Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-20

The men who have confessed in the
matter of the graft charges which led
to the arrest of Superintendent of Po-
lice Healey and others were named by
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne. They
were Thomas Costello, who, according
to Hoyne, was the directing genius of
the system, and Lieut. Augustus Mar
tin White. Both are under arrest
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Harry K. Thaw, who was legally re-
leased fifteen months ago from an asy-
lum for the insane, where he was sent
after he killed Stanford White, has
been indicted in New York charged
with kidnapping Fred Gump. Jr., of Kan
sas City, youth of 10, and assaulting
him with a whip.
OF more than eighty negro prisoners.
cut off from escape at Frankfort, KY,
by fire, which started in the oldest
dollhouse at the state reformatory, all
except two were rescued safely, ac-
cording to prison officials. Many were
unconscious from the effects of smoke.
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Five bandits stopped the motor car
Chicago piano company; his chauffeur
Mr.. Schaaf of the payroll box in which
he carried $4,000 and escaped.
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Five hundred and sixty-four new
buildings at an estimated cost of STA
690,145 were erected in the Borough of
Manhattan in 1916, according to the
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Der was 494 and the estimated cost
was s64,662, 869.
Fire recently damaged the Willis
Wood theater at Kansas City. 1t ate
it's way rapidly toward the front of
the stage, destroyed all equipment and
scenery, burned the $4,000 pipe organ
and left the entire rear portion of the
building in ruins. The loss was esti-
mated at $4,000 to $4,000.
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Southwest.
One of the largest oil deals in the
Healdton field was closed recently
with the announcement of the sale of
ninety acres of producing land located
near Durant for $525,00O to William
Sacks and Joseph Mcneil of Tulsa.
Constitutionality of the Workmen's
Compensation Law was upheld in an
opinion by Justice Hardy of the Okla
homa supreme court, in a test case
brought by an employee of the Item Bis
cult Company.
Mrs. Dolores Serabia had almost.
pulled to safety her husband and son,
lar in,
Seguin, Tex, when the son fell back,
pulling his mother with him. Both
were killed. The older man is in a
precarious condition.
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Marion Rose, 13-year-old daughter
of John Rose, is dead in a McAlester,
Ok. hospital. Her death brought the
toll of the recent storm, which de-
stroyed the Viereton schoolhouse, to
sixteen, three of the dead being from
the Rose family.
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The new Adamson bill introduced
in the house would provide an S-hour
day, make strikes or lockouts without
90-day notice illegal and permit the
taking over of railway lines by the
military on the orders of the President
such action.
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Organization of he twelve land
banks has been undertaken, the farm
loan board announced recently, with a
termination to eliminate politics en-
tirely in the selection of the men who
are to set up and operate the new in
situations.
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Villa was defeated at Jiminez recent
ly by Gen. Francisco Murguia with
loss of 1900 rebel dead, wounded and
captured, with the noted rebel leader
Martin Lopez, and another Villa gen
eral among the slain, according to an
official report from the Carranza COM
mander.
Foreign.
A report that the Spanish steamer
Pelayo, with a cargo of oil and do
mestic articles, has been torpedoed
and sunk, while bound for England,
coming on top of the sinking of the
Spanish steamer San Leandro, has in
creased popular resentment the
TEMPS Madrid cOrreSpondent saws