Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
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Argurn ents are being made before the
United States supreme court in a case to
test the constitutioaaiity of the income tax
feature of the Wilson tariff law. It may re-
suit in stopping the collection of that tax.
The case brought by John Brun, formerly
steward of the Topeka insane asylum. against
the state board of charities to recover the
position, was decided by the supreme court
in an oral opinion and judgment was rem
dered for the defendant.
The president left Washington early on
March 5, on his favorite lighthouse tender,
the Violet. for ten DAYS shooting on the in
land wators of North Carolina. There were
scores of politicians who went to the Whit ,
house that morning and left disappointed.
A new draw bridge over Cuyahoga river,
in Cleveland. o., is to be operated by cleo
trlclty and compressed air.
American wooden cloth is being sold in
the English markets and right in the center
of the English cloth manufacturing districts.
The Westinghouse Air Brake company has
won its suit, sustaining its patents, over the
secret organization at UnionviIle, Mo-,
il ordering all blacks to leave the place.
The orders are given in the white capper
style and are not signed.
County clerks of Oklahoma enter a gen.
ing department seeds sent to them from
Washington for free distribution.
Astronomers were we'll prepared for the
total eclipse of the moon on the night of
March TO- Succe ,sful observations md
photographs were taken at Chicago, Pueblo
and Halifax; while the clouds defeated the
gazers at Washington and many other places.
The newly appointed state board of irri-
CATION met at Topeka March II, to organize
Il - = al
that work will b. done in time for practical
planting experiments the coming crop sea-
son.
Colonel Fred d. Grant will ask that his
son, U. S. Grant be placed at West Point
military academy, where General Grant and
Colonel Grant, his father and grandfather
were educated. It is said that this was the
expressed wish of General Grant
The postoffice department is making 400
appointments of mail weigher7 on trains to
serve a month in Illinois, Iowa. Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas. Indian Territory. Wis
consin, Minnesota. North Dakota and Mon
tana. They are chosen from certified civil
service lists.
Spec ais report that primary elections for
members of boards of education were held
in numerous cities in all parts of Ohio. and
that the women were out in force as voters.
In nearly every case wHere there was cOmpe-
tition between a woman and a man the
woman won.
Frederick E. Sickels. aged 76 years, in
ven tor of the Corliss engine. died in his office
in Kansas City. March 8. Among his many
inventions was the Sckels automatic steam
ut-off which revoutionized the steam en-
gines Of the world. He helped build the
Union Pacific railroad.
Crizaba is in the state of eruDtion and
COrdoYa. Orizaba. kalapa and dozens of
smaller Mexican towns in the stat of Vera
Cruz are in danger. The great number of
old craters. through a strip of Mexico from
Gulf to Pacific. are now mOsty smoking. A
general earthquake is feared.
The treasury officials have made a ruling
that dividends received by a resident of the
United States from corporations, foreign or
otherwise, doing business wholly without
the United States and having its principal
office and property out of the United States,
must be returned as income.
A cruel joker rod wildly into Chandler.
o. T., and shouted that the president had
declared the KickapoO reservation open to
settlement and that hundreds of people were
crowding into the new lands for claims.
Scores of people mounted horses, raced to
the Kickapoo country and staked off claims
and then found it to be all joke.
Worth, the Paris dressmaker, is dead He
was an Englishman. At a bout the age of IA
he became dry good cerk in London,
where he mnenced to d On fashions. AT
81 years of age he went to Paris. as clerk in
the same line. While so engaged he re ceived
medals for displays at the London and Paris
expostions. In 1870. at the age of IS, he
formed the establishment which has since
been the ruler of fashions
1t transpires. on tn authority of Secretary
Morton that the president dictated to the con-
ference com mittee on the agricultural appro-
priation bill that the 100000 which had
been voted by both houses to supply seeds
to farmers in the drouth affected portions
of four western states and Oklahoma terri
tory, should be stricken from the bill or he
would veto the whole bill. It was dropped
and the action kept quiet, members and
senators not knowing about it.
Senator O'Bryan, of Wichita, will resign
and remove from the state. H. is a demo-
crat and, al a special election, will be sue
ceeded by a republican. Sena or Baker, of
Leaveu worth, has vacated his seat by being
now a senator from Kansas in the United
States senate. He is a republican and will
probably be succeeded by a man Of the
same party. Senator Dennison's seat IS va
Gated by his appointment as one of the APP
pelate court judges. From present infor-
nation 1t is not taSy to predict what party
will elect his successor.