Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-07-25
Kansas Notes

mines hat is making money out of
his property. He planted it in wheat2
Although Kansas has more than 90
million dollars of bank deposits. the
tax assessors could find only "a mill
lions of it, proving that figures not
only lie, but testify falsely under
oath.
The Phil1ipsburg water supply is en-
tirely cut off since the standpipe was
blown over Saturday.
The War department has given Lieu
tenant John M. Shook OF the coast ar
tillery the shake. He was appointed
to the army from Kansas and is dropp-
ed because of failure to pass two ex-
aminations.
The State Historical society. Is max
ing history of the recent flood, coll
lecting everything that was printed
on the subject and pasting in scrap
books. The next legislature will sure
ly have to give the Historical society
the rest of the statehouse basement.
Gilbert Mullen. the negro murderer
who led the mutiny at the federal peni-
Tertiary, Fort Leavenworth, two years
ago. escsDed Saturday from the county
jail in Junction City and is still at
large. But why was such a dangerous
criminal put in a little Central Kansas
Jail?
E. E. Wilson. county attorney of
Sumner county, disappeared with s40.-
900 of other peoples money. His hat
and coat have been found on the Rock
Island bridge over the Kaw river at
Topeka. in1icatine that he either COM
mited suicide or is DR.. Frakering.
When Eugene Ware heard of Re
preventative Bowersock's loss bv the
flood he put his rhymster to work and
sent the congressman an engrossed
copy of the following:
The rain water tumbled in torrents.
And washed out his mill dam at
lawrence
He said: Though bereft.
I've a dam-site yet left
Which language occasioned abhor-
ence
1t is related by the Meade Globe that
a county superintendent in neighbor-
ing county asked every teacher at the
institute who took the local or county
paper to hold up his or her hand, end
out of 100 only six RESPONDED. The
Superintendent expressed great sur
prise and said: ''You don't spend 81
a year with these papers( yet you ex-
pect them to print. free of charge,
notices of all institutes. insert long
programmes. thus advertising and as
sisting you to climb the ladder to bet
ter salaries withou cents expense
in return
Kansas has 1885 negro voters. and
the Minneapolis Better Way says the
politicians promise each one of them
a janitorship at the the statehouse.
Still, majority of them are not ap-
pointed.
The military company sent to Nor
way, s. c., Saturday night returned
Sunday to Columbia. They had no
clash with the negroes and report the
town quiet, although some of the citi-
zens there are still apprehensive.
The Postoffice and War departments
each have scandals, and if the Leav-
enworth Times has its way there will
be an investigation of the Interior de-
partment.
The new catalogue of Baker univer-
sity, just out, shows that it has an en-
rollment of GOT, a gain of $50. Baker
ranks up a fairly close second to the
State university,
Labor Commissioner Johnson's an
nual report boasts that there are no
strikes in Kansas at this time. But
unless the indications are wrong the
coal miners will soon correct this over
sight. 80
Ten members of the legislature have
turned their per diem and mileage
for the special session over to the re-
lief fund-leaving only 1856 senators
and representatives who haven't.
A bridal couple was in Emporia
this week riding about town in a low
necked hack. This" explains the
Gazette, sis Lowell"
next legislature regulate" the deadly
Fourth of July toy pistol. and the
only surprising consideration is that
no master legislative mind thought of
it before.
One paper suggests that the blight
ing and poisonous effects of the flood
waters, about which scientists are dis
agreeing, were really caused by the
number of drug stocks swept away
in North Topeka and other towns up
river.
Applications for 100 licenses to re-
tail liquor made in one day to the col
worth from all parts of Kansas, DO not
bear out the idea that the new injunc-
ton law for suppressing the traffic"
is going to stop it entirely.
Daniel Booz is the name Of one Of
the negro harvest hands in Edwards
county who was assaulted by white
men, anG who sent a telegram to Gov
ernor Bailey asking for protection.