Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-05-31
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for theC Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.

Money is very stringent in the City of Mex
leo. The silver bill in the United States SEN
ate is closely watched.
The press of Piedras Negras, Mexico, COM
plains of the effect of the United States law
against importation of contract labor, and
taliate by compelling railroads In Mexico to
employ only Mexicans.
The 'sWage Workers Political alliance, " of
the District of Columbia, petition the gov
eminent to order Moses Hartman, of the Val
ley Falls, Kansas, Lucifer, to be released
from the Kansas penitentiary and be pre-
scented by the presidents own hand with
500, 600 in currency to be printed for that
purpose"
Mr.. Stanley is still scolding the English for
amiably permitting the Germans to wheedle
them out of the best portions of Africa.
The Wyandotte Indians own a burial
ground in Kansas City, Kansas, which the
city wants to have put to other uses. The
Indians are willing to remove the graves,
and Senator Plumb has inaugurated legisla-
ton to give them the right to do so.
The G. A. r. post of Paris, Texas, has sent
demand for court martialing Judge Botkin,
of Kansas, for insulting an audience at Paris,
in attendance on an open post meeting 10
honor of the many g. A. X. members from
Kansas, who were there attending United
States court. Botkin made a speech when
he was drunk.
Wooster, Ohio, has had a bad cyclone.
Entire orchards and STRIPS of oak timber
were blown down or twisted to the ground.
Many houses, barns and Outbuildings were
unroOfed or blown down. The hail stones
were so large and fell with such force as to
be driven through roofs covered with oak
shingles.
Prince Bismarck has gloomy forebodings
for Germany and Europe. He says the young
emperor cannot understand the spirit of the
great laws of the centuries. Germany" the
prince says, sis at the present time undergo
ing crisis-a crisis that William II might
have mitigated or checked, but which he has
prepared and accelerated"
The house committee on commerce has
recommended favorable report to be made
on the bill amending the interstate COM
merce law so as to permit the railroad COM
panies to give reduced rate to veterans at
tending the national encampments, with an
amendment extending the same privileges to
veterans of the confederate army.
Mansfield King, the self-confessed muir
derer, horse thief and all around criminal, in
Jail at Clayton, the county seat of st. Louis
county, No., has been identified as Wells, the
Denver bank roboer, who compelled Cashier
Moffatt, of the First National bank of Den
yer, to hand over 81 600 in cash, in March,
1889, at the point ola revolver.
Colonel G. W. Parker, who was sent by the
government to look into reports that cattle
men were bringing cattle into the Cherokee
outlet contrary to the presidents proclama-
ton, reports that the cattlemen are obeying
the order; that the cattle brought into the
territory are placed on leased lands in reser-
vations not included in the proclamation.
At Lucas, Ohio, lightning struck block
and set fire to it. In removing goods from
hardware store twenty-five pounds of dyna-
mite was exploded, killing two persons and
injuring many. The report of the explosion
was heard five miles distant, and the shock
was so great that nearly all windows in the
village were broken. Rain finally put the
fire out.
An army of witnesses have gone from Kan
sas and No Mans Land to Paris, Texas, in
the interest of the defense in the Robinson
murder trial. They were greatly excited |
when the judge ordered the marshal not to |
pay fees to the defendants witnesses. 1t is |
charged that many were subpened who knew |
nothing Of the case. with an agreement that |
they should divide their fees to make up |
fund to pay the expense of the defense.
AParis, Texas, special says Judge Theo-
dOre Botkin, of western Kansas, made a |
speech in Paris, in which he insulted every |
body, he being DRUM. About 200 Kansans,
who were at Paris attending the HugOtOn
murder trial, at once adopted resolution,
and caused it to be published, condemning |
Botkin and hoping that the responsibility of |
his act would not be charged up against |
Kansas, nor beyond the individual offender.
6 I.a
ginning to feel little uneasy about the way
the appropriation bills are piling up this ses-
sion. The amount of appropriations on bills
already passed and pen ling, point to an
aggregate that will exceed government reve-
nues by many millions during the coming
fiscal year. The estimated revenues for the
year amount to $3.50, 400 900, while appropri-
atoms already passed with such as seem as
likely to be passed will amount to more than
500, 1000.
The tariff bill, as passed by the house, takes
The life out of the treaty between the United
States and Hawaii. The United States
agreed to admit the products of the cane
fields of the Sandwich Islands into the ports
Of the United States free of duty. In return
for this exclusive control of the Pacific coast
sugar markets the Hawaiian king agreed that
certain products and manufactures of the
United States should be admitted free of
duty into his domInIons. Further than this,
he ceded to the United States a valuable Is
and for coaling station.