Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-10-31
HOWAT CLEARED BY MINERS
District Convention at Pttsburg Elk.
onerates Their President-Will
Sue Mine Operators.

Resolutions which exonerated the
officers of district No ii United Mine
Workers of America, from the charges
brought against them by some mem
bers of the organization, have been
adopted by the special convention of
the district locals in session at Pitts
burg. The charges were incidental to
the revolt of a large number of foreign
miners against the orders of the dis
trct officials last August The Off
Gals ordered the men to remain at
work after the old contract had ex-
pired pending the negotiations for a
new one. Agitators succeeded in per-
suading several hundred men to
march from mine to mine and compel
others to quit work.
The movement ended at Mulberry
when body of marchers met armed
men at mine, who opened fire on the
marchers. After four hours of bitter
debate the convention voted to begin
suit for damages against coal oper-
ators. The suit is to be brought,
late district president, of taking
large sum of money for the making
of contract favorable to the oper-
ators. The supit is to be brought,
Will I1O"dC dS pldInlll1, ny ali dILOI-
ney named John P White, interna-
and the expenses of the litigation are
to be taken care of by the district
Cripple Stays Wife.-Charles Isley,
a hunchback of Galena, shot and
killed his wife, and while pursued by
the officers committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head Isley's
wife recently filed suit for divorce in
the Galena division of the district
court.
New Town Is Born.-The Anthony
& Northern Railway Company has an
nounced the name of Beyers for the
new town near the old site of Maroon
A bank, electric light and ice COM
pany, two general stores, two large
elevators and several other enter
prises have purchased lots and will be-
gin to build at once
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Live Wire Kills Lineman.-Forty-
four hundred volts of electricity pass
ed through the body of James lived
del at the top of a 50-foot pole at Hol-
liday, the other afternoon and he fell
dead to the ground He was working
as a lineman for the electrical signal
department of the Santa -Fe
CrediS Poem to Miss CIark.-By a
big majority vote the state convention
of the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union in session at Fort Scott
voted to indorse the claim of Miss
Esther NJ Clark to the authorship of
the poem, The Call CT Kansas
DR.. ShiveIy Dies.-Dr Samuel s.
Shively, 75 years old, a pioneer resi-
dent of Wyandotte county, is dead at
his home in Kansas City, Kan. Doc
tor Shively was born in Stark county,
Ohio, February %, 1889. He moved
to Kansas in 1882
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Big Barn Burns.-A large barn on
the William Martin farm. seven miles
west of Anthony, burned the other
night with seven head of horses and
several hundred bushels of wheat.
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Creamery Man Dead.-W. F.
Schweir. secretary and treasurer of
the Merritt-Schweir Creamery Com
Springs, is dead from a paraIytic
stroke. He was As years old and un-
married.
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Peace Flags for Great Bend.-As the
result of peace services of the Fed
Grated Brotherhood classes of Great
Bend, two peace flags will fly in that
city, one of them from the courthouse
and the other from a mast at the
county fair grounds.