Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


| club in Central Music hall at Chicago
On the evening of December was at
tended by about 1000 persons. Gov.
! Morrill,, SecT stary of State Edwards,
State Superintendent of Schools STAN
ley and several other officials were
present, besides large delegation of
| Kansans. Miss Nelles, of Topeka, rem
dered several pieces of music and Gov.
| Morrill, delivered an address on the
| past, present and future of Kansas.
| Hon. j. R. Burton spoke in his hap
piest style of the advantages Kansas
offered to the enterprising home
seeker or investor. Ex-senator In
gals was on the programme for a
speech and at the last moment tele-
graphed that it was impossible for him
to reach the city. This was a great
disappointment to many who had ex-
pected to hear him.
miscellaneous.
A diphtheria scare exists at Fort
Scott
Bud Hatch shot and killed Tom Null
lin, of Sterling, on tn streets of
Hutchinson the other day. Both colored-
B. F. Graves and George L. Sherman,
of Kansas, have been appointed COM
positors in the government printing
Office at Washington, under civil serv-
! ice rules.
Frank M. Elliott, young man from
Denton, Kan, was sandbagged and
robbed of $40 in the post Office building
at Kansas City, Mo-, the other night.
He was badly hurt
Four prisoners from Oklahoma were
recently taken to the United States
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
One was full-blood Usage Indian, and
his crime manslaughter.
Louis Knipscheer, boiler maker,
employed in the smelling works at Ar
gentine, was struck by Santa Fe
passenger train while going to his
work the other morning and killed.
Abraham Bradley, aged rs years, a
resident of Topeka, was recently found
a few miles south of Wichita in dv-
ing condition. He was en- route to Ok
| Iahoma to visit his son, and while
asleep walked of the fast train.
Albert Bittman, son of c. w. Bit
man, of Louisville, was found dead by
the side of the road about 1 mile
north of Wamego the other morning.
He was a cadet at West Point and had
returned home on account of illness
No marks of violence were on his
body.
In the Clint Osbon case, in which the
defendant shot and killed Charles
HANDLE, a Holton attorney, about a
year ago, and which was taken to
Douglas county on change of venue,
the jury returned verdict against
Osbon of guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree.
About s o'clock the other night
Rolby Harvey and Joe and Fred
Rickerts, three young toughs, rode
up to John Vogle's place in the
suburbs of Leavenworth, and, in cow
boy style, fred seven pistol shots into
the place, and then dismounting they
rifed the money drawer of $40 in cash
and 81 check.
Capt. w. $. Tough, who for many
years has managed the horse market
at the Kansas City stock yards, will
deliver an address before the annual
meeting of the Kansas board of agri-
culture in January on 1.-The horse stu
alton and it's future outlook" Capt.
Tough is noted horseman and was
once United States marshal.
Did farmhouse near Larned, that was
destroyed by fire some months ago,
workmen unearthed five human skele- |
tons. They were supposed to have
been Indians killed in battle when the
Pawnees overran that section years
ago and nearly exterminated the Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes in battle in the
locality.
Dick Little committed suicide at
Winchester a few days ago by shoot
ing himself He put shotgun in his
mouth and literally blew his head off.
The unfortunate man had been nurs-
ing his wife through long attack of
illness. as we'll as attending to large
amount of farm work, and it is sup
posed he went insane from the loss of
rest and sleep.
There are sixty cities in Kansas
which have fire departments, each to
the value of 81, 200 or more. Under the
Kansas reciprocal tax law these depart
ments are each entitled to 2 per cent
of the business done in the cities by
fire insurance companies, which come
within the provisions of the act. The
surerintendent of insurance has or
dered that the tax be paid by the COM
panies.
The state treasurer's report for No
vember differs but little from the Oc-
tober report except that the totals are
generally smaller. During the month
$50 232. 80 was received by the treas |
urer while the expenditures amounted
to $780, 424 10, leaving balance at the |
close of Novem Der of 1920, $50. 81, while |
the total at the end of October was
S511 1856 80. The bonded Indebtedness |
of the state is 1882. 600
There are now in the Kansas peni-
Tertiary, according to the report of
the warden. S74 convicts. OF these $50
are white, 217 negroes, Indians and 2 |
Mexicans. There are IA female pris- |
oners- Oklahoma furnishes 103 of the |
convicts. Twenty counties of the state |