Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-11-21
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Tho Canadian government has decided to
ADOPT q vigorous immigration policy. An
agent OF the government will visit the west
ern states, including Kansas, to induce farm
ers to locate in Manitoba and the northwest.
The suit of the Union Pacific against C. b.
Mckibbon, formerly purchasing agent for
that road, to recover 10000, alleged to have
been received as brides from supply compa-
MES. was dismissed by the attorneys for the
railroad company.
Colonel Don Piatt, the we'll known retired
journalist. is dead. He died a. his home,
Mac Chez. He had been i'll with Ia grippe
the past few days, but his indisposltion was
not regarded az serious. His death is COM
plete surprise.
A delegation of Kansans in Washington
wished to congratulate Senator Plumb on
the result of the elections IN Kansas oy q
banquet, but he courteously declined.
The Gillian provisional junta, which has
administered the government since the down.
fall of Balmaceda, are. all three, provided
for. Mont ia elected president; Silva presi-
dent of the senate. and Luco president OF the
chamber of deputies.
Owing to the fact that the employees of two
firms of boOtmakers are striking. all the
London boOtmakers have agreed to declare q
lockout. As a result 5000 bootmakers were
locked out and 10000 more will ultimately
be treated in the same manner.
Russian newspapers are crying out against
the NEGLECT of the government railway OIL
Gals IN transporting grain to the starving
peasantry. They say that gram Is allowed to
rot at stations IN the Caucasus because OF i'm
perfect methods of railway transportation.
The general missionary committee of the
Methodist church. in session at Cleveland,
O., decided, after great deal of discussion,
that 81 ,60O, 600 should be apl ropriated In the
proportion of As per. cent for the home mis-
sions and IS per cent for the foreign field.
Borinps in the bed of the Missouri river. at
the Harlem end of the Hannibal bridge, have
brought up a dark Drown sand, the forina-
ton found to be twenty-five or more feet In
thickness and sixty feet from the surface,
which assays $12s of gold and $3.50 OF silver
to the ton.
A singular accident occurred during COL
ored funeral in Baltimore, Nd, last Sunday,
the assembled mourners and friends being
preciDitated into the cellar by the caving in
of the floor. Fortunately no one was IN
jured, though thirty people were piled IN
promiscuous heap.
The total value of breadstuffs exported
during October was $24, 463, 1874, as against
$S,343, 246 during the corresponding month
last year. The principal increase was In
wheat. The export of this cereal for Octo-
Der, 1891, was "a. OS8, 289 bxshels, and for Oc-
tober, 1880, 3, 1O0, 315 bushels.
Among the notable guests attending the Gel
ebration of the Prince of Wales fftieth birth,
day at Sandringham, November 9. were Lord
and Lady Brooks, and because OF Lazy
Brooks presence the Princess of Wales took
occasion TO visit her sister instead OF helping
her hubby celebrate his natal day.
A severe storm prevailed in the Puyallup
and Luck river valleys, Washington. The
rivers are greatly swollen and in many places
have overfiowed their banks, dong much
damage to crops. All trans between Seattle
and Tacoma are delayed by the unsafe con-
dition of bridges. Telegraph wires are pros
trated.
If the statistics of Great Britain are correct
the excess of women and girls over men and
boys in that country is about 9OO.OOo an in
crease in ten years of about 100000. In Ger.
many the number of females in excess OF
males is 100000. In Sweden and Norway
the "weaker sex" is in the majority by about
$4,000; in Austro- Hungary by 6OO.OOO, and
in Denmark by $4,000. In the United States,
Canada and Australia the males are in the
majority. In this country there are about
1.OOOO 900 more men than women.