Western Kansas world., 1893-03-18
STATE NEWS.


Mrs Preston B. Plumb, it is said,
will build fine residence in Emporia
this year.
Cay Center has March bond cleo
tion to say whether S35, 900 shall be
paid by the city for it's water-works.
The Santa Fe last week took about
twenty-five Mennonites from Rush Gen.
ter to settle on the Maxwell land grant
in New Mexico.
The city of Atchison was asked to
appropriate $25 month for the city
library, but the council thought Sl2.5O
was the proper figure.
Topeka Capital: About three out of
every five persons are carrying quinine
these days. The doctors are kept on a
run to attend grip cases.
The Hutchinson meeting of the A. o.
q. ". grand lodge elected as supreme
representatives, Emery Of Seneca, Nc
Nall of Gaylord, and Weilip OF Girard.
Mrs. Hilary Green, an aged widow
living five miles from Cherokee, was SO
badly burned that she died an hour
afterward. She bad set fra to some
trash in her yard, and her clothing
caught fire.
Emporia Republican: Two thousand
feet of sewer pipe were laid last week,
under the superintendence OF Street
Commissioner W. B. Smith. The Fourth
avenue mains from east to west termi-
mails was completed.
From Leavenworth: Joseph Dodge's
general store and residence at Stranger,
this county, together with their con-
tents, were destroyed by fire, entailing
a loss of $4,000, partially insured. q.
81. Stephenson's residence at Fall Leaf
was burned Sunday. He saved moth
ing, but carried $1,000 insurance.
Clyde Herald: A. 81. Lidell informs
Ms that he attended sale last week as
clerk and that not single note was
given. The cash was all paid right
down. The amount sod was 500;
not very much, it is true, but much or
little this is perhaps the first time IN
the county but what people wanted
some time on what they bought at a
sale.
Cofeyville special: Emmett Dalton.
one of the leaders of the notorious Dal-
ton gang of train robbers, whose organ
ization was ended at the time Of the at
attempted raid on the banks at this
place, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life at hard labor. He
was at once hurried to the station and
taken to Lansing.
Topeka Capital: 1t is finally settled
that the Union Pacific hotel is to remain
open, but the management will be
transferred from the railway company
to a lessee. John F. Carter, of Marion.
Kan, who has been running hotel at
that place, has leased the Union Pa
eific hotel, and will operate it practi-
callv as it has been heretofore. Mr..
Carter is highly spoken of by travelling
men.
Topeka Capital: In digging a well
upon the farm of William Foster, three
miles south of Pauline, at a depth OF
from thirty-fve to forty feet, three very
thin veins of coal, somewhat resembling 6
camel, were struck, and below the
coal drip of heavy black oil was
found. The enclosing rock is sort
of sandstone, but until the coal ap-
peared the digging had been in sand
stone.
Lawrence special: Colonel John D.
Miles, of this city, has been appointed
receiver of all the alliance and grange
stores in Kansas operated by the Ma
tional Union company. The stores in
this state were taken in about two years
ago, when the farmers alliance was at
it's zenith, and since then they have be-
come indebted to the National company
to such an extent that they had to &c
into a state of bankruptcy. Colonel
Miles fled his bond at once, and will
take charge of the defunct concerns az
rapidly as arrangements can be made.
Atchison Champion: The action oi
the police commissioners in compelling
the jointists to close their places ot
business on Sundays and at 10 O'Clock
every other night in the week has ex.
cited the wrath of the liquor element tc
such an extent that all sorts OF threats
have been made against the commits
sioners. The saloonists and gambling
den keepers were boiling over with in
dignation when the order came to close
at 10 o'clock. There are eight saloons
in the town that pay $50 each month
into the city treasury, or total OF $4O(
monthly and $4,SOO annually. There
are also three gambling dens that pay
$500 monthly, or $500 annually
making a total of $s,400 that ia de
rived from these two sources alone eacl
year.
| Topeka Capital: Judge Hazen ha
overruled the demurrer of the Topek,
Water company to the petition of the cit!
of Topeka wherein the city alleged tn
company had violated the ordinance
and contract and that the franchise o
the company had been forfeited in con
sequence. The city's contract providet
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