Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-20
STATE NEWS.

Yates Center claims to lave more
Good Templars than any other city in
the state.
Two Ottawa children have been pois-
oned by handling green pawpaws, an
other has been made dangerously ill
by partaking too freely of the fruit and
two others have suffered severely from
eating the seed kernels.
National Dairyman: 1t is fact not
generally known that Kansas is the
greatest egg producing state in the
union and Missouri the second; neither
is it generally known that the value of
eggs annually handled in Chicago ex-
ceeds in value its pork, although it is
the greatest packing center in the
world. The hens now have their in
ming.
Topeka. Capital: On the 29th of this
month will occur the seventh anniversary
of the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation of this city. DR.. G. B. Mitch
ell, pastor of the Grand Avenue NJ E.
church, Kansas City, Mo-, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the annual ad-
dress IN this city upon that date. Other
appropriate exercises are being ar
ranged
At suffrage meeting at Atchison
speaker quoted John j. Ingalls as saw
ing he opposed suffrage because his
wife and daughters did not want to
vote The speaker added, that if they
had to work and make shirts at sixty
cents dozen like the poor women of
New York they might advise him differ
entity. Miss Constance ingalls, was in
the audience and created a sensation by
making reply, saying she had made
four dresses during the past eight days
and knew how to work. ''I would like
to VOTE she added, ''but am not old
enough
Judge Reed, of Wichita, has decided
that Conductor Steve Hayden, of the
Missouri Pacific, was entitled to the re-
ward offered for the recapture of Clyde
Mattox, the murderer who broke Jail
there the night he was convicted. Sher-
! iff Royse offered $500 and the govern
| ment offered $500 for his capture. Hayden
found Mattox on his train near Yates
Center and wired Royse. who in turn in
structed the Yates Center officials to ar
rest the criminal. The officers claimed
the reward, but Judge Reed ruled that
they we're only agents of Sheriff Royse
and that Hayden's was the supreme in
information which made the arrest pos
sible.
Kingman special The case against
Editor Albaugh, in which he was charged
with stealing the Abbie Matthews let
ters, which have caused such commo-
tion in political circles in this part of
Kansas was tried nine miles in the coun-
try, and fully 200 people were present
at the hearing. The evidence showed
conclusively that the letters were written
to a guard at the penitentiary, who
was present and so testified, that they
we're never written to Branden, were
never in his possession. and we're never
got from him in any way. The justice,
populist, acquitted Albaugh and taxed
the costs up to w. J. Branden, the COM
planning witness.
w. B. Webster has filed another SEN
sational damage suit in the district
court at Fort Scott In this action
Henry J. Randall, a minor of the age of
IL years, by his mother, Harriet e. Ran
dali, his next friend, is the plaintiff, who
asks $4,000 damages from George
Kurtz, Thomas Cochran, J. Balnberger
and John Crow. The petition charges
the frst-named defendant with running
a saloon and the last three-the Ft.
Scott police commissioners ac-
cepting division of the money made in
the illegal and unlicensed business. His
grounds for damages are in the allega-
tion that the defendant, Kurtz, sold the
plaintiffs father intoxicating liquor for
beverage, and thus rendered HIM inca
pable of providing for his family; and
that the defendant commissioners, in
open violation of their oaths to uphold
and enforce the laws of the state, re-
fused to compel him to quit the bust
ness, but rather arranged with him for
the carrying on of the same, contrary to
law.
Garden City special The agricultural
fair was remarkably successful one,
both as regards the exhibit of farm prod
ucts and the display of irrigation ma
ehinery. Neither of the national irri-
cation congresses at Salt Lake city,
Los Angeles or Denver brought out half
so fine a showing in the latter particu-
lar. Notwithstanding the fact that the
state fair has been in session at the same
time, there was large attendance, and
among those present we're people from
all over Kansas and from half dozen
other states. Crop failures having been
so extensive throughout the west this
season, the excellent showing of all sorts
of fruits, vegetables and farm crops
grown by irrigation filed the visitors
from abroad with astonishment. There
was great variety of products in am
pie quantities, and of such quality that
only irrigation farming can possibly pro-
duce. The fair was not the only at
traction. as visitors made the rounds of
the fruit farms and gardens to see the
pumping plants in operation. This
makes the third successful fair, and the
association having it in charge has made
money ennugh to insure something on
q larger scale next year, and plans are
already being considered to that end.