Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-09
Latest Kansas Events.

1890 - - ~AO
object to Moore's Predictions.
The Dodge City Commercial club
took emphatic exception to the article
of Willis L. Moore, chief of the United
States weather bureau, published in
recent dailies, predicting periodical
drouths and setbacks for western Kan
sas and telegraphed Mr.. Moore the
following MESSAGE: "Our commercial
club has noted your comments on eli
matte conditions in this section of
country as published in daily papers
We believe that irrigation, settlement
of country, breaking of sod, the avoid
ance of prairie fires, different yegeta-
ton and more thorough cultivation
and other causes have changed eli
matte conditions permanently. The
high authority and the publicity OF
articles ascribed to you wrong US and
we respectfully and urgently invite
you to our city and investigate the real
facts which have made this reliable
country. We assure you cor
dial reception and send you this by
request of club.
j. j. Clark. convicted of highway
robbery, resisted the attempt of sher-
iff Steed at Olathe to take him from
the county Jail to be sentenced. He
procured an iron bar and declared
he would kill any person who entered
his cell The sheriff turned the hose
on him but Clark grimly endured the
soaking for several hours. Finally the
LODI 10 hn
and a good sized stream from a fire
nozzle was the means of persuading
the prisoner to give up and consent
to go into court. He was given an in
determniate sentence of from ten to
20 years in the penitentiary.
The Earliest Settler.
The earliest Kansas settler is still
living in Archison, according to a writ
er in the Globe signing himself G. j.
R. He says: " Grandma Early, as she
is Familiarity. called, arrived at the
famous old Shawnee mission in what
is now johnson county, in 1889. Mrs
Early is one of the most interesting
personages in Kansas, and the writer
believes there is not now living an
other person who came to what is now
Kansas as early as 1882"
Blind Chaplain Dead.
The Rev A. c. Pyle, known as the
blind chaplain, died at the Soldiers
Home hospital. He was a native OF
Illinois and was sc years old. He was
chaplain of the Kansas house of repre-
sentatives of 1903 and was candi-
date for chaplain of the present house.
He was taken i'll while electioneering
in the lobby of the Copeland hotel and
returned home with an illness from
which he did not recover.
Was a Carnegie Pensioner.
William Bruce, a veteran of the
Mexican war and an engineer on the
Pennsylvania Central or "Old Por-
tage" route for 20 years, died at his
home in Leavenworth. He drew
pension from Andrew Carnegie foi
faithful services while with the Pen
nsylvania Central. He was employed
from 1869 to 1874 as an engineer on
the Union Pacific railway In Kansas
Shot While Hunting.
Arthur Edwards, prominent farm
err near Home City, was accidentally
shot and probably fatally injured. He
had started hunting and as he stepped
on the front porch of his home his
feet slipped on the ice and in trying
to catch himself he dropped his gun
The hammer struck the porch caus-
ing the gun to discharge, the load
entering his bowels.
Mcpherson Salt Is Good.
The salt discovered at Mcpherson
is pronounced the purest found in the
state and lies $50 feet below the sur
face and the salt bed is 100 feet thick
overlaid with a thick stone roof, The
salt company will organize at once and
the prospecting for gas or oil will CON-
rinue.
Her Father Served Under Washington.
Mrs. Newton Williams, whose faith
er was soldier in the Revolutionary
war, died at ottawa. Mrs. Williams
had immediate relatives in the war of
1872 She made a Union flag and
hung it in the streets of Hannibal,
Mo, while a resident of that town
at the beginning of the Civil war, to
defy her secessionist neighbors.
For Divorce Suit Statistics.
George V. Newton, a special agent
of the census buread, visited Leayen-
worth looking up data regarding dt
vorce suits filed in the district court
He is obtaining information to be used
in a movement for a uniform ma
tional divorce law.