Western Kansas world., 1893-10-21
STATE NEWS.

The faculty of Kansas university late
" put up $500 for purchasing instru-
ments for the X. s. q. band.
The Topeka kindergarten association
is about to establish three new schools
in different sections of the city.
The Troy council is talking of erect
ing 1000 barrel water tank and secur-
ing a wagon and hose for use at fires.
Many families returning from the
Cherokee strip in covered wagons are
destitute and are stealing great deal
of corn from fields along their routes OF
travel.
Contracts for material aggregating
$4,000 have already been let by the
Atchison electrical street railway COM
paCy. The first car load of material
has arrived in Atchison.
Dickinson county has given up the
old teachers institutes and substituted
reading circles. The county has been
districted, and the course of study will
be followed through the year.
Banker A. W. Little, the slayer of At
torney B. E. johnson, was removed from
the Wyandotte county jail to the John
son county jail at Olathe, where his
case was transferred for trial by Judge
Anderson on an application for change
Of venue.
Wellington Monitor Press: A quar-
ter section of land in Avon township be-
longing to the estate of the late Joseph
Gregson was sold this week bv the
administrator, under order of the pro-
bate court, for $4,000. The purchaser
was M. T. Vineyard, of Illinois.
From Sabetha: The barn of Thomas
Dunlap, living one-half mile east of this
place, burned to the ground, with it six
head of horses, twenty tons of hay, and
a large amount of grain and farming
implements. The barn had but recently
been built and no insurance was carried.
Courts of Kansas City, Kansas, have
been trying policy gamblers and have
discharged them. The decisions run on
the theory that, although these men
committed crimes which were proven,
there is no statute of Kansas which pro-
vides penalty for this particular
offense.
Topeka Capital: Prof. J. T. Love
we'll. of Washburn college, met with
very painful accident. He was leading
a COW when the animal become unruly
and dragged him into barb wire fence.
Prof. Lovewell's hand was badly torn
and the accident has caused him great
Newton J. Lancaster, the mail agent
who lost his life in the Rock Island
wreck at Keats, was the only son of Mr..
and Mrs. Taylor Lancaster, of Atchison.
He was % years of age and had only
been in the railway mail service two
He worked in the Atchison
postofice for two or three years prior to
July last.
From Wichita: The Douglass Ave
nue. house is almost entirely destroyed by
fire. The hotel was the oldest house in
the city of any pretensions, having been
built in 1872. There is $4,000 insur-
ance on it. It is almost certain that the
flames we're of ofincendiary origin, as no one
has lived in the place for several days.
The old landmark was the scene of
many murder in the cowboy days.
From Wichita: August Noltemeier,
q German just arrived in this country,
reached here en- route to the strip, minus
his carpet bag and 5000 it contained.
He did not discover his loss until his ar
rival here, and says the last time he
handled his bag was at Mcfarland
where he put it under his seat. Six hun
dred dollars of the cash was in German
coin and the balance greenbacks.
Great Bend Register: Two brothers,
sons of James Keene, living about five
miles from Pawnee Rock, started out on
q quail hunt in road cart. The elder
brother got out and was hustling the
birds toward the cart when his gun fell
put through the Stats in the cart, emp
;ying the deadly contents into Willie's
body, from the effects of which he expired |
within the hour, during which time he
seemed in paratyzed state, recognized |
40 one and died unconscious.
Robert Whisner, who was arrested at |
La Cygne, by the sheriff of Linn county,
charged with uttering forgery in con-
lection with the crime of E. r. Westfall, /!
he absconding Topeka agency pension
,lerk, plead guilty at Leavenworth be-
ore Judge Foster of the United States
district court, and was sentenced to one
rear and three days in the pentitentiary.
Whisner had no defense whatever and
decided that he would begin to serve out
lis sentence at once and not await the
lelay OF trial.
From Norton: Walter Cannon made
murderous assault on his bust
less partner, Eugene Kennedy. He
truck Kennedy three times on the head
With hatchet, but his wounds are not
atal. Cannon afterwards attempted
uicide by cutting his throat with
heese knife. He is supposed to be in