Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-10
STATE NEWS.

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enrolment of 125.
Kingman reports three incendiary fires
within twenty-four hours.
Sections OF the city of Fl. Scott, are
now lighted by natural gas.
The bonded Indebtedness of Burlin-
game, Usage county, is $500.
A new opera house will shortly be
erected at Garden City, Finney county.
The base ball craze has extended over
the state until it has become quite gen.
eral.
Greensburg, Kiowa county, wishes to
he Incorporated as a city of the third
class.
Over $4,000 worth of hogs were mar
keted at Augusta, Butler county, in one
month.
The population of Meade county is g.
-955. The property valuation approx
mates $4,000.
Peabody is discussing the feasibility
of constructing a city building which
will cost $4,000.
The county attorney of Usage county
is making it warm for all violators of the
prohibitory law.
A colony of Swedes located in Clay
county, the other day, where they will
settle permanently.
In 1875 there were 116 legal voters in
the city of Fredonia, Wilson county.
Now there are 416.
Butler county and its people are now
talking OF erecting court house which
is to cost 100000.
Arkansas City claims to have crack
or factory with capacity of sixty bar
rels Of -four per day.
A large new wholesale manufacturing
clothing house is to be erected at Larned,
Pawnee county, shortly.
Warner & Miller, merchants of An
thony, Harper county, have failed. As
sets $500, liabilities $4,000.
The Osborne star creamery is turning
out 1000 pounds of butter per week and
pays 8 cents a gauge for cream.
The eighth annual reunion of the old
settlers of Marshall county will be held
at Irving on the 18th and 14th days of
August
Dodge City will soon have a system
Of water works, the contract for this
valuable improvement having already
been let
A number of Indian curiosities and
fossils were found near Fort Scott, Bour-
bon county, the other day at depth OF
lie feet.
Chas. Huffman, bound for Garden
City, was defrauded of $1,000, by two
confidence men at the Kansas City un-
ion depot, the other day.
Oswego, Labette county, has cham
pion swimmer, "Pat" Patterson, who
swan two miles up the Neosho river in
an hour and fifty-nine minutes without
leaving the water.
Ford county has forty-six organized
school districts, representing scholar
ship of 1000 outside of Dodge City.
This leaves still one-eighth of the county
unorganized into school districts.
There are in Miami county 370,831
acres of taxable land, worth $2,455,273;
value of personal property, s967,457;
value of railroad property, $466,2l6;
total value of all property, 81, 3O1, 1898.
]. 3. McQuinn, a citizen of Barber
county, has mysteriously disappeared
and foul play is thought to have been
the sudden cause of his leaving. The
last seen of him was on or about March
2Sth.
As r. A. Hall, of Sedgwick county,
was setting in front of the fremont house
at Wichita the other day, he recognized
brother in passer by whom he had
notNmet for fifteen years. The recogni-
ton was mutual.
The trial of Willie Sells, who murdered
his father, mother and brother at Usage
Mission some time ago, will shortly come
up in the district court of Neosho coun-
ty. The friends of the boy are confident
that they can prove his innocence.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Bourbon county Jail the other day. In
some way an outside party managed to
secure the jailor's keys to the various
doors and handing them in to the pris-
oners they used them most successfully
by depopulating the jail. Who the mis-
oreant was no one knows.
Last February Gov. Martin appointed
G.. Sutton census taker of Lane county.
Early in June Mr.. Sutton made his re-
ported, received the proclamation
Of Gov. Martin organizing the county
and departed for DIghton where he was
taken down with consumption and in
few days he was dead.
Two unknown parties attempted to sell
a forged note for 5000 to the Exchange
National bank of Ell Dorado, but were
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