Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-12
s SHORT KANSAS ITEMS ::

The Topeka agency pension roll is |
now slowly decreasing
Galena expects to be burning natur- |
al gas within thirty days.
Abilene has built a dixie and now
bids defiance to Mud creek
By fall five or six independent re-
fineries will be marketing OIL
Charles Isaac Dunn of Wichita has
been appointed a cadet at West Point
Himer Haines, an electrician, was
killed at Saliana by grasping a live
wire.
Secretary Barns says there will be
only one-third of an apple crop this
Year.
An epidemic of CHAMBERS is threat
ened among the army horses at Fort
|Leayenworth.
j. S. West has been appointed as
|sistant attorney general in Fred
Closes place
In Geneseof weeds grow to such
lsize that the people use them for
pitching posts.
One of the Atchison Globes griev-
ances- "Some men work just enough
| TO keep dirty
The Rev. ]. c. tanning. an itinerant
Evangelist, is under arrest at Troy,
accused of fraud.
The Standard is running an aver
age of over 81, 900 barrels of oil a day
through its pipe lines
| Representative Charles Kirkland of
SaIina sold $4,000 worth of wheat
rom 14S acres of land
John Stevens, a Missouri Pacific
engineer of Osawatomie, was killed
| N a wreck near Stilwell-
Kansas public schools will hereaf-
:er celebrate January %, Kansas
lay" and May IS as Peace day"
After Lincoln Center has suffered
4 $4,000 fire the citizens have decided
hat a water works system is needed
| The Topeka Herald has noticed that
one Russian crew, the one which mans
he censor-ships, has not yet mutinied-
/ Mattine and Grace Wigner, IA and
lie years old, were drowned at La
lCygne while attempting to wade
creek.
Oil drillers near Kimball played a
mean trick on the Standard Oil COM
Ipany by discovering a five-foot vein
Of coal.
The Winfield asylum inquiry into
alleged petty CRAFTS, it is said, viii
result in the dismissal of several EN-
ployees.
A man in SaIina was adjudged in
sane for no other reason than that he
insisted Salina is not in Kansas, but
| in Missouri.
Henry H Fast of North Topeka has
disappeared and friends lay it to a
warning sent him by unknown parties
to leave town.
The Santa Fe will test all grades of
Kansas oil On its oil burning engine
land after awhile will try the engine
in freight service
Bernard F1esher, an old and wealthy
PRESIDENT of Leavenworth, was thrown
from his buggy by a street car and
dangerously injured
/ Another lola man is going around
with dynamite in his pocket He is
looking for the fortune teller who got
$500 of his savings.
In Topeka the city engineer is try
ing to figure just how many square
miles of asphalt will be required to
repave Kansas avenue
The Atchison Morning Star has pro-
crossed as far as volume 1, No. Al.
which is doing exceptionally well for
Il a new paper in Atchison-
1 The Robinson Index has discovered
that what is called a smoker" in a
lefty is known as tkeg party when
it is held in a small town.
In a storm one molning last week
lightning struck and killed a young
man named AIouw at Florence and
KILLED the team he was driving
| Repub llc cOuntyS PROBATE Judge,
lwho has performed 156 marriage cere-
monies in the last two years, is due
Ito be boycotted by the clergymen-
The Sedgwick Paragraph is of the
lopinion that if the Hutchinson Daily
bee had showed more honey and less
lstinger it would have lasted longer
The Clyde Daily Republican has de-
cided tc quit, but Editor Huff prom
ises to resume it just the instant he
hears anything like a demand for it
| d. A Valentine, clerk of the SUI
preme court, is building model
newspaper office for his model week
lily newspaper, the Clay Center Times.
Mrs Lou Roseberry is on trial for
the seventh time at Wichita for her
sanity She is said to have a mania
Ifor shooting at any one who displeases
her.
Ralph Tennal. who ha sheen one of
the Atchison Globes geniuses since
boyhood, has resigned in order to go
to Colfax, Ia, and run a paper OF his
own
DR. c. w. Newton, superintendent
of the state imbecile asylum at Win
lfield. will resign, it is said, before the
report of the investigating committee
is filed
An inexperienced drug clerk substi-
ltuted corrosive sublimate for calomel
in a prescription and a little child OF
James Tanning of Buffalo is dead as
|. a result