Western Kansas world., 1886-03-06
STATE NEWS.
Newsy Notes Cleaned From the Kansas

ten years, was smothered to death in
corn bin at an elevator in West Atchinsol
the other day. The boy had been abou
the elevator all day playing, and he wa
not missed until a load of corn wa
drawn off at chute; the chute choket
after time. and one of the men who wer
attending it, knowing that there hat
been sack in the bin above, took an irol
hook and tried to pull it out. Insteat
OF sack, he pulled out the boys shoe
having torn the lacing with the hook
This caused some alarm, and the thre'
men present at once went to work tx
open the chute, when the body of younf
Conway was found. The coroner ant
the relatives Of the boy were summoned
and an inquest was held, resulting in
verdict that the boy had come to hi.
death by asphyxia. He had probably
got into the bin above by means of {
ladder which was leaning against the
outside, and when the chute was opened
to let the corn OUT, he was drawn into
the hopper, and covered with the corr
smothering him. His father, George
Conway, is a teamster. Mrs. Conway
was prostrated by the shock.
Topeka Commonwealth: Secretary
Adams, OF the State Historical society
desires information concerning the band
OF men organized at Washington, April
1861, for the defense of President Lin
coin and the white house. The company
was chiefly made up of Kansas men, and
was under the command of Gen. James
ID. Lane. 1t was volunteer company,
ami was called the Frontier Guards. F"
1t vas accepted by President Lincoln
and occupied for few days and nights,
the east room Of the white house. The
secretary of the State Historical society
has been requested by members of the
company, to collect information for use
In the preparation of history of the
organization, and the services rendered
by it. The facts collected will be placed
in competent hands, and persons possess
ed of information, are requested to
promptly write to the secretary.
Topeka Commonwealth: For three
days past the grand lodge of Masons of
Kansas, has been in session in this city, a
very large number of delegates being in
attendance. The meeting came to close
by the election of the following officers
{ to the grand lodge: NJ. W. G. M-Dr.
S.E. Sheldon, of Topeka. r. w. d. G..
NH. @. Cook, of Oswego. S. G. W.
w. M. Lamb, of Sterling. J. 6. W.
George c. Kenyon, of Abilene. Grand
Observation-Disclosures Beck, of Leaven-
worth. Grand SeSetary.-John H.
Brown, of Wyandotte. A vote was then
taken on the next place Of meeting and
tAtchison was selected. The session will
jonvene in that city in February 1887.
= lola Comrdnt: There are 90,070 more
men than women in the state; that there
are 311,110 more single persons than
married; that there are in Allen county
246 widows and 161 widowers; that Al
len county has 1928 inhabitants to the
square mile; that of the inhabitants of
Allen county, 4, ,159 were born in Kan
sas, and that of the remainder there are
representatives of every state and terri
tory except Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming,
Washington, Utah, New Mexico and
Montana; that there are in this county
twenty-five people so years of age and
over, that the total value of the farm
products of Allen county for the year
1885 was $6S1, ,074.05.
The charter of 'the Kansas City,
Augusta, Wellington & Pan Handle
railway company" has been filed with
the secretary of state. Place of business,
Wellington, Sumner county. Route from
Kansas City, Mo-, to Wellington, Kan,
ard from thence to Clarendon, Texas.
Estimated length of road, 700 miles.
Capital stock, $5,OOO,O0O.
Olathe Gazette: In johnson county
are 1865 persons over 81 years of age
OF that number there are three thousand,
nine hundred and seventy mine engaged
in the various occupations, 1859 of whom
are engaged in agriculture, 709 profess
sional and personal service, 4O3 trades
and transportation, 46S manufacturing
and mechanical industries.
s. j. Stewart, of Allen county, member
of the present Legislature, is one of the
old residents of Kansas. He was men,
ber of the first ''free state' Legislature
OF 1853, which held its session in Law
renee, there being thirty-n members
of the house. But few members of that
historic body are now living.
Sedan Journal: The census of Kan
sas for 1885 shows that men exceed the
women of the state by about one sixth
which would indicate that this would be
a good place for some of the surplus fe-
male population of the effete east.
At Cleveland, Kas., small town east
OF Wallace on the Kansas Pacific, Satur
day evening, G. A. Fellows, druggist,
aged twenty-one, shot and killed his wife,
aged twenty. Whisky is supposed to be
at the bottom of it.
The Santa Fe cut off from Hutchin-
son and Kinsley, via Stafford. will proba-
bly, be built, as large number of men
and teams are now at the former place,
ready to commence work as soon as the
weather will permit. CO J
Peabody Gazette: David Lyster, iv-
ing seven miles northeast of Peabody,
while boring well on his farm, struck
vein OF coal at depth of fifty feet 1t
is considered a paying vein by those who {
have examined it.
Colonel Milton Benton died at Effing
ham, Atchison county, in his list year.
Colonel Benton was one of the pioneers |
of Atchison county; was state senator,