Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-02-25
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Sheriff WiIkerson said Thursday: 81
have organized big force of deputy sheriffs
and we are prepared to maintain the peace.
/ shall not break it myself. If any disturb
ance occurs, however, we are ready"
The assignment of and failure of Youngs-
town, Ohio, banker brings Governor Nc
Kinley down to the extent of all his prop
the governor had loaned his signature with.
out caution.
The 18th international conference of the
Seventh Day AdventIsts is in session in the
big tabernacle in Chicago. The delegates
present represent India, Australia, France,
Germany, the Scandinavian countries, South
Africa ana England.
In an interview the Chilian consul general
at San Francisco, n. Guerrero, said: eve
have declined to take part in the worlds
faIr and / have received adElces that there
will be no exhibit of Chilian products"
Senator PHatt has plaH to put the Chero-
kee strip bill as q rider on the Indian appro-
priation bill If it can not be given a separate
hearing by the house. The house rules COM
mlttee refuse to give it time until the apPro
prlation bills are out OF the way.
Major Wieggie, the general agent of the
interior for the territories, reached Washing
ton from Oklahoma to make a report on
some matters relating to the proposed estab-
lishment of land offices to meet the demand
when the Cherokee strip as opened TO settle
ments
The condition of the miners throughout
the Schuylkill region, and particularly in the
districts embracing the towns of Shamokin,
Mount Carmel, Ashland and Centralia is
yerging towards starvation. Most of them
have not worked more than two fuat weeks
since January 1.
Letters ace received from prominent MEM
bers of the Cherokee council, stating posi-
lively that that body would not raHfy
any changes whatever in the Cherokee strip
treaty, stating that if congress wished to
open the strip it must ratify the treaty in
full and make no changes.
The bill introduced by Senator Morgan,
TO reduce the expenses Of the state printing
by eliminating superf1uous and duplicated
matter in publications, was killed in the
Kansas senate by the committee on print
ing. The bill contemplated a saving of $l5-
OO0 per year to the state.
And now comes King Tebureno, of Buta-
ntari, asking protection by the United States.
His commissioner, sent to Washington on
this errand, says that British war vessel
seized the islands on receipt Of the informa-
ton from Sidney, Australia, that the king
had cent to the United States to ask pTotec-
tion.
A South Park, Col, railroad crew with
two engines pushing rotary plows were
lighting snow when an avalanche rushed
down the mountain side, catching one en-
Hine and two piows and hurting them down
the hill. Engineer Lynch and Fireman
Smith we're instantly killed. The others es-
capped.
There wIl be operated during the worlds
fair what the management claims will be the
largest summer school in the world. All of
the buildings and apparatus of the famous
Cook county normal have been leased for
this purpose. and the leading specialists of
the United States have been engaged as in
structors.
President Harrison being asked what was
his policy concerning Judge Jackson's sue
cessor, replied that, while he had given the
matter very little consideration, he had IN
tended to let Mr.. Cleveland make the ap-
pointment. 1t is said that this intelligence
practically decided the question of Jack
sons confirmation.
Very few people have any conception of
the condition of the people who are waiting
to find homes in the strip or of the suffer
ing that Will ensue If the lands are not
opened this spring in time to make crops.
The people are desperate. and they will
certainly decide to go upon the strip, put
IN crops and await the consequences.
HettlnRer, the new brigadler general of
the Kansas militia is responsible for the
statement that the case against Colonel
Hughes will be pushed by the military au-
thorities of the state, and that he will have
TO answer to a drum head courJ-martial. A
militia colonel is elected by the regiment
and it takes q court-martial trial to get him
out.
DR.. Kempster, special health officer of the
United States, has arrived in Berlin after a
tour of inspection of Hamburg, Bremen,
Cassel and other places. He says he is con-
WINGED the present year will witness fierce
outburst of cholera all over the continent
and that instead of being sporadic ~as in
1892, the plague will sweep the whole of Eu"
rope.
Mr.. Cleveland has announced the names
of four members of his cabinet who have
accepted the places rendered them. They
are: Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, secre-
tary of state; John G. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky. secretary of finance; Daniel S La
mont, of New York, secretary of war; Will
son S. Bissell, of Buffalo, postmaster gen.
ersl.
The new delegates from the Cherokee
country, Boudinot, Senator Beuge and Red
Bird, called on Secretary Noble at his resi-
dence and insisted that they wanted his sup
port in inducing the senate conferees to re-
cede from the proposition of making the
Cherokees pay the intruderS for improve
ments. The secretary refused to have any
thing to do with the matter, as in his judy
ment it was question for congress to
decide
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