Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-04
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

There is considerable excitement in Saline
county, Missouri, over the discovery of gold
near Arrow Rock. California expert has
pronounced it a rich find.
Despite the fact that every train takes
out large numbers, the trains bring in as
many more, so there is little change in the
actual number at Guthrie.
The pride of Glasco, Kan, the new opera
house, burned with total loss, including
the two stores in the building. A school ex-
hibition had been on during the evening.
General Merritt has issued q formal notice
commanding people not to occupy the Cher
okee strip, and only to pass through it along
the regular roads In their return from Okla
homa.
The original plat of Guthrie. Oklahoma,
has been accepted by the United States Land
Office and sent to Washington, which is .'frst
horse for the deputy marshal crowd; SO
correspondents say.
A cattle train coming north was covered
with men as with flies. The lacking means
of getting away to where supplies and COM
fort can be had, the cause. Other freight
trains followed with similar burdens.
The land offices at Guthrie and Kingfsher,
Oklahoma, have each been allowed two addi-
tional clerks upon the representations of the
local officers that the present force is entirely
inadequate to the the business of the Office.
The president has appointed as commits
sioners to negotiate with the prairie band of
Pottowatomies, In Kansas, for their lands,
Messrs. Benjamin Horton, of Lawrence, A.
J. Aten, of Hiawatha, and A. D. Walker, of
Holton; all of Kansas.
Postmaster General Wanamaker wanted
to continue the privilege to clerks to. visit
their desks on Sunday to write their letters,
but general order has been made prohibit
ing entry of clerks to the departments on
Sunday.
Two men crazed with excitement and dis
appointment have been sent north out of
the Oklahoma country, and five dead men
have also been sent away on trains, who
died from the same causes with the adj
ditional one of exposure.
General Meritt's dispatches to the war
department dispute all published statements
of lawlessness, and also the statements so
generally told and believed regarding alleged
suffering at Guthrie for lack of food and
water.
A case of smallpox is the latest Oklahoma
sensation. James, or Joseph, Ellsworth, of
Kansas City, Mo-, and later of Leadville,
after spending several days at Guthrie,
where he ''stood in line" and mixed with the
crowds, was taken down with smallpox upon
his reaching Arkansas City.
The special train conveying the president
and the Washington party to New York, left
Washington just after midnight, on Monday
morning. 1t arrived at Elizabeth, n. J.. at
a. IN. After review, the party embarked
for New York, where they landed little
after noon.
An Arkansas City report says: General
Merritt's report of the numbers in Oklahoma
is incomprehensible. The estimate here is
that fully lie, 600 people are now in Guthrie
twice as many as he allows for the whole
territory, left this place alone, and are still
curing in.
killed in the presence of his wife and four
little children, by two men on a claim near
Alfred, Oklahoma. The murderers fed, and
the unfortunate widow walked to Alfred
with the news. The dead man was buried
by the settlers, and a small subscription was
raised to send the family home. The rude
funeral was in progress as the train passed.
The Connecticut legislature wants good
butter. the lower house has passed bill
providing that no person shall make, sell, or
have in his possession any product made
wholly or in part of any fat, oil, or oleaginous
substance or compound thereof not produced
from milk or cream. which shall be in imi-
tation of butter or cheese. The penalty is a
fine or imprisonment or both.
A train on the Grand Trunk railway was
wrecked near Hamilton, Canada. on Mon
day. 1t had company OF militlamen on
board, bound from Detroit, to attend the
Centennial at New York. Twenty people
were killed. Eighteen bodies were burned
beyond recognition. The wreck occurred at
nearly the same SPOT where a terrible acct
dent occurred twenty years ago.
War veterans who are entitled to commu-
tation for the loss of the use of their limbs
by disease or injury are now filing their
claims in vast numbers. 1t is stated at the
Office of the surgeon general of the army
that considerable percentage of the money
which congress intended for those disabled
soldiers is unnecessarily wasted in attor-
ney's fees. Notice is given that all such
claims can be settled by letter to the sur
geon general of the army without mourning
any expense to the claimant.
The second day of the great centennial
was opened by thanksgiving service at st.
Paul's church, followed by literary exercises
at the sub-treasury. Then the review of the
parade, lasting long time. At $50 p. IN. a
banquet at the Metropolitan opera house,
presided over by: Mayor Grant, at which
thirteen speeches were made by eminent
orators; the ladies appearing in the boxes as
soon as the hour for toastS arrived. At 8 p.
m. the free concerts and fireworks COM
menced. These were given at over dozen
points in the city.
Refter Than Oklahoma