Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-08-12
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

Minister Blount will sail from Honolulu to
San Francisco in few days.
Congressman w. A. Harris has been taken
to the seaside for his health and consequently
was not in Washington when congress
convened. Hehas severe attack OF nervous
prostration.
Two more trainloads of Alabama colored
miners have arrived at Pittsburg for work in
the mines, one going to Weir City and the
other to Cherokee county, with report of
more of them coming.
There were 1870 pensioners on the rolls of
the Leavenworth Soldiers home June 30,
1893. Seven hundred and eighty three died
or were discharged during the year. Their
pensions range from 81 to $72 month.
This is the twelfth time congress has con-
vened in extra session.
Wheat is rapidly ripening in Minnesota,
and it now appears that the yield will be
better than looked for.
Secretary Hoke Smith has returned to
Washington and now says that it will take
some time to get his bearings and that it is
likely to prove impossible to have the strip
opened to settlement September 1, as he had
desired.
The small operators in the Kansas coal
fields are working their mines; many of the
strikers being willing to return to their old
places. The operators are glad to have most
OF them, but will not re- employ the principal
strikers.
The greed of the lobbyists who are max
ing fat thing out of percentages for COL
lecting their claims is all that prevents the
Choctaws from giving up their separate gov
eminent and coming in as part of the
United States.
All the western roads are at present en- Joy
ing the sensation of witnessing a substantial
increase in the amount of their passenger
traffic. Every road in the passenger associa-
ton is doing more business than at any time
since the opening of the fair.
Colonel Duncan, the man who is making
townsites for the ring. by locating the sew
enty Cherokees' claims, reports that he can
not finish his list before September. Then
Colonel Red Tape will have to have plenty
of time to finish the job at the department.
CINCINNATI, O., August DIR. W. c. Peas
lee, of Salt Lake City, who it was feared
would die on his way here to place himself
under the Amick treatment for consumption
at the Cincinnati hospital, reached here al
most too weak to speak, but confident of be-
ing cured.
Brokers hustle around New York and pay
! to 2 cents on the dollar for currency, to
dealers who take it IN by the Titles. Then
the dealers take the checks they have re-
ceived for currency to the banks to draw for
the needs of their pay roll. The banks com
plain of bad treatment.
Statistics from ffty-seven trades in New
York city are given to show that over &c.
600 men are out of work and it is declared
this represents only a portion of the city's
unemployed. Thousands are coming from
the west in search of employment and i'm
migrants are tarrying in New York.
Some anxiety is felt among the merchants
of Argentine, Kan, at a recent order at the
smelter, by which a number of men have
been discharged. Heretofore the men have
worked eight hours, there being three sets of
men. The new order drops one shift and
works the other two gangs twelve hours each.
The silver men indicate purpose to pre-
cipitate silver discussion on the first working
day of the extra session of congress by reso-
luton of inquiry as to whether or not the sec
rotary of the treasury has not exceeded his
authority in refusing to purchase 100000
ounces in July, as provided by the Sherman
law.
Attorney General Engley, of Colorado, has
rendered an opinion to the effect that it is
within the power of the legislature to enact
appropriate legislation for the establishment
of a statutory depository of silver bullion
and the issuance of certificates thereon, as
signable by delivery and receivable by the
the state in the payment of state taxes.
The Santa Fe managers assert that they |
will not import miners except as last re- |
sort, feeling that the colored people, which |
are new to Kansas, are not such desirable |
citizens as those who formerly lived here |
and helped build up the country. 1t is |
thought and hoped that great, many of the |
home miners may yet be prevailed upon to |
60 to work.
The feeling at the Kansas City yards the
last of the week is that times are mending, |
the collapse of the provision corner in Chi
cago and the fall movement of grain to Eu- J
of the country, releasing much money that |
was tied up in margins and allowing the law |
of supply and demand to again assert itself |
and produce more healthy tone to trade.
The scare is fast disappearing, and with good |
supply of currency the markets would be
healthy again.
Despite the panicky condition of the coun-
try and the advice of the commission men to
their shippers in the country to GO slow, there
were received at the Kansas City. Kan, yards |
during July 131, 1896 cattle, 1907 calves, 49,
637 hogs, 50,490 sheep and 2,T39 horses and
mules; same month last year, 132, 541 cattle,
1898 calves, 167 1856 hogs, 1874 sheep and
2,138 horses, showing 6,252 more hogs, 81, $40
more sheep and COL more horses and within
few hundred as many cattle. In all, 8,34
cars, against 1927 cars last year, when every
one was working for trade and money abund-
ant and easy.