Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

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CURRENT COMMENT.
THIS years corn yield promises to be
bv far the greatest ever gathered. The
estimate is 2,4OO, 600, 900 bushels. In
nearly all the western corn states the
prospects are unusually good.
THE United States evidently intends
to have one of the finest bodies of regu-
lar troops in the world. Two hundred
applicants for places in the ranks were
examined in Chicago last month and
only four of the mum Der were accepted.
A MOBILE, Ala, paper recently said
that there were 25,0O0000 gallons of
molasses stored in tanks on the Lousi-
ana plantations which the planters
could neither sell at profit nor throw
away without creating a nuisance in
the neighborhood.
j. H MILL1KEN, dIrecuor-general of
the G. A. r. arrangements at Louis
Vile, XIV, recently said in letter to
G. A. r. men there that all statements
regarding the proposed drawing of the
color line at the national encampment
against negro ex-soldiers are absolute
ly false.
RAILWAY officials say that tourist
travel this summer is 80 per cent. more
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portions has this traffic grown that its
increase this year will cut decided
figure in passenger earnings They
will show large increases over last
year and will probably equal those of
1892.
IT is stated at the treasury depart
ment that the present demand for L
cent pieces is unprecedented and to
meet it shipments have been made
from the sub-treasuries where there is
an over supply. The very general use
of penny slot machines throughout the
country is believed to be the cause of
the demand.
THE assistant secretary of the in
terror has decided that municipal cor
poratiOn which cared for sick soldier
and buried him as a pauper in the pot
ter's field had no right to REIN burse-
ment under the pension laws. Had the
corporation cared for and buried him
decentlv then the claim would have
been allowed.
SOME notion Of the amount of lum-
Der being cut in the Minnesota forests
is had from the fact that one day re-
Gently there was jam of logs in the
upper Mississippi above st. Cloud
which was estimated to contain $50,
600, 900 feet of lumber, and little fur
ther up the river there was another
jam, which extended for 20 miles.
THE preliminary steps toward the
building of an electric line for the
transmission of passengers, mail and
express from Chicago to Buffalo are
now on foot, and it is the intention to
continue the line to New York. The
run to Buffalo is to be made in four
hours, and to New York in from eight
to ten hours. An average speed of 15G
miles per hour is promised.
THE quartermaster-gene of the
army recently drew attention to the
fact that under the act approved
March 3, 1898, all soldiers and sailors
honorably discharged and buried in a
private cemetery were entitled to a
headstone and that the government
paid all transportation expenses to the
point of cemetery, provided the au-
thorities paid for the erection.
THE ST. Louis Globe Democrat re-
Gently said that Americans spent at
least S75, o00,OO0 a year in visiting
Europe for pleasure and hardly 81, 900,
600 at our own natural wonders OF
Niagara, the Yosemite valley and the
Yellowstone park. Most of the tour.
lists at these home resorts are Europe
ans Among the 5000 visitors to the
Yellowstone park during the last three
hears only sixty were Americans.
CoNsUI. DEBELLET, at Rheims, France
has informed the state department a
Washington, through an official report
of the discovery of new process TO
keeping fruit fresh, which consists IL
treating them to a vapor of water anC
alcohol. The discovery was made by
Mr.. Petit, who contends that ever
fruits which have begun to decay ma,
be preserved for an indefinite length o
time by the process.
THE pension roll of the war of tn
revolution will be now closed, as tn
last pensioner in that list has just died
The pension office has been notified o
the death of Mary Brown, of Knox
vile, Tenn, at the age of 81 years
This woman became a revolutionar.
pensioner from the fact that she wa
the widow of Joe Brown. revolution
airy soldier, whom she married in 1924
at the age of 90 years. Her pension
amounted to $12 per month.
THE Chicago bureau of charities est
mates that one-tenth of the who'll
population of that city has fallen below
the line of subsistence, either tempo
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