Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-25
Several cases of grip are reported.

Several cases of grip are reported
G. A. Hoar returned last Thursday
from his visit to Georgia.
Some of our citizens have been buy
ing Cripple Greek mining stocks.
Geo. W. McMichael, of Cheyenne
Wells, visited in our city Wednesday
evening.
Rev. Thompson has been holding
revival meetings in the east part of
the county.
They say Governor Morrill, is very
fond of a game Of whist, by way of
recreation, and he plays a scientific
game too.
A prize fight is announced at Ellis
tonight. Ellis is probably the only
town in western Kansas where it
would be permitted.
The court house at Hays City burn
ed down last Tuesday morning. The
records were all saved and the prison
ers in the basement were safely re-
moved.
The social event of the season was
the masquerade ball at the Cleveland
on Friday evening, January 18th. A
large number were present and the
costumes were very fine.
Sheriff Miller took Kerfus from our
county jail to Hays City last Friday
to appear at his preliminary eXamina-
tion. If bound over to the district
court he will probably be returned.
The State Normal of California
located at Los Angeles, has 400
students in attendance, 400 of whom
are girls. This proportion of girls,
seeking professional training. lndi-
Gates the future teaching force of the
state.
J. W. Pierce, Republic, Iowa, says:
81 have used One Minute Cough Cure
in my family and for myself, with re-
suits SO entirely satisfactory that /
can hardly find words to express my
self as to it's merit. / will never fail
to recommend it to others, on every
occasion that presents ITSELF" Jones
& Gibson.
From the report of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture for the month
ending December 81, 1895, we learn
many things that may be Of interest
to our readers: In 1860 the total popu-
lation of the state was 107, POS and in
1895 it was 1884, 74. In 1896 Trego
county had no population or if it had
we are not credited with any. Nearly
half of the present population of Kan
SaS were born in the state. There are
500, 1928 males and $40, 1906 females in
the state; 2,075 males. are Oversee years
of age and 1,796 females. The follow
ing are the largest cities in the state
in the order herein enumerated: Kan
sas City, 40,676; Todeka, 30, Isl; Wich-
ison, $500; Fort Scott, 11,109; Law
renee, 10,OS4; Pittsburg, 1882; Hutch
inson, 8,515; EmpOria, 8,258; Parsons,
1913. The value of church property
in Kansas 1896, 037; number of or
CARNATIONS, 537; aggregate member
ship, 81 ,422. The value of school
property is $9,7S1 ,425; number of
school houses 1926. There are $50
newspapers in the state with an ag-
gregate circulation of 1922 The
area of field crops for 1895 was 81 49,
704 acres, the largest in the history of
the state. The aggregate value of all
products from field, orchard and dairy
as returned was S128, SOB, 791, an in
crease over 1894 of more than Ii per
cent. The counties of the least pop
ulatiOn are situated in the southwest
ern part of the state and are as fol-
lows: Grant, 532; Haskell, 595; Nor
ton, 1888; Stanton, 613; Stevens, 684;
Scott, LOSS; Lane, 1,488; Wallace,
1866. The four counties containing
the largest population are given in
the following order: Wyandotte,
Shawnee, Sedgwick, Leavenworth.