Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14
Kansas Notes

siderably because he treats them Just
as if they were his social equals"
Miss Edythe Oechsh was visiting in
Ottawa last week. and visitor thought
the community had suddenly become
addicted to the use of snuff.
Nine houses in Leavenworth were
entered by burglars in one night last
week. and the natives are wondering
If Warden Jewett keeps all of his
hayward charages locked up after
dark.
A Lindsborg printer tried to abb
breviate business manager without
the use of periods, with the result that
he directed those who desire Messiah
tickets to apply to the bus man.
The Erie Record is always proud to
note the success of boys from that
| town who win 1aurels elsewhere. 1t
| therefore announces that J. L. Allison,
formerly city editor of the Sentinel,
is now the clerk of a hotel in Mar
shall, III.
Some Topeka capitalists are talking
of building an electric railroad to
Junction City, with spur running up
| into Nemaha county to tap the coal
fields.
The regents of the University of
| Kansas have made ex-Chancellor Snow
professor of meteorology, organic evo-
| luton, systematic entomology and cur
ator of chronological collections-a
bulky lot of titles for a man of his
years and feeble health to carry.
A Cofeyville man, in an unsuccess-
full attempt to commit suicide, drank a
liniment containing turpentine and
chloroform.
The receivers have found the Kan
sas Mutual Life Insurance company
in such excellent financial condition,
| and the fact is being SO widely pub
lished, that the company may find the
advertisement is worth all the re
| Ownership has cost.
Leavenworth fears that it's Orphans
home, two hospitals and home for
aged women are to be cut off without
an appropriation by the legislature.
TWO prisoners who were sentenced
to be hanged in 1880, which is equiv
alent to life imprisonment, were par
doned last week by Governor Bailey.
Their innocence has been made reas-
onably clear. At rare intervals Kansas
has cause to be glad that capital pun
ishment does not prevail.
The Topeka Capital ventured to
criticise an evangelist CT the vulgar
and blasphemous sort who recently
held services in the capital. He is the
same one who prayed that Mayor
Parker might be @teither converted or
killed. Oliver replies in a letter to
the editor, which the Capital prints.
The following is only small portion
of it: 1T is quite significant to note
the howlings of the little scabby,
whisky soaked spawns of corrupt jour-
nalism over the state turn their pop
guns my direction because l stood
four-square for a clean municipality
and clean politics in Topeka. Suck
editors retail in hell at five cents a
dozen, as common specimens of pol
luted pupdom."
In his diarx of 1876, William
Walker, Wyandotte chief and later
provisional governor of Kansas-Ne-
braska, says that he wanted to go over
and buy some of the lots just laid out
and put on sale in Kansas City, but
che miserable ferryman got drunk and
let his boat float away from him and
there was no way to cross the Kansas
river.
Complaint is made of too much loud
swearing" in Neodesha. But, some
how, profanity and the soft pedal never
blend we'll
negro debating society in Parsons
discussed the case at some length
few nights ago, and finally exonerated
PLATE of responsibility for the death of
Christ.
President Hadley of Yale, who la.
ments because the democratic spirit
among students is disappearing, should
go to Lawrence Forty-eight per cent
of the students of the University OF
Kansas are working their way
The Anthony Republican brags that
there are seven "swallow-tail'' coats in
use in the society crowd there, and
thirty party dresses. "One of the
dresses" it adds, lis cut so low that
the lady who wears it doesn't dare tc
sneeze.'
A jealous-town story on Indepen.
dence: An enthusiastic citizen died
and went, as he supposed, to heaven
After looking around, he remarked:
We'll, l don't see as heaven is much
ahead of Independence" But" said
a bysta1der with hot pitchfork in his
hand, this isn't heaven
Quenemo boys are keeping IN with
the times by wearing vioiets from the
millinery store