Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-28
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! SHORT KANSAS ITEMS F.:

Oil pipe line runs are averaging 49,
| $50 barrels day.
Governor Hoch laid the corner stone
| of the Y M. C. A building at Topeka
| Saturday.
Depositors of the Topeka First Ma
| tioDal bank are getting anxious about
| dividends.
John Higgins of Lansing has been
appointed parole officer at the state
penitentiary-
A spiders bite is believed to have
caused the death of Mrs. Lizzie Lane
at Burlington
Paola voted in favor of the munich
pal ownership of the water and cleo
trio light plants
A firm of Iowa 'stax ferrets" is pre-
pairing to go after contracts in every
county in Kansas.
The ST. Louis & North Arkansas
railroad will beNextended from Selig-
man, Ark, to Pityss,urg-
Prof Peasley, the Atchison healer,
who was charged with poisoning his
wife, has been acquitted.
Harvey Knauss, a deaf mute of Gar
nett, walked on the railroad track
with the usual result
The Kansas G. A R. will render
assistance in making the Pike Centen-
NAL at Pawnee Village a success.
AS soon as the necessary land is Sc
cured the government will begin work
on the big Garden City irrigation pro-
ject.
The receivers report of the Devlin
estate will be filed October 10, the
LOT Of IS h; of1-<-
meeting.
Mrs. w. J. Gardiner, a woman over
so years of age, was fatally burned by
the explosion of a gasoline stove at
Wellington.
Mrs. Zuel1a Younger. negress, was
convicted at Leavenworth of man
Philip Younger.
Joseph Peridotti, an Italian, at
tempted suicide at Frontenac by shoot
ing himself while brooding over the
loss of his wife.
Coffeyville has second theater
proposition on hand. which looks much
like scheme to kill off the first en-
terprise launched.
The Hays City experiment station
has made an important discovery of an
alfalfa that will grow on the uplands
of western Kansas.
New banks are being opened at the
rate of nine a month. In the last
three months twenty-seven state banks
have been organized.
Nelson & Tipler's grain elevator at
Geuda Springs, containing 10000 BUSH
els of wheat, was destroyed by fire.
The loss will be $4,000.
AS result of the new state deposit
DRY law there is considerable suspi-
cion that former state treasurers have
been pocketing about $4,000 a year
interest.
The Independence Daily Reporter
has enlarged to seven columns eight
pages, all home print; and is even
wallowing in the doubtful luxury of
a "red line
Leavenworth will spread all over
itself Monday with a big celebration
of German day." and the local brew
cry is running overtime to prepare for
the event.
The Topeka Elks are aked to head
the movement to start the Mother
Florence memorial. The rest of the
people will ask, as usual, for a state
appropriation.
The Topeka correspondents are now
fattening their STRINGS with running
every Tom, Dick and Harry who shows
uD at the capital for everything from
dog catcher to governor.
J. R. Koonts, president of a new
north and south railroad. or something
like that, tells the Hutchinson report
ers that the road is going to be built
right away or some thine.
Because of the increase in the week
w output of ore from the Missouri
Kansas district the zinc ore buyers
have succeeded in lowering the price
50 ton-e The highest price paid is
$50
The first provisional regiment of ar
tillery at target practice at Fort Riley
had all kinds of excitement, including
the shooting of horse from under its
rider and then setting the prairie on
fire
Detective E. F. Pavev of Topeka
picked out HAMPTON Steele a reporter
as "the man that writ that piece"
and jumped on him. Steele promptly
whipped the detective to a stand
still
Mrs Richard Cordley was rescued
from drowning in the river at Law
renee by a policeman. Mrs Cordley
had gone to the river bank left her hat
and note explaining that she was
lonely and wanted to die
The Ottawa Independent-Journal. at
one time one of the foremost advo~n+-s |
of Populism in Kansas, has suspended.
The State Baptist association adopt |
ed resolutions in Parsons condemning |
lawyers who defend .-jointists"
woman in, R,,t1o- county