Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-13

Harpers Weekly of September ~
contains a large number of sketches
showing the irrigation plants and
processes at Garden City. The sketches
we're made by Prof. Worral.
The North Central Kansas Teachers
association will hold its annual meeting
in Abilene Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of Thanksgiving week. The associ-
! alton includes thirteen counties.
A meteor struck business building
the heart of Atchison, Ks, at 5 o'clock
n the morning, demoIishing it. There
we're persons sleeping in the second
story but they were not injured.
One Leavenworth man is shipping
four or five cars of apples each week.
He is paying from 80 cents to 81 per
barrel of three bushels. The varieties
being most freely marketed are Ben
Davis and Winesap.
Topeka Capital Mrs. Edith Reynolds,
teacher of the school in District SO, has
fallen heir to a considerale fortune in
Pennsylvania. She has resigned her
position and gone to that state to take
care of and enjoy the luxuries of her
newly acquired wealth.
The chiefs of police of all Kansas
cities met at Wichita, October 2 aud
to form a state union auxiliary to the
National Union of Chiefs of Police, or
ganized by the election Of H. G. Lind
say, of Topeka, president for the ensu-
ing year, and E. J. White, of Atchison,
secretary.
From Ottawa Fred Garst, sheriff of
Franklin county, drove into Princeton
in search of a criminal, and hitched his
horse, a valuable one, while he searched
creant stole the horse, buggy and all,
making good his escape, and now Garst
wants him worse than ever.
Judge Isaac Reed for the killing of
Isaac Hopper at Wellington, was SEN
fenced in district court by Judge Jack
son. Reed was tried three times and
found guilty. The last verdict was
murder in the first degree. He was SEN
fenced to one year of imprisonment and
then to be hung. This means impris-
onment for life.
The Rex mill of Kansas City, Kan,
has been making $4,000 barrels of -four
per week since the new wheat crop be-
gan to move, and has bought and nearly
used up million bushels of wheat in
the operation The mill is still pound
ing away on good export orders, and
expects to continue turning out high
grade of export -four
Fort Scott Tribune: The Fort Scott
Sugar company has received PROPOSE
tions from two eminent law firms offer
ing to collect the bounty on this years
output of sugar on a contingent fee.
This would make it appear that the at
torneys are confident that the sugar
producers can recover on this years
crop. The company has not decided to
sue for it.
Topeka Mail: Thomas Buckman and
Bradford Miller, of this county, had the
honor of voting for Major Mckinley
for county attorney before they left
Stark county, Ohio. twenty-six or twen-
ty-seven years ago. Major Tom Ander-
son came from Stark county in '56, be-
fore Major Mckinley had attained prom
inence, and says that the Mckinley
family in those days were noted as
thrifty people of moderate means.
Atchison Champion: The arrange
ment has finally been completed to do
away with all express offices in Atchison,
except the Pacific Charley Seip is re-
tanned as agent and will probably take
two or three men with him from the
other Offices. Charley Parker will be
taken care of by his old company. The
old companies will all do business here
as formerly, but the business will all be
under the management of the Pacific
company.
A blast exploded prematurely while
a number of workmen were excavating
a sewer in Atchison, and Jackson Powell,
Louis Dickey, and G. M. Hazel were
peppered with pebbles, which entered
the flesh from half an inch to an inch
deep. It required an hours time for the
physician to pick the stones from the
mems bodies. The rocks taken from
Powell's flesh almost filed a pint cup.
He will probably not recover. Hopes
are entertained for Dickey. Hazel is
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ploded was composed of dynamite, and
it threw rocks 100 feet high. A num-
Der other persons we're slightly in
jured.
Sammy Hubbard, son of E. P. Hub
bard, of Ottawa. Kan, and Camillus
Kessler were putting up trapeze in the
yard and Sammy had climbed into a
tree to fasten the ropes In order to do
this he found it necessary to trim away
some of the branches, and in doing so
he dropped the ak he was using and it
struck the Kessler boy in the forehead.
Hubbard saw the accident and excitedly
dropped from the tree. As he did so
the rope coiled around his thumb and
the weight of his body tore his thumb
from his hand and with il six inches of
the tendon. A physician was summoned
and dressed the wound. Master Kessler
escaped with very slight injury.