Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-07
KANSAS NEWS

lights.
The special delivery system has beel
instituted at Emporia.
Another eight thousand dollar schoo
house is being built in Dodge City.
! Burlingame, Ossge county, has organ
lied colored fire company.
For the first time in twenty year
Allen county is out of FUNDS.
Leavenworth county has a population
of AZ, 26s; Marion county, 1886.
A company has been formed at To
ronto, Woodson county, to prospect fol
coal.
Work has commenced on the new $50,
600 passenger depot at Ottawa, Franklin
county.
The Citizens bank, new institution
at Abilene, opened its doors for business
last week.
A horse thief named George Wallace
escaped from Lyon county Jail at EN-
poria last week.
Bill Johnson was arrested at Arkan.
sas City, Cowley county, last week fol
horse stealing.
A man had team, buggy and harness
stolen at a campmeeting in Montgomery
county, the other day.
j. Miller, sheriffof Dickinson county
was indicted on three different counts by
the grand jury of that county.
One hundred and fifty.three new
dwellings have been built in Anthony,
Haper county, since January LIST.
David Delk, convicted of assault with
intent to kill, broke Jail at Oskaloosa,
Jefferson county one night last week.
Burglars attempted but failed to blow
open the safe of Robert Whisner, the
other night, at La Cynge, Linn county.
Miss Susie Patrick, of Jewell City
schools is the only teacher in Jewell
county who holds state certificate.
Charges of .incempetency ETC., have
been preferred against the city marshal
of Emporia. which the city council are
investigating.
A special election has been called in
Marion county, for the purpose of voting
aid to the proposed Omaha, Abilene and
Wichita railroad.
Thieves attempted to sell a load of
hides in Atchison the other day which
they had stolen at Carbondale, but were
arrested and jailed.
There are ten lines of railway in course
of construction in this state at this time
with some twenty-five or thirty lines un-
der contemplation.
Mr.. J. II. Dowden, of Lincoln, Neb.,
had his leg broken last week, by the up
setting of q stage between Lenora and
Oberlin, Decatur county.
VIM. Denris, Seneca, Nemaha coun-
ty, was last wees sentenced to four years
in the penitent:&ry for an attempted out
rage on an 1l-year old girl.
The business men of Atchison have or
foundry and stove works in that city. A
suitable building will be selected at once.
Kansas City is the name of a new
town which has been established in Scott
county. The town site is said to be the
geographical centre of the United States.
A vigilance committee of the best citi-
zens of Johnson county, has been organ
lied in Olathe for the purpose of driving
suspicious characters away from that
locality.
Chase County Leader: One night last
week burglar entered DR.. Pugh's drug
store by cutting through the window and
opening the catch. $3035 cents was
secured.
A man named Patisberger, living near
Cheney, Sedgewick county, has mysteri-
ously disappeared, and foul play is sus-
pected. Sherman johnson has been
arrested on suspicion.
The county commissioners of Cloud
county, have offered $500 reward for the
detection of the person or persons who
murdered the unknown man found in the
Republican river below Concordia.
Leavenworth is excited over PROPOSE
ton from L. T. Smith to build a railroad
in northern direction, crossing the
Central Branch at Muscotah, and ending
at Pawnee City, Nebraska.
Ellsworth Democrat: G. F. McGrew, of
this City. has in his possession the COM
pass once used by Old John Brown. It
is rare relic, he having been offered
$500 for it by the Smithsonian Institute.
According to the official statistics of
the state board of agriculture, Doniphan
county, is not the only county in the
state that shows decrease in population
from last year. Atchison county fell of
more than 1000.
Atchison Globe: T. V. Lawrence, an
old and deaf gentleman who lives at
Concordia, Cloud county, was run into
by an east-bound pas senger train on the
Central Branch. His Injuries are con.
sidered fatal.
John II. Davis, farmer living near
Clinton, Douglass county, claims to be
still suffering from the effects of broken
ribs received more than year ago the
Ossa watomie asylum, whilean inmate of
that institution.
The hay press and warehouse of 8. b.
Rice, at Seneca, Nemaha county, burned
one night last week, There was fifty or
sixty tons of hay, awaiting shipment,
that was burned. The machinery was
injured beyond repair. A
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