Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
! SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

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There are to be two new telephone
lines enter Corning in the near future.
Paul Kirk has secured an interest
in the Garrett Journal and Garrett
Evening News
Mr.. Sprig, an old resident of Jar
balo, was thrown from his wagon and
killed in a runaway recently
Emporia Republicans expect their
nominee for mayor, O. B. Hardcastle,
Conner Davies is now publishing
daily edition of his Kansan, thus Civ
ing Concordia two daily papers.
A. S. Hobart, for some years with
the Mail and Breeze, has bought an
interest in the Independent Journal
at Ottawa.
Arkansas City hopes to elect sat
lsfactory set of officials next month,
although there are only four tickets
in the field.
A man named Shindle while driv-
ing a team near Phillipsburg, was run
down by train and killed. His team
escaped injury.
A Topeka druggist is thinking of
moving to Panan He has been told
that whisky SELL fo- fifty cents
uOWn ln0To-
A car of Kansas eggs, 400 cases,
and the first car to be shipped this
| season, were recently sent from Ott-
ava to New York.
Harvey Ford brought suit for a
divorce from Martha Ford in Topeka
this week and neither one shows any
dispositinn to capitulate.
Otto Luck, of Whiting, was the vic
tim of a runaway last week Tlthough
| the buggy and the harness were to-
tai wreck, Otto is doing well.
Item from Pleasanton Observer
The girls are playing basket ball every
night this week and getting in shape
for the big game with FIT. Scott.
The political slate having been
pretty well cleaned off for this time 5,
a number of citizens of Kansas will
soon get busy running for office in
1906.
One Third district paper has dis
| covered that the Standard Oil
octopus has tail and that Con-
gresham Campbell is the man who
| twisted it.
Robbers who broke into the Milton
State bank a few nights ago were
rewarded for several hours of hard
and dangerous work by a haul of
fifty cents.
| Fort Scott might have known when
| it nominated an undertaken for mayor
that a large number of paragraphs
| about the deafness of the town would
/ be inevitable.
| Closing the Joints in Salina the
other day has already resulted in the
discontinuance of the paid fire de-
partment, and stopped all street i'm
provements. 1t means loss OF $12,OO0
of revenue to the city.
| At Pleasant Hill, while Mrs. William
Hendrix was burning the brush and
| trash which had accumulate in the
| yard during winter, her dress caught
fire and before it could be put out,
she was burned so badly that she died.
| Governor Hoch announced yesterday
that the battle ship Kansas will be
christened with a bottle of Kansas
crude oil. 1t would also be an apprO-
pirate idea, in order to make the bot
tie pop, to charge it with Kansas nat
ural gas.
! Over 500 teachers attended the An
nual Convention of the Northeastern
Kansas Teachers Association wsich
was held at, the University of Kansas
| last week. A number of interesting
papers were read and fully discussed,
much good being derived by the teach
erS.
| w. H. Woodbury., farmer in Mitch
ell County, decided to move to town,
| and sold his farm. When he came to
move, however, he could find no
house, so he simply moved the house
| from his farm, distance of three
miles. Three traction engines did the
| work.
The richest 4OO-acre farm in the
world is said to be located near
Neodesha. Its value is nearly $4,000
90, and its annual output is about
$S,OOO,O00, 1t belongs to the Standard
| tanks. Not dollars worth of any
farm.
A large number of Kansas teachers
are planning to enter the spring
courses at the university, which are
open to teachers whose schools
close in April. This enables them to
earn half a credit toward a degree
in each subject and also articulates
them with the work of the summer
session.
Recently a party of farmers near
Leloup, interposed with the laying
\ of gas mains in that vicinity. The
gas company claims to have contracts
| to cross the farms and the farmers
i question the existance of such con-
i tracts. The farmers are now in ad-
vantage, and the mater will be settled
i in court.
4 Disguised with Topeka and the re,
suit of her efforts to establish a rest
room and school for w. c. T. U.
workers there. Mrs. Carrie Nation
has decided to pull out of the wicked