Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-25
Esnsas News notes.

in Chanute.
Kansas fields of natural gas and oil
rival the world
Topeka's new auditorium now has a
new $500 pipe organ.
Kansas produces one-fourth of the
zinc produced in the world.
Galena's new chief of police is big
enough to do his duty well.
Kansas salt mines are richer than
those of New York and Michigan.
The teachers pay roll in Topeka is
a little more than $4,000 month.
Seventy per cent of Kansas farms
are owned by those who cultivate
them.
Leavenworth has the largest coal
company in Kansas. Its capital is
81, ZOO, 900.
Pratt has grown so weary of big
loaflng tramps that a rock pile will
be started.
Gas has been struck on the grounds
of the state asylum for the insane at
Osawatomie.
Strong City's new auditorium was
built on the plan of Kansas City's
Convention hall.
Concordia will add several new vol
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a Maypole dance
The only special train loaded ex-
clusively with eggs, ever shipped to
California, started from Kansas.
Since last fall more than a score of
farms have been sold in Dickinson
county for $4,000 and upward.
A war is on among the hackmen of
Cherryvale and passengers as result
are riding free to and from the trains.
A Belleville boy has located a claim
in Washington which is said to be as
rich in gold as the tabled mines of
Ophir.
Nine oranges have blossomed,
ripened and been eaten this year from
a little tree owned by an Atchison
woman.
The corner stone of the new $40. 900
Clay county court house at Clay Cen
er was laid with impressive cere-
monies.
Nearly SIS 900 has been expended
| within the last year on fruit trees for
the different charitable institutions of
the state.
An Atchison firm recently sold &c.
900 bushels of corn at a profit of Is
| per cent which had been stored for
| twenty years.
Western Kansas lands are again in
demand. Council Bluffs parties have
| just made a purchase of 2,4OO acres in
| Sherman county.
| One circus secured the services of
| Kansas press agent this season, and
| he has already invented the word
Observation-Disclosures
| The women of the M. e. church at
| Usage City hire themselves out to do
sewing and the proceeds go towards
| paying the pastors salary
Next week the thirty-sixth annual
| convention of the State Sunday School
! association will be held in Topeka
The session will last four days.
| Ninety coyotes have been slain in
| Montgomery county the past month
| but several wolves remain to snap and
Snarl at the wheels of progress
| The Ward law, passed at the last
| session of the legislature, abolishes
! he word asylum" in connection with
the state charitable institutions. 1t
| refers to them as hospitals" or
schools" as the case may be-
After search of five years re1a-
| tive of John J. Meyers, an eccentric
citizen of Uniontown, who died in the
| Osawatomie asylum. leaving an estate
and not known relative, has been
| found in the person of Mrs. Anna Lam
1
| A ticket agent in Leavenworth was
startled the other day when a pretty
young woman inquired through the
| window: How much is it to Love-"
| When he recovered he replied: ITO
Love one way, $345; to love both
| ways S." Love is a flag station over
| in Missouri.
| One of the oldest landmarks in Kan
sas is being partially destroyed at the
| little hamlet of Kennekuk, two miles
southeast of Horton. The old Bald
win hotel building is being changed
from two to a one story building.
This hotel has stood the wintry
blasts and summer rains for fifty-five
years. The lumber used in its con-
struction was hauled from St Joseph
| with oxen, and at the time it was
| built it was considered a very eIabor-
ate structure for this then wild and
desolate country At that time there
was not another town nearer than
St Joseph, and even that place was
then only small trading post.
Among the guests whom it entertained
in the early days were Abraham Lin
coin and Mark Twain
| Barton county has the cash lying
| idle and tried last week to pay of an
outstanding bond issue of $50, 600, but
the creditors refused to accept the
money until it is due
| When certain Atchison woman
wants to punish her little boy severely
she makes him put on his Sunday
clothes When she wants to reward