Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
Kansas Notes

The Hiawatha World offers a re-
ward of SIS for each arrest and convic-
ton of any man or boy who kills
birds.
The Topeka Herald censures the
Leavenworth Times for printing the
display advertisements of beer sa-
looms
Since the Wall Street Journal has
praised the judgment and foresight of
Chsrles M. Harger, will Abilene be
able to hold him?
Manhattan has still further
strengthened it's reputation as an old
fashioned town by organizing a Demo-
cratic club with seventy members.
DIR. Money was robbed of s160 in
cash, and two checks in Hiawatha a
few days ego by a thief who probably
reasoned that Mr.. Money didn't need
it
If the Missouri supreme court could
able to get enough contemptuous edit
ors to keep it busy every day until
December /.
The longer the report of the asylum
investigating committee is delayed by
Governor Bailey the stronger becomes
the suspicion that it is being CEN
sored
The statement that the rural mail
carriers in Kansas are forming
union is accompanied by the super
fluous hint that they intend to ask
for increased salaries.
This seasons shortage of the apple
crop has prompted Leavenworth to
change its Apple carnival to military
carnival. 1t will be held September
Z, and 9.
Seth Wells, the state auditor, edi-
torially authorizes the use of his o. X
on the suggestion. for ]. R. Burrows.
the present secretary of state, Tor gov
ernor in 1906.
visitor in Lawrence offered to
explain why that town has such
wretched street car service. He said:
You are too small for an electric
line AMI too big to walk
In ChEdtauqua county the school
trustees lave not only forbidden the
teachers to get married, which is I'M
reasonable, but have forbidden them
to DO any counting, which is abb
surd.
Daniel J. Kelley, the ex-lobbyist.
now of Canada, threatens to prosecute
William Allen White But Thomas C.
latt, whose displacement is about 200
times as great as Kelley's, once made
the same threat.
Kansas should no longer laugh at
the people of Arkansas who are still
voting for Andrew Jackson for presi-
dent. Three Western Kansas coun-
ties, Sherman, Thomas and Rocks, are
still asking for harvest hands.
The Atchison Globes twenty-fifth
anniversary is to be celebrated by
speeches, feasting and a band concert
next Sunday. August 2-the Sabbath.
The churches are expected to scream
in unison: Don't Do That
Lane county has quit giving boun-
ties on wolf scalps. The commis-
sloners discovered that some Of the
farmers were engaged in the profitable
and systematic occupation of breeding
wolves for the courthouse scalp mar
ket.
Governor Bailey's last appeal for
outside aid for the flood sufferers did
not bring a cent. Now, maybe, he
will quit passing the hat.
Latest score in the sweating con-
test: Hutchinson, 100; Newton, 10Y:
Salina, 10; Wellington, 109, with Ster-
ling, Dodge City and Concordia '.also
running"
A man named Hoxie murdered the
sheriff of Washington county several
years ago, and it cost the county more
than S., 200 in court costs to finally get
him into the penitentiary.
Assurance is given that the kindly
Newton peacemaker who tried to stop
g. family quarrel will have good chances
for recovery if the doctors can extract
the bullet from his groin.
Governor Bachelor of New Hamp-
shire, is in Kansas addressing Grange
meetings, and is to speak in Olathe.
But the idea of Kansas going TO New
England for grange enlightenment,
Before the Meanest Man controversy
is settled attention should be called
to the Wyandotte citizen who elopel
with his 16-year-old stepdaughter, and
then returned home, suing for forgive
ness.
General Bates has invited the gov
ernors of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and
Arkansas to have one regiment each
of state troops attend the army man
euvers at Fort Riley Kansas will
have two regiments there.
man does not have to go 20 a big
town in order to lose money on wheat
futures. Dave Hanna, the lieutenant
governor. lost 5000 bet on the prof.
osition that the Kansas wheat crop
would exceed 100 million bushels
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