Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-16
STATE NEWS.

Nearly all the Kansas colleges, includ-
ing the state university, the Baldwin
university, the Ottawa university, and
the state normal school, opened for the
fall term last week, and all have an in
creased attendance.
Prof. Y. L. Kellogg, Of the state uni
versfty will spend several weeks at Cor
nell assisting Prof. Comstock in the pub
lication of new book, and will then go
to Europe. He has leave of absence
for year. He will not go to Leland
Stanford probably.
From Caldwell: The order prohibit
ing any person passing through the strip
except by the railway has caused hun
dreds of strippers to ship their families,
wagons, horses and cattle from the north
to the south side by railway. The Rock
Island is carrying outfits of hundreds of
the shippers through the strip to Hen
nessey, where the strippers will await
the opening.
From Hutchinson: On tax sale day
but two or three persons were present
and bidding was out of the question. As
result Reno county will be large
buyer of tax certificates, which means
the treasury short on resources. The
cause of the change is the law cutting
the rate of interest from "a to Is per
cent. What the effect of the passage of
the law as to the collection of taxes re-
mains yet to be seen. One thing is sure,
Reno county will not have as much
money to spend as common.
Russell Record: Persons who had
staid out late listening to the phono-
graph and were on their way home no.
ticed black cloud approaching from
the southeast and another from the
northwest in a threatening manner.
They had not much more than got safely
in doors when bowling wind and driv-
ing rain began to make everything rat
tie. In few minutes the lightning
revealed the streets as running streams,
the water extending from curb to curb.
The rain continued for about an hour,
the depth which fell being about three
inches. We have not heard of any dam
age done in this neighborhood, but the
little town of Walker suffered severely
Emporia Republican: Enough boom
ers have probably already passed through
Emporia to take every foot of desirable
land in the Cherokee strip and still there's
more to follow. If they are going from
other directions in anything like the
same numbers man will stand about
the same chance to win as he does when
he plays the Louisiana lottery. Com
mercial street was lined with prairie
schooners, there being more than TWEEN
ty on that thoroughfare at one time, and
they kept coming along in squads of
four and five all day long. One man who
kept tab on them says that ninety-seven
passed his house. There were fifty -four
wagons in camp on the Neosho river two
miles from town.
From Chapman: The fifth year of
the county high school of Dickinson
county opened IN this city under the
most favorable circumstances The en-
rollment of the first day was over 200.
The faculty consists of Principal s. M.
Cook with the following assistants, Profs.
J. W. Hullinger, Peyton Carter, E. G.
Hickey, Mrs. s. NJ. Cook and Miss L. c.
Grant, of Pomeroy, Ohio, as teacher of
vocal and instrumental music. State
Superintendent Gaines gave the address
which was highly appreciated, he at one
time being one of the faculty. We have
one of the finest buildings in the state.
The addition just completed gives us one
of the finest assembly rooms in this
country, having seating capacity of
over eight hundred. The faculty have
arranged for lecture course this year.
From Wichita: The first of batch
of forty-three cases brought by laborers
against the Barber Asphalt Paving COM
pany, under the eight-hour law, was
tried here and decided against the COM
pany. The company hired the men by
the hour, paying them at the rate of
$3.50 for ten-hour day. There was no
protest during the three months the
work was in progress, but as soon as
the paving was completed the men
claimed the difference between $1.2O and
$3.50 a day, and these suits, aggre-
eating several thousand dollars, were in
stituted. The court held that the fact
that the stipulated amount per hour was
agreed, instead of so much day, was
presumptive evidence of intent to evade
the eight-hour law. The decision will be
appealed.
Topeka Capital: The Shawnee County
Horticultural society held its monthly
meeting at the place of E. Marble about
five miles northeast of the city. The
meeting proved to be very interesting
and profitable one, in many particulars.
The subject of grape culture in Kansas
was up for discussion, G. A. Sexton,
Thomas Buchanan, the editor of the
Kansas Farmer, and others were heard
In the discussion. It seemed to be the
sense of many that grape culture in this
state could be made more paying bus
mess than it now is, by pressing the