Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Kansas Notes


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Horton is about to lose its g boy
preacher" The Rev. Mr.. Kidd has re-
signed the pastorate of the Baptist
church.
turned plutocrat- Stoy Ware sold his
come a banker.
The bitter townsite row in Linwood
Is greatly out of proportion to the
that community
When the Topeka Capital made the
demand, editorially, that Governor
Bailey should remove ALLEN it had
reference to he Hon. Jim, not the Hon
Henry.
Ten dollars day and expenses are
only a part of the emoluments of the
Worlds Fair commissioners. They are
also getting up jelly exhibit.
There will be no dispute as to the df-
vision of the relief fund raised in
Pittsburg. The treasurer settled that
question by absconding with it,
Down south of Coffeyville a dozen
miles, the Journal says. lives an old
character, a representative of a class
slavery, where superstition and fan
atheism walked hand in hand; hoo
doc" or witch doctor-.Dr." Cossie
Hays. DIR" Cossie Hays is an aged
and grizzled darby, whose body is un-
impaired, in spite of his 70 years of
active service, and whose untutored
mind still teens with 'thants" and
"konjures'' and the inherent supersti-
ton of the colored race.
While the lawyers of Neodesha were
arguing whether the town has legal
right to cut the weeds and charge the
cost against the property owners, the
street commissioner pitched in and did
the job, anyhow.
Hope is expressed that the school
teacher famine" which exists in sew
era1 counties, will continue until the
localities learn to pay the teachers
reasonable salaries.
The school teacher who is running
the Emporia Gazette in Will Whites
absence notes that the Atchison Globe
has declared war on all the unlicensed
dog-mas in town.
Those persons who clamored most
loudly for a Price raid script commits
sioner are the very ones who are
protesting now because Commissioners
Allen collects the Price.
A lot of women in Wichita who went
on a joint smashing expedition few
days ago added insult to injury by
throwing overripe eggs, and have been
arrested for assault
The job of Price raid Commission
er is such a success that the Ottawa
Republic wants a commission appoint
ed to decide if it is true that Bob Dali
ton rode a white horse in the Coffey.
vile raid.
Announcement that Charles NJ. Har.
ger of Abilene has been asked to speak
at the opening of the University of
Kansas next month lends color to the
report that journalism is to be add.
ed to the university course.
The Wichita Beacon has taken such
fancy to the double indented method
of displaying "as follows" stuff that
it can't get enough of it.
Almena is going to have an Alfalfa
carnival next month, and the neigh
boring towns threaten to declare
quarantine on account of hay fever.
Lightning struck a house in Els
worth, and 1.-The entire family" says
the Salina Journal, were not only
shocked, but some of them felt hurt"
On every cloudy night the yigilant
citizen of North Topeka locks the
door, puts out the cat. winds the
clock and bitches the rowboats to the
front porch.
The sheriff of Riley county emptied
$50 gallons of beer into the gutter
last week, which also helps to ac-.
count for the Kaw having more than
it could carry.
Seventeen pip Phis'' are spending
the summer in Hiawatha. They are
young women who belong to this fra.
ternity at the State university. and
as they are all pretty, they bear nc
relation to the Pie Phiz.
Both Hutchinson and Topeka are ad
vertising state fair for this month,
and so far neither side has made any
effort to enjoin the other from the use
of the title.
The Salina Journal resisted as long
as it could, but finally yielded. 1t is
running a department of ''Thirty-twe
Years Ago"
A Coffeyvflle paper takes a car
toonist to task for drawing an able
cartoon representing a man milking
a COW, in which the man is seated OF
the left side instead of the right.
W. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson Il
spending his vacation in Canada, and
finds, by actual count. that there
are 1892 of the Thousand Islands.
An "ostensible'' German Burial as
the police few days ago and Wagon