Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-02-09
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Howard is town without negro
resident
The payroll of the Rock Island il
$14, 900 monthly at Goodland-
Musty corn is responsible for the
death of several Selden horses
Mrs Adams of Perry owes her own
set of furs to her poultry. which laid
1876 dozen eggs last year.
Representative Hayden of Nemana
county is the house kid" this year.
His age is % years.
There are sos, s54 children of school
age in the state, while the number en-
rolled in school is but $50, 6s2. and
Superintendent Frank Nelson wants
compulsory education bill
The first step to abolish the state
printer was taken in bill introduced
making such an intention the subject
of a constitutional amendment, the
people not to vote on it, howeve be-
fore 1902.
The anti-cigarette bill has been in
troduced i n the house by Representa-
tive Mead This bill comes up regular
ly every session and just as regularly
is defeated.
mere Is an lInpOrLdnb Gnln& TO re-
member: Kansas has more than sc, OOO,-
600 acres of land, practically all arabic
and fertile-a country 81 per cent wider
in extent than England, two and one
half times greater than Ireland, nearly
three times larger than Scotland, ten
times greater in area than Wales, and
in the most favored zone in the world.
David g. Fairchild, formerly of Man
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State Agricultural college, lately made
a trip around the world for the botany
division of the national department of
agriculture. He was accompanied by
a wealthy Chicago man named Barbour
Lathrop, who paid all the bills and
gave his services to the department..
Judge West has drawn for the gov
ernor a bill to fix tuition fee for the
several higher state educational insti-
buttons, $40 from resident pupils and
S25 for non-residents. It is estimated
that the charge will raise $500, 900 a
year. It is new departure in Kansas,
where, for forty years, it has been the
boast that education shall be free, and
the bill will not go through the Iegis-
1ature without a fight.
party of hunters out in Pratt coun-
called at the farm house nearby and
asked the Irishman who came out if he
had a monlzey-wrench. "Have I
monkey-ranch?" he said. Have 1?
Well 1 have a COW ranch, and me
brither, six miles down the road, has
sheep ranch, but don't believe there
is any man in this country DANCED fool
enough to have monkey ranch"
Miss Pauline Lewelling. second eld-
est daughter of the late Governor Lew
cling, was hazed by women members
of the Alpha Theta Mu society of the
Wichita high school. The letters "a.
Z. NJ" were burned across her fore
head with nitrate of silver, and she
says that doctors informed her that the
scars cannot be removed The letters
are in Greek. Miss Lewelling refused
to disclose any of the members who
took part and would not even tell when
or where it happened.
Mrs Elizabeth A. johnson of White
Rock is at the head of the movement to
establish a state park on the site of
Pixies Pawnee Indian village in Repub-
lie county. A bill for this purpose now
is in the hands of the senate and house
ways and means committee, and favor
able reports are expected The Pawnee
village is located on the bank of the
Republic river, near the town of White
Rock. 1t was here that Captain Pike
pulled down the Spanish flag and raised
the stars and stripes for the first time
on Kansas soil 1T seems to me a piece
of vandalism to allow this historic spot
to be destroyed or sold to private indi-
viduals,'' said Mrs. johnson, flor be-
side the value which association with
the early events of the country gives it,
the site is beautiful one-the grounds
ideal for a park. :"
The Rev w. T. Williams has re-
signed the pastorate of his church at
Gaylord and has gone to Chicago to
work as a baggageman in depot
Thomas E Will, formerly president
of the State Agricultural college, is
now located at Trenton, Mo-, as gen.
eral secretary of the American Oxford
movement
The Cove County Republican-Ga Gazette
and Leader has the longest name of
any paper in Kansas.
A. C. Babize, who lately retired from
the Topeka Capital, is negotiating for
the purchase of the Salina Republican.
At the spring election Wichita will
vote on proposition for municipal
ownership of waterworks-
There are several towns in Kansas
that will not submit to a negro citizen
Nortonville is one of them
Judge w B. Gilbert, of Atchison,
has been appointed inspector of the ru-
raj free delivery routes, upon the rec