Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-06-06
STATE NEWS.

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Wellington Monitor: A raw quarter
section in Eden township sold for 81,
600 last week.
The war department has allotted
Kansas So, 1892 for uniforming and equip
ping her militia.
Larned.-A T. Casey, county attor
new, has been convicted on three counts
of exacting and receiving illegal fees
from the county.
Coldwater.-The drug store of Lock
wood & Morrison is totally destroyed
by fire. Loss on building, $1,000
stock, $1,000, insurance, $4,000.
The county commissioners of Lyon
county have called special election fol
June to vote the necessary money fol
Lyon county's quota to the worlds fail
| fund.
Topeka Capital: The rain partially
inundated the state fair grounds and
washed several holes IN the track. The
horsemen had nothing to do but to sit
in the stable and white.
Kansas City Gazette: An innocent
looking but deadly electric wire, hang
ing loose over muddy street, got in
its work, striking dead a valuable horse
and coming very near terminating the
earthly career of the man who was driv-
ing the animal.
Eight hundred Salina people made an
excursion the other day to Fort Riley.
The Commercial club of Salina present
ed General Forsythe with gold headed
cane in token of the Wounded Knee
fight. j. B. Hutchinson made the
presentation address.
Wellington Mail: Prairie Lawn
cemetery, Wellington's beautiful 'city
of the Dead" grows more beautiful each
year. Valuable and lasting improve
ments have been made in the grounds,
and no city in Kansas can show hand
somer cemetery than can Wellington.
Leavenworth.-Am meeting of Leaven-
worth citizens was held to-day and an
organization was formed for raising ST.
40S, this county's proportion of the
Kansas Worlds fair fund. It was de-
cided to ask the county commissioners
to vote part of the fund and the rest to
be raised by popular subscription.
Beloit letter: It does beat all how
we'll our business men are getting along.
They are having good trade, and but
little credit is asked for. Few towns in
this part of the state have pulled
throug Oh the winter and spring in SO
good a shape as has Beloit. Not q
business house has had a sign hanging
out: "Selling off at cost to quit bust
ness" nor has there been business
failure" of any kind.
The Leavenworth Standard says that
a grocer of that city made startling
discovery. He went to a shelf piled
with boxes of matches to get box for
q customer. A row of the boxes fell
down disclosing a charred and blackened
place. A further investigation revealed
that the heads of great quantity of
matches had been gnawed off by rats,
and that a fire had started IN the re-
mainder, but had smouldered and gone
out.
North Topeka item: Just preceding
the storm of Sunday evening a sharp
fash of lightning startled the residents
of the east side of town. Later on it
was discovered that the bolt had hit
large cottonwood tree and glanced off
on to the house of CIV. Baird, splinter
ing the front decreasing and running
down to the ground. A few moments
before, Mr.. Baird and his family were
sitting on the porch, but had just gone
across the road to chat with a neighbor
when the stroke came.
Emporia Republican: We are very
glad that our citizens are making an
effort to provide for the immediate and
pressing needs of the family of Robert
L. Dain, whose daughter was fatally in.
jured by the tornado of Wednesday
night. They lost everything. as cloth.
ing and furniture were wholly destroyed.
It is a source of pride to know that We
are living in community where such
liberal responses are made to calls for
relief. 1t is but one of the many cases
where this has been true of our large
hearted business men.
Kansas City Gazette: Swift & Co.,
packers of this city, have decided that
their business makes it necessary to in
crease the size of the plant. According
~ the company has commenced the
erection of large storage building on
their property in the east end of South
Kansas City, Kansas. It has been de-
cided to make the building 30x175 feet,
and in height five stories. 1t is ex-
pected that the cost will reach about
$4,000. The packing company has
recently completed new cold storage
building.