Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-03-11
STATE NEWS.

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weston.
Gaylord Herald: There is said to be
1000 bushels of corn in cribs and piled
on the ground at the depot.
Since the Lawrence High school was
i organized there have been 421 gradu-
ates, and their average age has been Is
years.
The engine house of the city water
works at Girard is burned. The stand
pipe and reservoir were greatly dam
aged and the court house considerably
scorched.
Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Kansas
university, has been offered chair in
the Stanford university in California at
a salary of $4,000 year, and is inclined
to accept the proposition.
Topeka Capital: The total enroll
ment in the city schools for the first
month of the first term of this year was
1858; for the first month of the second
term it shows a slight increase, being
$3.50.
At the Pittsburg encampment of the
state G. A. r.. Hon. Bernard Kelly, of
Topeka, was elected department COM
mander to succeed Hon. A. r. Greene.
Colonel w. II. Coulter, also of Topeka,
was the next leading candidate.
Lawrence Jefersonian: L. J. Wor-
den again got off his mental balance
and has been taken to the asylum at
Topeka. This was surprise to his
friends, as he had been feeling quite
we'll and his mind seemed entirely
clear.
Independence Tribune: Not for five
years has there been such demand
for good houses in independence as
there is to-day. Every good house is
filed, and the demand is for more. Our
merchants, too, are reporting good
trade.
Parsons special: Masked robbers
entered the little town of Chouteau on
the Cherokee division of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas south of this city, and
robbed the STATEN, securing about $50.
They afterwards robbed number OF
stores and fed.
At Osborne the First National bank
has $135, 900 on deposit. Fully 80 per
cent comes from the farmers. That it
shows a healthy state of affairs, it is
only necessary to say that four and five
years ago the deposits of this bank
were $25, 900 to 100000.
From Fredonia VIM. n. Bennett,
aged about 55, employed as farm hand,
was found dead in the road three miles
northeast of here. He was driving
team to wagon, and was evidently
thrown out, as the team came home to
J. Holdren's door in runaway condi-
ton, minus the driver and wagon. He
leaves wife.
Kansas City, Mo-, Star: Colonel
Bob Stevens, who was quite prominent
in Kansas in the territorial days, died,
the early part of this week, at his home
in Attica, n. Y. He was many years
ago the general manager of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad, and the
larger portion of the line was built under
his direction.
Emporia Republicans: The receipt of
the news of the defeat of the new wing
and assembly room appropriation in the
Kansas senate occasioned some excite
ment at the normal, but it was not
marker to that which arose when the
students learned that there is proba-
bility of the "diploma, life certificate
to teach in Kansas" being reduced to
five years.
At Pittsburg, in the Methodist church,
memorial exercises were held by the
Kansas Sons of Veterans in honor of
Leland J. Webb, late commander-in-
chief of the order. Speeches were made
by A. B. Campbell Judge Johnson,
Clay D. Herod, II. W. Hoffman and
others. The church was filled by mem
bers of the Sons of Veterans, G. A. R.,
W. r. G. and L. A. s.
w. Y. Morgan, who was elected COM
mander of the Sons of Veterans at
Pittsburg, is graduate of the State
university, president of the Strong City
& Cottonwood Falls Railway company,
and editor of the Emporia Daily Ga
zette. Colonel Morgan has been an
active member of the order of the Sons
of Veterans for ten years. In 1890 and
1891 he was q member OF the COM
mandery in chief, S. v, q. S. A., and in |
1883 he was member of the division |
council.
Hon. d. W. Wilder, ex-superintend-
emit of insurance and editor of the In
surance Magazine, and G. G. Blakely, |
actuary of the state insurance depart |
ment of Kansas and of the Kansas
sas Mutual Life, have been selected by |
the advisory council of the worlds con-
gress auxiliary to the worlds Columbian |
exposition, to deliver addresses before |
the insurance congress. The theme as
signed Mr.. Wilder is 1.-The Abolition of |
and the theme assigned Mr. |
Blakely is deceptive Life Policies
Atchison Champion: A great many
fine fossil ferns have been found in the
coal shaft at Lansing. Some of them |
are Of greenish color and resemble |