Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


normal school at Emporia numbered
JOG.
DR.. S. Tanner has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at King
man.
The agricultural college at Manhat-
tan graduated class of 81 at the re.
cent commencement.
The republicans county convention OF
Sedgwick county Endorsed the silver
plank of the Ohio republican platform.
The wheat in Montgomery county
is all harvested. The yield varies
from ten to twenty five bushels an
acre.
Ephriam Van Horn, one of the Oldest
settlers in Sedgwick county, was fatal
~ overcome by the heat the other day.
He was 72 years old.
| The state accountant has now the
accounts of DR.. Pitcher, superintend-
ent of the asylum for imbeciles at Win
field, under his crucial tests.
Hon. George r. Peck, formerly of
Kansas" but later of Chicago, deliv-
cred the address at the recent COM
mencement of the university of Vir-
ginia.
A cloud burst at Bartondale, Bar ton
county, the other day, is reported to
have done much damage. A herd of
fifty cattle were said to have been
drowned.
A large mass meeting of the people
of Kansas City, Kan, recently passed
resolutions protesting against the ac-
ton of the school board in dropping
from the list of teachers five Catholic
young women.
A. A. Sharp, president of the defunct
Larned state bank, was recently ar
rested and tried before justice of the
peace for receiving deposits while the
bank was insolvent, and bound over to
appear at the September term of the
district court.
The jury in the Matson murder trial
at Topeka tried for SO hours to agree
but failed. There were eleven white
men and one colored man on the jury.
The white men voted for conviction
and the colored juror stood out for
acquittal. The prisoner was negro
named Novels, who was charged with
the murder of Mrs. Matson.
For several years feud between
Editor J. X. Hudson, of the Topeka
Capital, and Hon. G. G. Foster, Judge
of the United States district court,
has existed, and lately it broke out
afresh by the editor making serious
charges through his paper against the
judge, and the latter filing suit in
the Shawnee county court against Mr..
Hudson for criminal libel.
The recent heavy rains broke down
dams and irrigation bitches in Chey-
enne county and it will cost hundreds
of dollars to repair them. Bridges and
fences were torn down and carried
away. Water from the main ditch Of
the South Fork Irrigation Co., which
enters St. Francis on the south, ran
down Main street, washing away side
walks, injuring buildings and flooding
cellars. The Republican river was
nearly mile wide in places, the high
est it has been in fifteen years.
AS President Fairchild, of the state
agricultural college, expects to make a
tour of Europe during the summer,
Secretary Coburn has commissioned
him on behalf of the Kansas board of
agriculture to make an investigation
of the agricultural and horticultural
methods, productions and markets of
those countries in which he may travel
and especially such aspects of them as
may have bearing upon or afford use
full suggestions along similar lines in
our own country, and report the sub
stance of his observations in an ad-
dress before the board at its annual
meeting in January.
The supreme court has decided the
Jobes-B reidenthal controversy over the
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Breidenthal, holding that when Breid-
enthal was appointed by Gov. Level
ling in 1893, it was for full term OF
fouy years, and not for the unexpired
term of C. F. Johnson, who was ap-
pointed in 1891. The conclusion of the
opinion is that ''as the appointing
power defined by the statute consists
of the governor and the senate to-
gether, and as the governor and the
senate did not act jointly until Feb
ruary, 1893, at the time when the de-
fendant (BreidenthaD was appointed
and confirmed, it follows that he was
the first commissioner regularly ap-
pointed for full term and that term
for which he was chosen will not ex-
pire until February, 1897" Associate
Justice johnson dissented.
Pensions lately granted Kansas vet
Grams: Original, Cyrus Webb, Augusta;
John Snowden, Manchester; Wesley
Woods, Kansas City; Jonas Shirk,
Hillsborough; Simon Regnier, alias
Peter j. Regnier, state soldiers home
Alexander Millville, Welda. Add
tional, Patrick Barry, Raymond. In
crease, Andrew Butler, Fort Scots
David Brotherton, Washington. Re-
issue, Jacob 7. Retiring, Elk City
Charles t. Calvert, Springfield; Joseph
P. Simmonds, Wakefield; John Kyle,
Arcadia; William Fl. Miller, Oswego
Thomas B. Hetticord, Belle PLANE
: Thomas Adkins, Toronto; Thoma:
Quinn, Dwight; Francis M. Downs,
; Lyndon; Isaac T. Earle, Eskridgei
Gordon w. Parker, Pratt; Jacob Sever
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