Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-27
OLD KANSAS PREACHER DIES
Final Summons Comes to Rev. r. M.
Overstreet in Hospital at
El Reno, Ok.

News was received in Emporia the
other day of the death of the Rev.
Robert NJ. Overstreet at a hospital in
Ell Reno, Ok Mr.. Overstreet was
pioneer Presbyterian minister of En-
poria. He founded more than dozen
churches in that part of the country
and was one of the founders of the
College of Emporia. For many years
he was a member of its board of truS-
tees. He served in the Kansas legis-
lature in 1871, had been a member OF
the board of regents of the state nor
NAL school He had lived with a son
and daughter in Anadarko, Ok, since
1910. Six children survive, one of
whom is Mrs. L. w. Wright of Kansas
City. Another daughter is Mrs. ]. NJ.
Harrington of Emporia. The body was
taken to Emporia for burial. Mrs
Overstreet died in 1908. Mr. Over
street was born in Kentucky in 1926.
Mother Sues Druggist.-Mrs. Mary
Caplinger, mother OF Auda NJ. Caplin-
ger, railroad engineer, who shot and
killed w. L. HUMPHREYS, a Wichita de-
tective, while intoxicated and while
the officer was trying to arrest him,
has entered suit for $4,000 against
Fern F.. Jordan, owner of the build
ing in which Davis conducts his bust
ness, alleging that her son bought the
| alcohol with which he became intoxi-
| Gated, of Davis.
An Accident Proves FataI.-Charles
| G. Boss, 80 years old, a farmer of
| Ottawa county, is dead at a Kansas
|
to remove his right leg A bullet
| from a 22-caIiber rifle, fired accident
ally by his 9-year-old nephew, Henry
Sink. entered Boss right leg at the
knee.
Fall May be FataI.-Naron Edwards.
| newspaper man, is at a Wichita
hospital lowering between life and
death due to a fall from a second
story window. In attempting to raise
the window in his sleeping quarters
he tumbled to the pavement below
and for two hours lay in the rain IN
| conscious.
Killed Infected CattIe.-Four hun
| dred and eighty-nine steers, eighty
hogs and five bulls, afflicted with foot
| and mouth disease, were killed on a
farm twelve miles northeast of Edo
RADIO recently. They were owned by
]. L. Hurt of Center, Colo. The car
casses were buried under 10000
| pounds of quick lime in ditch 500
feet long, eighteen feet wide and eight
| feet deep. Rifles were used by the
federal authorities to dispatch the ami
mails.
Saw Victoria Crowned.-Mrs Ros-
anna McClain, who died recently at
the home of her daughter in Lancas-
ter, Atchison county, enjoyed the dis
tinction of having attended the coro-
nation of Queen Victoria. She was
born in Scotland ninety-three years
ago, and was 16 years old when she
went to London to the coronation in
1888.
Farm Sells for $50 an Acre.-A
farm containing 16O acres west of
Salina, recently sold by ]. E. Hamil-
ton to Andrew Ingermans for $4,000
This is at the date of $3.50 an acre.
Bank Robbers Escape.=Harry Mil.
ton and James Harmon, two youths
who robbed the State Exchange Bank
at Yates Center February 10. have
escaped from jail. The prisoners
waited until after a deputy sheriff
brought their supper, when they
climbed up the side of their cell and
tore out the plaster ceiling
Early Settler Dies--yane Coburn
81 years old. settler on the Saline
townsite before the Civil war, is dead
at the homo OF daughter in McPher
SON.