Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Masonic home at Wichita, which
opened to the pull only a few days
ago, has Is to care for.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal saw
Kansas banks are in better condition
now than for several months
The Santa Fe railroad traverses 7f
counties in Kansas and pays taxes ag
gregating $500. COO anaualiy.
The black leg has appeared among
the herds of the Arkansas valley, aud
q great many cattle have died.
The first instance of white couple
being married by a colored minister oc.
CURED in Doniphan county last week
Rev. c. H Vaughn, pastor of the NJ.
E church at Dodge City, was deposed
for engaging in legal controversies,
with his brethren.
In Greenwood county from Decem-
Der to IA. S17o, 900 of borrowed capital
was invested in cattle as shown by the
chattel mortgage record
Scores of horses have died through
out northwestern Kansas from a mys.
terious disease, and all efforts of veter.
inarians to check the epidemic have
been futile. Many farmers are with
out animals for their work.
The latest scheme in musical circles
to get up choruses and practice "Crea-
tion' and give rendition at home
previous to a grand meeting of all cho-
ruses at Forest park, Ottawa, next
June.
A man in Dover township, Shawnee
county, did an unusual thing the other
day. At the last election he was chosen
justice of the peace, but he now writes
to the county clerk frankly admitting
that he considers himself incompetent
for the position.
The only federal prison in the United
States is at Fort Leavenworth. A bill
now before congress appropriates $685.
600 toward building a new one, and in
a few days work will begin. 1t will
mostly be built by federal prisoners
and when completed will cost about
$3.50, 900.
John P. Harris has finally given
notice that he will contest the election
of NJ. S. Peters to congress from the
Second district. Harris alleges fraud
in Wyandotte county. Mr.. Peters has
engaged Congressman Miller, a repub-
lican, to represent his interests at
Washington.
A Topeka dispatch said that pledges
had been obtained from a sufficient
number of mem bers of the legislature
to insure the repeal of the metropoli-
tan police law. Gov.-elect Leedy will
be asked not to appoint any police
boards until after the legislature has
a chance to repeal the law.
Gov. Morrill, on Christmas day par
doned Willis Jackson, convicted in
Sumner county in 1878 of numbering
William Mcdowell, a cook, and sem
fenced to life i'm prisonment Recently
man named Elkins died and on his
death bed confessed that it was he, and
not jackson, who killed Mcdowell.
William Huckaby and fay Archi-
bald, of Stafford county, Re married
at Great Bend the other v, but be-
fore they got out of tow the girls
irate father appeared on scene and
had the groom arrested anu cast into
prison for alleged perjury in swearing
to the age of the girl, the father claim
ing she was only 13
John Whitman Leedy, governor-elect
of Kansas, is descendant of German
Dunkards, and was born in Ankeny-
town, o. At the age of Il he ran
away from home to join the One Hun
dred and Sixty-third Ohio volunteers
He was not permitted to enlist. but
was allowed to follow the regiment
unit til the war closed.
tain to amend the present ballot law
in several particulars. 1t is said over
80 bills will be presented to this end.
The appointment of judges and clerks
will probably be taken from the town
ship trustees and election commission
ers and given to the different political
parties The provision regarding the
printin pf ballots will also be changed.
I'll pl board at Usage City issued
an , recently prohibiting lady
schoo (ers from attending dances,
a1legin it was "a bad example to
set for pupils" Thereupon a num-
Der of fiends of the teachers held
an indis on meeting and requested
the men of the board to refrain
from tho of tobacco, claiming that
good rest along that line could not
be accom- he'd as long as members of
the board dulged in the practice.
In 1855 John Brown celebrated
y going over into Missouri
with his lowers, where he liberated
"A slave The governor of Missouri
offered IS. 600 reward for him, and
President Buchanan increased it $3.50.
Brown conveyed the negroes to Jack.
son county. this state, and there an at
tempt was made to capture him by men
from Atchison. They were whipped
away, however, and the affair passed
into history as THE Battle of the
Spurs"
d. M. Lower, of Kansas City, Mo-,
with his mother and sister. who live in
Hutchinson, will bring suit in the fed
eral court at Wichita to get possession
of 16O acres of land in the center of
Eldorado The value of the property