Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


A 5000 creamery will be built at
Cawker City
A Marshall county man this year
sold 25. 900 cabbageA
Pittsburg has a new city hospital,
| thoroughly modern in every way.
Burglars entered the post Office at
Manchester and stole $500 from the safe.
The Elk state bank has been or
eanized at Clyde, Cloud county, with
$25, 900 capital
Emma Dent, an Ottawa girl, has a so
prano voice which her friends think
| will earn her fame.
w. w. Gallins, an old soldier of
Overlook, fell from barn he was
| building and broke his neck.
An inexhaustible supply of zinc ore
has been discovered near Ellis which
| is said to be 95 per cent pure.
DIR. NJ. NJ. Cloud, of Kingman, has
been appointed physician at Grand
River school, Standing Rock, N. d.
E. A Wordeman, of Arkansas City,
has been appointed receiver of the Ar
kansas City & Southwestern railway.
There are 40, 900 members of the Bap-
fist church in Kansas and 315 Sunday
schools all reported in good condition.
Capt. Birkett, who recently shipped
cattle from Greenwood county to Liv-
erpool, Eng, got S72 a head for them.
One hundred and fifty men are en-
ployed on the new bridge across the
kaw at Topeka, and the job will last
year.
The old soldiers of Wilson, Woodson,
Allen and Neosho counties recently
held a well-attended reunion at Cha
| mute.
1t is estimated that 40, 900 head of
county this winter. Jewell led in corn
| this year.
The Kansas society of Friends re-
Gently held a ten days meeting at
Lawrence. Next year they will meet
at Wichita.
The State University Athletic asso-
citation elected J. w. Green president,
Tom Wagstaff secretary and R. K.
Moody treasurer
Samuel Shaumberg. a tailor of Rose
dale, was arrested charged with sys-
tematicalIy stealing the material to
build new house.
The Kansas railroads ere experience
| ing a heavy business i'll wheat. corn
| and other grains, and there is danger
of another car famine.
Great herds of sheep will be fed in
Dickinson and Geary counties this
| from New Mexico alone.
The convention of the Central Evan
gelical church at Abilene elected J. 81.
Tobias president, j. K. Young secre-
tary and Charles Linge treasurer.
The Kansas State Baptist associa
ton, in session at Topeka, refused to
pass resolutions censuring Gov. Nor
rilrs attitude on the temperance ques-
ton.
The Y. NJ. c. A. state convention, in
| session at Leave worth, elected Bruno
Hobbs, of Kansas City, president and
George w. Fleming, of Arkansas City,
secretary.
The Kansas City (Kan.) medical col
1ege has been chartered with $40, 600
capital The directors are c. E. and
w. L. Seamen, G. w. Fitzpatrick, G.
e. Tead and j. A. Smith.
The drill in an artesian we'll at Abb
1ene broke at a depth of $50 feet. The
efforts to strike flow of water had to
| be abandoned and the drill containing
diamonds to the value of 500 was lost.
During the carnival at Leavenworth
| the other night three men entered Nc
Cool's restaurant and stole 500 from
! the cash drawer, but officers nabbed
| them a few minutes later. even before
they had divided their booty.
Il. h. POTTER, q young man who,
while assistant postmaster at Abilene
EN- bezzled $40 belonging to the gov
eminent, pleaded guilty in the federal
court at Leavenworth and was sem
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
An Italian named Torriani, who
died recently in n New York hospital,
confessed to having robbed the graves
in Topeka cemeteries last winter, for
which a number of officials connected
with Topeka medical college were
arrested
Rev. Don s. Colt, who recently re-
signed the pastorate of the NJ. E.
church at Wichita to accept a call
to Allegheny City. Pa, is having
trouble about the matter. Before Rev.
Colt reached Allegheny City the Pitts
burgh conference had designated a
mem Der of its own body to take charge
of the Allegheny City church.
The annual meeting of the Anti
Horsethief association was held at
Hutchinson recently. 1t has 16O lodges
and over 1000 members, the largest
lodge being at Humboldt. K. B. Gull
bertson, of Sterling, was elected presi-
dent; j. W. New1and, of carlton, vice
president; George kaufman, of Gales
burg, secretary and treasurer.
C. J. Norton has compiled statistics
for the Kansas Farmer showing that
if 200 bushels of potatoes are raised to
the acre, the cost to the farmer is not
more than cents a bushel. If only
half crop is raised. the cost is cents
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