Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-15
Kansas Notes


The kindly disposed -highwayman,
who relieves" people of their money. |
is operating in Topeka
A Coffeyville woman represents. |
among other allegations in her petit
ton for a divorce. that she was not le-
gally married. Thus is the legal prob
lem raised. can a marriage be an
nulled which never happened?
A devout pastor in Kirwin was deep
ly grieved because some in the con-
gregation snickered when he an
nounced the hymn And Still There's
More to Follow" after administering
the ordinance of infant baptism upon
a large class
A new graft in Northern Kansas:
Men call on the afrmer and offer SIS
for the privilege of hunting on his
farm. and asks for a receipt for the
So. which afterwards turns up at the
bank in the form of an iron-clad prom
issory for $500.
Last summer Topeka had no ice
competition; this year there will be six
| companies in the field.
If Kansas ever does undertake the
culture of sugar beets extensively the
| world may look for Kansas to beet the
band
the temptation when Miss Opal,
young woman in Smith county, tried
to encourage a eluctant fire with kero-
gene.
| The Concordia Empire insists it Is
unfair that the man who shoveled the
! snow from the walks, abutting his
| property. and the man who neglected
to do SO should meet on an equal foot
ing.
| George Cheuteau, mail carrier, liv-
ing at GIG South Emporia avenue,
, Wichita, shot his stepson, Albert Cor
| bett. last week because he said, he
discovered that the latter had made
an assault on Chouteau's 12-year-old
daughter. He shot at the young man.
wounding him in the hand. Both men
were arrested and taken to the city
Jail, but Chouteau was later released.
ewing to the serious illness Of Mrs.
Chouteau.
J. A. Briggs, a well-to-do and highly
respected farmer. living three miles
northwest of Columbus, was either
accidently killed by the discharge of
a shotgun committed suicide, last
week He was in the barn and had
either taken the gun with him expect
ing to go hunting or with suicidal in
tent. The upper half of his head was
Blown Off He was prosperous and it
seems no reason exists for suicide.
piece of Battenberg lace is on dis
play in Salina, made by J6-year-old
4 town boy. His parents should exercise
| great diligence not to let any of the
other boys get q him
The editor of the Mankato Advo-
: cate says ne is willing to bet his last
u pair OF suspenders Oh a good corn CROP
| +I,ie fr-r he
| expects to lose the suspenders any
how.
The Dobbs-New case from Green
wood county has reached the United
/ States Supreme cout. The DobbsNew
case is the successor and heir OF the
| hiIlmon case.
The meanest man in Kansas has
been located in Sumner county. He
j, held up and robbed a man both OF
whose arms had been amputated.
Il A refined young lady worth $780,
OO0'' who lives in Toronto. Canada. is
advertising in the Leavenworth papers
in the hope of finding some one who
will love her.
A man in Fort Scott picked up q
half OF a S. bill which had been tori
u | IN two. 1t is surmised that somebod,
has been on a tear tH
L
q mountain range fifty miles south O
Topeka. must have had a very exag
gerated idea of the Flint Hills.
Captain G. NJ. Lee of Arkansas City
/. died at his residence 7O9 North Ninti
{ street, last week, aged ca years.
= Grant Hornaday of Fort Scott whit
e owns a national bank. the street rail
i way, a newspaper and nearly every
thing else not on the caletaoinhrd
s landers. began work sixteen years Rg'
s as a collector for the bank of which
e he is now president. and his salAr.
was SIS month.
). An lola man recently deyoured sever
: dozen eggs at a single sitting. thu
: making the extravaganza of e $2-a
II plate banquet look positive economy.
d John T. Stewart of Wellington own
e SIC quarter sections of land. 1t figure
r us to LA square miles. or nearly 100.
a 600 acres-ae pretty good farn1-in tn
d richest portion of Kansas.
II a little tot in Leavenworth describe
e skeleton as "a man who has his in
sides outside, and his outsides off,
h Kansas is familiar with the specie
lobo and hobo. but the .-Zobo band.
IS which has been organized in Salem
a burg is something new . H-
= In Onaga. efforts to pin dokey
h tail at the right spot on the=waa. Will
|. blindfolded is regarded as the heigh
e of social gayety- e,ri.Astfsts
There is a quill club among thos