Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-08-06
STATE NEWS.


The Globe says that Atchison is full
of poor men wearing $50 gold watches.
The Burr Oak creamery churned e.
400 pounds of butter in one DAY re-
Gently.
Wolves are carrying off chickens and
even sheep and calves in Labette
county.
Pittsburg is to have an electric street
railway. The work Of construction has
already commenced.
The Emporia State Normal Quarterly
estimates that 125 persons will graduate
from the state normal in 1893.
Lebanon Criterion: Lebanon can
produce man who has been a grand
father two years, and who is not yet 40
years of age. Kansas against the world
at any and all times.
Wichita Eagle: The rains have Wis
tied western Sedgwick and all Of King
man counties, and the Ninnescah has
been out of its banks and the water has
been very high in the corn fields.
Cawker City special: The 20-year-old
son of Charles Brinkman, living near
Upton, ten miles south Of this place,
went to the barn to feed the horses and
received kick in the abdomen from
which he died almost Immediately.
Argentine item: r. r. Dunbar
shipped carload of fine walnut logs to
st. Louis from here. The timber was
the product of Wyandotte county, and
some of the logs were twenty-four to
thirty-six inches in diameter. Mr.. Dun
bar has shipped several carloads of
walnut logs, and they we're all cut from
groves in Shawnee township.
It is now known that Richard Meade,
the missing insurance agent of Atchi-
son, has gone to England, and detect
i've agency has offered to bring him
back for $500. That amount was raised
on the streets in about two hours. It
is believed that his liabilities will
reach $4,000. A great many women
lost money who have said nothing
about it.
From Smith Center and from all that
qnarter of the state come cheering re-
ports of soaking rains, just at the time
most needed by the corn crop. The
same kind of reports come in from Wich-
tia and from south and west OF there.
At Topeka and in central eastern Kan
sas good rains have been general. It is
probable that the rains have covered the
entire state.
From Jennings: Decatur county was
again soaked by regular old fashioned
rain. 1t soaked the ground to depth |
Of eight inches and is the making of |
corn, as the greater part is just in tas-
BEL. The county got the rain without |
money, and it beat all the rain-makers |
in the country. This is one of the |
counties that is getting plenty of rain,
and the small grain crop is immense.
Cawker City letter: Clarence PEBBLES,
b young man of good habits, intelligent
and industrious, who grew to manhood
at this place and was highly esteemed,
was recently shot and killed in the labor
troubles at Ceur d'Alene, Idaho. His
offense was that be did not belong to |
The union and was willing by honest toll
TO earn SIS per day and took the place
Of union man who had struck for
arger pay.
At Andale, Sedgwick county, fire de-
stroyed four business houses with their
entailing loss of $4,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown. Two
buildings had to be torn down to stop
The spread of the flames as the town has
no means of fighting fire. Fouquetts,
dry goods, Metcalf Bros, hardware and
implement dealers, and J. w. Mueller,
harness shop, were the heaviest losers,
none OF them carrying much insurance.
An attempt will be made to secure
the arrest of r. G. Meade, the Atchison
insurance agent, who disappeared three
weeks ago, taking with him several
dollars belonging to Atchison
women, who had entrusted him with the |
money for investment. A subscription
paper is being circulated to raise reward
money and the county commissioners
will be asked to appropriate SoUu for
The purpose. The A. o. O. w. will also
take steps to secure Meade's arrest. It |
is believed that he has gone to some for
eign country.
Miss Mary Simpson, OF Lawrence.
was thrown from buggy by a runaway
team and killed. When the horses
started to run she jumped from the
striking on her head. She
lived only few minutes. Miss Stimp-
SON was a teacher, a graduate OF the |
state university OF the class OF 1886,
and was we'll known in college and edu-
circles throughout the state. |
She and other members Of the family q |
few days ago received bequest OF $780, |
600 from the estate OF deceased rela-
tive in the east.
A mass meeting at Fort Scott, which
was addressed by Editor Biddle Of the
John 81. Rice and others,
adopted the following without opposi-
ton: Resolved, That it is the sense OF