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State ill' 4a, TO) TXT W A T Official County Paper WA-KEENEY, KANS, OCTOBER 21, 1911 33rd Year Number 33 WES o o CO C OX) d PQ o The New Store A. E. McCune, Prop. Dry Goods,' Notions" Shoes, Men's Work Clothing, etc. All Goods Sold at Cost. Come and see me, I'll treat you right. InJ.R. Wilson Building south of Heckman Produce Company Public Sale ! I will sell at Public Auction, 8 miles south and 2 miles west of Wa Leeney, known as the Ted Morgan farm on Wednesday, October 25th, 1911, commencing at 11 o'clock a. m., the following described property to wT: Five Head of Horses. 3 Head of Good Milk Cows, two fresh in January, one in February. Farm Machinery 1 Lumber Wagon, 1 two-seated Spring Wagon, nearly new; 1 McCormick Grain Binder, 1 McCormick Mower, 1 ten-foot Hay Bake, 2 16-inch Sulky Plows, 1 ten-disk Success Grain Drill, nearly new; 1 16-inch 14 Disk Harrow, nearly new; 1 one row weeder, 1 four shovel Walk ing Cultivator, 1 Disk Cultivator, 1 three section Steel Harrow, 1 set of Work Harness, 1 Saddle. Household Goods 1 Heating Stove, 1 Oil Stove, with oven; Cupboards Wardrobe, Table, Chairs, Bedsteads, Cream Separator, used one year; 5 doz. chickens and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS 810 and under cash; sums over $10, 12 "months with good bankable notes at 10 per cent. 5 per-cent. discount for cash. All goods to be settled for before they leave premises. jr. O. WULFF. M. W. Mason, Auctioneer. C. R. Hille, Clerk. Free Lunch at Noon. HORSES and MULES WANTED J. W. BAKER The Horse and Mule Buyer Will be in Wa-Keeney on Wednesday, October 25th at Staatz' Livery Barn Bring in your Horses and Mules, highest market price paid Michigan You all know what that means, the best on earth, -will he here about October 20th Car of Apples on Track Now, everyone hand picked right from the tree, at 31 a bushel Sweet Potatoes at SI. SO Irish Potatoes "Will be here soon, line ones at 90c Sec It F. OSTERKAMP At the XVIill or Store o o - CO o 3 90 Cabhage a bushel Married Anyhow The sheriff of Norton county made a 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 gleans it from Mr. Miller, here is a case where a lassie nearly 18 years of age has been deprived of associates, especially of the male persuasion. She has had. no opportunity to make a choice of male friends. So, on or about July 4 last she met in Norton one James Friend and there was love at first sight. His smile and ways captured the youug 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 ajid gave an alarm. Miss Gertrude had met her Friend and a chase ensued. The stepfather took with hini 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 missies coming within whist ling distance of his head. The young man then ibn 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 villians 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 assult with intent to kill. Getting Up In The World A raw Irishman-came over by the name of Mike Hooly. He carried a hod for a time, and then became a foreman and finally in a few years was doing contracting on his own account. Then he opened a -saloon, and was elected alderman. Political preferment came fast, and after Mike was re-elected to the United States senate he became quite religious and decided to go to church. Returning from church one day, he said to his wife, "Biddy, it is certainly interes tin' the way people have changed. Whin I came over, 'an started caryin me hod, they called me 'Dhir-r-r-ty .j!'aced Mick.' When I got to be fore man, they called me 'Mick Hooly.' When I began contracting, they call ed me Michael Hooly. When I got a saloon, they called me Mr. Hooly. When I went to the legislature, they called Mr. Michael Hooly, Esq.,-and when I was elected to the Senate, it was the Honorable Michael Hooly." And today, Biddy, whin I went to church, and walked up the aisle, sure I heard the choir singing, "Hooly, Hooly, Hooly, Lord, God; Almighty!" 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. It costs about forty cents a day to supply towels, which is about 30 per cent more ex pensive than linen towels. McCanless for Congress Wendell W. McCanless of Lincoln county, a lawyer and K. U. graduate, is in the race in the seventh district for the democratic nomination for Congress. Teachers Examination Hie next teachers' examination will be held Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 23, 1911, at the court house. Eva P. Jones, County Superintendent. - "Mound City Paints go farthest, wear longest, look best. Verbeck Lumber Co. i luce Ne You can't even hunt rabbits or a rabbit without a license this fall. Of will be in violation of the game and fish laws and right now Prof. I. L. Dyche, state warden, is pushing a case against a Burlington man who went out with his old blunderbuss and shot a bunny." The Burlington man had the opinion that a rabbit was a fugitive from justice and that anyone had a 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 a hunter's license. The la 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." To Lay More Double Track The Union Pacific will begin the laying of 128 miles additional double traclf 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 128 miles is completed, it will leave only 241 miles of the Overland between Coun cil BTuffs and Ogden with a single track, and even on a large part - of those 241 miles, right-of-way for lay ing the second track lias been secured so that within the very near future the whole line from its eastern to its 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 Pacific all over the world, is being maintained under President Mohler. This feature, he is determined, must be aivrjfys looked after, for the first tiling Mr. Harriman, when he bought the road, undertook, was its physical reconstruction. Much of this Im portant work has since fallen for completion to the Mohler regime. Liquor Business Booming "Since I became Attorney-General this department has captured and confiscated a trainload of liquor," said Attorney General John S. Daw son Monday. "Not a branch-line train either. The booze we have taken and destroyed would fill a long main-line 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 a 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. "I have just discovered," said Mr. Dawson, "that there is a 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 a hard job to get along." "In making a raid in Leavenworth the other day, we got hold of the dealer's cash book. The place was the most vilainous of the lot. It was in a basement of a rickety old build ing, a place where a decent man would hardly dare ttf 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. It was a surprise to me. On ordinary days the total ran around sixty to seventy dollars. Then it would jump to $100. Soldiers' pay day showed earnings of over $400 for that rickety old dump. The book covered a month and the total sales was over $3,000." 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 a fraction of the original load. Maybe he would prove by his breath and bis condition that he had disposed of a part of It personally.", Fresh pork at Baker's. Sunday School Convention Programe for Wa-Keeney Town ship Sunday School Convention at the Methodist church, Sunday. Oct. 22, at 2:30 p. m. Devotional. :.... Mrs,Edith Courtney Teacher Training. .Mrs. W.Y.Herrick Round Table Dr. R. E. Spencer Music How to tell the Story to the Children. , Mrs. S. L. Allison Missions Miss M. E. Altman Collection. Adjournment. Weather Report Maximum and minimum tempera ture according to the government thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the week ending Wednesday noon. Max. Min. Thursday 77..: 51 Friday 80... .51 Saturday 88 i V. . .49 Sunday ... 72 ...4? Monday 64. 43 Tuesday...... 71 36 Wednesday 65 38 1 Just the usual Kansas weather-at this season. No rain, some wind, many pleasant days, and vegetation in this neighborhood still not hurt by frost. Ladies' Class in Domestic Science The board of trustees of the Trego County High School authorized the use of the domestic science labratory for a 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 $2.00. This will be all the expense attached to it. This class will meet once a week from 4 to 5:30 n. 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 23, 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. Five Persons Murdered . - The bodies of five members of the family of Will Showman, of Ellsworth were discovered Monday, terribly mutilated, in their home. .The entire family had been slain with axes Sun day night. From appearances it seemed that Showman and his wife and three children hSd been slain as they slept. The features of the five victims were crushed beyond recog nition. All three of the children were under five j-ears of age. The youngest, a baby, had been beaten by the murderer until its head was severed from the body. 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 a 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, how 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 $125,000 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. Money! Money! Money! on your farms. When yoa want a loan on your farm call on the Wa-Keeney State Bank. 27 UVE STOCK MARKET Kansas City Stock Yards, Oct. 18, 1911 To verify the statement that last week's cattle market was a good -one in spite of the large supply of i 80,000 head here, and that beef Chan-' , nels are well opened, the big supply of 52,000 cattle here in two days this week is selling steady to strong. All hands are buying freely, and the scaleward movement is a continuous performance after the opening hour. Prime steers sold today at $3.30, and good steers from Kansas reached $7.25 and $7.35. These latter steers are mates of $7.15 cattle last week. Plain feeders, weighing 1000 to 1100 sell at $4.25 to $4.75. An order for 100 car loads of that class was filled here last week and the week previous for an Indiana distillery, at an average- cost of $4.55. Well bred pan handle stock calves sell at $4.75 to $5.75. - Hogs have demonstrated their title -to present prices by staying around $6.50 for top hogs nearly two weeks and the market is steady to strong today, on the good supply of. 16,000 head. toD $6.52 1-2. bulk $6.10 to $6.50 Pigs are not worth as much as a week ago, selling now at $4.25 to $5.50. The sacrifice of young hogs has been very heavy this fall, which will cause a revision of figures on the winter hog supply, and a change of view point in forecasting winter prices. Sheep and lambs are pouring out of the West in a regular torrent, and the market is sagging badly under the pressure. Country buyers took out 40,000 head from here last week, and they will "be apt to duplicate the feat this week. Top killing lambs bring $5.50, feeding lambs around $4.75, feeding yearlings $3.80, fat ewes $3.45, for tops. Banking Law Satisfactory The head of the Kansas banking department says that once the guile-. less citizens of the state were fleeced by the promotors of "wildcat" com panies out of from four to eight million of dollars a year. Now the Kansas investors have ceased to be a dupe of oily tongued rascals and de ceptive prospectuses. . There is a seven months old lawwhich requires all companies offering "stocks, bonds, et cetera, for sale within the state to get the formal permission of the banking department. For offering his wares without getting it, a Utah mining promotor 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 might have been as disastrous as a drought or a plague of' locusts. I r 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 swindled 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 a good ' one. If after it shall have been in. operation a little longer the banking department can report that it has saved millions of dollars, other states will be likely to copy it. It is not alone in Kansas that the pro moter has found easy victims. 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 diflerent from any ordinary entertainment and very much worth while. Neither old nor young should miss It. The date is Saturday evening, October 21. - Wanted 100 head of horses to pasture for the winter; plenty of good buffalo grass and running water; no loco. Price ' 50 cents per head. Write or come and see me at Banner, Kansas. 30-tf. W. J. Dillon. For Sale Choice Alfalfa hay at Courtney's warehouse, 75c per bale. H. J. Simp son. f 31 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. 2