Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-09
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| ination of the beds in the vicinity of Bridge
port, Conn.,, and find very promising crop
larger than usual. It was thought the entire
crop was loss, owing to the late storm.
The secretary of the interior has decided
| that parties wishing to make homestead en-
| tries in the Cherokee strip will not be per-
mitted to go on the Ponca reservations con-
! tiguous thereto with view to entering the
outlet at the appointed time.
Congressman Curtis is working for COM
bination protest from all the representatives
| from Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and
Oklahoma against the removal of the pen
sion Office from Topeka to st. Louis; as
| asked for by Missouri members.
Senator Martin has withdrawn from his at
| titude of opposition to the confirmation of
r. B. Morris as internal revenue collector
for Kansas.
The duties received at the New York Gus
tom house during the month of August are
s., OOO. 600 less than those received in the same
month of 1892.
Terrible storms have visited the cities of
| Fayal and Harta, in the Azores. Fayal Is
said to have been almost totally destroyed
and many persons killed outright.
The distress among the striking coal min
ers Nottinghamshire. England. is so great
that the strikers are killing sheep belonging
to farmers and robbing orchards and potato
fields in order to supply food to their fam
lilies.
The works of mine No. 10 of the Rich Hill
Coal Mining company arc burned. 1t was
evidently the work of an incendiary. The
damage will reach into the thousands and
work will have to be abandoned till the works
can be rebuilt.
Around Beaufort and Port Royal the death
list is the largest. but in other towns many
lives were lost. Around the two towns there
is complete chain of islands upon which
over 300 lives were lost. In all the storm is
thought to have killed 500 people.
The foundation for the many rumors re-
garding the health of the president is found
in the fact which has been made public that
on July he had an operation performed for
the removal of a growth inside his left jaw, a
portion of the bone being cut away.
The Salt Lake City choir and party, while
in Kansas City, took cable cars to Independ-
ence and reception was held upon the
Temple Lot" there, upon which all good
Mormons expect to see a temple to descend
from heaven. 1t is ''the hope of the church"
Swift & Co., of Kansas City, Kan. put
over 300 men to work in the different depart
ments. Many of the old butchers have re-
turned to their work and the management
expects that all of the men who walked out
at the beginning of the strike will go to
work.
The United States Express company sent
a check for $1,000 to a New York bank last
week to meet its pay roll. The bank refused
to pay the Check, whereupon the company
took it to a notary and it was protested. The
next day the bank paid the check and the
protest fees besides.
The receipts of cattle are running lighter
now at all the western points, and many in
the trade predict a continued falling off in
the arrivals as compared with last year. 1t
is estimated that 20 per cent. of the beef cat
tie have been marketed from Indian terri
tory and the Panhandle.
A French protectorate over Siam is immi-
nent. The Pail Mall Gazette therefore urges
that all chambers of commerce in Great
Britain hold a convention at once and agree
pom protest to the government against
permitting France thus to execute policy
ruinous to British tarde in the east.
The purchase of gold at the Denver mint
for the first two months of the fiscal year
shows an increase of 5000. This is for the
months of July and August of the present
year. The increase is the largest ever made
at the mint for a corresponding short period.
Purchases for August have been over $780,
600.
The Tabernacle choir of Salt Lake City,
$50 in number, with $50 Others accompa-
nying. passed from Salt Lake to Chicago on
a special train of Pullmans. With the choir
are the three presidents of their church;
Woodruff, Turner and Smith. Stops were
MADE and concerts given at Denver and
Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas City, Kan, packers purchases
of cattle for the eight months ending with
August footed up 541,S77, an increase of
Isl ,S21 as compared with the same time last
year, and the market for feeding cattle also
made a record, the number sold there dur
ing August being 568 cars, against $50 cars
the same month last year.
Five furnaces at the National Tube
works, Pittsburg, Pa, have been put in Ope-
ration, giving employment 70 500 men. The
company expects to have the entire plant in
operation within a week, when 5000 men will
be given employment. Chess. Cook d Co. s
expanded metal and wire nail works at Ran
kim will resume in all departments next
week.
The secretary's report at the Industrial
Sunday school convection at St. Louis shows
a remarkable growth all along the line.
Sunday schools in the United States and
British America. 13O,197; teachers and Off
GERS, 1.372,5oS; scholars, 10.S70,10i: total,
II .641 .109. In 1875 there were 69,2i2 Sunday
schools. IS8.S05 teachers and 500 UGl schol-
airs, total of 6,S50,S6S.