Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-22

| piled with program electric clock.
The two apple evaporators which re-
Gently began operations in Atchison
consume 700 bushels of apples day.
A Sumner county farmer lost four
COWS as result of allowing them to eat
all the green sorghum cane they wanted.
Leavenworth public schools were t.
have opened September 10, but the date
was put off two weeks on account of a
| smallpox scare.
All the young men in Ottawa uni
versity who do not have military drill
are required to take a regular course in
physical culture unless excused by the
faculty.
The residence of H. B. Topping at
| Ottawa was burned to the ground, in
yolving loss of about $4,000; fully in
sured. A gasoline stove was the cause
of the blaze
The southern Kansas old soldiers re-
union which it is proposed 10 hold at
Wichita October 1919 will be addressed
| by ex-senator ingalls, and Tom Reed if
present plans pan out.
Herman Evervine, wealthy wine
| grower of Ditesheiln, Bavaria, Germany,
found his brother, August Evervine, in
Atchison, after a separation and es-
arrangement for twenty years.
Emporia is making strong effort to
induce the Palace Car company, which
is figuring on a Kansas factory in oppo-
70 D,51I 70 tot
Railroad Commissioner P. B. Maxson is
at the head of the movement.
The Lawrence council has passed an
ordinance that will divide the response
bility for selling Intoxicating liquors. It
makes the owner of the building where
the law is violated liable for fine of
500 to 5000. and Imprisonment for
thirty days.
The thirteen candidates at Fort Leav-
enworth for leutenants' commissions
in the army who failed to come up to
the standard in chest measurement have
had concession made in their favor
and will be accepted from the physical
standpoint
Atchison Champion: On an island
near Kickapoo, is a school house where
only one pupil, poor lame boy, attends
school. Nevertheless, the teacher gets
the same salary that he would were he
teaching sixty pupils, and teacher has
just been hired at $4Oper month
From Norton Dan. G. Nutting, jr.,
who went to the Annapolis naval acade-
nv from Norton, several years ago, has
70 ho
further appointment to the school of ma
val construction at Glasgow where he
will pursue his studies in marine archi-
lecture and shipbuilding for two years
more.
A large bunch of young horses es-
capped from the pasture of James Law
renee, west of Ottawa. They made their
way to the Santa Fe railroad tracks
where a freight engine ran into the
bunch with such destructive effect that
seven were killed and eleven SO badly cut
and manned that most of them were
shot.
From Hoiton: The four years given
by the government to the Pottawatomie
Indians to take allotments on the Pot
tawatomie reservation, in Jackson coun-
tv, has expired. About one-half the
members of the tribe have selected the
land they desire to own, and the other
half will have land allotted to them up
on the issuance of an order by the pres
ident. If the allotments under the last
order of the department do not take up
all the land in the reservation the bal
ance will be sold to actual settlers.
Downs Times: J. J. Wiltrout, of Lo-
gon. reports phenomenal success with
the irrigation experiment on the Solo
mon, west of Logan. The firm of Will
trout & Reeder has about 100 acres of
fine potatoes, which are turning out
from 100 to $50 bushels per acre They
are getting IS cents a bushel for them
on the ground, at which rate the gross
receipts from the 100 acres viii be in
the neighborhood of $4,000, a very
neat return for a years work of four or
five men. The experimental stage of the
work in that vicinity has been passed,
and it is now known definitely just what
can be done. The works will probably
be extended considerably next year.
Professor Blake, of Kansas university,
has returned from the east, where he
spent the summer in practical expert
ments on his device for telephoning be-
tween vessels at sea, or between vessels
at sea and stations on land. His
experiments were conducted at Sandy
Hook He was assisted in his work by
Commander c. II. West, of the United
States navy, and week was commenced
on July 10. There was so little time
that Professor Blake was unable TO COM
plete the experiments, and left them in
charge of Commander West and E.
W. Caldwell, who went from Kansas
university with him and knows all the
details of the work. The government is
taking hold of the experiment this year
with great deal of interest, and on
scale that will demonstrate whether or
not the invention of Professor Blake has
a practical value.