Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-21
Gov. Capper Guest of Honor at
the Annual Affair in Los
Angeles, California.
5000 PERSONS ATTENDED
Also Addressed the Gathering
Basket Dinner a Feature


and interviews, in which Governor
Arthur Capper figured prominently,
made up the medley of the public
prints.
More than 5000 natives and former
residents of the commonwealth cele-
brated the annual picnic of the South
ern California Kansas, which incident
ally was a reception to Governor Cap
per and Lieutenant Governor W. Y.
Morgan of their state. Sunf1owers
were everywhere in evidence.
President H. III. Huntsberger of the
Kansas Society had his hands full ar
ranging places of registration for the
10 counties of his old home state and
looking after the thousand and one de-
tails incident to the big, happy family
gathering
Big buttons, bearing the sunfiower
emblem, with pictures of the governor
and lieutenant governor, sold like hot
cakes and entitled the wearers to
steaming hot coffee, when at noon the
picnickers enjoyed their basket lunch
con
Governor Capper and his party, in
Guiding the lieutenant governor, ar
rived at the park at O'Clock. Ad-
dresses were delivered by President
Hunts berger. Governor Capper, Lieu
tenant Governor Morgan and Judge
Frank A. Doster Judge Doster for
merly was chief justice of the su-
preme court of Kansas. He introduced
Governor Capper to the crowd.
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Caught the Gun Men.-Officers in a
raid on a shanty near Arlington, a
spot where many harvest hands have
been held up and robbed on freight
trains, arrested three men believed to
be the leaders of the notorious Rock
Island gun men" They were arrest
ed near a steep grade, where heavy
freight trains can travel only slowly
and where two murders and five
freight train holdups have occurred
since the harvest began. The three
men carried cards showing them to be
brakemen of the Northern Pacific and
members of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen at Dillworth, Mimi.
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Harvest Hands Neck Broken.-Aus-
tin Wagner of Canton, O.. harvest
hand, is in Salina hospital with his
neck broken. He is conscious and
talks of the holdup in which he lost
his money in box car and was then
days ago.
At 81. He Likes Harvestine.-Peter
Coughlin is hard at work in the har-
vest, fields, despite his 81 years, and
likes it. He SO wrote to W. NJ Woods,
superintendent of the Sedgwick coun-
ty home at Wichita. after reaching
Great Bend where a job had been
promised him
Moving Machine Victim. Harold
Marley, 10 years old, son of W. p.
Marley, of Kansas City, was the vic
tim of a peculiar accident on the farm
of a relative near Anthony, where he
is spending the summer vacation
While moving alfalfa he paused to
adjust the sickle, and the horses
starting forward he became entangled
in the machinery. His left arm and
leg were cut.
Lost Bastow Family Safe.-The
lost family of William Bastow of
Valley Center has been found at Lin
coin. Mrs. Merrill Mead of Sedgwick,
a daughter of Mr.. Bastow, wrote sew
era1 days ago to H C. Engle, chief OF
police of Abilene, saying she had been
unable to obtain news of her people
since they left Abilene, June 49, Mrs.
Mead wrote to Mr.. Engle that the fam
lily was in Lincoln county. travelling
overland in a covered wagon.
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Live Wire Victim in Ellsworth
John Curtis, a street laborer, was
killed at Ellsworth the other day,
when he picked up a live electric
light wire.
Dies of His Wounds.-Tom Maher
who was shot recently at Seldom, by
Edward Luther, Rock Island con
ducter, died later in a hospital at Nor
ton.
Laborer Killed by Train.-Walter
FIack, a laborer, was killed by a Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train south of the
Union depot at Leavenworth the other
morning.
Young Motorist KiiIed.-Archie An
drews of Junction City, 20 years old
and unmarried, was killed the other
night when his motor car went into
the ditch one mile south of Abilene.
Two young men with him we're not in
jured.
County Attorney Weds--E- ]. Tag
CART, county attorney of Sumner coun-