Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-07-15
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Cottonwood Falls is to have electric
lights.
Coyville is to have a $4,000 state
bank.
The Chanute Commercial club has
incorporated.
The state board of equalization will
meet July 10.
Fort Leavenworth may have a mon
ument to Gen. W. T. Sherman.
The Kansas Natural Gas company
has bought the Ottawa franchise.
State Fish Warden Travis proposes
to stop SEEMING in Kansas streams.
Roy Bane fell down a Pittsburg
mine shaft last week and was killed.
The state employment bureau hiss
supplied $4,000 harvest hands this
year.
Fifteen thousand people heard Sam
Jones preach at the Winfield Chau-
tauqua.
DR.. J. A Mckenzie, who was hurt in
an automobile accident at Eldorado,
is dead.
A. F. Humphrey, La Crosse jeweler,
while respondent, ended his life,
Tuesday.
Pittsburg smelters are finding il
cheaper to import zinc ore from British
Columbia
| The mine operators are talking of
| testing what is known as the double
entry law.
| The First Baptist church of Law
| renee celebrated it's fiftieth anniver-
sary Sunday.
| Mrs. Ada Hart is dead at Salina
| from injuries received in a gasoline
stove explosion.
| The hank of aaVPO-
worth has purchased the Liang build
ing and will move.
! Governor Hoch has given his consent
to the appeal to the supreme court to
test the prohibitory law.
Pat Cooney is after the Memorial
day decorators, and has issued gen
eral order on the subject.
Mrs Mamie Mitchell has been held
for trial at Troy on the charge of MUIR
dering her husband.
| There has been a great increase in
| the demand for Kansas fuel oil and
| the producers are smiling again.
A feature of the Baxter Springs REL
union will be a lecture by Mrs. Pickett,
widow of the confederate general
There were no failures in the class
of fifty-one applicants for admission
| to the bar at Topeka last week.
| w. L. Dexter, secretary of the Kan
| sas Temperance union says Topeka is
| bad, from prohibition standpoint.
The Dickinson County News has
started a boom for Judge A. P. Flack
for Democratic nominee for governor.
The Winfield Chautauqua made
I$6,5 500 this year and has paid off all
its expenses and an old debt of $4,000.
w. A. Burks, a Santa Fe conductor
of Chanute, was crushed between cars
at Caney and died of his injuries last
week.
Pittsburg is entitled to be rated as
| one of the cities of the first class. The
latest census gives it's population as
1922.
Albert Reid of Topeka and FREQ
Jameson of Leavenworth will start the
Evening Post at Leavenworth, Au-
gust L.
George E. Nicholson, an lola capt.
talist, has given $4,000 for a training
school for Methodist missionaries in
Manila.
Mrs David Kailer is the heroine of
Wichita. She captured burglar in
her home and held him until the po-
lice arrived.
The school boards are having the
usual trouble finding enough teachers
to take the place of those who marry
in the summer
Because a big brother refused to al
low Earl Richie of lola permission to
go with Nellie Richart, Richie killed
himself Friday.
w. F. Smith of Beloit has sued his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennie Bolen, for
$685. 900 for alternating the affections
of Mrs. Smith.
The authorities are still unable to
locate the person who threw cup of
carbolic acid in the face of William R.
i Scott at Pittsburg.
Auditor Wells says he has nc
| authority to pay for silver service
for the battleship Kansas, punch bowl
or no punch bowl
The Western Coal and Mining com
pany, controlled by the Goulds, has
purchased the Wear Coal company s
property at Pittsburg.
They do things down in Arkansas
City. When a wooden building was
erected inside the fire limits the city
officials moved it outside.
Representative Young of Wilson
| county advocates the Imprisonment
of mayors who fail to enforce the pro
hibitory law in their towns.
John Smith, executive clerk, has
been appointed the governors private
secretary to succeed Tom McNeal, who
becomes state printer July l.
In a fight over the treatment of e
horse at Chanute, Jacob Byrnes un-