Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ELLSWORTH has PAID OH $40, OOO OF her
bonds this year.
The women of Atchison registered in
large numbers to be able TO vote at the
city election.
The 6. A. R. post of Hiawatha has
secured Bernard Kelly for an address
Memorial day.
Senator Lucien Raker has accepted
an Invitation to deliver Memorial day
address at Wichita.
Hiawatha World The value of prop
erty exchanges in Brown county Is
from $4,000 to $4,000 a week.
Alma, with a population of $50,
claims to lay it over any town of its
size in the abundance of it's musical tai
ent.
The government work on the river in
the vicinity of Atchison is finished.
About $4,000 in additional will be
spent by the railroads in completing the
job.
The Harper creamery has fifty three
regular customers who receive nearly
$500 a month. Payment is now made
for the quality of milk instead of guam
tity.
Oskaloosa Independent: J. B. Wheel
er brought burr oak log to town Tues
day which was 40 inches in diameter
and weighed $500 pounds. 1t is to be
sawed up into bridge timber.
Ulysses Republican: The South Fork
Ditch company has its ditch nearly
completed. The land under this ditch
will be the most valuable in the south
western part of the state, ~south of the
Arkansas river.
A Winfield man has discovered an
elm tree on Dutch Creek, Cowley coun-
ty, that measures twenty ght feet IN
circumference three feet from the
ground and at height of forty feet is
fully six feet IN diameter.
Capital: The Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance company obtained
decree of foreclosure from Judge Thomas
in the United States district court in the
sum of $2,67O. The Judgment was
against the First African Methodist
Episcopal church of Kansas City, Kan.
The Pittsburg Industrial company
with capitalization of 100000 has
been chartered The directors of the
company announce that it is their in
tention to engage in securing and pro-
noting manufactures in that city. Met
al. glassware, leather and textile factories
are mentioned in the list of enterprises
that the directors will undertake to es-
tablish it Pittsburg.
Hiawatha World: Sheriff Brown says
he is not overworked at present He
has served but one summons since the
first of the year. Not over dozen cases
have been filed with the district clerk
since January 1st., and the amount in
volved in each case is small. District
Clerk Mitchell says the people are pre-
pairing for the end of the world and
don't want to be tangled up in law
suits.
From Humboldt: Oil we'll No 5, of
this vicinity, has been ''shot'' by the
McCready Brothers under the super
vision of Guffey and Galley. Thirty-two
quarts of nitro glycerine were exploded
in the oil sand and as the result of
the conclusion large quantity of oil
was thrown from the we'll. The owners
of the we'll are well pleased with the
quantity and quality of the oil and are
now perfecting apparatuses to pump the
oil into tanks.
A year ago colony of sixty North
western Kansas people packed up their
effects and moved to Edmonton, in the
province of Alberta, B. c., where it is
said, they get their land free. They are
evidently satisfied for another colony
from the same section will leave this
week to join their friends in the far
North. The second movement will con-
sist of eighteen cars of effects and three
coaches of colonists Edmonton is about
800 miles north of the northern bound
airy of the United States. It is one of
the farthest points north reached by
rail The colonists who are going there
are French people who located in Kan
sas many years ago. They have been
doing well, but are of rowing DISPOSE
ton.