Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-10
STATE NEWS.

which brought into the county ovel
$4,000
The Sunfower Magazine is the name
Of new publication at Hiawatha which
is the organ of the Sons OF Veterans o.
Kansas.
The Ottawa high school held IT'D
eighteenth annual commencement. The
graduating class was composed Of
twelve girls and three boys.
| Prof. Vernon L. kellogg, of Kansa:
university, has accepted the position Of
assistant professor of entomology al
the Leland Stanford university of Cali
fornia at salary of $4,000 He will
enter UPON his new duties next Sep.
TENDER.
From Enterprise: Central college
has closed for the summer vacation. The
college attendance has made marked
increase during the past year, the an.
nuai catalogue showing an attendance
Of 303, with 204 from Dickinson coun-
ty. This number includes the music
department..
The mineral products of Kansas last
year aggregated s9,26O,OOO divided as
follows: Lead and zinc ores, $1,000
900: metallic zinc, $2,250,000; coal,
100000: building stone, 100000;
salt, $750,000; plaster and cement,
$3.50, 600; oil and natural gas, $1,000;
clays, $250,000; and mineral paints,
100000.
Kansas City Gazette: Mr.. Harry
Friedberg, of this city, son of Benja-
min Friedberg, is winning honors at
Harvard college. where he is a student.
He is one of fifty select students from
among whom will be chosen, by COM
petitive examination, the three to rep
resent Harvard in the annual inter- col
legiate oratorical contest.
Mcpherson Republican: We under
stand that all the court house and Jail
bonds which are to be issued by the
commissioners have been spoken for at 5
per cent. interest by parties living in the
county. OF course it is too early to talk
about buying or selling but this offer
shows there are people living in the
county who have money to invest where
they know the investment is a good
one.
At the meeting of the Authors and
Artists club at the Midland hotel in
Kansas City, the following officers were
elected for The ensuing year: Pres dent,
Noble L. Prentice; first vice president,
Miss Ethel Ingalls,; second vice presi-
dent, Alfred Bigelow Paine: third vice
president. George w. Warder; fourth
vice president, Mrs. Hattie Child Crys-
Ter; executive committee, Mrs. Byron
Sherry, J. NJ. Handley. and Will H.
Corse; secretary Mrs. Lillian W. Hale,
and treasurer G. E. Harbaugh.
Tt is matter of surprise even to Kan
sans that this state leads Missouri in
the amount of coal mined last year.
Also that Kansas smeits third of
the metallic zinc mined in the United
States. For many years, according to
the United States reports, Illinois has
been the leader in this line, but last
year Kansas even eclipsed her. Sixty
six per cent of the coal of Kansas last
year came from two counties Cherokee
and Crawford-and the total value of
the mineral products of these two coun-
ties reached $6,000,000.
Blue Mound felt the wind storm.
Two miles north o. the station, two
farm houses we're lifted up and blown
a hundred feet from their foundations.
In one of them lived farmer named
Higgins with his wife and three children.
They were at supper and were carried
with The house. Higgins was just en-
tering the kitchen door when he was
struck by timber flying from the barn,
which was also blown several hundred
feet, and fatally injured, his head being
badly mashed. Many farm houses for
miles along were blown over and several
people badly injured, but no other fatal
ties can yet be heard of. A house of J. C.
McGrew, situated mile from Higgins
place was turned over and completely
demolished. The family escaped with
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torrents, and the homeless people found
shelter where best they could.
Cheney, sedgwick county, has, &C.
cording TO Wichita special, been hav-
ing time with joints. In the late city
election a So called law and order ticket
was successful, and for time all the
joints shut down. Recently, however,
some have been reopened and it has
been charged that the city officers have
been winking at the violation of law. A
of the Law and Order
League, after closing up two places by
selling and emptying in the streets all
the stock in trade, descended on the
Cheney hotel where joint was in full
blast. The owners had been apprised
of their approach, and when the cru
saders arrived they found the doors |
barred and band OF men within ready |
to repel any assault. The attack COM
menced and the doors of the house
were finally battered in, and crowd |
fought their way to the joint where
they seized all the liquors and broke up |
all the furniture. The proprietors sue
ceeded in making their escape from the