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

SETTLEMENTS in the river country in
southwestern Washington have been
nearly wiped out by foods, many faini-
lies escaping on RATS after their dwell
ings had been carried away Nine
inches of rain have fallen in IL days
and many people have been drowned
CLAY H. COOPER. a convict charged
with larceny. who was shackled to
another convict, slipped his shackies
unknown to the guard and Owed
through the window of a car and
escaped near South McAlester. L t.
POsTM WILSON has is
sued order as to provide for the
sale of stamps by letter carriers. 1t
will be tried at Washington at once
and, if found practicable, extended
generally.
THOMAS SrARKEY. Junior member of
the firm of Starkey Sc Son. proprietors
of the city roller mills at North Bend,
Neb, met instant death, by being
wound around shaft in the mill
Sharkey was placing a belt. when h is
clothing caught in a cog-wheel-
THE secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress statement of receipts
and expenditures of the government
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1896,
incl uding the postal service The total
receiDts as reported were S4O9, AS, 4Os,
and the expenditures S434, 67s- 654-
e. W. BENJE and Judge Keys, of
Tahlequah, 1. T, have gone to WASH
ington as representatives of the In
dams on matters affecting tribal well
fare before congress Mr.. Benje said
the five civilized tribes were not yet
ready for statehood, as large per
cent of the Indians were too imper-
fectly advanced in civilization to I'M
derstand the duties of citizenship.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the 1eth
and upwards of 1000 prisoners were
taken to the central station
GEORGE ISAAC, scientist at Berlin,
was eXperimen ting with acetyline gas
and he and three assistants were blown
to atoms.
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was to be settled by the fed
eral supreme court, it was reported, by
a formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
Mo, will acquire slice CT territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur coun-
ty. Ia.
A SPECIAL. from Fort Smith, Ark.
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition of
tribal government in eight years
Will VIC SSG Soiu
and the balance of the land equally di-
vided among citizens
THE commissioner of internal reve-
nue. in his report states that the re-
ceipts from all sources for the fiscal
year ended June so, 1896, amounted to
STAG, $50, $50. &c. For the ensuing year
the commissioner estimates the ex-
penses of the internal revenue service
at $4 800, 900 Over 2, 900 liquor licenses
| were issued in Kansas
The steamship Salier, with ga pas
sengers and crew of IS men was sunk
| in recent gale off the coast of Spain
and all on board persisted.
RUMoRs were af1oat at Yuma, Ariz-
of a terrible disaster at some mines in
Hedges, San Diego, Cal. Four miners
| were killed and from three to twenty
| injured it was reported.
THE failures for the week ended the
| 18th (Dun's report) were $50 in the
United States. against 333 last year,
| and As in Canada, against 81 last year.
THE German ship Rajah foundered
| in the Bristol channel and IT of her
crew were drowned.
MARSHALL J. MILLER was hanged at
| the state prison at San Quentin. Cal
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
]. K. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted a divorce at New York from
| his wife, whom he married in 1894.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
ALEXANDER SALyINI, the well-knOwn