Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-12
kaasas news notes.

Otto Mobile is resident of Arkansas
City.
Jerrysimpson draws pension of s1s
month.
Cadet A. F. Casard, captain of the
West Point foot ball team, is a Wichita
boy.
Morrill,, will open law office in Bos-
ton.
Ottawa already has commenced to
plan for its Chautauqua assembly of
1901
Miss Sarah Thrasher, graduate of
! the state university in the class of
1898, won the first prize from $500
contestants in the amateur photograph
lie contest in st. Louis
The State Bankers association will
probably have a strong lobby in Tope-
ka this winter to secure the passage
, of an act providing for the depositing
of state funds with the banks of the
state in general instead of the Topeka
banks alone The plan is to require the
banks to pay interest and indemnify
the state from loss by putting up gov
eminent or state bonds as security.
The Eureka Herald recites the case
of man there who has become his
own grandfather The man married
widow with pretty young daughter,
and when his father came to visit him
the father and daughter fell in love
and were married That made the
mans stepdaughter become his step
mother, and, of course, his own wife
became his grandmother. And, being
the husband of his grandmother, he
must be his own grandfather
After Rev. D. b. Shuey had finished
| distributing the cotton-batting dolls,
the popcorn, the skates and other gifts
upon the Christmas tree at Allen Cen
ter, he went out to drive home behind
the scrubby little pony which for years
had carried him about his circuit. And
| then he was astonished to find fine
young mare hitched to his buggy while
the scrubby little pony was tied be-
hind. The mare was a Christmas gift
from the people of the congregation
The big artificial lake, in Barton
county, between Great Bend and Hois-
| ington, is a reality at last. The water
was turned last week and the big
basin is now filling up. A Kansas City
syndicate headed by A. E. Stillwell,
took charge of The enterprise several
months ago and decided to push it.
The basin is eight miles long and three
miles wide, and when filled will be the
largest body of water in Kansas 1t
will be used to feed three big irrigation
| bitches and also for summer resort
Guesses were made in the state treas
urer's office the other day the rich
| est ten men in Kansas Otis L. Ather-
ton and Tom Kelley submitted this
list: John K. Mulvane, Topeka; Joab
Mulvane, Topeka, B. p. Waggener,
Atchison; David Hef1ebower, Miami;
John Seaton, Atchison; e. N. Morrill,,
Hiaw atha; John D. Robertson, Kansas
City; Guilford Dudley. Topeka; Calvin
Hood, Emporia, and J. d. Bowersock,
Lawrence. 1t was agreed that j. p
Pomeroy was the richest man in Kan
sas few years ago, but he is now
resident of Colorado.
The superintendent of the city
! schools at Eureka, Kan, was recently
acquitted of the charge of cruelty pun
ishing one of his pupils. In instruct
! ing the jury the court said in part:
"Our law confides to school masters
and teachers a discretionary power for
| the inf1icting of punishment upon their
/ pupils. A schoolmaster has lawful
| right to inf1ict corporal punishment
upon a pupil for a violation of the rules
of the school. The extent and severity
| of the punishment must of necessity
be, in large measure, left to the sound
discretion of the teacher, and if the
teacher acts in good faith and without
malice and only inf1icts such punish
ment as he believes to be reasonable
and necessary, he will not be criminally
| liable, even though the punishment
was more severe than in the judgment
- y. -,
The Topeka State Journal says: Kan
eas is a state of broken records. The
indomitable energy and business
sagacity of the people have surpassed
everything which comes, in the bust
/, ness or agricultural line, from the
East Kansas horses hold the worlds
records Kansas fruits distanced all
competitors at the Paris exposition.
ribbons away from national exhibits.
The Kansas hog grunts with satisfac-
i ton as the prize-winning tag is fast
ened to his ear. Kansas wheat stands
at the top of the worlds market, both
in demand and price
| The enrolment of school children in
Kansas this year is 396, $50, or 1 in every
81 of the population Tn is far above
4 the average of the other states. Kan
sas leads all the states of the union in
the proportion to which it gives its
children a common school education
It is related that Elgin, in Chautau-
qua county, a town of about 900 peo-
pie, is the largest cattle shipping point