Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-03
ILATEgT NEWS.
Condensed fortheC onveniense
Of Hurried Readers


A gale along the Pacific coast, with the
mercury 10 below; with railroad trains block
AIDED with snow drifts.
d. R. Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times,
was discharged on preliminary exaTniT alton
of unlawfully publishing lottery advertise
ments.
The Minneapolis min ground stronger last
week. The aggregate output for the week
was 135, 685 barrelsl against ia, 900 the week
before, and 152, 550'the same week last year.
Colonies are being formed to invade the
Cherokee strip, and hundreds of families are
in camp near the state line; many of them
along the creeks ana raylnes of the coveted
country.
The floods in Italy following the heavy
snow did much damage to the railways.
Thursday the new year was marked by the
first official reception of the season at the
White house. This reception will be followed
by official receptions at the residences of the
cabinet officers.
There is a dead lock between the two
houses of congress over the urgent deficiency
bill. 1t is over an Item added by the senate
to make the senate clerks annual instead of
session employees. To this the house refuses
to agree.
The president has vetoed bill the cree
ton for a public building at Bar Harbor,
Me. The bill called for an appropriation of
5000. The veto was on the ground that
the public needs of the community do not
justify the expenditure.
A Jewish woman at st. Petersburg, whose
tssuse was about to be sold by the authorities
tx meet the fine imposed by reason of her
sons avoidance of consumption, in her de-
Law fbol ifoha
herself to be burned to death.
Negotiations between the United States
and the Cherokees have proven fruitless, the
two commissions disagreeing on the rights
Of the Chrokees to enter the United States
5Iurts and also as to the price per acre. the
i7herokees asking 81.
1 Major Whiteside, with battalion of the
Seventh cavalry, has captured Big Foot and
This entire band. About $50 bucks surren-
dered. General Brooke also telegraphed that
fhe hostiles in the Bad Lands had surrendered
and would reach Pine Ridge on Tuesday.
Two Detroit physicians have bnnu expert
menting about as long as mas DR.. och with
a cure for consumption. Their success, like
his, Is still a problem, yet their attalnments
have been fully equal to his. They work
from a different basic idea from that of DR..
Koch.
At Minneapolis the average daily output of
-four has been decreased and the total pro-
duction next week will be somewhat smaller.
The -four market is without much life, espe-
cially IN the domestic trade. Liberal sales
have been made for export, but at pretty
low prices.
The county superintendents of schools in
Arkansas have held their first meeting. A
resolution was adopted fixing the third week
in June, September, December and March
of each year for teachers examinations.
Heretofore there has been no system about
examinations.
United States Consul Twitchell, at King
ston, Ont, says he has been spoken to by a
Canadian exporter in regard to defrauding
the United States revenue with a view to get
ting him to enter into the practice. Mr..
Twitchell also says he believes consular
frauds have been practiced to the extent re-
ported.
Az expert who has returned to Berlin from
Pennsylvania declares that America is only
able to compete with Germany on cheap
articles and not on first and second grades
owing to the high wages and the scarcity of
good hemp and the high price of wool. 1t is
therefore doubtful if the new American tariff
law will greatly injure Germany exports.
A dispatch from Washington warns the
Cherokee strip boomers to get out and keep
out. 1t is positive that no one will be per-
mitted to make settlement there until nego-
tiations for the purchase of the land are
completed and are ratified by congress-; and
it is not likely that the present congress will
act even though the commissioners and the
Cherokees reach an agreement in q shelt
time.
The house committee on Pacific railroads
ordered a favorable report on a senate bill
to enlarge the duties of the commissioner of
railroads so that he shall keep the accounts
of the Pacific railroads and other bonded
lines. The committee adopted resolution
requesting the committee on rules to give
the committee separate day for considera-
ton of all the Pacific railroad measures.
Frank A. Aldrich, of Stafford, Kansas,
who was sentenced in Pennsylvania to seven
years in prison, has, after serving two years,
been pardoned, through the unceasing efforts
of his wife, who has expended the two years
time and quite fortune in her work for his
release. The state board of pardons have
evidence that Aldrich was in Kansas when
the crime was committed in Pennsylvania.