Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-16
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Much anxiety is felt in Egypt because the
Nile has as yet shown no sign of rising.
The interior department has ruled that but
one lot in any or all the towns of the strip
can be taken, on opening day, by one person.
Hamilton Fish is dead. He was the senior
ex-governor of New York; the senior ex-
United States senator from that state and
the senior living ex-secretary of state of the
United States. He was IS years old August
3, last.
The greatest suffering among the shippers
| during registration week, and on the day of
| the race for claims particularly, will be for
water, as there will not be thousandth part
of the demand for it filled. 1t will be i'm
| possible.
The Agriculture Rationale, of Brussels,
| in its review of the sugar beet crop of Eu-
| rope estimates the deficiency at $4,000 tons
| of raw sugar and the surplus in Germany,
Austro-Hungary and Russia as 100000 tons
The damage to the lighthouse system along
the southern coast was so serious by last
| weeks hurricane that it is probable the light
| house board will have to ask congress for a
! special appropriation to make the necessary
! repairs.
/ The Santa Fe and the Rock Island, up to
| September 8, has not received any order
| from Washington to not run trains into Ok
| lahoma. Without such an order the trains
| will be run; but if the order comes it will be
obeyed,
Republicans of Iowa who object to the re-
cent action of the state convention on the
subject of prohibition met at Des Moines
and nominated L. S. Coffin, of Dodge City,
for governor in opposition to the regular
nominee.
Six German Lutheran churches CT Bellaire,
o., officially withdrew from the convention
of the German Lutheran church. The rea-
son for this action was that the church synod
had forbidden members to belong to secret
societies.
The verdict of the court martial in the
matter of the charges preferred against Col
onel J. W. F. Hughes, is guilty" with a re-
commentator by the court martial that
Colonel Hughes be dishonorable dismissed
from the service.
L. D. Davidson, formerly of Eureka. Kan,
but for a few years proprietor of drug
store in ST. Joseph. Mo-, being a member of
the st. Joseph Boating club. was taking
row alone on Lake Contrary, when his boat
upset and he was drowned.
good strong advance in hogs has OBJ
tanned at the Kansas City, Kan, markets:
bad reports about corn, and the light stocks
of packers products, with good demand,
have been the causes of better prices.
Forest fires have swept away about all the
cranberry marshes on the south side of
St. Paul railway tracks near Grand Rapids.
Wis. The marshes of Senator Villas and T.
NJ. Nash and Cohens and Krueger's marshes
were burned with buildings and tools.
The Russian government decided to post
pone until June next the final expulsion of
Jews from Russia. The various provisional
governors have been empowered to grant
another years delay in their departure to all
Jews to enable them to settle their affairs.
Almost at the last moment Judge Holson
stepped in and prevented the execution of
Simon Wade and Solomon Lewis, the con-
demned Choctaws, by granting them a new
trial. The only thing left to show their mar
row escape is the two empty collins and two
newly dug graves.
A dispatch from Canadian, Texas, states
that an organization of nearly 1000 Texas
cowboys is in camp there to enter the strip
and capture the tOwnsite of Woodward and
all adjoining claims. So sure are they of
success that they have city government all
organized and officers chosen.
twenty-five western Kansas counties have
thus far applied to the secretary of the board
of railway commissioners for seed wheat,
but not one county has offered to give any
grain. The aggregate requests are for $685.
900 bushels. Every day some new county is
heard from, but no help can be given.
George Alexander, young aeronaut of
Muscotah, Kan, announces that he will leave
with his balloon for Arkansas City and start
from that point on opening day to sail into
the strip. He will take a parachute along
so as to make the descent in safety in case
some one should take shot at the balloon.
you can quote me- said S. H. II. Clark,
of the Union Pacific, ''as authority for the
statement that reduced salaries will be re-
stored wherever they have necessarily been
made. The reduction is temporary. Just
as soon as business revives and permits re-
storation of salaries they will be put back at
the old figures
The fact that the corn crop has been made
and is now being harvested in some locali-
ties, and is the biggest for years, is putting
new life into the market for stockers and
feeders at Kansas City, Kansas. Quite a
number of buyers have been in from the
country for young cattle, and good many
good orders have been received.
The silver men in the senate sprung sur
prise on the repeal forces in the declaration
of Senator Stewart that hereafter quorum
of the senate would have to be present when
senators spoke upon the silver question. If
the opponents of repeal insist upon q quo
new move and may seriously interfere with
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