Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-12-03
STATE NEWS.

1 LUZ . Low VAVSOVV 8HA0S ILL., ~ - - r.
ity Of 200 barrels daily.
Chanute Vidette- Times: Chanute
must build more houses. Every day
people tire out hunting for house to
rent and go on to some other town.
| From Hiawatha: Two of Farmer
| Beetles children found a match and set
fire to straw stack. Their clothing
caught fire and they were burned to
death before anyone knew of it.
A 320-acre farm in Bourbon county,
six miles from Fort Scott, sold lately
for $500 spot cash, or $50 an acre. 1t
was purchased by an Illinois man for
his son, who has been a fireman on the
Gulf road.
Syracuse Principle: After the fire G.
W. Swallow and W. 81. Mott started q
subscription to raise money to purchase
a fire engine and the other necessary
equipments to fight fire. They met
with good success.
Dodge City Globe Republican: The
Dodge City school board held an i'm
portant meeting last week, in which it
was decided to prosecute all parents
who violate the law requiring compul-
sorry attendance on public schools.
Ludell Gazette: G. E. Perkins, pres
ident of the B. & M. r. r., came in
Sunday for couple of weeks shooting
on the Peaver. He was accompanied
by several B. & M. officials, among whom
were Vice President Harris, Superin-
tendent Cambell and R. o. Phillips.
From Russell Springs: John F.
Coulter, who has been elected by the
republicans of Logan county to the
house of representatives, served in the
Michigan legislature in 1870. After
wards he moved to Nebraska and served
in the Nebraska state senate in 1878.
Later he moved to Kansas and was
elected to the legislature in 1884 from
Marion county. He is now editor of
the Russell Springs Republican.
D. W. Eastman, the representative
elect from the Emporia district in Lyon
county, will push bill making an ap-
preparation for charging the state nor
NAL school. He says that the school
has outgrown its present quarters and
cannot possibly get along without new
wing. The school now has larger
attendance than any normal college in
the United States, and ranks as the fore
most of American normal colleges.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Kansas Equal Suffrage association will
be held in Enterprise December 6, and
8. Important business will come before
the convention. The Rock Island, Santa
Fe and o. P. lines reach Enterprise.
A fair will be held at same time and
place for the benefit of the State SUI
frage association. Mrs. Minnie Topping
is chairman of the committee on enter
tainment and should be informed by
letter of the desire of delegates and
friends for entertainments.
Parkersburg. W. Vain 1885 Frank
Mckee, a prominent and wealthy young
man of Preston county, left his home
and went to Kansas. Three years later
the report came that he had committed
suicide. His relatives and friends were
at the report, and many said
it could not be true. His body was
brought home and buried, however and
the matter in part forgotten. A day or
two ago his sister received letter from
3 Judge in Kansas that revealed the
secret In the letter it was stated that
. dying man, whose name was not |
given, called the judge to his bedside
and in his last moments confessed that |
he had killed Mckee for his money and
wished his confession to be commune |
Gated to McKee's relatives.
Leavenworth Times: The laws of |
Kansas require that every mine shall |
have two shafts, thus allowing better |
ventilation and ready access to the mine
IN case of danger. Instead of putting |
down two extra shafts, the Riverside |
and the Home coal mines concluded to |
connect the two mines by an intervening |
tunnel six feet square, thus affording |
The required safety and ventilatior and |
with the law. The distance
between the two mines is 5000 feet. |
Two forces of men we're put to work |
from each mine digging toward the
other, some months ago, and the work |
has now prog essed until but 600 feet |
remain to be tunnelled, and Superin-
tendent Hartough, of the Home mine,
says the work will be finished by Janu- |
ary l. Much speculation is Furnished |
rs to how near the two tunnels will CO.
incide WIN they meet.
An addition 2OOx70 feet is being |
built to the car repair shops Of the Ar |
mour Packing company at Kansas City, |
Kan. The repair shops will then be |
very complete. The buildings now are
400 feet long, and with the 200 feet |
added will give the company An album
dance Of room in which to carry on the
work of this department of the immense
plant. The new building is being erect
ed on land reclaimed by change in the
current of the Missouri river. A high
has been built and rip
raped and will give ample protection
to the plant in case Of high water. In
this plant the company will arrange to