Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-10-04
STATE NEWS.

The Washington public schools
opened with an enrolment of $50.
Neosho Falls Post: The schools of
this place opened with an enrolment of
1872.
From Hiawatha: In the republican
convention of the Twenty-second judi
cial district. Hon. S. i. Ryan was nom
mated on the forty-ffuh ballot.
Atchison Champion: Ex-Governor
Click paid $1,000 for ninety-four
acres or corn standing in the field six
miles west of AtcEison.
Atchison Champion: There are thirty
physicians in Atchison, and the number
increases at least six every year. There
are about the same number of attor-
neys.
Atchison Champion: Robert s.
Kelley, the founder of the Squatter
Sovereign, afterward The Freedoms
Champion, and then the Atchison
Champion, is dead.
State Fair notes: The first premium
for the best five consecutive num-
bers of weekly newspaper published
in Kansas was awarded to the Garden
City Imprint. This gives the Imprint
three ribbons on four entries.
Topeka Journal: Major J. ARIEL
johnson, of this city, late of the Sixth
Kansas cavalry, has been notified of a
special act of congress giving him a
pension of $50 a month, dating back to
1870, aggregating $4,000.
Canton Republican: William Eldred
shipped thirty dozens of pigeons last
week, and seventy dozen this week.
The German from whom he purchases
them says they pay better to raise than
any other kind OF poultry.
Independence Reporter: The streets
of Wellington are again in darkness.
The contract between the city and the
electric light company has expired, and
the city will not renew unless they can
get light cheaper than heretofore.
Parsons Journal: Half day sessions
are already talked of in the first ward
schools The rooms are over crowded;
over one hundred ara in the primary
department alone Twenty mine teachers
are employed this year. Give us more
teachers and new building.
From Hiawatha: Young Crabb, who
cut a man in pieces at Horton, has
broken jail. He is a very dangerous
man, and several officers and special
deputies are after him. Ditts, a young
st. Joseph tough, is thought to have
aided his escape.
Riley Regent: They are having a
great deal OF sport in Manhattan ust
now playing base ball. The scheme is to
get eighteen men who don't know any
thing about ball, and then go out and
laugh at their mistakes for Is cents,
which is to be applied to putting a
fountain in the park.
Coffeyville Journal: Joe Short
brought in a block of limestone, taken
from the quarry on Jake Guthrie's place
in the territory, that was IA feet 6
inches long, feet inches wide, and
A. inches thick 1t was delivered
at Luther Perkins new building to be
used in the sidewalk.
Bluff City Herald: The attendance
at school on opening day was sixty-five
There are large number of the older
pupils who will attend later, but are
kept at home now by pressing farm
work. Mr. Williams thinks the school
is going to be unusually profitable and
interesting by the bright, interested
way it starts out.
From Manhattan: Camp John A.
Martin is ablaze with electric lights, and
the opening of the Fifth district re-
uuion is progressing under very favor
able circuu stance. Five companies of
the S venth regular cavalry are in camp
and give a drill and parade every day.
Speeches by Governor Humphrey,
Judge Spilman, Colonel Phillips, and
others. The Woman's Relief corps have
charge of the camp-fi fire.
Wichita Eagle: The Lewis-academy
enrollement shows 900 names or 20 per
cent more than at this time last year
President Naylor stated yesterday that
llC WIN WIGS SOlhS olOA5 oiIOONLAl
and the prospects for the institution
were never better. Many of the de-
partments are being improved in facili-
ties, giving the pupils better opportun-
tiles than ever before.
Salina Sun: Mother Bickerdyke, the
renowned army nurse Of Tennessee, was
tie guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Eber,
hardt during her stay in the city,
Thursday, attending the old settlers
second annual reunion. She is residing
at Russell, Russell county, and was &C.
companied here " her son, Prof Bick-
erdyke, superintendent of the public
schools of Russell county. Few persons
have been accorded such a recognition
as she on this return.
Topeka Journal: Complaint is already
heard that good houses for tenants are
impossible to find in Topeka. The
empty houses, o,er which there was so
much lamentaUior last summer, are
filling up rapidly, and rents show a
slight tendency to advance. About the
only houses which are now "un-enta-
BILE" are old buildings which the own
ers refuse to paint and put in good
order. All the modern houses are be-