Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-02-13
STATE NEWS.

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At Phllipsburg q big demand FOL
housed to rent is reported.
The Willis, Brown county, canning
factory will be operated this season.
Chlenyvale's natural gas wells supply
600 Gloves with fuel at cost of 81 pei
mon. each.
!u'hd ladies' of Horton entertained the
Knights of Pythias of that city in a
very pleasant leap year banquet and
dance.
Blue Rapids will get her opera house
this year. It will have seating capacity
for $50 persons. It will cost $4,000 and
upwards.
Kiowa Journal: Hides are now being
bought in this city for II cents per
pound which would have met ready
sale five or six years ago at cents.
Frank II. Betton, grand chief patri-
arch of the state encampment of Odd
Fellows, says the membership has in
creased about 500 during the past year,
and that there are now about $500
patriarchs in the state.
Mankato Monitor: As an indication
of the way people abroad regard the
work done in the Mankato schools, we
will state that the county superintend-
ent of Osborne county last week wrote
for specimens of the work done that
she might distribute them in the schools
of that county.
Independence Kansan: A benevolent
lady of the city, who has every year ex-
tended help to the needy poor, says
there was never time in our city when
there was SO little poverty. She can
vassed Der ward and did not find SOL
itary person who was in need of or who
would receive assistance.
Anthony Republican: Frank Coulson,
of Banner township, had the misfortune
to have his granary, containing 600
bushels of shelled corn and 800 bushels
of oats burned. There was 5000 insur-
ance on the grain and $50 on the gran
airy. The fire is supposed to have orig
mated by rats carrying matches that
ignited.
From Topeka: I. A. Beck, chairman
of the High school committee; S. G.
Miller, chairman of the building COM
mittee; Superintendent Bloss, and Prof.
II. G. Larimer, principal of the high
school, went to Denver to inspect the
high school building at that place with
view of getting information on the
drawing of plans for the Topeka high
school.
From Fort Scott: J. G. Alger, a
farmer residing two miles east of this
city, while eating meal, was attacked
with a violent fit of coughing, causing a
rupture of blood vessel, from which he
bled to death before medical aid could
be summoned. His wife and son were
present, but could do nothing to stop
the flow of blood from his mouth and
nostrils.
From Topeka: o. n. McKernan and
G. H. Gustin, laborers engaged in con-
structing sewer in the western part of
the city, were the victims of a serious
accident. The men were at work exca-
waiting when portion of the sewer caved
in and large rock, weighing not less
than two tons, fell on them. McKernan
received internal injuries and may die.
Gustin had foot badly mashed.
The number of young men in Kansas
who want to be soldiers is larger than
D{1 <o{o
man Broderick has the appointment this
year of one cadet to West Point, and al
ready there are over thirty applications.
He has decided to settle the matter by
competitive examination, to be held at
Atchison some time in June or July.
The applicant passing the best examina-
ton will be appointed.
Garden City Imprint: The expense
of running Kearney county for the year
of 1891 was only about $4,000. Refund
ing bonds to the amount of $21, 900 were
issued in lieu of some $35, ZOO outstand-
ing scrip. This is said to represent the
bulk of the Indebtedness Of the county,
as the most of their claims have been or
will be declared illegal. Kearney scrip
is advancing, as there is no legal scrip
but what will be paid in twelve months.
From Lindsborg: kansas Day" was
celebrated in grand style at Bethany
college. Many hundreds of people had
assembled to listen to the splendid pro-
gram. Speeches were made on wild
Kansas, bleeding Kansas, temperance
Kansas, glorious Kansas and Swedish
Kansas. Three original poems were
read by their respective authors. In all,
it was the biggest kansas Day" cele-
bration ever held in this part of the
state.
From Kansas City: Captain w. A.
Young, commanding Company B, First
Regiment, Kansas National Guards, re-
ceived orders from Colonel George c.
Howard, of Pittsburg, to recruit twenty
four men, to be organized and known as