Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Sedgwick P0ntogroph: Anew swim
die is IN the land Certain persons are
now sending out circulars informing the
unwary that If they viii send them the
small. sum of 81, book on fish culture
and basket Of carp win be returned.
On the receipt of the dollar, the swim
dlers send their victims q public docu-
ment relating to fish culture and an APP
pication for the carp addressed to the
fish commissioner. When this has been
filed out and returned to the sharpers,
they forward it to Congressman, who,
supposing that it has come direct from
the constituent applying for the fish,
takes it to the fish commissioner and has
it filed.
A dispatch from Concordia says: A
party Of young men were ON the streets
Of Concordia at o'clock in the morning,
creating considerable disturbance, one of
them trying to get his brother to go
home, when Frank Newell, who lived
close by, got up, dressed, and went down
to assist in securing order. just as he
stepped on the ground pistol in the
hands of James Bowen was accidentally
discharged, the ball entering Newalps
upper left abdomen. It is thought he
cannot live. Newell is a tinsmith by
trade and a married man, with one child.
No arrests have been made yet, but the
authorities will investigate.
While the Knights of Pythias of To
ronto, Yates Center and Eureka, were
engaged in instituting new lodge at
Geece, Greenwood comfy, the engines
blew an alarm of fire. Some of the men,
bers raised the windows, when it was dis
covered that dwelling house belonging
to G. w. Wilson member of the lodge
being instituted, was on fire. When the
building was reached the whole roof ap-
peared to be in sheet of flames. In
thirty minutes the gallant knights had
the fire under control and shortly after
completely put out.
1t is expected that the Council Grove,
Usage City & Ottawa railway, for which
bonds have been voted, will be built and
in operation before the end of the sum-
mer. 1t will be seventy -four miles long,
and will connect Council Grove with the
west and with the Missouri Pacific from
Ottawa and Franklin county.
Aman named Charles G. Cross was
found on the prairie near Colby, Thomas
county, with a bullet hole through his
head and another through his heart. He
had been fouly murdered but for what
reason, it has not yet been developed.
lola Courant: All the secret socie-
ties are enjoying boom. The X. of p,
A. O. q. w. and Masonic, are all initial
ing new members. The K of P. and A.
O. q. w. are initiating five or six at a
meeting.
Caldwell Journal: The merchants
and business men of the city of Caldwell
pay annually over $4,000 for clerk hire,
to the numerous young men who serve
in that capacity, for wages.
Land is selling in Harper county for
from ten to twenty-five dollars per acre,
according to improvements. A few
years ago this land was drug at $1.25
per acre.
Douglas will take advantage of the
new law authorizing cities to prospect for
coal, and find out to certainty if pay
ing vain of coal underlies that locality.
Colby wants the United States land
Office removed to that place and for some
time has been making quiet move in
that direction.
The citizens of Concordia are discus
sing the question of water works, and
have appointed a committee to investigate
the matter.
Opolis is situated in both Kansas and
Missouri, and the postofice is kept in a
building on the state line.
The county clerk of Thomas county
received as fees $4,000 for transcribing
the county records incident to its organi-
cation.
There remains, in Butler county, 1850
acres of vacant school lands that may be
obtained at the appraised value-$3 an
| acre.
The proposition to build a new court
house and Jail is received with very gen.
eral favor in Emporia.
There is still 5000 acres of Usage land
in Butler county subject to presumption
at s1.25 per acre.
The first public tree planting heard
of this season is at Madison, Greenwood
county.
Good coal has been found at Belle
Plaine, Sumner county, at depth of IS
feet.
Salina claims to. be the best shaded
city in central Kansas.
The Fort Scott & Wichita road will ex-
tend to Mcpherson.
KANSAS CHURCHES.
The Topeka Journal says Of the last