Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
STATE NEWS.

At the Leavenworth Soldiers home
2, 300 pounds Of dressed chickens were
consumed for New Years dinner.
A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch mentions
1-Governor Osborn as one Of the VIC
Tins of swindler who 10 now in GUS
tody there.
Chancellor Snow OF Kansas uni
versity recommends that the appropria-
ton for that institution be made $780,
! 600 this year instead of $4,000.
A Mcpherson commission merchant
shipped two carloads of rabbits to New
York holiday week. They numbered
5000 jacks and 5000 cotton-tails.
Three hundred men worked at Law
renee putting up ice for the Santa Fe
ice houses al along the road. Two cars
were filed at time, and the side tracks
were filed with cars.
In Alton forty men engaged in shoot
ing match, got drunk and riot ensued
in which twelve of them were stabbed.
Quink Enderly had both arms broken
and was wounded in the head. His in
| iuries are fatal.
Leslie Sturm and George Cox. two
professional gamblers of Fort Scott, en-
gagged in a fight in gambling room
when Sturm thrust knife into Cox's
breast and broke it off at the handle.
The wound will probably result in death.
From Larned: Mrs. Amos Funk
poured gasoline in a wash boiler while
the boiler was on the stove. The gaso-
line exploded and set fire to her clothing
and before the flames could be extin-
guished the house with its contents was
DESTROYED. Mrs. Funk died from her
burns. The Funk house, five miles
north east of this city, was one of the
best farm houses in Pawnee county.
F. s. Rowlins was arrested at Law
renee for forgery. He had on his per-
son three drafts, two for $500 each, and
one $762.50, signeo by the cashier OF
the Bank CT Olathe. He registered here
as E. R. Lindy, Kansas City, and is
wanted in Chicago for embezzling many
thousand dollars. Chicago authorities
offered $4,000 for his arrest. His sup
posed confederate, who registered as
Ed Fuller, Galesburg, ILL.,, is still at
large.
The state board OF public works
visited Atchison last week and decided to
recommend to the state Legislature this
winter that an appropriation of $4,000
be made for enlarging and improving
the Soldiers Orphans home, located a
mile north of Atnhison. The board
recommends the erection of three cot
tages, a bath house and laundry.
With the improvements contemplated,
the house will accommodate 300 children,
and will be made home for all orphans.
From Medicine Lodge: James Nc
Neal, printer in the Cressett Office,
was to have been married at o'clock,
and few hours before that time he was
found in his room unconscious from the
effects of morphine, and about the hour
of his marriage he expired. All that was
possible was done to restore him, but to
no purpose. A coroner's inquest returned
verdict ''that he died from an overdose
of morphine administered by his own
hand" Jim, as he was famll;arly
called, was good printer and good
boy, and there is no known cause for
his rash act.
Superintendent L. G. Wooster, of the
Kansas educational exhibit, has received
| word from Hon. Selim Fl. Peabody,
chief of the liberal arts department of
the worlds flir, that space has at last
been secured for an educational exhibit
in the gallery of the building under his
charge. The space to be devoted to
this exhibit includes 100000 square
feet. Kansas portion is 1,700. OF this
400 feet will be devoted to the public
schools, 200 feet to the State Normal
school and 100 feet to the Agricultural
college This will give Kansas better
opportunity to display the work Of her
fine schools, but those who are prspar-
ing work for the exhibition will now
have to be called upon for almost twice
the amount of matter.
From Atchison: DR.. W. L. Challiss,
father-in-law of the late John A. Mar
tin, failed this morning for $135, 600.
It is said that most of his creditors have
been secured. Dr. Challiss is brother
Of Luther Challiss, who. until Governor
Felt bought it, edited the Champion.
DR.. Challiss is one of the oldest citizens
of Atchlson. having settled there in the
territorial days of Kansas. He, fol
many years, until the bridge was built
owned the ferry privileges there and
out of it made great deal of money
which was the nucleus of fortune
which, only few years ago, was locally
) estimated ut q half million dollars. Five
years ago he bought the Atchison street
railway, which he afterwards sold to ar
Iowa brewer for $S0,000 The brewer
paid $50, 900 on the property and ran il
, q year or two, when he tired of his bar
gain and gave Challis $4,000 to let hin
: out of it, sacrificing the $4,000 hs
had paid. Chslliss still owns the prop
erry. A couple of years ago he wen
into q street railway enterprise a
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