Colby
and Hanover advanced and Elwood
and LaCygne dropped below the thou
sand mark
The list below gives, in order of
rank, the population of cities in Kan
sas having four thousand OF more in
habitants, March 1, 1917:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
A Dry Victory in New Jersey.

Newark, N J., Nov S.-Local option
won at the election in New Jersey
yesterday. Enough assemblymen
pledged to local option were elected
to insure its passage by the legisla-
ture without difficulty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15

To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Pferce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu-
late liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
No More Flirtino with Jackie.

Chicago, Nov. S.-Flirting at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
has caused Captain w A. Moffett,
commandant, to issue an order bar
ring visitors, except "Wednesday after
noon and Sundays.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15

A stingy woman is one Who won't
let you eat the jam she mas made I'M
til snow flies.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
A Kansas Insurance Survey.

An inspection of large number of
Kansas cities and towns to determine
what should be the proper insurance
rates will be made by experts from
the fire insurance companies and the
state insurance department Some
time ago the insurance companies
filed new schedule of rates. The in
surance department tested the rates
and found in many instances they
would be too high, and an order was
issued requiring material reductions.
The insurance companies asked for
hearing and it was granted The COM
panies then asked the companies and
representatives of the department to
make a test of typical towns of the
state and make a report at a hearing
January Q. The inspections viii be-
gin Immediately.
Judge jackson to Appeal Board.
Judge A. NJ. jackson, of Winfield,
has been appointed by President Will
son, on recommendation of Governor
Capper, as a member of the First Dis
trict appeal board. Judge Jackson
takes the place of SEN H. p. Farrelly,
recently resigned.
+ r r
u S. Into Kansas Rate Case
The Kansas Public Utilities Commits
sion has filed motion in the United
States district court asking that the
United States be made party to the
2-cent passenger fare suit now pend
ing.
r r r
Manieurist Gets $4,000.
Mrs Ida Carson. a Topeka manicur-
list, has received a draft for s150,00o
as her part of an estate in Cleveland,
Ohio. Mr.. Carson declares she viii in
vest the money in Liberty bonds and
continue to run her shop-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
No one Believes Him

booze early to avoid the war tax is
doubtful.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
AMaitina Peace

Awaiting Peace.
New York Jews have postponed
calling proposed Jewish congress UNI
til peace is declared.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
Domestic.

John F. Hylan, a county judge of
Kings county, has been elected mayor
of New York by a plurality of more
than 100000. He carried with him the
entire Democratic city ticket, includ-
ing Charles L. Craig for comptroller,
Alfred z. Smith, now sheriff of New
York county, for president of the
board of aldermen, and Edward Swami
for district attorney.
r r r
Sufficient cars 70 transport Isl, 900
head of cattle from the drouth-stricken
districts of Texas and southern New
Mexico to territory where there is am
pie pasturage and water have been re-
Questioned through the efforts of the
food administration in cooperation
with the commission on car service.
r. r +
The Kansas Corporation Tax Law,
requiring foreign and domestic corpor-
ations to pay annual taxes or their
capital stocks for the privilege of do
ing intrastate business, has been up
held by the federal supreme court
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15

Responsibility for the strike of coal
miners in Kansas is placed upon Alex
ander Howat, president of the United
Mine Workers organization there, by
representatives of the coal operators
of the Southwest who were in confer
ence with Fuel Commissioner Garfield
in Washington.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15

The official casualty list of the
losses of the American troops in
France in their first clash with the
Germans has been given out by the
War Department. Charles Orr OF
Lyons, Kan, is reported wounded and
Frank McDougal of Maryville, Mo-
captured.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-15
Southwest.

Prohibition headquarters claim that
New Mexico had joined the prohibit
ton ranks by majority of 10000
Semi-officia1 returns were available
from only fifty-seven of 63S precincts
in the state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
The Electric Generator.

Professor Alexander-Gray of Cornell
university claims for G. S. Moler, then
a student at Cornell, the honor of having
made n of the first practical applica-
tons Of the electric generator in Amer
lea. This was in 1875, when the uni
-versity was not more than seven years
old, and Moler was not yet a graduate.
Yet he Illuminated the whole campus,
and thus it came about that the inhab-
itants Of remote farms among the hills
OF central New York saw the arc light
shine at night years before the intro
duction of this means Of illumination
In Paris, London, Berlin, New York or
any other of the great cities of the
world.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
BOY TO GET A MEDAL ..
FOR RESCUING ROBIN
II Was Held In Treetop by String and
He Climbed to Free It..

Hartford, Conn. - The Connecticut
Humane society, through it's president,
the Rev. William Deloss Love, has in
formed ~ten-year-old Michael Ravolefe
Of the Second North school, East Hart
ford, that he is to have a medal for
rescuing an imprisoned robin a few
days ago.
Little Michael had to climb an elm
tree seventy-five to eighty feet high to
effect the rescue. The robin had flown
to n of the topmost branches with a
long string in his bill for nest building.
The string caught in a stout twig, and
as the robin worked to get it free the
string tangled itself into a double hitch
about n of it's legs. 1t was then held
prisoner and was noticed for two days
helplessly trying to work itself loose
and %squeaking plaintively.
Michaels schoolfelloWs were talking
about the bird, and he asked them to
lead him to the elm 1t took him more
than half an hour to work his way to
the top at the tree. And at the last of
the job it required nerve and GOODNESS,
for he was out on very slender and
swaying branches.
But he managed to reach the twig to
which the string had fastened itself
and snapped it off. With this hanging
to it's leg the robin huttered to the
ground, was released and flew off wild
ly chirping at its restored freedom.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
YOUR CWN PERSONALITY.
Preserve II and Es Yourself and Not
Somebody Else.

Somebody Else.
How hard do you fight to hold on to
your personality?
You are willing to fight to save the
money you have earned, to hold your
job, or to get a better one. You fight
to keep your external possessions, but
do you fight to keep yourself?
Without a personality, an individuals
ty, it is impossible to achieve any
great success. no matter how success.
full you may appear for a time. The
success that comes from having some
strong mans personality working
through you is not permanent or genu-
inc.
When Napoleon was fighting Aus
tria in 1907, on the very soil where the
Italian battle lines stretch today, he
discovered that his own future depend
ed on the overthrow of the royalist
party back in Paris. He sent a young
officer named Augereau to Paris to &C.
complish a revolution. Augereau sue
ceeded in bringing about what Napo-
leon desired. But neither Napoleon
nor history has ever given Augereau
any credit. lie deserved one 1t was
Napoleon, working through A%ugereau,
who overthrow the royalists. Auge-
reau lacked personality, Individuality.
That is why Napoleon chose him as a
tool.
Trilby. singing under the spell Of
Svengali, %entran&ed her hearers; but,
with Svengali's influence gone, she was
the same unsuccessful, lonely Trilby:
Svengali chose her as a victim of his
influence because her personality was
not strong enough to resist him. He
stole her personality, just as he might
have stolen her little money or her old
Blue military coat.
DR.. Johnson was 50 strong a char
acter that he uuwittingly overwhelm-
ed Boswell, and Boswell spent the re-
mainder Of his life tagging around
after Johnson. worshiping him and
writing down all he said.
But the Napoleons, the Syengalis and
the DR.. Johnsons are not the only in
fuences in this world that rob us of
ourselves.
For You the world is really divided
into two parts. One part is the multi
tude; the other part is you. The null
titUde tries to take away your individ-
uality and make YOU part Of itself. If
it succeeds your life is bound to be a
fa.l"rc. for there can be 10, success for
he young man or young woman who
permits the multitude to absorb him.
Your personality is really all you
have in this world.
If YOU think the mob's thoughts or
let the mob think yours, if you live the
mOb's life and have the mob's feelings.
you don't own anything. There isn't
any YOU.
AS you look yourself over are you
permitting anything to crowd you out
Of yoursclf?-W. G. Shepherd in Wash
inGton Star.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
STRENGTH OF u. S. NAVY
AMAzES COCHEPRAT
Our Fleet, Second In World, Will
Hasten Victory, Says French
Admiral.

Washington.-Nice Admiral Coche-
pratt, representing the ministry of ma
rine in the French mission here, said
that he had every reason to hope that
we shall succeed in establishing the
closest possible cooperation between
the American and the allied navies for
the assurance of freedom of the seas
the protection of trade and the tri-
unph of our rights
THE United States is in possession
Of the most powerful fleet in the world
next to the British, and this is bound
to weigh heavily in Fastening the day
when final victory will be wrung from
the foe," he said.
your navy is wonderfully equipped,
and 1 really felt amazed when 1 chanc-
ed to see recently some of its units,
among them the battleship Pcnnsyl-
ers that came out to meet us at sea.
There is no need to praise your naval
personnel. Throughout my long sea
life it has often happened hat 1 have
come across American men-of-war, and
| am pleased to say that on every such
occasion the very high merit Of the
officers as we'll as the perfect training
of their men has aroused my intense
admiration.
what 1 have seen here since my ar
rical serves only to emphasize my pre-
vious impressions. And SO l am sure
that the American navy is ready to
support in the most advantageous fash
ion the cause of the allies now shaping
a course toward victory"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
More Birds, More Food.

If the eastern states alone could
bring back the quail, the rose breast
ed grosbeaks and other bird benefac-
tors they would ave $15,O 900 a year
in the price Of materials used to kill
potato bugs.
Charles P. Shoffner of the Liberty
Bell Bird club made this statement at
a luncheon at the Poor Richard club.
He made a plea for the birds as a
means of conserving the nations food
resources.
eff Pennsylvania had but one pair Of
robins to the acre." he said, 'the birds
would consume 5000 tons of insects a
day. The nation loses $1,000,O 900, 900
a year through ravages Of insects
which the birds can eliminate. One
way to increase the crops is by bring
tag back the Observation-Disclosures
North American.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
Liberty and independence.

When the presidential struggle be-
tween Clay and Jackson was at its
height it is related that a band Of
emigrants from Kentucky and the then
other western states commenced to
settle on the north side Of the Missouri
river and called their county Clay and
the county seat Liberty.
At the same time another lot Of emf
grants from Virginia and other south
ern states pitched their tents on the
south side Of the Big Muddy and called
their county Jackson and the capital
Independence. And so it remains to
this day. Clay stood for liberty and
Jackson for independence.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
French General Now Private.

General Gerard Amanrich, comman-
der of the Legion of Honor, who had
retired from tho French army, has re.
Joined the army as a private in an ar
tillery regiment. General Amanrlch ia
sixty-1ve years old and is now at tho
regimental depot ut Versailles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
FIND $4,000 IN "HoME BANK"

Money In Small Coin Hidden by Aged
Woman.
Manitowoc, Wis.-Over $4,000 in nick
els, dimes, quarters and half dollars,
the accumulation of years, was found
by a woman engaged in cleaning the
home of the late Mrs. Fred Pingle,
aged Lightweight. pioneer resident of
Man;towoc.
Money was found among rubbish
heaps, sewed in mattresses and quilts,
under the carpet and in almost incon-
ceivable places all through the house.
The Pingle family at one time lost a
fortune through the failure Of a bank,
which was said to be responsible for
the aged lady having secreted her say
ings about the family home.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
Submarine Rides,

The Norwegian sea is separated from
the North Atlantic by what may be
regarded as a continuous ridge run
Ming from Greenland to the British
islands plateau, Of which Iceland and
the Farce islands are emerged portions.
The Mediterranean is cut off from the
North Atlantic by a ridge at the Strait
Of Gibraltar, over which the greatest
depth is only IT'S fathoms. with steep
slopes on either side.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
PRESIDENT SEEKS RELICS.
Inquiries For Saddle and Bride Given
by Father to Mother.


Seeking the saddle and bride that his
father gave to his mother as a wedding
present, President Wilson has written
to f. G. Lyon Of Canonsburg, Pa, ask
ing him if he knows in whose posses.
sion they now are.
The Rev. Joseph Wilson, father of
President Wilson, soon after entering
The ministry lived in Washington coun-
ty, Pa, and he was married there.
President Wilson was under the i'm
preston that the bride and saddle had
come into the possession Of Mr.. Lyon
and wrote him asking what financial
offer he would consider. Mr.. Lyon does
not know the present owner Of the rel
les which the president seeks to secure
and to preserve. g
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
MORE REPUBLICS AHEAD.

Spain, Greece and Sweden Moving,
London Hears.
London Republics in Spain, Greece
and Sweden before the end of the war
were predicted by a speaker at a con-
ference here Of journalists representing
the European neutral countries. The
speaker, who had returned recently
from Sweden, asserted that republican
doctrine is becoming popular there.
The conference discussed the political
and economic conditions in the neutral
countries. The effect the Russian revo-
luton had on the countries named was
debated at length. 1t was declared
that republican sentiment had won
many converts in the three countries.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20

EnEo1DENI "1LSoN INDICATING NEW RED
CROSS BUILDING, WASHINGTON R
WILSON AT THE RIGHT.
Taft, chairman. and Eliot Wadsworth.
vice chairman Of the executive commit
tee, eX oflcio members.
In appointing the War Council the
president earnestly exhorted the Amer
lean public to support it's work, issu,
ing the following statement:
have today created within the Red
Cross a war council, to which will be
intrusted the duty of responding to the
extraordinary demands which the pres
ent war will make upon the services of
the Red Cross both in the field and IN
civilian relief. The best way in which
to impart the greatest efficiency and
energy to the relief work which this
war will entail will be to concentrate
it in the hands Of a single experienced
organization which has been recognized
by law and by international convention
as the public fundamentally for such
purposes. Indeed, such a concentration
Of administrative action in thia ,anatter
oeeIHS 70 ms absolutely necessary ana
! hereby earnestly call upon all those
who can contribute either great sums
or small to the alienation Of the "suf-
fering and distress which must inevita-
bly, arise out of thio fight for humanity
and democracy to contribute to the Red
Cross. It will be one Of the first and
most necessary tasks of the new war
council of the Red Cross to raise great
sums of money for the support Of the
work to be done and done upon a large
scale. hope that the response to their
efforts will be a demonstration OF the
generosity of America and the power of
genuine practical sympathy among our
people that will command the admira.>
ton Of tho whole world.
WOODROW WILSON.
In an interview given the same day
Mr.. Dawson pledged the backing Of
Morgan & Co. to the undertaking and
announced that he himself had tempo
rarily given UP all other business to
devote his whole energy to the Red
Gross financial campaign.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
The Olive Tree,

The olive tree is more closely associ-
ated with the history and civilization
of man than any other. 1t is the
earliest mentioned by name-when the
waters Of the flood began to retire
Genesis viii, ~. 1t is the most prom
inent tree in the earliest allegory
Judges tx, s, %. With David it is the
emblem of prosperity and the divine
blessing psalms Iii, 8; cxxviii, s..
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
Erostproof Corn.

Department of agriculture experts in
Washington are trying to develop a
frost proof variety Of field corn. They
say they are hopeful of early success.
Plants have already been developed
which have resisted cold which froze
soil to a depth Of two inches.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
HER OWN ATTORNEY.
Mrs. Laura Ella Ruddick In Court
Against Brothers.

Columbus, Ind.-Mrs. Laura Ella
Ruddick, a wealthy resident Of this
city, acted as her Owl attorney in a
case where she is plaintiff and her
brothers, Marcus Hollowell and Hayes
T.. Hollowell, are defendants.
She prepared and filed a motion for
n new trial In the case without legal
advice. The motion owe several
typewriter pages and Is written in
legal p%hraseolosy. Mrs. Huddick re-
Gently was ordered to jail for con
tempt OF court by Judge John w.
Donaker.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
Eittinu Eauipment.

what kind Of wheels are those they
have on the bottom Of aeroplanes?'
"Of course they are flywheels."-E x-
change.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
A Cynic.

"A Clubman-Is that old chap in the
corner always so glum as now? An
other-By no means. He laughs twice
a year, spring and fall, when the WON.
EMS hats come in.-Puck.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20

shun idleness. 1t Is the rust that at.
taches itself to the most brilliant met
ais. -yoltalre.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20

it's head, set in motion the tremendous
campaign for popular subscriptions to
a fund which the Red Cross will use
for supplying hospitals at the front
and also for carrying on relief work
at home and in Europe on a scale per-
haps greater than the world has ever
seen.
Other members of the council ap-
pointed are Charles D. Norton, G. NJ.
P. Murphy, Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., and
Edward N. Hurley, with William II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-20
The WAR COUNCIL .
OF The RED CROSS
Personnel Of Strong Body
Named by The President.

Wsa The action of President
suvs kssA Wilson in appointing the
H&sSHHsS8sMa& Red Cross War Council,
E#1 with Henry P. Dawson
Arizona republican., 1917-10-21

gan practice produces a wonderful, clinging legato touch noticeable in artists who play both organ and piano.
 Just here, even at the risk of in curing the displeasure af the organ izatiOnS which employ organ or piano players and soloists for their Sunday services. We have often wondered whether there is 8 clear realization upon the part Of the average music ; committee in the various churches Of the amount in cold cash that the ac- companists and soloists have had to expend before they are acceptable to the average church audience of Phoe- nix. There people have, as a rule spent from two to ten thousand dol ! lars on musical education. When one considers the time spent at choii practice and at services I believe the i average pay for this work here is i very far below the standard and what
 would be paid elsewhere, particularly in the west and the large cities, and
 in the latter places competition is, il
 anything, keener.
 The orchestra committee should have the hearty support of the Musi- clans club in establishing a smai
 symphony orchestra and undertaking
 to see that it is properly supported
 Eastern towns and cities have giver
 much better financial aid to orches
 tras and bands than the westerr cities. There is absolutely no reason
 why Phoenix should not support 2
 small organization of the kind IT
 my opinion municipal funds, as wei
 as private endOWmentS, should be st
 placed as to make such an organiza
 tion permanent. Good music is a. necessary in the properly balanced i municipality as shrubbery in tn parks, but musicians must live a, well as practice. Think this over an,
 if anyone outside this committee ha
 a plan the committee, I am sure, vii
 gladly be open to suggestions.
 "The list closes with the resolution
 committee, the duties of which ar
 obvious.
 Also I cannot refrain from men
 tioning the May festival with Mrs Battin chairman. Such plan as thi
 must be supported heartily to be
 success.
 Tn closing I wish to emphasize tn paragraph on the inside cover of tn ) Year Book
 "To encourage and stimulate tn endeavors of each member by warm l hearted praise, where praise is du s and to resolve never to indulge in UT : kind criticism, mark the milestone t of clubs progress and is truly fos l tering the art of music.'' S
 : Miss 1mogene Neely. local Hoovs y representative in this mornings isst t of The Republican offers a special al
 ticle on Home Economies work whif a will undoubtedly hold more than o e dinary interest to the housewife. n follows:
 r. Splendid organization of work : Home Management and Nutritic Il have been started with the women j.. Palo Verde. Buckeye and Liberty du e ing the last Week. Conservation al ' Storage of Food were the subjects