Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

& San Francisco railroad got beyond
control while coming down the Boston
mountain in Arkansas and the entire
train was hurled from the track. Fire
man Mike German, of Kansas City,
jumped and was instantly killed Sew
eral others were badly in jured- The
fret ght-was nearly all n total loss
THE state of Kansas won every inn
portant point in the Kansas City stock
yards case, which was decided by
United States Judge Foster at Topeka,
Kan, on the 4th. His decision boiled
down was: The law governing stock
yards charges was regularly passed by
the Kansas Legislatures, the stock yards
company is only an incident of COM
merce and in the absence of action by
congress is subject to the state laws;
the charges fixed by the legislature
would give reasonable return on the
! capital invested.
| Two persons were killed and many
| others were more or less injured in
| wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande
| railroad at CotopaXi, Col, on the Sd,
| caused by the breaking of journal on
| one of the coaches.
| PRAIRIE fires devastated the country
around Winnipeg, Man. At Because
| jour two women and five children were
| burned to death and carcasses of
|
around. Many farmers lost every thing
and several small villages were practi-
| cally wiped out.
| A WOMAN and her four children were
found dead by asphyxiation in the
West Shore hotel, New York, on the
| morning of the 1st. She had regis
| tered the previous night Mrs. Caro-
line Razinius, West Point" The wom-
an, it was thought, had voluntarily
caused the tragedy.
A DISPATCH to London from Rome on
| the 1st said that the pope's weakness
| was increasing and church dignitaries
were afraid that he would not rally
| from the extreme feebleness he be-
! trayed.
| FIRE broke out early on the 1st at
| Willow Springs, 16 miles from Chicago,
and destroyed nearly half the town
and made about 80 families homeless.
A RICH gold strike has been made on
Potosi mountain, in Colorado. The
| vein was said to be wide and continu-
| Gus and to run thousands of dollars to
| the ton.
| THE 18th annual convention of the
| Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical
| association took place at Iowa City, Ia
| DIR. l.. c. McElwee, of ST. Louis, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
A soUTHBoUND Rock Island passen-
| ger train was held up at 11:3O a. m. on
| the 1st near Chickasha, I. T., by five
masked men. They tried to blow open
| the safe in the express car, but failed.
The car, however, was blown to atoms.
The mail bags were rifled and all reg
istered packages taken. The robbers
then lined up the passengers outside
and took all their valuables. Posses
were put on the trail of the bandits.
A TRAIN on the Boston & Maine rail-
| road met with an accident near Med
| ford, Mass, and about 80 passengers
| were more or less injured.
Boston has won the league pennant
| for 1897 in the National Baseball league.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch sta tee
that Commander Ballington Booth alb
| Solutely denied the report that nego-
hations were in progress for a union of
| the Salvation army and the American
Volunteers.
THE pecan crop in north Texas and
the Indian territory will be the largest
in the memory of the Oldest inhabitt
ant. The crop is estimated at 1,OOO,-
| 900 bushels.
THE G. A. r. of Oklahoma is trying
| to get the abandoned military reserva-
| ton near Oklahoma City for soldiers
| home.
FIVE hundred thousand acres of fine
| land along the Big Piney. La Barge
and Fontanelle creeks and Green river,
Wyoming, which have recently been
surveyed, will be thrown open to set
| Element under the United States land
laws after November 1.
AT Moscow, Ia, two men were in
| stantly killed, another will probably
die of his injuries, and four others re-
ceived painful injuries, as the result
of an explosion of the engine boiler in
| a mill.
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS BEST, of the
general land office, who represented
the interior department at the ma
tional irrigation congress, at Lincoln,
Neb., said that the work of the con-
vention will bear fruit in coming legis-
| lation, and that congress will be asked
to pass an amendment to the Carey
law, giving states larger control over
their arid lands by enabling them to
pledge these lands as security for
| their reclamati ton.
| THE October term of the United