Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-19
Kansas News Notes.

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Kansas will be 40 years old January
90.
The Rev. Holler is . preach er in
Hanover.
Sweet L. Apple is the probate Judge
of Ottawa county
w. Y. Morgan will be reelected
state printer by acclamation-
Greelyis the Eden of Kansas. There
hasn't been a lawsuit in the county for
year.
During December more than 500, 600
| in life insurance was written by agents
in Ottawa
The Kiowa Signal offers prizes to it's
| country correspondents for the best
news items.
The Howard Courant says that there
has not been a joint in that pla ce for
| 20 years
A Coffeyville man received Christ
| mas present of sawfish bill measur-
ing 35 inches.
The Kansas wheat crop of 1900 ex-
ceeded by %. 900. 900 bushels the entire
wheat crop of the United Kingdom
w. H Morgan has published the
Peabody Gazette for twenty years and
has never been sued for libel nor cow
| hided by an angry subscriber.
| 1t is said that Congressman Ridgley
will, upon the expiration of his term
March 4, leave Kansas for Alaska,
where he will engage in the mining
industry. Mr.. Ridgley has owned in
J terests there for the past few years.
w. Fl. Sears, commander of the state
militia during the legislative war of
1873. and for four years private secre-
| tary to Senator Harris, is now the pri-
vate secretary of Clara Barton, presi-
dent of the Red Cross society
w. E. Duke, a Hutchinson boy who
| served in the PHILIPPINES with the
Fourth cavalry, has been granted a
| pension of $40 a month for half disabil-
ity acquired through pulmonary
troubles.
Eugene Ware wrote the first poem of
the new century. He printed it on his
| New Years calling card. Here it is:
| A ma nwho hunting for fun
Offered 60 cents for pun,
Then a man from Topeka
He shouted Eureka
And said, nineteen hundred-and won"
Rothschild, of Leavenworth, claims
! to own the Oldest store in Kansas. He
established it in Leavenworth in the
! spring of 1856 and it has been in opera
| ton ever since.
Bismarck Grove, east of North Law
renee, has been converted into a whole
sale horse market, and the proprietors
a few days ago received a cable order
| to rush 500 horses to South Africa for
the British cavalry.
The old soldiers of the state have
| lost out in their plan to have the po
sition of pension commissioner created
to look after pension matters of Kan
sas soldiers Governor Stanley will
not recommend such a measure to the
Legislature
Alton is said to be one of the mos
law-abiding towns in Kansas. The
town Jail has never had an occupant,
and the police judge had only two
cases in four months. In the days
when Alton was Bull City" the town
Jail never was empty, and the police
judge had to work overtime.
Louis Ate, well to do citizen OF
Wellington attempted suicide at Silver
Cliff, Col, just fifteen minutes before
he was to have been married to Miss
Nora Stewart, a pretty young woman
whom he had been engaged to before
she left Wellington. He gashed his
a ms and wrists with a knife and then
drank solution of earbolic acid
Secretary George W. Martin, of the
1 State Horticultural society has appeal
ed to the members of the Kansas Edi-
torial assoc alton to contribute to
fund to provide a bronze tablet in mem
ory of f. G. Adams so long the secre-
tary of the State Horticultural society.
The tablet is to be put the walls of
| the rooms of the society.
The Kansas court of appeals will
die on January IA. At that time the
seven members. The appellate court
| Judges have turned over all their
| D -operty to the secretary of state.
AL the cases remaining on their dock
cts will be certified up to the Supreme
court.
| In the annual contest in debate and
elocution at the State Normal, Empo-
ria, Albert Milliken won first prize in
debate and c. NJ McConkey second
prize. The judges on debate were C.
S. Gleed, Prof. E. NJ. Hopkins and State
| Superintendent Nelson.
There were 1.o20 convicts in the
Kansas penitentiary January 1. OF
this number tyventy-three were women.
Il Geary county sent the largest dele
CATION to the state teachers conven-