Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-10
Kansas Notes

present assistant attorney general, To
be his executive clerk
Twenty-Five convicts were paroIed
from the Hutchinson reformatory last
Saturday. Governor Stanley unfurlS
the banner of freed 'em every once i'm
a while.
Miss Birdie Elliott of Atchison has
telegraphed to her relatives from Lead
Vile, Col, denying that she was killed
in the Southern Pacific wreck at Byron
last week, and there is a general dis
position to take her word for it
Kansas has yet to learn that the only
way to keep its best educators is to
pay them what their services are worth
in the open market DIR. E. C. Frank
lin, professor of chemistry in the state
university, is the latest to go. The
Leland-Stanford university gobbled
him.
The sum of 81 600 in gold and green
backs was found hidden in the manger
of an Ottawa barn. 1t belonged to c.
w. Robinson, an eccentric old man,
who was afraid to trust the banks.
There is much curiosity to know how
it happened that the barn never burned
down.
One of the regular punk shows was
playing in Eureka the other night and
a man in the audience went out after
the first act. When the third act be-
gan he came back, drunk. He was re-
fused admission on the ground that
he was full. Drunk he sputtered.
" f course I'm drunk. Don't suppose
I'd want bark in there if l wasn't
drunk, do you?''
A Hiatville doctor was adjudged in
sane by the probate court. There was
no room for him at either of the state
asylums, so he was taken to the county
Jail in Fort Scott. A few days ago a
delegation from Hiatville appeared
before the probate Judge and asked
| that the doctor be sent home, pending
| his admission to the asylum. we
| have an unusual amount of sickness
| in our vicinity said the spokesman,
1--WE have great confidence in our old
DOCTOR and We want him to come back
| and treat our sick The request was
granted, and the old doctor returned
| to Hiatville and resumed his practice
| Sixty-five machinists of the Kansas
| City Southern in Pittsburg have struck
rather than do lathe work
| A bill will be introduced in the legis-
lature providing for the treatment of
| habitual drunkards at the asylums.
+ Charles J. Devlin now has 81, 140 600
of life insurance, and every time he
| has a chill Hartford Conn, is stricken
with heart failure.
| The mysterious initials IS. U. N"
| have baffled many guests at the table
of a certain family in Parsons, but
now it is disclosed that they stand for
slack up now
The state penitentiary mines are
turning out enough coal to supply air
of the state charitable institutions.
but no cars are available to carry it
to it's destination.
The Brown county man who is going
to quit raising hogs and devote his
time to dog culture hereafter, has only
to change the III in his advertisement
to 3D. and go ahead.
: Two men in lola who have hated
each other long time had a lawsuit a
few days ago. One of them, address
!, ing the court said: Judge, I'll tell
you how it is. Where he's well known
! am popular, and where I'm well
: known he's popular
: The champion days corn husking
around Cawker City was 116> bushels,
J from sun to sun.
: Wichita's pet antelope that ate candy
and peanuts from the children's hands
for the past year is dead. Appendicitis
/ or govt is declared to be responsible
) 1t may be worth while to call atten-
. ton to the fact that the awards fox
the Convention hall guessing contest
| show 451 Kansas winners out of the
, total of 1 1888. And two of the three
, capital prizes go to Kansas-$4,5 500
each.
: John West, who died in Abilene
!. Tuesday, had special claims to dis
! tinction. He was formerly one Of
. Queen Victoria's body guards, ane
: worked on the first railroad ever built
a and was '-nonogenarian.'
farmer near Coffeyville in thu
early spring planted and raised from
d a fourth of an acre IL bushels of pota
toes. In August he planted the patel
u and gathered Is bushels. Then h
closed the deal by sowing and garner
ing 80 bushels of turnips.
A student in Hutchinson has "fallez
heir to million dollars, but hi
friends are discreetly waiting unit
they catch a glimpse of fraction o
| it before going into ecstacies.
The AT state banks and 100 nationa
Z banks in Kansas have deposits aggTe
u eating 821z million dollars, and out
standing loans and discounts OF s
: million dollars-figure your own pc
capita.
After boring 1000 feet in search o