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WA-KEENEY, KANS, OCTOBER 21, 1911
33rd Year Number 33
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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
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Cabhage
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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.
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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
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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