Western Kansas world., 1886-02-27

s. Root, living near here has fine piec,
of about sixty acres, that looks splendid
Eureka Republicans: VIM. Smethers
delivered twelve months old fat hog a
the stock yards, this week which weighed
four hundred and ninety eight pounds
STATE NEWS.
Newsy Notes Cleaned From the Kansas
Press,
A dispatch from Columbus, Cherokee
county, says that considerable excite.
ment has been occasioned by the arres,
OF B. Baer, NJ. M Edmaston, r. 81. Law.
ton, 81. V. GaNgan, james Watson, G.
L. Woodruff, ]. s. B. Copelin, A. Cope.
lin and A. w. Archer, under charge oi
fraudulent transactions concerning the
mortgaging of land in that county, as
well as coupling some of them with the
attempt to destroy the records of land
titles In that county by dynamite last
September. The complaint was sworn
to by Edward Austin, assistant attorney
general of Kansas, before Esquire Har-
per, of Galena, G. o. Stockstager, coun-
ty attorney and the attorney general
appearing for the state. The detectives
who claim to have worked up the case
have not given the slightest indication of
the nature Of the evidence; and while
rumors are afloat about the matter, none
of them can be definitely traced. Among
those arrested are some very prominent
business men, and all are prominent citi-
zens of the county. It is generally under
stood that the matter was worked up by
the Pinkerton's detective agency.
An lola paper says that among other
old papers brought into the Office of one
of their business men, were four United
States patents to land in Indiana. One
was dated July 10, 1926, and was signed
by ]. @. Adams; another was dated
April 13, 1929, and was signed by An
drew Jackson; the other two were each
dated March 20, 1887, and were signed
by Martin Van Buren. The signatures
of Adams and jackson were evidently
placed there by their own hands as there
was no countersign of any kind. The
papers are held by Mrs. Rebecca Gilbert,
and the lands granted by them were
doubtless entered originally by the faith
er or grandfather of her late husband,
Theodore Hazard.
Ell Dorado Times: Mr.. Jasper
Daugherty, of this city, brings us live
young grasshopper, picked mp on the
prairie last Monday. This grasshopper
is no yearling, but is young wingless
hopper. Was he Matched during the In
dian summer of December, 1885, and win
tered over, or did he make his entrance
into this cold world during the chilly pc
riod of January, 1886? Whatever the his
tory of his hoppership is, there is no doubt
of his discovery on the prairie near the
east cemetery and that he was frisky
and cheerful within six feet of snow
drift.
Voltaire Advertiser: If all the claims
now taken in Sherman county are held,
they must before next July be occupied by
over two thousand families, and on tim
ber claims alone there must be broken
over 5000 acres, on homesteads and pre-
emptions 10000 to 10000 acres. This
will give some idea of rapidity with which
the county is settling up and the i'm
of the work to be accomplished
in the spring months. Any one who has
a good team need have no fears but they
can hold their land and make good liv-
ing besides.
Atchison Patriot: A gentleman esti-
mates that there are at least 1000 per-
sons in Atchison who spend at Is cents
day for cigars. This would amount to
$500 per day; $1O9,50O year. He
things that fully one-half of this amount
might be added on account of expendi-
lures for cigarettes, smoking tobacco,
chewing tobacco and snuff. Here then
is an expenditure on the part of Atchison
citizens for tobacco alone of $164,250.
Suppose we stop the habit for year and
fix up the streets.
An attempt was made the other eve
ming to burn the LArcade restaurant at
Arkansas City, but it failed by timely
It is thought that an organ
ized gang of incendiaries are at work in
that city for the purpose of securing in
surance money. The plan is to insure a
building for more than it's value and
thereby secure profit by its destruction.
If the old saying that misery loves
is true, then Kansas fruit
growers can get some satisfaction out of
the following: 'Fruit growers of New
Hampshire report that the recent sleet-
storms throughout the state have ruined
their orchards. In Nottingham one man
lost 1000 peach trees"
A dispatch from Wichita says: A
strong local railroad company has been
in this city and chartered UNI
der the name of the ''Kansas Midland
railway company" The object is to
build and operate line from Wichita to
Red Cloud, Neb., via Hutchinson.
Atchison Champion: Counties tina
wish to establish county high schools
under the new law, should call their cleo
tons not later than April or May, so
that arrangements can be completed
prior to the commencement of the school
year, which is in September.
Garden City Sentinel: The Canadian
colony which has moved to this county
are well equipped with everything neces-
sary for settler in new country. They
have plows, harrows, wagons, buggies,
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