Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-02-17
STATE NEWS.

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ton has been organized at Lawrence.
It is proposed to build telephone
line from Leon, Butler county, to FL
Dorado.
Three Hutchinson banks have individ-
| ual deposits amounting to nearly
$250, 200.
:. Mrs. McCasey, wife Of the superin-
tendent Of the Topeka insane asylum is
q regular student at Bethany college.
The Winchester creamery paid farmers
for milk in 1898. $13,O5O, at an average
price OF 89aa cents per hundred pounds.
sASLawrence young woman employed
in shirt factory during the week leads
religious services at the county jail on
Sunday afternoons.
It developed during recent trial at
Atchison that the telephone system in
that city earns more each year than the
original cost of the plant.
There were more fires in Leavenworth
during January than during any previ-
GUS month in the history of the city.
Many of the blazes were incendiary.
A farmer engaged in digging well
near Parsons encountered stratum
largely composed of lead ore. A COM
pany. may be formed to develop the
strike.
The Shawnee county board made an
appropriation of $500 for the year 1894
for the Topeka Orphans home payable
on monthly vouchers approved by the
auditor.
Lenora is struggling hard to secure
tie location of the Norton county high
school at that point. It offers an en-
tire block of ground and $4,000 in cash
as bonus.
Having accepted the passionate of the
Armour mission, in Chicago, Rev. D. G.
Miner has rendered his resignation as
president of the Kansas State Temper
ance Union. -.
Since last week, when it was reported
that theirs were 102 academies and high
schools which prepare for Kansas uni
versity, six new schools have been added
making total Of 108.
There are now thirty three drug stores
in Topeka holding permits to sell liquors
for medicinal, mechanical and scientific
purposes, this is one more than there
has ever been heretofore at one time.
At Sabetha the two joints which have
been doing business for some months
past, have been closed by the sheriff and
the owners placed under arrest and
taken to the county Jail to await trial. i
The Forthcoming catalogue of Kansas
university will show an enrolment Of
1913 in the school Of arts; rs in the law
school: 101 in engineering; 81 in phar-
macy; and 1913 in the school of music.
An Anthony man is making q great
success in tanning the hides Of prairie
dogs. He has been operating in local
way for some time but now has on or
der from New York house for hides
and will 90 into the business extern
sively. 49,. ' p
Topeka Capital: D. B. Owen, sssis-
tant engineer, fell down the state house
steps leading to the basement Of the
building and suffered serious injuries
Three ribs were broken and his spine
was injured. He is in a very critical
condition. '..'.-' .'' -.
D. s. Ruse, prominent young farmer
of Midland, flag station on the Union
Pacific, stepped off Of the rapidly NOV
ing "plug" and was severely injured
about the head and shoulders. He had
been to Kansas City with car of stock
and was being carried by his home on
his return.
Rev. II. A. Cowan, of st. Joseph, tele-
graphed to Kansas university his &C
ceptance of the chair of physical culture,
recently created. Mr.. Cowan will arrive
in Lawrence about March 1. He will
have charge of all the athletic interests
in the school and in addition will direct
the religious services. ... S..
eAtchison Globe: There is an increas-
ing demand for Atchison and Atehison
county property. Drop around at the
court HOUSE upon the occasion of q sher-
IFS sale and You will End an unusually
large number of bidders. They are not
bankers or spectators, as3was the case
q few years ago, but substantial citizens
and farmers who have idle money. Sew
eraf pieces Of city property hase been
purchased by farmers this month, who
attended tho ssies with ready cash IN
their pockets. f."' 4
Chancellor Shows January weather
report: Seven Januaries in twenty
seven years have had q higher mean
The temperature for the
first third OF the month was $500, or 4 rs
degrees above the average; Of the mid
die third, 41.80, or 1875 degrees above
the average and far exceeding the mean
of the same period in all other Januaries;
Of the last third, 1877, or 1906 degrees
below the average. The 10Th was tho
warmest january day on our record
Twenty-one Jsnuary and three Decem-