Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
Kansas Notes

whose aggregate weight is LOGS
pounds.
The Kansas Improved Stock Breed
| ers' association will meet in Topeka
next week.
Out of nearly 1000 inmates in the
federal prison, there is one lone corn
doctor.
John Seaton, Atchison's man of iron,
| is going to establish foundry in Kan
sas City.
Bad boys at Pratt disturb evening
church services by throwing cats
through the window.
Wheat is so plump in Gray county
this year that it requires four horses
to haul load to town.
Head-end collisions at Wichita are
costly A judge fined citizen 500
for cracking anothers skull with a
chair.
A Sumner county man arrested for
raising check took the matter coolly-
But then the air of the confidence
man is always bracing and breezy.
Delbert Peel of Perry and Ida
Fiddler of Lecompton, We're married in
Kansas City last Saturday. The groom,
ostensibly, had been Miss Fiddler's
beau.
Among the teachers appointed in
eMade county are Lima Petefish Mat
tie Petefish and Lidda Petefish. The
county superintendent must have used
a seine.
K P. Snyder, probate judge of
Wyandotte county, has a record of
issuing 4,379 marriage licenses during
his term and performing 1,S47 of the
marriages himself
Curly" Harrison of Ottawa is tP~
,aWrRDoa Vnrld,S idao of wonder
He is a veteran who says he did not
put down the rebellion, and admits
that he fought when he had to and
ran when there was a good chance.
A Wamego man was placed in jail
for violating ordinance No. 156. Wheth-
er that was for beating his wife or
failing to remove the snow from the
sidewalk continues a mystery to the
great outside world.
John G. Lowe of Linn county, a
teacher in the State Reform school,
Topeka. who shot and killed his wife
June %, was found guilty of murder
in the second degree last Saturday.
His defense was temporary inSan-
ity''
Thomas G. Hardy, chief trumpeter of
the Fourth cavalry, stationed at Fort
Riley, was retired last Saturday after
I'LL ty-SCNCh ySdlS III lie SSIflCS- no
was in the Civil war, all of the Indian
campaigns and the Philippines. He
was placed on the retired list in 1896,
but the secretary of war gave him
special permission to enter the ser
vice.
One of the most consequential fam
lilies in Jewell county is named Plow-
man, and has grown rich at it
So many farmers in Riley county
have signed their premises that the
only safe way for law abiding sports
man to do the Manhattan Nationalist
says, is to stand in the middle of the
road and shoot straight up.
The estate of Lawrence man has
been in the courts more than three
years. One member of the family
says: when / reflect what this fam
lily has passed through in the last few
years 1 am sometimes almost sorry
that the old man died"
Mrs. Jennie Springer, a Doniphan
county widow, is in hard luck. Her
husband sold his farm for cash and
soon afterward they quarreled and she
threatened a divorce. Fearing that
the money would be taken away from
him for alimony he buried it, ane
died without telling anyone where it
is buried. Now the widow is hunting
for the money, without much hope OF
finding it.
Campbell Moore, a brother of Car
RE Nation, was fined $50 in Wyandotte
last week for smashing a window, but
unlike his sister he preferred paying
the fine to acquiring a reputation for
martyrdom in jail.
The Clay Center Times printed three
Christmas greetings ITO Our Sub
scribers," in parallel columns last
week. The first one starts off: This
being Christmas day we take. ETC.
The next is more eloquent, and begins:
julien ar nu har igen och vi villa,
I lie third one takes even more ad-
vanced ground-'sWeihnacht ist jetzt
hier''
The state medical board found an
alleged doctor at Coffeyville who as
serted that the human heart beats
LOO times minute, that people have
four separate brains, and that there is
disease called enlightenment of the
BRAIN, accompanied by a "twittling
in the brain The man was practicing
neutrality-suspicious. on anybody he
could get. But he isn't now.
1t is told of Western Kansas man
elected justice of the peace that at his
first marriage ceremony he became SO
badly ratified that after he had pro-