Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS

build q new church
Mrs Gen John A Logan will attend
the Topeka reunion
Congressman Blue will speak to the
old soldiers at the Topeka reunion
The attendance at the state univer-
sity shows an increase of about as over
1895.
Al Robb. for IA years a mail carrier
| at Atchison, was removed the other
day ~
A $50, 900 mortgage on tie Yelling
ton waterworls was foreclosed re-
Gently.
William J. Bryan will make several
speeches in Kansas tie latter part of
October.
The Wellington Voice, populist
organ, is publishing a daily during the
campaign
| It is said farmers of western Kansas
are not sowing over half as much land
| to wheat as usual
Fish Commissioner Sadler is putting
in considerable time stocking the
streams of the state with fish
James Exline and Vital Shafer, two
Phillip county farmers, have spent
over 5000 having over SIS cow.
A car loaded with cattle caught fire
from the sparks of an engine near Par
sons and the cattle were burned up
John A Dane, pauper in the Lin
coin county poor house, has fallen heir
| to s., 600 from a relative at Rockport,
| Ind.
The new electric line between Galena
and Joplin, No, has been completed
and cars are making trips every half
| hour.
The soldiers home at Leavenworth
has been closed against the admission
OF any more veterans until more room
| is provided.
The two-year-o1d son of James Hig-
gins. of Armourdaie, accidentally fell
| into a pan of hot grease and was
| burned to death
Albert Bigelow Paine, until recently
| of Fort Scott, is writing poetry for
Harper's Weekly and other heightened
| eastern publications
Rev. E NJ Randall, the well know
Methodist minister at Leavenworth, is
likely to accept a call to a 81, 500 posi-
ton in Seattle, Wash.
The creameries of Dickinson county
pay $40, 600 a month to farmers The
industry has become the most sub
stantia1 of that section.
John Michael was convicted at Wich-
ita for using the mails for Matchmaking
purposes, his intended victim being
Register of Deeds Barrett
Pitcher Killing, one of the twirlers of
| the Kansas City Western League base
ball club, has organized team of pro-
fessionals for trip through Kansas
The Trickett repu blican faction in
Wyandotte county will carry the fight
to the supreme court to determine
which of the tickets nominated is the
legal one.
The reunion at Arkansas City last
week was great success, the attend
ance some days reaching 1000. Sem
ator Ingalls,, Gov. Morrill,. Corporal
Tanner and others made speeches
Gov. Morrill, has appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the 5th annual ir-
rigation congress at Phoenix, Ariz.,
December Is: J. S Emery, ]. L. Die
sen, Col J. B. Cook, Ed Frize1 and
Austin B1um1ock.
The G. A. R. post of Hill City wants
to take up the remains of all old SOL
diers in the different cemeteries in the
county and place them in one cemetery
at Hill City The government is fur
nishing tombstones free of charge
Miss Martha McCord, a seamstress,
was found murdered in her room on
the principal street in Lawrence The
crime was committed for robbery, as
81, ZOO and was known to keep money
around her.
August Sauer and Charles Sullivan,
of Wichita. while fishing recently on
the banks of Walnut river in Butler
county, were visited ty a heavily
armed burglar who robbed them of
their gold watches, money and jewelry-
When the fishermen returned home
they had something to relate besides
fish stories.
Rev. Don s. Colt. of Wichita, one of
the most popular and progressive young
ministers of Kansas, has gone to Allie
First NJ E. church there During his
81 years pastorate at Wichita he
added more than 500 members to the
First NJ E. church roll. and his influ-
ence extended beyond the boundaries
of Wichita
Charles O. HUFF. an ex-convict from
the Kansas penitentiary, went to To-
peka and disguised his identity by rep
resenting that he was a New York mill
lionaire- He succeeded in getting into
the best society on his nerve, and run
big bills at several different places
One day recently he quietly disap-
peared, and numerous people found
they had been cleverly duped-
The annual convention of the Epis-
copal church was held at Kansas City
last week, Bishop Millspaugh presid-
ing. Every Episcopal church in Kan
sas was represented and a number of
women were in attendance represent
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