Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-10-28

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son, Castor, Nickerson and Kaho. met
with q serious accident at Ottawa. AL
OF them are good. sprinters, and two oil
them started to run a race along the
course on the campus, and the Other
two few moments later, thinking that
the first two were off from the track
started to run race from the same
point. The night was quite dark, and
midway OF the course they met the 9TH
er two running return race. The -four
struck at the same instant and were
thrown into heap together, three OF
them being rendered senseless. All were
seriously injured, Mr.. Nickerson receiv-
ing fracture of the skull and Mr.. Car
son being injured internally.
From Medicine Lodge: A row OF
frame business houses on Main street
was discovered on fire. The fire had
been set in three places at the same
time. 1t gained rapidly and was so
fierce that the buildings in which it
started were soon beyond hope from the
meager facilities of the fire department.
The losses are as follows: Cook & Pal
mer, real estate, $500; Southworth,
drugs, $4,000, insurance, $1,5OO; DIR.
Gould, loss, $1,000, insurance, 5000;
Strong, loss, $3.50; empty store. $500;
Woodward, harness, So, 900: Belle Brown,
millinery. $500; Hank O'Brian, $3.50;
Yeoman's warehouse, with 1900 bushels
OF wheat, 5000. No other insurance. The
town was saved by the heroic work of
the fremen.
Topeka Journal: County Superin-
tendent Wright has completed his annu-
al report which shows that there are 80
schools in Shawnee county, of which %
are in the city of Topeka. An addition
al school district has recently been Or
gained north of Silver Lake, but it is
not included in the report. The. school
population of the county, including all
persons between the ages of 5 and 81, is
is 16,5O9. Of this number II, O32 attend
school. The average daily attendance is
1896. There are cal teachers employed
in the county, of which 119 are en-
ployed in the city schools. Last year
there were only 228 employed in the
county. The average salary of the men
teachers is $62.25 and of the women
$49.33. The average school session for
the year in the districts is twenty-nine
and one-third weeks.
A Kansas author, Rev. j. w. Roberts,
OF Oslaloosa, has written book which
has been published by Barnes & Co., of
of New York, which will be of special
interest to every reader of Bellamy's
Looking Backward" Mr.. Roberts book
is called Looking Inward" and the
plot Of his story includes Mr.. Bellamy's
characters; DR.. Leethe, his daughter
and Mr.. West, who took the mesmeric
sleep, and others. There is not word
of partisanship in Looking inward"
although his leading character, in his
studies and Investigations, from 1876 to
2027, which, by the way, were interrupt
ed by three protracted maps, of 35, 70
% years duration, convince him of the
failure of that degree of paternalism which
DR.. Leethe had such an absorbing faith
in. The book is well written, with as
much of interest in its plot, as the clean
est of novels. and Mr.. Roberts publish
ers say there is prospect for immense
editions of it to be demanded. Scarcely
any reader will criticise it except, posi-
bly,, in the one point that the authors
profession is readily recognized in his
writing. All orders for the book in Kan
sas, or for information concerning it,
should be addressed to j. W. Roberts,
Oskaloosa, Kansas. It is interesting
as Kanses written story, with re-
markedly ingenious plot, and as before
said especially interesting to readers of
Bellamy's writings.