West Wichita News from Wichita, Kansas • 1

tv 3 VOLUME III WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1911. NUMBER 19 AN ELECTION WILL BE CALLED. POST VACATION FISH TALES The Kansas City harbor presents I realistic shipping port scene just now with eight steamboats tied the wharf at once. The end of the Moroccan trouble tween Germany and France is in sight, the French ambassador and the German foreign secretary having found a common ground of settlement on general lines. A man supposed to be Arthur Dal ton of Kingman, committed suicide near Great Bend, on a Santa Fs train.

Two military prisoners escaped st Fort Leavenworth, after drugging their guard. D. Houtz, of Clyde, threshed four acres of second cutting alfalfa from which he obtained 53 bushels of pure seed. Frank M. Watson, has confessed at Denver that he is one of the men who held up the Southern Pacitic Limited at Reese, Utah, January 1.

Oscar A. Brindley set a new altitude mark for aviators in America by arising 11,000 feet Id a biplane at Chicago. ORIENT SHOP MEN WALK OUT. Hurd's c-la-s of Me West Side I il te' iati S.iuua, si bool, spent I I Inn tv, August 2 Itii, at Walnut! Glove The i lass consists of Mrs A Recall Petition Signed by 3,744 Citizens Deemed Sufficient to Call New Election. The recall petition, crculated for the purpose of ousting Mayor Graham and Commissioner Campbell and Commissioner Leach from office, with the amended petitions, has been filed In the City Clerks office.

It has been examined by the City Clerk and pronounced sufficient. The mayor has taken more than a casual glance at it, and has signified his willingness to have It submitted to a vote. The petition as finally filed contains 3,744 names, which according to George V. Jackson, secretary of the Civic League, is 422 more than 25 per cent of the vote at the last election. The petitions for the recall of Commissioner Campbell and Leach have 146 more names than the law requires.

It is believed-that the City Commissioners at their meeting next Monday will order an election, which must be held within 30 days and not more than 40 days after the date of the clerks certificate to the commission that a sufficient petition is filed. If the clerks certificate is dated today It would permit of an election on Tuesday, September 19. Candidates will have to make up their minds quickly if they expect to make much of a campaign. WILL SOON BE A MEMORY. Tile old Wichita Fair Ground, west of the river and north of Douglas avenue, which has so long been the scene of warm contests among horsemen for supremacy in the racing field will soon he but a memory.

Already the fences ami buildings are being dismantled and the gtound torn up by the advance working fortes of the Midland Valley railroad, aril wotk on the terminals will bo pushed with vigor. BEN FRANKLIN CLU3 PICNIC AT WALNUT GROVE. Members zed Their Fam.lies Spend Pleasant Afternoon Visiting, Swimming and Playing Baseball. Wichita n.embeis of the Ben Franklin tlub, a national oi ganiation of employing printers, held a panic at Walnut Grove l.ixt Saturday. The printers and their families partii ipateti in the event The party went to thp picnic grounds iti a bartered interurban car.

The wives and children spent the afternoon in visiting, bathing and preparing the picnic dinner. The men did not talk "shop" but immediately upon arrival at the grounds organized a ball game. A. G. McCormick and G.

Booth were chosen captains and from that moment until the end of the game there was many an angry word spoken in jest. Umpire Claik is a heavy man and his decisions were never questioned by anyone inside the diamond. After tile first inning it was conceded by all that Mr. Cark would not stand for any back talk and any decision he made would have to stick, and they did. Six innings were plaved, the score standing seven to eleven in favor of Captain McCormick's aggregation.

Those who attended the picnic were: Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Booth, Dorothy, Harriet and Josephine Booth, Don Benton, Mr.

and Mrs. Chas. Taylor and Gladys Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bracken, son Byrl, Mr.

and Mrs. R. M. Johnston and Helen and Dotsey Johnston, Mr. and Mrs.

R. M. Hobson and Harry, and daughter Helen, Wayne Hobson, Charles Armstrong, I A. Zimmerman, W. A.

Vincent, A. M. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weiss, Mr.

and Mrs. H. Rutchart and son James, Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Miller, Mrs. J. X. Miller, Mr. and Mrs.

A. G. McCormick, Louise, Buster and Monteith McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. John Calnon, Mr.

and Mrs W. G. Smith and daughters Oletha and Gwendolen, Mr. and Mrs. A.

Travis and son Byron, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Welch and son Edgar, Mr.

Fred Clark, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Prescott and Maud and Paul Prescott, Mr.

Will Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. D. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. McGuin and daughter Katherine, Miss Charlene Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tilma, John, Everett, Renzella, Herinina and Marion Tilma, Mr.

and Mrs. H. M. Preston and daughters Margaiet and Louise. If you are in need or etter heads, note heads, bill heads, statements, cards or anything in the job printing line give The bjews a call.

We do nothing but first class work. Interesting Items Gathered From All Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. National Capital. Postmaster General Hitchcock has aamed Topeka, as a postal savings bank office, effective September 20. Congress continued until March, 1912, the regulation for the control of the waters of Niagara Falls.

The postofflce department has ordered two new fast mail trains between St. Louis and Chicago, to bo established October 1. Two army officers covered the 42 miles between College Park, near Washington and Frederick, in 47 minutes. President Taft has signed the Joint resolution for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union. Congress will not authorize the usual "extra month's pay to congressional employes this year.

A motion to pass the wool bill In the house over the president's veto lost 227 to 129, a two-thirds vote be-, Ing required. The special senate commission to Investigate the election of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin will begin hearing in Milwaukee October 2. Tiring of life in a boarding house, Senator Pristow has bought a home in Washington. I Secretary Wilson, the oldest member of the president's cabinet has just obserrd the T6th anniversary of his birth. i Work has just been finished on an exper.

mental caisson in the uavv yard to be used as a target for big gutis of the navy. I Domestic Items. I An epidemic of scarlet fever at Ueem.g. Kan has become so extensive that all public assemblages, including school and church services are pio! ilott d. I According to reports received from Noilh pal.

nta and Canadian points the first of the season lias foimed near Elision and ilismark, l. Wasbbmn college at Topeka, Is pi, in mg io erect a lOstorj office build, r.g as a part of its endow incut fund Uffois of labor leaders to con-solulat 1 the department employes 't. ons of the Illinois Ccntial mil cad into a iederated body Is said to be responsible for the talk of a laliioad strike in the I'nited Employes of the Kansas City, Mexico Orient shops at Wichua, walked out on a strike because their pay has been delayed One house was destroyed and sev-' eral others damaged in an electrical toiin at Bpnngtield, Mo. Muskogee is going to make an attempt to force separate enmpart ments In st net compliance of the Jim Crow law oil its street cars. The state department of agrlcuF ture of couth Carolina has appointed Delegates to the national conservation congress at Kansas City.

Train wreckers made an unsuccessful attempt to ditch "The Texan," the, Frisco's fast train to the Southwest, Dear Garfield, Ark. St. Louis San Francisco train No. 4, from St. Louis to Galveston, was wrecked near Rogers, Ark.

The house investigation into the chaiges against Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, will end with the testimony of Secretary Wilson. President Taft sent a short message to congress urging a further appropriation to complete the work of raising the wreck of the battle ship Maine.

Charged with administering poisoned coffee to her father and two brothers Mrs. Etta Larsen and her husband, Christian Larsen, have just been arrested at Xorthwood, Iowa. Arizona and New Mexico may yet become states according to an agreement just reached in senate and bouse, if the recall is eliminated from Arizona's constitution. A movement has been started at Eldorado, to erect a fountain in the court house grounds in memory of Thomas Benton Murdock. A train on the M.

K. T. road was robbed of all registered mail in a suburb of Houston, Tex. American diet disagrees with Admiral Togo and he is ill with acute Indigestion. The Topeka city commission has Just let the contract for, furnishing 23 voting machines to a local manufacturing company for $17,500.

Two cases of pellagra have developed in Shawnee, and both patients have been Isolated, Foreign Affairs. A great mass meeting was held at Santa Fe, N. in celebration of New Mexicos admission to the Union. The police of Hamburg, Germany, have forbidden women who wear un-j guarded hatpins to enter public tramcars. Thomas Edison consented while In Paris to pose for a French clnemato-.

graph. This is the first time he has! ever been shown in moving which he invented. King George, telegraphed his con gratulations to Premier Asquith, David I.loyd-George, and Sydney Buxton, president of the board of trade, on the settlement of the English railway strike. The Liverpool dock troubles were only partly settled between the ship owners and represenlatives of the striking docknien at the Cnnard line otlhe The English government views the industtlal war as so grave that parliament will continue in session to meet any cmeigency. Thirty army officers were poisoned at their mess dinner at Torres Novas, Portugal, from Stanley Rhode-, a nephew of the late Cci il Rhodes, is dead of injuries sustained In a motor an Idem near Bi'ooklaiois.

England The (ondilion of Edmond Rostand, who was sev (i ply injured in an automobile mi idi ut in Riairiu continues dangci ous Personal. Col Rodnev lnegle of Columbus has annouiiinl that he would make a complete tonfession oi his part In the reiently exposed orriiption in the Ohio legislature. E. Adair of Lost Spring. yo has unearthed a human skull In bedded in stone and believed by archaeologists to have antedated the Biblical flood Sidney p.

Garnett, of Florissant, Mo, was elected president of the League of Postnmsteis of the Thud and Fourth Classes John T. Barker, chairman of th Missouri house of representatives will address a state good roads meeting at Moulton, la. Mrs. Bonnie Snow Diekson-Sinsin-scheimer-Williamson Clark of Chicago, at the age of 26 has just been married to her fifth husband Floyd T. Brooks, arrested at Columbia, Mo, on a charge of blackmailing J.

W. Brockman, was released from jail for lack of evidence, W. G. Beatty, in a biplane, made a new worlds record carrying a passenger in Chicago, remaining up 3 hours and 38 minutes Ellis Bartholomew, the Toledo banker and traction promoter, was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, after serving 14 months on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Richard J.

Hanley has started from St. Louis for San Francisco on horseback. This will be his second trip. Miss Annie Mastinger a patient at the St. Joseph asylum for the Insane, is dead of pellagra.

The Kansas inheritanee tax law has returned to the state treasury $121,566.54 in the last year A tornado wrecked the $6,000 high school aud destroyed a parsonage at Hebron, Neb. John Potts, a real estate man was shot and probably fatally wounded in a street fight with Reuben Marlowe, a dry goods merchant at Tulsa, Ok. The cases brought against T. B. Armstrong and H.

C. Ericsson, state detectives, charged with soliciting a bribe in Cherokee county, Kansas, probably will be dismissed. Harry N. Atwood the aviator. Is now 335 miles from New York, having made almost three-fourths of his flight.

R. H. Ireland, a Chicago motor driver was seriously injured on the Elign speedway when his car waa ditched. (I'lipvnglU, lHlLj Social Events PHONE, GREEN 1841. al-i.

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i "Li -ciil-dt v. M(--i-. Milne lliskrt-1 co Vi B.u;ln, ('(. i.ii 'I uni ClaiK I lain Giicii, 1 1 1 1 rdiapioti. E.unc.-i 111 tl.l'.l W.ImiI! 111 cl ti Pnllenhuig linl its it nd few utllei triemU la-t Frlii iv in honor of hei tl.iuulitcr, Trimble lieMiles the i i lib l.ul.en tlieie was pimont Mis llury Crulie, Lydia 1 lent on, ami Mabel Coilnim.

on of the pleasant leatui'ox of the after noon was a uniquely anangeil contest in vvlntli Mis Stippiili was given tin prize. Mrs dunes of 614 Burton avenue, an.uiged a sutpiixe in ner husband Tuesday evening, it being Jones' birthday. Interesting game and cooling refreshments were the diversions of file evening. The guests wire: Mr. and Mis.

I) T. Sutler, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cox, Mr. and Mrs.

Jones, Miss Peail Jones, Miss Lulu Mai tin, Mrs. Il.ee, Miss Ruth Cox, Mixg Einina Cox, Lucy Butler, Mr and Mrs. L. W. Jones and Miss Cath-ei ine Jones.

Mis. Ben McLean, Grothe, Miss Cure Grothe, Mis. Geo. Anderson, Mrs Noble of Eldorado, Mrs. J.

F. Foulstou of College Hill, and Miss Helen McLean had a very enjoyable little picnic in Riverside park. The occasion was Miss Cere's birthday. Mr. and Mrs.

W. O. Van Arsdale and son Leone will leave this week for Peoria to attend Miss Mable Bontz's wedding. Miss IJnntz visited here for some time last winter and had many friends, here. The date for the vvett-ding is September second.

Mis. John McCormick entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ewing, Mr. and Mrs.

Lou Slippich and Dr. and Mrs. Cave at supper Thursday evening. Mrs. J.

W. Hare was hostess to the Battenburg club Friday. As guests of the club there were present: Mrs. Trimble of Omaha, Mrs. Clara Wilson, and Miss Benton.

The West Side Royal Neighbors held a picnic in Riverside Thursday. 1 1 1 i I Tuesday should have been pa' day for the Orient shop men Be, auxe the cti-ii any failed to show up with hecks for the meq at noon at the above stated tune 13'! of the 215 men em-I loved walked out They said that) ibet would return to work lien the (on.p.Miv fixed a dav on vv lin-li the'- eie to be paid. The men want a regu-1 Inr javdiy Sotaetin.ex, the' say, their pa tomes ns lte as the 25th Mol seldom on the 2 nil. the dav on vv it lliev tie ipp'ixed to tli aw ther iot kx Tlo-ie "ax a meeting of tile etn-; I 0 es at tile Commeiciii! League otuus Wednesday motning and tno matter wa- threshed out to he satis-taition of employes ami einpinvei the company The company yyill establish a regular p.i'dity and the men to ictiint to wink on Thursday morning I.VTKE 'I he pav hecks aimed Wednesday ami the men have lexiinied wtuk The tonipany will pav at a regular tune fititn tins date. ANNUAL FAMILY REUNION.

Tlieie was a million of the lliazill family at the old home six miles southwest of tile Masonic home last Tties-diy. Tlieie were 2U members ot the faintly present Mr and Mrs J. Jurgens and family, old neighbors and friends, and Mis. John Sanko and daughter Yernniin, and Mr. and Mr-.

John Welt of Kansas City. Mo were present. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brazill live at BR South Exposition, lint when these reunions take place 'they go out to the farm where there is plenty of room and lots to eat.

There were present on this occasion: Mr. and Mrs. Toni Brazill and four sons and sons-in-law, and three daughters, and 16 grandchildren, as follows: Mr. and Mrs George Bunker and Jennfi, Mary and Harvey; Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Brazill and Warden, Cleo, Ray, Frank anti Meva: Mr. and Mis. William Brazill and Allen, Albert, Lloyd and Claud: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brazil and Evelvn, Hubert and Fay; Harry Brazill.

Lillie Brazill and Lulu Brazill. PRINTERS PICNIC. The members of Typographical Union No. 148 with their families he'd their second annual picnic in Lin wood Park last Sunday afternoon. About one hundred were present and enjoyed the shady coolness of the park in getting acquainted.

Part of the picnickers preferred the open ground of the ball field where a very scientific game of baseball was pulled off. At 6 oclock the tables were arranged and it was soon found that the crowd was amply provided for. Speeches and resolutions were cut out and all had a good time. A new telephone line has been organized near Central avenue and is being built this week. (me.

lis EmIht Case Mr a.i r- Guy Mil'miii: filer 1 it'iii f.epi Kansu--. i II aliy lie iliiwd vvcie Ml. i. id. M- a-e! F.iw!.,:i and Mi 1 can an Ml i (IPleS'l 1-11 1 el II 1 led tie I ol Mo- A (lull with a -lum putt.

even s- midnight chi as -ened, al-'o a veiy dainty lircaVf 1st. The oitasimi was to tele luate Miss Ol Rieid's and Miss Gibxnns, I it Unlays. The following were present: Frances Lump. Isis Gibson. Nelbe Gibson, Esther Goodyear, Lucille Varner, Klda Culver, Ha.el Fleming, Jua-j inta Williams, Grace Whitlow, Elxie Oldfield, Gladys Kirkputiiik.

1 inle No. 1 of Trinity K. tliiirth.j will et-t next ud.tv noon at the, lion of Mrs .1 11 KiiMina, 657 South l-age. .1. t-iii Blew ait entert lined Is.i'uiday at 6 o'clotk dinner, Mrs.

Stanley Hill of Omaha, and Mts Scnb iiev of Denver. Mis. Yen lias been enlcrtaining Mrs 'Russel, of the East Side for tluee or four EUREKA ECHOES. A very pleasant surprise was car-tied out on Mr. and Mrs Will Holmes on Wednesday evening.

Those present were: Mr. and Mis. M. If. Binford, Mr.

and Mrs. T. C. Garst. Mr.

and Mrs. Jerome Turley, Mr. and Mrs. John Myeis, Mr. and Mrs.

E. X. Benjamin, Mr. and Mrs. Val Turley, Mr.

and Mrs. Geo. E. Rogers; Misses Vida Tudors, Myrtle Turley, M. Norris, Inez Cain.

Minnie Showalter, Lula Ger-'tiude Binford, Sarah Rogers, Margaret Binford, Hazel Turley Jean Rogers and Tilley Turley: Messrs. T. T. Till ley, Frank Showalter," Clifford Jones, Orville TJudors, Arthur Binford, Law- ewe Ifoge's, Tolley Turley, Wilbur Binford, Lewis Grimes, Geo. Myers.

Tom Garst, Orville Myers, Jess Garst end Lee Myers. WEDDING BELLS. Miss Daisy Cat renter and Mr. Ed Adkins were married last Sunday. MDs Carpenter has lived on the West Side all her life and is a very worthy young woman.

She Is very highly spoken of by all who know her. Mr. and Mrs. Adkins went to housekeeping on St. Francis.

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