Western Kansas world., 1892-09-03
STATE NEWS.

Emporia offers nearly $1,000 IN
purses for the races the first week in
October.
Pittsburg has her electric line all
ready for operation with the exception
of the trolley wire, which has been
shipped but has not yet put in appear
ance.
Big Springs item: Some of the Okla
homans who went out last summer and
made fair crop of wheat will return to
the neighborhood of Big Springs to pass
winter quarters.
Topeka Capital: Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon,
of the Central Congregational church,
has recently achieved the task set for
himself of writing thirty youths stories
for publication in thirty DAYS.
The Parsons board of education has
sold $4,000 of school bonds at pre-
MUM of 1865. A Chicago firm got
them, their offer being 1885 higher than
that of the best home bidder.
Lawrence journal: The shippers say
that the quality of the potatoes coming
in is not as good this year as usual.
They are scabby, and have in many
cases a second growth. Shippers are
paying 35 cents busheL
Near Pomona the east-bound freight
train on tie Santa Fe ran into a buggy
on a crossing, instantly killing Mrs.
w. F. Lawrence, and seriously injuring
Miss Annie Lawrence. The buggy was
completely demolished and one horse
was killed.
At Larned the farmers' alliance of
Pawnee county have succeeded in rais-
ing 10000 pounds of -four for the
striking iron workers and railroad en-
ployes Of Homestead, Fa., and Buffalo,
N. Y. The shipment will be made en-
August 81.
Dr.. 8. Wendell Williston, professor
Of geology at Kansas university, is
making collection OF building stones
for the worlds fair. The specimens are
being polished at Lawrence, and after
the fair will be added to the university
museum.
Lawrence Journal: Apples are COM
ing to town in larger quantities than
was expected, but the quality is very
poor, not many being fit for shippers.
For these two reasons apples will prob
ably be as cheap as usual in Lawrence,
in spite of the short crop.
Ex-Attorney General L. B. Kellogg,
Of Emporia, has accepted an invitation
to deliver the opening address to the
students of Kansas university. The
fall term opens September Z, and the
chancellor says the indications are that
the coming year will be by far the most
in the history of the uni
versity.
Washington, D. C.-Major Powell, of
The geological survey, has assigned W.
b. Huron to take charge of the topo-
graphical survey in western Kansas. He
eft for Garden City, and will commence
work at that point. The corps will con-
sist of six men. About three months
will be spent in taking field notes, and
will probably take in Finney, Hamilton
and Hodgeman counties.
Fort Scott sustained loss by the COM
plete destruction by fire of the Fort
Scott planning mill, and the partial de-
struction of the Fort Scott Novelty car
rage works. The total loss sustained
BY the planning mill company is esti-
mated at $4,000. The company carries
b, 900 insurance. The Novelty carriage
works. loss will amount to nearly 81, 900;
insured for $4,000. |
Atchison Globe. The employees at the
electric light station are annoyed a
great deal by frogs, which appear at the
station every night in great numbers to
,atch insects, and get mashed up in the
One of the fremen counted
swenty-six in the engine room at one
time last night. The frogs perch them
solves on the floor, with their mouths
open, and leap at the first insect that
ZONES near. The frogs can Jump a
loot and catch an insect with ease. The
lrogs from all over the neighborhood
have learned about the snap at the sta
ton, and come hopping in every night
about nine o'clock.
The association of the Quantrell raid
survivors held memorial exercises at
South park, Lawrence. Twenty mine
years ago the Missouri raiders, led by
Quantrell, sacked the town, leaving the
entire business portion and many OF the
residences in ruins, and killing $50 of
the inhabitants. A regular association
has been formed by the survivors, and
} meeting is to be held on each anniver-
Iary. A memorial sermon was delivered
by Rev. DR.. Cordley, after which short
speeches we're made by Governor Robin
son, Judge Emery, Hon. Sidney Clarke,
Miss Sarah Brown and others. A very
large audience was in attendance and
the exercises were deeply interesting.
II an Atchison paper is not a great
liar, there is pretty romance connected
with the life of Walt Mason, the machine
poet of the old boom days, who made q
great name for the Atchison Globe.
The story is to the effect that before he
worked on the Globe in Atchison he was