Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
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lola wants the state militia en-
campment.
Strong City is having a big nat
ural gas excitement.
The Rock Island may make Her
ington its operating headquarters.
c. J. Devlin has left Topeka for
Illinois and will go on to Europe.
The government is to establish a
tree nursery near Garden City, Kan.
Wichita and Wellington are candf-
dates for the national guard encamp-
ment.
The six women who smashed joints
at Industry, near Abilene, have been
arrested.
The lola Portland Cement plant
will enlarge its capicity to 5000 bar
rels day.
John Blair, who was 1.-THE Village
Blacksmith for forty years at Fort
Scott, is dead
1t transpires that the Eastern
man. who wanted an electric light
franchise in Ottawa lives in Lawrence.
E. F. Murphy has been appointed
assistant attorney general for Sher-
man county and will try to bust" the
joints.
There have been only thirty-eight
strikes in two years in Kansas, and
most of them were settled by arbi-
tration.
A. B. Canady, who shot and killed
w. r. Brandenberg at Fort Scott for
running his 16-year-old girl, will be
released.
Steele Cortelyou of Muscotah, an en-
ploye of the Panama canal commits
sion in Panama, died recently of yell
low fever.
The methodists have purchased a
homestead in Topeka to establish
home for superannuated Methodist
preachers.
After Frank farrell resigned from
the Topeka Capital the paper had to
do something, SO it reduced the length
of its columns
Eldorado has begun suit against the
Missouri Pacific to compel that road
to maintain repair shops and division
headquarters there.
Complaint comes from Northwestern
Kansas that there has been scarcely
enough wind this summer to keep the
windmills in practice.
A syndicate headed by w. NJ. Leet
of Great Bend has bought 10000 acres
of Santa Fee land in New Mexico to
start a Kansas colony.
Judge Dana of Shawnee county has
declared the law exempting the prop
erty of secret fraternal orders from
taxation constitutional.
Warden E. B. Jewett of the state
penitentiary will go into the brick
making business at Niotaze after he
retires from the prison.
Taxa Suda, said to be the only JAP
anese telegraph operator in the United
IN fhn
Union office at Wichita.
J. A Laning, the evangelist who
was arrested at Troy for making away
with promisory note, has been held
for trial in the district court.
Mrs. John Peters of Wichita found
her husband in a saloon and before
a large and enthusiastic audience she
gave him good horsewhipping.
Alexander Garrett of near Derby,
who hid his money in an accordion,
is now playing a sad tune, because
robbers discovered the hiding place.
The biggest sunflower liar is tread
ing close on the heels of the man who
raises whopper ears of corn. The
whopper potato man is about due, also.
Carr Taylor, attorney for the state
railroad board, is making bid for
much laudation from Kansas papers
by attacking the railroad rates on pa
per.
Mrs. William c. Cooper of Ottawa.
whose 3-year-old daughter Helen was
stolen away by her father, has been
recovered by the mother in San Fran
cisco.
George Saylor, a foreman of the
F1oto, shows was found dead alongside
the railroad track at PleasantOn and
it is believed he was slugged and
thrown from the train.
The man found murdered and robbed
near Silver Lake few days ago, has
been identified as William Winsor, a
farmer of near Abilene. He was sup
posed to have had about $500.
The opposition proposes a contest
of recent school election in Dixon
township, near Wellington, Kan, be-
cause it was held on Saturday, when
the Seventh Day Adventists could not
vote.
The Union Trust company of Pitts
burg will finance the Chanute-Port
Arthur pipe line, which will be $50
miles long and cost 100000. There
is a 10,OOO-barrel refinery at Port
Arthur.
The work of disinterring the bodies
in the Fort Hays military cemetery
for refinement in the national GENE
terry at Fort Leavenworth has begun.
Many of the soldiers buried at Fort
Hays died of cholera in 1863.
Following the example of some