Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08

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wamego- has $4,000 waterworks
plant.
Eureka has organized a town inn
provement club.
The handsomest woman in the In
dian territory is a Kansas girl
A family of Japs were released from
Atchison's pesthouse the other day
Sixty thousand war veterans in Kan
sas will meet in Junction City June g.
Burglars visited PARSONS lew days
ago and secured $500 from a drug
store.
pencil factory will be established
at Augusta with a capacity of $4,000
pencils daily
The postoffice at Kent. Reno
county, has been discontinued; mail
to Hutchinson.
A Wichita woman secured d.
vorce in the courts in exactly fifteen
minutes after filing suit
Is Colonel Jeltz of Topeka has been in
vited to deliver one of the Fourth Of
July orations in Atchison.
For fourteen years without an ao-
sence Belmont man has acted as
superintendent of a Sunday school.
Emporia is full of push and energy.
More buildings are being erected there
now ludn ever DclOTc III It's
A spinning wheel used by grand
old dame in Ireland 200 years ago is
now owned by Clay Center woman.
Fourteen wild squirrels have taken
up their residence in the city park at
Paola and are rapidly becoming civil
lied.
George B. Kenyon of Leavenworth.
contrary to all established custom in
the comic papers, married his mother
in-law.
Garden City will have new school
house to replace the one burned. It
will be one of the finest in Western
Kansas.
The trial of Jessie Morrison is the
first on the docket of the term of
court in Eldorado, which commences
on June IL.
Solitary Johnson, who spent eight
cen years in the Missouri peniten-
tiary, is lecturing in Topeka, attired
in prison garb.
There is no Sunday school at Cave
Spring, so the boys go fishing on that
day or indulge in seven-up to while
away the dull hours.
A wild Texas steer charging down
the streets of Alma divided the street
loafers equally between cyclone cell
lars and the tree tops.
Samuel O'Hara, the Allen county
boy who fought in the Twentieth
Kansas regiment, has been granted
pension of $14 a month.
The recent rains have proven decid-
eddy beneficial to Usage county, and
the farmers of that county will be
there when harvest time arrives.
Charles H. Sternberg, a well known
geoIoGist of Lawrence, sold two specf-
nj fossils obtained in fprr
Kansas for the New York museum.
George Washington has been grant
ed a divorce from his wife, Jennie, at
Independence. Thomas Jefferson is
suing for divorce in Crawford county,
Fourteen old timers in Canton
township, Mcpherson county, have a
combined age of LII years. In row
their ages would extend back to the
Crusades.
A Kansas young woman, Miss Nellie
Hook, who used to play "postofice"
in Sabetha, is getting $500 a month for
teaching fiddling in an Atlanta, Ga.
conservatory.
Miss Gertie Roger was buried at
Nortonville in her bridal dress. In
less than month she would have
been married to a we'll known young
man of Topeka.
Next year railroad trainmen can
vote anywhere in Kansas they hap
pen to be on election day. Registra-
ton can be made by sending an affi-.
davit to the city clerk.
The big gas well which was struck
near Caney recently, and which could
not be controlled, has finally been
capped, and the well is under con-
troll. The gas shows a volume OF
100000 cubic feet. and it is said to
equal any gas well in the Kansas
belt
enough to don a shirt waist and ap-
pear on the streets one day last week
stood the guying until noon. when he
switched back into the kind mother
used to make.
T. S. Williams. employment agent
for the city of Topeka, has received 4
communication from State Employ
ment Agent T. B. Gerow, instructing
him to ascertain how many men in
Shawnee county are DESTROYS of obtain
ing work in the wheat fields of Kansas
during harvest time. Mr. Williams
has set about procuring this informa-
ton. Mr.. Gerow's letter states that
Governor Stanley is very anxious TIL
so far as possible. this work be gjsz1
to residents of the state
The wheat louise scare having be-
disposed of, the elephant bug nor
threatens to create panic among the
near Winfield have been destroyed by