Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-22
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5 SHORT KANSAS ITEMS 4;

At the recent election Lyons voted
school bonds to build new school
house.
Thanks to the industry of the help
full Kansas hen Harveyville shipped
1000 eggs in one day recently.
Editor Macdonald has let go of the
Caldwell Advance. He found that it
advanced about like General Linevitch-
c. c. Davis, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Saline county, died at his home
Monday morning. He was IA years of
age.
A man who has driven dray in Con-
way Springs since 1884 sold his
team last week for 5000 and bought a
pianola.
Marysvi1le has decided to celebrate
the Fourth of July in proper style The
fire department will have charge of
the details.
The farmers around Cottonwood
Falls are having to combat small
prairie fires. No serious damage has
been reported.
Centralia has a new stone factory
in operation which makes stone out
of cement. She also has a new wood
working factory.
A woman in Fort Scott thought it
would not be proper to vote for either
candidates for mayor, because she had
never been introduced.
Bethany college, at Topeka, is TAX
ing recess of thirty days in order to
give the students an opportunity to
enjoy the scarlet fever.
The Independence band has discon-
tinued it's Sunday afternoon concerts
1t seems that the boys were blowing
themselves for nothing.
Mrs. Nancy Isabelle Amos died at
the home of her son-in-law, J. H. Dick
erson, in Gypsum, Thursday morning
at the age of seventy-five years.
The home of L. n. Shafer, east of La
Cygne was totally destroyed by fire
last Saturday morning. The cause of
the fire is not positively known.
Since Baker university was given
"Bible chair" it is expected that Wash
burn will not be satisfied with any
thing less than an entire pulpit set
The Osborne Gas and Oil Co. is now
a full fledge corporation. The COM
pany is incorporated for $4,000.
Drilling will begin in the near future.
AS a result of the recent tornado
the tin roof of a newspaper office at
Eldorado is hanging in nearby cotton
wood tree, or was up to day or two
ago.
The eighteenth annual session of
the State Dairy association met in Sa-
lima lately. The first meeting was well
attended, many of the officers being
present.
The new law for the protection of
fish is pretty stringent, but it is still
permissible for farmer to kill them
with a club when he finds them in his
cornfield.
After supplying the home demand,
Wamego had a surplus of $50 car
loads of sweet potatoes last season,
which were shipped to less favored
localities.
A change in the railroad time card
forced a leading hotel in Stockton to
quit business. 1t enables the travelling
men to get out of town the same day
they arrive.
Henry Kelley died at his home two
miles east of Marysville, Saturday.
March 25th, aged 55 years. The fu-
neral was conducted Sunday afternoon
by the Masonic society.
Plans and specifications for the new
Rock Island roundhouse in Horton
have been finally approved and work
will begin at once. 1t is to be a mod
ern thirty-stall structure.
Isaac Montgomery, who died recent
1y at Clyde at the age of los, is sup
posed to have been the oldest man in
Kansas. 1t had been only a couple of
weeks since he was able to go around.
The gas well on the Conroy lease a
mile and a half west of Parsons has
proved to be a good thing. 1t was
cased and on being tested proves the
rock pressure to be seven hundred
pounds.
Miss Lucille Wright, of Dodge City,
Kas., shot herself Thursday, while on
a visit with friends in Holden, Mo.
The reason she gave was, Il have
nothing to live for She died few
hours afterwards.
Permanent injunctions restraining
four Tonganoxie joint keepers were
granted in the district court re-
Gently. In addition to the court costs
the joint keepers had to pay a fee OF
500 to the attorney who prosecuted
them.
In the fact that three Kansans-
Long, Curtis and Scott-have been in
cluded in Secretary Taft's junketing
party to the Philippines, the Topeka
Capital sees recognition of the great
part Kansans took in the conquest OF
the islands.
The lightning played some lively
pranks in the vicinity of McLouth re-
Gently. At the home of Samuel Miller
the lightning struck a wire fence
| around the house, fusing the wire and
breaking fifteen window lights in the
house and stopping the clock. No one
| was hurt.
Monday night a cyclone visited the
city of Gardner. wrecking several
buildings. Part of the livery stable
was torn away. pinning several horses
under the debiis. The Baptist church
was moved off it's foundation, the
Grange store was unroofed as was also
the Santa Fe depot.