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

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c;ied to begin an anti-Hessian lily
movement
Congressman Curtis avs IN Hia-
wathsc one day last week, and the DEM
ocrat charges that he was around
speddling Sagwa medicine.
w. E. Connolly of Topeka has given
up a $4,000 job in the pension depart
ment because he thinks he can make
more money in literature
The Council Grove Republican cries
out in despair: 1T is simply a shame
and disgrace that the town pump has
not been cleaned out lately
Lawrence must be given consi 1erable
credit for selecting the site and letting
the contract for its Carnegie Library
without starting Town Row
The heroine who prevents a disas-
trous tran wreck by tagging the train
with her red petticoat has been located
in Oklahoma by the Wichita Eagle.
Leavenworth played mean trick on
lola by getting out of the Missouri
Valley league. lola has fallen heir to
the last place in the club standings.
Last weeks furry in Wall street
did not" says the Erie Republican
Record, cause even the smallest rip
pie on the financial wave in Erie"
The Lindsborg News, of which Miss
Anna Carlson is the editor, announces
that it has one all wool, extra heavy
raglan, as good as new, for sale
cheap.
The delinquent tax list is making its
annual appearance in the papers that
have the county printing, but, with a
few exceptions, it is hardly longer
than 'fcard of thanks"
TeIo
graph operators are threatening. to
very loudly. They remember Mr.. Dol
phin's strike of the Santa Fe operat-
ors.
Since the surgeons have decided it
will not be necessary to amputate the
leg of Convict Ben Starnes ID may be
found advisable to at least equip him
with an emergency brake.
There is no longer any doubt that
Kansas had all the rain it needed last
week. Kiowa, Meade, Medicine Lodge,
Concordia, Ellsworth, Lebanon and
Colby Las been heard from finally.
A skeleton was unearthed in a To-
peka yard and local paper says no.
body knows "how the skeleton got
there, or to whom it may have be-
1OnSeQ ne IOuSldS sue
gests that the original owner is prob
ably dead.
Kansas has decided to make Okla
homa pay more for taking care of the
territorial convicts at Lansing. Kan
sas has been losing money at it, AMI
the Oklahoma prisoners are not, as a
rule, amiable persons to have around
Harmon Wilson of the Topeka Capt.
tai was badly bruised in an automo
bile accident in the Indian territory.
He has been in the vicinity of the new
Santa Fe~cut-off gathering material
for a new volume of Jerry Blacks
Library of the Worlds Best Litera-
ture.
Barney Sheridan examined sixty pa
pers last week in getting up his de-
partment of Happenings Along the
Border" for the Paola Spirit, and of
these only one contained lodge reso-
buttons of coincidence. This" he
adds, Indicates how nearly the old
custom has gone by the boards"
The people of Wyandotte, in de-
handing a better telephone service,
are only standing up for their Reitz
A negro has been arrested in To-
peka, according to one of the papers.
for shooting his lady love-"
Attention is being drawn to the
Wellsville Globe by the unique fact
that it still keeps up an exchange
table,
Without waiting to hear the fate
of the corn crop, Osborne announces
a Harvest Jubilee for September 3,
and Logan has one billed for August
26, 81 and g..
Ottawa is becoming a regular rail-
road town. The Herald declares that
the health food business has "struck
a grade, with only one cylinder work
ing"
In order that the public might not
get the mistaken notion that HARMONY
prevails IN Emporia, Lee J. Orr met
the Rev D. S. Morrison on the street
and horsewhipped him
Among the well known old soldiers
who are making speeches at the re-
union in Pittsburg this week are Com
rade w. j. Bailey, Comrade Charles
Curtis and Comrade Chester l. Long.2
1t is being told that nobby dresser
out in Saline county wore a pair of
such red socks that the live stock
started in pursuit of him and he ONLY
saved himself by tagging a train with
them.
Topeka has horrible suspicion thar
the new Vinewood park line from
Kansas City. Although Mr.. Sunny is
one of the directors Topeka fears
there is something shady q bout -