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


Congressman Cochran of St. Joseph
and Chief of Police Seip of Atchison
used to stick type side by side, years
ago, on the Atchison Champion
Several Atchisou merchants are talk
ing up scheme to have a ball and
drawing to raise money as a starter
for a fund to develop the Atchison coal
find.
The mean man of Downs scored the
other day by Guaranteeing an icehouse.
damaging the building to the amount
of about $50.
An Atchison man has printed the
following on his wife's bread box:
IF there should be another flood,
for refuge hither fly. Though all the
world should be submerged, this bread
would still be dry"
Captain Clad Hamilton, of Topeka,
and late of the Twentieth Kansas, was
married last week at Lansing, Mich,
to Miss Helen Wells. Miss Wells is a
cousin of Mrs. j. w. Gleed, of Topeka.
w. E. Foraker, who is Santa Fe
brakeman out of Emporia, is cousin
of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, and Joe
Mckinley, who serves night yard
master in the same town, is cousin of
the president.
| Old Mr.. Outhwaite, of Ell Dorado, is
an uncle of ex-Congressman Outh-
waite, of Ohio, who has generously
bought the old man a house and sup
piled him with a monthly allowance.
J. T. Price. who died recently at Mil
ford, had lived there since Geary coun-
ty-then Pawnee county = extended
from the Blue river to the Rocky noun
tains nearly fifty years ago.
Suit has been commenced in the
United States circuit court against the
: city of Salina, Kansas, for non-pay-
ment of interest on S11, 900 city bonds
and for non-payment of the principal
on $4,000 city bonds past due.
The officers of the state temperance
union claim to have received reports
from eightean counties where condi-
tons have changed, ten have improved,
three are worse, and five the same.
Large deposits of cement are being
developed by the Rock Island at Bala
station near the Clay-Riley county line.
A mill employing twenty men has been
started. The supply is almost mex
haustible.
Representative John F. Jones of
IdEOVc county, NALL, Introduced d Olll
in the house providing that any man
found guilty of the crime for which
the negro, Alexander, was lynched at
Leavenworth shall be punished by
hanging by the neck till dead. The
penalty as fixed by the present law is
from five to twenty-one years in the
penitentiary.
Superintendent PEARS of Haskell In
int &c in fnr
passage of bill for appropriations for
Haskell The total amount asked is
s137, 200, and is divided as follows: $105,-
BOO for supplies, transportation of stu
dents, general expenses and necessary
improvements; $25, 900 for domestic
build ng; S. for employees cottages.
Fred Alexander, the negro burned at
The stake at Leavenworth was a vet
cram of the Spanish-American war.
He enlisted in Troop f, Ninth (negro)
cavalry, at Fort Leavenworth, May "a,
1895, and accompanied his regiment to
Tampa, Fla, where he remained from
June 80 to August g. On the latter
date he accompanied his troop to Mon
tauk Point, N. Y. He was honorably
discharged January 81, 1899.
Kansas, January 1, 1901: Province
of Spain, a desert, habitat of wild
beasts, hunting ground of savages.
Kansas, January L. 1901; Star of first
magnitude in the galaxy of states of
| the greatest government on earth;
land flowing with milk and honey;
richest pasturage in the world for
herds and focks; home of a people
whose rank in education is first in the
union. Magical, the work century
has wrought. Creation from its gray
dawn never witnessed so wonderful an
evolution--Ex.
Bion Hutchins, one of the few re-
naming ssold time" Kansas newspaper
men of the school of Prouty, Prentis
| and Martin, has bought the Chickasaw
Enterprise, in the Indian territory.
/ Mr. Glad lives in Wallace county,
Grumbling in Harvey county
Kansas and Alaska are the only two
places in the United States where
there is no supervision of medical
practitioners In Kansas any one who
will may practice and the state will
not interfere. The result is quackery.
Under the new supreme court law
the court is divided into two divisions
and in each the judge who has been
| the longest on the bench is made chief
Justice THUS Mr. Doster viii be chief
Justice of one division and Mr.. John
| ston of the other
James Oliver of Burlngame, who
wears ago was jay Gou1d's school
/ teacher in the interior of New York,
| received a check for 500 from Helen