Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
Kansas Notes


The old idea that sheriff can do no
wrong has been bumped hard recently
At Burlington the janitor of the court
house had the sheriff arrested for walk
ing on the grass and he was fined s..
Coffeyville has a contract to supply
10 million brick for the Port Arthur
oil refineries. The freight charges
alone on the contract will be $50, 600. 2
The highest paid public servant in
Neodesha is the water and gas in
spector and collector" at $50 month.
The day marshal and street commits
Toner" is paid $40.
A strange kink in the Law was made
evident by a trial in Coffeyville last
week. A man was arrested for Jump
ing his board bill. He was set free
by the district judge because the law
plainly applies only to day boarders."
and the man had been boarding by the
week
Travelling 1sbooze wagons" which
make the prohibitory law look like a
whole alphabet of dead letters, have
made their appearance in Allen county.
They do not stay in one place long
enough for the machinery of the law
A good joke on the people of Bur-
Iington is told by one of the papers.
The regular train on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas passes through Bur-
lington every morning at $50 and the
people have grown into the habit of
getting up at the sound of the whistle.
A few mornings ago an extra passed
through at $50 and the entire popula-
hon
The juvenile volcano which appear
ed in Brown county a few weeks ago
is quiet and inoffensive now, but the
farmers intend to take no chances.
They will plug it up the moment it
shows any hostile tendency.
The Mexican Central railway has re
elected A. A. Robinson of Topeka to
be president of the system.
James F. Legate has been stricken
again. A few months ago he became
partially blind. Now a stroke of paral-
ysis has deprived him of the power of
| speech.
An old story has been revived about
| the time John Guthrie, now postmaster
at Topeka, delivered the Fourth of
| July Grafton to the patients at the
| asylum for the insane. His subject
was "the Blessings of Liberty" In
| the midst of his speech he was inter
| rupted by a man in the audience who
| calculated: "Your speech may be all
right; but 1 say dang the liberty that
keeps man locked up all the time"
| A strange thing happened in Wash
ington last week. The editor of the
Republican wrote a mean piece, the
kind that is called "scathing," about
Editor veatch of the Post-Register
The Republicans engine broke down
and Veatch allowed the Republican to
Run off its edition with his press and
| engine.
Major Hudson of Topeka offers to
sell his shale land in Trego county foI
| 81 an acre. Here is a. chance to make
a clear profit of 81, 999 1896 an acre on
| the investment.
/ An Emporia man has bought his first
| full dress suit, and lot of his friends
| are worrying lest he will wear it in the
daytime.
| William Allen White writes tina!
when he returns home he is going to
devote all of his energies to getting
out good paper in Emporia and let
| the "side issues go.
At last. reports Prof. Haworth and
Prof. Franklin of the University OF
Kansas, who said they would resign
| if gold in paying quantities was pro
duced from Trego county shale, were
| still drawing their salaries.
Abilene feels that it has now be
come truly metropolitan. An "alley
rat frisked a stranger in town of $2s
a few evenings ago.
Five good citizens of Glen Elder are
putting in a system of water works fol
their own use. A ten-foot well has
been sunk, a gasloine engine bough1
and a 35O-barre1 tank viii supply the
homes through pipes
| Corn prospects in Kansas are Sc
bright that Atchison will invite Presi
dent Roosevelt to attend the Corn Car
nivaI next fall.
A day of prayer for rain was Sc
apart in Ashland last week, but wher
the day arrived the service was post
po4ed on account of the wetness.
Some complaint is being made be
cause there was nothing free but ic'
water at the G. A. R. encampment il
Fort Scott
One business firm in Howard &C
cording to a local paper, is so sting,
that it refuses to rent a box at tn,
J postoffice. In order to save twenty
cents every three months this firm re
ceiyes all it's mail through the genera
delivery, and one of the proprietors