Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-02

Cherryyale'S Oldest citizen ha0
known 104 birthdays
Walnut logs by the carload are being
shipped from Doniphan county.
A yearlins steer two years old" b
advertised for sale in Washington
A den of wild cats near st. Francis
makes curfew law unnecessary.
Forty-four years ago last week the
cities of Topeka, Atchison and Man
haitian were Incorporated
Sterling is to have a baby show II
three brave enough men in town can
be found to act as judges.
Wellington railroad men complain
that they are unable to find their way
uptown along the unlighted streets
Brigadier General James F. Bell was
adjutant at Fort Riley while the
Seventh cavalry was stationed there
A department for the manufacture
Of all kinds of tinware has been added
to the Santa Fe shops in Topeka.
For the first time in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant Cottonwood Falls
and Strong City are dry, absolutely
dry.
A son of w A. Johnston of the Su-
preme court, who is a soldier in the
Philippines, has been granted a sick
leave.
Leavenworth's Jail is so crowded
tHdC ordinary OTunkS are given lee
ture by the police judge and dis
missed.
The war among the flour merchants
of Sumner county has forced the best
brands down to 70 cents a sack at
South Haven.
Garden City is inviting trouble by
announcing the receipt of recent
shipment of 191 cases of beer and a
few casks of whisky.
Branch will be extended to Denver
that it wants to be the first division
point west Of Downs.
A trap was set for a hawk at Alton
the other night, and a bald eagle,
measuring eight feet from tip to tip of
its wings was caught.
w. L. Brown of Kingman, who quit
the newspaper business to become a
boomer, is now drumming up an ex-
cursion to the Southwest
A long procession of white covered
prairie schooners is daily passing
through Western Kansas headed for
the Indian land opening.
w. NJ. Rinehart formerly a member
of the house from Wabaunsee county,
will move to Indian territory and en-
gage in the cattle business.
The 292 Touring mills in Kansas
claim they employ more men and have
a larger capital than any other indus
try in the state excepting the rail-
roads.
Kansas has been under several codes
Of law. First, the French; then the
Spanish; then the French again over
part of it; afterward the Mexican over
a part of it; after that, Texas over a
part of it.
At the biennial camp Modern Wood
men of America, which was held at
Tsol,s - Loot ID to 81
Beloit, was elected state consul and DR..
B. E. Jones, of Kansas City, was re-
elected state medical examiner.
Sixty years ago, at Spring Creek,
Pa, Mr.. and Mrs. J. P Deming were
married and went honeymooning in
sleigh. At Emporta last week the
good couple celebrated the anniversary
honeymooning in a sleigh
After March Congressman A. M
Jackson. Charles F. Scott, J. d. Bower
sock, w. A. Calderhead and w. A.
Reeder, will each control the appoint
ment of a cadet to the naval academy
at Annapolis. There is said to be a
lively skirmfsh for places.
The Kansas papers are full of wheat
news. The condition of the wheat just
before the snow was better than that
reported year ago and the heavy
snow put it in shape to hold its own
curing the winter. An increased y1e1Q
over that of 1900 is expected.
The old Fort Hayes reservation,
abandoned by the government and
transferred to the state, contains 1900
acres, two-thirds of which is said to be
the best wheat land in Kansas. The
balance is good grazing land, fringed
with timber. There are thirty build
ings on the tract.
General Wilder Metcalf of Law
renee, who commanded the Twentieth
Kansas regiment, has been appointed
an aide-de-camp in the Presidents in
augura1 parade.
Senator Harris wires Mayor Nicely of
appropriation bills carry for construc-
ton, exclusive of maintenance, $780,
900 for the Federal penitentiary, $780,
900 for continuing contracts at the
post and 1853, 900 for the soldiers
home, including the hospital
1t is asserted on good authority that
Leavenworth will be the mastering out
point of two of the volunteer regi-
ments soon to come from the Philip
pines to the United States. 1t is said
that the QuartermaSter at the post has
received orders to make preparations
for their reception and to have rations
ready.
W. Emerson, a farmer living at
Sedgwick City, twenty-five miles north
of Wichita, has received an anonymous
letter demanding that he give the
writer $500. In the event of his re-
fusal, his home, the letter said, would
be blown up with dynamite The
writer directed that the money be
placed in an envelope and pinned to a
bridge that crosses the Arkansas river.