Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Barton county has lately received sew
eral timely and long needed rains.
Marquette, Mcpherson county, is soon
to be made city of the third class.
A fund is being raised at Anthony,
Harper county to prospect for gas and
oil.
About thousand pupils will be in at
tendance when the State Normal school
opens.
A subscription is being raised at o.
borne, Osborne county, to prospect for
coal.
Plans for a proposed $4,000 court
house for Rice county are being pre-
pared.
They have "spitting" matches at Abb
lene-the one that splits the furthest gets
the cake.
Texas fever is said to be prevailing
among cattle to a certain extent in Bar
Der county.
Lead and zinc have been discovered in
large quantities, it is believed near New
sal. Cherokee county.
j. @. Osborne, of Beloit, Mitchell
county, was fined 5000 and costs the
other day for illegal liquor selling.
Pupils, resident in Kansas, are admit
ted to the institution for deaf and dumb,
at Olathe, and educated free of charge.
A great many prairie schooners have
passed through Oberlin, Decatur county,
recently, bound for the western part Of
the state.
The Sumner county fair was great
success. On the day Governor Martin
was present he addressed fully 5000
people.
Ford county has organized an agri-
cultural fair association. Their first
meeting will be held on October Is, 10,
and 20.
The barn of 8. P. Dickinson, near
Hiawatha, Brown county, was burned to
the ground the other day. The loss was
$4,000.
Adolphus Terry, a Kingman county
farmer absconded the other day, leaving
his wife and family in destitute circum-
stances.
A sixteen year old son of Mr.. May
living near Oskaloosa, had his hand
crushed in a sorgum mill, resulting in
his death.
Marysville has library of nearly a
1000 volumns. Blue Rapids, also in
Marshall county, has a library of nearly
1000 volumns.
An artesian we'll at Oberlin Decatur
county has been sunk to depth of LOO
feet, A stream of water is thrown up 20
feet above the surface.
A. Kgger residing near Harlan, Smith
county, was instantly killed the other
day by being struck by lightning. He
lefta large family behind him.
At Iuka, Pratt county, the other day,
the two year old son of II. NJ. Walker
got hold Of a bottle of poison and drank
enough to cause death in few hours.
The 2-year old son Of Mr.. Thorn
burg, of Long Island, Phillips county,
drank mixture of chloroform and laud-
anum from a bottle which he accidental
ly got hold of, and died the next day.
Beloit Gazette: The enrolment of the
Beloit pulic school on the first day of the
term, was SIT, eighty-nine of which
we're in the high school department. The
enrolment to date numbers over 600.
During the month of July this year
there were $500 sales of liquor legally
made in Osborne county. During the
same period of 1885 there were 800
legal sales of liquor made.
The Missouri Pacific surveyors have
commenced surveying the line from Ster-
ling north to connect with the line now
building from Salina. This will be the
main line of the Missouri Pacific from
Wichita west.
The fourth annual reunion and assemb-
ly of the A. o. U. w., of Cherokee,
Crawford, Neosho and Labette counties,
including the city Of Cheeryvale, will
meet in Columbus, Cherokee county on
tbo O7+b ~ Oo&obor
Frank Ernest who was passing from
the rear to the front end of train in the
Southern Kansas yards, at Cherryvale
Montgomery county, one day last week,
fell between two flat cars and was man
gled so that he died in few minutes.
In finishing up the artesian we'll at
Caldwell, Sumner county, the other day,
at the pump house the diggers struck a
eoular underground river. The water
rushed through the well in style that
indicates an inexhaustable supply Of the
purest and pest quality.
A Terrible Experience.