Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-30
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Santa Fe stocks 35T.
Foreign powers have commenced to direct
their representatives in Brazil to continue
with the prov sional government the rela-
lions heretofore maintained with the en-
pire.
The lower house of the Austrian parlia-
ment has approved a project for 9 canal
starting at Vienna to connect the Danube
and the Oder. The exchequer is to share
the cost.
Five hundred Missouri corporations have
ignored the law" and two foreign compa-
nies also. The charters of the home COM
panies will be revoked and legal proceed
ings commenced against the others.
In the foot ball game Yale defeated Har-
ward by score OF to q.
The battle of Trenton, n. J., will be cele-
brated there December 26 by Sons of the
Revolution.
Gold bearing quartz from the mines of
saved and is said to be the richest gold bear
ing rock ever taken from an American mine.
The Paola, Kansas, Ian and Gas COM
pany has struck another flow of excellent
lubricating oil in well No. 3 on the Russell
field. The company are making arrange
ments to sink ten more wells Immediately.
The Portuguese court is sensibly alarmed,
fearing that the Portugese army may fol-
low the example OF Brazil. This viii pre-
vent Dom Pedro from going to Lisbon. He
is likely to spend the winter at Toulon and
Nice.
The lower house of the Montana legisla-
ture organized in two branches, the repub-
licans meeting in hall on Main street and
the democrats in the court house. The re-
publicans had thirty members, two more
than quorum.
The Boston Office of the Atchison, Topeka
that majority of the bondhol6ers have al
ready assented to the plan of reorganlzs-
ton: and that sufficient funds are in sight
for all requirements.
The British government is not satisfied
with what the Canadian government has
done in the direction of increasing til" eff
cheney of the military strength and coast
defenses of that province, the whole militia
on the Pacific not totaling 200 men.
The Maritime ASSOCIATION of the port of
New York urges congress to establish de-
partment of commerce, with cabinet officer
as chief, to foster and promote our ocean
carrying trade. foreign and domestic, and
our inner commerce by water and rail.
Missouri law requires political party
which has cast less taan per cent. OF the
entire vote at the last election, and which
desires to place ticket in nomination, to
first procure the signatures of per cent. OF
the vote they last poIled. This, it is thought,
will debar the prohibition and union labor
parties from the field at the next election.
One of the remarkable things connected
with the change of government in b. Ill is
the fact that it is impossible to get re-
plies to any private dispatches sent t, Rio.
A censorship has evidently been established
curing into the new order of things, and
what effect it will have upon the CONNER
cial world.
The north bound Missouri. Kansas &
Texas passenger train was robbed at Pryor
creek, twenty miles south of Vinita, !. T..
by robbers, who uncoupled the engine, mail
and express cars and run them on two miles
to Pryor switch, where they cleaned out
everything in the express car. The passen- |
gers were not robbed. The amount of the |
robbery is not known.
The commissioner states that business has
fallen off greatly at all the Kansas and Ne
braska land Offices, owing to the TACT that
very little government land remains to be
taken in those states. The need for the
clerical force which has been maintained in
the western Kansas and western Nebraska
land offices for the past three years is no
longer felt, and they will be reduced to a
minimum.
The United States commissioner of inter- |
nal revenue has decided that liquor dealers
GU side of Kansas cannot send liquors c. O.
D. to points in that state without paying a |
retail liquor dealers lax for every place |
where such packages 60. That the sale is |
not completed where the dealers License |
covers his business, and such license does not |
exempt HIM from special tax at place where |
the sale is completed.
The customs officials estimate that the |
federal treasury was defrauded last year by |
whisky smugglers at Qubec alone of q sum
in excess of $25O.0OO. The
seizures thus far in the vicinity foot up III |
barrels of fifty gallons each. upon which the
duty should be $500 per gallon. This would
make $4,000 that the smugglers would
have pocketed, but there is no ascertaining
how much they have already defrauaed the
revenue out of.
The United States attorney for the north
ern district of Texas reports feeling of
hostility on the part of certain state officers
towards the federal officers, which makes it
difficult to enforce federal laws. He asks
that the court be removed from Graham to
some point where it will not be INSTRUCTED
by lawless element. He says: 1.-THE at
mosphere of shotguns and sixshooters is not
4 proper one for any court to be held in in
4 civilized country, much less one of the
dignity of the court of the United States"
Better Than Oklahoma.
100 acres of the choicest land in the San