Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-10
STATE NEWS.

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company for the manufacture of riding
cultivator, on which w. F. Cochran has
recently received patent.
A big ice plant is prospective oinsti-
tuition in Winfield. The building will
be 40x100 feet in dimensions and the
machinery will cost $4,000.
The general secretaries of the Young
Mems Christian associations of Kansas,
together with their assistants, met in an
nual conference at Leavenworth.
The Y. M. G. A., of Atchison, has the
promise of several $40 subscriptions to
pay off its debt and the prospect is that
the needed amount will be raised very
soon.
The Missouri Valley bridge and
iron works of Leavenworth have been
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of steel bridge across the Puyal-
lup river at Tacoma, Wash, to cost
100000.
At Princeton, Anderson county, Harry
Hall, who had been working on the rail-
road track, shot Mrs. Leeds, a young
widow who had captured his affections,
and then killed himself Mrs. Leeds
may recover.
Rev. John Brown, resident of Law
renee, and over 80 years of age, deliv-
cred very interesting lecture on EN-
erson and the Transcendentalists. Mr..
Brown was a personal acquaintance of
Mr.. Emerson and others who were the
founders Of this philosophy and his lee
ture was very interesting for that rea-
son. Though very old, Mr.. Brown read
this entire lecture without glasses.
Parsons Sun: In looking over the
records of the register of deeds a Sun
reporter finds that the people of the
county are surely relieved of the heavy
burdens of debt and are entering upon
an era of prosperity. The mortgages re-
leased for the year 1898 far exceed
those of 1892, both in number and
amount, while mortgages recorded dur
ing the year were considerably less than
the preceding year.
NouSdS SlCJ, 4hOs OOuIudl. OOuu w.
Weaver, alias Kellar, alias Thomas, was
brought to this city by J. W. Bowan,
special agent of the American Surety
Company, from Council Grove, Kas.,
where he was arrested on the charge of
embezzling S105 from the ProvidentiaI
Insurance Company of America, of ST.
Louis. Weaver was taken to st. Louis. |
Other men suspected of defrauding the
Providential are being looked for.
Ed Ta1dy, a boy who ran away from
the Soldiers Orphans home in Atchison
over year ago, returned, footsore and
weary. He has been knocking about
from one place to another, coming now
from Newton. He applied at the police
station for something to eat, informing
the officers that he had run away from
the home. superintendent Faulkner was
informed of the boys presence and sent
for him. Eandy was glad to get back.
From Minneapolis: Fire has destroyed
Walker Bros livery stable. Ten bead
of horses were burned. A strong wind
was blowing from the west. and breed
ing barn adjoining, owned by Henry
Morgan and occupied by Jonas Davis
with his valuable jacks and six stations,
caught from the livery barn and burned
with all its contents. The total loss is
about six thousand dollars with little or
no insurance. No clue to the origin of
fire has been discovered.
Chancellor F. H. Snow, of Kansas uni
versity, said that he thought President
Eliot, of Harvard, had gone too far in
his views on college athletics. It was
advisable that some restrictions be
placed on the games, and necessary that
brutality be eliminated from football.
Chancellor Snow said that he was too
much of boy to agree with Eliot that
one game year was all that should be
played, or that college teams should
never go away from the home grounds
to play.
In the Brown county district court at
in case involving the pow
or of cities of the second class to extend
their limits, Judge Thompson held that
such power on the part of the city if ex-
ercised would destroy the homestead
character of the land, thus manifestly
iniuring the land owner and that the act
granting such powers to cities of the sec
ond class was in derogation of the article
Of our state constitution in relation to the
right which gives to resident
head of family 160 acres outside and
only one acre inside the corporate limits
of city.
Abraham Steadman is a member of
the soldiers home near Leavenworth, [
and is also an inmate of the hospital of
that institution, where for the last year
be has been helpless, requiring the con-
slant care of an attendant. He served
in the Thirty First Ohio infantry three
years and ten months during the war of
the rebellion, and possesses an honorable
discharge, with an excellent war record.
Under the present management of the
pension bureau, however, his meager
pension allowance has been cut off, and
he has been called upon to furnish addi-
tional evidence as to his disabilities. 1t
is said that 210 other veterans of the
home have been treated likewise, and
will have to furnish additional evidence
of their disabilities.
From Leavenworth: The question
of allowing the variety theater on Cher
okee street to run bar in connection
with that resort came up for discussion
at the meeting of the board of police
and on the representation
that the firm had thirty-fve employees,
it was determined to give one months