Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-05

! SHORT KANSAS ITEMS {:


The juvenile court law has been at
tackled at Chanute.
Atchison's corn carnival will be held
September IA and IA.
Episcopal ministers have decided not
TO marry divorced persons.
The lola lodge of Eagle have decided
to build a $500 clubhouse
Fort Leavenworth is to have $780,
poo worth of new buildings.
Coffeyville is planning an inter-
state and territorial exposition.
Norman Shaul of MaysviIle died last
week from the bite of a mad dog
St. John has organized a conven-
ton hall company with $500 capital.
The Twentieth Kansas reunion at
Fort Scott brought 1000 visitors to
town.
The state census is expected to show
/ a great gain in the population of the
state.
The state historical society is COM
piling history of each state admins
stration-
uate, was drowned near Phillipsburg
recently.
The demand for fuel oil is so great
| that there are not enough tank cars
to supply it.
An Alabama man asked the secre-
! tary of state to furnish him list of
voters in Kansas
Ida Leihy, Is years old, got beyond
| her depth in a pond near Usage City
and was drowned.
Warden Haskell says there will be
| few changes LII the prison force under
| his administration.
Tho cfa 70 historical Cnninfv
| has three confederate flags captured
| by Kansas troops.
The Rev. c. F. McReynolds of Hor-
| ton is dead from injuries received in
a fall from a train.
Kansas towns near the Missouri
border are selling more booze on Sun
| day than ever before.
Two druggists of Independence have
been warned to quit selling liquor lest
their stores be dynamited.
There is over $11O,OOO,OOO in Kan
sas banks, but the assessors can only
| locate about $5,00O,00O of it.
A man in Erie has concluded that
| the town has pretty girls enough ito
support third livery barn.
George Shaffer was. fined 500, an
attorneys fee of $1OO and $50 costs
for operating Joint in Emporia.
| The secretary of the state horticul-
| tural society says there will be an
average crop of apples in Kansas this
year.
Kansas has a horned toad on it's
payroll. 1t keeps the flys away from
| the Goss bird collection at the state
| house.
| 1t was a mighty proud Indian at
Arkansas City who refused to ride on
a Santa Fee train with a lot of Greek
| laborers.
The bonding company which is
| surety for State Treasurer Kelley says
/ it is not yet liable to the state for any
| amount
| L. T. Hussey, state oil inspector.
| turned into the state treasury in fees,
/ $5,165.53 in the three months ending
with June.
| Roy Coffey, mine blacksmith, was
struck by rock and killed in a mine
| of the Deep Vein Coal company near
| Cherokee.
| The government has appointed
| G. to disburse the federal militia ap-
| preparation.
| Mary Mickey of near Wellington
started a fire with gasoline and the
| family is now figuring on what the
funeral will cost.
| A tidy old man in Washington coun-
| ty removed the end from an incandes-
cent electric nSnt SlODe SO DIS 10 CREAM
| it on the inside, too.
Since w. r. Stubs put a crimp in
| the Beef trust Father Beck of Holton
| advocates drafting him to do up the
Standard Oil monopoly.
| The railroads are fighting the
| Steckel law, declaring they are not
| bound to furnish sites or switches for
| independent elevators.
| Judge Hayden of Topeka refused to
| issue a marriage license to a widow
III years old at Topeka until she got
| the consent of her parents.
| 1t is said that nobody but the janf-
tubs, and there is a sneaking suspicion
| that they don't use them very often.
The city attorney of Topeka says
the temperance 'cranks" are cowardly
j because they always want some other
person to get the evidence against
| joints.
A Kansas silversmith will get the
job of making the battleship Kansas
silver service, all conditions being
equal. Otherwise outside firms will
get a chance
Prof Smythe, one state house bug
expert, says fly paper is no good for
| catching webworms on maple trees He
| says the worms will be more plentiful
in September.
1t is estimated that Kansas farmers
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