Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-17
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auctiOneer has suffered the worst kind
of an accident for one in his profess
sion: His jaw was broken last week.
A Washington dispatch quotes Com
missioner Jones as saying: The In
dian is rapidly passing"
Manhattan is offering a prize of $50
for a college yell, and the Greenleaf
Sentinel proposes this one: "Oh! Vow!
Bow-wow! Zip, boom, bumps! Ever
see in all your life such a set of
chumps?"
The newspaper situation in EN-
poria is made more complicated by the
rumor that the Preston P. Plumb fam
lily is going to start another daily.
If Morton A1baugh makes as good
clerk of the United States district
court as he has been bank commits
sioner, he will soon have the federal
judiciary on a sound basis.
Another gas well was brought in"
at Ottawa yesterday, but it wasn't laid
on the editors table.
A mortgage recorded in Franklin
county to secure loan of $3.50 includ-
ed horse, buggy, piano, pair OF
skates, shotgun and dog.
John SPOTS was granted a divorce
from Alice SPOTS in Topeka Monday.
deuce of a time.
W. r. Bingham the United States
consul general at Cape Town, South
Africa, is visiting his home in Geary
| county. When Mr.. Bingham was APP
pointed consul to Cape Town several
years ago, his post was in the fifth
grade of that service, but it is now
| one of the nine first-class consulships
| in the United States service. Mr.. Bling
| ham says that in the last few years
| the imports from the United States to
Cape Town have increased about 245
per cent. In 1902 the imports from
this country amounted to $6.5OO.OO0.
Any sort of typhoid fever is bad
enough, but the kind they have in We'll
| lington is raging"
| George Peabody of Musotah has
broken down and confessed that he is
| a cousin of Governor Peabody of Colo
RADIO.
| Arkansas City is trying to get ''su-
gar beet factory" Efforts to grow
sugar beets in the Arkansas valley
have been disappointing.
Thursday, December 8, will be the
Atchison Globes twenty-seventh birth
day. The occasion will be celebrated
| by the dedication of the new Globe
building, said to be the most complete
newspaper office in the state.
Robert Hahn of lola, who was shot
and dangerously wounded by jeremiah
| Friend last week, makes this state
| ment of the case: There was no
| quarrel. Friend came to the door of
the shop with a gun in his hand.
was in front of the counter and walked
around back of the counter. Friend
| Ill cotd
All right, but if you shoot and miss,
I'll kill you Friend then raised his
gun and shot He had threatened to
kill me once before when 1 asked him
to pay his meat bill"
| President Roosecelt has acknowl-
edged with his own hand the congratu-
lations of an Osborne county man.
The Osborne Farmer relates the in
cident: General J. L. BriStOw was
the only speaker of prominence to
make speech in Osborne county dur
ing the late campaign. He spoke at
Osborne and Downs. Shortly after
the election c. H. Nicholas of this
city wrote him a letter telling him
what magnificent majorities the coun-
ty had rolled up, adding that he might
feel complimented over the result OF
his oratorical efforts. Mr.. Nicholas
also asked Mr.. Bristow to convey his
congratulations to the president The
genera evidently did requested, for
the other day Mr.. Nicholas received a
brief note on White house stationery
on which was the word Thanks It
was signed by the president. Mr..
Nicholas is likely the only person
hereabouts to receive such a note, and
he is naturally very proud of it,
Justice-elect Clark A. Smiths zeal
to take his place on the supreme bench
ahead of the Bailey case indicates that
} he has some views on the subject.
1t is easier to jeer at Mrs Nation 5
efforts in behalf of temperance in
: Wichita than it is to defeat her. She
has the signatures of 884 taxpayers to
her petition for grand jury, whereas
only 400 are needed.
Probate Judge Davis of Harper
county had the advantage this week OF
issuing himself a marriage license al
cost.
Without wishing to seem to stand
in the way of public improvements
one of the Lawrence papers admits
that paved streets are very destruc
tive to shoes
w. Y. Morgan, who owns the Hutch
inson News and other things, couldn't
think of any place else to go this
week, so he packed his grip and start
ed for Cuba.
A live toad, found imbedded in