Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

NeodeSha refinery of capacity OF
], 900 barrels per day.
A meat peddler at Atchison was
found to be selling horseflesh as a sub
stitute for regular beef.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision that foreign judgments in
Kansas cannot be taxed.
A Topeka dispatch said President
Abe Stein berger had dissolved the
State Reform Press association
But 500 Sc in cash was found in the
Baxter Springs bank which failed last
week. The capital stock was sos, 900.
In few weeks all towns in south
eastern Kansas will be connected with
Kansas City by long distance phones
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Improved Stock Breeders association
will occur in Topeka January 12 and
I3
Galena is preparing to take in more
territory There is more town outside
of the present limits of Galena than in
side.
A cigar stub thrown down on the
floor of Roherer's hall in Ottawa de-
stroyed the building, causing loss of
$1,000.
The latest government crop report
placed the condition of Kansas wheat
at 1o3 per cent the highest of any
other state. Missouri was second with
1O1.
The Kansas Editorial association
will visit Kansas City, Mo, in body
January 90, going there from the state
convention at Topeka in a special
train.
Dairymen of the state will work for
law this winter that will absolutely
nrnhihit the ia atr sale of
oleomargarine or butterine in the
state.
1t is rumored that Congressman
Kirkpatrick, of the Third district,
would like to be appointed minister to
Bolivia, the position now held by Col.
Thomas Moonlight
J. W. Walton, of Wichita, eX-Gov.
dwellings former partner, will open
up 4 big creamery and cold storage
plant at lola, being attracted there by
natural gas for fuel.
Wesley Davis. a Shawnee county
grain dealer who in 1895 disappeared,
leaving $4,000 in debts, then after
wards returned to settle up, and hav-
ing failed, has again disappeared, this
time, he said, for good.
1t is alleged that one of the biggest
rom binations ever formed in the west
Is no" III SAISISuCC W CoutEoI aoSo-
Iutely the entire output of the coal
amounts to bout 500, 900 tons per an
num-
A strong effort will be made by the
coming legislature to do away with
the office of secretary of the state
board of health. 1t is alleged that the
office is purely ornamental and the
So, 900 a year salary waste of public
money.
In recent interview at Lawrence
Gov. ELECT Leedy disclaimed any I'M
friendly feeling toward the game of
football. and in minated that his mes
sage to the legislature would contain
no reference to legislation prohi biting
the sport
A Washington telegram says Kansas
republicans have asked aid of Chair
man Hanna to carry on a vigorous edu-
cational campaign the next two years.
It is proposed to establish headquar-
ters at Topeka and put a man in charge
who will distribute literature and at
END to other requirements
The Kansas Municipal league, COM
posed of the officials of first-class cities
Of the state, elected B. p. Waggener,
IF Atchison. president and G. S. Smith,
Of Wichita, S. cretary. The convention
was held at Leavenworth and a major
ity of the delegates favored the APP
peal of the metropolitan police law.
The Kansas State Grange. in session
AZ Olathe, elected Henry Rhodes, of
Johnson COUNT, master; E. W. West
gate, of Manhattan, overseer: Mrs
Otis. of Topeka. lecturer and George
Black of Oiathe, secretary. Resolu-
lions were passed declaring that the
regents of the state agricultural col
Iege should be practical farmers
State Observation-Disclosures Stryker
says he is receiving a great deal of en-
enlargement from the members of the
legislature on his free textbook propo-
sition. He favors district ownership
Of books and a law fixing the maximum
price; he also favors 6ve-year con-
tracts and bids from publishing houses
for books for the entire state.
Representative-elect Smith, of Sher-
| man, declares strong opposition to
| further experiments in irrigation on
| the uplands of western Kansas, and
will introduce a bill to do away with
any more expenditures of money for
that purpose He says western Kan
| sas is a grazing region pure and sim
| pie; that there is wealth in cattle on
| the Kansas plains, but that failure and
poverty will be the only reward OF
| .ereal planting
| 1t is said that the state board of rail
.oad commissioners in its decision in
The case in which the Kansas City
board of trade asked that grain rates
be reduced, has practically admitted
that it has no authority over the rail
roads of the state, and that the orders
Of the board are treated with indiffer