Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-30
STATE NEWS.


Items Of Interest Cleaned From the Kansa
Press.
The late snow blockade cost the SAINT
Fe $4,000.
Kingman suffered from $1,000 fir
the other day.
Sumner county, has collected n take
this year S141, 064,77.
A fourteen inch vein of coal has BEEF
discovered in Ellsworth county.
An ice house at Fort Scott is to b,
filed with 18,478,000 pounds of ice.
An entire family came near being as
phyxiated at Leavenworth the other day
by coal gas.
Conductor Andy Barker has run fol
fifteen years on the Kansas Pacific with
out an accident.
G. o. Plummer, dealer in general mer
chandise Cuba, Republic county, ha:
failed for $4,000.
The increase of population in Mont
gomery county during the past five
years has been 7,64S.
Columbus has four mills running
night and day to grind up the corn and
wheat grow in that county.
An electric light company has been or,
ganized at Newton with capital of S.
600, and lights will soon be put up at
that place.
Larned Optic: The snow is an adj
vantage to the wheat crop, and our far
mers all feel assured of an excellent crop
next year.
J. S. Whitney, resident of New Hope
Phillips county, and heretofore respect
able business man, has been arrested
charged with forgery.
The Olathe Mirror Gazette gives list
of 100 persons whose claims against the
State for losses in the Price raid amount
in the aggregate to $S3,S24S6.
Wamego Democrat: The whole
amount of claims allowed against the
county for the year 1885, is $34,737,57,
as against $40, 4S7.22 for the year be-
fore.
A Garden City man, after three years
residence, has ordered $71S.O0 worth of
stock for his own use, demon
strating the fact that he has faith in this
as a fruit and forest country.
Sedan Times-Journal The county
at their last session burn
ed $14,506.77 in cancelled county war
rants, which had been paid off by the
county treasurer since July LIST 'S5.
Bishop Vail, of Topeka, recently went
to Emporia to perform a wedding cere-
mony. The gentleman to be married was,
however, snowbound in Colorado and the
was Indefinitely postponed.
Wa-Keeney World: County Treas
urer Kelly sold from July l, 1885, to
January l, 1856, $500 acres of school
land, at an average price of 1886 per
acre, making altogether for the year
1885 over 100000 acres.
Joseph Werner, prominent merchant
of Paola, Miami county, was engaged in
drawing some pipes from cistern last
week to prevent them from freezing, when
he slipped. fell into the cistern and his
head striking against the side, knocked
him senseless. He was drowned before
assistance reached him.
In September, 1882, John Boyd, citi-
zen of Salina, died leaving will be-
queathing 500 to his sister residing in
Iowa, and about $4,000 to the city of
Salina for the purpose of prospecting for
coal. The sister contested the will, but
the lower courts all decided against her,
and now the supreme court has affirmed
the decision of the lower courts.
The Emporia Meas says that one of
the most serious accidents resulting from
the freezing of the water pipes and ny
drants during the present cold weather,
was the bursting of water pipe in an
upstairs room of the beautiful residence
of Mr.. 1. D. Peters, at the corner o.
Tenth avenue and Constitution street
Mr.. and Mrs. Peters were away on visit
to Clyde, Kansas, and the house was
closed until their return, in consequence
of which the broken pipe was not discov
cred until the water had escaped in sui
ticient quantity to fill the cellar, after
running down through two stories. The
ceilings, chandeliers and door and win
dow castings are covered with icicles,
making the elegant furnished rooms pre-
sent an arctic appearance. It is estima-
ted that $4,000 will not repair damage
done in couple of days.