Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-07-08
5 SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

punches of three.
| Williamsburg has Sos people and
| viii Incorporate.
Abeflne is preparing to purchase
its water plant
]. G. johnson announces his retire
ment from politics
| The PitIsburg light and railway COM
panies have merged.
Gen Funston is expected to attend
the Fort Scott reunion
The State Christian Endeavorers
met in Topeka last week
There are forty-three applicants for
admission to the bar this year.
William J. Bryan spoke to 5000 peo-
pie at the Winfield Chautauqua-
wfcsield's new $45, 900 electric light
plant has been put into operation
Abilene's crack negro baseball team
was beaten at Salina last week
Bishop Lillis has been elected presi-
dent of ST Benedict's college alumni
| The railroad board has decided it
has no power to regulate Pullman
rates.
| Kansas health statistics show a fall
| ing off in deaths from contagious dis
| eases
| F. Dumont Smith takes it all back
and says pipe lines are not common
carriers
near St Paul, was fatally injured in
runaway.
Ground for the new $4,000 state
| printing plant was broken in Topeka
last week
Subscriptions to the stock of the
| Ioia-Humboldt interurban are now be-
| ing secured.
| J. G. Bonebrake, who lives near Hill
City, fell and broke two bones in his
leg last week.
The umpire protects his reputation
in Neosho Falls by reporting the ball
games himself.
A man in Sheridan says he has a
field of rye whcih would hide a man
| feet inches tall.
Lightning killed a mule near Cav
ker City, but it was careful to avoid
the animals heels.
The boys picking beets at Arkansas
| City have struck for the same wages
paid the men, 81 day.
Companies A and B, First battalion
of engineers, left Leavenworth last
week for the Philippines
Sheridan county reports forty-one
births and eleven marriages during the
year ending with March, 1905
Coffeyville has no base ball team
this year, but in that respect it is bet.
ter than some of its neighbors.
The new Topeka prohibition ordi-
J nance says nothing about clubs and
the temperance people are sore
Mrs Dot Ellsworth of Chanute un.
dertook to pet lion in a circus She
will recover, but is badly scratched
lola in common with all the rest OF
! the gas belt towns, is after the pro
posed Baldwin locomotive works.
. James Alexander, who is wanted for
several offenses against the postal
laws has been arrested at Chanute-
Senator Warner of Missouri and q
number of distinguished Kansans will
speak at the Pittsburg reunion in July
The Topeka liquor cases have been
) appealed to the supreme court of the
United States to finally test the law
Farmers are cutting their weeds
but the towns are having lot of trou
BILE trying to get the citizens to dc
it
Private England of the Twentieth
battery, field artillery, was drowned
/ at Fort Riley while bathing in the
Kaw.
| Brakebeam tourists in hurry to gel
on with their journeys are borrowing
horses promiscuously in Western
Kansas
Hutchinson labor unions have filet
a portest against the dumping of pa
rolled reformatory inmates in RenS
county.
Long Island has a new paper called
the New Leaf. It's a stylish looking
sheet even if it's editors name is JUS
plain Jones,
Tiffany of New York will bid on tbs
battleship Kansas silver service. Sew
eral other big manufacturers have sub
mitted designs
The Orient railway has begun lay
ing rails near EldOrado and that tow
expects soon to have direct connec
tions with China
Harold Schooner disappeared from
Leayenworth a few days ago and i
is feared that some thirsty KansaI
has swallowed him.
Kansas towns which have been see
ing visions of that mi1lion-dollar Bald
win locomotive works have been smok
ing the wrong brand
George Williams was run over by
freight train at Manhattan last weel
and died in an hour. a dozen car
passed over his body
Arkansas City is having a mill
| famine because the dairymen are sell
ing all their product to the new cream
cry at better prices
Mrs E w. Stanley of Wichita AM
/ Mrs Cora g. Lewis of KinSIey hay,