Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-03-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

a dispatch from Dodge City says:
A furry was created in this city caused
by w. B. Masterson, ex-sberiff and a
present deputy sheriff of Ford county,
making complaints and causing warrants
to be issued for the arrest of the follow
ing named persons for the violation OF
the prombitory law: George B. Cox,
Andrew johnson, Constant Bryan, Hart
& Haynes, Harris & Drake, Henry
Stuem, Ben. Daniels, Warren & Atkin-
son, Wright & Scoll, Webster & Bond,
Walter Shredder, and Tom Marshall.
Two of the over dozen above named
claim to be regularly licensed druggists,
while the balance are known as saloon
druggists. All places where liquors are
sold, excepting the drug stores, are
closed, and the owners are patiently
waiting for the sheriff to come along
and serve his papers. The general i'm
preston is that trouble will result from
this sweeping change, but as the major
ity of them will quietly submit to arrest
and trial, it is not anticipated that the
city will again be thrown into general
internal instruction as it was two years
ago.
At the annual session of the Grand
Encampment of Odd Fellows Of Kansas
the following officers were selected for
the ensuing year: Grand patriarch, Thos.
Moonlight, Leavenworth; grand high
priest, E. s. Bertram, Council Grove;
grand senior warden, A. Lock, Fort Scott;
grand Junior warden, Henry Mayor,
Newton; grand treasurer, Stewart Hast
ings, Leavenworth; grand scribe, s. F..
Burdette, Leavenworth; grand represen-
tative, James Geary, Newton; grand
marshal, o. J. Nichols, Weir City; grand
inside sentinel, Thomas Beattie, Wame-
go; grand outside sentinel, D. NJ. Fergu-
son, Paola. They were entertained with
a grand banquet at the National hotel at
the close of the session. One hundred
delegates were present
There are twenty-five towns in the state
to the names of which is attached the
word Center. They are as follows: Clay
Center, Clay county; Grand Center, o.
borne county; Kansas Center, Rice coun-
ty; Meade Center, Meade county; Ohio
Center, Sedgwick county; Prairie Center,
johnson county; Reno Center, Reno
county; Riley Center, Riley county;
Rocks Center, Rocks county; Rush Cen
ter, Rush county; Smith Center, Smith
county; State Center, Barton county
Union Center, Elk county; Valley Cen
ter, Sedgwick county; Yates Center,
Woodson county; Marion Center, Marion
county; Jewell Center, Jewell county;
Mcpherson Center, Mcpherson county.
In reply to letter from Ira S. Flick,
of Russell, Kansas, desiring information
concerning the legal right of way of the
Union Pacific railroad, the board of rail-
road commissioners state that the act of
congress of 1862 granted the right of
way to the Pacific roads through the
public domain to the width of 400 feet,
200 feet on each side of the road. At
the time this road was built through
Russell county, the land belonged to the
public domain, hence the width of the
right of way of the road in that county
is 400 feet, or 200 feet on each side of
the track.
Professor Will Farlin, the noted Sen
eca weather prophet, predicts that on
April 2, there will occur severe wind
and snow storm, which will extend from
the Mississippi to the Atlantic, and on
the 9th, 18th and 23d of April there will
be atmospheric disturbances of unusual
severity. The professor claims that these
conclusions are based on scientific laws,
and that the geography of the heavens
should be as well understood as the ge-
ography of the earth.
A Clark county farmer killed over five
hundred prairie dogs at one time by
putting strychnine in hot water and
soaking corn for four days in the mixture.
He placed five or six grains of corn at
each hole and next morning the corn was
all gone and the prairie dogs too. He
states that this must be done before
grass comes as he thinks the dogs would
not touch the soaked corn if they could
get green feed.
Fredonia Citizen: The emigration
from Wilson county to western Kansas
this spring is something unprecedented.
Many well-to-do farmers are induced to
make the change in hopes of securing
more land than they can now obtain in
the eastern part of the state, and to take
advantage of the experience and know
ledge they have acquired in this locality.
Seward county has presented me-
moral to the governor, requesting the
appointment of a census taker, so as to
organize as county. A population of
$500 is claimed, and taxable property
valued at $4,000 is reported, while
within the county it is estimated that
there are 500 householders.
The executive board of district assem-
bly, So, Knights Of Labor, which has ju-
risdiction over all local assemblies in
Kansas, has lifted from the Topeka Com
momDealth the boycott which has here
tofore existed against that paper among
the order.
The charter for the "Comanche County
Telephone company" has been fled with
the secretary Of state. This corporation
is formed for the erection of telephone
line from Kinsley to the towns of Cold
water, Ashland, Medicine Lodge, Kiowa,
etc.
Elections have been called for April
10, in Nemeha, Richmond and Mitchell
townships Of Seneca county, to vote on