Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-07
THEY LIVED ON THE STATE
New Board of Control Says Old Sol
diers' Relatives Must Leave Home
at Fort Dodge

at Fort Dodge
Dodge City. Kan-Because- there
/ are a number of families at the State
| Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge, which
| are there without official sanction,
the new board of control is preparing
| to enforce the law and compel them
! to move out. These families have
taken up their residence in the home
during the last few years when the
rule of the state institution was not
!, strictly enforced. Before he retired
! from office A F. Haitian, Democratic
/ commandant. was asked to prepare a
| list of the families now occupying
state property without authority. The
board has asked these people to leave
Fort Dodge and the quarters they
have been occupying will be given to
, old soldiers
Fort Dodge is five miles from Dodge
City and there are no restaurants or
hotels there except the commfssary de-
partment and barracks owned by the
state When relatives or friends of
inmates come for a visit they live at
the expense of the state. In the last
few years some of these visitors have
taken up permanent quarters in the
. home under various excuses Some
claimed their relatives were sick and
needed their care; others that they
were i'll and would leave soon. and
on various pretexts they obtained pos
session of barrack room or cottages
There are 100 old soldiers in the state
who have been voted admission to
the home. but have not yet been ad-
mitted because there has been no
room for them.
Faculty Changes at Manhattan-Ed-
ward c. Johnson, superintendent of
farmers institute for the state agri-
cultural college, has been elected dean
of the extension department. Thomas
]. TaIbert, entomologist in the college,
leaves to accept position in the Uni
yersity of Missouri
Saiina ScnooI Got $500, oco.-A hun
dred days campaign to obtain $780, 900
endowment fund for the Kansas Wes-
1eyan University ended the other night
and 100000 was reported by the COM
mittee- In addition to this sum the
alumni pledges $4,000 for the Schuyler
School of Philosophy, and the students
pledged $1,000 for the gymnasium.
Chapter of Accidents.-Recently
there was day of accident and death
in Mcpherson county In the morn
ing Emil Lindberg. who was home
from Chicago. was accidentally killed
while running a binder. He was fix
ing the cycle bar and the horses ~
gan TO run. cutting off a leg. At night
Bertha, the 12-year-old daughter of
Mrs Elizabeth Brown, was run over
by a motor car and injured SO severe
ly that she died. Rev. W. J. Young
of Hutchinson was driving the car.
Dr. G. z. BergQuist of Lindsborg, for
thirty-seyen years a physician of that
city, died of infirmitfes incident to
old age.
Killed When Cars are Shunted.-C.
ID. Clevinger, car repairer. was killed
and Glenn Stultz seriously injured
when a switch engine backed a string
OF cars against a car on which the two
men were working at Wellington
y -
Pioneer Farmer Dies-C. H Ewing
rs years old. for fifty years a resident
of Jackson county, died recently. He
moved into Olathe from a farm ten
years ago
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Fell Forty Feet-Although he fell
forty feet and landed ON a cement side
walk. John Rackham, a painter, es-
capped with a broken nose and dislo-
Gated ankles When piclcd up he was
very much wrought up because a buck
ct of paint had fallen on HIM A scat
folding on which he was working gave
way.
Il u n
Operation On Senator Thompson
William II. Thompson. United States
senator for Kansas. underwent a slight
operation at Sabetha recently Fs