Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-15
KANSAS NEWS.
Gaylord wants more carpenters

Gaylord wants more carpenters.
Hanover City contains 977 inhabitants
Greenleaf is one short of 900 souls all
told.
Whooping cough is prevalent ame Nc
the children of Marion.
Paradise Flats is the name give
level plateau in Rocks county. a to
The old settlers of Ellsw,
will hold reunion Augue' o nth count!
Mortality exists to . Io'n.
tent among the infa' considerable e1
During the M ' VI oo"
receints of the nth of June the cash
Dodge CITY, Santa Fe freight Office a
we're $4,000.
ton r n Courier: The population of MOI
1st .as increased SO per cent since the
of January.
Soren Peterson, young Swede, waf
drowned in the Blue river, opposite Han
over, Washington county, while bath
ing.
Thomas County Cot: Plenty of rain in
May inches, five for June and six fol-
July will not be bad showing for Thorn
as county.
An attempt was made the other eve
ming in Columbus, Cherokee county, to
burn the residence of q widow named
Cushman. The reason why this was at
tempted is unknown.
Thomas County Cat: Commodore Payn
came to Colby with lung trouble, reduced
in flesh and feeling badly, and weighing
only 95 pounds. He has been here nearly
five months and has gained his health
wonderfully, weighing at this time 137
pounds. Colby can be rated as first
class sanitarium.
LYMAN Stillson, lad fourteen years
old, was playing with some other boys
in Gregg Bros elevator at Seneca, Neo.
sho county, and jumped into a wheat
bin; car was loading at the time and
young Stillson was caught in spout and
suffocated under the moving wheat. The
dead body was recovered after two
hours.
Chetope I4duance: A few nights ago
sad accident occurred at the home of Mr.
TT. Calvin. His little three year-old
daughter was lying on the floor asleep,
near table on which stood lamp. The
little boys, in playing around the table
accidentally knocked the lamp of, when
it exploded, setting fire to the little girls
clothing, and before the flames could be
extirguished she was badly burned.
The Lawrence Plow company has made
an assignment for the benefit of its creds
itors to Nathan Henshaw. The COM
pany was organized in 1880, with paid
up capital of $4,4OO. The hard times
and the depression in the value of real
estate and personal property, belonging
to the company, and it's many losses in
the wholesale and retail trade have made
this step necessary. The liabilities are
about $4,000, and the available assets
not definitely known, though they are
said to be amply sufficient to pay all
just claims, and fair percentage on the
capital stock if the business is properly
managed.
La Cyene Journal: A colored boy
aged Is or Is, living at Lane, this coun-
ty, was bothered by mosquitoes at night,
and concoted scheme to get rid of them
30 he could sleep. He built small fire
under his "bupk," thinking the smoke
would drive away the mosquitoes. After
building the fire. he wrapped himself up
some means his bed caught fire, and the
boy being so tight woundu in the sheet,
could not extricate himself, and, al
though his cries brought help, his bed
and clothing-even the shirt on his back
were consumed and the boy so badly
burned that he will die.
Caldwell Journal: The bridge contrac-
tor who has the contract for putting in |
the twenty-five small bridges between
here and Fort Reno, on the military road,
is at work on several of them now. The !
timbers for the Pole Cat, Cottonwood
and Wild Horse creek bridges went down |
last week. They will all be completed |
in the next sixty days. 1t will take from
$50, 900 to 100000 to complete the sys-
tenn, which amount will be asked for
from congress the coming winter. It is
very probable that it will be granted
now, since the war department has charge
of the Cheyenne and Arspahoe Indians
and their agency.
Usage City Free Press: David Griffith,
the twelve year old son of a well known
Panteg farmer came to his death
the other day in this way:
He and comrade were loading some
things into q wagon out of q house that
had been occupied by work hands during
corn blowing time. The first thing put
in was loaded shot gun. It was laid
on the bottom of the wagon. The hind
end gate was out of the wagon. The un-
fortunate young man next threw an AK
into the wagon. The AK struck the
hammer of the gun which went off send-
ing the load of shot into and through the
bows stomach. An effort was made to
carry him home, but he was taken into
. neighbours house and died at about the
hour above named.
Fort Scott Herald: The other day Her.
man Shaffer, lad of ten years, son of
John Shaffer, attempted to light fire in
the stove with coal oil. The result was
On explosion, scattering the burning oil
all over thepoor little fellow, setting fire
to his clothes and burning his flesh in
many places to crisp, his left arm be- |
ing cooked clear to the bone. After the
explosion the little hero crawled to the
kitchen door calling for help. His cries
attracted the attention of William Dex-
ter, who seeing the burning boy, dashed
Q bucket of water on him, extinguishing
the flames, and tore from his body the
clothes that still Rugged his quivering