Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-17
STATE NEWS.

Minneapolis Commercial: Tho gen.
eral complaint now is that there are no
empty houses to rent unless it be lew
small ones of inferior quality.
Rain and snow caused the postpone
ment of the celebration of German day
in Kansas City from Tuesday TILL
Thursday. At Argentine the program
was carried ont in spite OF the weather.
Topeka Journal: Two hundred and
ffty-seven young ladies employed IN
the various business houses ate their
lunches at the Young Women's Chris
tan association rooms during sep
tember.
Clyde Herald: Among the good
news We have heard is the probability
that the talked of big building on the
Bartlett and Crump's corner is to be
q three story building with fine Ma
sonic Lall.
Lawrence item: A large number OF
graduates of other colleges of this and
other states are doing post graduate
work at the Kansas state university.
They are attracted by the superior fac
ulty and facilities.
The bank of Alton, Osborne county,
Kas., which is managed by w. n. Law
ton and Will Brynning, formerly OF
Atchison, young men, will go out OF
business. Messrs. Lawton and Bryn-
ming will locate in Texas.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: Lew Bragg
reports further depredations by wolves
in his neighborhood. On Monday
night they killed fine calf for Mr..
Bragg within one hundred yards OF his
house. On the same night he lost a
cow from snake bite.
Cawker City Record: One OF the
prettiest sights in this vicinity is the
big apple orchards of E. o. Garrett
and W.B. Mayer. The limbs of the
trees sweep the ground by the weight
of fine, large, red apples Of even growth,
fair skinned, and luscious flavor.
Kansas City Gazette: The machin-
cry in the new wooden mill at Rosedale
has been set in motion, and the first lot
of wool-a purely Kansas article-was
started through the first operation pre-
paratory to being manufactured into
blankets. This new enterprise is located
on Kansas soil near the state line at
Rosedale.
Atchison. company has been Or
0anized to manufacture cash registers
on an extensive scale in Atchison. The
register is the patent of j. G. Hume,
of Atchison, who has been manufac-
turing them in Cleveland for the past
two or three years. A citizens commit
tee has also gone to work to secure
bicycle factory.
Atchison Champion: Captain John
Z. Fisher has received notice from
Washington that the pension of William
Rinehart had been increased from $50
to $72 per month, and that he had been
allowed $3.50 back pay. Rinehart died
IN Atchison in August. He left several
children and the money will 60 to them
when the proper papers are made out
Cofeyville. has been gala
day for Coffeyville. The streets and
the Grand Army of the Republic
grounds were literally jammed with
people from all points in the district.
Regular and special trains were contin-
ually arriving with crowds of people.
Speeches interspersed with music and
songs by glee clubs have contributed to
the enjoyment of the great crowd Of
soldiers from all parts of the state.
Topeka Capital: On the Washburn
college grounds over 1000 evergreens,
mainly pines and cedars, and nearly
1000 white elms are ready for trans
planting. The executive committee will
meet next Tuesday to decide where
they shall be set out. Some parts of the
campus are now becoming so shaded
that the cottonwood trees will have to
be cut down, leaving the elms, ever.
greens and other forest trees to occupy
the space.
Atchison.-Joseph Tracy, student
OF Midland college, from st. Joseph,
was accidentally shot in the head by
Richard Willis. student from Doni-
phan county. The bullet struck Tracy
in the forehead and glanced to posi-.
ton above the right eye, where it
lodged. The wound is rather serious
but not considered dangerous. Willis
ibid not know it was loaded" He
pointed the weapon at Tracy and COM
manding him to get his lessons pulled
the trigger.
Senator Plumb's family is widely
scattered. Mrs Plumb is at eanltari.
nm in Saratoga; Ruth, the second
daughter, is with her mother; Mary,
the eldest daughter, is in charge Of the
home at Emporia; Amos, the eldest son,
ID receiving treatment for q nervous af-
fiction at South Bethel, Pa; Carrie,
the youngest daughter, is attending a
Moravian school at Libitz, Pa, and
Preston, the youngest son, is at school
under charge OF the same denomination
ct Nazareth, Pa.
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