Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-29
STATE NEWS.

The newest industry in Fort Scott is
a tannery. A fax tow factory is prom
ised.
Wichita Beacon: There seems to be
no limit to the supply of apples. Daily
shipments continue to be large.
The Leavenworth county poor house
has thirty-three inmates at the present
time, the largest number reached at one
time.
The Shawnee county commissioners
have awarded the contract for building
the uperintendent's residence at the
poor farm for $719.
There are three apple evaporators in
business. One of them employs eighty
hands and runs night and day
The Lawrence canning factory is put
ting up tomatoes by the car load and
would 90 still bigger business if
enough women could be employed to do
the work.
Charles E. Harbaugh, editor of the
Erie, Kan, Republican Record, died at
the All Saints Hospital in Kansas City,
Mo-, September Is. after enduring
surgical operation.
John N. Reynolds, of "Twin Hells''
fame, who was sent to the Osawatomie
insane asylum last spring, is raving
maniac. He tears off clothing as fast as
it is put on him.
The Midcontinent mill IN Topeka is
nearly 100 cars behind its orders for
flour. The capacity of the mill is over
taxed and the management will put in
a large amount of new machinery at
once.
A car load of mineral water from
Great Spirit Spring, near Cawker City,
Mitchell county, billed for Buffalo, n.
| Y, went east on the Central Branch.
It is the first carload shipment of the
water
The Alton Empire says that sixteen
persons are now employed at Waconda
Springs-the old Great Spirit Spring,
Mitchell countv-is bottling water for
shipment. Ten thousand bottles are
sent out weekly.
Coffeyville special: Daniel Woodson,
first secretary of the territory of Kansas,
and acting governor of the territory in
1857-58, is lying critically i'll at his home
here During the past twenty five years
he has lived very quietly here.
Topeka Capital: The colored people
of this city and county, under the
auspices of Fort Pillow Post and the old
soldiers celebrated Lincoln's emancipa-
tion proclamation, Saturday, September
%, at City park hall and Hamilton's
hall
Wichita Eagle: Mr.. Woodberry, the
newly elected governor of Vermont. is a
Wichita man. He was here good deal
of the time during the palmy days of
Wichita and comes here once or twice
year since He owns a good deal of
property in Wichita and has a $4,000
farm in Kechi township.
William Fox, a German farmer living
about two miles north of Lawrence, was
accidentally shot bv his wife. The two
were shooting at a mark when Fox gave
his wife the gun and went to arrange
the target The gun was discharged
and the ball passed entirely through
his body, piercing the right lung. Mrs.
summoned a doctor.
Hiawatha special There was a court
house full of citizens to hear the report
of the car shops committee and by the
report, the discussion all around and
the offers made it very plain that there
will be no trouble in raising the $780,
900 required. The committee was re-
tanned and instructed to proceed with
subscriptions and to secure the required
quarter section of land. Everything in
dicates success.
Abilene Gazette: John Forney, an
elder in the German Baptist church,
sect more familiarly known as dunk
ards,' has family record that is some
thing wonderful. By his first wife be had
five sons and by his second wife seven
sons and seven daughters, making nine
teen children in all. Through these
nineteen children he had ten grand-chil-
dren and through the latter twenty
seven great grand children. OF his lat
descendants 121 are still alive. This beats
Jacob whose family including his sons
and grand-sons wives numbered but
three score and ten.
A correspondent at the State Normal
at Emporia, writes: We are extremely
happy in our new quarters. Albert Tay-
lor hall is thing of beauty and of com
fort 1t is said that no school save one
in the United States has its equal, and
every morning as it is filed with earnest
students, the inspiration is great, the
view grand. We have over one hundred
more students than at this time last
year, and with our new equipment in
several departments very fruitful year
is assured. The natural history depart
ment has another room added to its mu-
scum in which there has been placed
the Urquhart collection of valuable min
erals and some of the finest stalactites
and stalagmites in the world. from Ben
nett cave, New Mexico. The Senator
Plumb ibrarv. consisting of /, 400 vol
umes, makes a handsome and valuable
addition to our library.