Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-08
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General Hiram Berdsn, the torpedo and
rife inventor, died at q Washington club
while playing game of chess.
The Chicago Printer publishes a sketch
and portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Lilly Clover,
'the well known writer and journalist of
Cambridge, Kansas"
The Cherokees were excited over the ap-
pointment of a man prominent among the
Intruder" class as a postmaster. His ap-
pointment was at once cancelled by Secre-
tary Hoke Smith.
The McLeans, without distinction as to
how they spell the name, arc to have a gath
ering in Chicago in June. Even such as are
connected with McLaues by marriage are
invited to this Maclane reunion.
Pork dropped one dollar in the Chicago
market Saturday, and spectators dropped
good many of them.
Seven hundred Federation clothing cut
tiers are out on a strike in New York City,
and their places are likely to be filled with
Knights of Labor. A bitter feud is thus
generated between the two labor organiza-
lions.
The Chickasaw Indians have issued a call
for convention of their tribe at Tlshomingo,
on May 2, for the purpose of considering
the question of allotments and arranging
for treating with the government commits
sioners.
An article In the Chicago Printer speaks
of Cowley comfy, Kan, as "unsurveyed'
in 1890, and o. farm in it as being eighty
miles from railroad at that time. Why is
it that writers can not be had that know
something of the country?
George r. Richardson discovered loose
rail on the Southern Pacific railroad and
was attacked by party of train wreckers.
hai1 IBID o,o1 Lea
for dead he crawled on the track and Sig
nailed train by burning his handkerchief.
A Michigan lawyer, who has been delvlng
among treaties claims that the Chippewa
Indians never ceded the northern peninsula
of Michigan to the United States, and that
in all that country, including cities and
copper mines, there is no title TO any real
estate,
Professor Walters, of Kansas Agricultural
college, writes from Chicago that if Profess
Sor Dyche had been allowed the privilege
of charging 10 cents admission to his exhibit
of stuffed animals enough money would
have been realized to pay for the Kansas
building.
In Rolla, n. D., committee of ". G. T.
q. women visited place where liquor was
illegally sold to gather evidence for prose-
cutting the proprietor. The boss of the place
gathered a crew to help him and the women
were thrown out, disheveled, bruised and
bleeding.
Senator Martin and General Blair called
On Secretary Hoke Smith asking for the ap-
pointment of W. c. Perry, of Fort Scott, as
assistant attorney general for duty in the
interior department. The secretary inter-
rupted them by saying that a man was al
ready selected for that place.
Auburn, Maine. is a shoemaker city, with
Ia TOD hxy IN,
They earn, men and women, from SIS to $50
a week, and mostly own their own homes.
They are demanding an advanced scale of
wages, and the manufacturers, who are rich,
say they are now prepared to settle the ques-
ton who shall rule.
A terrible accident occurred on the Jack
sonyille Southern railroad about three miles
south of Edwardsville, ILL.,, April 3, caused
by a freight and passenger train coilidiug,
in Which four men were killed and number
of Others were severely injured. The acct
dent is attributed to negligence on the part
of the local trainmen.
The Bawnmore arrived at Nanaimo, B.
c., from San Franciso, when the captain
discovered a cowardly attempt to wreck the
vessel. He found twenty sticks of dynamite,
one foot long and one and half inches in
diameter, in a box. small alarm clock
with fuse attached was arranged to explode
the cap and ignite the powder.
About 1000 head of Texas cattle are
shipped through daily and unloaded at Ponca
reservation. The cattlemen claim these cat
tie are all destined for their leased pastures
in the Usage country, but as it was under |
this subterfuge that the cattle were run into |
the Cherokee strip last yer the boomers are |
becoming suspicious and demand an investi- |
CATION.
It is stated that the reason for calling an |
extra session of congress is that new tariff |
may be framed long enough before the next |
campaign to permit its workings to be fairly |
judged by the people. The defeat of the re- |
publlcans on a tariff issue over a tariff which |
had not been long enough in force for its |
effects to be known to the people, is the ar |
gument
The greatest obstacle at Tahlequah seems |
to be the mutual distrust of each other by |
the Downing party, which is in power, and |
the nationaiists. The former wants to send |
! commission to Washington to close the |
deal for the strip; while the latter say that |
much of the money will be stolen by the |
commission. They want the money paid at |
TahleQuah.
The Columbus papers, fifty in number. |
have arrived from Spain as a loan to the |
Columbian exposition. They comprise the |
original documents relating to Columbus
voyage of discovery, his report to Ferdinand |
and Isabella and his will. While in transit, |
as per agreement with the Spanish govern |
ment, they are guarded by naval or military |
forces They are taken from Washington to |
Chicago in a pay car which has a safe, and |
arc guarded by detail of soldiers.
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