Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-29
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The governor of Missouri has issued q
thanksgiving proclamation which fills only
eleven lines of type.
As q preventive of cholera infection the
PENNSYLVANIA state board of health recon-
mends that rags from SPAN shall not be
permitted to be landed.
The Missouri Pacific and the Santa Fe, it
Is asserted, have entered into an agreement
not to invade each others territory with any
new lines without consultation and full
agreement about doing so.
President Adams, of the Union Pacific,
wants to resign, and a meeting of the stock
holders is to be called to act upon it. Mr..
Gould is reported as saying that Mr.. Dillon
is likely to succeed Mr.. Adams.
Members of congress are getting back to
Washington to be in readiness to commence
the work of the short session.
Florida has declared a quarantine against
horses and cattle from Texas aud all points
west of the Mississippi river aud south of the
Arkansas river, until CHAMBERS has ceased to
exist in that region.
An order has been issued in Nebraska to
the first regiment, national guards, to be IN
readiness for marching orders at day s no
tice. This is on account of the general In
dian scare in the northwest.
The Chicago directory of the worlds far
have taken decided stand against the as
sumption of the board of commissioners OF
any control of the funds, or direction OF the
work of putting up the buildings.
In one issue of daily papers containing
Associated Press reports, that OF SunIayl
November 26, are particulars of the death OF
eight Young persons in different parts of the
west, from the careless use of firearms.
A lady who has been a year at the Topolo-
bampo colony, in the desert region OF the
coast of Mexico. has returned to Abilene,
Kansas. She tells narrowing tales OF hum
ger, thirst and torment from insects, suffered
by that colony.
People continue to come into Mandan, n.
D., from the country bordering on the reser-
walton. Provisions and ammunition have
been moved into coal mine which Is I'M
pregnable and which citizens and settlers ex-
pect to be driven into.
The king of Holland, William III, is dead.
He was recently deposed and the queen de-
cIared regent He died insane. He was the
last direct male representative of the great
house of Orange. His only issue is daugh-
ter now 10 years old.
The British secretary of war has suddenly
ceased his efforts to discover the culprlts I'M
plicated in the theft of examination papers
for promotions to commissions In the army.
1t is rumored that the trail was coming dan
gerously close to royalty.
While the emperors of Germany and Aus
tria were together at ROhnstock they were
enabled to listen through the telephone, es-
pecially installed for them, to the opera OF
"Carmea." performed on the stage of the
Berlin opera house, 295 miles away.
The United States charge d'affaires at
Al. L. Of tot
ports 5, 493 cases and 1927 deaths from chol-
era in Spain, excepting in Barcelona, since
the outbreak of the disease and up TO Octo-
Der 22. There we're twenty deaths reported
in Barcelona
The Koch consumptive cure has reached
Kansas soil and is to be experimental with at
once. DR.. T. Baum, of Kansas City, has
procured vial of the lymph direct from
Berlin. It is a thin liquid of brownish color
and has salty taste DR.. Baum has friends
in Germany who obtained the elixir from DR..
Koch's laboratory.
The natural gas wells which have supplied
Pittsburg, Pa, with fuel gave out. sys-
tenn of pumps have been applied and again
the factories and furnaces are supplied, or
hoping to be. How long the pumps will be
able to give pressure enough to force the gas
from the wells and through the distributing
pipes is problem
The United States land officers in Okla
homa' are deciding contest cases against
''sOoners" as fast as they are reached. The
postmaster of Oklahoma City is one of the
''sooners'' who loses his claim by the deci-
sions. Prominent parties have been arrested
on the charge OF perjury in connection with
their contests before the land officers.
The Sioux Indians have purchased at least
500. $50 worth of Winchester rifles and am
munition, with money obtained by the sale
of beef to the government, 10 be furnished
these same Sioux Indians in their regular "a
tions; and from the sale of grain. Is there
such a case of utter tomfoOlery in the uni
verse as that which directs our entire Indian
system.
Z. B. Brown, president of the state Feder-
alton of Labor, has called a convention TO
meet IN Topeka, Monday, February 16, 1891.
The objects of the convention, as stated in
the call, are to perfect. as fan as possible, the
organization of the state federation, AMI adj
vance the work it has begun, and to secure
legislative aotio on such measures as are of
genera. conc, m to union men.
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