Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Cashier Colean, who wrecked the
Fort Scott State bank, made an I'M
successful attempt at suicide the other
evening when officers told him he must
go to Jail.
The governor has pardoned Albert
Harding, of Montgomery county, un-
der sentence of death for the murder
of his wife. Late developments led to
the belief that he was not guilty.
Maj John German, while recently
giving directions to some carpenters at
Wichita, fell from the scaffold and his
neck was broken. He was an officer
during the war and was 20 years of age.
w. p. Montgomery, editor of the
Hays City Sentinel, died in that city the
other day. Mr.. Montgomery was
Kansas pioneer and an attorney at
Lecompton in the palmy days of that
territorial capital city.
Burglars attempted to rob the bank
at Severance the other night. They
blew open the safe and drilled hole
in the cash drawer but were frightened
away before getting the cash. The
safe contained $50, 900 in money.
Topeka recently had bicycle car
nival. At night the whole town turned
out to witness the parade, which was
made up of 600 wheelmen in costume.
The carnival was under the direction
of the Topeka Athletic association.
The state live stock sanitary board
has gone on trip to Mexico with the
view of determining by personal in
spection whethersthere is any disease
ha iol,
toms recent order permits to enter the
United States.
The train containing the exhibit of
Kansas products started on it's adver-
Using trip from Topeka on the eth.
The train consisted of seven cars of
fruit, grain and miscellaneous prod
ucts, and goes to Chicago, stopping at
all the leading towns on the way.
J. A. Parker, an Atchison county
fruit grower, recently shipped two car
loads of fruit to Germany. Twenty
eight barrels of selected apples in the
lot went to the emperor of Germany.
The apples were grown on young trees
and were said to be the finest ever seen
in the state.
Mac Mckee, treasurer of Viclzsburg
reported as having been robbed of $225
and left for dead in vacant house,
from which he had removed. When
found by his wife, after lying uncon-
scious all day, he was yet unable to
talk. The robber was unknown.
A meeting to sympathize with the
Cubans in their struggle for liberty
was recently held at Topeka. Ad-
dresses were made by several prom
inent speakers and resolutions were
adopted expressing sympathy for the
insurgents and declaring that the
United States ought to recognize them
as belligerents.
Acting on the advice of the attorney
general, Warden Chase has announced
that no more state penitentiary coal
will be sold to dealers or coal compa-
MES or to any person where the state
coal will be placed in competition with
the product of outside mines. The To-
cal wagon trade will be supplied where
it is shown that the purchaser is the
consumer.
Leavenworth's apple carnival was a
bowling and noisy success, thousands
of barrels of the fruit being utilized in
the display. Every store and building
down town was lavishly decorated
with apples and the carnival day col
ors, red, yellow and green. Business
was suspended and the entire popula-
ton, besides thousands of visitors,
joined in the fun.
Pension Agent Click has written a
letter to Congressman Calderhead in
which he says that the enumeration of
old soldiers in Kansas reported by the
state board of agriculture is about
correct. Secretary Coburn's figures
showed 81, 900 old soldiers and Click
says that there are SO, 600 pension
Der about 81, 500 are males. There are
6, 500 widows, and about 1000 old sol
diers in Kansas who do not draw PEN
sionS.
Last September year ago Arthur
Kahn. Fred Albee. police judge of
Goodland, and several other parties
were out hunting, and in attempting
to fire at flock of ducks Kahn acci-
dentally shot aud killed Albee. The
coroner's jury exonerated him. SUBJ
sequently Kahn moved to Sedalia, Mo-,
and established clothing store The
other day an officer from Goodland
went to Seda1ia and arrested Kahn on
the charge of murder. Kahn says 1t is
an attempt at blaclzmail, as Kansas
City lawyer had made a demand on
him for money as the attorney of the
dead mans family.
October IA w. F. Illston, Shawnee
county farmer, sent his 14-year-old son
to Topeka for load of sand. The boy
got the sand and started home, when
all traces of him and the team were
lost. The whole country was vainly
searched. About two weeks after the
dead body of the lad was found in
some high grass six miles east of To-
peka, with a handkerchief stuffed in
his mouth and two bullet holes in his
head. He was last seen in company
with an unknown young man, who
probably murdered him and took the