Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-15
Kansas News Eotes.

county
Conway Springs. with 1.coo people, is
without lawyer.
Thirty-four state bank have been or
gained in Kansas this year.
The leading real estate agent in La
Harpe is Miss Sadie Travis.
Government mineralogists are look
ing for zinc in Greenwood county.
Benjamin Franklin, prominent
citizen of Doniphan county, is dead at
White Cloud.
Harry c. Stafford, a prominent Re-
publican politician and lawyer of
Topeka, is dead
Douglas county has twenty convicts
in the Kansas penitentiary, eight black
and twelve white
A Topeka man has manufactured
three automobiles. He may start a
regular factory. with 100 hands.
State Senator J. c. Morrow has
bought the controlling interest of the
First National bank of Washington.
An effort will be made at the COM
ing session of the legislature to con-
solidate the horticultural Society with
the state board of agriculture and
place Secretary Coburn, of the board
of agriculture, in charge of the con-
solidated organization.
Professor Haworth's reports on the
analysis of the core of the Atchison
coal well have been completed. 1t
shows that the coal recently discovered
there is valuable and probably of great
Importance, not only to the people of
Atchison but also to the tributary coun-
try, and in measure to the entire
state.
1t cost Kansas 81, 6ee, 363. 76 to con-
duct its public schools last year. From
all sources SIS, PIT, 7o2. II was collected
for the purpose and June 80 there re-
manned a balance on hand, above all
expenditures, of $685., 33s. 35. The vari-
Gus expenditures were: Repairs, $7l4,-
ALL Is; salaries. So, 173, O62. 50; libraries
and apparatus. So, 4os. 90; buildings,
S36s, 657. 54; other purposes, S2os, 1853 20
In Franklin county the other day
couple bearing the name were
married When the license was APP
piled for the probate judge asked, as
the law requires, if the bride and groom
were related. '.Well, Judge" respond
ed the groom, 1--WE kinder are an we
kinder amt just what you might call
relations. You see we were married
together for quite spell, but ma
thought she wanted a divorce an now
we are goin' to try it over again.
The doctor bill prepared by the legis-
lative committee of the Kansas state
board of health does not interfere with
Christian Science, osteopathy or any OF
the other cures. so long as each system
of practice is confined to its school
methods. 1t is provided, however,
that osteopaths must be graduates of a
regular school of osteopathy before
they can practice.
Miss Mary E. Chaplin, 81 years old,
veteran woman's seminary founder
and teacher, died at the home of her
nephew. DIR. S. N. Chaplin, in Chicago,
last week. Miss Chaplin began to teach
at the seminary in New Haven, and in
1860 helped found woman's seminary
at Milwaukee. She went to Lawrence,
Kan, and there founded a seminary
which later developed into the Uni
versity of Lawrence.
Captain E. J. Hardy of the Twen-
tieth Kansas denounces the publ1ca-
ton in the new history of Kansas of
the statement that Colonel Frederick
Funston swan the Marilao river" and
captured eighty prisoners during that
regiments campaign in the Philippines
Captain Hardy has taken the matter
up with Frank Nelson, state superin-
tendent and chairman of the state text
book board, and asks that proper
credit be given to Hardy and Privates
Jack, Huntsmen and Wiley of Company
H, who he claims swan the river and
returned with boat in which Colonel
Funston later crossed.
Senator Harris of Kansas, who is
member of the Senate committee on
military affairs, is opposed to per-
manent increase of the standing army
of the United States, and is inclined
to favor as a substitute for such in
crease an extension for two years of
the law under which the present mill
tary organization was established
Frank D. Brooks of Lawrence is
United States vice consul at Smyrna,
Turkey, where the United States
steamship Kentucky is now the guest
of Abdul Hamid and his official fam
ily. Mr.. Brooks was first appointed
consular secretary at Smyrna, but was
soon promoted to be vice consul
former Abilene girl, Mrs Orleana
Fisher Mcclellan, daughter of the for
mer banker there has been for a year
the teacher of English in the native
schools of Hawaii in Honolulu She
had had training in a normal school in
this country and was asked to make
the beginning in the new work of Eng