Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-15

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for coal or gas.
The housekeeper at the Soldiers Or
phans' home at Atchison has put up 60C
quarts of tomatoes
Rain fell at Pittsburg during the frs
four days of September to the total o.
six and one-half inches.
Kansas has 1861 farms, according
| to the report of the census bureau, rank
! ing seventh IN the list of states, anC
surpassed only by Ohio, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Texas. New York and Iowa
The Grand Army of the Republic has
about 10000 members in Kansas, and
the new department commander has
been complimented from headquarters
for the excellent showing made in his
official report.
The survivors of the Second, Ninth
and Thirteenth Kansas will hold a re-
union at Marysville on September IS,
10 and 90. Adjutant General Davis
has notified the committee that he will
issue tents for the occasion.
lola special: A cloud burst accom-
panied by a tornado visited this town
Sept. 3 ana did large amount of dam
age, destroying shade trees and tearing
down awnings and signs. Two inches
of rain fell in fifteen minutes
Atchison Champion: An eastern firm
has opened depot for buying and ship
ping apples at Parnell. They are put
ting up building forty feet wide by
sixty feet long. There are a great many
apples in the vicinity of Parnell; one
man has over 700 barrels. The new firm
will buy all that is offered.
Lineman Luckey, of the telephone
company OF Leavenworth, was accident
ally drowned in Atchiscn. He was cross
ing the river at Atchison in skiff
when it got into whirlpool and cap
sized with him. Mr.. Luckey has been
with the telephone company several
years, and was a good steady man.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has recently
turned over to the Kansas treasurer,
certain lands in this state recently be-
queathed to her. The Kansas campaign
committee will realize as much as pos
sible from the lands for the payment of
campaign expenses. Miss Anthony will
probably come to Kansas in October.
At Medicine Lodge during the heavy
thunder storm of September 1, gentle
man from Leavenworth who was former
ly in the cattle business in that coun-
tY with man by the name of Hoover
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. He was driving out to Hoover's
ranch at the time in a two-horse buggy.
Prof. Shows weather report for Au-
gust says: ''The warmest August of our
record, except that of 1874. There were
twenty-one days on which the mercury
reached 80 degrees. The precipitation
was less in only one August of the
twenty-six years of our record. The
total run of the wind was lower than
the August average"
A steam pipe connecting boilers in
the Leavenworth electric light plant
bursted, killing James Porter, fireman
He was working close to the pipe when
it exploded, which knocked him down
and the steam poured over him for fully
IL OCOAl LAAA4uOOo. VI was AALOId1l1
boiled alive and died soon after the ac-
cident. He leaves a wife and six chill
dren.
The Lawrence schools opened with a
larger attendance than was ever known |
in the city. The increase is apparent |
from the High school clear down to the |
first grade. Though the teaching force |
is the same in number as last year pro-
vision has been made for the accommo- |
diation of all. A kindergarten depart |
ment has been added to the city schools |
and while as yet supported by private |
the indications are that il will |
SOON become a part of the regular
school system.
Mound Valley letter Last April
Oscar Cullison, a young lawyer, married
she village belle, Lizzie Prescott, daugh-
,er Of retired farmer. From the first
month of their marriage Cullison abused
ler. The other morning while shaving,
'he declares, he threw a razor at her
which missed her by a hairs breadth,
and then beat her. In the afternoon
'he told her father, who got big whip
inO OORRCO LIS SOA-lL III 1IOuI O1
he postofice. A committee of citizens
las advised him to leave town.
Lawrence letter: Lawrence may have
cit the financial panic to a certain ex-
ent in some parts of the city, but South
md West Lawrence are certainly in a
condition. Aside from the
5pooner library building, costing $780,
100, the Electrical Engineering building,
$4,000; Riable Bros, cooperage, S10,-
100. and Barteldes Seed company ware
lonses, $4,000. the list Of residences
s a long one. The more important of
hese are General J. W. Roberts new
valued at $4,000; Chancel-
or Shows residence, $4,000, and build
ngs of August Wultkuhle, $4,000; F.
J. Hester, $1,000; Ed. House, $1,000;
Bigsby, $1,000; A. Cutler, $1,000; |
Irs. G. w. Babcock, $4,000; J. II. Fin
ley, $1,000; G. H Winship, $4,000; and
large number of others, costing 81 900
r less.