Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-28
Kansas Notes

Crick. Lyle Grow, John Mass, John
Suchy, ]. w. Tapp and H. A. Gum
Besides being a distinguished edu-
Gator and a man of broad culture,
Chancellor strong has proved himself
of value in the legislature The ways
and means committee has agreed to
give the state university $205.445 for
maintenance.
Several men noticed the strange ac-.
tons of the horses tied on the south
side of the lola public square, the Reg
lister says Apparently there was moth
ing unusual about to cause it. but mo-
fewer than five horses fell to their
knees. ]. E. Powell was one of the
persons who noticed it, and he finally
went to Investigate He could learn
nothing. About this time a small boy
spoke up, Offering to explain what the
trouble was. He took the men along
the fence to the gate at the south side
of the square. There is a pole near the
fence there that supports the heavily
charged feed wire of the street car
line. Some boys in fooling about had
noticed the ground wire which runs
down this pole and is buried in the
earth. They secured a small piece
of wire, tied it about the top pipe of
the iron fence, and then with a stick
fastened the other end so that it
caught the current from the electric
wire. Thus the pipe of the fence was
heavily charged The sleepy horses
were dropping their noses onto this
electrified pipe and the surprising and
severe shock knocked their legs out
from under them.
M. B. Kelly of Crawford county, has
been appointed oil inspector to sue
coed S. O. Spencer.
A man in Cheney went out to shoot
a gas well few days ago, but before.
doing so took the precaution of looking
up the game laws.
Harrington, with $500 population, has
been made a city of the second class
by proclamation, and is now entitled
to elect full set of city officials and
have its own town row.
The five counties in the southwest
corner of Kansas which have neither
railroad nor telegraph communication
Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Morton and
Stevens-want a telephone system.
Am EmpOria man who was sued for
breach of promise proved that he was
under 81 years of age at the time of
the engagement. SO the case was de-
CluCu III IdVOT Oh Lie uICulu
The young bride of a widower in
Arcadia who was married last week
will never be able to show that she
was deceived. His 9-9ear-old son led
her to the altar and he was accom-
panied by his 11-year-old daughter.
An Ottawa young man became neigh
borly with a soubrette in a show that
was there recently and let her take
his diamond ring to wear until the
next day. He got the ring back, all
right, all except the diamond She
said she was very sorry, but she had
lost it, and wanted to know if it had
been loose in it's setting any consider
able length of time.
This is the way Dodge City an
nounces it's intentions: There may be
nothing in it, but We propose to bore
down a few hundred feet under tie
townsite and see."
This kind of weather." said the
editor of the Jewell County Repub-
lican. as he shoveled the snow or
the sidewalk in front of the print shop
and postoffice, reminds us of Feb
ruary.''
An Atchison man is making a roar
because he had a lunch at a 1-shion-
able hotel in Kansas City and found
that he had to pay $685., although all
he got for his money was lettuce and
music.
Mr.. Raney's estimate that the Kan
sas newspaper shops represent an in
yestment of 21z million dollars is en-
tirely too conservative. The Marion
Record alone has 2k million dollars
worth of good will.
F. c. Raney of Fort Scott, the re-
firing president of the State Editorial
association, estimates that 21z million.
dollars is invested in newspaper plants
in Kansas There are $50 papers in
the state, of which sixty-one are dali
les.
The wheat delivery business is fairly
good in Cowley county now. One
hauled in 60 loads last week.
Beauty, sentiment or romance are
typified in the pseudonyms of the
country correspondents of the Ell
dorado Republican. Among them are
Rosemary, Jessica, Two Little Girls in
Blue, Rose, Sunbeam, Primrose, Gin
dereIla, Galatea, Wild Rose, Violet,
Portia, Iris, Romeo and Juliet, Daphne,
Sunshine and Mignonette.
One rich family in Emporia refuses
to make any progress, in spite of all
the Gazette and Ladies' Home Journal
can do. 1t keeps an enlarged crayon
portrait of mother and father on an