Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-19
STATE NEWS.

Wichita's registration was 6,135.
The Jail in Morton county is full OF
wheat.
Several Topeka bicyclists took night
ride to Lawrence by moonlight.
The contract for erecting new high
school building to cost $2S, $50 has been
let by the school board of Parsons.
Hiawatha academy students are about
to issue q paper. Web Wilder is the
llustrious name of one Of the youthful
editors.
The Lawrence canning factory has
suspended operations for the season,
having canned everything in the fruit
and vegetable line in sight.
At HAYS City a prairie fire has swept
over the Fort HAYS reservation and the
country near, doing great damage to
stacked hay, grain and barns of the
farmers.
Superintendent Davidson says the
enrolment in the Topeka schools in
creased about one hundred during the
first three weeks of the second month
of school.
The best Halloween joke yet heard
of was perpetrated ty Lawrence man,
who piled load Of wood on the porch
of widow who makes her living by
taking in washing.
The Burr Oak Herald tells of boy,
ID years old, who was caught in the
flowing grain in an elevator bin, while
the grain was being run into car, and
smothered to death.
The High school committee of the
Topeka board of education recommends
that $4,000 be asked for the new high
school, $4,000 to be used for G site
and $4,000 in the building.
W. W. Wakefield, aged 80, has Just
died at Salt Lake, Utah. He located in
Atchison county about the time Pardee
Butler came to Kansas and participated
in the Kansas troubles. His body will
be taken to Atchison for burial
The report from the city electric
light plant to the Topeka city council
shows the total cost Fer month,
$1,2S5.69; total cost per day, $41.47;
average cost per light per month. $6.9S;
average cost per light per night % cents.
Fire broke out in John J. Malen's
grocery store at Atchison, destroyed the
stock, wrecked McLeod's photograph
gallery and damaged Winegar's hat
store and Peoples & Bosanko's meat
market. The damage is estimated at
$4,000; fully insured.
The Cedarville Investment company
has been Incorporated. Its object is to
do general real estate business in
Smith county lands and buying corn.
Five farms have already been sold by
his company, ranging at $3.50 for an !
'S0' to $4,000 average for four quar-
,ers.
Topeka Capital: George F. Hill,
, press feeder in the Kansas Farmer
office, shot q golden eagle half mile
east of the Topeka sugar mill. The
bird was only crippled BY the shot, and
made quite a fight before it could be
killed. It measured six feet and four
inches from tip to tip Of wings. Eagles
are quite rare in this nifty of late
years.
J. P. Kassebaum and w. Cammerer,
The proprietors of the Standard Vinegar
works of Topeka, which were burned
Town recently, say that they will start
10 anew as soon as thew can get in
shape and secure another building.
They had just got things in good work
Dg order when the fire occurred. 1t is
heir opinion that the works were set
IN fire.
From April to October 81 the people
Of Lyon county have paid of mortgages
10 the amount of $500, 479.10 and
given new mortgages to the amount of
1928. 6SS. "a, making a net reduction in
their indebtedness of $161, 1905. This
does not include partial payments on
for the records do not show
Them, but many such payments have
6een made.
The funeral of Hale Wheeler, the
Missouri Pacific engineer who lost his
life in an an accident at Pennington,
was held at Atchison and was very
largely attended. The deceased was
chief of the local order of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and was
popular. The funeral was in
charge of the brotherhood, and the SER
vices at Trinity church were conducted
by Bishop Brooke. The floral offerings
we're very elaborate. The funeral was
by engineers from Kansas
City, Omaha, Topeka, Lincoln, Hia-
watha, Sedalia, and other places. The
funeral of N. B. Graves, the fireman
Who lost his life in the same accident,
occurred here also and was largely at
tended.
Dodge City Globe Republican: The
Spearville cheese factory under the
charge of Chas. E Cody, q skilled cheese
maker from Herkimer county, New
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