Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Vv1LnQrdWn from business IN Kansas.
The board OF charities recently APP
pointed L. c. Biddle, of Emporia, as
superintendent of the Osawatomie in.
sane asylum, to succeed DR.. L. E.
Wentworth.
Five hundred people were driven
from their homes at Salina by the
late flood in the Smoky Hill river.
Crops were badly damaged in the val
ley by the overflow. So
Eugene Yates, a young man of To-
peka, was recently arrested and taken
to Leavenworth to answer the charge
of obtaining money by false pretenses
He passed a worthless check.
Acknowledgement Dawes has fled an
information in the district court against
Labor Commissioner w. G. Bird, charg-
ing him with oppression in office.
There are seven counts in the Informal
ton.
Labor Commissioner Bird was ar.
rested at Topeka on the 18th upon
charges filed by the encouragement
and promptly gave bond for his appear
ance at the September term of the
court.
Francis Whitaker & Sons have given
q mortgage for $500, 900 on their pack.
ing plant at Wichita in favor of Benja.
min f. Edwards, of ST. Louis. 1t is ex-
pected that the plant will soon be in
full operation.
Acknowledgement Dawes has filed a
motion in the supreme court for re-
hearing of the Breidenthal bank com.
missioner case. Under a new ruling OF
the court the motion cannot be taken
up until September.
Gov. Morrill, has issued an order sum.
rnarily removing w. J. Hurd, of Hol
ton, from his position of director OF
the state penitentiary. At the same
time he announced the appointment al
NJ. NJ. Beck, of Holton, as Hurd's sue.
cessor.
Leading colored men in Kansas are
raising money and taking other steps
to try to secure the release of ex-Con.
sui John L. Waller from the French
sentenced to serve twenty years term
as spy.
Col Learnard, president of the Kan
sas Cotton States exposition committee,
received word that space asked for
Kansas exhibit at the Cotton States
exposition could not be had, as apRli
cation had been made too late. The
commission, however, will persist in
its efforts to secure space.
Col. Foster went into a drug store al
Cherryvale the other night to get some
medicine, but by mistake was given
laudanum, after taking which he went
to sleep and could not be awakened.
He was native of Sycamore, Ill, and
had gone to Cherryvale few days be-
fore to attend his sisters funeral.
Charles Starbuck, within a few
months of 100 years of age, died at
Lawrence the other day. He came to
Kansas before the settlement by the
first immigration company. He leaves
a daughter IS years old, a grandson
AZ years old, a great-granddaugh "a
years old and great-great-grands
years old, all residing in Douglas
county.
Tully Scott, J. NJ. Humphrey and
John Armstrong, members of the board
of managers of the Hutchinson reform
atory were recently in Topeka in re-
Spouse to the message from the gov
ernor ordering them to appear before
him to answer grave charges against
them as managers of the reformatory.
The governor subsequently demanded
their designations, which were later
rendered.
The sheriff Of Atchison county re.
Gently went to Topeka and served pa
pers on Maj. HHdsQp, of the Capital,
charging him with crimtnally libeling
Judge C. G. Foster. The suit is tbs
second one brought against Maj. Hud-
son by Judge Foster, and the last in
formation was signed by j. X. Fisher,
of Atchison, who was foreman of the
grand jury concerned in the charges
made by Foster against Hudson.
Henry Cummings, a farmer living 20
miles west of Topeka, fell from wag-
on the other day about noon, breaking
his neck, and was not found until next
day. He had suffered great torture
for twenty hours, and died soon after
he was discovered. He was paralyzed
by the shock, and to add to his misery
and torture ants and other insects had
crawicd over him and eaten into his
nose, eyes and face, he being unable to
make the slightest move in self-defense.
| The board of managers of the state
reformatory at Hutchinson continued
their investigation of superintendent
Hatch, notwithstanding the order of
the governor for postponment. The
superintendent declined to appear be-
fore the board. but rendered his resig-
nation. The investigated proceeded,
however, and he was decided to be un-
| fitted sor the work and removed from
office. The governor cited the board
to appear and answer charges against
the member
A statistician has figured that the
corn crop of Kansas this year. esti-
mated at about 100000, 600 bushels,
would fill wagons holding so bushels
each and allowing % feet to each
team and wagon, that would make a
procession, ten abreast, reaching from
New York city to San Francisco. Al
lowing 100 bushel to fatten one steer