Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-17
Kansas and Missouri to Have
Crack Teams i'm Big Meet
at Kansas City.
ASSURES A CLASSY PROGRAM
Each University Has Athletes of Ma
tionai and international Reputa-
ton on Its Track Team.

University track teams will be held in
Convention Hall, Kansas City, Friday,
March 18th. Both teams have ath-
letes of national and international
reputation among the members, and
this meet promises to be the most
classy and stubbornly contested meet
ever held in Convention Hall. The
college enthusiasm and keen rivalry
of long standing between the two
universities assures a large attend
ance from both states.
Captain Bob Simpson, worlds cham
pion, who broke the record in the
high hurdle event in the recent X. c.
A c. meet, will perform for M u
in the same event against the X U.
hurdlers. The best time previously
made in the 50-yard indoor high hur-
dies was seconds. In the special
event trial for the worlds record,
Simpson hung up a new mark of 3/5
seconds.
Captain Rodkey of K U. will bring
to the meet with him his crack train
of athletes which made such a won
derful showing at the Chicago meet
on March 3.
feature of this dual meet is an
invitation relay event in which sew
eral hundred Kansas City ward school
boys viii participate.
Tore Down German Flac.-Roy
Burkholder, a junior in the Wichita
high school, tore down a flag of the
Fatherland bearing a photograph of
the kaiser, after saying he was tired
of looking into the German war gods
face. Miss Holm. German teacher.
had been asked to remove the flag,
but said the students request was
silly. Arnold Lau, in the absence of
superintendent John Lofty, who was
in Kansas City, sided with Miss Holm.
Burkholder, backed by others, then
removed it. 1t was hidden, but found
later by the German teacher, and
restored to its place.
K y. Supports Wiison.-Sixty-thr
members of the University of Kansas
faculty telegraphed the other morn
ing to President Wilson their support
of any measure to preserve the honor
of the United States.
Kansas Troop at Fort Riiey.-Troop
A, Kansas cavalry, arrived at Fort
Riley recently from Llano Grande,
Texas. The troops consist of three
officers and f1fty-four men, comma nded
by Captain Oliverson.
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Episcopal Minister Dead.-The Rev.
George H. Mueller, IS years old. an
Episcopal minister of Chanute, died
| in the vestry of ST. Timothys church
there following a service at which he
had officiated.
| Invents Two-Man Submarine. -
Frank Railey, prisoner just released
! from the federal penitentiary at Leav-
enworth, started Immediately for
Washington, where he expects to ap-
| pear before the navy department
with a model of two-man submarine
| that he invented while in prison He
! says his boat will be as destructive
as any of the German U-boats and
| offers to make a trip across the ocean
| in it Some of the prison officials
believe Railey has valuable inven-
| ton.
| Oil Burns Fatal to Farmer-F1oyd
Burgess, SIS years old, a farmer of
| High Prairie, Leavenworth county,
died recently as the result of burns
/ TGCSlN0Q Wn0n liz lI1Su u SldLL a
/ kitchen fire with kerosene.
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| Kansan Drowned in china.-John H
Dadisman, for many years high school
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary in Kansas, and
a former football star at WashburI
| College. Topeka, was drowned in the
Yangtse River in China. according tC
word received by-his brother in WITCH
tia The secretary of the international
Y. Nj. c. A at Pekin cabled to the ma
tional secretary that AIr. Dadisman
had gone swimming several days ago
and had not returned
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Left Estate to Home--Dr. Mary
Ellen Gilman, long a Crawford county
| physician, who died recently, be
| queathed her real estate, the value Of
| which is not-known, to the Episcopa
Church diocese of Kansas for q fund
for the establishment of a home fol
aged persons. An executor is named
in the physicians will. with instruc
tions to sell the property at once
A Farmer Wins on HoGs-Johr
Garst, who lives eight miles south
west of Madison. marketed a small
bunch of hogs at the Madison Stool