Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-09
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A. g. Stacy has caused the arrest, at To
peka, Of Sol Miller, charged with criminal
noel; Miller having called Stacy Q profess
@onai blackmailer in an article in his paper,
the Troy Chief.
The Thirteenth infantry and Fifth and part
OF the Seventh cavalry are ordered to the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations, to clear
the equatters off before throwing open those
reservations for settlement.
managers of the Santa Fe road and the tele.
graph operators employed by the company,
advances In their pay will increase the aRgrs-
gate paid to this class of employees $4,000
year.
While the big cotton fire was raging in
New Orleans fire in the residence portion
OF the city swept four blocks clean, except
four buildings. The wind was blowing .
gale.
Wonderful tales are told of the action Of
the wind in the late gale which covered many
states. 1t Is a fact that the most lively imag-
NATION cannot concoct story but that the
real cyclone will beat; if not in kind, yet in
degree.
The "Yellow house." the presidents resi-.
dence in Caracas, Venezuela, was the scene
OF bomb explosion, which destroyed every
window and partially wrecked the building.
The president was in council with his Chief
officers at the time.
Whitelaw Reid says that the recent attitude
OF the pope advising the Catholic subjects OF
France to support the constituted authorities
has had the effect of attaching the clerical
party to the cause of the republic, although
hitherto they have been in sympathy With
monarchy.
The Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge are mad
because an order has stopped the issue OF
beeves to them on foot, for the reason that
the Indians eat the entrils, fresh taken from
the carcass, and eat them raw. The order
was to stop this practice, and the bucks bit
terly protest.
The executive council, consisting OF the
state officers of Kansas, at their annual meet
ing On the last Wednesday in March, reap
pointed George T. Anthony as member OF
the board of railroad commissioners. The
Topeka Capital::was named as the official state
paper for another year.
Word comes to Cheyenne of holder out.
RACES by range rustlers. They have been
shooting down horses and cattle for fort
night and scores of carcasses lie on the feed
ing grounds. The prairie pirates select the
property of large owners who have been Wig.
orously endeavoring to stop the stealing.
An exodus to the Cherokee strip and Okla
homa from Denison. Tex, has begun and 200
citizens are bound thither in wagons and on
foot. They are all of the better class. clerks,
men of character and standing, and some
professional men. They 60 to take advan-
tage of the approaching opening of the new
lands.
The telegraphers of the Santa Fe system
have been comforting by their grievance CON-
mittee, for two weeks, with the management
of the road. The officers of the road gave
them proposition which is not accepted,
and now the telegraphers are told that every
wire from Chicago to Ell Paso will be dead
if further demands are made.
A private letter from Angola, on the Rus
sian frontier, tells horrible tale of suffering
that in spite of food sent from America, peo-
pie are dropping dead in the streets from
starvation. The food as it is distributed
through the infected country is seized by |
rabid officials and shared among them.
A fire in New Orleans destroyed three cotton |
presses with, ten. ten and fifty thousand bales
of cotton; with ten thousand more in yards. |
A whole block was burned. There will be
salvage on the cotton so much as to bring |
the total loss down nearly to $1,000, 600 ON |
cotton and $50, 900 on presses and sheds. It
is thought that the fire started from q ciga-
rette.
At meeting of the democratic congress
sional campaign committee, John T. Mitch
ell, of Wisconsin. was elected chairman; Law
renee Gardner, District of Columbia, secre-
tary, and j. T. Norris, District of Columbia,
treasurer. Among names of state members
of the committee are: Kansas, s. F. Nicely;
Seth W. Cobb; Oklahoma, Dudley
B. Madden.
The Figaro, of Paris, publishes interviews
with two leading anarchists. They declared
that the members of the party were acting
singly on their own response oility, and that
there was no preconcerted plan to cause ex-
plosions. Both of them expressed themselves
IS delighted with the moral effect of the ex-
plosions which, they said, would direct greater