Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-03
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The anti-Flynn faction captured the or.
ganization of the Oklahoma territorial cen.
trail committee. Ex-United States Marshal
Grimes was elected chairman.
The British government has decided to
propose to the continental powers the pas
sage of international legislation with the
view of suppresslng anarchists.
A heavy snow storm prevailed February 25
in all the country east of the Mississippi and
south of the Ohio; reaching as far north on
the Atlantic coast as New Jersey.
Election returns in Pennsylvania point to
heavier vote than was cast last fall, when
the republican plurality was 135,146. Ga
lussa A. Grow (rep. is elected congressman
at-large by between 10000 and $4,000.
Representative Wilson, of Virginia, author
of the tariff bill, is in the City of Mexico,
sick with typhoid fever.
Judge ]. W. McGilI, of the interstate COM
merce commission, who has been sick at his
home in Creston, Ia, with malarial fever
and thought to be recovering, has suffered
relapse and is now in critical condition.
Steele Mackey, the renowned actor and
author, died in George R. Peck's private car,
south of La Junta, Col, while seeking recov-
cry in a warmer cline. The cause proved to
be cancer of the stomach.
G. w. Lille, of Wellington, better known
as Pawnee Bill, spent some time with the
secretary of the interior negotiating for the
use of 100 Sioux Indians to be taken to Ant
werp for show purposes at the exhibition
there this year.
A Washington dispatch, dated Sunday.
February 60, tells of the president and Sec
rotary Gresham starting on hunting trip
down the Potomac on a lighthouse tender.
The weather was rough and there was SIX
inches of snow in Washington.
The supreme court of Michigan has af-
frmed the constitutionality of the BARRIERS
SUNDAY closing law, holding that the statute
is within the police power of the state and
does not conflict with the fourteenth amend
ment of the federal constitution.
Senator Berry is organizing for the utter
defeat of the Oklahoma townsite bill, to
compel the Rock Island Railroad to have
stations at certain towns. unless the senate
amendment to the bill is beaten, which pro-
vides for county seat elections.
A sand storm in California, covering the
great fruit region along the Pacific slope,
did great damage to the orange crop, the
fallen fruit covering the ground. Trains
have been wrecked by sand drifts made in
visible by the dense sand clouds.
Artz is out The expert accountants find
a mum Der of minor shortages in his accounts !;
there being no very large items. Artz, i'm
mediately upon the experts report to the
governor being given to him, rendered his
resignation. He will try to explain.
One building in Chicago, called The Rock
cry, with 1000 business men in it, requires
the services of three letter carriers, making
six trips a day with their back loads from
the post office. What could large cities do,
now, without free delivery of mails!
1t being believed that Hon. Frank McMas-
ter was really the head of Rev. Sam Small's
daily at Oklahoma City, injunction proceed
ings were begun to restrain them from longer
issuing the paper, as McMaster was under
contract not to publish paper there for five
years.
Fifty-one coal miners, convicted of riot
ing, were taken out of the Pittsburg, Pa,
Jail at one time to serve sentences; five to
the penitentiary and the others to the work
house. There was a crowd of the prisoners
families there and the scene was sad one.
They were foreigners.
The blockade on the railroad in the Sierra
Nevada mountains is bad enough. Two
trains with 800 passengers we're held at Reno,
New, awaiting the opening of the road. The
Truckee passenger train has been abandoned.
Indications are that it will be several days
before the road is opened.
Quo warranto proceedings are begun
against the presiding officers of the two
branches of the New Jersey state senate, re-
curing them to show by what authority they
are acting in their official capacity. This
action is chosen as the swiftest way to get
the matter before the courts.
Delegates Duncan and Thompson, repre-
senting the Cherokee nation, spent some
time with the secretary of the treasury dis
cussing their Strip bond muddle. They are
very anxious to arrange for getting some
money on the bonds, and they would like to
induce the secretary of the treasury to assist
them along that line. They were given very
little comfort.
The Hillmon case has taken a decidedly
sensational turn. Mrs. Hillmon has filed
vouminous petition with Superintendent of
Insurance Snider, asking that he revoke the
certificates of authority of the New York
Life, the Mutual Life and the Connecticut
Mutual Life, the three companies that car
ried the policies on the life of John w. Hill
mon, and bar them from the state if they do
not pay the claims.
James K. Polk Barker, a wealthy populist
farmer of Wyaudotte county, is under arrest
for perjury. The complaint was made by j.
A. Smith, now being tried for libel, and it
is understood that this course is chosen by
Smith to bring to light the facts concerning
the Doodle bargains alleged to have been
made between kansas City liquor and gam
bling interests and the state administration
during the legislative session of 1888.