Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-02
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The grain rate hearing has been
postponed to November 81.
The collections from state oil inspec-
lions so far this year are SIS, 1855
Fred Wagstaff ate rat biscuit at Sa-
lima Sunday, but has a good chance
to recover.
Wolves are so thick in southern
Cowley county that big hunt has been
organized.
The state board horticultural sicfety
meeting will be held at Topeka De
cember 26-zS.
Secretary Root has sent word that
he will be unable to attend the Kansas
Day banquet.
The Strang Valley electric road has
posted a forfeit of 81 900 to secure a
franchise at Lawrence.
The new fish hatchery at Pratt
well under way. Foreign game birds
will also be bred at the station
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has brought on the hide
pendent company at Wellington
Topeka recently brought it's water
plant in order to secure lower rates
and now the rates have been raised.
The report of State Auditor Wells
shows that Kansas is doing state of
fetal business OF $5,O00,OOO a year.
Because of the epidemic of diph-
liberia at Yates Center the district
court has adjourned until December
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Chanute and Coueyville men are
building a brick plant at Mound City
with capacity of 100000 bricks a
day.
Jerry Simpsons will has been filed
at Roswell, N. NJ, leaving an estate
valued at $4,000 to the widow and
son, Lester.
Federal officers are taking a hand in
the Topeka liquor fight by going after
the jointists who failed to post their
liquor licenses.
The KANSAS Day club has refused to
turn its Kansas day banquet into a
boostfest for Topeka's semi-centennial
exposition graft
E. B. Lime, inspector of the United
States land office, says the 100000
acres of public land in Kansas will be
gone inside OF five years.
The treasurer of Phillips county
has been arrested; but he may be
able to show that he did nothing
worse than take some money.
The Abilene Reflector has all the
cordwood it needs, but it expresses a
Willingness to accept good, old-fash-
Toned mincemeat on subscription.
Homer Hoch, the editor of the
Marion Record, is one young man
who can refer to his father as "the
governor without any disrespect
Fred Casper, a supposed pauper,
died the other day a. Atchison and
was found to have $4,000 in cash and
certificates of deposit in his pockets.
The Women's Relief corps of Cot
feyvil1e has ordered a $4,000 monu-
ment to the vterans of the civil war
1t will be placed in Elmwood cemetery.
1t is said that c. J. Devlin feared
failure for several years before the
crash came, and for that reason was
so careful in keeping up his life in
Surance.
An attempt to wreck a Santa Fe
train was made on the Shawnee
branch near Arkansas City Monday
morning by wrapping a chain around
the rails.
Now that the temperance wave is
sweeping over the state again clubs
with locker attachments and a key for
every member are springing up over
the state.
r. H. Harvard, gran dealer of Hal
ford, has sued the Union Pacific be-
fore he state railroad board, alleging
the ROAD is conspiring to ruin him
financially
Mrs. Mage RAIDER has sued Chief
of Police Cubbon of Wichita for $4,000
damages for mistreating her while sn
was ill in her home during his search
for her son.
Because he belives the law is wrong
in limiting the number of wild ducks
hunter may kill in one day, C. C.
Myers, game warden at Fort Scott,
has resigned.
Fred Saler, a naturalized citizen of
Butler county, went DacA to visit Is
old home in Stuttgart, Germany, and
has been arrested there for evading
military duty.
While their picture was being taken
at Wichita, a platform broke, Carrying
ninety candidates of lie Scottish Rite