Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-01
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stroyed bricks and brickyards along the
Hudson river, as far north as Albany.
girl 16 years old was driving one team
and her father another, near Folsom, n. M,
the girl being ahead. A blizzard struck
them and the girl lost her way and persisted.
The next capital locating act of the Okla
homa legislature is to be in favor of King
fisher; but the governor will find the same
objection to it he did to the Oklahoma City
bill.
The Kansas City, Mo-, street car lines have
agreed to make a joint proposition to the
postal authorities to carry mail carriers for
5000 a year, divided among the different
lines,
The widow of Chief Justice Miller is said
to be left IN Strengthened circumstances.
Justice Miller left but little property except
his home in Washington.
President Adams is reported as saying:
''If the Union Pacific had sufficient equip
ment to move the tonnage offering its gross
earnings would be 100000 to $4,000 a
month"
The public schools at Oxford, Blooming
Grove and other villages in that section of
Orange county, New York, have been closed,
owing to the prevalence of malignant type
of diphtheria.
Hundreds of people are fiocklng to the
Arbuckle mountains, Indian Territory, where
gold has been found IN paying quantities.
They lie south of Oklahoma City about l25
miles, and every train is crowded with pros
pectOrs.
A Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul freight
train was wrecked near Mosby, Mo-, by de-
liberate fends, who had placed the rails over
a trestle, forty feet high, in position to
accomplish their object. They expected a
passenger and express train from Chicago,
but caught the freight.
Considerable excitement exists over the
fact that the Choctaw railroad is grading
four miles south of Oklahoma City. The
roads officials are indignant that the city did
not or will not grant them right of way
through the town. Hence they miss the city
by crossing the Santa Fe four miles south.
The troops who we're called out to pursue
the band of Apaches who murdered two
sheep herders about twenty miles from Silver
City, n. NJ, recently, met the band in an
unfrequented spot near the scene of the muir
der. A conflict ensued, but the Indians beat
off their pursuers after two of them had been
killed.
A Kansas City insurance company has COM
piled statistics showing that there is annually
paid out by Kansas City to eastern insurance
companies at least 81, 900 900 in insurance
premiums. The statistics show also that for
the year ending December 81, 1889, Missouri
property owners paid to nonresident COM
panies S4,565,577.
A parade of the children of the Catholic
Sunday schoc Is of Brooklyn, n. Y, was given
IN honor of the golden jubilee of Bishop
Loughlin. In all %, 900 children turned out
and marched by the Episcopal residence,
where they were reviewed by Bishop Lough-
liza, Cardinal Gibbons, the visiting bishops
and prominent citizens.
Two hundred and eighty thousand gallons
of water confined in the steel standpipe at
Temple, Texas, broke loose from their con-
fines and flooded the town. Immense sheets
of boiler steel, hundreds of pieces of scatfold-
ings, houses, barns, fences and all the debris
of the surrounding neighborhOOd went float
ing and crashing in all directions.
1t is reported that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe has taken hold of the proposed Al
buquerque & Durango road and intends to
build it as a link in the contemplated line
from the gulf to Ogden. The ruuor is cor
roborated by the fact that the officers of the
road are preparing to contract for large guam
titles of ties to be got out near Albuquerque.
A fire at Mobile, Ala, started in single
mill. resulted in the destruction OF between
1000 and 5000 bales of cotton, eight ware
houses, three cotton compressors, two large
wood and coal yards, three of the river steam
boats, and a box factory, and the Mobile
Fertilizer company. The loss will reach
million dollars.
Two candidates for the vacancy on the
supreme bench have appeared in the north
west. They are Senator w. f. Sanders, of
Montana, and eX- Representative w. ID. Calk-
ms, of Washington. Mr.. Calkins is now
candidate for Mr.. Squires' place in the SEN
ate. The names of Attorney General Miller
and Secretary Noble are still much men
toned in connection with the vacancy.
The Santa Fe's capacity is strained to the
utmost by its immense business. The Off
Gals say 1000 new stock cars could be used.
Fifty new locomotives have been ordered
and the motive power is insufficient to meet
the demand. A year ago the Santa te had
forty locomotives and large number of cars
rented out. Now the company has called
them in and is borrowing right and left.
A hullaballoo is now raised over the Nc
Kinley bill, it having been discovered that
there was a clerical error in the tobacco sec
ton. Some say that this makes the entire
bill void; while the facts are that there never
has been session of congress in which SINH
lar mistakes have not occurred; and it has
always been held that such errors only
effected the particular clauses in which they
appeared.
1t was queer gathering, that at the funeral
of the grandson of Chief Justice Salmon 2.
Chase, William Sprague. There were pres
ent the father of the deceased, Ex-Governor
and ex-UnIted States Senator Sprague, of
Rhode Island, with his second wife; the
mother, Mrs. Kate Sprague, and her daugh-
ter; Mrs. Wheaton the divorced wife of the
deceased, with her second husband, and with
the latter couple, the child of the deceased.