Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-22
Kansas news Notes.

OSoOrne IS ngurlng on an eAtensio-4
of the Santa Fe-
Topeka was forty-six years old We'd
nesday of last week.
Eureka has its flags out in celebra-
ton of the gas strike
F:fty-seven Topeka lawyers have
died in twenty-five years
Fifty people will be employed at
Clay Center's new broom factory
l.. p King of Cowley county will be
the father of the new state senate
The time for shooting prairie chick
ems in Kansas expired December l.
Kinsley has new flour mill. with a
capacity of seventy five barrels daily.
This is the season of the year when
the Kansas farmer butchers for the
winter
The Santa Fe has ordered 900 new
box cars. They will be made at the
Topeka shops
The Mennonites will establish a
college in Kansas, and Marion wants
it; SO does Mcpherson.
Jack Adams. a Topeka man. has
written novel called ..Nequa, or the
Problem of the Ages"
The Cove County Advocate says the
Union Pacific will extend its line from
Plainvil1e to Gainfield-
Mrs r. M Painter is justice of the
peace in Meade county. She is the
only woman j. p in Kansas
Gas belt people are working over
time to contradict the story that the
Gas supply is on the decrease.
Judge Bland of Atchson county and
Judge Stuart of Doniphan county will
trade benches for three weeks in jan
uary.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria have
broken out in several Kansas towns,
ard the doctors attribute it to rummage
sales
Governor Stanley may recommend
the use of voting machines in Kansas
He has written to the factories for
prices.
Captain John Seaton was lately re-
ceived with open arms by the house of
representa- YES of Alabama. lie made
speech.
Mrs. Lulu Fuhr is managing the
temperance crusade at Meade. Four
jointists are under arrest and one has
left town.
The State Bank of Seneca. with a
capital stock of $40, 900, has fled arti-
cles of incorporation with the state
charter board.
Mrs. George Henry of Topeka has
lost her mind as result of worry over
the prosecution of her son Ira for muir
der at Albuquerque, N. M.
Mrs. Eph Nicely, of Wichita. has fled
a charge against her husband that he
stole 6, 900 chickens in the counties of
Mcpherson, Marion and Harvey.
Nebraslzans and Kansans are much
worried over the Crumpacker reappor- :
tionment bill 1t would deprive each
state of representative if it becomes
law.
Under the law, the first ballot for
United States senator will be taken by
the Kansas legislature January %.
The state printer will be elected Janu-
airy Is.
The old Macke brewery building at
Emporia, which originally cost $50, 900.
is now a total wreck 1t has been dis
mantled by boys, who have carried the
building away piece by piece
Congress will take hand in the
Leavenworth- Klondike deal. 1t will
REQ uire all saloons within two miles
of federal home to pay an additional
license and that license will be 50 bur-
densome that it will be prohibitive.
The largest fusion majority at the
late election in Kansas was S24.
in Cherokee county; the smallest, 1, in
Trego county. The largest Repub-
lican majority was 2,792, in Shawnee
county; the smallest 2, in Rocks county.
Robert II. Semple, who has been
deputy state bank commissioner for
eight years, has accepted a position as
bookkeeper in the Office of the new
Democratic paper at Leavenworth, of
which r. NJ. Ruggles is to be the
editor.
Mrs Sarah c. Bunnel, who was di-
vorced from her husband at Winfield
few months ago, went into court with
an odd REQ uest the other day. She
said she had been unduy Influenced
by outside parties, and. as the decree
had not yet become final would the
Judge set everything aside and let her
live with her husband again?
The Rev j. B. McAfee of Topeka
writes: 81 see the statement made that
no Kansas legislature ever adjourned
until the expiration Of fifty days The
legislature of 1865 adjourned in just
thirty-fiv days, at the request of Gov
ernor Crawford. that he might go to
and secure a discontinue