Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-12-17
STATE NEWS.

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TAs southern border OF Kansas is
cruWding up with boomers again, and
Il Is hoped to get them into the strip
early in the year.
The Southern Kansas Poultry associ-
alton have determined to hold their an
nual poultry show at Wichita Decem-
Der % to January 1.
Eminence Call: Nowhere in south
west Kansas can as abundant supply
of water be found near the surface, and
babbling forth in springs as in Garfield
county.
Richfeld Star: Besides all the wheat
that is being shipped out of the county,
the amount that is coming to town
for storeage is something astonishing.
Richield is becoming one huge
grarary.
Fred Bassett, who was convicted in
the district court at Lawrence of assault
in the shooting of Will E. Higgins, has
been sentenced to six months in the
county Jail and to pay the costs of the
prosecution.
The Missouri Pacific employees at
Atchison held services in memory of
the late Jay Gould. Several addresses
we're made and appropriate resolutions
were adopted. The headquarters there
are draped in mourning.
Edgar Harding, the Boston millionaire
who purchased the Garfield university
property at Wichita last summer, closed
q contract for the completion of the
building. Only half the edifce has 80
far been erected and it will take over
$100,000 to complete it.
Eminence Call: Competent engineers
say the underlying strata of the Pawnee
is such that by sinking dam ten or
twelve feet deep, and eight or ten rods
wide, the underfow could be forced to
the surface and used for any purpose
that an ordinary running stream could.
Hiawatha World: Farmers through
out the county are complaining that
the wolves are getting too plentiful
Great numbers Of pigs, chickens, ducks
and other things have been missed.
Petitions will be circulated throughout
the county asking that bounty be
given on wolf scalps.
Benson, the Leavenworth murderer,
will doubtless hang. The action of the
United States circuit court was affirmed
in the supreme court in an opinion
handed down by Justice Brewer. The
opinion holds that the United States
court has jurisdiction over the case, as
the crime was committed on the military
reservation.
Topeka Capital: Nearly every i'm
provement that has been undertaken
this year has been hindered by delayed
lumber. The Sixth avenue bridge is
still waiting for the piles from Arkansas
that should have been here a month
ago. The big timbers that have had to
come clear from Oregon arrived some
tau,e ago.
Atchison Champion: In an early day
William Medley pre-empted eighty acres
an the southwest quarter of section SO
19 of this county, and homesteaded the
other eighty in the quarter by virtue of
services rendered as captain of the Vir-
ginia militia in the war of 1912. Yes
terdav the patent and pre-. emption GER
tificate issued in 1869 under Andrew
Jackson were received.
Emporia Republican: Deputy Sheriff
OConnor was sent out yesterday by the
probate judge to prepare to take one
Nathan Young to the insane asylum.
Mr.. OConnor's mission was to ascertain
whether or not the person mentioned
had proper clothing to wear On the trip.
Imagine the deputy sheriff's surprise
when he was told that Nathan Young
had died on June 26, 1891. Previous
to that time the parents of the deceased
had made arrangements whereby the
imbecile was to be kept at their home
and the county commissioners ordered
that $3.50 be paid in provisions to the
parents each week for the care and
keeping Of the boy. This was done,
and the $3.50 il trade has been drawn
each week since the death, at j. w.
Weyier's store on east Sixth avenue.
The above facts are given by the
official at the court house. Thus it
goes. If this be true, the county has
$3.50 for the care of q dead
person, who was also to be sent to the |
asylum.
Anthony Republican,: A peculiar |
case of attachment of one animal for an
other was witnessed in the nerth part |
Of town this week. 1t seems that Roy
Newton's pony became lame and prac-
ideally useless and that Roy turned it !
put on the commons and told his play
mates that he did not want tho pony
and that anyone who wanted It might
have it. For several days it wandered
about the north part of town until
George Love took it up aud cared for
It. During all this time Royis dog. q
noble and intelligent looking fellox, fol-
lowed and remained with his frieod, the
pony. Wherever the pony went the
dog would follow and when the pony
stopped to Craze, his watchful guardian