Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-02-16
Kansas news notes.


sawmill.
Don't hitch hear is a prominent
| Concordia sign.
| A swell suburb of Ellinwood is
known as Coyoteville.
! Republic county papers are clamor-
ing for high school.
Three Kansas streams are cold and
clear enough to raise trout
| A Mulvane man who had Jim jams
saw 'possums instead of snakes.
! Jackson county residents are being
pestered by gypsy fortune tellers.
Mr.. Casebier of Nicely has just
ground out two car loads of sorghum.
Frozen wheat is responsible for
several dead horses in Sumner county.
| W. p Hackney has returned to
Winfield and formed law partner
| ship with J. T. Lafferty. Hackney
has been living in Ohio for the last
five years.
The little stone school house erect
ed in Ellsworth in 1869 and the pion-
eer landmark of the county has been
! torn down. At one time Major In
man used it for printing Office and
again it. served a church.
At Horace. in Greeley county. some
| contractors are at work upon a task
that long has been talked of in the
| extreme western part of Kansas. They
are boring hole 1000 feet into the
earth, with the primary purpose of
finding artesian water. but in hope
that coal OF gas may be found.
There is a new industry in Western
| Kansas Fred Lawson of Stockton
has developed a lucrative business in
digging snake root and roSin weed
from the prairies for the drug trade
He has ten men digging for him regu-
larly. In eighteen months he has
! Skinned * 0G0 and rarant1v
he received two orders from London.
! The plate glass insurance COM
panies have ordered agents to cancel
policies on buildings in Kansas occu-
pied by saloons. Several of the COM
panies have ordered policies cancelled
on buildings occupied by drug stores
In Wichita one company was COM
PEELED to pay $500 as a result of the
raid of Mrs. Nation.
The house judiciary committee has
made favorable report on Represent
alive Grosser's bill amending the law
in relation to concealed weapons. The
bill allows Judge of tn a district court
to issue permits to carry weapons.
The committee amended the bill
that a razor is included in the list of
deadly weapons.
The osteopaths have won out in
their fight against the medical regis
tratiOn bill. The measure, as origin
ally proposed provided that osteopaths
had to take four years course in
school to be admitted to practice in
the state. This would practically ex-
clude them from the fact that no
school of osteopathy has a longer
course of study than two years. After
quite a fight the committee agreed to
reduce the limit to two years.
At Wichita members of the local w.
c. T. U. held a secret meeting in the
rooms of Mrs. Lucy Evans, one of the
,0I
on her last raid, and it is said that
those present have decided to organize
a band and go into the saloon smash
ing business in real earnest. The sal
OOniStS have been warned that an
other raid is about to be made, and
some of them, as a matter of precau-
ton, have taken all of the liquors out
of the cabinet and have boarded up
the mirrors and other destructible
property.
A committee composed of prominent
members of the Kansas State Grain
Dealers association and the Kansas
State Miller'S association, with Mr.. B.
Warkentine, of Newton, at its head,
has, as is well known, been working
up for some time a movement to i'm
port a cargo of hard, red winter wheat
! direct from Russia, for next years
seeding. The importation. if econom-
ically made, should amount to not less
| than 10000 bushels. but orders for less
received. The committee is advised by
cable that the choicest seed wheat
sacked and delivered at one of the
seaports in the Crimea will cost $1.25
per bushel. Any who want to par
ticipate in the benefits of the importa-
ton, to the extent of one bushel or
one hundred, should at once communi-
cate with Chairman B. Warkentine, at
Newton, Kan, giving full particulars.
Senator Tapp's bill requiring own
ers of stores and shops to provide
seats for their women clerks was
killed by one of the standing commit
tees.
A. w. Smith of Kansas, the official
messenger who took the electoral vote
of the state to Washington is a candi-
date to succeed Cyrus Leland as pen
sion agent at Topeka
John Seaton has introduced bill to
prohibit the marriage of a person I'M
der Indictment for a crime, and an
other excluding curiosity seekers and
flowers from jails-
The house judiciary committee
! killed the bill which was to permit
the selection of jury regardless of
previously expressed opinions on the
part of the jurymen.
The twenty-third annual session of
the Kansas grand lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen will meet
in Leavenworth February Is, &c, 81,
and 25.
P. B. Anderson and Fannie Shoe
maker oI oxley were married by tele-
phone the other day, the probate
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