Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-08
SIXTEENTH YEAR.
STATE NEWS.

The indebtedness of Kansas is but
1901, 900 ard S545, 900 of that sum is
the investment Of our permanent school
fund and held in this department, leav-
ing but the small balance of 1856, 600
held outside the state.
The members Of the Veteran Kelley
league of the Leavenworth branch of
the Home are making great preparations
for going to the national Kelley con-
vention which will meet in Colorado
Springs on September II, II and 13.
Garrison Bros. have just finished cut
ting 2,700 acres of prairie hay at Hep
ler, Crawford county, and expect to
have over 200 cars for shipment. They
are building an addition of 40x1O0 feet
to their large barn at Hepler and en-
ploying about fifty men.
A big fruit drying establishment is
being put in at Atchison, and will afford
fruit growers fairly profitable market
for their surplus and below standard
product There are several evaporat-
ing factories operating on large scale
in the eastern part of the state.
At the race track at Leavenworth,
Peter Cunningham, miner, received
fatal injuries while trying to steal into
the track grounds. He crawled through
the hedge fence at the feet of a wild
borse which became frightened and
started to kick and plunge. Ginning
ham got under the ANIMALS feet and
was trampled about the head and body
in horrible manner. After the horse
was taken off Cunningham he was given
attention by physicians but they say he
cannot live.
A large, double ice house in North
Lawrence, belonging to the Eidemiller
ice company, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the night of August 26. The in
dications point TO incendiarism, but
there is no clue as to the perpetrators of
the crime. The building contained about
400 tons Of ice, which was entirely de-
stroved but covered by insurance. 1t
has been but week since a coal shed
belonging to the firm which owned the
ice was burned in the Santa Fe yards.
The ice house was valued at $780, and
partially insured
The first move in the war in Atchison
county between violatOrs of the state
prohibitory law and the prohibitionists
has now been made. Mayor Wills
Walker, of Ef1ingham, small town in
the western part of the county, filed in
formation against Al. Williams, "hop
tea dealer Sheriff Larkin arrested
Williams and he was locked up in the
county jail The case will be the first
ever tried before the district court in
Atchison county since the law went in
to effect, and should the prohibitionists
win the case it is probable that every
jointist in the city and county will be
arrested and tried.
Parsons Sun: A gang of mon are OPP
Grating in this and neighboring coun-
ties, and they are catching the unsus-
pecting farmer in great shape. Their
scheme is to show pile of dry goods
which they carry with them, consisting
of calico and kindred goods, and offer
the same at fabulously low prices. They
offer SIS, $40 or $25 worth at the low
price of Sc. 81, or So. and then do not
even want the cash, but accommodate
the farmer by taking his note, payable
in sixty or ninety days, with the prom
Use that the goods will be forthcoming
by express in few days Several farm
ers who have bitten have received notice
from banks stating that they have their
notes for $50 or $50.
Marion letter: An energetic gentle
man and with unbounded faith in Kan
sas, her people and her resources, is A.
L. Case of this city. He is the kind of
a man that defends Kansas against the
Hattacks of false interviews and misrepre-
sentations. Although Mr.. Case is engaged
in an enterprise that will be of immediate
benefit to his own county, his efforts
will be of value to the entire state. He
has prepared a neat display of the
wheat, corn, oats and other products of
Kansas during the past few years and
with his exhibit in a neat case will soon
go east and show the visitors at the
fairs in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania, New York and other places the
actual results of agriculture in Kansas.
The display will attract attention any
place.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: The
trustees of the John Brown Industrial
college have purchased eighty acres of
ground at Bonner Springs, Kans. For
some time the members of the commit
tee selected to secure a location have
been looking for suitable site, and
finally decided upon tract of land near
Bonner Springs. The college will be
built and conducted for the benefit of
the colored race in the United States.
1t is the intention of the association to
give to each student a trade of his own
selection. The institution is to be sup
ported by contributions and earnings of
the farm and students. This move
ment was begun several years ago, in
this state, and has been pushed until
the college society has large member
ship in nearly every state in the Union.
Tt is expected that the college will soon
be self supporting. Agents have been
lppointed in nearly every large city in
1the United Slater who are laboring hard
to secure student and financial assist
ance for the institution. The organi-
cation of the college is intended as a
monument in honor of John Brown, of
Osawatomie.