Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-10-14
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1t Is alleged tGat some OF the money sent
TO Pittsburg, Kan, for the relief of the strik
ers was misappropriated and that there is to
be an investigation.
The car barns of the electric railroad at
! Canton, o., are burned. About twenty
| motors we're destroyed. The loss is 100000:
| insurance about half.
Railroad companies of the Str D demand
hearing In regard to the ruling of the interior
department that they shall establish stations
at the townsites selected by the government.
1t is now said that majority of the house
committee ON banking and currency are op-
posed TO reporting bill to repeal the 10 per
cent. tax on currency issued by other than
| national banks.
The school lands in the Strip are not for
sale at present, but can be leased for term
| of three years.
Texas dailies have all cut out the United
Press and contracted with the Associated
Press for their news.
The elevator of the Wabash railway com
pany, at Wabash, Ind. burned with 1900
bushels of wheat. 1t was owned by neigh
boring farmers and but little of it was IN
sured. Loss, $50 900.
Chief Bushyhead, proprietor of Kildare. 0.
t., has struck gas in his town at the depth OF
fifty feet. company will prospect further
ana IS DelleNeO Dy experts gas III pay
ing quantities will be found.
The house committee on judiciary CON-
Dleted their consideration of the bankruptcy
bill and ordered a favorable report upon 1t.
The involuntary clause, over which the prln-
cipal contest took place, is retained.
On the floor of the St. Louis Merchants
exchange there was collected for the storm
sufferers, in five minutes, the sum Of $500. A
tod 10 fI,nr
subscriptions, both of money and clothing.
Perry. O. T.. has four candidates for may
or, viz: Independent, Green B. Raum. of
Washington: peoples. Volney Hoggatt, OF
Guthrie; republican. Judge Z. b. Mentz. of
Louisiana; democrat. John Brogan, of Illi-
nois.
Commissioner Lamoreaux asks the house
committee on public lands to report reso-
luton suggesting that the interior depart
ment investigate the charges of Strip out
RACES, instead of having congressional in
vestigation.
st. A. Osborn of Kansas is alleged in the
dispatches to have taken part in the bimet-
allie convention in St. Louis. If there was
such a man there from Kansas it was not
Ex-Governor Thos. A. Osborn. He was not
in that city at that time.
J. B. Freeman. George Kicker and Edward
Cheney, we'll knowd farmers. were jailed at
Guthrie, o. t.. on charge of stealing thirty
head of cattle. Officers state that these men
belong to an organized gang, who have run
off hundreds of cattle and horses.
Captain Porter. of the steam whaler New
port, reached eighty-four degrees north lati-
tude, the most northerly point ever reached
by man. 1t is believed had the Newport
been supplied with dogs and sledges the
north pole could have been reached.
The five orders of railroad men employed
ON the Union Pacific have completed fed
Grafton. A delegation then visited the rail-
road managers and stated that the proposal
to cut wages would not be accepted. No
substitute was proposed and no answer was
given to them.
Clara Barton in assuming control of relief
of the sea island sufferers. Beaufort, s. G.,
says housing, feeding, clothing and nursing
of 10000 people for eight months is the work
to be done with no aid from the government,
and no fund but the direct charity of the
American people.
At the statehood convention at Norman,
o. T., Frank n. c. Master, introduced res
olution indorsing Hoke Smith and his
methods of opening the Strip. but the reso-
luton met with such dsfavor that it was i'm
mediately withdrawn to prevent its
oNerWnelmlES QeleaI.
George NJ. Mueller. who was sent by the
French government to explore Madagascar,
has been attacked bya band OF brlgandS and
killed. He was beheaded. Influenza il rag
ing in Madagascar. 1t has become a verita-
BILE plague in the capital and has caused a
serious defamation of the Malagasy race.
The senate in executive session confirmed
all the Indian agents who had been appointed
TO serve in other than their own states. There
was prolonged discussion and close vote
being "a 10 p in one case and n to - in the
others. Two democratic, Hill of New York,
and Martin of Kansas, voted with the repub
licanS.
Representative Hatch, of Missouri, chair
man of the house committee on agriculture,
has not yet introduced the anti-options bill
for which he fought so hard during the last
congress- He says he has not introduced the
bill because he wants all the friends of the
bill present in order to secure its reference
to the committee on agriculture instead OF
the committee on ways and means under
the rules.
The president. chief justice and secretary
of war are. by virtue of their positions, men,
bers of the board of control. 1t is the Gus
tom after the board has held q meeting to |
call on the president and pay respects. Sec |
rotary Lamont was at the meeting and said |
he had arranged for the usual call upon the |
president. The board went to the White |
house but were not given admission to the |
president. They went away angry.