Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

the other day.
Wheat is said to be in fine shape in
every section of the state
The Washbur college students run
a boarding club at 81 per head a week.
The Santa Fe railroad will erect
large ice houses at Topeka and Argen-
| tine.
The Baptist ministers of the state
will hold an all dAy conference at To
peka November II
Farmers in northern Kansas were re.
ported buying great numbers of cattle
for feeding purposes
H T. Kennedy, an old citizen and
prominent mason at Eureka, was killed
| by the accidental discharge of shot.
| gun.
A. p Riddle, superintendent of an
insurance, is at his home in Mime
apolis slowly recovering from a stroke
of paralysis
| in Jail at Atwood charged with setting
fire to Farmer Jonah Fosters hay &c
get revenge.
| hunting near Mcpherson, the latter's
gun was accidentally discharged, his
brother receiving fatal charge OF
shot
1t is suggested that a great number
of men in Kansas will have to join the
Salvation army after election to keep
up their practice of marching in
parades-
A ten-months-o1d Parsons child,
while playing near candy bucket
| containing about four inches of water,
fell head foremost into it and was
drowned
A l.
Lain is in jail at Atchisou for attempt
ing to collect money from members of
the masonic fraternity by false repre-
sensations.
Friends of Postmaster 81. S. Martin,
of Marion, deny the report of an al
legged shortage of 5000 published few
| days ago, and affirm that his accounts
are all right.
A military company has been formed
of boys in the Leavenworth high
school. They will be drilled as cadets
and a stack of arms will be furnished
by Uncle Sam.
Patrick Cullen. veteran at the
Leavenworth soldiers home, became
melancholy the other day and drowned
himself He served in troop F, First
Missouri cavalry.
The court of appeals of the Northern
that a decree of divorce does not be-
come final operative until the ex-
piration of six months.
At Abilene, Councilman Pitts. while
putting on belt in his mill, was
caught by the belt, wound on the shaft
and crushed to death He was a lead
ing miller of central Kansas
John R. Coulter. an inmate of the
Leavenworth soldiers home, got a back
pension of 5000 the other day. He was
SO happy that he filed himself full of
whisky and soon died of heart disease.
The Sunfiower Poultry. Kennel and
Pet Stock association will hold the an
1ual bench and poultry show in Kan
sas City, Kan, December 1919. Lib
era1 prizes will be offered and the ex-
hibition will be made an attractive one.
A charter has been granted to the
Kansas ex-Slaves' State Pension asso-
citation. whose avowed object is to lob
tain a pension for all ex-slaves and for
their general welfare and benefit 9TH
erwise." Headquarters are at Topeka.
The grandmother of Annie M. Cur
less, of North Topeka, objected to an
admirer of the young woman, and
when he called sent him home, where
at Miss Curless beat the aged lady with
board severely that death was ex-
pected to result
b. T. Wallace, a crazy hired hand
near Jewell City, tried to kill himself
by saturating his bed with kerosene
and setting fire to it. Failing in that,
he set fire to his employers barn,
which was consumed, together with a
lot of grain and four mules.
Reduced railroad rates have been
granted to the meeting of the Kansas
Dairy association at Abilene, Novem-
Der 1920; Southeastern Kansas Teach
ers' association at Fort Scott, Novem-
Der &c to IS; Southwestern Kansas
Teachers association at Wellington,
November 27-2S-
1t transpires that United States
Marshal Nelly was held up on the
streets of Topeka during the recent
carnival and robbed of 81, 500. The
matter was suppressed for a time in
order to effect the arrest of the sus-
poets A man and woman, both col
ored, are now in Jail charged with the
crime.
An Atchison paper says that instead
of making golden rod the national
flower, everyone should pull every
can reach. The golden rod blossom is
the cause of the epidemic of hay fever
every fall, and also causes a disease re-
sembling consumption in horses that
are left in fields where the golden rod
grows
At Mcpherson Farmer Sherman Row.
land attempted to dictate to his wife,
from whom he had separated She