Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-06-06
FANsAs STATE NEWS.

A street railway is now talked of fo
Winfield.
Washburn College has an Athletic
Association.
The water works problem is being dis
cussed at Emporia-
A telephone has been established be
tween Lyons and Sterling.
According to the assessors census the
population of Lyons, Rice county is l.,
107.
A fire in the warehouse of Muse
Spivey at Newton caused loss of prop
erty valued at $500.
Sales of real estate are reported brisk
at Ell Dorado. One man claims to have
sold $4,000 worth of farms in the pas.
three months.
Lawrence Herald Tribune: The county
clerk has received in three weeks sew
enty-four wolf and four catamount scalp;
at s. each, or total of 1924.
Lyons (Rice CO.. Republican: The to.
tai valuation of property in Lyons, &C.
cording to the assessors reports $75, O3C
do oSsdlhot Sco,1Oo Al 1OCis
The hod-carriers employed by the diff.
ferent contractors of Leayepworth have
struck for higher wages. They desire
an increase from $3.50 to $l.75 and
$500.
Burton Monitor: Mr.. 4. ]. Smiths
barn was struck by lightning last Tues
day night, killing fine span of mules
holopuinr 70 hin, md fpa hrooI mo 70
Loss about $3.50.
A movement has been made to estab-
fish in Kansas, a State Teachers Read
ing Circle. The object is to provide a
uniform course of reading for all the
teachers in the State.
The work of taking the census has
been completed in three wards of the
City of Lawrence. 1t shows a popula-
ton in the First ward of 2,345; Second
ward, 2,O52; Third ward, $500. This is
a total of 254 increase over last year.
The citizens of Emporia held meet
ing few days ago and discussed ques-
tons of importance to the city. Meas
ures were advanced to obtain mills, fac
tories and other institutions which
would have tendency to build up the
city.
H. A. Powers and wife, of Osborne, &C.
1companied by lady friend, were swept
away by the current while attempting to
cross swollen stream in the vicinity of
that city, and the women were drowned.
The body of an unknown child, eighteen
months old, was also found in the creek.
Osborne Times: Government land is
becoming very scarce in Osborne county.
The 40 and 60 acre tracts are no longer
despised, but are rapidly taken up, and
even land so rough that there is barely
tillable ground enough on it to enable
the settler to come within the laws, is
being homesteaded by parties contemp-
lating embarkation in the stock business
A Deputy United States Marshal from
Texas arrived in Topeka the other day,
bringing man named VIM. d. Stark,
who is charged with forging pension pa
pe-s in Wabaunsee county about one
year ago. Stark has given the officers a
long hunt, but he was finally nipped
when he least expected it. He was
locked up in the county Jail for safe
keeping, and will have hearing in the
United Startes court at an early day.
A citizen of Halstead has invented and
constructed a new kind of a buggy
spring which is not only novel but does
away with that part of the buggy known |
as the fifth wheel. The springs are bars
of steel extending from axle to axle and |
are four in number to each wheel. He
had a buggy constructed in this plan,
on the streets one day this week, and a
Large number Of our citizens took look
at it. For easy riding We have never
seen the equal of this vehicle. The in.
ventor will apply for patent.
A fire occurred at Wichita the other
day which, before it could be subdued,
destroyed Loveland's feed mills, Ar
nold's barn, Osgood's elevator, six hun
dred bushels of wheat and four hun
dred sacks of chop, belonging to Sher-
man & Eldridge, Morris Bros. Wire
Fence factory and McFarland's foundry
and machine shops. None of this prop
erty which was located in the vicinity
of the Fort Scott depot, seems to have
been insured, so that the loss falls upon
our citizens, some of whom are unable to
bear it, the loss being from 81 900 to
IS 900 to each burned out.
Emporia Republicans Ironton Fowler
married his sisters daughter several
ago, obtaining the license to do ,
80, as We are informed, through the
Chase county probate court. Helived in {
his vicinity short time. but not wish {
ng longer to confront the displeasure OF
lis father and mother in the neighbor- ,
hood, he moved with his wife to Jackson
county, Missouri, where he was arrested
by Sheriff White under an Indictment :
~ the grand jury. brought back to this :
county and lodged in Jail, his marriage,
lnder the laws of Kansas, laying him /.
liable to prosecution on charge of in /.
'est, punishable by term in the peni- :
entiary. Y
Dodge City Times: The Eureka Canal
s making progress at the rate of about '
wo miles per week. The ditch is exca- 6
'ated to point within four miles north 4
vest of Dodge, on section 16, and will '
hortly be on the line directly north of a
he city. Five ditching machines were /
1 work when we visited the operations s
he other day. The machines are moved n
y twelve horses to each machine, and q
he dirt is carried from the plows by q
means of aprons and is conveyed to the