The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-10
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The Manhattan postoffice is now
ranked first class by the postal de-
partment at Washington. Official no
tice to that effect has been received
by the postmaster, John Winter. There
is only one other first class postoffice
in the Fifth district-that at Salina,
firing of lodging blue coats in three
states, George Hobson, aged 10, who
escaped from the state 'reformatory at
Hutchinson on May II, gave himself
up to officials Of the institution. He
had just orrived from Kansas City.
State Senator B.. p. Waggener has
announced that owing to ill health he
will not be a candidate for reelection
this ear Mr.. Waggener has served
two terms in the senate.
Word has been received from To-
peka that the application Of Junction
City men for a militia company had
been accepted, The work of organiza.
ton will begin at once.
The Farmers Union Elevator at
Soldier burned the other morning
with a loss of $4,000. The elevator
will be rebuilt at nee
Business began recently in the $751;
900 postoffice building erected by the
federal government in Chanute. 1t sits
a block east of the Santa Fe station.
In eight hours recently twenty-one
drug fiends, men and women, besieged
the office of the federal revenue col
lector at Wichita for relief from their
sufferings, due to inability to get the
drug. Since the arrest of DR.. @. L.
Katz in Kansas City last week on a
charge of handling opium the dope
merchants in Wichita and neighbor-
ing towns have become frightened
and have quit selling. Dope dealers
in Wellington, Hutchinson and other
nearby cities have refused to dispose
of any of their stocks, and the dope
sters are suffering.
John Schrag has been trying for a
year to thresh his last years wheat
crop. With another harvest at hand
he has not finished. Schrag sowed al
most 1000 acres of land to wheat last
year in the big basin which had been
a swamp until he drained it. He
raised a good crop. Before he could
get h grain threshed a heavy rain
flooded the basin. continued wet
weather has prevented him taking ma
chinery into his big field. Last week
he made n more effort, but a three
inch rain made it impossible.
Alexander Marks, 70 years old, a
jeweler, is dead at his home in Law
renee. He came to Lawrence as a
jewelers. apprentice in 1858 and later
opened a jewelry store which he owned
until his death.
The United States Smelling Com
pany, the Prime Western Spelter Com
pany and the La Harpe Zinc Company
have announced a voluntary advance
in wages of from 20 to 80 cents a day,
according to the class of service given.
Alpha Jackson, 11-year-old son of
Albert Jackson, was drowned five
miles south of Florence recently while
swimming in Spring creek.
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Prof. Merle Thorpe, head of the de.
partment of journalism at the Univer-
sity of Kansas, has returned from
Washington, D. c., where he received
an offer of the position of editor of
the Nations Business, the official pub
LEGATION of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States. Professor Thorpe
said he would confer with Chancellor
Frank Strong and the Kansas board
of administration regarding a years
leave of absence. Professor Thorpe
came to the University of Kansas
from Washington university in 1911.
A charter has been granted to the
Wichita Terminal Elevator Company
with a capital of $500, 900. Two miles
of track will be built by the Terminal
Railway Association to reach the ele.
vator site, purchased Just north of the
Union stock yards.
: A uniform of Union blue lies on the
bed at the home in Hutchinson OF
Joseph Crouch, Company e, Eighty
third Illinois, veterans of the Civil
war. He placed it there ready to
march with his comrades of Joe Hook
er post, but reveille sounded for Com
rade Crouch. Shortly before the pa
!, rade he was found in his bedroom
dead, clasping one corner of his uni
form.
Isaac E. Page, 73 years old, a pic
neer of Pratt, died there recently. Mr.
= Page came to Pratt in 1887 and rode
: the first passenger train in the city
t over the Rock Island. He was cash
ierAof the Pratt County National banl
f~orByears. Later he was head clerl
at the state asylum in Osawatomie fol-
fifteen years.
A iury in the district conrf af I'm