Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-24
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Cavity dDOt0 lis tight eye. by lie
way, wonder what kin he is to Car
RE?
The Pittsburg Headlight is said to
be the only paper in the state that
has no editorial page, the Osborne-I
Farmer the only one that has three
and the Coffeyville Record the only
one that has the nerve to use TT in
stead of the editorial .'we-"
Now that it is pretty generally |
agreed that w. r. Stubs is to be the
next speaker of the house, the poll
ticians are beginning to hunt out can
didates for speaker pro tenn Two
candidates have thus far been men
toned, Judge Ensel R. Clarke of Rice |
county and A. G. Mead of Beloit.
w. D. Street, who was speaker of
the house when the populists had COM
plete control of all branches of the
state government in 1897, was in To
peka the other day. He is now in the |
railroad business and isn't paying
much attention to politics, though |
since the Populist organization went
to pieces he has allied himself with
the Socialists.
The pupils of the Manual Training
school at Topeka are now drinking
Jul VI d new 1dnSl6u FOUNTAIN III
pretty much the same manner that a
horse drinks out of watering trough.
The thirsty student leans forward,
opens his mouth and the water, forced
up by pressure from below like a min
iature artesian well, falls gently in
side of the mouth. The purpose of
this new arrangement is to do away
with the use of cups and dippers, and
Tins if c claimed 1pccnn 10
of disease
The kid member of the next 1egis-
lature will be E. L. Kerens of Oakley,
Logan county, who is barely 81. He
attained two majorities this year.
The scheme for legislative ses-
sion of only thirty days seems to have
ended in the mild hope that the legis-
lature will adjourn after sixty days, if
possible.
A Topeka woman complained to a
butcher because there were so many
buckshot in the rabbit she bought.
Great Scott said the butcher,
they haven't found way yet to scare
| them to DEATH
A recent issue of Bent Murdock's
| paper, the Eldorado Republican, de-
| clares that "A gang of Wichita Muir
| docks are expected here for a visit
| Sunday
Judge G. A. Smith, recently elected
| to the Kansas supreme bench taught
the first public school ever held in
| Cawker city in the winter of 1871 and
1872.
Building in Topeka during 1904
showed an increase of about $1OO, 900
over that of 1903, and the Capital says
it has been mainly good business
L.
State Senator-elect Bailfe P. Wag-
gener of atchison proposes at least to
attract some attention in the next leg
islature. He will introduce a bill to
absolutely repeal all divorce laws.
He declares that when people make a
mistake in their marriages they should
not be allowed to shirk the results
| through the easy medium of the di-
vorce courts.
Kingman county is making much Of
a heroine who went forth and tagged
a passenger train-in order to kiss
| her husband.
Item from the Atchison Globe of
twenty-seven years ago: 1--WE would
like to hire a couple more carriers.
| We have another subscriber"
Colonel Je1tz decided to move his
paper from Topeka to Kansas City,
Kan, it is reported, because he ex-
poets to get the city printing of Tos11
| a-loup
Thomas A. McNea1's mention for
private secretary to Governor Hoch
is popular in all the newspaper offices
exceptin gthat of the Topeka Mail and
Breeze.
Measurements day by day of the
stage of the water in the Kaw and
Smoky Hill rivers are being taken
now daily at Abilene and other points
high up in the state, and the results
are tabulated and sent to Weather
Observer Conner in Kansas City
Whenever conditions seem to justify
it, the results will be telegraphed to
Kansas City, so that in case of flood
danger, preparations can be made fol-
it.
Topeka has just celebrated hel
| Semi-centennia1. Half a century age
Topeka consisted of a single log cabin
! near what is now the intersection OF
Kansas and First avenues. Here the
nine founders met for the first time;
, and here they decided to lay out the
{ townsite, which was at first two miles
square They spent the winter in thai
log cabin, but next spring sent fol
their families in the east, and imme
|. diate1y the town began to grow rap
, idly.
Comrade Dick Blue wishes there