Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-10
Tho Oxford Horse Thief Detective as.


ISOLATION, incorporated under the laws
of Kansas in 1885, has just offered a
standing reward for the conviction OF
any person for petty larceny, 5000 for
grand larceny and 5000 for arson, in
each case where the crime was commit
ted or attempted against the property
of any member of the association.
Wichita special: Two weeks ago let
tiers were received in this city purport-
ing to give details of the death of Pro-
lessor E. J. Christie, former president of
Garfield university, now professor of
chemistry with Paramount institute. 1t
was said he died in New York hospital.
Memorial services were held and adj
dresses made by DR.. Tunnel and many
divines and obituary notices were pub
lished in all the papers. A letter has
since been received from the supposed
deceased, dated Marion. Ia, character
izing the report asfalse. The professors
many friends are terribly excited and
vengeance will be taken on the author
of the canard if he can be apprehended.
From Coffeyville: Gene, Ike and Tall
Wheeler, brothers, and Dick Andrews,
who live six miles west, were returning
home from dance in two horse wag-
on. When near the village of Deering
two men suddenly stepped in front of
the horses and covering the occupants
of the wagons with Winchester and a
revolver ordered them to halt and throw
up their hands AS they were unarmed
the demand was promptly obeyed. They
were then lined up by the side of the
road and while one of the robbers went
through their pockets, the other covered
them with a Winchester. One of the
boys, however, sprang at the robb9r
who had the gun, and this was a sig
nal for general fight in which the rob-
bers came off second best, the one who
stood on guard receiving bullet in the
breast from the revolver of his pal who
was trying to defend him, and his skull
was fractured by blow from the gun
which the boys had wrested from him.
He will die. While the fight was going
on, the other robber escaped.
Robert Gillian, civil engineer, gives
the Kansas City, Mo-, Journal, some fig
ures. The states in which Kansas City
trade largely predominates have an area
of over 100000 square miles, greater
than the combined areas of Austria,
Germany, Italy, France. Spain, Portu-
gal, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
Switzerland. The packing house prod
ucts of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1892,
were greater by nearly S2O,OOO,OOO than
the value of all the silver produced in
the United States in 1889, twice the to-
tai petroleum products of this country
in 1890, twice the value of the btu
minous coal produced in Pennsylvania
in 1889, over three times the value of
the coal produced in Illinois, Ohio, Indi-
ana and Michigan combined. Kansas
City, Kansas, handles three times the
live stock of st. Louis, and more than
st. Louis and Omaha combined. The
value of the packing house products and
the live stock at the Kansas City, Kan
sas stock yards in 1892, is greater in
value than the total pig iron product of
;he United States for 1890. and greater
5han the annual revenues for 1889 of
Greece, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden,
Canada and Mexico. The value Of the
stock handled at the Kansas City, Kan
'as, stock yards alone was equal to the
,otal exports from France to the United
States for 1890, and is greater than the
,otal exports Of Mexico to all the coun-
'ries with which they maintain CONNER
,ial relations. The combined value OF
he stock handled and the packing house
products of Kansas City, Kansas, is
equal to the total surplus commodities
If the state of Missouri, shipped by rail-
way and by river for the year 1890.