Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-20
LATEST NEWS.
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The mayor of New York has o force at
work chopping down telegraph poles. Sew
eral streets were cleaned of them.
A freight train was wrecked ON the Cairo
Short Line, near Belville Ill, by the road
bed sinking ten feet, over q coal mine.
The total values of the exports of beef and
hog products during March was $s,125,068,
and IN March, 1888, was $5,a3, 359.
Secretary Noble has little faith in the
Cherokee commission being able to make
any terms for the purchase Of the outlet.
solve the Irvine trust question by having
twine manufactured in the penitentiary.
Minneapolis, Mimi, and Chyenne,. Wy. T.,
have both had bank roberies, done in imita-
ton of the recent bold robbery at Denver,
Col
The old soldiers colony, which has gone to
Oklahoma, is said to number 1900. Seven
hundred covered wagons left Wichita in
line.
Judge Brewer has decided that the device
''patent applied for" is no protection of the
inventor of an article as against other man
ufacturers of it.
The new boot and shoe mandatory, at
of towards a thousand pairs day, and can
keep 400 people at work.
1t is now asserted that the federal court at
Pans, Tex, has jurisdiction over No Mans
Land, given it by the law establishing the
new Muskogee court.
John P. Usher, who was secretary of the
interior under Lincoln died April ID at Phil
adelphia. An operation to remove tumor
RON n
The employees of the passenger department
mond stud to the address of John Sebas-
&P.
All the freight brakemen on the $50 miles
division of the Atchison & Pacific between
Winslow and Mojave, went out on a strike,
because the company refused to allow three
men to each train.
Congressman Peters has succeeded in
getting Robert McCanse, of Cimarron, Kan,
appointed postmaster for Lisbon (King-
fisher Oklahoma. He has also got q postal
route established to that place.
The julius Schwartz, whe was recently
arrested and taken from Topeka to New
York on charge of forgery, was defeated
candidate for congress in the last election in
the Eighteenth New York district.
The steamer Denmark, bound from Chris
tiana, Sweden, to New York, has been dis
covered in midocean, apparently abandoned
and in a sinking condition. No clew to the
200 people she carried has been discovered.
Mrs. Deborah McClurken has been awarded
$1,000 by Wyandotte county, Kansas, jury,
as against the defendants in the suit, who
are "joint" keepers at Armourdale. The
damage done was making drunkard of her
husband.
The president made the following appoint
ments April 16. William p. Hepburn, of
Iowa, to be solicitor of the treasury; VIM.
n. Whitman, of New Mexico, to be justice of
the supreme court of the territory of New
Mexico.
Governor Robinson has declined his ap-
pointment on the Indian commission. A |
new commissioner will be appointed with as |
little delay as possible. This will delay the |
departure of the commission for the In |
dian territory.
Those who 60 to Oklahoma will have the |
duty, and the right under the laws, to form |
a local government for themselves. Until |
this is done there is no government there, |
no laws, save what of both is dealt out by the |
new United States court in session at Mus |
kogee.
Along the line of the proposed centennial
parade, in New York city, windows are al
ready beng rented, from which to see the
show, at from $500 to 500 per day. At a
well located hotel $500 a day has been paid
for the best rooms. There is scarcely q
hotel on the route, clear to Central park,
that has front room left, at even 500 per
day.