Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-03-14
STATE NEWS.
Independence has the measles.


have come into the county looking fol
places to rent.
Pittsburg, Kansas has a commercial
club, and the club has resolved to ap'
propriate $4,000 to be used in making
a proper display of the city's products
at the worlds fair.
Atchison Times: It is said that
there is a prospect of some parties
boring for coal in this city. Many peo-
pie believe coal can be had at reason
able depth, which it is hoped Is true.
President Angel, of the Michigan
university, will be present at the quar-
ter centennial celebration of the Kansas
state university in June, and will make
one of the principal addresses on that
occasion.
Ottawa.-The residence of Mrs Faris,
four miles west of Ottawa, is destroyed
by fire. Mrs. Faris' daughter is an in
valid, and was barely rescued and car
ried from the burning building. There
was no insurance.
Lindsborg News: Theo. Toichgraber
ground gratis all the grain donated to
the needy of the northwest. There were
ninety two sacks of -four. James Kel-
ly, the rustling drayman, delivered the
-four at the depot free of charge.
Taps, the monthly publication of the
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, shows
that 2,201 old veterans are stopping at
the home at present It also shows an
enrolment membership of 1858, of
whom 49, are away on furloughs.
A number of colleges which could not
gain admission to the State Oratorical
association have formed separate Or
ganization. They intend to hold their
first annual contest in Atchison, May
90 The contest bids fair to be sue
cessful.
Topeka Journal: A knitting factory
is anxious to locate in North Topeka.
The only inducement asked is to have
the freight on its machinery paid. The
enterprise will bring several families to
North Topeka and give employment to
probably twenty-five people.
Garnett-The large livery barn of T.
W. Watson, on South Oak street, took
fire and burned twenty horses and
mules and all the contents, only one
horse being rescued. Three other frame
buildings were burned. Total loss about
$4,000. Very little insurance.
Mcpherson letter: G. A. Heggelund,
president of the Second National bank,
was shot, whether by his own hand or
the hand of another your correspondent
is unable to learn. His condition is
very precarious and the wound will
probably terminate fatally. The Second
National bank, after an hours business,
closed it's doors, posting this notice on
the door: Temporarily suspended on
account of not being able to collect
from those owing us. Perfectly solvent.
Waiting for bank examiner"
Caldwell O'Connor, the recog-
nized leader of the O'Connor and Dill
colony of strip boomers, is considerably
agitated over the fact that congress
took no action looking to the opening
of the Cherokee Strip. He has several
hundred families who have made every
preparation to move upon the strip, but
where to take them and what to do with
them is greatly agitating O'Connor. If
he cannot find them homes he must pay
bay back the membership fees, which
in the aggregate amounts to consid-
cradle sum.
Leavenworth had five fires in one
night. Two of them we're serious; the
one in the stables of the Leavenworth
Coal company and that in Brandon &
Kirmeyer's old brewery started almost
They both burned
fercely and soon destroyed the two
buildings, despite the heroic efforts of
the firemen to save them. At the coal |
compauy's stables fifteen or sixteen
horses burned to death, together with !
a number of wagons and harness. !
Everything in the stables was fully COW
cred with insurance and there will be |
little loss to the coal company. At the |
old brewery 1t was different, as there |
was no insurance and the building and |
destroyed is total loss to |
Messrs. Brandon & Kirmeyer. The !
brewery lad not been in operation for
four years, and the insurance was let
run out on it. All these fires occurring
within a few hours and at the places /
they did, leads people to think they were
started by incendiaries, who desire to
rob houses while the inmates are out
the fires.
Colonel Forsythe, the commander at {
Ft. Riley, has returned to the post
there, after taking part in the Sherman
funeral ceremonies at st. Louis. The
colonel takes great pride in Fl Riley.
He speaks of the post as ''home" and
talks about the improvements being
made much in the same way that a
farmer would talk of his arrangements
FOR new barns, fences and fish ponds.
The reservation consists of $4,000 acres,
and it is being beautified by trees and
lakes, as well as substantially improved
by magnificent buildings. Colonel For
sythe says that the government is ex-