Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-20
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A good paying quality of brick shale
has been discovered on the farm OF
David Sherrad, near Winfield.
Prohibition went into effect twenty.
four years ago Monday and it has kept
Kansas busy every minute since.
The county printing row in Jewell
county has broken ont afresh, and ap-
pears to be getting beyond control.
Atkinson police have captured a
burglar who had a habit of smoking
cigars while going through houses
Senator Chester 1. Long will deliver
the Memorial day address in Paola.
He was a student there from 1878 to
1880.
The police of Kansas City, Kansas.
have received orders to close all negro
dance halls in that city, as they have
become a nuisance.
Mrs.C. ]. Eriksen. aged 4S years. q
resident of Lawrence since 1881. Is
dead. Mrs. Eriksen was prominent in
business and church circles.
The following postmasters have been
named for Kansas: Fredonia, Thomas
C. Babb; Lindsborg Eben Carlson.
Quenemo, Willis E. Bodley.
The census just completed shows
that there are only 144 homes not free
of incumbrance in Abilene. The 903
dwellings are occupied by 934 families.
DR.. Carl Newman is dead at Law
renee, aged 80 years. DR. Newman
had been a resident of Lawrence since
1857 and was prominent in the early
days.
A dispatch from Eldorado announces
that work on the Orient is being rush.
ed and that the road will soon be
complete from Kansas City to Fair
view, Ok.
A Muscotah man was in Atchison
a few days ago and took his first
ride on trolley car. When he wished
| to get off he shouted whoa" to the
motorman.
Fire recently destroyed three houses
In Argentine. They were occupied by
w. L. Young, S. s. Brown and J. o.
Walker. The loss was about $1,000 on
each house.
Paramount college at Wichita, has
received a donation of $4,000 from
Andrew Carnegie for a library build
ing. The college also has to raise the
same amount.
| The University OF Kansas has lost
another valuable. educator. w. r.
Crane, assistant professor of mining
engineering has accepted a professor
ship elsewhere which offered a more
substantial reward.
One hundred and twenty men and
women Dunkards participated in their
semiannual communion service in Kan
sas City. They washed each others
feet and, after eating supper, passed
around the holy kiss
| At farewell reception given DR.. and
Mrs. F. J. Sauber by the members of
the First Presbyterian, at Emporia.
DR.. Sauber was presented with a purse
of $17O in gold-$1O for each year he
has had charge of the church.
/ The knights of Columbus council
have installed a chapter at Coffey-
vile. One hundred and fifty knights
from Parsons and Independence
councils conferred the degrees. There
were.85 candidates initiated.
The oil refinery suit pending in the
Kansas supreme court will be argued
at Topeka during the June session.
1t is expected that a decision on the
validity of the bonds to be issued to
pay for the refinery will be given at
the July sitting.
/ A little boy in Cloud county crawled
into a VOLTS den after the mother had
been killed and brought out eight wolf
Puppies. The neighbors now predict
that some day the lad may wear Cog
giles and show his front teeth and be-
come President.
On Easter negro preacher in Leav-
| enworth announced, after the collect
ion had been taken up: 'Dey's a lot
of yo fine ladies what has seen cherry
hat in dis edifice to-day cept de one
dat brudder Johnsing has bin SO kind
as to pass down de aisle"
In a pauper's grave at Coffeyville,
Kan, lies the body of Edward Dunbar,
he preacher who wrote the well known
Sunday School song, There's Light
in the Window for Thee, Brother" in
1867, while he was holding a revival
meeting in Leavenworth-
Henry Busch, Russian farmer said
to be insane, who lives near Emporia,
ercently barricaded his home with the
help of the family and resisted a
sheriff and posse of deputies for day
i when they tried to arrest him. The
i Jury on the trial brought in verdict
of not insane.
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