Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-03-18
Irrigation Company Buys Aban-
doned SouIe Project Near
Dodge City.
To Be IMMEDIATELY REPAIRED.
Property Runs Fifty Miles Through
Gray and Ford Counties Ending
Near SPearviiIe.

<~~~1 NAN~A Las 0CCA SO1Q 10 LIZ. Il.
Llndas of Great Bend, president of the
Arkansas Valley Irrigation company.
The price is $150,0O0, and the company
which DR.. Lindas will head will start
work at once to repair the ditch
The ditch starts five miles above
ingalls,, in Gray county, being supplied
with water from the Arkansas river.
1t runs fifty miles through Gray and
Ford counties. ending near Spear
Vile 1t was built in 1886 by A T.
Soule, Rochester, N. Y, millionaire.
at cost of 100000. 1t is the third
of the Soule projects which were start.
ed thirty years too soon, as the coun-
try lay dormant for quarter of a
century. More than one-fourth mil
lion dollars has been expended in the
last twenty years in repairing the
ditch.
Club Woman Dezd-Mrs. Florence
M Hopkins, aged 81 years, died at
Gushing hospital in Leavenworth re-
| Gently. Mrs Hopkins helped found the
hospital and for many years was
prominent in club and social circles.
She was one of the best known women
in Kansas.
Pioneer Fatally Hurt. K. Melons.
aged TO- pioneer farmer of Sedgwick
county. is reported to be dying in a
Wichita hospital as the result OF
collision with Rock Island passenger
train near Elbing. MELONS was driv-
ing an automobile and did not hear the
train approach.
Do fts%a tic <@f
the state school for the deaf gave a
patriotic indoor pageant at Olathe re
Gently. The program consisted of play
lets and tableaux depicting the early
historical scenes OF the United States
Community Day for Mfners-The
miners of Kansas will. have a big COM
| munity day at Pittsburg May II. Will
liam B. Wilson, secretary of labor,
| and for many years a coal miner in
Pennsylvania, is expected to be the
principal speaker
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saiina Railroad Man Dead-Philip
P Stimmel. 81 years old, is dead at
the home e, his nephew, G.. S. Gregg
in Salina. For thirty-five years he
| had been 4 conductor on the Rio
ago because If poor health.
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Dress Up Week"-Delgeates to the
| annual meeting OF the Kansas Retail
| Clothiers at Salina were advocating a
dress up week They point to the
fact that the state has = -claen up
week" as an argument for holding
| such an event.
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Boys Bands to contest.-A contest
| of boys bands is a new feature which
will be introduced for the first time in
| Kansas during the festival week to De
| held at Kansas Normal at Emporia il
| April. Contest CT glee clubs. choruses
| and solos also will be held.
| Stcckmen Meet-The third annual
| southeastern Kansas live stock con-
| ference closed recently at Parsons
with decision on the part of 300 farm
ers of that section of the state to make
the conference a permanent institu-
| ton.
| Display Kansas Art at X. u.-Paint-
| ings OF forty Kansas artists were
| placed On exhibition at the University
| OF Kansas recently by the department
! dents and visitors may have an OPP
portunity to compare the work of the
| ka1sans with that of other Ameri-
cans, twelve paintings from the Ma
tfonal Gallery at Washington also were
| placed on exhibition. The exhibit will
continue for two weeks.
Singing Started Riot-The singing
of man in lodge hall at West Skid
more, Cherokee county, the other night
| was 'displeasing to three or four Rose
dale men who entered the hall. Yer
| bal criticism wasn't satisfying and the
men drew revolvers and began shoot
| ing Four men were wounded. One
| of them, Frank Sierra, died in a hospi-
tai the next afternoon
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Its First Pensioner.-The first pen
| sion granted in johnson county under
the new state law was allowed by the
county commissioners to Mrs Mar
garet Noteman. so years old. She will
| receive $40 per month from the county
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| Spilled Grain--Ten thousand bush
| els of wheat and corn was spilled by
| the wayside when a Missouri Pacific
extra freight was wrecked few miles
| east of Goff- Eight heavily loaded
| cars were ditched and demolished as a
| result of a broken AXLE nv, ono nf tl,<,