Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-18
STATE NEWS.
Aluminium from Kansas Clay.

seven miles from Kansas City, on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway.
It is intended to open the smelter for
the manufacture of aluminium on De-
cember 1. It will be operated by the
Aluminium Smelling and Refining Com
pany, which will have acapital of $780,
900.
At first force of ten or twelve men
will be employed, but by next spring the
force will be increased to 100 or more
men. Most of the work will be done by
machinery under the Schwahn chemical
processes, which are six in number and
which are patented.
The aluminium will be manufactured
from clay that will be obtained near Ar
gentine and at Pittsburg. Kas.
Robinson prospectors have found a
7ein OF coal near town.
Tonganoxie Odd Fellows will put in
the foundation for their new building
this fall.
Chapman Standard: Foot ball, base
ball, shooting gallery, merry-go-round,
Criterion Dramatic company, and a
phonograph, is the list of amusements
that have taken place since our last issue.
Jack Henthorne, one of the oldest
newspaper men in Kansas, who has
lately been connected with the Winfield
Courier, died at his home at Winfield of
typhoid fever, after an lines of only
three days.
The entire plant of the Galena smelter
works is burned to the ground wiping
out an investment of 100000. The
works had just been remodeled and
started up last week with two blocks of
furnaces. About forty men we're employed
at tie works.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: The Medi-
cine Lodge sugar mill has manufactured
so far this season 110,800 pounds of first
sugar and 10000 pounds of second
sugar. Two carloads of syrup was re-
ceived from Sterling, which is to be
worked into sugar.
From Abilene: Following is the real
estate mortgage record for Dickinson
county, October: Farm mortgages, filed.
$3O,739; released, $22,S2O. City mort
cages, filed, $3,8O5; released, 1852;
released by district clerk, 81, 400. Thir-
teen farms we're sold for $24,950.
Junction City Union: Thomas Cog
gin met with great misfortune. A load
ed revolver fell from the sill of window
he was trying to open, and discharged,
the ball striking the end of his fingers,
inficting serious wounds. He may be
able to save the ends of all his fingers
The fifteen attachment suits in the
district court of Linn county against the
banking company of Hood & Kincaid, of
Pleasanton. have been brought to the
supreme court on error, and Attorney J.
d. Snoddy is endeavoring to have them
consolidated into one case involving
construction of the state banking law.
The Kansas Irrigation Association will
hold it's next meeting at Wichita,
Wednesday, November %, and the COM
mittees are preparing the most attractive
and important programme ever arranged
for meeting of this kind, consisting of
able papers and discussions by those best
informed on the various phases of the
irrigation question.
From Wellsville: Two gentlemen are
here from Pittsburg, Penn, negotiating
for the lease of $4,000 acres of land for
two years. The object is to prospect for
oil and gas. If successful the owner of
the land to get one-tenth of gross receipts
of the output. They have secured about
5000 acres and there is not much doubt
but they will secure the required amount.
Stafford Peoples Paper: Fred vern-
ing, who lives few miles northeast of
town, is burning kiln of about 10000
brick, which he expects to use in build
ing new residence. Mr.. Verning is an
old, experienced brick maker and he
thinks he has some good clay. The
brick which are not yet burned are of
better texture than most of those in
town which have been used in building.
Almost the entire business part of the
town of Latham, in Butler county, is
destroyed by fire. The flames, which
were evidently of incendiary origin,
started in the hay loft of Jackson's liv-
cry stable and quickly spread to the ad-
joining buildings, which were one after
another reduced to ashes until Main
street was cleared. Nearly all the horses
in Jackson's stable were roasted alive.
Louis Nash, one of the interesting
characters of Fort Scott throughout all
of its history, is dead. He was guide
to General Fremont on his path find
ing" trips across the mountains in the
early forties, and came here at very
early day. He was married to Sioux
squaw in early life, but she died many
years ago. He had lived his last years
on the charity of friends. He was rs
years old.
Independence Tribune: The indie
pendence and Cofeyville Gas company
turned on the gas from one well and
showed our citizens magnificent dis
play and demonstrated the fact that In
dependence will have all the gas for