Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-08
STATE NEWS.

Leevenworth wants q wholesale dry
goods house.
Santa Fe Monitor: The railroad .ha!
reached Montezuma.
Atchison Globe: Adam is is the only
man on record who never heard his wife
complain that she had nothing to wear
Racks County Record: Hoxie is hav.
ing an opera house built, 60x80 feet
which will be one OF the finest in the
west.
A Wallace editor welcomed new
paper with: "Let 'em come! There is
plenty of buffalo grass and slough water
here yetp
Edmond Times: The old settlers of
Norton county, those who came here
prior to December Fl, 1876 will hold q
reunion at Norton on Octnber IL and ID.
Jewell City Republican: An Iowa
woman lays claim to the town site OF
Plainville. Her husband formerly owned
the land, and sold it, she says, without
her consent.
s. Johnny Mcnamara, II years old, an
apprentice to the painters trade, at
Atchison, fell seventy feet from a scsffold
upon which he was at work and was
seriously injured.
] On the 23d of August, Mr.. VIM. Har-
ris, of Sumner county, and Miss Sarah 1.
Farris, Of Walnut, Crawford county,
were married. The bridegroom is 60
years old and the bride %.
Oberlin Opinion: The rain belt seems
to be located near the south Decatur
county line this year. At least Decatur
county seems to get plenty of rain, while
Sheridan and western counties suffer.
2 Jewell City Republican: A Smith
county child was found palying with en-
old coffee pot which had q rattle-snake
in it. The little fellow had picked up
the dish in the yard and was shaking up
his snakeship in good shape when dis
covered.
OlRthe Mirror: Mary Ann Williams,
the insane girl who was sent to the
county infrmary few nights ago, in
one of her insane freaks, that night,
thrust her head through window pane,
severing the carotid artery and dying in
q short time.
The Garden City Sentinel has been
discussing the question whether
Quant1ell, the guerriella who massacred
number of Lawrence people and
burned the town during the war, is alive
or not. Some people think that he is
in old Mexico.
Jewell City Republican: Division
Commander W. 81. Caldwell of Beloit
gives notice that solid train of three
sleeping cars, four reclining chair cars,
three day coaches and one baggage car
will leave Beloit Sunday morning Sept.
9th and run through to the Columbus,
Ohio reunion, without charge.
Wallace County Register: We want
to state for the benefit of all who want
to know the truth, that Wallace county
is to be excepted from the statement
that the hot winds have destroyed the
crops of western Kansas. So far as this
county is concerned (and other counties
cut here too), the statement is not true.
We have good crops.
Fort Scott Monitor: For some unac-
countable reason, young people don't
take TO August as month for marrying
in, and if the other months in the year
were DO better, the probate judge would
have slim picking from license fees.
About dozen marriages will cover the
average for August for the past eight or
ten years.
The Western School Journal says:
Among the conductors of Kansas insti-
tutes this year there are but three women,
Miss Ida Ahlborn, who conducts in Smith
county, Miss Florence Keasoner, of
Decatur, aud Miss May Kinner, who has
charge Of the Norton county Normal. |
These ladies are very successful workers, |
and are highly priced by the teachers of |
the counties named. Each has forced |
her way upward by her own powers and |
will to do, and is shining example of
self dependent womanhood.
Atchison Globe: A ripple Of excite
ment was created at the union depot this
just as the Santa Fe train was
pulling out, by the appearance of q
young man named b. E. Morrison to
claim his handsome young wife, who
was on bord as runaway. He found
her in the ladies' coach occupying seat
on the south side of the car. He begged
her to return home with him, but she re-
fused, scurning his appeals aud pro-
teststions Of love. The train pulled out
with the pair on board, he standing in
the aisle, coa1ing her to turn back, and
she with her face firmly set against him,
looking out of the window. Morrison
married his wife only few months ago,
but the marriage was not q happy one,
and the wife caused considerable possin