Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-12-26

Parsons is to have electric lights.
Dodge City has six lumber yards.

WamegO has new n8tlOnal Dank With
q capital of $751; coo.
It is said that the Swedish population
of Topeka is fully 1000.
The enrolment of the Wichita public
schools is {, 800 pupils.
A MALTA company is soon to be Or
ganized in Wilson county.
Independence, Montgomery county
had q $500 fire last week.
An organized gang of thieves seem to
be depredsting Leavenworth.
There is talk of establishing a carriage
factory at Newton, Harvey county.
salina has eighteen Car. Ca agents who
engage exclusively in that business.
Ell Dorado, Butler county, is now to
have another water works and gas works.
Several farmers in the vicinity of Fair
field, Wilson county are prospecting for
coal.
The tough little boys of the state are
being gathered in to the state reform
school.
Capt. G. H. Willis, of Washington, has
been appointed Deputy United States
Marshal.
During the past year $l1 900 worth of
new building have been erected at Cav
ker City.
Mr.. P. Uhlrickson, an old citizen of
Lawrence, died very suddenly the other
day.
Thayer Headlight: George D. Bailey,
or this city, has fallen heir to $4,000 in
Kentucky.
Brainerd, q new town in Butler coun-
ty, has board of trade, which meets
once week.
Abilene has an active Board of Trade
which is more than many cities in the
state twice its size can say.
B. johnson, q citizen of Doniphan
county paid 1920 taxes this year into
the treasury of that county.
Marshall County News: Marshall coun-
ty has 126 organized school districts s.
1872 children of school age, and employs
Isl teachers.
A colony of Germans recently arrived
in Ford county. were they will take up
government land and locate permanent
ly.
Saline county recently voted $115O00,
bonds to seizure the building of the Mis-
souri, Pacific from Council Grove to Sa-
lima.
Quails are said to be very numerous
in Rawlins county. One man went out
the other day and in the space of an
hour bagged fifty quail.
A man was fined $3.50 in the district
court of Wilson county last week for
kicking boy. The case was appealed
to the supreme court.
The floor of a school house at King
man gave way the other day and for a
time caused considerable excitement but
it turned out all right.
A man at Abilene the other day lost
roll of bills containing $3.50 and after
ward had the same returned to him
without dollar missing.
A Touring mill the property of A.
D. Sturger was burned to the ground at
Chetoka, Labette county, the other day. |
Loss, 5000. Insurance $2,4CO.
At Longton, Elk county, the other day
q man named johnson, and his two lit
tie boys were overturned with load of
hay and one of the boys killed.
Contributions for the Grant monumet
fund for the erection of memorial stone |
1t Fl. Leavenworth are reported as be- |
ing received at the rate of$15 per day.
The city council of Newton have pass
ed an order instructing the city officials |
TO see that all saloons and gambling
houses there are closed and kept closed.
There are said to be forty cases of ty-
ohoid fever in one neighborhood in the
,ity of Newton, all caused by the affected
parties drinking water out of the same
we'll.
VIM. Gibson was arrested at Indepen-l
1ence, Montgomery county, the other
lay charged with attempting to k
mail several respectable druggists of that
place.
The probate Judge of Cherokee county
las revoked all permits to sell intoxicat-
ng liquors unless the holders hold GER
,ifcate ofregistry from the state board OF
pharmacy.
No more wooden buildings will be al
owed to be built in the district 80 re-
Gently scourged by fire at Dodge City,
and therefore bricks at that place are in
great demand.
w. C. Beard, of Hutchinson, recently
brought from Kentucky his grand
fathers clock" It is one hundred and |
5ixty-seven years old, eight feet high,
and all the movements are of hard wood
The other day just before dusk, John
Albert Sbaffer, a citizen of Leavenworth
was knocked down and robbed on the
public streets of that city. The robbers
were afterwards captured and gave their
names as Neil O'Neil and John Bresley.
Fire broke out in sporting house at
Dodge City the other day and burned |
two-thirds of the Globe block, including
the Globe Live Stock Journal, Kansas
Cowboy, the Nixon house. the Beehive
dry goods store and Ramseyer's grocery |
Newton Kansan: The city attorney
has been instructed to draft an ordi- |
nance taxing each and every drug store
in Newton having a permit to sell intox- |
icating liquors for mechanical or medi. |
cinal purposes the Gum of 5000 per an
mum.
Topeka Journal: Over 400 families
have reported to Prof. Larimer stating |
that they could accommodate teachers |
attending the State Association from |
December 2Sth to the 30th, at the rate
of $1OO per day.
There will be no township election in
this state next February, the present in