Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-02-18
STATE NEWS.

Representative John Davis has In hi,
district brother of Senator Carlisle
who writes that he is an alliance mar
and that he wants the Oak Hill, Clay
county, postofice.
| Two hundred bushels of potatoe.
were baked in disastrous fire in NORTH
Lawrence. G. l.. Johnson's S2,5O(
residence burned to the ground and the
potatoes in the cellar were ruined. The
house was insured.
The Smith Center Journal says there
hasn't been foreclosure suit com.
menced in the district court of Smith
comfy SO far this year, whereas there
were twenty-three cases a year ago in
the same period of time.
North Topeka item: The Capital ele.
vator did the heaviest business in Janu-
airy of any month since the receipt OF
the present crop of grain. 1t has been
running day and night at its full capac-
ity. The new elevator is also doing q
good business in handling grain.
Topeka Capital: There is an article
going the rounds of the eastern press
that family named Smith all froze to
death during the late zero weather.
The article says there were four in the
family and they lived near Topeka.
There is no truth whatever in the re-
port.
Atchison Champion: The weather is
mighty cold when it freezes an Atchison
street car horses ears. A horse on a
Main street car had both ears frozen
stiff, and when he was being led into
the barn he struck one ear against a
post, breaking it off-the, ear, we
mean.
Atchison Champion: The messenger
boys employed at the Office of the
Western Union Telegraph company
went out on strike. They wanted SIS
month; they were getting SO. Their
demands were not complied with and
other boys were hired to take their
places.
At Leavenworth from Sunday night
to Tuesday morning there was change
of temperature of 81 degree s. The
Oldest citizen never saw anything to
equal it. AS a result of the sudden
change a large amount of stuff has
been frozen and there is considerable
suffering.
Joseph McCrum died in Atchison last
week of acute pneumonia. The deceased
has resided in Atchison and Doniphan
counties since 1856, and was widely
known in this section of the state. He
was an extensive land owner in DCni-
phan, Atchison and Ness counties in
this state.
The grain receipts IN Kansas City,
Kan, for the month of January were as
follows: Missouri Pacific road, 800 cars;
Union Pacific, 1898; Santa Fe, LOLA;
Rock Island, 832; Council Bluffs, 1888;
Northwestern, 1863; Maple Leaf 80;
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, II and Mem
phis, Is. Total, 1890.
Emporia special: E. Fl. Pannick
was terribly mangled on the Santa Fe
track while going west on the track.
His head was mutfied up on account of
the cold and he could not hear. He
was struck by train following him.
He resides in this city and will die. He
has wife and eleven children.
Kansas university authorities sub
stituted Thornton Cooke for W. Fl.
Riddle as competing orator. Thornton
Cooke, who will be the orator at Topeka,
won second place in the university con-
test. He ranked high in thought and
composition, and if it had not been for
an embarrassment in his delivery would
have been awarded first place. Frank A.
Lutz was third.
The Springfield Republican tells
thrilling tale of a prairie fire which did
much damage in Seward county. The
fire approached Springfield in forty
mile gale and had just reached the out:
skirts of the town when the gale ceased !
The wind had been from the south
west and the mercury had been stand
ing at 76. In moment the wind came
cold from the northeast, and the fire
was retarded so that buildings could
be protected. Much property in the
country was destroyed and W. s. Al
Ian was badly blistered while rescuing
his aged father, who was seriously
burned.
From Wichita: William 81. Byers,
the embezzler from Helena, Mont, who
eighteen months ago got away with
$4,000 belonging to his employers. and
was finally arrested here ten days ago,
was struggled out of town at night by
officers from Montana. There was some
flaw in their requisition papers and
Governor Lewelling refused to issue a |
warrant. Byers was set free once since |
his arrest under writ of habeas cor
pus, but was Immediately arrested by
the officers on some other charge, and |
it is to avoid repetition of this and |
the chance Of losing their man that |
they have removed him from the reach
OF his lawyers, who intended to, file ap-
plication for another writ in the morn
ing. There is 1000 reward offered for
Byers' capture.
Wellington Monitor Press: The en-
CINE, dynamos, lamps and other equip
ments belonging to the plant of the old |