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

cases and but few patients remain at
the city hospital.
At Fort Scott lightning struck two
houses and church. The house of Geo.
Bacon was almost entirely ruined. Much
damage was done by heavy rains and
strong winds.
Topeka Capital: The Mid Continent
mills has received six new double stands
which, when placed in position, viii in
crease the daily capacity of mill from
4S0 to 600 barrels a day.
Enterprises troubles, caused by the
failure of the bank, are disappearing
since it has been announced that the
bank will pay out in full, with pros
pect of its resuming business.
Oswego News: Thirteen more oil and
gas leases were recorded at the register S
Office, making in all about fifty recorded
in the past two months. Those recorded
cover land in Mount Pleasant town
ship.
Seneca also reports the heavy rain, or
rains, as five occurred i'll as many days.
Harvesting is delayed. The Nemaha
river flooded the bottoms and several
iron bridges were carried off their abut-
ments.
Topeka Capital: The secretary of
the Masonic home states that circulars
will be sent to every community in Kan
sas where Masonic organization exists,
requesting propositions for the location
of the Masonic home.
A Mcpherson county girl, Miss Carrie
Mills, OF Hayes township, is probably the
youngest common school graduate in
Kansas. Although but IL years old
she this month received a county di-
ploma on good grades.
In the republican league migration to
Denver there were only two special
trains, though nearly all the trains go
ing west had extra coaches. Local busi-
ness was good, and people took advan-
tage of the cheap rates to go TO the
mountains for two weeks or months
outing.
Mcpherson Republican: j. Wickes'
son John, thirteen years of age, was
hauling milk for the Heston creamery,
and when passing over bridge near
Heston, the bridge broke down on ac-
count of the heavy rain the night be-
fore. The boy fell off the wagon just
behind the horses which kicked him fu-
riously. The man who arrived first found
him dead.
People of Oswego and surrounding
country, B. w. Perkins home, assem-
bled at the opera house at the time of
the funeral iu Washington. The grand
army and other organizations first gath
cred at their respective halls and
marched to the opera house, to muffied
drums. The services consisted of short
eulogies by friends and neighbors of the
deceased.
J. A. Smith, the populist lawyer who
wrote letter to Governor Lewelling
last January, setting forth wholesale
charges of boodling and corruption on
the part of the police authorities of
Kansas City, Kan, was acquitted of the
charge of criminal libel by jury in the
Wyandotte district court. It was Smiths
second trial on this charge, the jury
which heard the testimony at the first
trial having failed to agree on verdict.
Oskaloosa Times: E. Hughes, of Val
lev Falls, has at last had his accounts
settled with Uncle Sam and has received
a check for SS4.S4, the amount Uncle
Sam has owed him for thirty years,
since his discharge from the army as
quartermaster. He wrote the govern
ment that he was now in his S0th year,
and if they ever intended squaring ac-
counts with him now was the time, with
the result that he received the money a
day or two ago, justly due him for his
services to Uncle Sam.
A fax tow factory may be Fort
Scott institution before long W. III.
Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, has been look
ing the matter up and is favorably i'm
pressed. Davis & Co., and Garrison Bros
have been shipping the fax from that sec
ton to Mr.. Payne at Dayton. The plant
Mr.. Pavne will establish will utilize ), 900 |
5ons Of fax straw per year and employ |
4 force of twenty five or thirty men. Mr.. |
Pavne desires to try the effect of import |
ng foreign flaxseed from Belgium and |
f successful the departments of the !
plant will be increased to accommodate |
he longer fibered straw in the manu-
acture of linen threads and kindred ar
,icles.
Chas. H. Sternberg, a Lawrence boy, !
Who has devoted several years to the |
collection Of geological specimens for
has recently made very val
1able find in the northeastern part of |
Lane county. The main part of the bed |
Of fossils is remains of elephant bones, |
and among them is almost the entire |
skeleton of a hairy mammoth, similar to |
.he one in st. Petersburg, of which
.ast was exhibited at the worlds fair. (
Over $50 elephant teeth were also found,
md a very large number of fossil rep i
lies. Mr.. Sternberg viii move the most /
valuable part of his find to Lawrence,
where he will dress out and mount the |
ossiis for market.