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

A negro waiter in the Throope hotel in
| Topeka stabbed with a carving knife and
| killed another negro waiter. while he was
serving at supper. Both have young families.
The murderer got away.
Judge Thomas. of North Dakota, has been
chosen by the department of justice to pre-
side in the district court of Kansas during
1894. Judges Williams aud Riner have done
30 during 1888. Judge Foster is still unable
to act.
| The 400 miners al the Winthrop, Mich,
! mine have struck against store orders. and
| the mine will probably close for the winter.
In August the men had agreed to receive pay
in store orders rather than have the mine
| closed down.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, has appoint
ed new warden for the Canon City peniten-
tiary who got possession by strategem. That
night the old warden retook the place by
another strategem; and the deuce is to pay.
| Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of
| Locomotive Engineers, receives salary OF
| 5000 year and expenses. He has held the
| position seventeen years. Grand Chief E.
| E. Clark, of the Railway Conductors, receives
a similar salary.
The Commercial Gable company has signed
| a contract with Siemens Bros. for laying the
| new Atlantic cable next spring between Ire
land and Nova Scotia. 1t will be 1900 miles
| in length and will have the greatest known
carrying capacity.
The postoffice department is forcing Co
lum bian stamps upon the people by filling
all large orders by pOstmasters with them !;
Fat the same time saying that no common
stamps will be sent out until the big ones
are out of the way.
The house ways and means committee has
reversed its announced intention and has de-
cided to leave sugar on the free list. The
Mckinley bounty 20 American sugar grow
ers is to be stopped by degrees, expiring at
the end of eight years.
Steward T. L. Dixon and his wife, the
matron, have been discharged from the
Olathe institute for the deaf ard dumb; the
result of quarrels between Dixon and Super
intendent Carter; the latter being sustained
by the state board of charities.
Promiscuous free distribution of publica-
tions is condemned in Secretary Morton's
report and the suggestion made that, after
supplying copies free to libraries and educa-
tional institutions, a moderate price should
be charged for the remaining copies.
1t is now said that President Cleveland
has ordered the ways and means committee
to change their new tariff bill so as to pro-
vide the wanting $45,O00,OO0 from taxes on
sugar and whisky. The president will not
| submit to any kind of an income tax
Governors Rice, of Michigan, and Peck,
| of Wisconsin. are forwarding train loads of
supplies to the suffering miners and their
families on the Gogebic range. The men
out of work on the Michigan side is from TO-
600 to 1900, who had been idle for six
months.
j Van Allen has declined the appoint
ment by the president as minister to Italy.
He says that his acceptance would make
him appear willing to discredit in the minds
of many his political party, and to bring
undeserved rebuke upon the administration
rendering the appointment.
At Santa Fe, n. NJ. the court of private
land claims handed down three decisions.
It affirmed the Ranches De Albuquerque
grant in Bernalillo county of 10000 acres,
and rejected the Bosque grant, 1900 acres
and the Santa Teresa j. Jesus grant, 1900
acres, both in Valencia county.
L. A Randolph and Miss Clara NJ. Arch-
bald, of Kansas, have been dismissed from
the general land Office. W. n. Burton, for
| years clerk in the office, charged to Kansas,
and who is a brother to J. r. Burton, of Abb
| lene, but who plays democrat, is promoted
| to special examiner in the pension bureau.
There has been extraordinary haste in the
| postoffice department to get A. D. Arnold
| bond on file; caused by the fact that should
| it be delayed until Monday noon, when con-
| gress convenes. Postmaster Frank Thomas,
| of Topeka, could. by senatorial aid, hold his
| place until the end of the session of congress,
! next summer.
The Ady-Martin contest is expected to
! reach final action in the senate soon. The
| claim against Martins right to the senator
| ship is based on the point that there was no
| election by the Kansas legislature. If that
| point prevails the senate has decided. in an
! other case, that the governor cannot appoint
| in a case where the legislature adjourned
without electing.
Secretary Hoke Smith has taken from the
commissioner of the land office the right to
make special any contest cases before the
department., by ordering all applications to
have cases made special to be referred to the
secretary himself. This practically prohibits
the continuance of the custom of making
cases special where the decision of one case
would end contests on all others covering
the same points.
If you want copy of speech delivered
in congress the best way to get 1t is to write
to the member who delivered the speech. A
member can have as many of his speeches
printed as he wants to pay for at about $50
per 1000 copies; and men who expect to
stay in public life take it as compliment
to have their speeches called for from long
distances. Other mem ers have no way of
getting these speeches except by begging
them from their authors.