Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-02

Close sold his entire possessions in Troy
to Henry Boder.
The dining hail floor at the Leaven-
worth home is TO be re-laid in hard ma
ple 1t will require 10000 feet.
Fort Scott has justice of the peace
who was first commissioned in 1854. and
still holds the Office. His name is Mar
grave.
A Fort Scott business man last week
found deposit check for 500 which he
had deposited in bank of neigbbor-
ing town in 1891 and entirely forgotten
A $4,000 corporation has been or
ganized in Coffeyville to manufacture
and put on the market recently invented
buggy top support fC- which great merit
is claimed.
ElDorado high school pupils are going
to buy themselves a fine new piano.
They gave an entertainment a new
nights ago, which melted them $50 for
the piano fund.
County Attorney Morris and Sheriff
Deets have been waging a war on liquor
sellers in Pittsburg, lately. Several
have been arrested, their stock and fix
lures confscated.
A Leavenworth firm has $4,000 bush
els of wheat stored in North Topeka
elevator, enough to fill 100 cars. It is to
be shipped to Leavenworth, Immediate
~ for milling purposes.
I.
the liquor sellers that Pittsburg can
now be reported as ''dry city" city.
The battle goes on at Girard, the countys
seat, and the confscated goods are
transferred from one officer to another
as the different wrirs are served.
1 large number of workmen from the
Kansas City, Kas., Relief Association
have been cleaning the streets of late.
The association has no other place to
put men to work, and as a result the
condition of the business streets Is
much improved, and the men have the
satisfaction of knowing that they earned
what was given them by the association.
Pursuant to orders from the Fort
Scott police commissioners every saloon.
in the CITY closed its doors and for the
first time in two years liquor cannot
be purchased over the bar. All the
gambling houses have also been closed
on account of Cubbison's anti gambling
law and the city is cut out OF aoou5
81, 400 a month revenue which has here
tofore been paid in advance in the shape
of monthly fines.
John Bishop died last week from
blood poisoning caused by the bite of
had lived in Atchison more than thirty
years. While IN the employ of the Mis-
souri, Pacific in 1892, Bishop was bitten
on one of his legs by RATHER. The
usual remedies were applied, but the
poison spread through his system. Al
though strong man at the time, he
was afterward hopeless invalid.
Topeka Mail: G. G. Gage. one of
Topeka's best citizens, is causing to be
erected in the Topeka cemetery, at his
own expense, an appropriate and costly
monument to the memory of the brave
soldiers of Shawnee county. who were
killed at the battle of the Blue, October
%, 1864. It will be .surmounted by
statue representing soldier in uniform
standing at parade rest. The monu-
ment is to be dedicatad on next memo
rial day
The Leavenworth Commercial ex-
change has under consideration plan
for raising 100000 in real estate; this
is to be sold and put into a fund for the
purpose of assisting small enterprises
that may locate here. The gentlemen
who are taking an active part in this
matter are the gentlemen who succeeded
in getting the present system of cleo
trio street railroad. It is the general
opinion that an effort of this kind would
succeed now.
Klngman special: Active operations
are resumed at the Rock Island salt
nlant This is one of the three plants
that formerly contributed SO materially
to the citv's prosperity, but, with the
others, has been closed for more tnan
two years. The company representing
a capital stock of S25, 900 is reorganlzed,
and is entirely independent OF any salt
trust. A force of twenty men IS now
employed and the output will be lou
barrels of salt per day.
S. H. Coffett, a young student of the
Kansas normal college at Fort Scott,
whose home is at Macon City, No, was
arrested by Deputy United States Mar
shall Lardner, charged with sending
scurrilous letters to Miss Crabtree,
student at the normal college at Great
Bend. Coffett formerly attended the
Great Bend school aud kept company
with Miss Crabtroe. He pleaded guilty
to the charge and was sent to jail to
await sentence at the next term of court.
The following members of the senior
class at Kansas university were elected
members of the Phi Beta Kappa fra
ternitv BY members of the faculty OF the
university belonging to the society on
account of the high scholarship record