Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-16
s SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Howard Reeves of P1ttSburg was
drowned in a strip pit pond
The smelters have forced the price
of zinc ore down to $50 a ton
Coffeyville is building the first
stretch of oiled road in Kansas
The Scott-Stevens elevator at Con-
cordia burned with a loss of $4,000.
Just one more rain is all the corn
needs says the crop expert OF the
state.
Ottawa is one of those old-fashioned
towns where the rats" and leans
play ball
The total interest on the state
school fund Distributed Thursday was
S215,3s4.
The army staff college at Fort
Leavenworth opens for the l905-06
term Friday
Complete rural delivery will be
inauguIated in Montgomery county
November L.
Coffeyville has struck a flow of sui
phur water and Is having VISIONS OF a
Dig health resort.
Baldwin is to have natural gas. :.
mick" ChIies is pushing E. b.
JewetI for governor.
Mrs. Mary Ann Boicourt of Moline
is thought 10 pc the oldest pensloner
in Kansas. She is 102.
The fire at Chapman Tuesday morn
ing, the Inlrd big one in three years,
caused loss OF $4,000.
The Messenger claims that Mime
apOilS has the best location in the
STATE for a sewerage system.
bat with Campers circus, was
drowned at Ness City Monday.
Governor Hoch delivered a eulogy and
suggested a permanent memorial IN
the shape of a nome TOR lne army.
One crop failure is reported in Clay
county, where the boys are COM
planning that there are no wainuts.
| The first public funeral held in To-
pena auul.vr1um was lnat OF Mother
Florence, the 0aivaLlOn army worker.
Superintendent Ch4fies of the
state reform scnool mas been found
guliIIess OF the cnarges made against
| nim-
An unidentified man, probably
thleI shot and seriously wounoed John
Heider, FARMER, near klncald sat
urday night.
1t is said one Joint in Emporia is
indirectly responsible for the oeath of
about twenty tralnment who ire
Quented. it,
Governor Hoch's visit to the peni-
tertiary gave several noted convicts
| opportunities to make personal pleas
Tor pardon.
The Rev. Mr.. Buckner Of White
City is spending his vacation" exca-
waiting for the foundation of his new
church edlfice.
Rev. Robert Norris of Tonganoxie
has been reelected secretary of the
state temperance union to push the
war on the joints.
The university museum has been
enriched by a large collection of fos-
sils. They are from Oregon, however,
and not from Topeka
Every suspected joint in lola was
raided Thursday and beer was found
In only one place. It was kept in an
underground passageway.
i Half the miners employed in the
north coal mine at Leavenworth are
on a strike against weighmaster. A
general strike may result
Barnard Eastberg went swimming
alone in the Kaw river at Topeka and
later his body was found at the
waters edge by some boys.
Robbers got even with Police Judge
Endres at Leavenworth- by footing
his home while he and Mrs Endres
| were watching circus parade.
The state board o. health will ask
the next legislature to establish a
tuberculosis hospital. Last month LIS
cases were. reported to the board.
Mrs. L. H. Crews, a negress of juno
ton City, whose son had lost his
weeks wages in a gambling joint, got
club and cleaned out the place.
Four troops of calvary, four com
panies of infantry and battery OF
. artillery from Fort Leavenworth will
attend the Atchison corn carnival.
Kansas that the watermelon vines
grow 50 rapidly that the melons are
, ruined by being dragged on the
ground.
! w. w. Balsey, a German brick
layer, of Coffeyville,s has fallen he'll
to 5000, and he has shown good
judgment by planting the money in q
good Kansas farm.
The Marion Records idea of the
next great labor saving invention is
one that will enable farmer to mill
} the cows and send the milk to the
: creamery without getting out of bed
i State Auditor Wells says lie will