Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
KANSAS NEWS

KANSAS NEWS
Wellington is to have q street car line.
Kaneas has population of nearly l.
100000
A new directory of Saline county is be-
ing issued.
A pottery is soon to be established at
Ellsworth.
Thirty.six old soldiers had q reunion
ct Atwood.
Gov. Martin has issued proclamation
organizing Thomas county.
d. G. Elliott was arrested last week at
Great Bend for horse stealing.
ENew Basil is the name of town just
Organized in Dickinson county.
A mountain lion has been killing stock
near Cowland, Hodgeman county.
A four foot vein of excellent fire clay
has been discovered near Atchison.
The first school organized in Scott
county was instituted the other day.
Forty men are employed putting in
the water works at Lyons, Rice county.
A new lodge of the I. o. o. F. has
been organized at Peabody, Marion coun-
The repair shops of the Union Pacific
railroad have been located at Clay Cen
ter.
There has not been an arrest made in
McCune, Crawford county, for three
months.
TIE night clerk of the Phillips house
at Wellington was robbed the other day
of$135.
Thomas Wbimp was run over and
killed by Santa Fe train near Empo-
ria last week.
A young colored man has entered the
law department of the state university
at Lawrence.
There is scheme on foot to organize
an incandescent electric light company
in Atchison.
The barn of r. Stank, near Oskaloosa,
Jefferson county, was burned the other
day. Loss $500.
Home City, Marshall county, Is boom.
ing. Fifteen carpenters are putting up
new buildings.
Attico, small but enterprising town
in Harper COUNTY, has voted $5,00Obonds
for the erection IF new school house.
Burglars are again at work in Topeka.
A number of business houses and private
dwellings were broken into last week.
A man named McWilliams was ar
rested in Leavenworth the other day,
charged with horse stealing in Missouri.
A colored man named John Moor
was recently buried alive at Oxford,
Sumner county, by sand bank falling
upon him.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
lumber office of A. P. Connolly, in To-
peka, one night last week, securing ten
dollars in money.
The erection of the Downs alliance
elevator in Osborne county is progress
ing, the foundation being completed and
the carpenter work commenced.
Frank Sims, who shot James M. Dodge
on the street at Logan, Phillips county,
short time ago, has been found guilty
of murder in the second degree.
The Windell Champion, new paper
which has just been established in Ed
wards county, thinks that that county is
the banner county of the frontier.
The Methodists at Minneapolis, Ottawa
county, commenced series of revival
meetings. Mrs. ST. John, noted revi-
valist was present, assisting in the SER
vices.
A little seven year old son of Joseph
Bates, residing about two miles south of
Irving, had his thigh broken the other
day while wrestling with son Of James
Wells.
A reunion of the old soldiers of Doug
las county at Baldwin City the other day
was great success. Speeches, address
es, ETC., were made by many of the pio-
neers of this state.
Counterfeit silver dollars have made
their appearance at New Kiowa, Com
anche county. Tney are very poor
make, but several merchants of that
place have been taken in by them.
osborne Neus: The trial of John
Miller, which occurred last week, result
ed in verdict by the jury of murder
in the second degree and sentence of
ten years in the penitentiary.
Sabetba Herald: Last Tuesday night
burglars entered the hardware store of
John Stowell, at Wetmore, blew open
the safe and secured about $40 in cash,
several notes and number of revolvers
Belle PLANE Neus: Sumner county is
the second county in the state in point
of number of children of school age.
Shawnee being first. Out of the popula-
ton of 5000 we have IL 900 of school
age.
There are seven csses against the city
of Atchison on the district court docket
of the November term, for personal in
iuries received by dislocated sidewalks
and Elusive bridges, the amount Sued for
aggregating $4,000.
Louis Knight, while riding on an EN-
CINE of the Topeka, Salina and Western
railroad lost his hold and fell beneath
the wheels, the engine passed over him
and crushing his body to pulp, causing
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