Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-08-23
STATE NEWS

About every other dispatch In the
papers nowadays tells US Of the closing
of original package houses at some
point in Kansas.
The state board of equalization has
raised the taxable valuation of Atchison
county $50, 9S0.50, making il $685.
772.37 for state purposes
Leavenworth Times: A very large
quantity of apples have been brought
into the'cIty during the week, and the
shippers are being kept busy sending
them to other states.
A Pomona special: Duringa heavy
electrical storm, one of our prominent
citizens, w. W. Reach, and his little
ten-year-old daughter, Claudia, we're
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
From Washington, D. c.: The pop
ulation of Kansas City, Kansas, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 3d.
no. TIE same place in 1880 contained
a population of 9,348. This is there
fore an increase in ten years o. 1892,
or 308.37 per cent.
Independence Reporter: The state
convention of the anti horse-thief asso-
citation of Kansas will be held in this
city on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der. 1t is expected that three hundred
delegates will be in attendance, and In
dependence should prepare to give
them a hOspitable reception.
From Hiawatha: The First Tent of
Daughters of Veterans has been organ
lied here to be known as Mrs. John A.
Logan Tent No l, Daughters of Veter-
ans. The president, Miss Gladys Eos
ter. Officers regularly mustered in by
Past Post Commander John Fraser, of
Hiawatha Post No. 100, g. A. R., as
mastering officer, Captain Jeffries, of
Sons of Veterans camp, assisting They
start with twenty-five charter members.
Parsons Journal: The country has
not been so full of active grain buyers
for years, and spectators are taking
all the grain they can purchase. at
forty three and forty-fve cents, to hold
for a rise. Wheat and oats are also
advancing, and the demand was never
more active. We talked with an intel
ligent buyer, and he gave 1t as his
opinion that corn would reach seventy
five cents before the first of next Janu-
airy.
Scandal Journal: Tt is now safe to
place the crop in Scandal township at
twenty bushels per acre, and with fav-
orable weather hereafter it may exceed
that amount. Add to this the old corn
cribbed on farms throughout the town
ship, and it is safe to say that Scan
dia can sell more dollars worth of corn
this fall than it did two years ago, and
may exceed the sales of last season
Scandal is the banner township again
this year.
OF the party of young missionaries
who went to Africa sometime ago, three
have died from fever; Frank NJ. Gates,
late Secretary of the I. NJ. G. A. of
Topeka; Mrs. kingman, who organized
the Y. W. c. A. OF Topeka, and lived
here for some time, and Warren S.
Harris of ST. Paul. This still leaves
'bWO hduSduS dllNS dG hOOnOS 4hlSS
Jenny Dick, of Topeka and Charles !
B. Helmick. Letters from Miss Dick to
relatives here exhibit rare traits of
character and wonderful trust in God /
By wire from Anthony: Lewis II. |
Mock, q son of w. II. Mock, of this
place, has been accidentally shot and
killed. BE, with his little sister and
two lady friends were on a few days
outing in the territory. About thirty
four miles south of here, while stopping
for dinner, he was taking his gun from
the wagon, when the same was dis
charged. The shot entered the right
breast, resulting in instant death. The
ladies placed the body in a wagon and
found their way to ranch four miles
distant, at which place they received
assistance and conveyed the body home
His father is now in Boston as a repre-
sentative of the G. A. R. post of An
thony.