Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Seventy thousand bushels Of sia s6fff
| were sold at Lincoln the etheE asy st
| Is cents per busheL
A boom has been started in behalf of
| Gen. j. c. Caldwell, of Topeka, f5t
United States senator.
A recent telegram from Wichita said
there were 100000 bushels Of old
corn within n radius of 80 miles of that
place
The report of tho directors Of the
state reformatory at Hutchinson shows
| that 1913 inmates were received there
| the past year
The Burlington Independent. pub
| lished by John +. watrons. is the first
| democratic paper in the state 10 bolt
| Bryan's nomination.
The cooperative store at Bprlinst eu
| failed recently, and stock holders will
be taxed about so per cent of their
| investment to pay creditors.
Cashier Fleming has confessed that
he embezzled over $50 from the Ex-
| change national bank Mt Eldorado. and
| says his populations began in 1888. dur-
| ing the boom.
Announcement is made from Topeka
| that the republican state committee
will take a hand in the Wyandotte
county controversy with view of re-
| storing har mony.
| Kansas also attracted attention at
the national silver convention. Ed c.
| Little, until recently a republican,
was the man who made the speech in
dorsing Bryan for president
j. H. Engle, a member of the senior
| class of the state university at Law
| renee, has been chosen secretary of the
State Sunday School association.
Headquarters will be at Abilene.
| prisoner in the Jail at Topeka ex-
hibited such an APPETITE as to threaten
bankruptcy to the county to feed him,
| and an examination showed that he
had been feeding a tape worm 9s feet
| long.
The oil and gas operations in Wilson
and other southeast Kansas counties
| have taken on a new impetus Two
| new $4,000 barrel storage tanks are
| being built at Neodesha and one at
| Thayer.
Judge S. R. Peters, of Newton, re-
| Gently appeared before Gov. Morrill, at
| Topeka and rendered his resignation
| as a member of the state reformatory
board Gov. Morrill, refused to accept
| the resignation.
The populist county convention at
| Wichita recently was far from har-
| monious. The fight was between ex-
Ii,
| and the ex-governor got the best of the
| fght-and the delegates
Free silver democrats of the Fourth
| district were talking of nominating r.
| Fl. Hazlett, banker of Eldorado, to
oppose Congressman Curtis Populists
| were talking in favor of ex-Congress-
man Harrison Kelly, of Burlington.
| The free silver state convention ap-
pointed a committee to draft an adj
dress urging the people to support
| only nominees for congress, members
of the legislature and presidential
electors who are known to be for sill
| yer.
| The Kansas delegation to the popu-
list national convention elected John
| w. Breidenthal, w. D. Vincent and
| j. M. Allen national ommitteemen;
| jeff Hudson to confer with the free
| silver committee and Col w. A. Harris
| to notify the nominees
| A sensational dispatch from Topeka
| says Maj. Calvin Hood. of Emporia
has en- tered the race for United States
| senator as the candidate of the gold
men who have no confidence in the po-
| sitions assumed by Ingalls, and Burton
on the financial question.
| Republicans of Reno county. after a
| stormy session at Hutchinson, sent a
victory for prohibitionists. Judge
| Theo. Botkin, who was on the bench
| in Seward county when Sam Wood was
murdered, was nominated for the leg.
| islature.
Over 100 republican leaders of the
state met al Topeka the other day, in
| GLIDING Senator Baker and every con-
gresham except Calderhead The sit
uation was discussed, and the neces-
sity for vigorous campaign and close
| organization in every school district
was urged.
The republican factional fight in
| Wyandotte county between Trickett
and anti-Trickett will not down. Each
| side has nominated county ticket and
the fight will be waged until election.
1t will also effect Hon. j. p. Harris
and Gov. Morrill,, should the latter be
renominated.
peculiar damage suit was filed at
Fort Scott recently. Mrs Rosa Will
liams brought an action against her
father-in-law, T. b. Williams. for SIS, 600
for alleged alienation of her 12-year-
old sons affections The boy had made
his home with his grandfather and re-
fused to live with his mother
Statistics show that there are 81 .O52,-
600 invested in Reno county salt mines.
There are 3S7 men employed continu-
ously in the works at Hutchinson and
they were paid last year S159. ss5 in
wages The amount of salt manufac-
%,-aJ tho D-ef in tho countu WAS