Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-27
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week by another negro, George Mar
tin, a mere private.
Not finding any live issues to quar-
rel over, the people OF Usage City, it
is said, are quarreling over the man
aSement of their cemetery
Happy Manhattan Her people are
not restricted to one river to fish in,
as most towns are. The Kaw and
the Blue meet at Manhattan.
Fearing a lynching, Dave Carroll,
charged with c9iminally assaulting
Mrs Mccoy and her daughter at
Clinton, has been removed to Osceola.
THE Fourth of July is so close at
hand remarks the Atkinson Globe,
that Kansas people Lave commenced
to pick out their orators at Topeka"
Charles Wolf, city clerk of Hiawatha
for ten years, has just been reap
pointed. A great many other city
clerks in the state, actual or would be,
would like to know how he does it.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has received a
letter from Sicily signed by several
citizens of the island, who have seen
a copy of one of his reports and ask
for directions as to how to reach Kan
sas.
Cattirola-Berc1az," remarks the
Topeka Herald, lis the heading over
an item in the Usage City Free Press
chronicling the telescoping of those
names in a marriage ceremony by
a local priest
Returns coming from the local as
SCISSORS show that on an average there
are three births for every death in
Kansas. In scores of townships no
deaths have occurred at all during
the past year, but births have been
reported in all.
d. w. Blaine and other implement
dealers in Southwest Kansas have a
plan on foot to use crude oil as fuel
for threshing machines. They claim
it would be cheaper and more salts
factory than coal.
State superintendent Dayhoff has
ruled that a county superintendent
can receive only 81 for each school
visited no matter how many rooms
it contains. Some superintendent
have thought that they ought to have
81 for each room visited.
Governor Hoch has accepted an
invitation to attend the Lewis and
Clark exposition in Portlond, Ore,
next summer. In his letter the COVER
nor expresses regret that the recent
legislature omitted to make an ap-
preparation for Kansas display.
Secretary Wilson will come from
Washington to address the farmers
of Dickinson county this week. c. M.
Harger suggests this as suitable
text. '.Ensilage for the Money Crop;
or How to Preserve, Utilize and Care
for the Accumulation of Cash.
A local produce merchant, says he
Smith Center Pioneer, shipped from
this station during the ninth of April
the enormous total of 2, 136, 600 eggs
Boiled down that number equals 49,
$50 dozen, 5, 395 cases of fifteen car
loads. A little ciphering shows that
1920 hens were daily proving their
sterling worth to the opulent.
In order to encourage school child
rem to study agriculture the Topeka
State Fair Association will be asked
by County Superintendent of Schools
Carter to offer prizes every year for
the best display of agricultural prod
nets grown by Shawnee county school
children. Mr.. Carter believes this
will get the pupils interested in The
matter.
Reports received from thirty-four
out of the thirty-njne counties of the
state show that the wheat crop is in
excellent condition, and that an en-
normus yield may be expected. Last
year 10000 hands we're furnished by
the state free employment agency,
and this year it is expected that a
much larger number will be required
to meet the demands.
man who had been legally dead
for thirty years was on Thursday ress-
surrected by the magic touch of Gov
ernor Hoch. The name of this modern
Lazarus is John R. Hurst, who was
sent to the state penitentiary from
Labette county in 1874 for felony.
After doing time fo. few years he
was released, but his citizenship was
never legally restored until Governor
Hoch did the job Tor him.
Prof Clinker has some importent
evidence which he will place before
Commissioner Garfield. He finds that
the Standards claim of inferior Kan
sas oil is due to oil worms placed in
the storage tanks. He expects to be
able to prove that the oil worms were
put in the tanks from which the tests
were made for the very purpose of
discrediting the quality of the Kansas
product.
IAN Effingham man has a bald
faced mule" says the Brown County
World. "A bald-faced mule is said
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