Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
STATE NEWS.

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At Bird City over 400 trees were set
ont within short time.
Topeka last year had 142 fires that
destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
jim Challis, of Kansas university,
vas chosen president of the Interstate
Oratorical association, at Minneapolis,
MINI. This is an honor of which Jim
and his many friends may well feel
proud.
At Kansas City, KS, on Columbian
day collection was taken in tho various
schools amounting to S50.03. The
money will be sent to the state treasurer,
where 1t will be applied to the expenses
Of making the educational exhibit OF
Kansas at the Worlds fair.
Ottawa letter: Superintendent Smith
reported to the school board that the
flags and poles raised on the building
on Columbian day cost $40, all of
which was raised by the pupils and
teachers, and, nearly $50 to 60 to the
Columbian fund in addition. June 26
was fixed as the date of the high school
commencement exercises.
The directors of the Lake View club
let the contract for the erection of a
$4,000 club house to Lawrence con-
tractor named McCarter, to be COM
pleted within sixty days. Two Topeka
contractors were bidding. The club
now has fifty members in Topeka and
fifty members in Lawrence. It is re-
ported that the bass fishing is fine.
The Douglass Tribune claims that the
old buffalo grass is coming back in
southern Kansas. The blue stem bunch
grass crowded out the buffalo grass
years ago, and now it is claimed that
Tor some unexplained reason, the finer
grass is superceding the coarser, and
many pastures are now covered with the
pale green of the early days.
Mcpherson Republican: DR.. Hoggett
has curiosity in his Office in the shape
of a skull, which was found by some
men while blasting rock in Gypsum
Creek The skull is about the size of
bears head, but it has no teeth, and the
mouth is in every way like an eagles
bill. No one seems able to tell what
kind of an animal it has been.
Fort Scott special: Neal Jackson
and Alexander Holden engaged in an
alteration over a woman, when jackson
drew a razor and cut Holden across the
stomach, letting out his intestines and
cutting them in two or three different
places. A physician was called, but his
case was pronounced hopeless; the man
cannot live. jackson was employed as
q porter on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
He fed.
Atchison. J. Ingalls, will sail
for Europe directly after the Minneapo-
lis convention. He will visit the princi-
pal cities of the continent, returning in
September in time to participate in the
presidential campaign. He will write
eight or ten papers upon special topics
connected with the social and political
conditions of the countries he visits.
His tour will extend from London to
Madrid and st. Petersburg.
The census bureau gives out the fol-
lowing, relative to Kansas, for the year
ending with May, 1890: The average
yield per acre in bushels was: Corn,
85.49; oats, 30.48; barley, 23.01; wheat,
1921; rye, 14.65, and buckwheat, 9.72
The following counties show the largest
yield for the cereals named: Jewell, corn,
S,400 1888 bushels; Sumner wheat, 2O7,-
146 bushels; Sedgwick, oats, 1,807,6 19
bushels; barley, rye, 210,660 bushels;
Doniphan, barley, 1882 bushels, and
Smith, buckwheat, 1889 bushels.
Topeka Journal: Several subscrip-
ton papers are being circulated to raise
money for the benefit of the cyclone
sufferers of Monmouth township. The
circulators meet with fair degree of
success and have collected consid-
cradle money already. Many persons
in the storm swept district are entirely
without clothing. Their neighbors are
helping to rebuild their houses and
barns, but in many cases the sufferers
have nothing to buy lumber or other
needed articles with.
Kansas university will soon have in
McCook Field as fine an athletic ground
as there is in the west. The field COM
prizes twelve acres, is located Just north
of the university campus on Mississippi
street, and is named in henor of Colonel
j. J. McCook, of New York, who recent
" gave $4,000 to the athletic fund.
One half of the land itself was gener-
ously donated to the athletic board by
Ex-Governor Charles Robinson. A large |
force has been at work on the field for
the last six weeks, and the board expects
to have it completed by the 2Sth of this
month at the latest. The field will con-
SYST at present Of only about one-third
of the twelve acres. and will include base |