Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Kansas News Rotes.

Eureka lost 102 people in the census
mix-up-
Homer Foltz will start newspaper
at Natoma-
A Cimarron church is advertised for
sale ..cheap for cash."
The Burlington railroad may develop
the Atchison coal mine
The Greensburg Signal is opposed to
tobacco chewing in church.
Cove county and all it's cities and
townships are out of debt
Mrs. E. E. Sapp is the manager of
ths new theater at Galena.
Columbus has been asked to put up
bonus for canning factory.
Miss Helen Gould has furnished two
rooms in the Winfield hospital
Mcpherson county has thirty-two
students in the state agricultural CO.,
lege.
Hutchinson stands favorable show
getting postoffice building costing
500, 600.
Burt Trreblood, an Atchison man, is
getting up a directory for the city of
Honolulu.
Congressman w. ) Bailey of Kansas
will go to Porto Rico during the holt
day recess.
William C. Beebe, aged rs, and Mrs
Charity Blazer. aged 70, were married
at COTS last week.
A good many horses are dying in the
White Cloud neighborhood through
eating wormy corn
A
gunner on the Yorktown, now cruising
in Chinese waters.
The widow of Lieutenant Michael
O'Brien of the Fourth United States
infantry is to have pension of $40
month. She lives in Topeka.
According to report made by Thos.
s. Morrison of the surveyor generals
Office, in 1874, the center of the state
of Kansas is in Rice county; to be ex-
plicit, the corner of sections 5, 6, 7 and
8, township IS, south, range west
Johnny Reiff, the Wichita jockey in
England, makes SlOo, 900 a year and he
is only Il years old. By the time he
is 25, at that rate, he can buy out
Tammany and own better string of
horses than Croker himself.
A plan has been put on foot among
Wichita business men whereby fund
is to be secured for splendid monu-
ment to be placed at the grave of Gov
ernor Lewelling, who is buried in
Maple Grove cemetery.
As far as the Kansas papers have
been able to learn there is but one per-
son in Kansas who has made any
money out of Belgian hares. The
claim has been made that a woman
whose home is in Butler has managed
to come out on the comfortable side of
the ledger
the office of county superintendent in
Kansas last November-one-fourth of
the entire list. While women have
I.eld this Office for several years, the
number never before exceeded fifteen.
Following are the names of the newly
elected women superintendent, with
their counties: Hattie Ollnstead, Allen;
Minnie ". White, Chautauqua; Ella
Mitchell, Clark; Bertha Marlatt, Cloud;
Ella McCune, Comanche; Julia Nellie
Brollier, Grant; Mrs. E. ". Miller,
Gray; Minnie Upper, Greeley; Mar
garet McDermott, Hodgeman; Eta
Tedford, Kearney; Kate Southwick,
Labette; Mary McCreary, Lyon; Maggie
Martin. Meade; Agnes J. Blair, Ness;
Mary H. Kirby, Usage; Helen E.
Eacker, Ottawa; Grace e. Norton,
Pawnee; Mabel Marlin, Saline; Eta
Henline, Seward; Emma Wilson, STAN
ton; Hattie Kerby, Trego; Maggie
Town, Wallace; Daisy Dirnfield,
Wichita.
The latest published report of the
doings and standing of the state and
private banks of Kansas discloses the
fact that these banks are more farmers
against 5000 merchant depositors,
there SO ,992 farmer and stockmen de-
positors in these banks Farmers and
stockmen have on deposit SIT. s93. 1913,
Or 565z per cent of the entire deposits.
Lew Davis of Plum township, Phil
lips county. won So, 500 on the election
The census shows that there are s97
more women than men in Fort Scott
It is reported that Frank Rookie
Teller, of Cleveland, o., is negotiating
for the purchase of lao, 900 acres of land
in Kiowa and Clark counties, with a
view of stocking it with horses and
high grade cattle, sheep and -z-s, es-
pecially horses, for which he sees a
profitable future
The Stubbs> Contracting company of
Lawrence has been awarded the con-
tract for grading about fifty miles of
Rock Islands new line between Lib
eral, Kan. and Ell Paso, Tex, aggre-