Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS

| ing caught between bumpers
The Atchison Daily Champion, the
| oldest morning paper in Kansas, has
changed to an evening paper.
Col Calvin Huntington, who started
| the hotel at Fort Scott that bears his
name, died recently at Rochester, N. Y.
1t is said that Fred Funston, son OF
| ex-Congressman Funston. of Allen
| county, is with the insurgents in Cuba
K b McMaster, election commits
sioner at Topeka, was recently arrest
| ed charged with violating the election
| law.
A. NJ. Harvey, of Topeka, lieutenant
| governor-elect, is probably the young
| est man ever elected to that Office in
| Kansas.
An appropriation of 1864, 900 for the
| soldiers home at Leavenworth has
been granted by the national board of
managers
Fred Deirking, a well-to-do farmer
near Marysville, hung himself because
| of trouble with his township trustee
| over a culvert-
The surplus output of coal from the
| Kansas penitentiary mines was award
| ed by contract to the Southwestern
Fuel Co., of Topeka.
Paul Hudson, son of Maj. J. K. Hud-
| son, of Topeka. is now business man
ager of the Mexican Herald, published
at the City of Mexico.
The First national bank at Garnett,
| of which John r. Foster was president,
has failed. 1t was started nearly a
| quarter of a century ago.
Wednesday, November 4. was quar-
terly pension day at the Topeka
agency. Three million dollars were
ma id ont f0 105 ono old soldiers
| A. P. Boswell, pioneer citizen and
ex-mayor of Coffeyville, was found
dead in his room at hotel in Nowata,
I. T. Paralysis was the cause.
1t was said that j. P. Harris would
contest the election of Peters in the
Second congressional district on the
ground of alleged fraud in Wyandotte
| county.
James Falcon, fusion candidate for
| senator in the Doniphan-Brown dis
| trict, will contest the seat of Senator
elect John Fulton on the ground that
Fulton is not a resident of the district.
The handsome new Congregational
church at Atchison, which is to sue
coed the old edifice presented to the
society by ex-senator Samuel c. Pome
roy, will be ready for worship in Janu-
| airy.
Harvey, the owner of the Santa Fe
eating houses and several hotels, was
married in Leavenworth to j. f.
Huckel, one of the editors of the New
York Post.
State Treasurer-elect Hef1ebower is
a practical farmer of Miami county.
He came to Kansas a poor man. and
now owns 2,4OO acres of land, valued
at S12O, 900, without a dollar of incum-
brance against it.
One of the political surprises in Kan
sas was the election of S A. Riggs, of
Lawrence, for district judge over C. A.
Smart, of Ottawa, to succeed Judge
Benson. The district is repu b1ican,
but Riggs is a democrat.
So far the following populist repre-
sentatives-elect have announced their
candidacy for speaker: Edwin Taylor.
of Wyandotte; w. p Trueblood, of
Usage; w. L. Brown. of Pratt, and w.
D. Street, of Decatur. And there are
others
Elisha Brown, farmer near Hum
bo1dt. who assisted in the capture of
Jack Apple, the outlaw now in state
prison, was found dead recently in a
field by the roadside, and it was be-
lieved Apples friends had carried out
their threats to kill Brown for revenge.
While travelling on a Santa Fe train
near Braddock, Mrs Clara Guswick, in
attempting to walk from one car to
another was blown by gust of wind
off the platform. She was severely
stunned and lay on the ground several
hours before being discovered.
Patsy Hamilton, generally known as
kelly" died in the Jail at Leaven-
worth the other day. He was 1o4 years
old. In 1871 he was sent to the state
insane asylum. and was returned in
1878 as incurable. He had been an
that time.
Editor Frank P. McLennan, of the
Topeka journal, has been sued for
$40, 900 damages for alleged libel by
Conrad Mayer and Robert Hitchcock,
of the O. M. B., secret anti-prohibi-
ton order. The suit grew out of re-
marks in the Journal concerning their
connection with that society.
W. 6. Porter, Jr., who recently
skipped bond while under arrest at
Kansas City charged with crooked
work while cashier of a bank there,
was recently located at Mena, Ark.
but Gov. Clark, of Arkansas, refused
to recognize a requisition from Gov.
Morrill, for Porter's return to Kansas
for trial
candidacy to succeed himself in the
United States senate. Ex-Gov. Lew
cling, ex-Congressman w. A Harris,
George Munger. of Eureka; Ed c. Lit
tie. of Abilene, and R. w. Turner, of
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