Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-06-03
s SHORT KANSAS ITEMS :

The pen1tenuary 5 Oyercrowdeo-
Senator Burton mas returned to Abb
1ene.
Neodosha has new fair associ-
alton.
Kansas cattle herds show an in
crease.
The apple crop viii be a record
breaker.
Larned people are arranging to burn
crude oil
Chambers is epidemic in southwest
ern Kansas.
Caney has voted $4,000 bonds for
new schools
Four pelicans were killed near Cha
mute last week.
Emporia arrests boys who hang
around billiard halls.
The Missouri Pacific is charged with
using faulty couplers-
The Eagles will hold their Grand
Eyre in LeavenwOrth.
Garden City farmers have organized
an irrigation association.
The commodity rate hearing has
been postponed to June is.
Girard won the prize in the Pythian
drill contest at Leayenyorth.
1t is expected the state will buy
George Clark's printing plant.
Arkansas City now has four banks.
A new one opened last week.
The railroad commissioners are
asked to reduce rates on nut coal
The grand lodge of Pythians was in
session at LeaveEworth last week
The population of western Kansas
has increased one-fourth in two years.
The state health board shows a de-
crease in all diseases except diPh-
iberia.
An inter university prohibition ora
torical contest came off at Ottawa
last week.
Governor Hoch wants the silver ser
vice for the battleship Kansas made
in Kansas.
Andrew Carnegie has donated one
of his libraries. 100000 size, to Beth
any college.
The semi-annual session of the Kan
sas Horticultural society opens at To-
peka, June z.
Since the death of Herbert Croker.
Ottawa has decided to close all of its
opium resorts.
T. F. Hearsey, who founded Abb
lene, Downs and Cawker City is dead
in Washington.
L. T. Hussey, state oil inspector, col
lected 81, 1928 in April, over 81 900 OF
which is profit.
Arkansas City women will take a dog
census and collect 25 per cent of the
tax for park fund
Sheriff Hinshaw at Emporia recent
ly smashed SIC bottles of beer cap
tured in joint raids.
Representatives Curtis, Calderhead
and Campbell are in Washington to see
about some appointments.
The two-year-old baby of Mrs. Frank
Tomlinson fell into a sewer at Ster-
ling last week and was drowned.
A Chicago firm has been given the
contract to make expert examination
of the accounts of Kansas offices.
Charles Heinsacker, farmer living
ten miles southwest of Atwood, killed
his wife and then killed himself
The corporate existence of the First
National bank of Great Bend, Kan,
has been extended to May 16, 1925.
The nineteenth. annual commence
ment exercises of the Arkansas City,
Kan, schools were held last week.
William Davidson who disappeared
returned. He said he had been in
Illinois.
Arthur Mcconnell, who has just
died at Coffeyville, was proud of the
fact that he ran errands for Abraham
Lincoln.
The old-fashioned peace officer who
"apprehendS" people insteads of plac-
ing them under arrest has been found
up in MuscOtah.
An Atchison optimist figures that
he had two pieces of good luck last
week: He does not live in Marquette,
Kas., or Snyder, Okla.
William uchels and his wife we're
burned to death in their home near
Winfield last week. He was 80 years
old and she was IS.
]. w. Bretches, a carpenter in Nc
Pherson, fell from a scaffold one day
last week and the other workmen sent
for a doctor and tailor
Among the students to be graduated
from Emerson college, Boston, are
Meta H. Taylor of Emporia and Fran
els Farley of Malvern, Kan
T. F. Dennis, who has been in the
pension department at Washington for
several years, has been made mem
Der of the board of review
A gents furnishing goods store" in
Parsons breaks the monotony by adj
vertising itself: 'Haberdashers to
the mayor and postmaster
Some of the Wichita people have
their hammers out for Joe Tack, a
Missouri Pacific employee who wrote
a patent medicine testimonial.
With an American flag wrapped
about her, Mrs. L. Slight tried to stop
a ball game at Hutchinson Sunday.
She was pushed off the diamond.
F. d. Coburn, who introduced Secre-
tary Wilson in Harrington last week,
has apparently forgiven the Secretary