Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-02-20
STATE NEWS

At Kensington the local post of g. A.
r. is erecting two-story business block
The Barnes Enterprise says Barnes is
to have an opera house and that the en-
terprise will be pushed to completion
this spring and summer.
Galena Times: The Murphy & Muir
ply crusher made the biggest run OF
any mill last week. The amount of ore
handled was $50, 900 pounds.
Lyons Tribune: Experienced horti-
culturists tell us that the fruit buds on
apricot and peach trees are destroyed by
cold exceeding 16 degrees below zero.
As the mercury has been as low and in
some exposed positions below 20 degrees
below zero, the probabilities are that the
peach and apricot crop will be very
light in the coming summer.
Sharon Springs letter: Contests are
being filed every day seeking to Dust
derelict homesteaders, inquiries about
land and its prices are growing fire.
quent, and travelling men say more
goods are sold here than anywhere be-
tween Hays City and Denver. A great
deal of sod is now being turned, all the
old ground now being in wheat.
Blue Rapids Times: The McHale
roller mills of this city shipped their
donation of 1,400 pounds of -four for
the relief of the famine sufferers in
Russia. The -four was shipped over the
Missouri Pacific railroad, the railroad
company carrying it free. The -four is
sent to Boston, where the millers of the
United States are sending their dona-
tons to make up cargo.
From Cawker City: There are pros
poets that the litigants of the famous
Great Spirit Springs will soon effect a
compromise. It has been in litigation
for large number of years. If such a
result is satisfactorily adjusted, some
big improvements will be commenced at
once. A mammoth stone hotel had
been partially completed when it got
into the clutches of the law. The
springs lie between Glen Elder and
Cawker City.
From Atchison: Geo. Stranahan, for
merly a merchant tailor of Atchison,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
seven years. He was convicted of fOrg-
ing his wife's name to certificate of de-
post of one thousand dollars. Strana-
han secured the money and disappeared,
and was afterwards arrested at Salt
Lake City, where he was living under an
assumed name He had been married
but little over a year, and his wife re-
fused to pardon his offense. He is sixty
years old.
From Larned: The most disastrous
fire in the history of this town occurred
this morning, wi ping out nearly $685.
900 worth of property, and laying in
ashes one of the best business blocks in
the city. The losses fall as follows: N.
S. Sunderland, three business houses,
$4,000, insurance $4,000; S. Kingsba-
ker, of Quincy, ILL.,, business house, S.
600; n. S. Sunderland, clothing stock
$4,000, insurance $6,000; Louis Wolf,
dry goods $4,000, insurance $4,000;
o. F. & E. r. Norwood, clothing and
dry goods, 100000, insurance $4,000;
William Tickell, stationery and notions
$4,000, insurance $4,000; John r. Basi-
ger, loan office, $1,000, insurance $500;
W. G. Hiltz, law Office, $1,000, no insur-
ance; George B. Miller, drugs, damage
by water about $1,000, covered by in
surance; DR.. G. NJ. Gamble, dentist,
about $500. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Washington, D. Cdr. D. E. Sal
mon, chief of the bureau of animal in
dustry of the agricultural department,
is making special investigation of the
sheep business of Kansas and other
western states. H. A. Heath, of Tope-
ka, is in charge of the work in the states
of Kansas and Colorado and territory of
New Mexico. DIR. Salmon said that the
investigation, so far as it had gone,
showed the sheep industry west of the
Mississippi river and of the state of
Kansas more particularly, to be in a
hourishing condition. 1.-The reports
from Kansas show beyond any doubt"
said DR.. Salmon, ''that the farmers of
that state who have invested in sheep
are making money. The number of
sheep in the state has more than
doubled in the last two or three years,
and the prices are the most favorable
that have been known for years. be-
lieve the sheep industry is destined to
become one of the most important as
well as one of the most profitable indus
tries in Kansas"