Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-14
STATE NEWS.

Forty-three carloads of coal have
been shipped prior to Feb. 5, from the
states mines at Lansing to fourteen
different western counties.
Topeka Capital: Garfield park has
again reverted to the Paramore broth.
ers, the City Railway company having
relinquished its lease to the grounds.
| At Augusta the Farmers bank. CAPT.
tai $25, 900, and the Augusta Mercantile
company have failed Both were con-
trolled by E. R. Grant, who owns hall
the town of Augusta.
At Silver Lake the corn market has
been much more active during the past
week, prices being on an upward grade
and closing at 45 cents per bushel. Re-
ceIpts during the week, some over 5000
bushels.
It is announced that the Kansas City
Packing company, located at Armour
dale, Kan, which failed about six weeks
ago, has secured an operator and are
making preparations 20 resume business
not later than the first of next month.
Lawrence letter: County Treasurer
Walton reports that taxes for this year
have been paid up better than ever be-
fore in the history of the county.
Three-fourths of the first half's taxes,
or $4,000 out of $2O6,0 have been
paid in.
The apportionment bill as passed by
congress will give the Fifty-third con-
gress 356 members, the proposed amend
ment making the number $50 being de-
feated. Kansas will get one addition al
representative. This makes some addi-
tional and very important work for the
present legislature, i. g., the re-district-
ing of the state.
Fort Scott special: A boy thirteen
years old, named Charley Rating, liv-
ing with Mr.. Fritz Shuman, two and a
half miles northwest of this city, was
most horribly gored by a vicious cow
while he was feeding her. The COW
had always been regarded as perfectly
gentle and kind of a pet. The wounds
were inflicted in the lower pelvis
regions, and the scrotum was torn
open and horribly Iacerated.
Topeka Capital: The city council
recently appropriated 800 to purchase
a bell for fire station No. 1. This
amount was found insufficient for the
purchase and hanging of a suitable
bell, and yesterday afternoon G. d. N.Y.
ers, our public-s spirited real estate man,
started out with subscription list to
raise the additional funds necessary.
Last evening he reported unexpected
success, and it looks now as if we would
soon have regular fire alarm.
John N. Reynolds, the Atchison
freak, is still travelling, selling his book,
"Twin Hills" He drives a four horse
team into a town, loaded with his Or
chestra and his books. After the music
and his turnout have gathered crowd,
he talks and sells his book. He has
had Twin Hills" dramatized and will
soon go on the stage in the leading
part of the Convict. The brass band
he will have along is to be dressed in
prison garb. Surely there is but one
John N. Reynolds-preacher, swindler,
convict, and general freak.
Manhattan letter: The shipments of
poultry and eggs have been quite large.
Perry Brothers have been in the COM
mission business less than a year. In
that time they have shipped twenty-five
cars, or $3.50 cases, of eggs, each case
containing thirty dozeu, $4,000 pounds
of dressed poultry and 500 dozen live
poultry. Smallwood & Son have been
in the business about six months and
have shipped thirteen cars of eggs and
eight cars of poultry. Their shipments
have been to New York, New Orleans,
and San Francisco. 1t may seem ex-
traordinary, but that means about s.
100000 eggs shipped from this one
point within year. Some 5000 bush
els of apples were shipped from here
last fall, and a,quantity of sweet pota-
toes.
NJ. J. Keys, formerly editor of the
Solomon Valley Democrat at Minneap-
oils, later on the Scott City Sentinel,
and one of the editors of the first
paper published at Guthrie, Ok. is in
luck. When Keys arrived in Guthrie
with the other boomers, he took
claim, but the lot jumpers gobbled it.
The matter was referred to the United
States land Office and was recently de-
cided in favor of Keys. The land is in
the south side of Guthrie, and COM
prises large part OF the town. In con-
Keys has suddenly become a
wealthy man. Keys graduated from
the state university in 1884, and soon
after was nominated by the democrats
for state superintendent. He taught
school in Solomon and several other
places in the state.
Kiowa Review: Probably the au-
thoritles at Washington and elsewhere
have been impressed with a wrong
idea, viz: that the cattlemen and their
cattle are out of the Cherokee strip. If
they have such mistaken ideas they
should be informed of their mistake, SO
they can correct it before the land is
opened for settlement. We can cite