Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-02-23
Epitome of Events Continued.

fires broke out In the coal yard of f. O.
Ellsworth and that of Kelly & Walker.
Considerable work was required to scat
ter the coal, and extinguish the fires
Salina Herald joke: A. M. Campbell has
received large package of rice seed,
with instructions to SOW it in good
mashy ground or where the ground can
be easily overfowed. 1t has been sent to
Trego county. Seventeen public schools,
Superintendent Vaille informs US, are in
progress in Trego county, and four have
already closed. How is this for county
which is too new to collect cent Of tax?
Who says times are not lively? Wa
Keeney has three croquet grounds. 80.
We are listening to hear our farmer
brethren sing the song beginning:
20. I'm the happiest little granger in the landr'
30. Somebody draws the bolt from the
switch just west Of the depo, and the
locomotive of the west-bound train runs
off the track
2. Cowboys make raid on a saloon
at Grinnell, Cove county. Two of them
are shot-one fatally.
4. DR.. Il. W. Morgan, on the way
home from the Czallah region tonight,
comes across an emigrant wagon. His
horse SHES, pulls him over the dashboard
to the ground. The doctor gets off with
broken rib.
5. To-day's WORLD: W. c. Olson has
purchased the stock Of Griswolds harness
shop . Buffalo bones again fill up space
about the elevators in this place. -. New
city ordinances: No provides against
fires by regulating the building OF aues,
the running of stove pipes and the burn
ing of rubbish; No. 8 provides that no
slaughter house shall be kept in the city;
No. declares any dead animals or putrid
flesh a nuisance. -. the Trego county
census enumerators are at work. &C. F.
Scheppele requests US to state that the
Wa-Keeney mills will be closed until
after harvest &. :. VIM. Dill, from Trego
county, reached Kansas City few days
ago, just after having sold a span of
mules, and had S205 hidden in one of his
bootlegs. After imbibing plenty Of bad
whisky, William went visiting He fell
among thieves, lost his money, and had
Ida Black, drunken person, arrested
and sent to jail to await examination -.
The county Offices have been moved from
the upper floor of the Barclay block
(Oakes House, to the ground floor of the
east addition TO that block %. The Wa
Keeney Gun Club has been organized
The officers-(well, none are here in 1897
There is living in INDECENT circum-
stances in this city a family after whose
head Norton county was once named.
His name is Billings, and he represented
that county in the legislative session OF
1928, when the county was named in
his honor The next legislature changed
the name to Norton The Ness City
Times of May % tells OF the death of
falling into a well. %. The relief bill,
granting leave OF absence to settlers in
western Kansas, has finally become law.
Settlers should not leave until they COM
ply with the regulations to be issued to
the local land Offices.
T. Republican county convention
elects s. @. Robb chairman and ]. a.
Gauger, secretary. F. W. Ohlinger and
T. P. Vaille are elected delegates to the
gubernatorial convention, each to have
half a vote; instructed for st. John and
Gochenauer. S. G. Robb chosen dele
i. gate to congressional convention; j. A.
Gauger, alternate. s. j. Osborn chosen
delegate to judicial convention; f. ID.
Morse, alternate. D. NJ. Mitchell and ].
A. Gauger elected delegates to state seua-
toriel convention; Frank Haskin, alter
nate.
II. WORLD of to-day: Census Emu
merator j. NJ. Keeney informs us that
the present population OF Wa-Keeney is
AT. In q match by the Wa-Keeney
Gun Club for gold medal, j. Will Law
renee won the prize. DR.. Conger left
again last afternoon for the land of the
cattle roundup A mail route has been
established, connecting Collyer with st.
Sophia, Ness county. "A Mr.. Stevens,
having received from our business men
what he considers sufficient encourage
ment, is night watchman at this place.
49, Let the conscience Of that Trego
county citizen who docs not have timber
growing on his place prick him until he |
is moved to action. This part Of Kan.
cas-, it has been observed, lacks only
plenty of timber and water to make it as
good as any country. The answer given
to this remark by some wicked wag, that
that was all hell lacked OF being good
country, didn't quite hit the nail on the
head; for timber can be grown in this
country, and water will accompany it.
II. The 10-year-old boy Of E. B. Daw-
son,a xhila driving the coxa homA "a. |