Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
mtg High school Law Attacked.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
County High School Law Attacked.
Ex-Congressman jeff Hudson, OF
Fredonia, has been employed to fight
the erection of a new high school
at Independence, under the special act
of the last legislature. The law will
be attacked the grounds that
special law to accomplish what is pro-
vided for by general law is uncousti-
tutionaL Mr.. Hudson will also attack
the validity of the general law, which
authorizes county high schools after
the people have so voted.
Kineman Has Troubles of Her Own.
Kingman is now in the throes of
saloon war over the burning of joint
run by Mike Brennan, who has spent
half his time in Jail since the prohib-
itory law was enacted, Is years ago,
and has cost the county at least 81, 600
a year. The temperance people are
blamed for the destruction of Mikes
saloon, and liquor men have threaten
ed the Methodist church and United
Brethren churches.
A Fifteen-to-O One Compromise.
In 1870 Baxter Springs voted $50, 900
in bonds to build the Missouri River,
Fort Scott & Gulf railroad The road
was never built, the bonds were re-
pudiated and suit was begun for the
amount. A compromise was recently
effected by which the town gets back
the $50, 900 in bonds, and in lieu there
| of gives $4,000 in 2O-year refunding
| bonds
His Wheat Paid Five Mortgages.
David HerSt, a Sumner county farm
| err, had five quarter sections of land,
| all heavily mortgaged. Suit was
| brought to foreclose and the cases
We're set for the September term of
court, but Herst sold his big wheat
| crop for So, 900 more than enough to
/ pay all the mortgages, and he will
| keep his farms.
| Kansas All Right.
At 81 per bushel for her mammoth
wheat crop Kansas will this year have
"money to burn instead of $1,000, 900
bushels of last years corn crop left
over. Potatoes are yielding about 25
| bushels to the acre, which will make a
| crop of 25, O0O, 900, and potatoes are not
| drug on the market right now.
| Hard on Teachers just Beginning.
There is complaint because school
| teachers firt with positions-secure
one and get a better if possible. One
/ board has required the teacher hired
to give bond for her appearance, and
$500 bond that she would not desert the
school to get married.
Bondsmen in Trouble.
| ]. r. Weakley, whose shortage as
treasurer of Cherry township, Mont
gomery county, is IS, O45. has left the
county. His three bondsmen refused
to pay the shortage and they were
placed in Jail until they gave bond in
double the amount of the shortage.
Cora S a Sure Enough Bandit.
Cora Hubbard, the 1S-year-old girl
arrested at Weir City for helping rob
the bank at Pineville, Mo-, is said to
have been member of the Dalton
gang of outlaws and dressed herself as
cowboy. She takes delight in re-
counting her notorious escapades.
MI. Cheney's Profits in Wheat.
E. p. Cheney, of Boston, a leading
stakeholder in the Santa Fe railroad
invested IS, 600 last fall in seed wheat
which was sown along the Santa Fe il
Kansas, and Mr. Cheney will realize {
profit of $50, 600 from the crop.
Only One Murder Case.
| There are $50 cases docketed for tria
at the next term of the Shawnee coun
ty district court, and only one murder
case among them This is a good
| showing Ior county having oo,oo'
population.
| Minor State News.
Emporia is dry" for the first time il
many years.
w. j. Bryan will speak at the WITCH
tia fair October 1.
Cholera has exterminated several
droves of hogs in Rice county.
All the joints in Newton were raidet
the other day, and the city will b,
dry"
w J. Bryan will speak at Burlin
game September 8. Gov. Leedy viii