Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-01-09
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A. Fort Soott The board OF trads hsld
= special meeting to sdopt resolutions
coneEning the death Of Senator Plumb.
Wellington Mail: Six hundred and
MY seats for the auditorium Of the
new school building have arrived and
arc being placed in the room.
North Topeka item: Another de-
tachment of Russians arrived in the
city Sunday. North Topeka has now
quite colony of them, and still they
come.
Kansas City Gazette: VIM. P. Hig.
inbotham. formerly of Manhattan, goes
to the City Of Mexico to inspect q
prominent and lucrative position offered
him by President Diaz
ALI. II. Martin, brother OF the late e2-
Governor John A. Martin, who suffered
. stroke Of paralysis year ago. Is dead.
He was for many years business man
ager Of the Atchison Champion.
Dodge City Globe Republican: The
assessed valuation Of personal property
in Ford county this year is $98, 627.
This represents less than one third Of
the actual value of this property.
From. Columbus: By order of the
mayor all the business men of the city
closed their stores and attended the
funeral services held IN honor of Pres
ton B. Plumb at the Presbyterian
church.
From Washington, D. c.: The presi-
dent has appointed William M. Jenkins,
OF Arkansas City, Kan, special agent
to make allotments of lands in severalty
to Indians with compensation at the
rate of So day.
Barnes Enterprise: The oldest piece
OF money in the state, no doubt, is q
piece of Denmark money owned by A.
Cumbow, who lives three miles west of
this city. The money is 184 years old,
it having been coined in the year 1907.
Pittsburg.-Fire caught in the grass
from an engine on the Santa Fe road,
in the south part of this city. The
flames spread to barn belonging to
MI. Smith and burned it and contents
two good horses. buggy and har-
ness and quantity Of feed. The fire
was beyond the limits of the fire de-
partment.
Lawrence.-Hon. Jos. Savage, one Of
the first settlers of the state, is dead.
Savage came to Lawrence in 1854 and
has resided here ever since. He was an
enthusiastic geologist and has been sent
many times by the government on
geological surveying expeditions, being
one of the commissioners appointed
to make the first survey of Yellowstone
Park.
The exhibit from the state university
has been given one-third of the space
in the Kansas building at Chicago. 1t
will consist of groups of moose, elk,
buffalo, Rocky mountain goats, Rocky
mountain lions, deer, in fact nearly all
the larger animals of North America
will be in the Kansas exhibit. "Coman.
che" the war horse of Custer fame,
will also he there.
Hutchinson.-The Myton & Baldwin
block, one of the finest structures in
the city, is burned. J. D. Weiner, dry
goods, one of the occupants, suffered
loss of $4,000. The Knights Templar
and Masons also had lodge rooms in the
top of the building. They lost all
their uniforms, regalia. etc. The
building was valued at $50, 900, making
q total loss Of $4,000.
Junction City special: The Masonic
order dedicated their elegant and spa
cious new temple in the city by appro-
pirate ceremonies and festivities. Colo |
mel Woodruff, of Fort Riley, past grand i
master Of North Carolina, and Hon. A. |
81. Wilson, one of the state lecturers, |
delivered addresses. The best musical |
and literary talent in the city was upon
the program. A banquet was spread |
for $50 at the Bartell hotel.
From Garden City: The farmers OF |
this county are doing we'll, and have |!
no room for complaint against the
present season; crops have been good;
the prospects could not be better for |
the future; stock is doing we'll, and
within the past ten days there have
been;shipped from this place, east and
west, twenty car loads of stock, includ-
ing cattle, hogs and sheep In addition
to this, there has been shipped several
car loads Of grain.
Mankato Monitor; No sooner is the
sign OF prosperity seen than the country
10 flooded With horde of quack doc
tors quack dentists, snide outfits of all
kinds, who try to work the people but
never work themselves. We urge our
citizens to give them wide berth.