Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

houses This year.
The capacity of the Baker mill at
Pleasanton is to be increased from 200
to 400 barrels of -four per day.
The class of '95 in the Fort Scott high
school comprises twenty mine pupils
twenty-three young ladies and six young
men.
During the quarter which ended April
l, the decrease in mortgage indebted
ness on real estate in Riley county was
more than 100000.
The Newton water company has offer
ed to sell the plant to the city for 49,
900. The Republican says the city can
save $4,000 a year by owning its own
plant.
At the next meeting of the Leaven-
worth city council an ordinance prohib-
iting piano playing and other music in
saloons is to be passed. The ordinance has
been drafted by request of the police de-
partment. Music in Leavenworth saloons
has become an almost indispensable
feature. The penalty will be a fine of
from $40 to $40.
From Be!leville: Fl. D. Rich, while
engaged in sinking a we'll on the farm
Of Joe Taylor, six miles south of town,
struck an eighteen inch vein of coal
at a depth of thirtv-fve feet. The
coal struck is the same class as that
now taken out at Minersville, about six
miles south of the present find, but is
-
Capital: 1t is now believed that the
fine granite monument donated by
Guilford G.. Gage, and to be dedicated
to the memory Of the Shawnee county
soldiers in the late war, will be complet-
ed in time to be unveiled on Memorial
day. In that event the arrangements
will be for veterans to assemble in solid
column about the monument square end
at an agreed signal the yelling will be
dropped and the line of march will be
taken up to the vacant square just to
the north of the cemetery, where the
exercises will occur.
A crowd of boys, while fishing near
the Mill creek bridge on the north side
Of Fort Scott unearthed a number of
DID and valuable coins, which have evil
IDENTIFY been buried by some one in an
attempt to hide stolen treasure. The boys
were lodnging around on the bank when
they saw the edge of coin protruding
from what appeared to be a mole hill,
they commenced to dig in the mound
and had soon unearthed a number of
old coins, some coined by the United
States, but mostly of foreign coinage.
Some were very old and one copper bore
the date of 1879. while half penny was
coined in 1905.
At the Northeastern Kansas Teachers
association at Kansas City, Kan, the
committee on awarding the library to
the county having the greatest num-
Der in attendance made the following
report of the enrolment: Leaveuworth,
"a; johnson, 26; Douglas, 10; Atchison,
Wyandotte, sc, and Shawnee, 68. By
the terms of the offer, Wyandotte
county was debarred from competing
and Shawnee county was adjudged the
winner. The library is worth $75 and
was the gift of the publishing no uses of
CHM & Co., d. G. Heath & Co. and the
Werner company. The auditing COM
mittee reported the receipts to be $238. 80
and the expenditures $230.26.
The horticultural Review of London,
England, deyotes a full page to de-
Icription of the Kansas State Agricul-
;ural college at Manhattan, prefacing
It with the following paragraph: I'VE
we're not anxious to continue the ex-
oortation of our best men from this
country, but would prefer their being
encouraged to remain at home. Prob
IDLY nothing would have SO beneficial
IN effect in this direction as the estab-
ishment of system of agricultural
education on economical terms such as
that at Manhattan, Kansas, .. S. A.
We are SO much interested in the COM
non sense system adopted there with
out any useless red tape and oficialism,
shat we reproduce the terms and par
iculars on a prettily illustrated pros
pectus which has recently reached us.
For conciseness and utility we would
recommend this prospectus to all tech
nical education committees, parish and
county councils as model"
A case to determine the water rights
of the North Solomon river, which is in
the dry portion of the state, will be tried
in the district court of Phillips county
in short time Peter Hanson, OF Lo-
gan, brings suit to recover $4,000 dam
ages against the Ward Irrigation COM
pany of that place. This claim for dam
ages is only for one year, 1891, and if
the prosecution is successful great
many similar suits will no doubt be
brought by other millers along the
North and South Solomon rivers. This
is probably the first case of the kind
ever brought in Kansas, and the out
come will be watched with great deal
of interest. The millers along the North
and South Solomon rivers claim that the
irrigation companies will appropriate
practically all the water supply next
season and that their mills, which are
run by water power, will have to stand
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