Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21
Kansas Notes

and is able to restrain the impulse to
sink it in boring for oil and gas
An Atchison man has the latest
get-rich-quick scheme He is engaged
in selling pictures of NJ A. Hanna
among the negroes.
c. E. Wantlsnd is an agent of the
Union Pacific land department, and
the Katy is wondering if it couldn't
use him in the Indian Territory
A testimonial for the Bourbon coun-
ty mineral springs shows that WITCH
ita, man went there on clutches and
left with the hop-skip-and-jump cham
pionship.
The senate has passed g. bill Great
ing a court of claims to pass upon all
tons prior to 1885. The members are
to receive $40 a day, and the claim
ants are to get all they can.
The creamery men held conven-
ton in Salina- They pronounced it a
good town to live in, and the Journal
adds: That's the verdict of all
strangers The Journal meant it to
be complimentary to Salina, too.
Attention is called by the lola Reg
lister to the fact that the men also
reserve the pith of their letters for the
postscript. 1t cites the case of a man!
who recently married a Lawrence
widow. In a letter home he tells at
some length how charming she is. In
the postscript he admits that she has
$40, 900.
The battleship Kansas is to cost 3A
million dollars.
The college of Emporia has decided
to try anti-"frat'' to reduce its en-
rollment.
Wichita's freight rate hearing is in
progress before the interstate COM
merce commission in Washington.
The legislature has set apart $4,000
for sugar beet bounties. If the state
should grow 900 pounds of sugar
beets this would be twenty pounds for
a dollar.
Hazel Todd, negro woman, living,
near Wathena. is III years old, and
is credited with being the oldest per-
son in the state. She moved to Wath-
ena in 1868, when she was only 50.
Burlington is in hard luck. A few
mornings ago blood was found on a
sidewalk, and nearby was a piece of
pipe, the -blunt instrument with
which the crime was committed. But
nobody is missing.
Troutman & Stone, the Topeka law
firm which has gained control of the
DeBoissiere home estate, has brought
suit in Franklin county for s2,700 al
legged to be due for rent, and seized
DeBoissiere's splendid library as Sc
turity. -
A Lawrence man was offered eighty
acres of land in Kansas City West bot
toms, on which the Union depot now
stands, for $500 soon after the war.
He thought the price was too high, so
he bought Lawrence property instead.
Richard Hazel of Harper county, who
is a member of the legislature, met his
brother, Thomas NJ Hazel. in Atchison
after a separation of nearly forty
years. While at Topeka Hazel made
inquiries at the pension office and
learned that his brother lived in
Atchison, and he took the first train
for that city. The brothers had known
nothing of each others whereabouts
since the Civil war.
In order to show their displeasure
toward their unpopular postmaster,
the people in Brazilton, Crawford
county, mailed all of their letters at
lie lIoinS- III Ills way IHSy pSdI Tic
postmaster out of his salary, which
is fixed by the number of stamps can
celed. The postmaster complained to
Washington. and the trainmen were
ordered to quit taking mail at Brazil
ton. The boycott is off.
Garrett was boring for oil or gas,
and at a depth of less than 400 feet
the drill went through a three-foot
vein of coal, which the town thinks
will answer just as well.
The ~ million dollars of life in
surance which c. J. Devlin carries
costs him Sc an hour.
After the last snow storm the drifts
were SO deep around Thayer that the
rural mail carriers report that rabbits
made their nests in the letter boxes.
A Lawrence society has asked Mrs.
Roosevelt for a handkerchief to be
sold at a fair Some society may yet
win fame by reversing things and send
ing Mrs. Roosevelt some handker-
chief.
A man who had just begun serving
a term of life sentence in the Fort
Leavenworth penitentiary, died a few
days ago. Some people," says the
Galena Times, in commenting on the
incident, ARE just naturally lucky"
Mr.. Hatch of Hutchinson counted
in Len Lewis family. quarrel Satur-
day, and Lewis killed him.
Kingman is an old fashioned sort