Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-06-17
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New bank for Winfield.
Longton is to have a refinery.
Druggists meet next at Emporia-
Hospital to cost $4,000 for Fort
Riley.
Farmers want warmer weather for
wheat
The bankers meet in Topeka June
6 to 8.
Gas Protective Association wants a
rehearing.
Kansans spent $51S,1s1s1 telephon-
ing last year.
Paola wants no more oil wells in
the city limits.
Big crops will help out in the oil
field this year.
Kansas will be well advertised at
the Portland fair.
The Wathena Chautauqua will be
held August 5 to IS.
Winfield has a $4,000 bank with L.
r King as president.
Congressman Scott looks for ma
tlona1 rate legislation.
Arkansas City jointists are tired of
strife and are moving.
Arkansas City is celebrating over
its natural gas supply.
Presbyterians are planning a theo-
logical annex for K. u.
A small tornado twisted things up
near k1ngman iIOnday.
| Wichita is looking for a branch of
the Katy from Usage, 1. T.
Troy will lave a $4,000 court house,
| one OF the finest in Kansas.
Lyon county farmers are planning a
cooperative phone company.
Senator F. Dumont Smith is to
spend the summer in Europe.
Burlington has added ladder truck
to its fire department equipment.
Members of the 1. o. o. F. are vot-
Ing for state grand lodge officers.
Governor Hoch has approved the
civil service rules for the penitentiary.
]. Carr of Augusta was afraid of
banks and burglars got his 81, 500 saw
ings.
The state temperance union is plan
ming county civic leagues to fight the
joints.
| Fred Cole, son of George E. Cole,
is now chief clerk in the state treas
urers office.
| Chanute lost 1,045 inhabitants dur
Ing the last year, most of whom were
oil promoters.
The truly good students of Wash
burn college have declared against
student dances.
| Henry Walker, an insane negro
hanged himself with shoestring in
the Topeka Jail.
Justice Cunningham of the supreme
court is in a critical condition at his
home at Emporia.
| H. Henen, an aged German of Hor-
ton, shot and killed himself at To
peka Monday night.
| Lightning struck the barn of NJ. ].
| Glenn, in Pottawatomie county and
killed twelve horses.
Esther Underwood, years old, fell
into a flooded cellar at Topeka Thurs
day and was drowned.
| Mrs. T. j. Fitzpatrick, arrested at
Chanute, had negotiable paper worth
$4,000 on her person.
Bishop futile, addressing the do
cesar Episcopal convention at Topeka,
opposed church union.
The meanest man has been found
again in Atchison. He eloped with
the wife of blind man.
Men, not boys, are wanted in the
harvest fields. T. B. Gerow says 3d.
900 men will be needed.
Robert Young, a Gardiner painter
tracks at Olathe Sunday.
| A H. Burtfs, government land in
spector at Dodge City, thinks there
is oil in western Kansas.
The German government has adopt
ed the coast signaling service patent
ed by Prof. Lucien I. Blake.
Senator Noftzger of Harper county
says the hen and not the wheat and
corn crops is making Kansas farmers
rich.
The Coolidge Enterprise thinks II
lis strange that the Illinois Bar asso
citation should take to ex-Alton B
Parker.
Wichita hay dealers have compliance
to the state board to adjust the car
load hay rate, which, they say, is
too high.
James Dyer, a machinist who held
the same job for thirty-three years in
the Great Western shops at Leaven
worth, is dead.
Miss Estelle Riddle, daughter OF
lGovernor Riddle, of Minneapolis, has
been appointed business agent fol
bethany college.
Out in Ford county, which is sup
posed to be more than semi-arid, -four
persons were recently drowned trying
Ito cross Duck creek.
One Kansas editor accuses another
of standing in an alley and throwing
rocks at the hearse when it hau1s
a man he didn't like.
Mrs. Theodore Poehler of Lawrence
has given the Lawrence public Ii
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