Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-07

him in the upper arm completely sever
ing the muscle. He is IN very critica
condition.
Last week two men ar Atchison afte
driving of q horse, captured a recentl,
arrived emigrant from Indiana, robbie;
him of $14. left him in possession of til,
rig while they went into the depot (,
send dispatch to Indiana to the man
friends, and disappeared.
! Lawrence Herald: The large specimen
of perrified tee presented to the stat.
university by q gentleman in the west
ern part of the state, will be mounted
on pedestal. This is said to be the
largest and most beautiful specimen
ever seen in the state.
Salem Jewell county, argus: One day
Hast week one of Thos. Watsons bovs
put out fire to burn some weeds out OF
q potato patch, but the fire got into the
/ prairie grass and burned house fol
Mr.. Stone. and all OF. Egg Taylor's house
hold goo ls also.
Abilene Gazette: During rain storm
che night last week the house of VIM,
Arthur, in Ridge township. was struck
by lightning, doing about $3.50 damage.
1t will be remembered that this is the
house in which young Arthur was killed
by lightning last summer.
The safe of Mes RS. Gottschalk & Co.,
of Ottawa was tapped the other evening,
little after six o'clock, and $50 taken
| Tho M r<;oo 1r,oro To1l1roI 70 Olo<bo =, i
arrested. One was A. L. Devenny, son
of Judge Devenny, of Olathe, and the
other gambler from Kansas City.
Mr.. D. F. Corbett, chief clerk in the
ticket department of the st. Louis, Fort
Scott and Wichita railroad at Fort Scott,
while out hunting the other day, acct
dentally discharged his gun. The entire
charge entered the upper part of the
hand and wrist, lacerating the flesh and
bones in q most shocking manner. The
arm was amputated.
Thousands of snakes, Of the blue racer
variety, have been noticed coming to
their home in the bluff north of the mill
pond, at Glea Elder, Mitchell county.
It will he remembered that over eight
teen hundred rattlesnakes were found
and killed at the time the bluff was be-
ing graded for the railroad, few years
since.
Abilene Reflector: Miss Genevieve
Carpenter, who lately returned from a
school of stenography at Chicago, which
she attended for some six or seven
weeks. is doing some excellent work in
shorthand during this term of court.
pill. Her bright face and sunny nature
has thrown ray of sunshine in the old
courtroom.
Clyde Herald: In the matter of the
late Daniel Mating, who, few weeks
ago, died in Shirley township under the
suspicion of being poisoned by his wife,
and for which reason his body was dis
inferred and coronor's inquest held,
the jury returned verdict that the de-
ceased died of poison, hut fastened the
guilt upon no one, so the probabilities
are that no arrests will be made.
Leavenworth Times: Kansas has
the bravest women in the .yorld, as q
her own representative. The other day
while Mrs. G. S. Maynard, of North
ampton township; was going after water,
she saw large wolf run across her path
and into hole close by. She imme-
tliately got out of the wagon, and pro-
ceeded to said hole with axe in hand;
reaching in, she caught Mr.. Wolf by the
tail, pulled him out, and split his head
with her little axe. That is the kind of
women they have in Rocks county.
Olathe Mirror Gazette: Perhaps the
most daring and reckless burglary and
robbery ever committed in this city oc-
Cured one evening last week at the jew
elry store of Mr.. l.. D. Willitt, on Park
street. MIR. Rankin, on entering the
store shortly after o'clock was confront
ed with revolver and ordered to get
out. He did the wise thing and with
drew from the room and gave the alarm.
The burglar made his escape through
the back window, where he had effected
an entrance and took with him several
gold watches, and jewelry amounting to
$500 or $500.
Atchison Globe: A farmer living three
or four niles south of town tells of an in
teresting fight which he witnessed 8
short time ago. He was engaged i,
quarrying rock when he heard the warn.
ing of a rattlesnake, and on looking
around saw one of these reptiles spar
ring" with a huge black snake, both
lodging, and attempting to secure an adj
vantage. After little scientific work
they came together, when furious fight
commenced. The black snake wound
itself around the other, which was thick
and heavy, but not before the rattler had
succeeded in biting it, and crushing it as
hard as it knew how; then dragged itself
off and laid down to rest and brush
some of the sweat out of its eyes. The
rattler was also exhausted, and rested
up for few minutes, when they came
together again, and had another round.
This lasted half an hour, when the black
snake dragged itself off and died, and
the RATHER was about to claim the stakes
when the farmer killed It with rock.
In an hour the black snake bad swollen
to twice its natural sire.
0f. Seorfs' First Fee.
Saturday Evening Gasette.
once heard Storms tell of the first fee
he ever received. A farmer who had q
CIV killed hv n railwav train en- ulOyed