Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-03-21
STATE NEWS.

been elected assignee of the Cawkel
CITY Security Investment company,
which failed short time ago.
Wellington Mail: Bob Barry has
decided to sink shaft on his farm near
Perth. He says the coal find near his
place is no myth, but an absolute GER
tainty.
The Southeastern Kansas Teachers
association will hold their grand semi
annual meeting in Patterson's opera
house, Fort Scott, Kansas, March 19, 20,
and 81, 1891.
There are $4,000 colored people in
Kansas, according to the completed CEN
sus returns. OF these. 10000 are voters.
This is a much smaller number than the
colored politicians have claimed.
The women OF Fort Scott nominated
a full city ticket. There is only one
man on the school board. The days OF
a man Superintendent for city schools at
! Fort Scott seem to be numbered.
Osborne county school teachers have
organized a permanent reading circle,
with upwards of thirty members. 1t is
thought the membership will soon in
clude every teacher in the county.
The county clerk of Decatur county
corrects the publish d statement that
seven eighths of the land of that county
is owned by nonresident aliens. He
eovs that not more than one-eighth is
so owned
Atchison Champion: Rev. II. d.
Fisher will soon get out his autobiog-
raphy. DR.. Fisher has had a stirring
experience, and the scenes through
which he has passed will make a fasci-
mating book.
Fort Leavenworth.- Company G, of
the Twelfth United States infantry has
arrived here. The company was trans
ferred from Fl. Yates, n. D., land it came
in on a special train over the ''Maple
Leaf railroad.
Rev. G. G. Gaines pastor of col
ored church at Fort Scott, and member
of the school board OF that city, is I'M
der arrest, charged with felony which
will give him long term in the peni-
tentlary if proven.
Effingham Times: Samuel Ludwig,
who was in town recently soliciting aid
for the sufferers of Logan county, left
Atchison Friday with three car loads of
provisions and feed and a considerable
amount of money, all obtained in Atch-
ison county.
The secretary of the Alpha chapter
{ Kansas) of the Phi Beta Kappa society
would be glad to receive the names and
addresses of all Phi Beta Kappa men
now resident IN this state. Please adj
dress Arthur G. Garfield, state univer-
sity, Lawrence.
Atchison Champion: The total num-
Der of mortgages filed during the year
of 1880 was $50, aggregating 1854, 485;
the number of satisfactions filed was
597, aggregating S82S,197. The salts
factions exceed the mortgages in num-
Der II; in amount. S143.712.
The recent snow storm is reported as
general over the state, falling to the
depth of five to seven inches and gener-
ally remaining level upon the ground
until melted, which was a slow process,
melting from the bottom. There was
scarcely any frost in the ground, but
the atmosphere was cold after the snow
fall.
The rolling mill at Rosedale, which
has been idle for several years, seems
likely to be put in motion again, for the
manufacture of horseshoe iron. George
Westerman. of Lockport, n. Y, who
practically supplies the trade of the en-
tire country with horseshoe iron, has
made propositions to use this mill to
supply the trade west of the Mis-
sisslppi.
Belleville. semi-annual meeting
of the W. G. T. q. will be held at Belle
vile March 10 and 20. County presi-
dents and district superintendent are
members ex-officio of the convention,
and each union is entitled to one dele
gate for every ten members. Ali Sab
bath school workers and all friends of
throughout the state are in
vited to be present and aid in making
the meeting a grand success.
Topeka Capital: The trial of John
L. Price, the North Topeka real estate
dealer, charged with defrauding Julia
E. Martin out of S2,400 in a recent
trade, was held in Justice Chesney's
court and resulted in Price being held |
as guilty of forgery and bound over to
the district court for trial, in the sum of |
1000. As he was unable to give bail, |
he is behind the bars at the county Jail, |
and will very likely remain there until |
his trial.
Kansas City Gazette: A peculiar
accident was reported by Conductor
Fiske, of the Santa Fe railway when his |
train had pulled into Argentine. They
had on load of cattle and were in the |
of Melbourne, Kansas,
when the train broke IN two. The first |
portion continued on, but the effect on