Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-03-25
STATE NEWS.

The Fort Scott sugar company has
lst contracts with farmers to grow about
I.5OO acres OF cane this year.
There are seventy-eight high schools
and academies in the state that wholly
or partially fit students for entering
the state university.
The Masons of the state are expected
to contribute 81 each year for five
wears to constitute fund for building
a home at some central location.
Mrs. Anna Potter, wife of promi-
nent insurance man of Kansas City,
Kan. has announced herself as candi-
date for mayor of Kansas City.
About 1,7CO varieties of the flora OF
Kansas have been collected for exhibit
ton at the worlds fair. Botanist B. b.
Smythe is preparing the display.
Republic City News: There have
been mora real estate transactions In
the neighborhood this spring than have
ever occurred for the five years last
past.
Topeka Journal: Four hundred tons
OF rock broken by the prisoners in
the county jail is being used to macada-
mize Locust street, on the road to the
cemetery.
From Wellington: W. A. Sanders,
aged IS, a prominent and well-to-do
farmer OF Sumner township, this coun-
ty, dropped dead of heart disease on
the street here.
John Fl. Brown grand secretary OF
the grand lodge OF Masons OF Kansas,
the Oldest and widest known Mason in
the west, passed away suddenly after a
short illness at his home in Kansas City.
Barnes letter: Several carloads of
walnut logs are being loaded here to be
shipped to Liverpool. The owners OF
walnut timber in this section are get
ting from $12 to 800 per 1000 feet for
the same.
There sre several hundred Kansas re-
publicans holding minor positions in
the government departments at Wash
ington, who will retain their positions,
having been appointed under the civil
service rules.
Mcpherson Republican: The district
clerk informs us that there is not one
foreclosure suit filed in the district
court where there were ten year ago.
What better evidence of prosperity do
We want than thisS Il shows tho mort
cages are being paid off or renewed on
favorable terms. Mcpherson county is
in prosperous condition, as any one
can see by little investigation.
Judge David Lee, an old settler Of
Troy, seemingly died after short i'll
ness, and two physicians examined the
body and pronounced life extinct.
Three hours later Undertaken Byers
had stripped the body and was dressing
it for burial when the supposed dead
man opened his eyes and, recognizing
him, exclaimed: "Byers, what in the
name OF God are you doing?" The old
man is alive and will probably get well.
1.-THE city is in excellent financial con-
dition," said City Clerk George Tauber,
of Topeka, to reporter. "On April
LIST four years ago the city was $50, 900
in the hole, with only $3.50 in the treas
ury to pay it with and also to run the
CITY for four months more. Now the
city is practically out of debt and has
$4,000 in the general revenue fund
and $3S, 600 in the general improvement
fund"
Leavenworth Times: A new electric
coal-mining machine was placed in the
Leavenworth coal shaft by Charles
Davis, of Chicago. The machine weighs
1890 pounds and does the work OF forty
men in mining coal. Superintendent
Carr says the putting in of the machine
does not mean a decrease Of men, but
it is a necessity. The output Of the
mine is now 800 tons daily. The
mine has capacity of 1900 tons pei
day.
Nearly 1,400 students, besides the
faculty of the state normal school, as
sisted by many citizens, held a grand
rejoicing over the legislature appropria-
ton granting $4,000 for additions tc
the building. Bands paraded, and
fireworks and orations were INDUCED in
The school now has representatives
from every county in the state and
from every state in the union, and the
additions will greatly increase and facil-
itate the work.
The Atchison Champion tells Of the
Kansas Trust and Banking company o.
that city. Its holdings include 10000
acres Of farming lands in Kansas
enough of it rented at figures that viii
produce the interest on the mortgages
which cover it. The company has three
classes of creditors. First, the holders
of first mortgages on real estate in Kan
sss, which loans were guaranteed by
the company; second. holders Of deben
lures, which were protected by dePos
it of mortgages with trustee equal il
amount with the debentures issued
and third, creditors holding the notes
of the company for borrowed money
The first two classes are fully protected
bv their securities, and the latter class
are secured by the company.
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