Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


sheep passed down the road Monday.
the train was loaded at Beeler and
makes the second one loaded there in
two weeks.
Marion Record: An old Record boy,
DIN Meacham, hasstarted the Augusta
News. the first issue of which is before
US. The first number presents neat,
newsy, and healthy appearance. Here's
to your success, Olin.
Coldwater Enterprise: Richard Car
ney, an old soldier residing in Nesca.
tunga township, recently received an
increase of pension and back pay
amounting to $500. Dick richly de-
served every dollar he received.
The following new papers have been
received at the State Historical society
rooms: The Times, published at For.
mosa, Jewell county, by Frank M. Cot.
fey; the Dispatch, published at Derby,
Sedgwick county, by Will D. Wright
Bloom Telegram: Ford City sent g
delegation of nine gentlemen to inspect
the Minneola sugar mill, with view OF
putting in a plant at Ford City. They
have everything ready for the erection
of mill, and from the amount of su-
gar they took home with them they
will have the Adamson's patent.
Usage City Free Press: From good
authority we learn that there are sever
al cases of diphtheria in and about
Lyndon, and that two young men,
both unmarried, by the names of Dun
can and Myers, living southwest OF
Lyndon, died last week. This is dread
disease, and efforts should be made to
cOnfine it.
AxtelI Anchor: About 1000 pounds
of milk is delivered daily at the cream
cry and about fifty guages of cream.
Over thousand pounds of butter are
made each week, and about 500 paid
out to the farmers every month. The
dam at the reservoir is nearly completed,
and the company will put up their own
ice this winter.
Great Bend Democrat: Bobby Smart
has kennel of as fine dogs as can be
found in the west. He has twenty
nine puppies out of ''Trales" and his
favorite bitches. "Belle Smart" .sBes-
sic Lee" and ''Toots" are among his val
liable dogs. Mr.. Smart is one of the
best farmers in Barton county, but he
has wonderful love of good dogs, and
is improving his kennels all the time.
Holton Recorder: A man got on the
Santa Fe train at Straight Creek sta
ton: a few hundred yards south of the
station the engineer saw youn0( wo-
man run down across the prairie AID lie
down with her head on the rail. I The
train was stopped just in time to save
crushing the life out of the girl. She
stated that she lived in Kansas City and
had run off with the man, who was now
trying to desert her. The man remained
with her.
Fort Scott Monitor: At Weir City,
q man named Sandy Anderson had as
eaulted his wife and made himself 9TH
erwise obnoxious, when a policeman
appeared upon the scene and undertook
to arrest him. Anderson pulled re-
volver and fired at the policeman, who,
fortunately for him, escaped the intend
ed murderer's ball. Quick as wink,
the policeman pulled his gun and fired
three balls into Anderson, killing him
instantly.
At a meeting of the regents of
the state normal school the
board was re-organized as follows
Rudolph Hatfield, Wichita, president;
Chas. w. Hull, Kirwin. vice president;
w. 81. Caldwell, Beloit, treasurer; 81.
d. Dickson, Neosho Falls, secretary;
Nelson Case, Oswego; James NJ. Gray
bill, Leavenworth. The new members
are Messrs. Case and Graybill. Mr.
Hatfield, as president succeeds J. H.
franklin, now deputy second auditor
of the treasury at Washington, D. G..
Wellington Press: The following
counties adopted a uniform system of
text books previous to 1889: Cloud,
Mitchell, Jewell, Brown, Riley, Deca-
tur, Cheyenne, Sheridan, Trego, Ford,
Finney, Commanche, Clark, Meade,
Kiowa, Kingman, Stephens, Pottawato-
ME, Graham, Wichita, Lane, Hodge
man. The following counties have
"wheeled into line this year: Seward,
Grant, Kearney, Harvey, Mcpherson,
Sedgwick, Cove, Logan, Marshall, Lin
coin, Anderson, Ottawa, and Reno, and
they like it.
Wellington Monitor: M. Reiter, of
the firm of Reiter & ConIey, iron manu-
facturers of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
is in the city and will commence work
on the new water works stand-pipe as
soon as his tools arrive from Galveston,
Texas, where he has lately completed a
similar structure. The stand-pipe will
be one hundred and five feet high by
twenty -four feet in diameter, and will be
built Of three-foWths-inch steel plates.
Its construction will occupy fifteen men
about two months, depending on the
state of the weather.
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