Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-04-26
STATE NEWS.

Chetups Advance: Twenty-one cents
was paid for corn on our streets this
week.
The regents of the Kansas Universe
ty have decided to expend $4,000 in re-
pairing the foundations Of the main
buildings.
Atchison Champion: Northern Kan
sas farmers are now paying of more
chattel mortgages and notes than at any
time during the last five years.
Scottsville News: Thirty-two cars
were on the tracks in Scottsville waiting
to be loaded with grain, the other day.
This is undoubtedly one of the best
grain shipping points in Kansas.
Beloit Gazette: Work Is being pushed
on the Industrial school building. A
large amount Of rock has been prepared
during the winter, and now large force
of masons are putting it in place.
Salina Republican: There is not a
sheriffs sale advertised in Saline coun-
ty. There is some cause for this.
Try repeating prohibition and see If
that would not bring the newspapers
something to do.
Reloit Gazette: Capt. Charlesworth
has received letter from Senator In
gals, from the reading of which we
infer that the Senator vii be with US
on the Fourth of July, if Congress
shcnld adjourn before that date.
Atchison Champion: D. G. Arnold,
the government census agent for this
county, in his report says there were
between the years of 1880 and 1890
Just 9.719 mortgages filed in this coun-
ty. The greater part of these have
been paid OF.
Axtell Anchor: G. H. Stewart, sec
rotary of the Nemaha county fair asso-
citation, informs us that arrangements
are being made to pay the outstanding
indebtedness of the association. The
date of the fair has been fixed for the
third week in September.
Mankato Monitor: There are more
loans being paid and fewer applications
for loans in Jewell county than at any
previous time within the past five years.
Jewell county paid out over $4,000 to
investigate her officers. After several
weeks of arduous labors on the part of
the commission, they found the affairs
of the county all serene.
Axtell Anchor: People who ordered
trees of foreign agents obtained the
usual amount of experience this spring
and in most cases paid more for the ex-
perience than the trees. One man paid
SLIPS and found he could have bought
the same number size and variety at
home for 81; another paid SIS for
$1S5 worth and another bought 1925
worth of trees and years stock of ex-
perience for only $40. 1t is the same
every year.
At Rossville the election was hotly
contested. The town had been under
the administration OF women for year,
who had suppressed the billiard hall.
The old proprietor and his friends en-
deavored to change this at the city
election, but were fairly beaten again,
the women taking active part. Three
ladies of the council acted as judges.
No dissatisfaction of any kind alter the
election was over.
Topeka Capital: D. I. Furbeck's
stock barns, five miles west of the city,
are destroyed by a prairie fire. The
family had retired, but were aroused
by the glare of flames and found the
stock sheds on fire. There was barely
time to get the stock all out and to
place of safety, when the whole collec-
ton of frame structures was enveloped
in the flames and soon destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $500, while the
insurance was only about $1,700.
Atchison Champion: A prairie fire
started about three miles east of Corn
ing, on the Central Branch, and burned
three miles of fence posts and nearly
hundred tons OF hay, besides two coun-
ty bridges. The fire was started by
farmers burning off their corn fields
The railroad company has instructed
its employees through this section of
Kansas to be careful to see that all APP
proaches to bridges are cleared of rub
bish and underbrush.
The Atchison Champion says that "a
man can live very comfortably and
support family respectfully on $1,000 |
to $500 year" In what category |
does the Champion place the masses of
men whose income is less than those !
figures? Do none of these dare to ex.
pect comfort or responsibility? Prob
ably from three to five only out of every |
hundred men in Kansas have an income |
approaching these figures; and Kansas
is better off in this respect than the old
states.
Wichita Eagle: A visit to the ex-
press Offices was rewarded with the fact
that the nurseries are doing much more
business this spring than ever before.
In all the Offices the shipments of trees
last spring were 40 per cent less than
this spring, and, in fact, one offi-e is
doing double the business in that line
that it did last year. Many of the
shipments are to small stations, going