Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26
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F. L. williams of Clay Center. is
Governor Hoch's latest private secre-
tary.
The new army signal school will
open at Fort Leavenworth Septem-
Der 1.
Lightning struck the barn OF Fred
Ward near Concordia, causing a loss
of $1,000.
The Devlin creditors have been
given three weeks longer to file their
claims.
Dependency over ill health led to
the suicide of Dr. John Van Welt at
Wheaton.
Philip Younger, a negro, was shot
and killed by his wife in Leavenworth
during quarrel
F. E. Mossman of Chicago has been
elected president of Southwest Kan
sas college at Winfield
Vic Murdock's friends say there
isn't man in the eighth district who
can beat him for congress.
John Waters, a farmer, and two of
his sons were drowned in a swollen
creek near Pittsburg last week
The Grover-Povost breach of prom
Use suit at Concordia has been settled
by the marriage of the principals.
Frank Swaney, farmer near Clyde,
was found dead alongside a barbed
wire fence from a shotgun wound
L. P. Tillman, aeronaut, was killed
at Horton by the fall of his parachute,
which failed to open when he jumped.
DR.. l. W. Ward of Labette county
has been appointed superintendent of
the asylum for imbeciles at Winfield.
Owing to the failure of the crop in
his orchard, Fred Wellhouse may lose
his title of the Kansas apple king this
year.
/ Melvin, the lola dynamiter, is said
to be writing an autobiography. lola
would much prefer to have him write
his obituary.
Independence voted 100000 to buy
the water works system, and also
voted in favor of accepting a $4,000
Carnegie library.
A Wichita man has reached the
conclusion that the Rocky Ford
canteloupe has been crossed with the
ordinary gourd this year.
Another candidate for the leader
ship in the meaneSt man contest is
the Topeka man who throws black ink
on woman's white dresses.
Reno county has 262,744 bearing
apple trees. There are twenty-six
counties in the state having each
more than 100000 apple trees.
This is not Good Roads item: A
farmer near COTS after advertising
for his lost COW, found her in the
weeds along public highway.
Out in Solomon the papers have a
hard time keeping track of the Mike
Sullivans. In the Solomon neighbor-
hood are nine men of that name.
The Lawrence robber gang, which
Is said to have looted forty houses in
the last month, was broken up by the
arrest of three boys, II to Is years
old.
The Atchison coal mine will be re-
opened on the "open shop principle
West Stratner, 20 years old, is dead
at Enterprise from the sting of a
wasp.
Whenever feasible, counties will be
compelled to take care of their in
durable insane at home, according to
the latest ruling of the board of con-
troll.
The gasoline stoves latest victim
is Mrs. Walter Taylor of Great Bend.
c. w. Connors of Newton was killed
in a Rock Island wreck at Atlantic,
Iowa.
To save the younger son from prose
cution, Mrs. l.. F. Meador of Fort
Scott denied the dying statement of
her elder son that his brother had
shot him.
Those Kansas papers which refer
to the silver service given by the
state to the battle ship Kansas as a
tea set show themselves unfamiliar
with naval usage.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Learner of Lee
compton celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary last week. Mr..
Learner was in business at Lecompton
continuously for forty-eight years.
A piano tuner looked up the tax re-
cords in Montgomery county to get a
list of the persons owning pianos. He
found only fffty-five listed for taxa
ton, whereas he already knew of $50. |
A mineral spring which is alleged to
possess marvellous medical properties
has been found in Louisville. The
Tyre offers to give a tub full of it as
a premium fonr each new subscrip
ton.
Susan Mayhem, a ful1b1ood Indian
woman in Montgomery county and
supposed to be 116 years old, declares |
she carried buttermilk to General An |
drew Jackson during the seige of New
Orleans.
The katy railroad agrees to