W. E. WARD

W. E. WARD, editor of the Western Times, published at Sharon Springs, is a native Kansan, with Bourbon county as his birth-He is forty-three years old, and has lived in Sharon Springs and been the publisher of the Western Times for twenty-five years.

Mr. Ward is also an attorney, and is now serving as county attorney of Wallace county, and enjoys a large law practice. He was register of the United States land office at Colby under both McKinley and Roosevelt, and was twice a member of the legislature from Wallace county. Four years ago he was the Republican nominee for state senator in the thirteen counties comprising the thirty-ninth senatorial district, but was defeated in the Democratic landslide.

The Western Times was established by Kate B. Russell in 1885. Mrs. Russell was a well known newspaper woman in the early days of western Kansas. She now lives in Chicago.

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