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Wichita last week was a big success. A. Dobson, Ottawa, is the new president; F. M. Bonebrake, Topeka, secretary, and J. W. Thurston, Topeka, treasurer. Next meeting will be at Leavenworth. The state was divided into four groups, and meetings will be held annually by groups. A committee was appointed to confer with express companies upon the matter of rates for shipping currency. Judge Fitzwilliams, at Leavenworth, has declared void that part of the new anti-blacklisting law which requires employers to furnish written reasons for discharging employes. Senator Harris says the recent decision in the stock yards case gives states the right to control elevators, warehouses, street railways, gas companies, telegraphs and telephones. At a wedding feast in Jewell county the other day 20 turkeys were roasted and the whole township turned out. Steve Paul is under arrest at Garrett charged with murdering his aunt, Mrs. Isaac Paul, near that place two weeks ago. The State bank, of Walnut, was forced to close because of injudicious investments. Depositors will be paid in full. Rev. H. B. Fleharty, Gov. Leedy's executive clerk, will open a law office in Osage City and run for congress next year. A Topeka dispatch said that ex-Gov. Humphrey, of Independence, was a "receptive" candidate for United States marshal. W. L Trumbell, a Topeka business man, was run over and killed by a pas. senger train in the railroad yards at Kansas City, Mo.
