Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-12-19
STATE NEWS.

Bsioit pays $s5 month for her arc
etseet lights.
Peabody Gazette: The price OF wheat
& here ia Sc to 20 cents, corn 33 to 80,
oats, % to Is, rye 60 to 20. haxseed 1O.
butter 20. eggs p, hay $3.50 to $a'oo.
South Haven item: Mrs. T. G. Ellis.
wife of the South Haven banker, had
the misfortune to have fine dress
ruined by rats while in the express car
IN transit from Wellington.
Mulyane item: Two hundred and
forty pupils in our schools and only
four rooms. 1t is remarkable how
MANY can be crowded away when the
demand requires it. Can the teachers
do Justice TO their pupils is the ques-
ton.
From Phillipsburg: j. J. LeCain, of
Phillips county, living between Marvin
and Phillipsburg, has sold his farm OF
100 acres to Iowa people for s., 900.
This sale is only one OF large number
that will be made to Iowa people in the
spring.
Washington item: The work of Be-
curing cash subscriptions for the
Friends college in Washington is going
rapidly forward. When the amount OF
S25, 600 has been secured work will be-
gin on the structure. At present the
school is carried on in a temporary
building. The site is central and con-
venient.
Emporia.-A call was issued for a
mass meeting OF citizens for the pur-
pose of organizing fair organization,
preliminary meeting being held this
evening and a committee appointed. 1t
is intended to embrace Lyon, Wabaun-
zee, Greenwood and Butler counties,
neither of which have county fare. The
convention is called for December 10 at
2p. N.
Emporia. sensational case of sup
posed suicide has occurred here. Frank
p. Hills, a worthless and drunken
farmer, who had been divorced from his
wife, was seen to be quarreling with her
on the porch of house where he had
been rooming. Shortly afterward a
ehot was heard, and he was found lying
on the porch with bullet hole through
his head.
Marion Record: There has been a
conspicuous absence IN Marion this fall
of the foreign ''apple wagon" all owing
to the fine crop raised by our own
county orchardists. Hereafter, when
the apple wagon fetches up in western
towns, and the apple-hungry citizens
crowd around to sample the fruit, the
familiar question, "Where were these
apples grown" will be answered, "Ma-
rion county"
Wellington Monitor: The county
treasurer received last Friday a check
for $6,O6s.5S IN payment of the full
amount of the Rock Islands taxes IN
Sumner county for the current year.
The q per cent rebate on the last
half amounts to quite handsome
saving to the company. The total
receipts of the Office for the four days
commencing last Friday were $1O.752.-
81, and the rush has hardly commenced
yet
Junction City Union: E. G. Bartell
was down from Milford and in the best
of spirits. Business. he said, was i'm
proving every week. Corn was bring
ing in the neighborhood of 80 cents.
Shipments of live stock are beginning
TO be made. When asked regarding the
price of good grazing and farm lands,
he said that farms in the vicinity OF
Milford were held at from $50 to $40
an acre. Lighter land further out was
from $40 to $50.
Garden City Imprint: The Amazon
ditch has been sold, aud the transfer OF
this valuable franchise made to the
Syndicate Land and Irrigation Co., of
Kansas City, Mo. Just what the new
owners OF the ditch will do with it, we
are not informed. We hope, however,
that the ditch may be run in the
mutual interest Of the company and
the farmers. This ditch as far as COM
pleted is the best in the state, and prop
erly operated will be a great wealth
producer.
Wellington Monitor: The mortgage
killer is still getting in some good
work in Sumner county. Register
Carnahan's record for the month of
November shows releases to the amount
Of sec, S31 "a as against s42,274.29 OF
new mortgages and renewals fled, a
surplus to the good of S23, 556.75. The
s showing is not quite as big for the pre-
ceding month, but the gain is large
one nevertheless. By and by the mort
cages will all be paid, and the money
brought in by our mammoth crops will
Be damned up here in Sumner county
where it belongs.
Atchison Champion: A great deal Of
grain was moved yesterday. The re-
6sipts in Atchison were about seventy
i've cars, and probably twice as many
we're shipped out. The scarcity of cars
hos not been SO great during the past
rev days, and considerable grain hai
bean taken out OF the Atchison ele-