Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-30
THEkAW dixie FIGHT
Long Legal Battle Ends in Vic
tory for the Drainage
District.
ROADS MUST RAISE BRIDGES
Tracks Along River Elevated to
Insure Flood Protection.

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The long legal battle between the
railroads and the Kaw Valley Drain
age District was settled the other day
in the Kansas supreme court, except
the controversy over the Missouri Pa
cific bridge at the mouth of the Kaw.
The drainage board won all of its con-
tentions with the Kansas City South
ern, the Kansas City Terminal and the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
roads, and peremptory writs of manda-
mus were issued against them by the
supreme court.
The Kansas City Southern had
agreed to raise its bridge, to make it
two-pier structure and to remove the
pile trestle, so the suits against it
were dismissed. The Kansas City Ter
minal was directed to raise it's bridge
to the level of the bikes along the
Kaw, to remove the pile treStle at the
east end, to substitute a 70-foot steel
girder span and to raise the tracks.
The Santa Fe was directed to raise
its tracks along the Kaw up to the
level of the bikes. The Santa Fee and
the drainage district are to work to-
eether in repairing the damage caused
ny lI10 uIhcy OICSh 1IOOQS last SQL1-
mer, and when this is done the Santa
Fe tracks will be put on the same
grade as the terminal and Southern
tracks approaching the two bridges.
New College for Lawrence.-The fif-
ty-seventh annual convention of the
Kansas Christian Missionary Society
closed here with the appointment of
a committee to draw up plans for the
establishment of a Christian college at
Lawrence. Regular courses probably
will be given for the training of min
listers and missionaries. The commit
tee will report it's findings at the next
meeting of the society, which will be
held next spring at Independence, Kas.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, DR.. J. w. Young. hutchinson;
vice presidents, o. L. Cook, Topeka;
Clifford Rash, Lyons; M. Lee Sorey,
Emporia; c. w. Cooper, Bonner
Springs; Duncan MacFarian, Holton;
c. w. Gould, Lawrence; corresponding
secretary, George E. Lyon, Topeka;
treasurer, J. d. Zimmerman, Topeka.
Another PelIagra Death - Mrs
Maude Eggleston, 81 years old, is dead
at Columbus of pellagra, making the
second death to occur from that cause
in Columbus within the last month
and the fourth in this vicinity in lit
tie more than a year.
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A 117-Pound Pumpkin.-James Van
Dyne, resident six miles east of indie
pendence, this fall raised the prize
pumpkin of Montgomery county. 1t
weighed III pounds and is seven feet
In circumference.
Promoter Dead.-A. G. Stitch, pio-
neer banker and former mayor of In
dependence, is dead in independence
of Bright's disease. He had been in
i'll health several months. Mr.. Stitch
was SO years old.
Celebrated Fiftieth Wedding Day
Mr. and Mrs. Albert c. Shinn of five
miles northeast of Ottawa celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary the
other day. They were married Octo-
Der 7, 1865. at Carthage, Ill.
The Kansas Hostess Resigns.-Al-
bert T. Reid, president of the commits
sion in charge of the Kansas Building
and exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Elk
position, received a telegram recently
from Mrs. Fife Hiatt Vantuyl, in
which she tenders her resignation as
hostess at the Kansas Building. Mrs.
Vantuyl suffered from severe electri-
cal shock August 10, and since that
time has been ill.
To Enlarge Neodesha Refinery
The Standard Oil Company of Kansas
announced it will make improvements
in its refinery at Neodesha, to cost
5000, 900 to $500, 900. Twenty-Five new
stills to be erected will make the plant
| one of the largest and most complete
in the West
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Ottawa Theater Burns.-Fire de-
stroyed the Rohrbaugh Theater here
early the other morning when flames
started probably from crossed electric
wires just beneath the roof. The
building and practically all fittings
were a complete loss, estimated at
| $4,000. The company which con-
trolled the theater carried $4,000 in