Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

All railroads have granted . one-1ar0
rate to the Ottawa Chautauqua assem-
bly,. June 1925
All the Santa Fe mines IN Usage
county have closed, .hro-ing 600
miners out of work
The Osawatomie Journal Is a new
republican paper launched by j. Fred
Whiting and s A Luesfng-
The interstate commerce commission
will be in Kansas City June to hear
complaints in the Kansas corn rate
case.
Fred Crum, aged IL, was drowned
while ba thing in a bayou with COM
panions in the Verdigris river near
Coffeyville.
7. A Jones, a leading school-teacher
of Reno county, was arrested recently
| charged with the rape of his 15-year-
old sister-in-law.
The opera house and masonic hall
at Hiawatha were destroyed by fire the
other day. Gov. Morrill, was the prin-
cipal owner of the opera house
A waterspout in Coffey, Anderson
and Linn counties recently precipitated
ten inches of water and washed out
ten miles of railway track near Gar
nett
Gov. Morrill, and other state officers
counted the cash in the state treasury
recently and found it to be Sse6, ZIG. 80.
A year ago in May it amounted to $780,
23T.72-
Both democratic and populist con-
gressional conventions of the Second
district will be held at Ottawa. and on
the same daytime 10 Fusion is
limited at
1t is said that W. Y. Morgan, of the
Hutchinson News, will bay and run
l ho he IL Cd al
by Dewey. of Abilene, and formerly
| pu blished in Lawrence.
Henry Shindler, of Leavenworth,
| was elected national commander of the
army and navy union recently in ses-
sion in Washington city. The 1897 re-
union will be held in Kansas City in
May
Gov. Morrill, has appointed Frank
NJ. Lockard, Of Norton, a member of
the board of charities to succeed Wal
ter n. Allen. Lockard is already clerk
of the court of appeals of the North
| west district
Fifteen thousand people gathered at
| Leaven worth the other day to witness
the celebration of veterans flag day."
Three thousand school children and
like number of veterans participated
in the exercises
A. w. Hostetter, who was arrested
at Chicago for alleged embezzlement
committed at Goodland, Kan, was re-
leased by Chicago judge on habeas
corpus Requisition papers from Gov.
Morrill, were not recognized
Gov. Morrill, has refused tohonorthe
requisition from the governor of Okla
homa for George D. Hartley. president
of the First national bank of Arkansas
City. who was recently indicted at
Perry, Ok, for alleged bank frauds
Two large business houses at Coffev-
Vile were wrecked by an explosion
caused by natural gas accumulation the
other day. David Carter was instantly
killed Mat Atkinson and Eliza Purs-
ley. colored. fatally injured, while a
| large number of others were more or
| less hurt
The suit brought by the state against
the NJ, &. 6 7. railway for refusing to
maintain general offices in Kansas has
been dismissed The company not
only maintains general offices at Par
sons, but has erected in that city the
most cornmodious railway structures
/ in the state
Department Commander Whitney. of
| the G. a R., has appoin ted the follow
ing named comrades on his staff:
| Judge advocate. W. 8. Tilton, Osborn;
chief mastering officer, l. S. Tucker,
Cawker City: chief of staff. A. NJ Full
| Ter. Topeka; provost marshal, H. l.
| Willard, Sterling; chief aid-de-camp,
| T J. Jackson Newton
| At Fort Scott the other day Sam Da-
Wis escaped ten-year sentence in the
penitentiary for burglary by the over
sight of the prosecuting attorney in
not having Davis in court when the
| verdict of guilty was read by the jury.
| Under the Kansas law the court was
| required to grant an arrest of judg-
ment and discharge the prisoner.
The attendance at the Emporia state
| normal school the past year was 1.73e,
al. increase of 90 over last year The
| graduating class this year numbers
| 100 and the prospective graduating
| class for 1897 NUM- ers 179- Eighty
| nine Kansas counties and IL states and
territories are represented in the
| school Outside of Kansas, Missouri
leads with 10 counties
The committee on prizes for the
| Knights CT Pythias grand lodge drill
| at Topeka the other day awarded
| prizes as follows: First prize, largest
| number of men in line, Carbonda1e;
second, Kansas City. First prize, most
miles travelled in reaching Topeka,
Kansas City first, Carbondale second
line. Lawrence first Carbondale second.
The latest statistics show that there
are in Kansas 400, 600 pupils of school
age though but 3s1, 1a3 attend school.
There are g. 1897 schoolhouses and H.