Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Kansas state library, 2.761 having been
added during the past two years
The Kansas national guard consists
of ,4S0 privates and 1873 commissioned
officers, exclusive of the governors
staff.
The citizens of Lawrence. regardless
of party, rendered Gov.-elect Leedy and
wife a brilliant reception the other
night
w. A Randolph. Judge of the dis
trict court at Emporia, surprised his
friends by marrying his stenographer,
Miss Lane
Nearly all the candidates for state
printer have promised, in case they are
elected, to establish a populist paper
at Topeka
Farmers of Marshall county are
gathering the biggest corn crop ever
raised in that county, which they claim
will exceed 10. 600, 900 bushels
Itwas reported that in several south
eastern Kansas counties socialistic col
onies We're being organized. state head
quarters being at Independence
DR.. Selden w. Jones, who came to
Kansas in 1857, died at Leavenworth
recently. He was one of the oldest
new city hospital at Pittsburg has
just been thrown open to the public,
the contamination of years of effort on
the part of charitable organizations
there
Pat Rabbit, clerk of the court-e1ect
of Crawford county, has been taken to
the insane asylum at Osawatomie and
Judge Simons, of Fort Scott, will APP
point his successor.
Burglars had become so common in
Kansas City, Kan, that the chief of
police ordered his men to parade the
streets at night in citizens clothes that
they might more readily capture the
thieves.
The youngest member elected to the
legislature is Warren Finnev, of Wood
son county. a son of ex-Lieut. Gov.
Finney. He is % years old, is a native
Kansan and still lives in the house
where he was born in Neosho Falls.
1t was announced when Gov. Leedy
appointed Ed c. Little private secre-
| tary that it would take the latter out
of the senatorial race, but late reports
from Topeka indicate that Mr.. Little
will be an active candidate before the
legislature for Senator PETERS place
A bad boy in Downs recently refused
to obey his teacher and she broke a
ruler on him. The parents raised a
fuss, and the board passed an order
that the teacher had done right. and
| that if the supply of rulers ran out if
Downs they would ship in more for her.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, says the farmers of
Kansas should go into the COW indus
| try more extensively. He says the
dairy industry, properly and vigorous
ly cultivated, would soon place Kan
sas in the first rank in commercial inn
| portance-
In his forthcoming report Attorney
General Dawes will recommend that
| the law requiring the appointment OF
an assistant encouragement in coun-
ties to prosecute whisky sellers be re-
pealed. He says the Murray temper
ance law is a hindrance rather than
an aid to the prosecution of whisky
| sellers
The bill to divide Kansas into two
| United States judicial districts, as
agreed upon by the delegation in con-
gress, proposes two judges at $500
each. The Northern district will have
three locations for terms of court
Leavenworth, Topeka and Sa1ina- For
the Southern district court will be held
| at Fort Scott and Wichita. An attor-
ney and marshal. with deputies, is pro-
| vided for each district.
| According to the report of Otis E.
| Sadler state fish commissioner, there
| were 1885 distributions of fish by the
state the past two years and 49, SIT by
| the federal government During that
| time there were IS arrests and 220 nets
| destroyed. The commissioner recon-
| mends the location of fish hatcheries
and restocking the larger streams of
the state. He says the present law
needs strengthening, as it cannot be
| enforced
| Fred and Frank Moerbel, of Doni-
phan county, tried the virtue of powder
| in splitting logs But they got their
faces too close to a fuse and the explo-
sion disfigured them terribly. Their
| faces aud necks were burned to a raw
mass and their hair singed off. The
chances are that one, if not both of
them, will be totally blind Their
bodily pain and the distress at the
| prospect of being MANNED for life
caused them to piteopsly beg to be
/ killed.
The Kansas Day banquet will be held
| at Topeka, January 90. James L.
Challiss, of Atchison, has been given
the place of honor on the programme
and he will respond to the toast Exam
sas" This place is always accorded
to a native Kansan. Other speakers
who will have places on the programme
are w. I. Stewart, Troy: Henry j. Al
len. Ottawa; Charles s. Reed, Fredonia !;
l. E. Lambert, Emporia; ]. B. Furry,
Topeka; w. w. Finney, Neosho Falls;
| Fred A Stocks, Blue Rapids: E L.
| Ackiev. Concordia; S. n. Hawks,