Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-10
STATE NEWS.

an article on freights which asserts that
the shipment of corn during December,
1890. from Missouri river points, Is
10000 cars less than in December,
1889.
Osawatomie Signal: It is now al
most a settled fact that our city will
soon have paper mandatory. This
industry will be followed by others of
equal Importance, which will cause
large influx of people.
Special from Wellington: The
Share Brothers, Dry Goods company.
one of the largest firms of its kind in
southwestern Kansas, with stores at
Wellington and Harper, has closed its
doors. Liabilities 100000; assets, $4O,-
900.
Wellington Nail: Business is dis
tressingly quiet in the police court.
Judge Gilmore has not had case this
week, and for a week to go by without
an offender of some kind appearing be-
fore him is something almost unprece-
dsnted. The justices courts have also
been very quiet, few civil cases being
all that were heard.
From Usage Mission: c. ]. Kinney,
a prominent lawyer at the Neosho
county bar, and a resident of Usage
Mission, was found dead near the depot
at about SIX o'clock in the morning. He
came down from Fort Scott on the ten
o'clock train, and is supposed to have
fallen from the platform before the
train stopped, and died from exposure.
Independence Reporter: R. W.
Creighton, secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.,
was completely and agreeably sur
prised on Monday night, at the close
of his mems Bible class, held in the Y.
NJ. c. A. parlor, by the presentation OF
a handsome suit of clothes, as Christ
mas gift and token of appreciation
by a number of the members of the
class.
Topeka Capital: A federal union is
being organized in Topeka by a COM
mittee appointed from the Trades as
sembly. 1t is to be composed of all
trades not having sufficient number of
members in the city to hold charter.
Meetings are held every Sunday at 2:3O
o. m, in the west hall of the Trades
assembly. Persons interested are in
vited to attend these meetings.
From Olathe: At the farm of Charles
Collins, about six miles south of Gard
ner, Mr.. Collins asked for rifle to kill
some game, at which request his sister
in-law, Miss Maud Frasier, responded
with the frearm. In handing it to him
the gun exploded, the bullet entering
Mr.. Collins forehead near his right eve,
death resulting instantly. Collins was
about twenty-six years of age, and
leaves young wife and child.
Wellington Mail: The Cherokee
Strip Townsite company is growing
very fast. It's stock books show that it
has members all over the state, and
some of them are very prominent indi-
viduals. The company proposes to
build town on the strip south of Sum-
ner county, and it calculates that by
the time the strip is opened to settle
ment it will have members enough to
build town and make it move.
Argonia Clipper: Charlie Bashton
shot hawk that had a small bell
around It's neck. The bell had inscribed
upon it the initials of some PERSONS
name, with place and date The place
was about one hundred miles north
west, and the date about a year ago.
The hawk showed signs of having been
caught in trap, one of its feet being
cut, apparently by a trap. Charlie did
not hurt it much, and will date the bell
again and turn it loose if it gets able to
travel.
Meade correspondence: The recent
visit of Judge Gregory, irrigation agent
of the interior department. and Prof
Hay, state geologist, was encouraging
to our people. Fully 100 wells pour
out water in the valley north of this
city, most of which is being used for
irrigation, demonstrating what can be
done with capital here. With potatoes
$3.50 per bushel, cabbage 3 cents per
pound, and other vegetables at similar
prices; corn S1.25 per cwt., and other
kinds of feed at high prices, a farmer
with a good artesian well that will irri-
gate about 80 acres of fine rich soil, has
a bonanza. Land in this artesian dis
trict can now be purchased for from 81
to SIS an acre. Meade county will yet
come to the front.
Argonia Clipper; Mrs. h. b. Shull
opened a can of blue damson plums,
last week, that she put up sixteen years
ago on the Shull homestead in Stark
county, Ohio, where her husband was
born and reared. They were put up in
a glass jar and have been moved every
where the family lived since then-to
Xenia, Ohio, where h. 81. attended the
Miami conservatory of music two years,
then to Columbus, Indiana, where he
was connected with the Central conserv-
atory two years, then back to the old
home again, and then to Kansas. Mrs
Shun presented the editor and family
with a sample of the fruit, and our de-