Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-27

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KANSAS STATE NEWS
Olcott Press: The Nickerson Indus
trv viii hereafter be run by Harry
Brightman, Claypool and Raisner re-
firing.
The Sun and Journal Of Coneyville,
the two leading journals OF that section,
have consolidated under the direction
of W. A. PETER, Jr., and D. Stewart
Elliott. This makes strong combina-
ton.
Bazine Leader: Nine car loads OF
massive machinery for the sugar plant
at Ness City passed through here. Sew
en- large boilers, steaming watts and
smoke stacks comprised the nine car
loads.
Santa Fe Monitor: The mill man
has arrived and the erection of the mill
will begin next week. He proposes to
build first class mill in every respect
and will crack the golden grain within
sixty days.
Arkansas City Dispatch: The jury
in the Charles Webb case brought in a
verdict of death at the hands of Isaac
W. Kay and Henry Pruitt. Kay was
Immediately arrested and brought to
the city. Johnny Breene went to Par
ker school house where Pruitt had been
subpen@d as a witness on the Louis
Tournier case, and arrested him.
Junction City Union: The q. s.
geodetic survey corps which was at
work in the eastern part of the county,
last fall, when cold weather stopped its
work, arrived here and took the tools,
etc., which had been stored at the Bar
tell, and began work westward from
junction City. The work is progress
ing westward from the Atlantic coast.
Weir journal: Galena is moving to
the hills. Frequent caving of ground.
together with the fact that exhausted
land" is showing, at strata below the
old worked lead mines, fine bodies of
paying ore, makes considerable por-
ton of the cite of the old town, unsafe
as residence property but doubly valu-
able as mining property. Galena is
moving to the hills, getting onto solid
ground, building on solid foundation.
Marion Record: William Jenkins, for
instance, is a good man for many house
holders we know of to initiate. Though
he works hard every day at his tire
some trade-stone cutting man.
ages, with his own hands, mornings
and evenings, to keep his residence
premises, on Cedar street. "neat as a
pin" Not weed is to be seen on the
place, and the grass is kept closely cut.
It is pretty home and the Record
takes great pride in holding Mr.. Jen-
kins up as an example for others.
Winchester Herald: I happened to
stop at Morgan Pitchers north of town
and went to see his carp ponds. Mr..
Pitcher fed his fish while we were there,
and at the same time put in trap to
catch some young ones for Mr.. Weis-
haar, neighbor who had just finished
fine pond. The sight was enough to
convert the most skeptic. To say thous
ands were in sight would be putting it
mildly. 1t will pay any one, whether
interested or not in carp or fish culture.
to visit Mr.. Pitchers ponds, as they
are certainly big success.
An interesting suit was on trial in
the Wyandotte district court. About
two years ago the Missouri Iron and
Corrugated Roofing Company put an
iron roof and cornices on the Potter
house, for which they presented a
claim of $50. This account was re-
fused payment, on the grounds of de-
f6ctive work. Suit was then instituted
against Eli and Anna Potter to recover
the amount of the bill, when tie Pot
tiers filed cross suit to recover $4,000
damages to frescoing and curtains,
pictures, draperies, ect., sustained by
water leaking thorough the weak places
in the roof. This was the suit on trial,
and number of witnesses were examin-
ed on botd sides.
Horton Commercial: It has been
quietly whispered that the ghost of
Thomas Moore, the young man muir
dered by BARLEY in South Horton last
fall, has frequently been seen in the vi
entity of ''99," where he was killed
Two young men who were returning
from the country at late hour one
night recently, claim they saw the
ghost of young Moore standing under
tree and pointing to the spot where
he fell. AS they approached nearer the
apparition receded noiselessly and SEEM
ingly without taking a step and finally
faded and spread into dim mist. 9th