Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-12
STATE NEwA

STATE NEwA
A union depot issoon to be erected at
Wichita.
Scandia, Republic county, has q daily
paper.
Harper City has 615 children Of .
school age.
Anthony, Harper county, is soon to
have new daily paper.
The Garnett, Anderson county, Plain
dealer is now issued as . daily.
The delinquent tax list of Atchison
county foots up to nearly $4,000.
James McNeely is the oldest liv-
ing settler of Washington county.
The new natural history building of
the state university has twenty corners.
The largest taxpayer in johnson coun-
ty, pays $457l into the county treasury
each year.
The jury fees for the July term of the
Wyandotte county district court amounts
to $1,000.
Montgomery county has just sent q
delegation of eleven prisoners to the
penitentiary.
The Greenwood county teachers in
stitute Just closed, had nearly 40 teach
ers in attendance.
The new Missouri Pacific freight depot
at Atchison will be completed about Oc-
tober LIST.
1t is just nineteen years since the first
train of cars run into the city of Man
haitian, Riley county.
Contracts have been awarded for the
erection of $4,000 worth of new build
ings at Fort Leavenworth.
The Cheney, Sedgwick county, school
board have levied school tax of twenty
mills, and have fixed the school term at
eight months.
A three year old child of q Mrs. Sey-
mer, living near Concordia, Cloud county,
was killed the other day by being run
over by horse, while it was playing in
the road.
w. w. Whitaker, who assaulted MIR.
A. A. Pegram, of Argonis, Sumner coun-
ty, escaped from the deputy sheriff, but
was soon captured and is now in Jail at
Wellington, with fine and cost against
him of ever SIG.
Work is being pushed along on the
western end of the st. Louis & Emporia.
The cars will be running on twenty-six
miles of road west of Pleasanton, Linn
county, in thirty days. The iron for the
extension is on the ground.
Russell Record: Russell county has in
its population two boys whom, we ven.
ture to say, cannot be beaten in avoirdu-
pois in the state of Kansas. One. the son
off r. McNeal, eight years of age, weighs
ITO pounds, the other; the son of A. J.
Kennicott, sixteen years old, kicks the
beam at 24O pounds.
M. 8. Williams, Udall, has been fined
500 for numerically beating an adopted
daughter, Is years of age. He had used
chairs, pokers, sticks, ETC., quite freely
about her head and shoulders. The girl
Is good looking, with fiery snap in her
eye; but not very bright Intellectually.
It is said that Williams raised her as he
uid his horses-only to work.
Newton Kansan: The city council
granted to E. w. Pike, representing
Cross & Martindale, of EN- poria, the
right to manufacture and light the city
with gas for term of twenty-one years.
These gentleman proposes to build q
reservoir of capacity of $4,000 cubic
feet. The prices charged are So per
cubic feet, or the same prices charged at
Emporia and Wichita.
An academy of learning is to be built
at Eureka, the capital of Greenwood
county, the second county east of Sedg-
wick. 1t is expected that it will be ready
for students the first week in January
next, and will be capable of accom-
modating $50 to 300 students. The build
ing will be composed OF stone, faced with
high, with tower 100 feet high, and q
ground extent of 55x78 feet.
Caldwell Journal: A very sad accident
occurred here last week, by which Mr..
8. F. Deems lost his wife. Mr.. Deems
was one of the stage drivers for the
Southw estern Stage Co., was driving his
stage out of the stage barn, and when
the front wheels struck the ditch at the
edge of the side walk, he was thrown
from his seat under the wheels over
him. Several ribs were broken, from the
effects of which he died.
Mr.. James Bighton was killed near
Bennington, Ottawa county, the other
day by the accidental discharge of gun.
Hewas out hunting with party of friends
and while getting into the carriage and
by an accident one of the party discharg-
cd shotgun with his foot, the load en-
tering the right groin and severing the
main artery. MI. Brighton lived only
forty minutes after the accident, and ut
tered few words, saying: "Boys, am q
dead man." After he was carried into
the house he did not seem to suffer any
great pain-and breathed his last.
Winfield Courier: The life of Isaac
DeTurk, the sixteen year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. DeTurk, living in this city,
has been slowly ebbing away for some