Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-19

MuscOtah, Atchlson county, is TO nave
q 5000 school house.
A cabbage weighing fifteen pounds is o
product of Norton county:
Miami county has SO school districts
employing 101 instructors.
Chautanqua county will hold aer sec
ond annual fair this year.
There are now 831 men confined in
the Kansas state penitentiary.
Some very fine peaches were raised
In Sedgwick county this year.
A large crop of sod wheat will BE- sown
in Comanche county this fall.
The taxes in Smith county were never
paid up 80 closely as they v ere thisyear.
The fire department at Topeka was
called out three times in one day re-
Gently.
Coffeyville, Montgomery county, has
been undergoing number of disastrous
fires of late.
The annual Sunday school convention
Of Shawnee county was recently held at
Topeka.
The Allen county horticultural society
had 100 varieties of apples on exhibition
at the Bismarck fair.
Former residents of Iowa living in the
vicinity of Winfield, Cowley county held
q reunion the other day.
At the recent teachers examination in
Dickinson county, there were l63 appli-
cants for teachers certificates.
Twelve school teachers are employed
in the city of Ed Dorado, Butler county,
with population of 5000 people.
The excavation for the foundation of
the new government building at Leav-
enW orth, is about to be commenced.
The resignation of II. M. Waters as
receiver of the land Office at Indepen-
dence, Montgomery county, has been
accepted.
The city of Yates Center and Woodson
county have voted $50, 600 in aid of the
Verdig girls Valley, Independence & West
ern railroad.
WIT. Wakefield, of the the Enter
prise Anti- Monopolist, claims to be the
first type setter to stick type in the ter
ritory of Kansas.
Seneca Courier: J. H. Peckham has
discovered coal on his place near town.
The vein is about three feet ten inches
from where it crops out.
1t is said that D. V. Mott, the default
ing treasurer of Coffey county, was seen
Id nfh hat hn
the case he is probably in Canada by
this time.
The governor has pardoned T. J. Arm
strong, sentenced to the penitentiary
from Cowley county for murder for if
teen.years. He had served four years
and had eleven yet to serve.
Rev. w. C. Price, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church of Cherokee, Crawford
county, committed suicide. by hanging
hin self to gate post. Melancholy and
an UNI alanced brain the cause.
Seneca Courier: The whisky prosecu-
ton against L. J. Rote, of Wetmore, was
compromised. The case was dismissed
in consideration of Mr.. Rote paying all
costs and surrendering his druggists
permit.
Peabody Graphic: During the past
eight months no less than one hundred
and thirty buildings have been erected
in the city of Peabody. The aggregated
amount of money expended in the erec-
ton of these buildings reaches $97, 25O.
Thomas Lamar stabbed and probably
fatally injured w. II. COler near FIRE.
donia, Wilson county, the other day
while engaged in "wordy war;" La
mar has not been captured, and the
sheriff of Wilson county offers reward
for his arrest.
Arkansas City Republicans: Floods in
the early season and drouth in midsum-
mer have disappointed the hope of an
unusual yield of corn; yet the crop
throughout the county will not fall far
short of average.
William Brown, q we'll known citizen
of Sedgwick county, was found dead in q
well near his residence at Oakland. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was that he
committed suicide. No reason was as.
cribed why the rash act should have
been committed.
A Methodist camp-meeting has Just
closed at Ell Dorado, Butler county. Dur
ing its sessions twenty-five persons were
converted, and the same number was
converted during the following week al
the Methodist church at Ell Dorado all
of which was the result of the camp.
meetings.
Columbus Courier: Under a recent
decision of the commissioner of pensions
the editor of this paper gets $3.50 pc,
4 month pension, for loss of arm at Shout.
\ der Joint. Since our discharge from the
army our pay has been So, SIS, $iS, $24
$50, and now $3.50 month. s. O. Nc
Dwell Is the name of the editor of the
Co srier.
Larned Optic: Frank J. Marshall, the
founder of Marysville, and for whom
Marshall county was named passed
through this city few days ago en- rout.
to his homo at Denver, Colorado. In
1853 Mr.. Marshall attended at st. Marys
Mission the FIRST convention of white
people ever held on Kansas soil. From
that convention grew the adoption by
congress of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
It was discovered the other day that