Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-02-24
STATE NEWS.

Neodesha people some times get coal
at 10 cents bushel. 1t is hauled in
wagons from mines near town.
Topeka Mail: The city library now has
adebt of about $4,000. The rents from
library hall pay the interest en- this debt.
The treasurer Of the Parsons board of
education will have $4,000 surplus on
hand at the end Of the present term OF
school.
At Ellsworth a state band contest is
to be held May %, % and 80. Over 700
band members are already pledged to
attend.
Forty-three veterans have been dis
charged from the Soldiers home at
Leavenworth, being now able to sup
port themselves.
The total expenses of the Topeka
schools for the last month was about
$4,000, and of this amount $7,40O was
for teachers salaries.
Emporia Republican: The humps are
playing havoc with the normal students.
A good many young people and few
old ones about town are also suffering
from the epidemic.
The Pittsburg Vitrifed Brick works,
owned by Robert Nesch, took fire and
the building was destroyed. The works
were erected at cost of $4,000. The
loss will be somewhere between $1,000
and $4,000, and is covered by insurance.
The expenses of the Parkinson Sugar
Co., of Fort Scott, last year exceeded
the value of the product by over 81 900,
but the deficit was made up by federal
bounty of $14,607 and state bounty of
$5,477, giving the company net profit
of $S,861.
The county commissioners Of Douglas
county have passed resolutions compro-
missing with the present clerk and his
immediate predecessor in the matter Of
covering into the treasury transfer fees
collected since January l. 1891. Half
of the fees are to be turned over to the
county.
From Sharon Springs: The total
number of final proofs made during 1898
in Wallace county is reported by the
probate Judge as eighty-fve. Of these,
sixty-four we're homestead proofs, three
pre-emptions, three tree claims and three
school land entries. Out Of the total
number of eighty-fve proofs, twenty
one of the parties making proof have
left the country.
From Olathe: The body of a stran-
ger was found near Hillsdale, south of
this city, frozen stiff. Upon investiga-
ton letters were found Identifying the
body as that of Alex M. Hansmere, of
st. Louis. He was quite we'll dressed
and bore the appearance of respectable
man. Out of money, he evidently for
feited his life while tramping and expos
ing himself in the severe blizzard pre-
yailing.
In the last bulletin of the United
States bureau of statistics, giving the
exports from the United States and their
value, is an item of 1896, 1852 pounds
of oleo oil, valued at $11,389,964. Sec
retarv Coburn, of the Kansas depart
ment Of agriculture, calls the attention
of cattle growers to the fact that oleo
oil is largely a Kansas product. It is
made from the selected fat Of cattle, is
the chief constituent of artificial butter,
and is exported in great quantities to
Rotterdam, Hamburg, and other Euro
pean markets. One house alone in Kan
sas City, Kas., during the year 1898,
exported 5,374,073 pounds, worth $685.
000 Several other Kansas houses also
make and export large quantities of this
oil
Topeka Capital: During the past few
DAYS NJ. P. Gould. the business manager
of the Washburn Continent, has
visited the eight colleges, universities
and normal schools represented in the
cured the oratIons and cuts of each of
the orators which he will use in getting
out a contest number of the Mid-Contl-
nent. This magazine will also contain
a short sketch and cut of each school
represented in the association. Mr.
Gould is meeting with good success in
his new enterprise as each of the man
ayers Of various school papers through
out the state has engaged large num-
Der of these magazines which will be
distributed in the various schools on the
morning of February %, the day of the
contest.
Topeka Mail: The annual meetings of
the stockholders of all the banks of this
city we're held within the last week or
two. Thus far no changes have been
made in the management Of any of the
banks, and so far as known none will be
made this year. The reports Ct the
officers showed that the banking bust
ness Of Topeka is in very satisfactory
condition, taking into consideration the
depressed condition Of business gener-
ally. AS everybody knows the banks
as a rule have been little more than pay
ing expenses and there is little or
nothing left for dividends or surplus.
The Bank Of Topeka declared small
dividend last November, but it is not
likely any Of the banks will declare div
idends very soon. Banks make money