Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-05-10
STATE NEWS.

Parsons journal: A half ton of
mineral paint was shipped to Wichita
Saturday by the Parsons Mining and
Smelling Company.
The tenth annual meeting of the So
cial Science Club of Kansas and Wes-
tern Missouri will be held at Lawrence,
Kansas, May 8 and 9.
Gaylord Herald: This is a great
country for eggs. 1t is not an unusual
thing for single store in this city to
take in three or four hundred dozen IN
the course of day.
Belle PLANE News: The shipments
of corn south has msde it necessary for
the railroad men of the southern states
to cone north to solicit patronage for
their roads. Three were in town this
week.
Ravanna Chieftain: The quietest
election ever held in Garfield county
was for the issuing of $4,000 in bonds
with which to build a second court
house, and it was all one sided against
the bonds.
The Paola Republican says that the
United Brethren college at Lecompton
has offered to remove to Paola, during
this season, for such a consideration as
seems likely to be satisfactory to both
the college and Paola.
Atchison Champion: There was a
bad hail storm on the Central Branch
between Clifton and Clyde last week.
Between jamestown and Clifton there
was heavy rainstorm. This side of
Greenleat the weather was fair.
At Hutchinson, while under a steam
pressure of sixty pounds, the boiler in
the South Hutchinson iron works ex-
ploded. The building was badly dam
aged. There were ten workmen in and
around the works, but none were in
jured.
Coldwater Enterprise: The alfalfa
in Il. a. Rich's front yard Is full six
inches high and forms a pleasing con-
trast with the short buffalo grass near
by. The fact that this grass does well
in Mr.. Rich's yard, which is an elevat-
ed piece of ground, indicates that it
will flourish anywhere in the county.
Wichita Eagle: In the board of
trade rooms may he seen a beautiful
boquet made entirely OF copper and tin
and composed of 1884 different pieces.
The piece of work is evidently the re-
suit of much labor and patience and
shows much skill. It will be mounted
on handsome pedestal and will be a
part of the exhibit of Messrs. Caswell &
Spangler.
Eudora News: Herman Gabriel and
VIM. Bartz, two prominent farmers of
this township, began the erection of
barns ON their farms the past week.
They received a consignment of two
cars of lumber direct from Michigan
last week, and Immediately began the
work of building. The probable cost
of the buildings will be: Gabriel's,
$500; Bartz's 500.
Marion Record: The old theory
that when a man is down everybody is
ready to give him kick doesn't seem
to hold good, Cor bad in the case of
Mr.. Purcell, the Manhattan banker who
recently failed. The Nationalist says
he is flooded with letters of sympathy
and offers of help. Several farmers
whom he has befriended have offered
to mortgage their property to help
him out. There is a great deal of good
in this old world, yet.
Clay Center Times: J. B. Porter,
one of our most successful short horn
cattle breeders, has been extending his
business the past year. Last fall he
took a lot of his best stock to Oregon
and disposed OF it at higher prices than
stock was ever known to sell for in that
country before. He has been in the
business a number of years, and by the
most careful attention has steadily i'm
p owed his grades and thoroughbreds
until now Willow Grove stock farm can
show as fine lot of pedigreed stock as
any in this whole country.
Nickerson Argosy: During the past
week the sales OF cattle at the Nicker-
son stock yards amounted to $4,000 |
Capt. Herst sod $4,000 worth, Major
Seek $4,000 worth and Colonel S. Ma
ton $4,000 worth. More cattle are
handled here than at any other yards
in the state. W elk before last Capt !
Herst sold 45 car loads of cattle. Buy
ers from various parts of the state are
here every week buying cattle. The
sales here during the winter and spring
have amounted to fully half million
dollars. At no place along the Santa
Fe are the accommodations for feeding |
and handling cattle as good as they |
are here. Nickerson is the best town
in this valley outside of our county
seat. There is no city of its size in the
state whore so much ready cash is han
died as in this city.