Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS. /;
shotgun Caused y Had Fire.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Shotgun Caused a Bad Fire.
A two-story frame dwelling belong
ing to s. A. Sherman, a farmer who
lives ten miles north of Eureka. was
destroyed by fire, started by the &C
cidental discharge of shotgun Inc
gun, which was leaning against
wall in the kitchen, fell to the floor
and was discharged directly into
Jug filled with coal oil. In an instant
the room was enveloped in flames Mr..
Sherman, who was working in field
some distance away, was attracted to
the house by the screams of his wife
and children and in a vain endeavor
to save p art of the household furnf-
ture was badly burned about the head
and arms Nothing of value was
saved. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Gets 10 Cents n Day.
A former Sumner county girl and
her husband went to Holland about
year ago. The husbands relatives in
Holland paid the couples transporta-
ton expenses and agreed to pay their
fare back to America should they de-
eide to return After living in Hol-
land about three months they decided
they wanted to come back home. But
the relatives refused to pay their way
back as agreed and the husband hav-
ing 70 money, had to go to work He
received sixteen cents a day for labor
as an experienced machinist. 1t costs
the two people eight cents a day to
live, leaving balance of eight cents
L. 10 for hnr @
expenses.
$500 Is Raised for a Town Clock
E. A. Colburn, who is soliciting SUBJ
scriptions for a town clock to be
placed in the court house tower at
Mcpherson, reports that something
over $500 has already been given.
Many of the signers have promised $50
and $25 subscriptions and none less
than So. Mr.. Colburn expects to raise
81 900 in large subscriptions and will
then turn the work over to the city
Federation of Woman's Clubs, which
will complete the canvass.
A Big Race Programme.
A meeting of the directors of the
Coffey County Agricultural Fair AS
ISOLATION has been held and the plans
made to make the fair this year the
biggest and best in the history of the
county A speed programme was ar
ranged that insures the best races ever
seen here. There are to be two races
in which the stakes will be $1,000
each and the total stakes and purses
amount to $4,000, which is much more
than usual.
Raising Dogs for Bounty.
There is a dog scandal on at Ottawa.
The city gives a bounty for dead
dogs and the ears must be produced
in the clerks Office as evidence that
the dog has been killed. The charge
is made that an enterprising citizen
has started doggery out in the coun-
try and is supplying the ears to the
city by wholesale. Raising common
cur dogs at 81 per head is said to be
profitable business.
Boy Dies in School.
Harry Langstaff, a boy II years
old, in the eighth grade of the Lyndon
city schools, died very shortly after
the noon recess, in his seat in the
school room. A physician was in
| attendance in a few minutes after abe
boy was stricken, but death had taken
its victim. The physician pronounced
it case of heart failure, probably in
duced by overtaxation during the noon
recess.
$4,000 for McPherson's Library.
The Mcpherson college people have
raised a $4,000 maintenance fund fol
their Carnegie library. Andrew Car
negie's private secretary has als6
written to them stating that an order
for $4,000 which was promised Il
them for the erection of a Ibrar,
building is ready for them at any tim,
they wish to draw it.
| Three Topeka grocers have notifies
| the state insurance department tina
they intend organizing a mutual fir
| insurance company. The men are w
S. Montgomery, F. M. Newland and A
| G. Whittelsey, and the name of tn
new company is to be the Topeka Gro
GERS Mutual Fire Insurance company
Rather Deserter Than Warrant.
John Barnes, deserter from For
| Leavenworth, has been arrested at Sa
lima. Barnes left Fort Leavenworth