Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-02
WILL TRY TO CURB RIVERS
State Is to Get Aid From Federal Gov
eminent in Effort to Con-
troll Floods.

Army engineers are going to tackle
the job of curling the flood waters
of the Kansas rivers, to the extent,
at least, of recommending some plan
for stopping their destructive effects.
Governor Capper recently received a
letter from Col. Curtis Med. Town
send of the corps of engineers, sta
toned at St Louis. Colonel Town
send said he had been ordered by the
chief of engineers to prepare a report
in compliance with the provisions of
the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved
July 81.
This provides for an examination
of the territory of the Kaw river and
its tributaries and the Neosho and
Cottonwood rivers, and recommends
tions based on this examination and
such data as already has been COM
piled are to be made in his report to
the department.
T. ]. Stricken, engineer for the Kan
sas Public Utilities Commission, has
been asked by Governor Capper to
assist Colonel Townsend in every
way possible. Systematic agitation
for flood control was started with the
organization of the Kansas Flood Con-
gress by Governor Capper in Topeka
year ago, following the devastating
floods of 1915. Floods since 1903 have
| destroyed more than $30,00O.000 worth
of property in Kansas.
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Johnson Heads Labor Body.-A- j.
Johnson, of the Typographical union
OF Wichita, was recently elected presi-
dent of the State Federation of Labor,
| Charles Hamlin, Leavenworth, secre-
tary-treasurer. and James A WHISKY.
S. B. Weaver. Topeka; c. ]: Madison,
Emporia. vice presidents
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| Pioneer M. {. Minister Dead-Dr.
| W. ]. Martindale, for fifty-three years
| q Methodist minister, eighteen of
which he occupied positions as pre-
| siding elder, either of the Wichita,
Pratt or Dodge City districts, is dead
| in Wichita at the age of "A years
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| Smothers in Cinder Pip. E.
| Bruner, a laborer employed by the
Edgar Zinc Company at Cherryvale.
was smothered to death recently in a
cinder pit where he was working.
Dollar in a Ffsn,s eifi-A silver dol
| lar was banked" in the gill of a To-
| pound carp that Mrs Joseph Arculeo
| of $40 North Exposition avenue, Wich-
tia, hooked on a fishing trip The
| coin is being kept as a souvenir.
Bolt Kills Man and Wife.-Clarence
Baker, formerly of Kingman, and his
wife were killed by lightning near
the Colorado line the other night
while driving in a motor car.
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Harding has sold the Attica Indepen.
dent to E. F. Farmer, formerly city
| editor of the Winfield Free Press and
I now superintendent of schools at At.
tica-
1 chanute Brakemaa Killed A
Lair, 81 years old. brakeman for the
Santa Fee Railroad. was killed in the
yard at CEanute recently. His father
NJ. o. Lair, lives in Fredonia-
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| Paralysis Case at Maple city.-Tke
infant SON of Mr.. and Mrs Amea Rob
inson of Maple City is afflicted with
/ iufantiIe paralysis, according to Doc
tor Williams, the attending physician
This is the first case reported in that
section of the state
Wichita Minister Dies.-The Rev
w. A. Cain, aged "a. for fifty years 8
Baptist minister. is dead at Wichita
He served in the Civil War and was
active in G.. A. r. circles He came
to wichita from Abilene eight year.
| ago.