Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-24
Kansas Notes

AN ambition to marry a rich widow |
is usally accepted as evidence of wis
dom, but a man in Fort Scott was de- |
clared insane for it.
C. K. Prentice has been elected city |
marshal of Lawrence for the thirty
ninth consecutive year. He is getting
ready to celebrate his golden wedding
to the job.
The sunshine which the Mercantile
club of Kansas CITY, Kas., is scattering
throughout Kansas, is considerably
more welcome this week than it would
hive been before the rain.
If all the whiskey bottles which are
shipped into Burton each year were
gathered up and worked over into plate
glass two inches thick they would be
sufficient, according to a local author
ity, to pave the city.
The text book law of 1897, under
which the text book commission is
letting contracts, requires that all
meetings shall be secret.
William Allen White writes back
from California that the autor of .'Cur-
few Shall Not Ring Tonight used to
live in Kansas. She is Rose Hartwick
Thorpe, and she called on him out
there. In 1860, when she was IL years
old, she lived in Wilmington, Wabaun-
see county.
Jim Challis, Sheffield ingalls, and
Bill Guthrie appeared on the princi-
| pal business center in Atchison few
nights ago as patent medicine fakirs,
says the Globe. some time ago the
| Globe sued a patent medicine concern
and got lot of medicine which it
could not sell. The three took this
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| every Elk ticket, and did a rousing
business.
| The annual meeting of the Missouri
Bar association at Columbia, May 80
and 81, will not have anything to do
river or with beautiful mahogany bars
of Boone county.
| Cherryvale is entitled to be classed
with Neodesha and Chanute, the two
| Southeastern Kansas towns that are
up and booming.
| Trego county sha1e contains not only
gold. according to Prof. Fahrig, but
also traces of coal, silver, cement and
| other common materials.
cheerful youth in Coeffyville drop
ped lighted cigar stub in the bottom
of his carriage and it set fire to a silk
shirt that represented more than his
weeks salary, and wasn't insured.
The gray-haired prevaricator who
confesses he helped to STAY Kate Ben
der and the others of the GENDER fam
lily turned up in Pittsburg few nights
ago and related the story to a reporter
between cups.
Last month creamery near Abil-
enc bought $4,000 worth of milk. 1t
employs" $4,000 cows.
4 The police judge in Beloit is glad
he is on salary. During the month
of April not a case was tried before
him.
A lot of girls and no boys compose
the elias of 'O2 in Chetopa.
Three retiring members of the city
council c, Clay Center '.blew in their
entire years salaries having a time
Tuesday night. The Office pays 81
a year.
When the Otto F1oto show reached
Atchison a man with sporting blood
in his veins offered to put up money
that his bull pup could whip any
thing in the menagerie, barring the
elephants.
Associate Justice Brewer delivered
the address to the graduating class
at Gallaudet, the national college fol
the deaf and dumb. The students
listened to a good address, whether
they heard it or not.
s.F Henry and three wives" regis
tered at the National hotel in Leaven
worth a few days ago. He had the
three women with him all right, ant
they attracted more notice than mu
scum freaks, although the entry OF
the register turned out to be joke.
Harper is considerably agitated b.
the strange conduct of private sol
der just back from the Philippines
He does not claim to have seen tn,
water cure applied. The probate
| court may inquire into his menta
condition.
A woman in Horton sued a joint
keeper for $4,000 damages for maxim:
a drunkard of her husband. The jur.
awarded her $50.
Herington has raised $1,000 to bsr
1900 feet in the hope of striking gas.
There were 800, 900 tons of ice in tn
\ Santa Fe ice house in Argentine whel
Z it was burned few days ago, and onl
} a snail percentage of it melted.
Wichita, which is to entertain tn
Republican and Democratic state con
ventions and a grand lodge meetin
this month, is preparing to treat tn
r | visitors royalty and often.