Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-07
FORMER CONGRESSMAN DIES
Mason s. Peters. Who Represented
Second District, Made Fortune
In Hog Cholera Serum.

Mason S. Peters, ST., former con-
gresham and pioneer in the manufac-
ture of hog cholera serum, is dead in
Kansas City. He was stricken with
pneumonia a week previously. Mr..
Peters died a rich man as a result of
his pioneering in the sale of hog
serum. In 1908, DR.. Marion Dorset of
the bureau of animal industry, dis
covered the first practical and scien-
tific hog serum. Peters had been
working with him and he had some of
it sent to Kansas City. Following
this, Peters went into the manufac-
ture of the serum.
Mr.. Peters was born September 3,
1874, in Clay county, Mo, and had
lived within one hundred miles of his
birthplace all his life. Because of his
breezy and jovial nature, whether or
not in financial troubles, he was
known and liked by thousands of per-
sons in Western Missouri and Eastern
Kansas. He was elected congressman
on the Populist ticket from the Sec
ond Kansas Congressional District in
1896
Monster Egg.-If a Hutchinson hen
is able to keep up the gait she has set
and induce her sisters to join in the
good work the high cost of eggs is
liable to get a shock. She has laid
an egg that weighs a half pound. She
is a light Brahma and belongs to Mrs.
n. E. Barber If eggs sold here by the
pound it would take but three of these
to make up the ordinary dozen.
New r. |. District-The Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific read plans a
new district with headquarters in
Wichita. W. NJ. Whitenton, general
manager of the first district at Des
Moines, Ia, will be removed to Wich-
tia in the near future.
Fire at RosaIia.-Ffre recently de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property at
Rosalia, including barber shop, meat
market, insurance Office and Cordell
dry goods store.
Suspicious Fires.-A. G. Walden,
Wichita fire chief. says he believes
someone is trying to burn the records
of the X. c., NJ. & o. Railway. Four
fires in the general office there in the
last four months form the basis for
the officials suspicion. Another fire
broke out the other day in the same
office, but was extinguished by en-
ployees.
Secretary Quits.-John T. Burns
secretary of the International Dry
! Farming Congress, has turned in his
resignation, and Ralph H. Faxon of
Wichita likely will be elected as his
successor Mr.. Burns has been con-
| nected with the congress two years.
! He recently moved his office from
/ Tulsa to Wichita.
Boy Bandits to Prison.-Jack Ro-
! gers and William Smith, Coffeyv1lIe
1 boys, IS years old, who recently held
up and robbed street car conductor
/ and motorman in Coffeyville have
| been given indefinite terms in the
| state reformatory, Judge FlannelIy ex-
ercising clemency because of their
/ youth.
! He's 90 Years OId.-Arthur W Web
ster, who has lived the vicinity of
Baldwin for seven years, celebrated
his ninety-ninth birthday recently He
was born in Nova Scotia, February l3.
] 1915 Webster is able 10 sit up. and
spends most of his time in reading the
Bible
Miner kilied.-George Wolcott, a
shotfirer in mine No of the Hamil-
ton Coal Company at Arma, was re
Gently killed by an explosion The
cause of the explosion has not been
determined.