Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
Kansas Notes

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A frat" society was organized at
the college OF Emporia and elaborate
quarters were arranged for. but when
the faculty heard Of the plan last
week rollers were put under it
A convention of Kansas coal dealers
will be held In Salina in February to
see what can be DONE to prevent the
railroads from confiscating their fuel.
Resolutions will surely be adopted.
One of the most practical convers-
Ions made recently is that of w. L.
CoTubs of Liberal He shot and killed
Arthur Smith last June, but was not
convicted He was converted at a
Salvation Army meeting last week,
and as the result he has turned all his
property over to the mother of his
victim and agreed to pay her $40 a
month as long as she lives. Combs
Is Rock Island section foreman.
A programme better than the aver
age has been arranged for the an
nual meeting of the Kansas Editorial
association in Topeka, February 9 and
10. Walter Williams of the Columbia
Mo-. Herald will speak Thomas A.
McNeal will deliver the address OF
welcome. Other addresses will be by
]. L. Brady, Lawrence World; d. r.
Anthony, Leavenworth Times; Charles
Sessions, Topeka; James Pontius.
Hanover Observation-Disclosures L. N.
Flint, Manhattan Nationalist: Harry
Wood, Wellington News; David d.
Leahy, Wichita Eagle; William E.
blackburn, Anthony Republican; T.
j. Schall, Troy Chief; Mack P.
Gretchen, Sedgwick Paragraph
Senator Mcmillan has introduced a
dill making it crime to eat snakes.
lizards, centipedes, scorpions or taran-
.ulas.
An Emporia colored man has re-
lgious visions. One is to jump in the
liver every winter with his best
clothes on. This dream, he thinks. is
he result of too much lobster salad
Ind should be disobeyed.
A Pittsburg man who has fad for
Irving off other mems teams will
.haritably be sent to the asylum.
Some Chase county girls wrote their
lanes and addresses on eggs, but they
got only seven miles from home and
nto the pantry of a married man.
An Emporia dyspeptic has tasted
wenty-one days to give his stomach
est. Going three weeks without food
ihould be a good cure for loss of appe-
lite.
And now a Wichita man has found
cluster of uncut diamonds, of the first
water, in his front yard. 1t is said
they give out a glow bright enough to
read the paper by after supper.
The convicts in the federal peniten-
larry who participated in the mutiny a
year ago will be tried before Judge
Hook in February for murder. They
will be defended by Joseph G. Waters
Of Topeka.
The enrolment of Baker university
acks about 100 of being as much as
the total resident population of Bald
win, in which it is situated. The en-
rollment is 996, and the population of
Baldwin is 1901.
Two Oswego boys loved the same
girl. They quarreled. and one boy
shot the other. Zone of them" says a
local paper, lis now in Jail, the other
is in bed, and the girl is in her room
staring in her mirror trying to culti-
vate a face that will be appropriate
to the occasion"
B. J. Sheridan of the Paola Spirit
took a forty mile drive in Miami
county few days ago to find out the
views of the farmers on the subject
Of good roads, which is a hobby of
his. He found the farmers unanimous
in favor of good roads, but only three
Or four were willing to work or pay
money toward the cause"
In bringing suit for divorce at Win
'ield after few months of married
life, Mrs. Maggie Greeley declares she
vas induced to marry at the tender age
II L and that she has found matri-
nony to be everything she did not ex-
)ect it to be.
An Arkansas City student fell and
broke his right arm the day prior to
But he was plucky and
eft handed and his paper passed close
o the hundred grade.
A. P. Collar of Beloit was 80 years
I'D last week, and he still manages to
get around
An Atchison man who became ex-
isperated at the slowness of the tel
,phone girl on his line, did not get
IN ak and smash the machine In
stead, he sent her copy of the poem:
Asleep At the Switch
The $4,000 breach of promise sui.
If Alice Biery of Cloud county against
Robert Kennedy has been dismissed.
Kennedy one of the papers explains,
has made another promise
The Wfllburne DE- cling club is MAX
ng itself prominen. in Leavenworth
his season. It's name is what the
Methodists say will happen to all dane