Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-10
LIFTS A CATTLE QUARANTINE
Restricted Area Now Comprises
Three Butler County Stock Farms
Situation Normal Again.

Modification of the Kansas live
stock quarantine against Butler coun-
ty was announced in a bulletin re-
Gently issued by DIR. J. H Mercer,
state live stock sanitary commission
er. The order, which follows, revokes
all previous quarantine orders relating
to that ounty:
All that part of the territory of
Butler county lying on the outside of
the three-mile area surrounding the
infected premises of James Teeter, A
w. Graper and A. u. Scribner will be-
come free territory, permitting live
stock to move from point to point in
the state of Kansas. That territory
within the three-mile area around the
| infected premises of the above de-
| stribed farms will be classed as re-
| stricted area Live stock within this
area will be permitted to move to mar
ket centers within Kansas for imme-
| diate slaughter.
| Doctor Mercer also announced that
| there had not been an outbreak of the
| foot-and-mouth disease in Kansas for
more than ninety days, and that the
| situation in all sections of the state
| had again become normal.
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Cox-BIodgett Assets SoId.-The re-
naming assets of the Cox-Blodgett
Dry Goods Company, bankrupt since
December, 1913, were auctioned off at
the county court house in Wichita by
| Trustee o. z. Smith. The assets.
which were in notes, bill sand mort
| cages, had a face value of 100000.
They brought exactly $4,000, L. S.
Naftzger, president of the Southwest
State bank, being the high bidder OF
three. The sale of these assets prac-
tically winds up the affairs of the COM
pany, the failure of which caused a
sensation here.
William Martin, guardian for Hen
derson Hickcox, minor, has filed suit
at Independence for $55, 900 against
the Prairie Pipe Line Company, be-
cause of injuries received by Hickcox
February 3, 1915, while in the employ
of the company, that resulted in the
loss of his mind. Hickcox, assistant
engineer at the companys pumping
plant at Caney, was sent into the con
denser pit to start an engine The
engine started suddenly and HickcoS
, was struck by a blast of steam and
, hot water. He was thrown with great
violence against the cement base oil
the engine. it is alleged, and his skull
; crushed and he was also badly scald
/. ed. He is now in the state hospita
: for the insane.
Mangled in Mower.-Car1 Campbell
the 12-year-old nephew of Harry An
derson of Americas, probably was fat
= ally injured when he was struck b.
the sickle of a moying machine Ths
I boys left arm was cut off and hi.
right arm and body were severely cut
The boy was oiling the mower whel
| the team became frightened and raj
away
Coal Company Official Drowns-
. Attempting to swim in the waite
which filed a strip pit near Mulberry
: H l. Revan. superintendent of tn
Carney Cherokee Coal Company, wa
: seized with cramps and drowned be
fore men could rescue him from tn
L water.
Killed by Highwayman.-A youn
= man, said to be BENJAMIN Rider of 5
= East Ninety-ninth place, Chicago, die
> at a hospital in Wichita from CUR
- shot wound received from a bandit
who held him up In the railroad yards