Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-02-03
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The New Jersey delegation in congress
have agreed to vote against the Wilson tariff
bill if an income tax is made part of it.
Seven indictments we're returned against
Jonh Reid, president of the Western Trust
and Savings association, of Kansas City, Mo.
After conference the executive committee
of the street car strikers at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
announced the men will 60 back to work at
the company's terms. The nine ringleaders
had to 60.
There are now over seventy presidential
postoffices in Kansas where the commits
sions have expired, and it is believed that
not over ten Of them will be made within
some weeks.
There is a rush of Cinnamon at the regis
tration bureau at San Francisco; every pig.
tail among them in hurry to "legistler."
Assistant Superintendent J. A. Sweet, of
Haskell institute, at Lawrence, Kan. has
been chosen by the president to succeed Su-
perintendent Meserve, resigned.
The Western Union fire reported in first
dispatches as at Cleveland was at Cincinnati.
hundred or more operators staid by their
keys until the fire department and the smoke
drove them out.
Sixteen in hospitals, others at their homes,
at San Francisco, the result of an electric
car, filled with people, getting away from
the control of the motorneer on a down
grade and on curve.
The California supreme court declares the
act of the legislature of that state to limit
immigration and for deportation, to be in
valid, in that it invades powers only held by
the federal government.
Ex-State Treasurer of Arkansas Woodruff's
stealings are still coming to light. tits found
that ten state bonds which had been paid
were never cancelled, and that he got money
for them from New York investors.
Northern Pacific employees, upon the ad-
vice of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and w.
W. Erwin, of ST. Paul, will secretly vote on
the question of a general strike which the
receivers enjoined them from doing.
A, M. Beardslee, for twenty-scven years a
druggist of Council Bluffs, Ia, was found
dead in bed. He was feeling badly and took
drink of whisky in one of his Grug meas
uEes that had previously contained poison.
A big gold strike has been made eighteen
miles from SocorrO, \. NJ, in Water canon.
The vein. which was uncovered by recent
rains, has been prospected for $500 feet. Il
is from fouc to six fret wide and assays girs
from $50 to $500 ton.
John B, Koettiny, cashier of the defunct
guilty at Milwaukee. Wis, of receiving de-
posts after he knew the bank to be insclvent,
was sentenced to term of five years at the
state prison at Waupun.
There are many avoweti anarchists among
the Hungarian miners who have Started
civil var against law and against property
in the Mansfield coal region of Pennsyl-
vania. These men are the ring-Seaders of
the eevilist- gOings-on there.
Burglars entered the hardware store of G.
n. Barker at Girard, Kan, stealing knives
and cutlery to the value of about $500. They
then entered the depot of the Santa Fe road,
blew the safe open and secured about $13O ia
cash, stole hand car and left for parts ua-
Enown,
The railroad employees of the Santa Fe div.
ing IL some of the larger towns along the
Zine are beginning torlairn exemption from
gapishment suits, for the reason that the
road is now in the hands of'Vhe United States
court and the receiver cannot be compelled
to answer in suits brought to divert tine pay
meTlt of wages.
Judge Broderick IFS being complimenteG
very highly on the speech he made in the
general tariff debate. His argument, of e
leyal character, in the hne of showing that
the secretary of the treasury Is not, under
the present conditions empowered to issue .
'EOnUS. mas
end ELECTED favorable comment. 4
Delegate Flynn, ,of Oklahoma, has pre-;
pared a resolution land presented it in the
,1ouse, calling upon the secretary of the in
terror for full information about leases of
Indian reservations TO cattlemen- Hereto
fore the action of Sehat department in the
matter of leases has been promptly made
public, but thEG policy has been changed.
1t is thought by'ske real friends of state
hood for Oklahoma that the present strong
combination of cattle and lobby interests
and of territorial officials who want to hold
their jobs will delay the admission of the
territory indefinitely. The united move of
these interests for single statehood to in
clude both territories is looked upon as only
for delay.
Postoffice inspector W. P. HoLk and sew
eral deputy United States marskals raided
the celebrated Wolf desperadoes, who were
located on Big creek, twenty mikes west of
Vinita, |. T., in bullet proof caA5in. Dyna-
mite Jake was killed and another mortalfy
and the Turner brothers captured. |
Wolf, the leader,ef the band, and rhwo ,otheFs |
were away at thettime.
The Atchison, Topeka & Sapta Fe, the |
Union Pacific, tbs Oceanic Steamship COM /
pany and the Peninsular & Oriental Steam |
ll-around-the-wOrld route, to be known as /
Age time proposed by the new route for al
rip is seventy days, and the fare, including!
every necessary accommodation, lie S61O. 4