Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-11-17

The North Kansas Poultry club will
hold its annual exhibition at Atchison
January 1-5.
Corn is worth only 33 cents a bushel
in Cherokee county. Cherokee iE one of
the counties which raised big crop.
The state grain inspector in Kansas
City, Kan. inspected 702 car loads of
wheat, 242 of corn, 116 of rye durin 6
October.
State Fish Commissioner J. NJ. Wamp-
Ter, of Brazilton, Kan, has distributed
about 800 gold fish free to Kansas ap-
plicants as long as they lasted. No
more than four were sent to one person.
From Neodesha: While p S. Booth
a farmer, aged 70 years, was husking
corn in his field, he threw few ears of
corn to bull For some unknown
cause the animal rushed violently at him
and tossed him so tkat when he fell his
neck was broken and his skull fractured.
He was once justice of the peace and
was also county commissioner for sever
al terms
While G. n. Peters, superintendent of
the clothing department at the Kansas
penitentiary, was away, Convict Patrick
Chase walked into the clothing depart
ment No one being there he donned a
suit of citizens clothes underneath his
stripes and returned to work. At noon
he was sent to the coal shaft with others
to carry dinner to the miners. Convict
Chase walked on into the coal sheds and
laid off his stripes That was the last
seen of him. He had four years yet to
serve.
Mail Agent Beard, on the Emporis ex-
press arriving at Ottawa at S:55 a. m. DIS
played a trophy IN the form of CORY
human finger. Who owned the finger is
uncertain, but Mr.. Beard thinks it be-
longed to postmaster at one of the
way stations. Early in the morning a
door in the mail car was observed to be
open, and when Beard attempted to
close it he found the finger in the jam
of the door. He then recalled that a
postmaster at one of the stations had
fumbled about the door after throwing
in the mail sack, but as no outcry was
made he paid DO attention to him. He
thinks the finger must have been his.
The Oklahoma territorial council is
composed of thirteen members and can
didates for twelve of those positions are
former kansans. The house is composed
of twentv-six members and there are
eighteen candidates for the House who
went from Kansas. The list will be of
interest. Those from Kansas making
the race for council are as follows: b.
J. Claridv, of Pottawatomie county
John S. Allen, of Douglas counry, A. G.
Scott of lola; John II. Pitzer of Stevens
county; Dr. Gillett of Pittsburg; DR.. j.
M. Wood of Manhattan; o. r. Fegan of
Topeka; G. F. Prouty of Larned; George
W. Coulson of Harper who represented
Harper county in the last legislature; FL.
D. Baker of Salina; George d. Orner
of Garden City; Jack Jones of Medicine
Lodge; J. r. Clark of Winfield; d. S.
Rose of Wellington. For the members
of the House: W. A. Scott of lola; G..
G. ST. John of Garden City Ga son of
ex- Governor St john James Brown of
Larned; E. S. Simpson of Lyon county
W. T. Little of Abilene; William Myer
Of Washington; M. p. Mccoy of King
man county; L. J. Palmer of Meade;
George w. Vickers of Coldwater; E. B.
Baine of Kingman; G. G. Elliott of JEFF
ferson county; NJ. w. Smith of Caldwell; /;
W. S. Denton of Medicine Lodge; George
Steine of Kingman; George W. Bradfeld
of Harper; III. A. Lamherson of Butler
county Frank A. Hunt of Sumner coun-
ty; w. A Knipe of Manhattan.
Topeka Capital: J. S. Collins OF this
city has sold the Swinburne ranch, the
price paid being $165, ,548.25, an aver
age price of Slipper acre. The ranch con-
tanned about II, 10 acres. It was sold to
seventeen different men, the smallest
purchaser taking 16O acres and the
largest purchaser 1887 acres, each taking
deed direct from the owners for his
purchase, thus dividing the land at this
time among the respective purchasers,
some of whom will subdivide their pur-
cnases into still smaller tracts. This is
the most important sale ever made in
this section of the state, as it will at
once add at least 20 tax payers to both
Shawnee and Jackson counties. Judge
NJ. L. Hayward of Nebraska City was
the largest purchaser and in addition to
him the larger purchasers were Frank
2. Bradley, U. s. marshal of Iowa, the
Hon. Thomas Bowman, ,ex-Congressman
of Iowa, now postmaster at Council
Bluffs, his nephew, E. B. Bowman, jr.,
| Geo. W. Cable of Davenport, Iowa,
Anthony Burdick, president of the Dav-
enport Savings bank, Clinton Orcutt,
capitalist, Oliver A. Kimmel, O. n Mel
son and eight others. The Swinburne
ranch was owned by DIR. John Swinburne
of Albany, who died some five wears ago
and left it to his wife, who also died,
leaving it to eight heirs some three years
ago. The ranch is well known not only
IN this part of Kans5 but in the east as
one of the finest tracts of land in one
body in the entire west. It is a very de-
sirable purchase at S13 an acre, but a
good sale for the present depressed times,
when the large sum required to purchase
it in one bo1y is considered. Soma
parts of the rancn are worth $50 or SAC
an acre. but very large part of it ia
unkroken land. The sale indicates that
among capitalists who understand what
Kansas can do there is faith in Kansas
real estate