Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-03
STATE NEWS.

Ihe voorhees, indicator says therl
are in Stevens county over 500 quarte
sections of government land awaiting
settlement.
Irving Leader: J. G. Whitney hal
already bought 1900 turkeys, anG
wants as many more. We noticed one
man with 153 turkeys in one load.
In Wyandotte county the real estate
transactions for the year1890, up to De-
csmber 20, amount to $6,8S0,661 out Of
,tal number of transfers of 1888
II average amount per transfer is
$2,675.
At Salina legal fight is going on
between the holders of a $4,000 mort
gage on the Knights of Pythias build
ing and the contractors who claim that
their mechanics lien holds first consid-
GRAFTON.
Garden City Imprint: One firm in
Garden City has paid out to the farmers
of Finney county in the last forty days
$500 for alfalfa seed alone, and there
are two other firms in the city in the
same business.
From Ottawa: Rev. George Waller,
one of the Oldest citizens of Ottawa,
die suddenly. He had been in perfect
health, and was reading his Sunday
paper, when sie-ed with pain III his
left side. He died almost instantly.
Leavenworth Times: Where the
Union Pacific switch engine had torn
up the platform at the Union depot,
people were surprised to see that the
solid oak timbers that supported the
platform had rotted GU ia three years.
Topeka Capital: The Topeka Water
Supply company are busy laying mains
for the new plant west of the asylum.
The company have been engaged for
some time in sinking wells, ETC., on the
new site. A pure supply of water will
thereby be guaranteed.
At the coming term of the Shawnee
county district court, five persons will
be tried for murder, seven for selling
liquor, and one for selling liquor to
minors. The officers of the Topeka In
surance company will be tried for
swearing to false reports.
Emporia Republican: Rev. Frank
groomBn, who at one time was on the
,1mporla News, is now in Oxford, Eng
and, whore he is studying Sanskrit, the
Asiatic philosophers, ETC., and is preach
ing in some of the best churches in the
United Kingdom. Kansas always comes
to the front.
The ElDorado Republican has this
among its county items: One of our
prosperous farmers gave his daughter
some cattle if she would winter them.
She, in true business style, took the
cattle and made a bargain with her
best fellow to have him feed the cattle
and now the supposition is they will
soon be married.
From Lawrence: The work on the
new warehouse of the Consolidated
Barb Wire company is being rapidly
pushed and in short time the Wire
company will commence the erection of
a large factory building which when
completed will give employment to sew
eral hundred men in addition to the
present force now at work in the old
factory building
From Ottawa: The charge is openly
made that the reform trustees in Cen
tropolis, Harrison, Ottawa, Greenwood,
Pomona, Pottawatomie and Cutler
townships, have given receipts to the
Missouri Pacific railway, for the pay
ment of taxes far in advance of the
amount returned by them to the coun-
ty treasurer. Citizens of the several
townships will bring the matter before
the courts. 1t will cause the trustees
much trouble to explain matters.
Emporia Republican: The brick
barn on the farm of VIM. Austin, sue
cumbed to the weight of grain stored
upon its floors, and fell in, tumbling
brick, mortar, joists, floors and grain
all into one conglomerate pile. One
valuable horse was hitched in a stall at
the time the collapse occurred, but,
strange as it may seem, escaped unin-
iured. He was found standing belly
deep in oats, and for once at least, in !
his case, the supply was greater than
the demand.
From Wichita: A party returning |
from a hunt 10 the Cherokee strip |
brought with them gun barrel found |
by William Ramsey, one of the crowd,
five miles west of Pond Creek station.
1t has the inscription: Presented to
Mike Jones, 1919, by Kit Carson" In
another place, "scalps," followed by
twenty-three file marks. Barrel four
and half feet long, "A calibre rife.
Near the barrel, which was mostly
buried in the ground, were the bones
Of two horses and two men.
Many counties IN the northwestern
part OF the state have authorized ex-
bounties on wolf, rabbit,
and gopher scalps, in order that the
destitute people may have means of
making living this winter. In Deca-
tur county the treasurer paid out ST.
200 in one day, and over $4,000 in six