Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-02
NUMBER 45.
sTATE NEWS ITEMS.
Oskaloosa is going to build a ST.,

5TATE NEWS ITEMS.
Oskaloosa is going to build q $1,000
. creamery.
Paola, Miami county, is soon to be
lighted by gas.
Medicine Lodge expects the railroad
, by January l.
The public schools of Burlington will
: observe kansas Day."
There are still $1,000 acres of school
land unsold in Lane county.
Atchison is to have a new county
Jail which will cost $2O,497.
A company has been chartered to erect
$4,000 opera house at Wichita
Sun City, Barber county, wants to be
Incorporated as city OF the third class.
The necessity fer boring for coal is be-
ing strongly urged in Washington counr
ty. S
A Lyndon, Usage county cigar do
refuses to sell cigars to any person ur
age. ~
The public schools of Downs, 0ab6
county, now have an enrollme0t 81
pupils.
There are twenty-five countteo r.
Ksneas that have Center townships e.
them. "a -
The south part of Morris county hoo
been determined on, a. the geographient'
center OF this state.
The store of Geo. F. Raymond was bur-.
glarized the other day at Raymond, Rice
county, and $125 stolen.
The Bugle Call is the name of G. A.
| r. paper that has been established Is
Marysville, Marshall county.
The skating rinks and billiard halls Of
Neodesha, Wilson county, are compelled
to pay an annual license Of $50.
w. C. Butts, the new postmaster ct
Valley Falls, held the Office under Buch-
a1an and resumes under Cleveland.
Finley Farrier, a resident of Osborne
county, Lad his arm crushed to Q jelly
the other day as q result of q loaded
wagon passing over it.
A farmer in Pottawatomie county was
defrauded of 5000 the other day by
means of q patent churn scheme which
was worked on him by two travelling
strangers.
lola Register: Not the least interesting
thing connected with a Kansas snow
storm is the number Of extemporane0us
sleighs it brings to light, and the infinite
variety Of designs of the same.
Newton Republican: Drs. Axtell and
Brewer have removed tumor from the
neck of little child of Louie Hennig.
This is the third one removed since the
birth of the child three months ago.
The wholesale sale of school lands in
Ellis comfy to spectators has been per-
manently enjoined by Judge Pratt. This
places 10000 acres in the market to &C
tual settlers, at from So to 81 an acre, on
twenty years time.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Wright, of Paola, was found dead in it's
crib the other morning. Before retiring
the family placed the child near the
stove, and their anguish when discover
ing it to be lifeless the next day was in.
describable.
The Mayor of Washington, Washing
ton county, has closed up the skating
Kinks of that city, on the grounds that
they exert q baneful influence upon the
young people; are destructive to health
and that there can be no possible good,
but much evil result from them.
L. w. Lynde, prominent physician
of Clifton and Mrs. Kate Servis, q mar
ried La y of good standing, have eloped.
They were last seen in Atchieon. A re.
ward of fifty dallars for the gay DOCTORS
arrest has been offered by the father of
the woman, and twenty dollars for her
arrest and twenty-five dollors for the re-
turn of her five year old boy whom she
took with her.
Joseph Williams. q seventeen year old
lad living in Pottawatomie county, was
accidentally shot the other day in the
following peculiar way: In company
with his sister he was starting to church
with double team. One horse starting
q little slow, he took gun which be was
holding in his hand, and struck the
hoIse'in the flank with it, and in return
received the contents Of one barrel in
his leg. His wounds were not'serious.
Jewell County Monitor: Rufus Heath
eldest son Of A. H. Heath. beyond
KirwiD, Phillips county, operating his
we'll augur the other day, when the crank
few out of his hands, striking him on the
head and crushing in his skull. He is
to die any hour. His father
went to him and has not since returned.
The mother also started in buggy to
Kirwin, but when she got near Smith
Center the dust storm met her overtufn-
ing her vehicle and tearing it all 10
pieces.
The following statement from the q
ice OF the auditor of state shows the
number Of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs
in the state of Kansas, returned for tax. =
alton in 1885; also comparison With 4
1884. Pratt county made no returns fG
1885; returns of 1884 are used for that
county:
Horses ......... 1885............ 1924
...-.......18e4......... 4le845
inc1eASe................. oO,69 OF II per cent
Eat e.-.-...-....1s66 l,o19199
.............l8s4.... .....-L 72