Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-27
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The unemployed in Berlin number $4,000.
Reports read at the annual meeting of the
Michigan Salt company showed decrease
in the salt production of the state of $780,
BOO barrels. Salt is now selling 10 cents per
barrel less than last year.
The house committee on elections has
agreed to report confirming the title of Set
tie, of North Carolina, to his seat as q men,
Der, as against Poynter, contestant. Settle
is republican and Poynter democrat.
Senator White, of California, has intro
duced bill appropriating $250, 700 to be ex-
pended under the direction of the secretary
of agriculture, to investigate and determine
upon the best plan to reclaim the arid region.
PROFESSIONS of the unemployed, carrying
banners, are now quite the ordinary thing in
the cities of the land.
The steamer Australia sailed for Honolulu
January 20, carrying, it is stated, further in
structions to Minister Willis. The steamer
took down no passengers of prominence.
The legislative and congressional appor-
tionment laws of Illinois are being contested
in the courts on the pleading5 that they do
not conform to the requirements of the state
constitution.
1t seems probable that the cattlemen will
get their leases of Kiowa and Comanche res
ervation approved by the interior depart
ment. This will keep those lands from set
Element long time.
Some of the members of the senate finance
committee are in favor of doubling the tax
on beer, making it So a barrel. This would
raise $35, ,OOO as there is now manufac-
tured about that many barrels.
The receipt of hogs at the Kansas City,
Kan, stock yards is enormous, having been
equalled only twice in a year; yet the supply
did not fully meet the demand. One days
run reached $4,000. Bulk of sales $500 to
$3.50.
Timothy Dwight Thatcher, prominent
citizen of Kansas during nearly all its his
tory, and ex-state printer, died at p. m. of
January II, at his home in Topeka. after be-
ing unconscious since he had a shock of apo
plexy in his Office.
Postmaster Washington Hesing, of Chi
cago, wrote to the authorities at Washington
stating emphatically that unless his quarters
in the federal building should be repaired,
he would move out and transact poStoffice
business elsewhere.
The navy department is informed of the
arrival of the cruiser New York at Rio. Our
government now has at Rio the New York.
San Francisco, Newark, Charleston and De-
troit. This is stronger force than that of
any other two powers.
Senator Walthall's resignation only covers
the rest of this present term which expires
March 4, 1894. He has been elected for six
years more but can not resign as for that
term until it commences. He says he will
then be governed by the state of his health.
At the meeting of the Kansas Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution, held
in Topeka, there was large attendance,
many members coming from distant parts
of the state. Applications for membership
sans.
The reports of starvation in Manitoba and
the northwest are being verified. Advices
state hundreds of destitute people are walk
ing the streets of Winnipeg, and the distress
is terrible. To make matters worse the Ca
madam Pacific has discharged large num-
Der of men.
Parkinson /. Bonebrake, of Topeka, has
been appointed receiver. by Judge Williams,
of the q. S. district ourt, of the Eureka irri-
eating ditch, which extends from Ingalls, to
Kinsley. This canal is one of the enterprises
of Soule, the hop bitters man, and is bonded
for 100000.
Labor troubles in the Black Hills are as
Stunning a serious phase. The riot of last
week, where the union miners attacked the
laborers on Annie creek, was the outgrowth
of agitation of the wage question. For many
years the lowest pay for men in the mines
and mills has been $3.50 per day.
The attorney general refused to compro-
mise with the Dalton gang, as proposed
through Marshal Nix, of Oklahoma, and Of
fered $500 each for the capture of the gang,
dead or alive. The marshal is working with
the railroad and express companies certain
governors and banks, to aGd to the rewards.
Representative Funston introduced bill
the construction and mainte-
nance of dam or dams across the Kansas
river within Wyandotte and johnson coun-
ties. The bill is in favor of the Interstate
and Electric Light Power company, and the
work is to be commenced within one year
after the passage of the bill.
Secretary Carlisle is multiplying his visits
and letters to the senate finance committee
about the necessity of issuing bonds to meet
the current payments of the treasury. He
says he will issue long time high interest
bonds, under the old law, if congress does
not authorize him to sell bonds with lower
interest and fo! shorter time.
All the land grant railroads in Kansas have
been called upon by the government for a
revised list of lands selected by them as in
demnity for other lands lost for any cause
within the limits of the original grant, the
object being TO make comparison with the
department. records to ascertain that no ex-
cess of indemnity was allowed to any of the |
roads