Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
! STATE NEWS.


number of strangers are in town look
ing fol land and town property.
The papers all over the state are now
telling about the fine specimens of corn
brought to town by the farmers.
Great preparations we're made at Fort
Scott for the annual log rolling of the
southern association of the Modern
Woodmen of America. At least 5000
people witnessed the parade.
Topeka Capital: Five blind children
have been sent to the blind school at
Wyandotte, recently, by the poor com
missioner. They were supplied with
clothing and transportation at the ex-
pense of the county.
At Baldwin during the past summer
about dozen large and tasty residences
have been built It is undoubtedly true
that there is no town in the state Of its
size which C n boast of so many large,
neat and comfortable residences as
Baldwin.
The twentv-ffth annual meeting of
the Kansas Academy of Science will be
held at Atchison, on Wednesday. Thurs
day and Friday, October -, ID and IA.
A large attendance of the scientific men
of the state is expected. The programme
will be sent out before the meeting.
Beloit Gazette: A visit to Ports vine
yard, just west of the city, showed us a
busy scene. E. A. Taylor has charge Of
picking and disposing of the crop of the
ten acres, which VIII amount to twenty
tons of as fine Concord grapes as were
ever picked. He is shipping them west
at the rate of two tons day.
Leavenworth item: Word has reached
here TINT Mr.. Earle and Col La Vallee
had purchased the old glucose works
from the Hamlin Co., of Bufflo, n. Y,
and that it is to be turned into a beet
sugar factory. 1t is large building,
with good machinery, and will make a
splendid plant for manufacturing beet
sugar.
The attorneys of Kansas City find it
quite inconvenient to do business with
out the usual printed docket. The
Wyandotte county commissioners, how
ever. say they are not warranted in hav-
ing them printed at the great expense
involved, and they will probably be
printed by private parties and sold
hereafter.
Mel herson Republican: Chattel
~ ra1n,cal ip ho
deeds Office the frat seven days in this
month. S41,4O6.69. Chattel mortgages
recorded in the same length of time,
$40. 264.1S. The releases exceed those
$31, 142.51. Most of those re-
corded are for threshing machines and
farm implements.
Lightning rod fakirs have been doing
3 big business in the vicinity of Empo-
ria, and many are complaining of being
swindled. A lightning rod man induced
them to sign receipts for rods put up
for nominal sum as specimens of work.
These receipts being returned and shown
as contracts, two were caught for $3.50
and 500. Both are well to do but IL
literate citizens.
At Atchison Mrs. Annie McCourt,
wife of Barney McCourt and daughter
of John Delaney, both we'll known, was
killed by lightning during a
thunder storm. She was preparing sup
per and had started out of the house
after pail of water. The lightning
struck her when she was on the door
step. Her clothing was set on fire, but
the flames we're extinguished by a
neighbor who was close at hand. Mrs.
McCourt was 26 years of age and leaves
one child.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: At the
government seed station about thirty
men, Logs and girls are engaged in the
different departments. The casual Wis.,
itor is politely informed by numerous
bulletins to keep off the grass" AS
the frigidity of the surroundings is not
conducive to the comfort Of interroga-
tors, we are unable to give more in
formation about the results than any
other person can obtain from silent
observation of the work from doorway.
IIOl. SdTT las CueTSc VI Uuc "oih, anu
we understand his experiments have
clearly demonstrated that much better
results in sorghum sugar manufacture
can be obtained by careful propagation
of the seed.
Emporia Republican: Twenty-eight
years ago small boy was stolen from
his home in Coshocton county, Ohio.
His father was in the army at the time,
and on returning home he Immediately
instituted search for the lost boy.
Yesterday the father, John Smith, ar
rived in this city, and after few in
quiries fonni the lost boy living at lit
South Neosho street. Since he was
taken from home his name has been
changed from E. ID. Smith to j. E., as
he is Familiarity known in this city. The
father, who is an elderly gentleman,
after tracing the boy through Illinois
and Missouri and finally to this city is
highly elated to find the lost boy in
good circumstances and good health.
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