Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-01
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movement is talked of to establish
headquarters for permanent lobby at WASH
lngton for labor organizations, to enable
them to influence legislation.
Of 400 cars of cattle along the Rio Grande
Western railroad to come to market, Kansas
City. Kan. will get all but seventeen. Omaha
has held this trade heretofore.
n. H. Kohlsaat. of Chicago, is said to have
purchased the New York Times for about
$225,O00. The same property was sold about
twenty years ago for about S1,000,G00.
The civil service commission in their re-
port. which was signed by the full board,
recommends the prompt removal of c. III. J.
Taylor, as recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia.
W. F. Sapp, of Cherokee county, has been
nominated for member of congress from the
Third Kansas district. His only opponent
in the convention was Representative Hud-
son. The vote was 102 to 81.
Knights of Pythias by the thousands ar
rived in Washington on Sunday. August 26,
and marched to their camp in the rain.
There was first heavy thunder storm which
settled into a steady rain; but fun was the
order of the day.
Representative Broderick, of Kansas, en-
deavored to get his bill to suppress lotteries
considered by the house, but Louisiana
member objected. 1t could not get atten-
ton in the face of an objection, as a quorum
of the house was not in Washington.
Congress adjourned on August %.
The general grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons closed its convocation at Topeka by
aojourning to meet in Baltimore in 1897.
The effect of the new tariff law will be to
tumble to the ground the whole fabric of
reciprocity treaties reared by Mr.. Blaine.
The internal revenue receipts for the ten
days in which the president held the tar
if bill in his possession amounted to $751;
053, 759.
The secretary of war is sending to Fort
Sill, o. T., the $50 Indian prisoners, who
nave been held in Mount Vernon barracks,
in Alabama. for the past ten years, and are
known as the Geronimo band. They are
Apaches.
water main in New York city bursted
and several blocks in several streets we're
flooded. Crowds of people on foot and in
vehicles and on street cars were washed
about like chips in a brook This occurred
August &c.
Representative Moore, of the Second dis
trict of Kansas, has given to his nephew,
who resides in Washington, d. c., the place
of clerk. Each member of the house is al
lowed clerk. Numbers of Kansas residents
were hoping to get the place.
Seventy thousand people assembled in
Hyde Park, London, last Sunday and were
addressed from eleven stands. The same
resolutions were adopted at each stand, which
demand the useless hereditary cham ber'
(the house of lords) be abolished.
General Dan E. Sickles has a scheme for
the government to acquire title to some $500
acres more at Gettysburg, now having some
1,500 acres, and to establish military post
there; also a soldiers home, Indian
sob On rhoVo A II
The new governor of the Chickasaws. who
takes Office Septem Der LIST. says he will re-
fuse to entertain any proposition from the
Dawes commission, sent there to negotiate
a change in tribal relations and of land ten
ure. The Choctaws agree to the same course.
Treasurer Shockley. of the National home
at Leaven worth, hiss just disbursed $4,000
in silver and gold to the boys in blue. Not
a dollar IN currency was paid IN pensions
this quarter. Large amounts are being sent
away to the families of many of the mem
bers.
The Santa Fe company is still running its
boarding house in the Argentine yards and
caring for the employees there. In this way
there is no money earned by the employees
spent in the city, and the merchants are do
ing all in their power to get matters ad-
justed.
The governor of Oklahoma is said to have
received the news that the Rock Island Rail-
road company had decided to give up the
fight against territory towns. and would be-
gin stopping all trains at Enid and Round
Pond, and would put in depots and side
tracks at once.
About 300 prominent Masons from all the
states in the union. representing 1000 chap
tiers and total membership of 15O,OOO, at
tended the twenty-ninth triennial convoca-
ton of the general grand chapter of the
Royal Arch Masons of America, in Topeka,
August 81, q and 3D.
In the free list of the new tariff bill is an
thracite and also ''coal- stores for American
vessels, but none shall be unloaded.' An
error in the enrolled bill makes it read San
thracite and stores of American vessels, but
none shall be unloaded.'' This prohibits
the importation of anthracite.
special Knights of Pythias train ran
from Jacksonville, Florida, to Washington,
D. c., $50 miles, in $50 minutes, running
time 1t made one squirt of Sc miles In 9912
minutes. including two stops for water and
a drawbridge. The average speed the entire
distance was 5513 miles an hour.
Sixty-two men we're imprisoned and thirty
seven killed by gas explosion in the Frank
lin mine, near Seattle, WASH, August "a.
Also two killed and eleven wounded at the
Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa, by an
explosion of gas: and at Creede, COL, four
we've killed in the Amethyst mine.
Numerous errors are found in the new tar
iff bill which can only be corrected by act of
congress. Most of the errors are in punctu-
alton. One of them so effects the duty on
alcohol as to lose large sums to the revenue.
Others make sections and clauses 1nopera-
tive, as having no sense as they stand.
The anticipated enactment of the new tar
if bill has affected the wool market in Eng
land, according to report to the state de-
partment from United States Consul Meeker
at Bradford. Buyers are eager to anticipate
a brisk demand from the United States and
farmers were anxious to turn their deeces
into ready money. Prices advanced 2@1
cent pound.