Western Kansas world., 1893-07-08
LATEST NEWS.
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| Secretary of Agriculture Morton has called
| for an opinion from the attorney general as
| to whether he can abandon the sorghum su-
| gar stations in Kansas.
| Pythian opera house, the Ross -Hervey car
riage factory, Wright's furniture factory. two
| liveries and a saloon, burned at Union City,
Ind, entailing loss of $4,000.
According to the Chicago statement the
visibly supply of wheat last week decreased
1924, 600 bushels, corn decreased o4O,OOO bush
els. oats decreased $4,000 bushels.
| Three men. residents of the vicinity, have
been arrested in Usage county, Kansas, for
| wrecking passenger train near Barclay IN
September, 1892. One of them peached.
Yale won the great annual boat race over
| Harvard.
Sunday attendance at the worlds fair is
| much less than on week days; those who do
not want to go there on Sunday staying away
and those who do waiting for cut rate for
| that day.
The precise measure that has just been
adopted by India has for some time been ad-
vocated by some of the British advocates of
| bi-metallism as likely to result in the en-
| hancement of the white metal.
A new treaty with China is suggested as
| the best way to get rid of the Geary law. The
| supreme court has said that treaty super
sedes a prior act of congress and an act OF
| congress may supersede treaty.
The secretary of the treasury has sent or
ders to ST. Joseph, Mo-. for the discharge of
the engineer, fireman and elevator boy in
the postofice there, because the approprla-
ton for paying them is exhausted.
Labor Commissioner Todd says the net
wages of miners i'm the Cherokee district is
SLY day in summer and $1.65 in the WIN
ter. He says the notice to leave employers S
houses will result in greatest misery.
The German aniners at Frontenac, Kansas,
met and agreed to go to work for the Santa
Fe company at 3 cents raise over what the
operators offered. Manager Develin has
been written to concerning the proposition.
The Sycamore hotel at Lake George, n Y,
caught fire about midnight and within three
hours the building was destroyed. The loss
though there were over 100 guests at the
house.
Irm unines IN the upper peninsula of Mich
igan aHe being generally shut down ON ac-
count of the low price received for ore Lake
vessels are thus left with nothing to- do: SO
there are miners and sailors idle, Un great
numbers.
The comm issioner of the general land of
fee has recommended that the 0berlm and
Kirwin land offices be consolidated at Ober-
lin, and that the Larned and Garden City
offices be both removed and consolidated at
Dodge City.
Attorney General Little has givena written
opinion which is just opposite to one given
by his clerk, Noah Allen, in the matter of
building and loan associations. Mr.. Little
thinks they are not subject To- the banking
law unless they receive deposits.
President' Cleveland told parties interested
in the opening of the Cherakee strip that the
interior department had never called his at
tenti0n to the matter, and that he knew moth
ing about it. There is & movement now to
place full information in the presidents
hands.
"A lone horseman rode up to Harveys rail
HOad eating house in Coolidge, New Mexico,
and held up Manager ParkinS for $40 of pri-
vate funds. after which he marched him into
the eating house, where breakfast was being
prepared, forced him to open the safe, took
,$1S0and escaped.
The interest payment of the Cheyenne and
ArapahOe Indians has arrived at Darlington
agency. 1t amounts to $4,000 in silver, and
all the Indians on the reservation are gath
cred about in great glee. They will spend it
,easedgreatly thereby.
Senator Stanford's death has left vacant
four important positions in the Southern
Pacific railroad syndicate. He was president
of theIGentral Pacific and was the only man
who ever filled that Office. He WIS one of its
directors, director of the Southern Pacific
and chairman of its executive committee.
"A fatal accident occurred at Rohrig's iron
works at Magdeburg. SaxonH. The work
men were engaged in making a heavy cast
ing when there occurred a terrific explosion,
the liquid iron flying in all directions and
covering the workmen. Six m,an were killed
outright, while seven others were 80 terribly
burned that their recovery is despafed of.
Representative smelling and mining men
of Colorado met at Denver and resolved ito
completely close down all the silver mines
and mills in Colorado until such time as sill
ver is appreciated at its proper worth. This
action will throw many thousands of persons
out of employment. All the great Smelters
have ore contracts on hand which will keep
them in operation until January L. no differ
.ence what the price of silver may be.
A remarkable discovery has been made
which may cause much trouble lin the
house journal of the Kansas legislature of
1891 there are thirteen senate bills which are
recorded as receiving siXty-four votes one
more than the required number. while the |
accompanying poll calls show only siMy-two |
names checked as voting aye OH their final
passage. There are important laws IN this |
list of thirteen, which have been in operation |
now for two yeaTs and more.