Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-07-01
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schools.
Hiawatha will have big cleanup"
day July IA.
Mrs. P. I. Bonebrake, wife of the
Topeka banker, died Sunday.
The Santa Fe put special harvest
hand rates into effect Monday.
Pat Coney is now talked of for
national commander of the G. A. R.
Seven prisoners dug hole in the
Junction City Jail wall and escaped.
William F. Thiele of Hanover has
been appointed a cadet at Annapolis.
Experts explain that the gaps in the
pipe line are caused by the gas worm
A chinch bug was reported to have
been found near East Fairview last
week.
The supreme court has finally
knocked out all of the anti-gas piping
cases.
The gasoline stove has been hard
hit over the gas belt, but it is still in
the ring.
The $4,000 Carnegie library at
Washburn college, Topeka, has been
dedicated.
Kansas roads are being repaired in
preparation for the royal progress of
King Wheat.
Arthur Fuller of Pittsburg has been
appointed Judge of the new thirty
eighth district.
Using gasoline to kill bedbugs,
George DIETRICH, a Topeka man, also
burned his home.
Second regiment soldiers are con-
testing at Fort Filey for places on the
national rifle team.
John Conroy Peyton, a deaf mute
If Topeka, killed himself at Hiawatha.
He was respondent.
Adam Heimbuch, an old resident of
Leavenworth, died Monday from the
effects of a sunstroke.
Bishop Cunningham of Concordia
diocese had an audience with Pope
Plus in Rome last week.
The circus is at large in Kansas
again, and aspiring reporters are re-
plenishing their vocabularies.
Several hundred college graduates
will go into training for the football
season in the harvest fields.
| Subscribers have ceased bringing in
strawberries, and editors are now re-
receiving new potatoes and flowers.
Rev. Victor NJ. King who was iden-
ified with the early religious history
IF Kansas, is dead at Geneva, Ill.
Charles Cupp, mayor of Caldwell, is
4 defendant in an action brought to
:est the old soldier preference law.
! This is one of the seasons when
Providence is asked to supply differ
snt weather for every quarter section.
A Kansas firm is preparing to test
he law compelling railroads to build
sidetracks to elevators off their right
If way.
A hopeful prophet has encouraged
respondent farmers with the dictum
hat all years which end in are good
crop years.
| William Myers, because of jealousy,
| killed his wife on the street at Fort
Scott. He was arrested by his father,
I policeman.
The latest Kansas trust is in Stat
ord, where the dray interests have
combined. Each of the organizers
lad two drays.
A neckyoke found on the track near
Florence makes Santa Fe officials
think an attempt was made to wreck
| train last week.
An inquisitive councilman in Arkan-
;as City learned upon inquiry of the
existence of a Sunday closing ordi-
lance in that town.
| A lot of protests have been sent to
Governor Hoch against the pardon of
3. J. Smiley, who is in Jail for violat-
ng the antitrust law.
The stories of wild men and gaboons
| n Southeastern Kansas have ap-
peared this year a little in advance
If the watermelon crop.
The Winfield Free Press, comment
ling on the statement that doctors
carry disease germs in their whiskers,
suggests the use of insect powder.
| A Kansas editor complains that the
:ural telephones deprive him of sub
,cribers. Those who take the paper
telephone all the news to the others.
Times change. The sons of early
settlers are organizing Chicken Thief
association in Marshall county and q
Society to Prevent Gambling in Waldo.
In the artillery evolution at Fort
Riley Monday a caisson overturned
and Private HUSKY of the Twenty
fifth battery was dangerously injured.
The itinerant mendicant who trust
I'd unwisely to reports of too many
harvest hands has been seen making
,wift night marches towards the state
inc.
The question as to whether the road
AK is payable optionally in cash or
abor is being discussed, but few have
offered to pay both ways to make
,ure.
Mrs. Julia A. Chisam, 80 years old,