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7- WESTERN KANSAS WORLD Yearly Subscription $1.00 Givler & Crooks, Props. NINETEENTH YEAR. WA-KEENEY, KANS., JUNE 26, 1897. NUMBER 17- ' S6?6--:&Se&SS6&6-:&:63!. $ CLEASON'S PRICE LIST. S S j A good syrup, per gal 25c $ Good Java coffee, per lb . . . 15c to Lyon or Arbuckles Coffee. 15c JJJ g Java Blend Coffee, per lb. . 30c jjg W Moca and Java Coffee, 35c W per lb., 3 lbs. for $1 00 g g Japan tea per lb 25c JjjS California prunes per lb 06c w V Evaporated apples per lb. . 06c J !g California pears per can. . . 15c fa & California peaches per can j j 15c or ,2 cans for " 25c " g Best parlor matches pkg. . . 10c $ & Fairbank's soap per bar . ... 2c m j Best corn starch per pk 05c jj g 2 lbs. California apricots. . . 25c tfo A 3 lbs. California pears 25c W j 3 lbs. California peaches 25c S g Hand picked navy beans 8 & lbs for 25c w j 4 pkgs soda 25c g Crackers per lb 08c to Choice evaporated raspber- p jj ries per lb 25c Jg Good smoking tobacco-1 lb 15c jjjj! iS 3 3 lb cans tomatoes 25c W 6 lbs lima beans 25c $ Raspberries per lb 20c 18 lbs granulated sugar $100 Own wAXE; . FOB SALE BY Geo. I. Verbeck. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Citv. Mayor '.R. C. Wilson f A. C. Lord I John Sims Councilmen F.-S. Diebold C. C. Bestor l A. P. Lawrence Police Judge Joshua Groft Marshal J. H. Poffenlwrser County. Eeoresentative A. Lawson Oountv Clerk G. M. ITfford Treasurer T. R. Moore Register of Deeds G. V. Cross County IMiperlnteiiaeut A. ivacocK county Attorney . ai. iiutzei Sheriff G. w. Lynn Probate Judge G. W. Tunnell Clerk District Court '.W. H. Swiggett County Surveyor C. J rerris Coroner Joshua Groft I 1st District.. . J. r . Barclay Commissioners - Second Dist... A. P. Hinshaw I 3rd Dist K. C. Swlggett Union Pacific Time Table. EAST. ' 4 Eastern limited Due 6:35 a. m 2 Kansas City Fast Line Due 10:05 p. ni west. ' I Fast Express Due 4:47 a. ni 3 Denver & Pacific Coast lmt'd DueT:05 p. m Tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in United States and Canada. E. P. Bbadshaw. Agent. MO. Pacific Time Table. At Ransom. ' EAST BOUND. No. 8 Freight, No. 218 Freight. No. 230- WEST BOUND. 3:12 a. m 6:17 a. ni - - 7:26 p. m Freight, No. 217 11:40 a. m Fi eight No. 210 " 4:45 p. m f"All trains rnn on mountain time and ail trains carry passengers. W. H. Barb. Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. B. JONES, FHTSICIAN AND SURGe6n. WA-KEENET. " KANSAS. vV. E. SAUM. ATTORNEY AT LAW. WA-KEENET - - KANSAS. JOHN A. NELSON. ATTORNEY AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. AGENT FOR CLOSE BROS' LAND CO. , For choice bargains in lands give me a call. All kinds of business promptly attended to for non-resiaents Walter A. Eppler, AUCTIONEER. Will cry sales in any part of Trego and adjoining counties at reasonable rates. Orders left at the" World office will receive prompt attention. 1 -wTi Subscribe for World. Harvest hands scarce. Fresh pork at Baker's. Pickled pork at Baker's. Smoked hams at Baker's. Section hands in demand. Good fresh beef at Baker's. Pickled pigs feet at Baker's. Harvest commenced this week. The tramp has the world under his feet. W. Cypher was in town on Wed nesday. Last Monday was the longest day of the year. Mrs. A. E. Sigler visited inOgallah, Thursday. ' Jim Law returned from Nebraska, Thursday. C. A. Hoar visited with his family on Friday. Some say four inches of water fell Friday morning. Barber Thompson sold a quarter of land on Monday. Wa-Keeney is a beautiful city. Come and see her. C. J. Ferris was on the sick list this week with neuralgia. C. X. Gibson made a business tiip to Russell on Monday. Dr. Browne, the Russell dentist, was in town this week. T. J. Nixon and Wm. Hiber are harvesting their wheat. A. B. Redmond is cultivating corn for Burnham this week. H. Cutler, of Ogallahr was at the county seat last Saturday. Barber Poffenberger can extract your whiskers without pain. W. H. Albrecht. of Ogallah, was in the county seat Wednesday. A. Silver, of Brownell, was in the county capital on Wednesday. Chas Street left Wednesday morn ing for Ellis county to harvest. Commissioners Barclay and Hin shaw were in town on Wednesday. X. Briggs and N. Redmond, of Han ner, were in the city last Saturday. Dr. Bellows, the Kansas City opti cian, will be in wa-Keeney, July 3id The girls of Wa-Keeney are as pret ty as a J une peach ana this is no lie A. T. Holmes, of the south side, was a Wa-Keeney, visitor on Wednesday. Dr. Rafflngton. the Ellis dentist, will be at Ferris hotel, June 28, 29 and 30. The rain we had last Monday even ing gladdened the hearts of some far mers. C. C. Bestor received a lartre cn signment of crockery from Maine this week. Emery Cass, of the Saline, was do ing business with our merchants on Monday. Harvest hands are in demand. An idle person has no excuse to offer for not working. There was quite an unprecedented number of visitors and drummers to our city this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, of the saline, were traaing witn our mer chants on Thursday. Frank" inscno took a top berth on the Pullman Tuesday night bound for Kins county to harvest. The Democrats of this countv will demand clerk and treasurer as the price of fusion this fall. The court house park is being prun ea tins week wriicn wiy add very much to its appearance. Eck Allen and Harry Courtney were repairing fence for Henry Hille a couple of days this week: Judge Monroe; of Hays, was in town on Tuesday and left on the evening train for Kussell Springs. Cheering news comes from all parts of the county or plenty or moisture and good crops of all kinds. Chas Sellers and Oris McVey' have quit the section and have gone to .Ellsworth county to harvest. Piano harvesting machines at Cort- right's. Slot) buys a Jones header, the lightest header manufactured. Postmasters Allers, of Hog-anville, was in town Monday and Tuesday tak ing treatment with Dr. Jones. Genial Joe Irwin, of Cedar Bluffs, called on us last Monday and deposit ed a dollar to help World rotate. Five thousand rolls of wall paper will be sold at prices to suit the times: also window shades at Cortright's. Some fine rains this week which it is thought will make the small grain. Nothing but hail will now injure it. It is thought by many that the small grain crop this year will be larger than ever before in Trego county. Miss Cosv Jones entertained a lartre number of young friends last Monday afternoon. Ice cream and cake was served. The Senate has been making rapid progress with- the tanrr diu auring the last week and the prospect for an early vote is promising. - Hugh Tidball, H. Elliott, J. Con nor and r . hwanbeck, ail or uonyer. were in the city last Saturday looking for repairs, getting ready for harvest. Mrs. Grace Benjamin departed Thursday morning for Plainville to visit her parents, Rev. and Mrs. John son. Dr. Jones had a gang of men at work this week moving a large barn from Oakley onto his ranch on Big creek. Ben. C. Rich and son Kin were in town last Saturday using our side walks and talking against the high scliool. Mr. Willard. chief mogul of the 36 cars of Oregon cattle, recently shipped into Trego, was a wa-Keeney visitor on Wednesday. Miss Rosetta Stephens will sell her stock of spring and summer millinery at cost. Now is your chance to get a nice hat cheap. - " Lost Part of a mowing machine be tween Wa-Keeney and the Saline on Hill City road. Finder will please leave with J. M. Rnoades. The Union Pacific will sell tickets on the Fourth of July at one rate for round trip for 200 miles. For infor mation see E. P. Bradshaw, agent. Eric Lindberg and John Harrison, two of Ogallah's most prosperous far mers, have purchased a new header to harvest their immense wheat crops. From Warden Landis' latest report we learn that there is not a newspa per man in the "pen." lie says that about all other professions are repre sented. - A man with arrogance and "conceit has conceived the idea that he owns the earth, while he has nothing to show for it but the mud that clings to his feet. Queen Victoria celebrated the six- tietn anniversary of her accession to the throne of England last Monday Her reign is the longest of any other English sovereign. C. C. Yetter, Mrs. C. H. Benson and Mrs. W. R. Hill, of Kansas City, made w orld a visit Thursday. Mrs. ilill is an highly accomplished lady and is highly pleased with our people and citv. For Sale The southeast quarter of section 7-12-23, one mile west of Wa-Keeney. Price $1,100. For, par ticulars see John Nelson, Wa-Keeney, or John Straub, 3 Spruce St., Clinton, Mass. . E. D. Wheeler, of Wa-Keeney, who Is connected with the forestry and ir rigation commission, gave us a call. Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Wheeler is a very pleasan-gentleman Russell Record. O. A. Cortright sold Jones' headers to the following farmers this week: S. H. Roberts, J. P. Marquand, T. J. Nixon, A. S. Peacock, A. P. Hinshaw, W. D. Stephens, S. L- Garland and F. M. Morgan. Lovely shade trees; pretty flowers in bloom; thebirdsupin the tree tops singing a lullaby; the fields covered and bedecked with wheat and every body as happy as a clam such is life in grand old Wa-Keeney. Baird & Hiber have repaired and repainted their threshing machine thoroughly and are now prepared to take youi order for threshing. They will board their hands the same as last year. Lend thm your patronage. Not only piles of the very worst kind can be cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, but eczema, scalds, burns, bruises, boils, ulcers and all other skin troubles can be instantly reliev ed by the same remedy. Jones & Gib son. J. M. Stull writes from Steam Cor ners, Ohio, for sample copy of World. He said he proved up on a claim in Trego in '88, and would like to read about his former home. He expects to make a visit here in the near future. If John Wanamaker had not been defeated or U. S. Senator in Pennsyl vania ue wuuiu uui ue m company with the public utterances of the brilliant and peripatetic Ingalls of Kansas in seeing no signs of returning prosperity. Everybody will celebrate the Fourth of July one week from to-day. Some may pull the cork out or the bottle and some may hie themselves off to some shaded canyon situated nowhere and let the silent wind sing a requiem in their ears. , Terribdk Accident. It is a terri ble accident to be burned or scalded; but the pain or agony and the fright ful disfigurements can be quickly over come without leaving a scar by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve." Jones & Gibson. ... I Some for ten, some for twenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and permanently been cured by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve, the great remedy for piles and all forms of skin diseases. Jones & Gibson. C. J. Ferris, our enterprising furni ture dealer, was exhibiting a sample ot Sweet Slumber Cellulose pillows last week. The-pillows and mattresses are made from corn cobs, and are very durable and are softer than feathers. Call at his store and examine them. Last Mdhday afternoon about twi light there could be seen a man with a sombrero on his head, standing up away off on the prairie, looking here and there, this way and then that way as if a cyclone was coming.. Latest reports confirms that he is a populist. Mr. and Mrs. F. Stimits, of Downer, brought their baby to town Monday to the doctor who pronounced its malady cholera-infantum. They have not been able to return home and "are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Best. As we go to press the child is some better. A party of government surveyors are stopping in the city this week. Thev are taking a geodetic survey from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One of the party has a letter of introduc tion from liarry Cunningham to Dr. Jones. Harry is reading clerk in the Senate. Don't neglect a cough because the weather is pleasant; before the next storm rolls around it may develop into a serious difficulty beyond repair. One Minute Cough Cure is easy to take and will do what its name implies. Jones & Gibson. The people of Trego county are cor dially invited to be present at a pic nic on Julv 4 at Hiram Schneider's grove ten miles south of town. This grove is one of the finest in the coun ty, some of the trees are 50 feet high, and there is good water and plenty of shade. Bring well tilled baskets and have a good time. John Allman, of Riverside, was in Wa-Keeney on Monday and paid us a visit. Mr. A. is one of the early set tlers of Trego, having located here in the fall of 1875, and many are the in cidents he can recall of those days, lie is one of our most prosperous far mers and stock raisers: has an elegant home and is beloved by all his neigh bors. The Children's Day exercises at the Presbyterian church last Sunday even ing passed off according to a previous ly well arranged program. A large congregation had assembled at an early hour to hear the children and young people who were to take part. The entire evening's program was es pecially well rendered and the enter tainment was highly enjoyed through out. From a letter received from Mrs. J B. Hogan. of Roc h ester, Minn., we learn that her family is all well and that Miss Ella Graff still has her posi tion as stenographer in a law office; that Agnes is now totally blind and has been attending the school for blind at Fairbult, since last January; that she is getting along nicely and studies nearly all the branches taught in the public schools. She is home on her vacation. ., Court has come : and gone and our people, have .had .an, opportunity to size ud Jud:ie Monroe, and the result is a verdict in his f.-tvor. It is not to be wondered at if there should have been a disposition to "view him with a cricket's eye, seeing that he suc ceeded one of our own citizens who tilled the place eight years with credit to himself and the county, out inus far there has been much praise ;uid little of criticism. Russell Record. It is a very rare occurrence that a game of base ball is indulged in on Sunday. But the Ellis boys came up last Sunday and did so much bragging that our boys gathered up a nine and repaired to the ball grounds south and west of "town about seven miles. It was a hotly contested game from start to finish, but our boys who seem to be invincible, won the game in the tenth inning by a score of 25 to 23. The El li sites are a lot of chronic kick ers, and our boys say there is no sport in it for them and 'declare that they will never , play another game with .them not even on the Fourth. Edgar Pulley, of Republic, and Miss Viola Welch, of Topeka, were united in marriage Sunday morning by the Rev. L. Blakesley at the residence of the bride's parents, 709 Topeka ave nue. Topeka Capital. We assume that the above named bride is the daughter of Captain Welch, formerly county commissioner and probate judge and an early settler of Trego county. Miss Welch taught school for several years in this vicini ty where she was honored and re spected. World joins n host of the young lady's friends in the hope that I she may be happy in her marital rela tions One of our exchanges describes the man who could not afford to take his home paper as follows: By getting hold of a foreign advertising sheet he spent one dollar by writing to find out how to keeD sober, tne. answer being to take a pledge. He also sent fifty two-cent stamps to find' out how to raise beets and received a postal card reply. "Take hold of the top and pull." It was the same person who sent fifty cents to a fellow in the east for twelve useTul household articles and received a package of needles He is a near relative to the man who sent one dollar to find out how to make more money, and received a reply, "Get a job in a mint." He is also re lated to the man who sent five dollars to find out how to write without pen and ink, and the answer was,"Try a-i lead pencil. - He must be a twin brother to the man who sent two dol lars to find out how to live without work, and received the reply printed fh one black line on a postal card, "Fish for suckers like we do." DO YOU KNOW? 260 head of good 2-year-old Texas steers for sale cheap. . Price $20. Ten miles north and three east of Ransom. Stenger Bros., , llaiisum. Kii.-. Just A homeless Tramp. Last Tuesday evening about twi light while the placid sun was sink ing over the western horizon to make preparations to sleep and slumber during the silent night and in the far off North, behind a black pillar of clouds could be seen Jupiter hurling thunderbolts hither and thither; Mars, Venus and Plato in the back ground, as happy as happy can be but keeping a wistful watchout lest some impending danger may accrue from the hurling of those uncombus tible thunderbolts from the electric artillery in the heavens, guided oy the iron hands of Jupiter but--gen-tle reader, as we said before, it was about twilight last Tuesday evening that an accident," very sad to mention, for as the west-bound passenger train pulled into our beautiful depot and took aboard its passengers all but one, and who was that? Can you -guess? He was just a poor homeless tramp, he never had no money with which to pay his fare; he has no place he can call home; his mother and father died while he was a baby. He knew it would be of no avail to use his influence to get the conductor to carry him free, consequently this poor homeless tramp went about three hundred yards ahead of the train, where the conductor could not see him catch the train, but, alas, the engineer had the throttle wide open and. was moving very rapidly, still this homeless tramp made an attempt to catch the baggage car next to the engine but failed, and then he waited till the second baggage car reached him and he made another attempt which proved more disastrous than the first, for the train was going faster, still he made a dash for the steps and in grabbing the rail ing the train hurled him over two double somersaults and landed on his right side. He was not injured, save a scratch in the palm of his right hand.- A crowd soon gathered, in cluding a World reporter, he was questioned in regard to his serious mishap, but, as he was deaf and dumb and could not talk, a pad and pencil was brought into service, upon inves tigation we learned that he was a printer by occupation, and a member of the St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8, with a certificate of member ship in his pocket. He was bound for Pensacola, Fla., in search of employ ment. The introduction.of type sett ing machines has thrown thousands of printers on the road, and this poor homeless tramp is one of the victims. Kind reader, did you ever let the thought reverberate on vour mental pabulum even for one brief mo ment the life and hardships that are brought to bear on this poor homeless wanderer wandering over the face of this precious earth of ours in search of employment that he may earn his bread and meat by the sweat of his brow. He has no idea in his imagi nations beyond that of his destina tion outside of that he does not know whither or thither he will drift. He is hunting work and asserts that he will continue to do so until his last strength is relaxeddespite the fact that starvation is staring him in the face. Just think of it one brief moment, gentle reader, com pare the position of this poor home less wanderer to that of yours, can you draw a contrast? From a further personal investiga tion we learned that he had been on the road nine months and twenty-one days. He started from San Fran cisco on September 2, 1896, and has been on the road continuously, not stopping only in large cities and al lowing one day to each city. He has covered all the Northern and Eastern states, and he asserts with a frown on his face, that every place he inqnired for work he found business in all channels of trade at a standstill. He further asserts that every way he turns his head hell eternal stares him in the f;ice despite all these obstacles strewn in his path he savs he will continue to search for work and savs he is determined to have it or die in the attempt. His intentions is to cover the south ern states, from Denver he goes through the Oklahoma - Territory down through Louisiana, thence to Florida, if he has good luck he will reach Pensacola about September 15. Before parting with the World re porter, he wrote the following on a piece of paper and handed it to us for publication : Life is nothing but a Tiny, : Tempest-Tossed Bubble, float- ': ing through aerial space into the Sea of Oblivion. NOTICE. If the voters and taxpayers of Wa Keeney township desire a levy made for fire guard this year, action should at once be taken in conformity with Chapter 241 of Session Laws of 1897, and section 3129 of General Statutes of 1889, which authorizes township trustee to order an election on presen tation of a petition signed by one third of the voters of said township. L.G.JOHNSON, Township Trustee.