Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
STATE NEWS.

Both Cowley and Sumner counties
will receive over $4,000 in railroad tax,
es this year.
The Abilene high school has choir
among its pupils which awakens the
echoes before the study hours.
Thirteen Kansas counties were hon.
ored by awards for their exhibits in the
educational department at the worlds
fair.
George W. Hoyt, wanted at Goodland,
: Kas., to answer to charge of embezzle-
ment and perjury. has been arrested at
Eugene, Ore.
No agreement in regard to the "Black
Bob" lands in johnson county has yet
been reached between the settlers and
the Carney heirs.
Tonganoxie Mirror: An old colored
lady in this town is being treated for in
juries received from the slave drivers
whip long before the war.
Moran Herald: The bulk of the corn
shipped from here goes to the western
part of the state. From five to ten car
loads are now being shipped from here
daily.
Ulysses Republican: The members
of the 1. o. o. F. lodge purchased the
Holman building east of town and pre-
sented it to E. II. Grosclaude, who recently
lost his residence by fire. This was a
worthy and commendable act upon the
part of the lodge.
Topeka Capital: Ex-County Super
intendent Josiah Jordan says the best
trade just now is in school libraries. The
CITY and county schools all over the
state are raising money and laying the
foundations for what will some day be
substantial libraries.
Ell Dorado Advocate: Uncle Johnny
Teter raised about 120 sacks of -four to
be distributed this winter to the poor.
Mayor Belts receipted for 65 sacks. This
will be turned over to the aid societies
of the various churches for distribution
where it will do the most good.
At Enterprise the livery barn burned,
and seven horses, all rolling stock and
considerable hay and grain were lost.
There is no clue to the manner in which
the fire originated, as the barn was all
afame when discovered. A small build
ing occupied by lunch room was also
burned. Small insurance.
State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
states that the deposits in the state and
national banks of Kansas on this date
amounted to 1850, 1883 or $23.46
per capita. Considering the hard times
experienced during the present year,
this statement is considered somewhat
remarkable by the commissioner.
Garden City Imprint: While Mr.. Full
ton and some of his neighbors were hunt |
ing antelope, Mr.. Fulton came very near
being shot. They had surrounded an an
telope and we're shooting at it from all di-
rections, when ball from the Winches- |
ter of one of the boys struck the ground |
near Mr.. Fulton, glanced and passed |
through the top of his hat
Ewing Herbert, president, and Arthur
Capper, secretary of the Kansas Day !
club, have issued a call for a meeting of |
the executive committee of the organ
ization, to make arrangements for the |
annual observance of Kansas day on the
31st of January. The usual banquet
will be given on that date and an at
tractive programme of short stories pre-
sented.
1t has been decided by the Intercol- |
legiate association to mold the next state |
contest in Topeka, February %, 1894. |
Judges were selected by representatives |
of the several colleges as follows: On |
thought and composition, Judge Earle, |
of Mcpherson; Professor Naylor of |
Wichita, and DIR. Spencer, of Sterling. |
On delivery j. W. Ady, of Newton, J.
r. Burton, of Abilene, and E. w. Hoch, |
of Marion.
Lawrence Gazette: The Lawrence
barbed wire factory is one of the manu-
featuring institutions in Kansas that |
has no occasion to complain of dull |
times. The wire drawing mill runs I'M
til 10 p. M, drawing enough wire to |
sunpiy the barb wire mill running at |
full capacity day and night. Even with
their largely increased plant, operated
to its limit, they are unable to keep up |
with their orders. More room and more |
machinery are to be added within sixty |
days. The company recently began max |
ing bale ties and their business in this |
one item has grown beyond all expecta-
ton.
Superintendent John E. Carr, of the |
Leavenworth coal mine, was placed I'M
der arrest for refusing to recognize an
order of Judge Myers of the First Kan
sas district to allow the city engineer to /
enter the mine and make survey. This |
mine is situated on the Fort Leaven-
worth reservation, and suit has recent
ly been instituted against it by the gov
eminent to make it pay royalty for
coal mined during the last fifteen years |
Superintendent Carr claimed that the |
Kansas courts had no jurisdiction over
the mine and they could make no dispo-
sition OF the property. Habeas corpus
proceedings in the United States circuit |
sourt were begun to secure his release