Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
Observation-Disclosures
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The Neosho river has flooded the
bottoms around Chetopa, but is reced-
| ing.
George Hanna, Missouri Pacific car
repairer at -tchison, was killed by
train Sunday.
1t is rumored that Miss Helen Gould
| will give $4,000 for Y. NJ. C. A.
building at Fort Leavenworth-
A curiosity in the shape of some
dwarf cornstalks only sixteen feet in
height is on exhibition at Lawrence.
A bolt of lightning started $780,
900 fire at Winchester, Thursday
| night Little insurance was carried.
1t is now limited that the books of
the loan commissioner of the agri-
cultural college have been loosely
kept.
Mrs. ]. L. Wallace, waitress at New
ton, has been arrested charged with
the theft of a brides trousseau valued
at 5000.
The supreme court has issued a
writ of mandamuS to compel the Mis-
souri, Pacific to repair the Lenora
branch.
Judge A. L. Redden, a well known
lawyer of Topeka, committed suicide
potassium.
Kansas school children will be
asked to contribute toward the fund
for marking the Santa Fee trail
through Kansas.
A frequent news item in Kansas
papers these days is about this or that
big manufacturing plant which will
use oil for fuel
Charles L. Ross, Topeka miller,
says the wheat raised this year makes
| better grade of flour than that rails
ed in any previous year.
The bits of the bottle which Miss
Hoch smashed on the bow of the
battleship Kansas will be distributed
by Governor Hoch as souvenirs.
So many western Kansas teachers
are getting better places and jumping
contracts that the school boards have
appealed to the state board for relief.
A Union Pacific passenger train
struck a buggy at Salina Thursday,
killing child of Mrs. Jacob Wallerious
and crushing the leg of Mrs. James
Devlin.
The big Fowler ranch in Wabaunsee
county is to be divided into small
tracts and leased. 1t has been used in
feeding cattle for the Kansas City
packing houses.
The miners employed at the Sheri-
dan mine near Pittsburg are sensible.
Monday they struck and then went
to work, leaving their dispute to be
settled by arbitration.
w. T. Stone, of Atchison, has made
suggestion that is worthy of serious
consideration. He proposes that we
trade the Philippines for Ireland and
raise our own policemen.
M. ]. Mcmahon, railroad laborer
at Arkansas City, was shot and dan
gerously wounded by a robber he had
caught attempting to rob the bunk
car in which he was sleeping.
Commenting on the report that the
sultan of Sulu wants to marry Alice
Roosevelt the smooth and tactful
Topeka Capital says:
The sultan might do worse
When the tax collector came around
G. F. Biddle, deputy United States
marshal of Commanche county was
forced to own up that $3.50 diamond
that he sported was only paste.
There are two or three tragedies in
the simple statement that Perry
Rogers, So years old, committed suicid
at Paola Thursday after a spree, leav-
ing a-widow and ten children unprovid-
Led for.
There are eight men in the vicinity
I
van. To distinguish them they are
known as: Mike Pete, Mike Bat,
Smoky Bat, Praire Mike, Mike Dan,
Corner Mike, Wild Mike, Bib Mike,
Little Mike.
| President Roosevelt has become
! slightly reconci1ed to Dickinson county
says the Clay Center Times, since hear
| ing about the lady residing there, who,
though only 81 years old, has presented
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| daughters, one at a time.
Parkhurst & Davis of Topeka at
| tached the assets of the Kansas Fire
| Insurance company at Topeka yester-
| day and when the receiver went to
| take charge he found the sheriff in
| possession. This means that a legal
| fight will be started to eat up what
| is left of the concern.
In Rock Island collision between
| freight and passenger train at Man.
kato Thursday three persons were in
| jured. They are: Sylvester Cumm-
| ings of Phillipsburg, leg sprained and
| cut about head; Mr.. Dabner of Wis
| consin, cut about head, and F. J.
| earle of Smith Center, back sprained
| and cut about head and body.
An additional reason why people
should pay their subscription to a
newspaper: NJ. d. Settle, of Abilene,
| lost his pocketbook containing large
sum of money The only thing in the
book to show whom it belonged to was
a receipt showing that Mr. Settle had