Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-27
Eansas News notes.

has a violin of great age which he be-
lieveS is an original Stradival ius vio-
lin
Harvey county is preparing for a
fair to be held in September which
the promoters claim will take the rag
off the BUSH
Augustus Byram. the Chicago mil
iionaire who died last week. formerly
lived in Atchison. The only large ho-
tel in Atchison still bears his name.
Five typesetting machines and a
perfecting press have been. ordered for
the new Republican afternoon paper
in Topeka 1t will be called the Her
cid. 4
The executive committee of the
State Bankers association has decided
on May % and % as the dates for the
annual meeting of the association in
Lawrence.
| John s. Parks, who couldn't make a
success of farming. sold the Beloit
Call for $4,000, thus making it appar-
| ent that it is more profitable to Call
| than to raise.
An AtchiSon man carried the mes
sage to Garcia: Wichita man was
| the first to scale the walls of Pekin,
Stand up for Kansas
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
railway from Fort Scott south to
Washburn where the Joplin branch
joins the main line
broad scope that it really is law re-
quiring the registration of the voters
OF all the counties of the state. and
Tile attorney general decides that it
must be so construed.
Three new rural routes will be es-
tablished out of Newton on July l.
The department has approved the re-
port of the inspector and appointed
agents for the routes.
The legislature enacted a law last
winter designed in it's inception to
compel the registration of the voters
of the counties of Sumner and Mont
gomery, but its text gives 1T such
Parsons is the first municipality in
the state to take advantage of the law
recently passed by the legislature Civ
ing counties, townships and towns the
| right to dispose of stock in railroad
| corporations.
Kansas intends to keep pace with
the times by bringing her state build
fngs up to date. The state will spend
more money in improvements this
year than any year since its admission
INFO the Union.
For several years the Santa Fe's
daily train between Holiday and
Leavenworth was drawn by engine No.
10. The engine was sent to the shops
for repairs recently and it's number
was changed to O6.
AT Winfield the sheriff seized and
locked up large assortment of
whisky, beer and wine bottles. A few
days later he discovered that, instead
of tot
were all filled with water.
Benjamin Ferguson, living ten miles
| east of Dodge City, claims to be the
champion trapper of Western Kansas.
During the winter he has killed 200
raccoons. coyotes and badgers, most of
which he skinned and sold.
A man at Garden City who won a
$40 prize last fall for the largest
watermelon, with one that weighed
no pounds, has confided to a few of
his friends that he loaded it up with a
gallon or more of buckshot.
A G. Eyth of Enterprise has sold
his string of creameries at Enter
prise, Manchester, Solomon, Navarro,
Oak Hill, Shady Brook, Woodbine
and Sudyville to the Continental
Creamery company.
The new railroad board is threat
as soon as it is in working order.
1t has received letters from a dozen
or more points asking how to proceed
to get hearings on grievances. The
board has not yet adopted a method
of procedure.
Chanute man, writing of his rec
objections of the pioneer days. recalls
that away back in the COS in a
neghborhood south of Humboldt two
people wanted to get married, but
there were no preachers for miles
around. Finally one or the camp let
1. be known that ten years before he
had been justice up in Iowa and this
being considered good, he tied the
knot.
A man left his umbrella in the
stand at a Neodesha hotel recently
with card attached to it bearing
the following inscription: This UNI
brella belongs to man who can deal
a blow of ESQ pounds weight l shall
be back in ten minutes On return
ing to seek his property he found in
its place card thus inscribed: This
card was left by a man who can run
twelve miles an hour. / shall not be
back"
w. A Miller and Frank Lawrence
have pleaded guilty to a charge of
breaking the safe and stealing from
the postoffice at Altamont, Kan, on
the. night of April Z. They had pre-
viously been discharged on an fnfor-
nation charging them with entering
the postofiice at Seneca
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