Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-24
STATE NEWS.

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Clahin Banner: Numerous real es
tate transfers have taken place near here
the past week, but the purchases have
all been made by home people.
Miss Hattie Homer, the gifted Kan
sas poetess, will be married June 81, al
her home at Whitewater to o. E
Louthan, of Englewood, H., Gubert
of Chicago.
Clay Allen, of Neosho county, stu
dent of Baker university, has been ap
pointed cadet to the government mill.
tary academy at West Point. Con.
gresham Hudson had him appointed.
ElDorado Advocate: Talk about you
old books, R. S. Clark, living north Of
town has in his possession "Debal.
zac's letters" printed in 1925 and
"Britanias Pastorials," printed in 1882
Hereafter fee of $25 will be charged
every law student at Kansas universe.
ty, to go into fund with which to EN-,
ploy able lawyers to lecture before the
school. Judge d. M. Valentine, of To
peka, was added to the list of regular
lecturers, which now consists of Judge
W. A. Benson, Judge S. O. Thacher;
Hon. s. A. Riggs and men of like abil-
ity and reputation.
Miss Helen Green, of Topeka, COM
mercial traveller for 'The Mound City
Color Company" of st. Louis, has been
invited by the board of lady managers
of the worlds fair, by letter from Hell
en- NJ. Barker the chairman, to make an
address in the Women's building on any
topic of practical interest to women.
Miss Green will accept the invitation,
and will speak on the subject of women
commercial travellers.
ElDorado Republican: N. F. Frazier
has the contract for supplying the Kan
sas City stock yards with hay for one
year, which will require from twelve to
fourteen thousand tons of prairie hay.
He had contract last year for eight OF
ten thousand tons and this year has the
entire supply to furnish. This, of course,
means good many thousand dollars for
Butler county, as most of the hay will
be shipped from here.
Topeka Capital: Judge William T.
Scott, of Holton, attended the meeting of
the Sons of the Revolution in the rooms
of the State Historical society. His faith
er was an officer in the revolutionary
war, and participated in. the battle of
Kings Mountain in 1850, He followed
Daniel Boone to Kentucky and was one
of the first settlers in that state. Judge
Scott rs 81 years old and is the young
est Of a family Of fifteen children.
OEathe Patron: Old Mrs. Smith, re-
siding at Ochiltree, was crossing the
Fort Scott railway at that point, when
she discovered the fast through passen-
ger train approaching. She attempted
to get off the track, but becoming ex-
cited she started on a run down the
track. The train overlook her at high
rate of speed and carried her on the
cow-Catcher for quite a distance before
the train could be stopped. The old
lady was killed.
At Emporia the dead body of man
was found in freight car of the Santa
Fe road. The car was loaded with iron
pipes and the body was found at one
end Of the car with one of the pipes
damned through the head. The suppo-
sition is that the load shifted while the
man was asleep and thus caused his
death. From letters found on his per-
son tits supposed his name was Charles
Schudnman and that he has a wife and
family residing at Appleton, Mo
Topeka Capital. E. G. Shul and j.
R. Pagan, we're the Topeka men who
were killed in the Washington disaster
Mr.. Shull was instructor in the Shawnee
institute for three years, was on the
county examining board for "a num-
Der of years, and one of our foremost
educators. ME Pagan taught for
several years IN northern Shawnee
and was successful teacher. Hundreds
of pupils, now Rnen and women, will re-
greet the sad accident that cost him his
life.
From Wichita: The Whitaker pack
ing house win continue to run. Jehn
Whitaker says, "'The company will be
ireorganized to carry on the business
more extensively than heretofore. One
thing has been developed here, however,"
added Mr.. Whitaker, shy the establish
ment of these packing houses andtthat
is that hogs cam and will be grown in
this country m large numbers When
the houses were being erected we were
told we could get no hogs here and it
has been shown that this is not the case.
OF course in the beginning we were at
considerable expense and the cost of
killing each hog was too great for the
profit, but we have packed lots of meat
and made the business profitable"
Winfield special: Ed Sparks, young
man about twenty-five years old, who
resides with his father two and half
miles southwest of this city, went Ont to
take some of the horses to water. He
put rope on one, on one end of which
was loop. He got the rope on the
horse and accidentally stepped into the
loop. The horse started, throwing
Sparks down. This frightened the ami
NAL, which started to run. He was met
by a man on pony, who finally sue
Ceeded in oettinp near the runaway