Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10
LATEST NEWS.
CondensedfO for the convenience
of Hurried Readers.


Frank Murdoch, farmer of Lathrop,
Mo-, and a nephew of the Kansas editors of
that name is missing and it is feared that
he has been killed.
The Santa Fe road is said to have given
notice to the other Chicago and Kansas CITY
lines that it will no longer pool its freights
between t,.ose points.
A. C. Sh eldon chief clerk of the Missouri
Pacific at Wichita is said to be short ovel
$4,000, and is charged with forgery. He is
missing.
A diamond robbery occurred in Kansas
City, Mo-, at p. N. of August 2. The thief
snatched handful, worth 5000, and left
on horse.
The Washington convention has incor-
porated In the new constitution a section
forbiding all subsidies.
Ex-State Auditor McCabe, of Kansas, is
In Washington, and he kicks because nc
colored men have been appointed to Office
from any northern state.
The general land department. has author
lied Governor Shoup, of Idaho, to expend
$1,0O in the work of stopping the timber
fires IN that territory.
The president has appointed John R. C..
fltkln, OF Louisiana, to be envoy extraOr-
binary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States to the Argentine Republic.
The Rock Islands new time card is under
stood at Kansas City, Mo-, as having been
OF that place. 1t makes 1t whistling sta
ton.
News comes from Gunnison. Col. that
off fhasr
ting depredations. The settlers are alarmed
and favor organizing war of extermina.
ton.
Jake Kilrain was arrested Monday morn
ing on the beach at Ocean View, Va, b.
Detective Norris. He was taken back to
Hampton, where he has been staying fol-
several days.
South Dakota state officers elected in
October '89 will be succeeded by Others
elected In November 1880; after that all
state and county elections will come to-
gether, every two years.
Martin Burke's journey from Winnipeg
to Chicago was made the occasion of local
interest at nearly all points pas ed. In some
places crowds made mad efforts to enter the
train to get view of Burke.
The North Dakota constitutional conven.
ton liked the pay of members of the legis-
Iature at S. day; ana the length of the
legislative session at sixty days, after the
first session, which is to be 40 days.
A syndicate headed by G. F. Mellen has
been organized at Fall River Mass. to buy
up all cotton mills in America. 1t repre-
sents principally foreign capital and enough
Is said to have been already subscribed.
The new North Dakota constitution
makes it the duty of the supreme court to
fy1y-l rfs l.
pending before the legislature when re-
quested by the legislature or the governor.
Garfield county, Kansas, is in trouble, and
the attorney general has been notified that |
possible bloodshed may result, as between |
the citizens of Eminence and Garfield. |
The adjutant general has gone there, with
power to call out troops should he find il |
necessary to preserve the peace.
The North Dakota convention divided the
territory into senatorial districts and de-
cided that members of the house of repre-
sentatives shall be elected at large from the
senatorial districts This was a defeat OF
he proposition that every county should
ave representative.
The war ministry has ordered all three of
the military classes of Servia to muster.
The ostensible reason for the order is that
the Bulgarian troops have been ordered to
to mass on the frontier on that day, and
Servia desires to be prepared for any event
uallty.
The executive committee of the national
G. A. R., to be held Mllwau-
kee next month. has asked the secretary OF
the navy to order the Michigan, the govern
ment war vessel On the lakes, to take part in
the military and naval display that will mark
the occasion. Secretary Tracy will probably
grant the request.
The Topeka sugar factory is burned down:
the ware house and boiler room alone being
saved. The Rock Island road sent out two
engines loaded with men and buckets, but
it was too late. The Topeka fire department
did not go, being told that they could not
get water to the fire in time. Judge Park
iuson was sleeping in the building at the
time. Teere will be great additional loss
in the great amount of cane now growing,
on contract. for this factory.
Secretary Mohler, of the state board Of
agriculture. has received complete reports
for July from all parts of the state. The re-
ports show that the wheat yield Will be very
large and that while there was some damage
to wheat by the wet weather the increased
yield of wheat above the previous estimates
will go far toward making up for the loss.
The soft wheat suffered the greatest portion
of the loss, Turkish and other hard varieties
not being affected. Oats were more or less
damaged, but all the reports indicate that
he corn all over the state is, as one CORES
pondent puts it, "simply immense" Sor-
! hum, millet and potatoes are equally fine.
Better Than Oklahoma.
LOO acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under