Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16
Kansas Notes

| 6IiluSndm Is plduHlAS SuCA al Cidc-
crate programme for Memorial day
i that the dead in the cemetery viii be
proud they are there
/ The construction of a new tele-
phone line in Meade county lis going. >
/ one of the papers predicts, ito cause
! a good deal of talk, one way and an
| other"
There is much indignation because
Lawrence man sold a dog last week
/ for $500. Citizens who have owned
dogs are distressed because they did
not hold them for the raise.
| A young man in Sterling made a
demonstration of filial affection by
giving his parents a piece of wall
paper from the ST Joseph house in
| which Jesse James was killed.
There is not prisoner-in the Rice
county jail and the Sterling Bulletin
F. is in favor of turning the county Jail
into a High school and placing the
sheriffs office under the Jurisdiction
i of the county superintendent
A Franklin county woman who was
| married in 1876 brought suit for di
vorce. She is past rs, and has been
| married fifty-seven years. 1t is hoped
| it is only a lovers quarrel
Pardon day." on the fifteenth of
each month. has been abolished by
Governor Bailey. Sad news for the
985 innocent convicts at Lansing.
Senator F. Dumont Smith of Kinsley
lectured on Words in Wichita a few
| nights ago. He is for spelling reform
| and in advocating it in his lecture, said
he knew of only one argument in favor
of the old way and that was given by
an English bishop who declared that
the present method of spelling helped
the churches. According to the bishop:
by the time you can make a boy
believe that through spells
through that though spells
though and tough spells tough
you can make him believe anything
The last Coffelt trial in Cowley coun-
ty cost the state s1,356.75. Before
Twelve unprecedented jurors could be
found it was necessary to examine S27
candidstes.
Mr.. "Hipty'' Paterson has written a
card to one of the Ottawa papers in
which he disclaims having shot any
craps since he returned from the
Hutchinson reformatory.
There has been no mortgage fore
closure in Dickinson county for twelve
months, and the papers differ as to
whether it means theer are no mort
cages or whether they are not yet
due.
President Roosevelt saw one depot,
anyhow that is more ancient than Kan
sas City's. The Union Pacific station
in North Topeka, according to Indian
legend, was erected by the Mound
Builders.
Judge Hook of the federal court has
prevailed upon Judge Philips of Mis-
souri, to try the Martindale case grow
ing out of the Emporia bank failure.
Civil service examinations will be
held in Topeka May &c. to select a
nautical expert for the photographic
office, and to fill several vacancies in
the lighthouse service. Uncle Sam
knows where to look for them when he
wants old sea dogs
Cove county is proud of the fact thar
its unpaid debt is $500, the smallest
of any county.
Esther Death of Blue Rapids mar
ried Willis Ray Lea recently. The
event has occasioned number of
pleasantries, the most popular OF
which is that the groom literally
courted DEATH
The Nebraska, Kansas & Gulf rail-
road elected its first board of direc-
tors in Salina last week. and expects
to have a charter obtained and its an
nua1 passes in circulation in a few
weeks.
Park college has defeated Washburn
in a debate on the subject. Resolved,
That Strikes Are, On the Whole, Bene-
ficial.' Washburn had the affirma-
tive, and the Strikers are left in an
embarrassing plight
A Topeka girl explained to friend
from the country that the initials A. i
D. T. on the messenger boys caps
stand for "a Dry Town.
The Topeka BARRIERS have decided tc |
advance the price of SLAVES to fifteen |
cents. ION account of the high price |
of soap and other edibles.''
Governor Bailey has appointed Pan
coast Kidder of Topeka to his military |
staff with the rank of captain of en-
gineers. He is an insurance man who |
will look well in $500 worth of uni |
form.
Maud Downey, on trial in Topeka |
for grand larceny, testified that heI
husband made her steal A man who |
is too lazy to do his own stealing |
should not be tolerated in any com
munity.
Salina is finding its Gamewel1 fire
alarm system a costly playth.ng. Ii
has been out of repair for some time
and the council has hired an experi |
electrician to find out what's the mat |
ter with it
The man who stabbed Pool Grin