Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-07-29
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: SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !

A vein of coal five feet has been
struck at Kimbau.
Arkansas City now has 1854 people.
an increase of $40.
Paola has accepted plans for the
new 5000 library.
Burlington wants a grand jury to go
after the tax dodgers.
The state board of control II In
voicing the state institutions.
The battleship Kansas will be
launched August IL, at Camden, N. J.
Arkansas City has voted $4,000
bonds for the Midland Valley railroad.
The grand lodge of the negro Py-
thians was in session at lola last week.
State Auditor Wells has begun an
other war against the school and graft
ers.
Four Arkansas City joints were put
out Of business by the county attor-
ney.
Six Winfield joints were put out Of
,, business by the county attorney last
week.
Financial worry caused the suicide
at Great Bend of Karl Moffett, young
farmer.
Leavenworth is afraid the trust will
try to knock out the binding twine
plant now.
Link Moore hauled forty-two women
in one wagon to the Paola fair and
won SIS prize.
Henry Wagenknecht of wathena will
| build the Doniphan county court
house for SIS, $50.
Kansas has 3,179,5OO cattle, 1,19O-
1926 hogs, 780,054 horses, 2O0,239 sheep
and 114,295 mules.
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| to be slated for the seer etaryship Of
| the board of control.
The 100000 which the state oil re-
| finery would have cost will come
in handy, anyhow.
Ottawa will hold it's Chautauqua
next year as usual, and will hustle for
more money to run it.
Two unmasked highwaymen stuck
up" a card game in a Winfield hotel
and took $50 from the players.
DR.. F. H. Snow of the university
has returned from a big hunting trip
to Texas with 10000 specimens.
| Arkansas City temperance advocates
want an assistant attorney general to
enforce the prohibitory law there.
| George Wright, a Missouri Pacific
switchman of lola, may lose both eyes
from injuries received in a wreck.
Topeka police made raid against
| bicycle riders who use the sidewalk
and captured thirty-1ive in one day.
| The Kansas delegauon at Washing
| ton is pushing Prof. w. T. Vernon OF
| Quindaro, for register of the treasury.
An Emporia man changed doctors
| last week because the one he had
| wouldn't prescribe beer for what allied
| him.
A doctor in Abilene is praised for
| refusing to operate on a man who
| imagined he had appendicitis, but
didn't.
A man whose name is supposed to
be Robert Ross was murdered by
negroes in the Salina railroad yards
last week.
Twenty years ago Kansas had 471,-
54S milk cows; ten years ago there
were 569,353, and this year the total
is 8O2, 735.
Five convfcts working at the Fort
Leavenworth penitentiary fell forty
feet with breaking scaffold, but land
ed in a pile of sand and were only
slightly hurt.
1t is generally believed out in Kan
sas that IL Thomas w. Lawson's an
cestry is traced back far enough it will
be found that he once lived in Medi-
cine Lodge.
Crude oil as the fuel for a threshing
| outfit has first been reported in Mont
gomery county, five miles northeast
of Coffeyville. i.
Charles L. Cross, Sedgwfck county
pioneer, was stricken with paralysis
while in a dentists chair at Wichita
| and died soon after.
The "Meanest Lady, has been found
In Greenleaf. She deserted her hus-
band and three children to elope with
\ boy 10 years old.
G. o. Foster, registrar of Kansas
university, believes the attendance
next term will be 1000, the new
medical school being responsible for a
| large part of the increase.
A Brown county man had $3.50 left
4 after buying an excursion ticket to
| Chicago. He has been there a week
and writes that he still has money.
After eating a piece of eating house
pie, Nefls Jorgenson, an engineer, and
w. D. Johnson, fireman, of the Santa
Fe, were taken very ill and may die.
Since grim visaged war has begun
to assert itself in Scandinavia the
| Clay Center Times feels safe In max
ing the following wager: "Ay bat
| feenten doolar Ole knock spoats claI
out Hans eef they gat busy"
Among the horrors of matrimony in