Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


had taken an overdose of choral.
The late rains were the heaviest that
have fallen in Kansas for years At
Fort Scott considerable damage re-
suited. Over five inches of water fell
in As hours. The rain was followed by
heavy snowstorm on the 18th and
goth.
The senate on the 18th confirmed the
following Kansas postmasters: c. p.
Baldwin, at Belleville; J. B. Davidson,
Girard; J. 6. Has1ett, Baxter Springs;
Robert Kennedy, Pleasanton; c. w. ii.
Lucas, Cherokee; G. L. Mattingly,
Sedan; A. G. Patrick, Oskaloosa.
Three men who were in Col. Aber-
nathy's barn at Leavenworth the other
evening permitted two masked robbers
to hold them up and rob them of their
watches and cash in pocket. The rob-
bers secured three watches and about
twenty-five dollars and left their vic
Tins with hands pointed skyward
Pensions recently granted Kansas
veterans. Original, John c. McCarty,
Argentine; Jacob Grover, Fort Scott;
James E. Foster, Soldier. Increase,
Elijah Monroe, Troy. Reissue, Sam
uel ]. Churchill, Lawrence. Original
widows, ETC., Sarah A. Goodsick, Nick
ersoH; Belinda McCarty, Lane; Anna
Fl. Fisher, Liberal.
Levi Cbubbuck, secretary of the
Missouri State Dairy association, has
been appointed by the secretary OF
agriculture special expert agent of
the dairy division of the department of
agriculture for Kansas and Missouri
He will be glad to hear from any one
in either state on matters of interest
to the dairy industry.
M. E. Lowe, ex-city scavenger of
of Topeka, was recently arrested on
the charge of being the party who re-
Gently robbed graves in that city and
sold them to the medical college. DIR
Minney, dean of the college, and two
students were also arrested on the
charge of arranging with Lowe for
the bodies. The three latter gave
bonds.
The body of the man recently found
with his throat cut near Piper, Wyan-
dotte county, was later identified as
that of Phillip Belt, veteran who
had been an inmate of the soldiers
home. He drew pension of $12 per
month and had just drawn three
months pay when he disappeared. Cir
cumstances pointed to murder and
robbery.
Representative Curtis has intro
duced bill in congress for the pen
sioning of the heirs of the young men
killed at Lawrence on the morning
of the Quantrell raid in 1863. There
were % of these recruits. They had
been examined and were to have been
mustered into the service as members
of the 14th Kansas cavalry on the oath
of August, 1868, but on the morning of
the 23d Quantrelrs raiders killed II of
them.
When interviewed as to his opinion
of the presidents message on the
Venezuela dispute Gov. Morrill, said:
''All Americans who are Americans in
&atriotic spirit will indorse the mes
sage. It is bold. courageous and
timely. It is what the people were
upon war, they will respond as one
man to the presidents call for troops,
and in that event Kansas may be de-
pended upon to furnish her full quota"
A citizen of Wichita is said to have
received a letter from w. P. Patterson,
the hotel keeper of Arkansas City who
had been sent to the penitentiary for
completely in the murder of a cattle
man, and whose dead body (as was
supposed) was shipped from the peni-
tertiary about a year ago. Patterson
is quoted as saying that he paid pen
itentiary official $1,000 for his liberty
and that his alleged corpse had been
procured from Chicago. The story has
fishy smell
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, has made ruling that
in the settlement of litigation arising
out of the recent mortgage redemption
decision of Judge Martin, that de-
cisions made by him and based on Chief
Justice Horizons former decision will
be permitted to stand until the matter
is finally settled in the supreme court
of the United States, but that in all
future cases he will be governed by
the more recent decision of Chief
Justice Martin.
DR.. J. E. Minney, DR.. M. R. Mitchell
and DR.. C. s. McClintock, members of
the faculty of the Kansas Medical col
lege at Topeka, in which the stolen
bodies of three women were found re-
Gently, and S. A. Johnson, janitor,
have been arrested on warrants sworn
out in the district court by the county
attorney of Shawnee county, charging
them with having received stolen hui
man bodies. They gave bonds for their
appearance A special grand jury has
been ordered to investigate the case.
In answer to an inquiry from the
state board of health Acknowledgement
Dawes has given an opinion to the eff
feet that parties who were practicing
medicine for ten years previous to the
act, in 1870. are the only persons le-
gally entitled to practice besides those
who have graduated from some rep
utable medical school. or hold certifi-
Gates from some qualified medical So
ciety. As to health boards, the attor-
ney-genera1 says every board of county