Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


its 2sth year.
Rev. DIR. Swenson, president of the |
Lindsborg college, is an applicant for
minister to Sweden.
1t is stated that in Topeka there are |
more than 400 wives who have been de-
serted by their husbands
It is said that Cliff C. Baker. of To- |
peka, is the only man who ever made |
money out of the state printing.
It is said that Editor Taffany, of the
Fort Scott Lantern. will be clerk of
the appellate court under Judge |
Schoonover.
1t is generally believed in Kansas
that Cy Leland will be either commits
sioner of the general land office or COM
missioner of Indian affairs.
James L. Dick. who. while treasurer
of Ellsworth county, embezziedSS360 OO
then plead guilty and got four years
| sentence, now wants pardon
Walter Osborn, aged 10, died in terri
BILE agony at Fort Scott of hydropho-
bia- He had been bitten by a mad dog
at Miami, I. T., five weeks before.
The repu blicans of Barton county
have filed contests for all the county
| officers elected this fall, alleging that
| frauds at the polls were committed by
| fusionists.
Capt. J. F. Beesley. a prominent real
estate man of Girard, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in his barn.
He was in good health and we'll fixed
| financially.
John Rogers, who has just been elect
cd governor of Washington on the pop
ulist ticket, was formerly a county COM
missioner in Harvey county and later
lived in Ness county.
| A company at Glasgow, Scotland, is
| talking of locating a So. 500, 900 beet
sugar plant in Kansas and has written
| to the secretary of state at Topeka,
making inquiry as to what inducement
would be offered and the best location.
The Southeast Kansas Teachers as
ISOLATION, in session at Fort Scott,
elected w. C. Lansdon president; E. L.
Enloe, vice president; Miss Lizzie
| Boyle, secretary. and L. d. Ellis, treas
urer. Next years meeting will be held
at Paola.
Several weeks ago two Abilene boys
saved Santa Fe train from being
wrecked by a horse on trest1e north
west of that place The officials of
the road have reciprocated by giving
one of the boys a life pass and to the
other one good for six months.
Rumor has it that the coming 1egis-
lature will pass a law requiring all
bonds, notes and mortgages to be
ton. the amount of mortgage SO listed
to be deducted from the assessed value
of the land upon which it is a lien.
| 1t is estimated that a new consti-
tuition would cost the state of Kan
sas 500. 600. OF this sum $500, 600
would be spent holding the convention,
and the subsequent expense of inter-
Ipreting the laws enacted under it
would aggregate more than $500, 600.
So many burglaries have been COM
mitted at Emporia recently that three
fuI-blooded hounds were purchased.
They were given a trial the other day
and after following a thief 25 miles
they succeeded in running him up
tree, where they kept him until the
pursuers came up on horse back.
Secretary of State Edwards has sent
to Gems Palmer and Buckner a certi-
fed transcript of the vote polled in
Dudley township, Haskell county,
which was the only precinct in Kansas
carried by gold standard democrats
The transcript is a beautifully exc
cuted document, adorned with gold
leaf and red. white and blue ribbons.
There is said to be some rivalry be-
tween Cyrus Leland, national commit
teeman, and Senator Lucien Baker as
to which one shall handle the bulk
of Kansas patronage under President
Mckinley. Both are credited with
having equal influence. 1t is said that
both have agreed upon I. E. Lambert,
of Emporia. for United States attorney.
The total vote of Kansas at the re-
cent election was &c per cent of the
total population of the state. The
total vote of the United States was 49,
300, 900. AS there are about ~, 600. 900
people in the United States, the total
vote amounted to IS per cent. of the
population. Kansas probably cast
more votes in proportion to popula-
ton than any other state in the union.
This story comes from Phillips coun-
ty: The nine-months old baby of Mr..
and Mrs. John Rogers, of this county,
was killed by vicious hog and the
body was half eaten before the parents
could rescue it. During the night the
bedstead on which the family was
eeping fell to the floor. 1t remained
in that position until morning. The
parents went out to the barn, leaving
the door ajar. A hog entered and
seized the child, tearing its body into
. pieces
Frank Strian and ]. II. Ham, rival
Candidates for probate judge in Phil
lips county, received a tie vote. In
stead of tossing for the Office, they
requested the canvassing board to al
low them to take the ballots and count
them This was done and after a
thorough canvass it was found that ten
votes that were thrown out should
have been counted for Strain. and six
for Ham giving the former a majority