Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-30
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The Santa Fe trains do not stop at Perry
and passengers are compelled to get OFF at
Wharton, half mile away: yet the land be,
tween the two places is now nearly all stakeo
off for lots.
The choice claims in the Strip were all
taken by soQners. Honest men who maze
the run found the bottom lands all taken,
and in many cases men were at work ploW,
ing ground around houses half completed
of sod or boards.
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons
of the thirty-third degree, northern Jurlsdlc"
ton, met in triennial conclave at the Ma
sonic temple in Chicago. The Royal ORDER
of Scotland held simultaneous meeting Ia
that city.
The towns started on the ''allotments" to
the favored seventy Cherokees are proving to
be good thing for the people: as deeds are
at once received by the purchasers, with no
claim contest suits to follow.
Much attention is now being devoted at
the, pension bureau to the adjustment of cases
of foreign pensioners recently suspended.
Almost all the cases are being tayorably
acted upon, and pension agents notlhed 10
resume payment.
About 800 buildings are up in Perry now
and the number will be doubled in week.
Five banks are running and ten times as
many saloons and gambling houses. CIT,
Gus has already struck the town and grand
public ball was given.
While Baker Tomlinson was waiting his
turn in line at the Enid land office messen-
ger brought him the news of the death OF his
wife and two children by prairie fire. his
team. wagon, 81 400 In currency, and all
other effects were burned.
Senator Martin is urging the appointment
to consular service of Joe ROsenthal, Colonel
E. BIerer. of RrOwn county; Professor
Black, of Chanute; John Forbes, of Fort
Scott: Miles Moore. of Leavenworth; }. T..
Sanford, of Independence.
Prince Bismarck is sensitive about being
treated as an hOnored memory, and this
causes him to meet the emperor advances
toward a reconciliation cOolly. He seems
inclined to reassert himself as powerful
element in German politics.
Central Missouri is suffering from the long
continued drouth. The very late corn is
failure, and the ground is so bone dry that
blowing is impossible. Streams are lower
than they have been for years, and in some
instances farmers are hauling water to stock.
Speaking of the abandonment of the Fari-
bault, Mimi. parochlal school, Archbishop
Ireland contends that it does not mean the
failure of the Faribault plan, as has been
claimed. He insists that the plan is being
successfully worked at many places in Min
neSOta.
Prairie fires are raging in the vicinity of
ClaymOre, |. L. A strip forty miles long
and twenty miles wide has been burned over
between the Verdigris river and Dog creek,
destroying several thousand tons of baled
hay which was ready for shipment to the
markets.
The big works of the Hartford City, Ind,
glass works will start as soon as the furnaces
are ready. This concern gives employment
to 500 workmen and has pay roll of $4,000
per month. The wOrkmen agree that IT the
tariff on glass is reduced to accept proper
tiOnate reduction.
. At the land offices in the strip everybody
thinks. and good many say that they know,
that much croOkednesS is being INDUCED In,
and that the filing of homestead entries Is
worked on the same plan and by the same
parties as we're the registration certificates
at the booths.
At the St. Joseph, Mo-. fair grounds Mrs.
Mary M. Eaton, of Severance, Kan, had
pocketbook containing 81 and her railroad
ticket snatched out of her hand. DIR. j. 5.
Long. a banker of Highland, Kan, was re-
lieved of his pocketbook, containing $50 and
NdlIldDlS pdpSLos
A gang of Italians and a gang of Irish
men. at work on a new track in Brooklyn,
\. Y. got into a row which soon turned to a
general fight, with such tools as were at hand
for weapons. Many were badly hurt. The
riot was quelled by two squads of policemen
charging from different directions.
Nine of the most prominent men of Neo-
brara. Neb.. have been arrested. charged
with the extensive cattle thieving that has
been going on in northeastern Nebraska for
years. They gave bonds, but soon returned
to custody for their own safety, as several
hundred cattle herders and ranchmen assem-
bled, with threats of lynching.
The Jury in the criminal libel case in which
Secretary of State Osborn was on trial for
libeling c. Leland, found Osborn guilty as
charged. No sentence was announced, but
the defense Immediately filed a motion for a
new trial. The trial was before Judge Hazen,
of the Shawnee county district court
The roll calls of the senate show that the
anti-repeal senators present an unbroken
front of nineteen of the thirty senators who
will vote against repeal ready to resist to the
utmost the measure of unconditional repeal.
Under the present rules of the senate half
dozen senators can indefinitely prolong the
fight and postpone the vote and, if they are
so inclined, may either defeat the measure
or force a compromise. In this fight the
minority is not an insignificant one.
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