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

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son county high school.
Enterprises school board closed the
school for week and gave the teachers
a vacation on full salary to go to the
fair.
Cove City Gazette: Hathaway on the
Beaver, an old time resident OF this
country, has traded his whole outfit con-
sisting of 1880 acres of land, 500 head
of cattle and forty horses for $40 acres
of land near Topeka.
Ellinwood Advocate: Ellinwood has
such handsome large school building
that most people on the trains think it
is a college when they see it. The Ad-
vocate editor was on train that pulled
into Ellinwood recently on which was
man who. as soon he caught sight OF
our building, asked "what college is
that?"
Wellington Monitor-Press: Coyotes
are getting rather plenty in the vicinity
of Austin. The nights are made hide
GUS by their howlings. Mr.. Milestone
has lost about fifty and Ed. Virgins
about twenty pigs. Mr.. Greathouse al
so has lost several geese, all the work of
these miserable little varmints. Some OF
the boys had chase and succeeded in
running down one coyote.
ElDorado Republican: Mr.. and Mrs.
M. E. Ball, of Potwin, are mourning the
loss of their infant daughter, which
was the pride of their home. While
Mrs. Ball was engaged in making apple
butter out doors the little daughter at
tempted to assist her mamma, but her
assistance proved fatal. Her clothes
caught fire and before they could be
extinguished the little gem was terribly
burned, and died few hours later.
Topeka Capital: Topeka beat the
world at the worlds fair for vitriied
brick, which is rapidly supplanting as
phalt as the best paving material known,
and Hutchinson carried off the honors
against all competitors for refined table
salt. The supply OF both these valuable
products is practically inexhaustible and
the honors they won at Chicago will give
the world some idea of the resources of
Kansas aside from those of agriculture.
The federal building in Atchison,
which has been in course of erection for
a year, has Just been completed and will
be ready for occupancy in few weeks.
1t contains eight rooms and will be oc
cupied by the postofice department.
The total cost of the building and
grounds was 100000. The act appro-
priating 100000 for the purpose of
erecting the structure was passed by
congress in 1891 through the efforts of
ex-senator John J. ingalls,.
The building committee of the regents
of Kansas university has been in session
and besides other business connected
with the new buildings, the conveyance
of steam for heating from the engine
house to the chancellor's residence and
Spooner library was considered. After
long debating it was decided to call bids
for tunnelling Mount Dread from the en-
CINE house on the south side of the hill
to the buildings IN question. The pipes
will be six by eight feet by something
like 1900 or 1,400 feet in length,
and the tunnel will cost in the neighbour
hood of 5000.
At Emporia the prohibitionists are
aroused over the efforts being made to
secure pardon for Theodore Voeste, the
liquor seller so severely sentenced by
Judge Randolph, and big pressure is
being brought to bear on Governor Lew
cling to prevent his taking action in the
matter. Action was taken by every
prayer-meeting in every protestant
church in the city, and petitions protest
ing against a pardon have been so freely
circulated that nearly every resident in
the city has been urged to sign and
many have done so. Several personal
letters have also been mailed to the gov
ernor.
Burlington Courier: Ella Shannon,
II years old, daughter of Harvey Shan
non, of Turkey creek, had her right
hand shot off with single barreled shot
gun in the hands of Jake Lowell. He
didn't know it was loaded, of course. He
had fred the gun off the same after
noon and laid it away unloaded, but
younger brother had afterwards reload
ed it. Several shot that passed through
the hand struck an older sister of Ella
in the face and breast but did not seri-
ously injure her. 1t was mere chance
that some one was not killed as Jake
was pointing the gun at the girls to
frighten them when he pulled the
trigger. .
Rossville Times: Fishermen have
lately been very busy in Rossville. State
Fish Commissioner Wampler and many
other piscatorial celebrities have been
here, and their energies have centered
on fish pond at the John Fritz
farm, about two and a half miles
west of the city, from which they
are said to have removed about ton of
fish, chiefly German carp. The pond" is,
speaking, ditch, and is about
half mile long. 1t was stocked with
fish about two years ago, when the Kaw
river overfowed and submerged much of
the bottom land, including that portion
of the Fritz farm occupied by Fisher
mans pond. That few stray fish
should so multiply as to produce a ton