Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-01-28
STATE NEWS.

G0IB, ud6 D00A w 1870 $500
the Strip when it opens.
The total expenses of the public
schools of Topeka last year amounted
TO S142, 1872. OF this amount $62,4l2
was paid to teachers and superin-
tendents.
In Humboldt Dr.. Trego, pension
medical examiner for Allen county,
dropped dead in RussePs drug store.
He had Just been talking of Ben Buffers
death and said that was the kind OF a
death he wished to die.
s. Ettlinger, clothing dealer of To-
peka has failed, with nearly $4,000 IL
abilities. He says that trade has been
good, and that his business at the store
was satisfactory; his failure being due
entirely to being overloaded with real
estate.
Solomon Sentinel: Francis Marsh
killed an oppossum on GeUld's farm
near Solomon river. It was remarkable
for it's color, being pure white except
the ears, which are black. 1t is now in
possession of Professor L. HI. Wishard,
who will get it preserved and added to
the famous collection now in the public
schools.
Atchison Globe: Joe Barber, farmer
living near Huron, is in Kansas City to
have his jaw operated upon. While
opening a sore in a steers shoulder the
pus flew into bruised place on his face,
and big jaw is the result. The afflicted
part will have to be cut out and por-
ton of the flesh from bis arm sub
stituted.
"Mike" Rice, who was winner in the
oratorical contest at Baker university,
is a member of the Clarion quartette,
editor of the Baker Index, president OF
the lecture bureau, was tackle in the
foot ball team, saved the championship
game in baseball with the K. o. last
spring, and withal is the most popular
man in the Biblical society.
Washington Republican: Ed Staul,
who lives one mile south OF Morrow,
showed us an old Indian gun, and for
novelty it gets away with any gun we
ever saw. The hammer as we'll as the
trigger, is on the under side of the bar
rel. He found it near spring on his
farm on line of the Mormon trail that
formerly rar through his place.
From Fort Scott: Will Douglass,
employe of cattle ranch in Bourbon
county, was put off the train from Kan
sas City, where be had gone with q load
of cattle and lost his employer. He built
a fire on the track near Olathe and went
to sleep by it. His clothes soon caught
fire and the flesh of his back was burned
to a crisp. His naked limbs were then
badly frozen. He may die.
From Atchison: E. G.. Armsby, of
the Kansas Trust and Banking COM
pany, who spends most of his time in
northern Kansas says the acreage OF
wheat this year in that section exceeds
that of last year. The wheat looks
we'll and promises a fine yield. The
company Mr.. Armsby represents has
wheat in thirty-one counties in the
northern and western portions of
Kansas.
From Fcrt Scott: J. r. Mcintyre, a
brakeman on the Gulf road, while
switching at Arcadia, station about
twenty miles south of this city, was
knocked from the car and fell across the
track, the wheels passing over his body
at the thighs and almost severing it.
He was brought to this city, where he
still lies, awaiting word from relatives
in Kentucky. He was q years old and
unmarried.
Cedar Vale Commercial: The Odd
Fellows at Peru were taken by surprise
by their better halves at the close OF
their installation ceremonies last Satu-
day night. The new password under
which they gained sdmittance was
''lunch- basket" and it proved that ev-
cry member was entitled to the word
The constitution of the lodge availeth
nothing with the women Of Peru. who
have studied for years the constitutions
Of their own husbands.
South Haven New Era: A young
boy named Jenkins, living at Hume.
we'll, met with a serious accident the
first of the week, while killing snow
birds with a wire. The boys take {
piece of telegraph wire about two feet
long, and when they find bunch o.
snow birds congregated together they
hurl this almost invisible instrument o.
destruction among them with deadly
effect, Young Jenkins had one of those
wires in his hand and was running at 6
good rate of speed when he studded hi
toe and fell. One end of the wire strucl
the ground and the other caught hin
under the chin, and was driven by hi
weight clear through his neck, coming
out at the occipital eminence and stick
ing through some four or five inches
The wound was carefully dressed by tn
doctor, and at present the boy is doing
we'll.
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