Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-10

The commissioners of the land Office has
been informed that the operations of &. G.
Bloomfield, an Eoglishman, manager OF
The Arkansas Land and Cattle company,
recently convicted at Dsnver Of procuring
frauJn ent entries upon public lands, were
of the mes. audaci0us character. ALI the
cowboys in his employ were forced t. make
entries il his behalf. Eat.ies were also
made in the names of persons who had no
existence. His conviction, it is believed,
will have 8 wholesome effect on others who
have been guilty of like practices.
The battery boilers at the Salem iron
works of Clark & Co. Pittsburg Pa. exploded
with disastrous effect. The night hands
had just been relieved by the day force,
when loud explosion startled the work
men, and that portion of the works in the
vicinity of the boilers was filled with q
cloud Of death-dealing steam. Through
the dense mis:s came shrieks and grOans,
which notified the employees beyond harm
that frightful calamity had overtaken
some oftheir fellow workmen.
A rush was made for the SPOT where the
explosion occurred, when it was ascertain
ed that the drum of the boilers had explod-
ed and the escaping steam had scalded sew
enteen men. Closer investigation showed
tina of this number fourteen were badly
burned and three fatally.
A recent dispatch from Chattanooga,
Tenn, Gays: There is intense excitement at
Dalton, Georgia, over . visit paid that
place by band Of Ku Klux last week.
There was fifty men, all we'll disguised,
night. They visited house of i'll fame
owned by Mrs. Jane Kidd, and the woman
and six of her boarders were dragged from
their beds, and each one was given fifty
iashes. Some of the women are in criti-
cal condition and may die. The band that
went to the house of Tom Carver, q noted
thief, and beat him to death, after tortur.
ing him for half hour. Another negro,
named Arms:ad, was 80 terribly beaten
that he will die. The band then notified
several persons to leave the place at once
or they would be killed. No clue can be
had as to the identity of then. The mob
took in all the disreputable houses, regard
less of the color of the occupants. They
went to the mayors Office and left list OF
those under mob surveillance. The whole
affair was an effort to rid Dalton of the bad
characters that infest the town.
A dispatch from Rusk, (TeIas,) says: At
the terminus OF the Kansas q Gulf Short
Line, near Lufkin, Texas, sixty convicts
working on the road, made q desperate
break for liberty. just as they had finished
their supper. With deafening yslls they
started up in q body and rushed for the
neighboring woods. The guards opened
fire on them with deadly effect. The latest
reports say that twenty-five of them were
killed or wounded. The prisoners were in
one large bo6y, and the guardssimply emp
tied their repeating rifles and small arms
into the moving ass. Rumors of an ex-
tended meeting in this camp, have been
rife for some weeks past. These rumors
were strengthened by the fact that many of
were known to be desperate characters, and
extra precautions were being taken. Every
means possible is being used to Jecapture
the thirty five who had succeeded in e)ud-
ing the rifles of the guards. All avenues of
escape are being euarded, and posses are
being organized to scour the country. The
scene of the outbreak is some miles from q
telegraph Office.
A special dispatch from Dallas, Tex, says
that ]. B. Kane and John Carmack, citizens
stage from San Angelo to Abilene, gave the
following account of daring robbery, six
teen miles east of Runnells: A smooth.
faced boy, about eighteen yerrs of age, met
and passed the stage. He was riding grsy
horse. He carried q Winchester rife, and
. six shooter. After the stage hs d passed
him, he turned and demanded halt. The
driver whipped up his train. and an excit-
ing race for half mile ensued before the
stage was overhau,ed by the highwaymaD,
who demanded the mail sacks, at the same
time saying he was not there to disturb the
six in number, including lady.
The mail sacks were delivered TO him,
when he carried them twenty yards out on
The prairie, and leisurely appropriated
what he wanted. While this scene was
being enacted, q stage from Abilene, for
San Angelo, came up with some male pas
sengers. Their weapons were called for,
and q man who claimed to be q ranger, en-
rcute to Runnels, loaded his pistcl, buckled
IN his belt, and held himself in readiness
% repel any attack that might be made on |
MS stage. The robber, however, after sat-
styling himself. rode of. leaving the mail
bags on the prairie. Officers are now in
pursuit of him. It is supposed by some
hat he was the highwayman who robbed
he nail between Cisco and Brownsville, Q
ew DAYS ago.