Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

and So church buildings
The schools at Sabetha are closed on
account of a diphtheria scare
Sixty carloads of sheep will be fed
near St. Marys the coming winter.
Bishop John II. Vincent. of Topeka
will spend the winter in South Amer
lea
A Wabaunsee county man is shipping
hay to Illinois. 1t brings him 81 per
ton
Lieut. -Gov.-elect Harvey and Miss
Belle Cone, of Topeka, will be married
on December 16
Topeka will have pigeon show in
December. Over 900 entries. have al
ready been made.
It is said that Gov.-elect Leedy will
appoint w. Ii. Upton, of Coffey coun-
ty. private secretary.
j. L. Bristow. private secretary to
Gov. Morrill,, is talking of making his
Ottawa Herald daily.
A single chunk of coal weig hing 5000
pounds, nearly three tons, was taken
from a mine at Weir City recently.
s. E. Cole, of Harper county, has o5,-
600 bushels of wheat stored which he
expects to unload on the market at 81
per bushel.
Gov-elect Leedy and his associates
inaugural ball and one will probably
not be held this year.
Miss Lizzie Hind, of LIE Roy, has be-
gun suit for $4,000 against Warren
Crandall. a wealthy farmer of Coffey
county, for alleged breach of promise.
J. S. Stillwell, of Hiawatha, who
sued w. E. Painter for $4,000 for
alternating his wife's affections, was
awarded the paltry sum of 81 by jury.
The Kansas State Horticultural
society will meet at Topeka December
Gil. A big display of fruits and other
products will be an attractive feature
Miss Boyle. in Miami county, and
Mrs. Briefly, in Cloud county, both re-
publican nominees for county superin-
tendent. We're the only ones on their
tickets elected.
A large force of men is at work on
the Maple Leafs new grain elevator in
Kansas City, Kan. It will hold 1880,
600 bushels and will be the largest in
the Missouri valley.
L. S. Crum, of Oswego, is credited
with desire to be United States mar
shall of Kansas under Mckinley.
Farmer A. w. Smith. of Mcpherson,
wants to succeed Click as pension
agent at Topeka. There are others.
1. E Lambert, of Emporia; Attorney
General Dawes. Judge T. f. Carver,
Mike Sutton. of Dodge City; Charles E.
Lobdell, of Dighton, and R. B. WEIGH.
of Topeka, are talked of as candidates
for United States district attorney of
Kansas.
The coming annual meeting of the
state board of agriculture promises to
be very interesting and profitable.
Among the noted speakers will be ex-
Gov. Furnas, I. A. Fort and R. M. AL
len, prominent agriculturists of Ne
braska-
Repu blicans are claiming that Kan.-
sas will have one elector for Mckinley
for the reason that George Il. Pitts, of
Sumner county, fusion elector, was
at the time of his election acting as
receiver for a Wellington bank, which,
it is alleged, makes him ineligible as
an e1ector.
The G. A. r. reunion grounds at Ellis
worth will revert to the state if the
recommendations of the G. A. r. de-
partment committee are acce pied by
the legislature. Ellsworth donated
l6O acres for the reunions, and the
state has expended $40, 900 on buildings,
but the location is deemed impractic-
able.
The election returns show that Rev.
J. D. Botkin, for congressman-at-larg
ran bout 0,OOU VOIeS duedu OIL HIS dSSO-
ciates on the fusion state ticket. His
majority over Congressman Blue is
placed at IL 900. His big vote is cred
tied to the third party prohibitionists,
who had Endorsed him at their state
convention.
An abstract of the latest reports from
the 116 ma tional banks in Kansas shows
that the average reserve held by them
increased since July IA from 30 81 per
cent. to 3s.17 per cent; the loans and
discounts decreased from SIT. 974, S95 to
ST, COG. 34S, and the reserve increased
from S4,993, 36S to SIS, ia, GIT; deposits
decreased from Sis. 965, 1874 to SIS, $780,
555; gold holdings increased from ST.,
lis. 465 to 81, 1856 SOS.
One of the ballots taken out of the
box at Arkansas City had written
across the face of it: 81 don't know
how to vote this ballot, but 1 want to
vote the straight republican ticket.
Fix it up yourselves" After long dis
cussion the judges counted the ballot
on the theory that it came within the
meaning of the law which provided for
the counting of ballots (which clearly
showed the intention of the voter
If this view should be sustained by the
courts the process of voting in Kansas
will be vastly simplifed-
The equal suffragists of Kansas, in
convention at Topeka last week, re-
elected Mrs Kate Addison president
Mrs. Fannie Babbitt, of Winfield, was
elected vice-president; Mrs Baird, of
Eureka, and Miss Gregg, of Garrett,