Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-06-16
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Frye's army were refused any aid in West
Virginia and were without food or shelter.
| The army divided at Parkersburg into three
| sections, after a quarrel. One sectlon' OF
| 6fty-two men, captured train and every
man was arrested.
Strikers seem determined that coal and
| coke trains shall not be moved. Repeated
efforts to prevent it are being daily made in
| OHIO and Pennsylvania. Destruction OF
property and life seems to be determined
upon by these men.
The eastern Ohio miners threaten TO resist
the soldiers and blow up the railroad bridges
and tunnels There are 200 Winchesters
among the Wheeling creek miners and 100
at Laurelton. Several railroads are blocked
| and bloodshed is feared One bridge has
| been burned.
The Coxeyitas in camp at Washington, D.
| c., are suffering for something to eat. Local
supplies are stopped entirely and receipts OF
provisions from the west are meager.
The rewards offered for the capture of Bill
| Dalton by four states, two territories and
the United States authorities will aggregate
| in the neighborhood of $4,000 This reward
| will be divided equally among the nine Off
| GERS who effected his capture.
The striking coal miners are concentrating
| their efforts to induce Kansas miners to go
| mines at work that amount to anything,
| and as long as coal men can get Kansas coal
| to fill their contracts the strikers cannot WIN
their fight.
In investigating the cause of fire at Vic
| toria, B. C., a test was made with an incau-
| descent light. A child's hood was wrapped
around the globe and it took fire.
Senator Gray, chairman of the senate cleo
tons committee, says he will call his COM
nittee together very sUon to consider the
Ady-Martin contest case on its merits.
Judge Tuthill, of Chicago. has vacated the
order appointing John s. Wilson receiver of
the Swtchmen's Mutual association, upon
the application of the counsel for the organ
ization.
Merchants who have been so long letting
the Cherokee Indians run open accounts are
having serious trouble in collecting from
them now they are getting their money for
the Strip.
There are several places in eastern Ohio
where railroad passengers re transferred at
burned bridges; burned by the striking, riot
ing. foreign miners. There are numerous
bridges now guarded by state militia.
An Egan. S. D., special reports valuable
prehistoric find in a mound there. A tomb
has been uncovered lined with cement. In
the tOmb's compartments were twenty-five
male skeletons averaging eight feet in height.
A rude altar and many bronze utensils we're
exposed.
There we're in the Kansas republican state
convention six candidates for lieutenant
governor, six for secretary of state, ten for
auditor of state, four for state treasurer,
three for attorney gene.al, three for state
superintendent three for congressman-at-
large and one for associate justice. Of the
candidates for auditor six are from the Sixth
district.
Senator T. B. Murdoch looked the crowd
over at the republican state convention and
found five other delegates beside himself
who were delegates to the republican state
convention held here twenty-four years ago.
They were T. J. Anderson, Shawnee; ]. S.
Gilmore. Wilson: G. W. Stabler, Atchison;
]. B. Bruner, Johnson, and c. E. Under
wood, Saline.
1t has been decided by the agricultural de-
partment to sow over 1000 different kinds
of wheat next year, by way of experiment.
Seed will be placed in the various wheat
states and in various kinds of soil and at
varying attitudes, and all this for the pur-
pose of trying to find out what kind of wheat
and under what conditions will be more
likely to escape rust.