Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-01
ksnsas News Hotss.

There are eight Kansans in Yale
college
Iola's new waterworks will cost
$50, 900.
Charley Curtis majority in the first
district is e.o47-
Topeka joints are advertised as
s'thirst parlors-"
A chrysanthemum show is advertised
in every town in Kansas
o. b. BENTLEY has bought big cattle
ranch in Kingman county.
John Seaton, father of the house,
wants to be speaker thereof.
Wichita has sent out a specially
company made up of home talent
The Kansas Bar association will cele-
brate John Marshall day February 1.
The Santa Fe has bought two ten
wheel locomotives for Kansas business.
A BARRIERS sign in Preston reads:
Heavenly scrapes, 10 cent per; for
Is"
The legislative districts in Kansas
will be re-apportioned by the leg .sla-
ture next January
There are two Farmingtons in Kan
sas-one in Atchison county, the other
in Greenwood county
The big crop in Kansas has enabled
the state grain inspection department
to pay 5000 deficiency
The Kansas State Dairy association
will hold its annual convention in
Topeka, January z, and 9.
The editor of the Preston Plaindeale-
claims that the rats increase in Kansas
towns every presidential year.
J. F. Todd, former labor commits
sioner OF Kansas, has been elected to
the lower house in Oklahoma.
Leavenworth elected the younges'
state senator ever elected in Kansas.
His age is 25, but his name is Wulfecl1-
uler.
Miss May Scott, an lola girl, was
elected superintendent of schools in
Bingham county. Idaho, at the recent
election.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas Poultry association has decided to
hold poultry show in Topeka, Janu-
airy TIP.
Mrs. ]. o. Thompson of Pratt, who
wanted to be a Paris exposition com
missioner, is taking course of music
in Chicago.
Leavenworth wants coal from the
mine sold to the public
again, and will ask the next legisla-
ture to fix it.
Miss Musa Cowan of Parsons,
Washburn graduate of 1900, has re-
Gently inherited $4,000 through the
death of her grandmother.
Mckinley carried So counties in Kan
sas; Bryan, %. Mckinley carried all
the big eastern counties, except Craw-
ford, Cherokee and Labette.
The youngest editor in the state is
Thomas c. Roe, who runs the Junior
Herald at Valley Falls, the organ of
the Kansas Christian Endeavorers-
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson has
word from the Paris exposition
that the Kansas labor
bureau had been awarded silver med
al for its reports. DIR. w. b. Swan,
secretary of the state board of health,
also received word that a silver medal
had been awarded his department for
it's blanks used in collecting vital sta
tistics.
At Ell Dorado, Deputy Sheriff George
Young found that one of the large
rocks of the inner wall of the Jail had
been removed and all that remained
was the outer course of rocks, which
was very thin. A bench was placed
against the wall to hide the hole. 1t
was evidently the intention of the pris-
oners to make their escape just before
being locked in their cells.
The value of common school prop
erty in the state of Kansas, according
to the reports of the various county |
as submitted to the |
state superintendent of schools, aggre- |
gates 81, sos, 51I This does not in |
,lude the various state and higher ed |
acationa1 schools. 1t is simply the |
Talue of what are known as ward and |
county schools There are in the state
J, 27o common school buildings. Dur
ng the past year 1913 new buildings
we're erected Atchison county Leads
n the value of school property with an
aggregate of 81, pa, 1854. Sumner county
has the most buildings-2OO.
Mrs Kate Cross, widow of the late
5harles s. Cross, the Emporia banker
Who committed suicide two years ago
las purchased a small tract of land
rear Emporia, and will engage in the
business of raising Hereford cattle.
BY the proposed increased ratio of
representation, the politicians expect
Kansas to lose its congressman-at-
arpf in th. next aDportiOum ent of the