Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !


81 ,00O, 900 shops at Parsons.
A IRE at Altamont burned the Rust
elevator with a loss of $4,000.
The railroad board is in session to
draw up formal orders for recent de-
cisions-
Eighteen counts for selling liquor
have been lodged against De Belle, of
Altoona.
Mr.. and Mrs r. E. Wallis, of Win
field, celebrated their golden wedding
recently.
A. Newman, county clerk of Shaw
nee county, wants to be state auditor.
He's Republican.
G. c. Morrison, a Frisco engineer
who was injured in collision at
Olathe, is dead.
A. Newman. county clerk of Shaw
nee county, wants to be state auditor.
He's a Republican.
Charles Pruesch is dead at Healy
from scalds received when traction
engine was wrecked.
An unknown man was killed in the
Katy yards at Parsons by being crush
ed between two cars.
Governor Hoch spoke at the meet
ing of the New England society in St
Louis this week.
Cooperative packing plants are be
ing talked up as means of combat
ting the beef trust.
An unknown man was killed in the
Katy yards at Parsons by being
crushed between two cars.
A whisky drummer at Macksville
was beset by. band of women who
threw three dozen eggs at him.
Harry Woods and Andy Richards,
editors, are among the numerous can
didates for mayor in Wellington
Charles Kelcher has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree
at Hill City for killing Charles Wethel.
Charles Kelcher has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree
at Hill City for killing Charles Wethel.
The Indiana Portland Cement COM
pany, which proposes to build a plant
at Neodesha, was incorporated for
81, 500, 900.
w. J. Thomas, a Butler county farm
er, raised 485 bushels of kafir corn on
seven acres and got $21 an acre for
the crop.
The state board of health has tum-
bled to the fact that much of the man
ufactured food consumed in Kansas
is adulterated.
John W. Kirby has been appointed
a carrier for Rural Route 5, at Bald
win, and Francis L. Beard has been
named for substitute.
Governor Van Zant of Minnesota and
J. l.. Bristow have accepted invita-
lions to speak before the Kansas ship
pers at Wichita January 10.--------
Private Green, who killed Corporal
Whitaker with a brick at Fort Leaven-
-.
years in the military prison.
The Rev. Father Hayden of Topeka
who has just returned from trip tc
Ireland, brought with him a real Irish
potato which weighs three pounds.
The state officials are sending a
tracer after Mr.. Morris the expert
accountant whose report on the var
icus state departments has been long
overdue.
The bodies of the 1877 victims oi
the cholera at Fort Hayes in 1865
have been received at Fort Leaven
worth and buried in the national GENE
terry there.
The county clerks in session al
Wichita think they ought to have q
| cents on each hunting license ISSUED
| and will bring a test case in the sup
| RENE court.
| A deal was completed at Parsons
merging all of the independent line.
| in that county and in Pittsburg sys
tenn into the Citizens Home Tele
| phone company.
| Congressman Curtis will be home t,
attend the first district Republican
committee meeting December q
which, incidentally, will fix it up TO
| Curtis denomination.
The Prairie Oil and Gas compan,
| has brought in a 7O0-barre1 well Fl
the Caney field, which is about fou
| miles southeast of town. This make
the third good strike.
Frank Fowler, a negro, has been al
rested at Leavenworth on the susp
cion that he knows something of tn
murder of William Price of Center
vile, Iowa, who died suddenly at hi
| home
Kansas colleagues of Victor MuI
dock in Congress accuse him of havin
aspirations for the United States Ser
ate, but he emphatically denied
when the direct question was put t
him recently.
1t is very likely that proceeding
will be started to test the validity Q
the school land act of 1889, which re
duced the price of school land fror
So to $1-25 an acre. Nearly 500, %
acres of land have been sold to spec
ulators at the reduced price.
The biennial report of the state Il
Dor commissioner goes hand in han
with Secretary Coburn's latest eff
sion. According to the labor con
missioner all the Kansas workers ar