Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-28
STATE NEWS.

During the recent small pox scare at
Atchison there were sixty three cases
and twenty six deaths.
A man engaged in changing the COM
bination on bank vault lock at Witch
ita was locked inside and nearly asphyx-
lated before the door could be opened.
The North Solomon river from Harlan
to Lenora, a distance of about eighty
miles, supports ten Touring mills ana
the South Solomon for the same distance
supports five.
The Sanders Coxeyites, who have
been confined in various Kansas jails for
stealing Missouri Pacific train, are con-
gregating in Kansas City, Kan, as fast
as they are released. 1t is expected that
there will be a reorganization there.
Topeka Mail: John Macdonald, edi-
tor of the Western School Journal, and
his son Rodric, are on their way to
Scotland. They will be absent for
about three months. 1t has been thir-
ty-three years since John was in Scot
land.
There are 6.533 volumes in the Leav-
enworth Soldiers Home library, 5,488
of which are in the English language,
606 in German and 439 in Scandinavian.
The English books embrace fiction,
travel, history, and scientific, religious
and political works.
E. Patchen was so seriously injured
internally near Tyro, Montgomery
county, that he died in a few hours.
He was guiding wagon that several
others were propelling. A wheel struck
a rock and threw the tongue against
Mr.. Patchen's abdomen, resulting in his
death
The saloon keepers of Leavenworth
are signing a petition asking the board
of police commissioners to prohibit the
sale of beer at the parks on Sunday.
The saloon men say they are supposed
to keep their houses closed on Sunday,
therefore beer should not be allowed
sold publicly at groves and parks.
Topeka Journal: A good many coun-
terfeit dollars are in circulation in To
peka, and So they have made their ap-
pearence simultaneously with the cir
Gus, it is surmised that they may have
been brought to town by some circus
CRATER. They are clever counterfeits
and look new, but they are lighter than
the genuine.
Hoisington Dispatch A. J. Hoising-
ton is working up an irrigation scheme,
the ditch to run from Pawnee Rock to
Great Bend He is working for st.
Louis company, and the charges for ir-
rigation will be 81 per acre. The water
is to be taken from the underhow of the
Arkansas. No bonus is asked and the
scheme will in all probability be go.
The creamery at Richmond, Franklin
County, has been burned to the ground.
No one knew anything about it until a
farmer drove there the next morning to
deliver cream and found it gone. A tenn
perance meeting had been held there
lasting till II o'clock, so the fire of course
occurred later. The building and con-
tents were worth about $4,000. No in
surance.
A stranger, tall and of light COM
plexion, engaged J. W. Ogle, an Empo-
ria drayman, to haul his boat down to
the Cottonwood. The gentleman seemed
to have money. and said he was from
Pennsylvania and would camp and fish
until corn cutting time. Two days
later some boys found the boat drifting
down the river with one oar gone and
most of the provisions and fishing tackle
in it. Although search has been made
for the owner no trace of him has been
found.
The greenhouses at the Leavenworth
home are eight in number, covered with
5000 feet of glass and contains $50 vari-
eties of blooming and twenty-five vari-
etles of foliage plants. Among the
former are 5000 geraniums, while among
the latter are 10000 coleus and 10000
Ilthernantheras. The ornamental work
in front of the barracks, dining hall,
hospital and residences, were designed
by Henry Wallace. the landscape gar
dener, and consists of scroll work, stars,
flags, harps, circles, squares, octagons,
ETC., in which are bedded both foliage
and Towering plants.
Emporia Republican: l. E. Perley,
of this city, was drowned in the Cotton
wood river at Thompson's ford. He left
Emporia to drive to his farm and was
not again seen alive. His team was
found in the woods near Thompson's 8
ford. The cushions were wet and there
was other evidence that the team had
been struggling in the water. Search
ing parties went to work with graphing
hooks, and the drowned mans body was
recovered. 1t appeared that the buggy
tongue had broken driving down to the
ford and that Mr.. Perley had been
thrown over the dashboard into the wa
ter. Mr.. Perley was at one time bus
mess man in Topeka and is well-known
to all old settlers.