Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-05-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
K!nsley has five lumber wards.
ready.
The first buildings of Norton are rap
IDLY disappearing.
Mckinnon & &c. are building 81 Geo
business house in Concordia.
The gambling houses of Newton have
been closed by the officers.
Solomon City is to have new depot
OF whits limestone. 35x120 feet.
The livery stable and contents of C. E.
Halsey at Anthony was destroyed by fire
few nights since. Sixteen head of hor-
ses were burned to death.
Oberlin Eye: One hundred covered
immigrant wagons passed through town
Saturday, en- route for Thomas county
and the western part of Decatur.
Register: The county funding bonds
calling for $4,000 were yesterday sold
to A. S. Race for $24,653, which speaks
we'll for the financial credit of Washing
ton.
The entries made upon government
land at the Oberlin U. S. Land Office
range from forty to eighty per day. Who
says tbs coyote region is not coming to
the front.
Sterling Gozette: Thieves entered the
store of George Gall last night, and stole
goods to the amount of $50 or $50, and
some 81 or So in change left in the coun-
ter cash drawer.
Norton Courier: Mr.. Davis's little boy
was climbing on the roof of new house
they were building and fell through,
breaking both arms and otherwise bruis.
ing himself severely.
Berry Logan says the Bull City Empire
has shipped from this point during the
past thirty days ST. ,444 worth of eggs, and
there were 2,806 dozen shipped from
here besides; and it hasn't been a very
good month for eggs either.
Gaylord Herald: The shortage in the
accounts Of ex-Treasurer johnson, after
thorough overhauling, amounts to S.
500.85. Mr.. Johnson will pay the amount
like man, but we surmise that q vigor-
GUS effort will be made to ascertain
where the money has gone.
P. s. lockwood, steward at the Arcade
hotel In Newton was accidentally caught
in the elevator of the house, and received
injuries that may cause his death. The
scalp was torn loose on the left side of
his head from the crown down, tearing
the ear loose. The bones of the right
temple were fractured.
All of the grist mills in the North and
South Solomon valleys are being run to
their fullest capacities. Those at Beloit,
Cav ker City, Downs, Osborne City and
Gaylord having capacity of from Is to
100 barrels day. Nearly all of them
employ travelling men.
Burlington Patriot: The absence of
the proverbial March winds has been a
noticeable feature in Kansas weather the
last two seasons. These winds have long
been the terror Of all new corners, max
ing them pine and sign to return to
bosom of their "wife's folks" It is be-
lieved by many that the climate is
changing as much in this respect as it
has increased In rainfall.
Headlight: A colored family of twenty
three persons arrived at Thayer Tuesday, |
this is only sample of what is on the
way from East Tenn. The father of the |
herd was here few weeks ago and rent |
ed Pat Sullivans ranch, few miles south |
east Of town. These colored people |
from Tennessee are industrious and |
make good citizens. Let them come so |
long as one family makes no more than |
train load.
Wichita Beacon: Three shots of giant
powder were recently fired in the water |
above the dam on Little River, and the |
conclusion killed thousands of fish. The |
dastardly scoundrels, who have neither
respect for the law nor humane feeling,
took as many fish as they desired and
left the others dead and adrift on the
shores. Such an outrage deserves severe
punishment, and we should like to
chronicle the apprehension aad arrest of
the guilty parties. A heather Digger
Indian would not perpetrate such wan
ton slaughter of game to crafty q pres.
ent hunger or vicious propensity.
Paola Republican: Charley Olney, an
old printer boy, formerly an employee of
the editor of the Republican, at Garnett,
was in town this week for q day or two. |
Charley has become what is known as q |
tramp printer and a confirmed one.
Since last we saw him in Paola six or
eight years ago, he has traversed all the
Southern states, working in Virginia, the |
Carolinas and Georgia; has worked in
the Government printing house at Wash |
ington, on the Sun and other New York |
dallies; run Sunday paper at POUCH.
keepsie, skimished all through the New
England states, made tour of Canada
and got married in Iowa. And now he
turns up in Kansas again, pretty seedy,
of course, and dead broke, after the man
ner of all tramps. Charley has had
career.