Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-11
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

G. A. R. post has been organized at
Charleston, S. c., composed of white veter-
ans, the greater part of whom have resided
there twenty years.
w. W. Coke, of Medicine Lodge. Kan, has
been appointed special agent of the agricul-
tural department in charge of sorghum sugar
experiments.
Terrible foundations have occurred in all
directions up the Sauguenay river. Between
Chlcoutimi and st, Alphonse most all the
bridges have been swept away.
The Fort Madison, Iowa, Daily Gem City
announces the death of James c. Pussy,
late of Kansas. He died May 3, at the resi-
Secretary Window has been quite sick
with cholera morbus.
Secretary Blaine has recovered from an
attack of lumbago, and received Sir Julian
Pauncefote, and went with him to the White
house where the British minister was form
ally presented to the president.
Ex-Governor Tom Moonlight of Wyoming
has been declared ineligible to the Office OF
city treasurer of Leavenworth. by reason OF
not having regained his citizenship in Kan
sas.
The fire department of Manistee, Mich,
quelled Polish riot at that place by turn
ing their hose on the crowd. The militia
were on hand, but water was equal TO the
need.
What is known as the Australian election
law. with some notifications to suit the
locality, has been adopted by both houses of
the Missouri legislature, and now awaits the
governors signature.
Nearly $500 immigrants were landed at
Castle Garden April 81 500 from Liverpool:
918 from Glasgow: 727 from Copenhagen;
40 from Antwerp; 665 from Havre, and 29l
from Hamburg.
Reports from all of western, southern and
eastern Oregon and from Washington show
a most encouraging condition of crops.
Warm rains have prevailed for a fortnight
and all crops promise TO be unusually large.
collision occurred on the Northern Pa
cific May 5, thirty-sx miles west of james
town, Dakota. Several persons were killed
and injured. Three cars OF Washington ter
ritory horses were killed.
2 The Shields saw mill in the woods ten miles
from Wausaw, Wis. was completely destroyed
by fire, also about 5000 feet of Eastwood
lumber. The total loss exceeds $4,000. No
insurance.
Counterfeit SO Creenbacks have appeared
in alarming numbers at st. Louis. The
work. There is bad spacing in the words
'this note is a legal tender" On the back
'this' is spelled ''tens.'
Ex-Sheriff Harry Coblentz, of Arkansas,
who has been active in assisting in the pros
ecution of the fraudulent election cases,
nearly paid for his zeal with his lite. Oby
Bently attacked him with a double shooting
gun.
A Washington dispatch says of the Garden
City land Office ID. NJ. Frost, of Dodge City,
is likely to succeed Niles as register, and
Jesse Taylor, of Stevens county, is men
toned as the probable successor of Than
hauSer.
A Crow courier reported that party of
Assinaboine Sioux crossed the Leghorn val |
ley and raided the Crow reservation, sixteen |
miles south of Custer. The raiders ran off a
lot of stock belonging to the Crows and es-
capped into the hills.
There are five banks and six newspapers |
in operation in Guthrie. Land Commits |
sioner Stockslager has received report |
from Inspector Hobbs, at Guthrie, which |
shows that during the first week 245 entries |
were made and forty-two notices of contests |
were made.
Commissioner of Pensions Tanner has |
ruled that county clerks in Kansas are not
empowered to administer oaths to pension |
ers. The United States statutes require
that this may be done by officers of any
court of record having the custody of its
seal. Tanner says that county clerks IN
Kansas are not officers of courts of record.
The president and secretary of the interior
have called upon United States officials in
Oklahoma, charged in the report of the in
spectors of the interior department with cor
rupt practices in connection with public
lands in that territory. for any explanation
or statement they desire to make thereto |
The report of the inspectors Will not be made |
public at present
A number of prominent citizens of Boston |
are agitating Plan TO help the evicted ten |
ants in Ireland, by establishing in one of |
the poorer districts of that country factory |
where the evcted persons can find employ |
ment, in making boots, shoes, clothing and |
underwear. The money to start the enter |
prise Is being raised by popular subscrip
tons among friends of the Irish cause in the |
United States.
A dispatch from Fargo, Dakota, says
cyclone swept across that city May and |
did considerable damage in the way of un-
roofing buildings and demoralizing tele-
phone and electric light wires. The upper
story of the Silverson block was seriously
damaged. The electric light tower lies across
the railroad track. Numerous dwellings
we're unroofed. The storm moved from
south to north and was preceded by blind
ing sand storm and the usual roaring sounds.
Better Than Oklahoma.
100 acres of the choicest land in the San