Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-27
STATE NEWS.

Kingman schools have $50 pupils en-
rolled.
A charity ball at Winfield netted
s5825.
The Dickinson county treasury con-
tains $4,000 in gold.
Emporia has her fifty -fourth student
in the Kelley institute at Topeka.
John N. Reynolds, Of 'Twin He'll"
fame has been taken to the Osawatomie
insane asylum.
It cost Jefferson county young man
$12 for tearing down school house flag
and everyone said he got OF easy.
The average score of 104 exhibits of
Kansas butter at the worlds fair was q
little better than ninety three points, an
exceptionally good average.
From Abilene: During the month of
December $55.592 worth of mortgages
were released in Dickinson county, and
only $26, TAI worth Of new ones fled.
From Eureka: Superintendent Year
out, of Greenwood county, is busy agi-
tating the county high school plans and
hopes to have an election called in the
spring.
Mankato Review: There has not been
very much building in Mankato for the
past two or three years, but from pres
ent indications there will be an old-time
building boom in the spring.
The Wellington Mail says that alfalfa
culture is attracting a great deal of in
terest in that vicinity, and the probable
tiles are that large acreage will be
sown in Sumner county in the spring.
The Globe says that at Doniphan lake.
near Atchison, you can punch hole in
the ice and light the gas that escapes.
The gas from hole the size of wash
tub will burn about a minute, throwing
up flames foot high.
Eugene Ware, of Topeka, has fled
petition in the district court of Bourbon
county asking permission to dispose of
Fort Scott's public library, known as
the Ware library. Mr.. Ware does not
wish to be longer encountered with its
maintenance.
While Rev. Harry Foster, who has
rancho near Virgil, Kansas, was out
hunting he accidentally shot his left
hand off so that it had to be amputated
half way to the elbow. He is a wealthy
man and an old citizen of Harrisonville,
Mo-, where he was pastor of a Baptist
church.
Emporia Republican: The question
of how much Emporia churches give to
foreign mission work was raised at one
of the meetings the past week. A pas
tor has taken pains to make inquiry and
finds that the amount raised by the
churches represented in these meetings
-twelve-has been less than 81, 800 the
past year, by all societies of these
churches, for all purposes of foreign
mission work. Total raised by these
churches has been over 5000, for reg
ular church expenses and benevolence.
Atchison special: Sheriff Larkiu, in
company with w. F. Guthrie, left Atch-
ison to visit the county seats of the diff
ferent counties of Kansas traversed by
the Burlington & Missouri River road,
and, acting in the capacity of deputy
United States marshal, will serve the Or
ders issued by Judge Caldwell, at Little
Rock, restraining the different county
boards from issuing tax warrants against
the Burlington & Missouri River prop
erty for the failure of the road
to paw it's taxes for 1898. Guthrie,
as the attorney for the Burlington &
Missouri River, will tender to the coun-
ties what the company considers fair
tax.
Figures from the advance sheets of
this years catalogue for the university
of Kansas show that the attendance is
now larger than it was last year at this
time. There are now in attendance in
all the schools $50 men and women and
nearly 400 are enrolled in university ex-
tension classes for credit, 30 that there
will be over 1000 names in the cata-
logue. A compilation of the occupation
of parents of pupils in school this year
shows that Sc per cent. are children of
farmers, 141 per cent. are the children
of laborers and artisans, 81 per cent.
children of men engaged in commercial
pursuits, IA per cent. children of profess
sional men, 81 per cent. the children of
bankers or capitalists, and 1 per cent.
the children of politicians. Of SAG ques-
toned, 1876 are entirely self-supporting
and seventy-eight are partially self-sup-
porting.
A race war on small scale is brewing
at Merriam. Kan, seven miles southwest
of Kansas City. The trouble is caused
by negro parents who want their chill
dren to attend the same school with
white children. Shawnee, one mile from
Merriam, has made provision for sepa-
rate schools for white and negro children
in the same building. The negro chill
dren from Merriam have been sent to
the Shawnee school, the Merriam dis
trict paying tuition for them. The Mer-
RAM negroes resented this and have
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