Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-13
!: SHORT KANSAS ITEMS


all the saloons Of that place.
costing $4,000. The old one was built
in 1868.
Hutchinson is thinking of trying to
gain prominence by having the Salt
trust investigated.
Mahlon B. Riggs, one of the pio-
neer settlers of Marion county. is
dead at Florence. He was IS years
old
Leavenworth has a new paper call
ed the Post The editor, Albert T.
Reid, thinks it WI be a good thing to
tie to.
A Robinson man who made his
garden too early took up the parlor
carpet and spread it over the young
onions
BY a large majority Sedan has voted
for $4,000 bonds for a municipal
water works plant. 1t will be built
at once.
Ottawa has ! new ordnance which
forbids expectorating on the sidewalk,
and it is being enforced strictIy-for a
few days.
Salina wants convention hall
modelled after tie one at Kansas City.
The Commercial club is pushing the
enterprise.
Erie women who felt jealous when
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell was in town, man
| aged to get even when James r. Gar
| field arrived.
A Harper county paper is getting
| classical. 1t referse to the straw
stack man with a threshing outfit
as the Chauffeur.
The fortieth annual convention of
| the Kansas State Sunday School as
sociation will be held in Hutchinson
| on May 8, 10 and IL.
The pipe line from the Chanute
| fields, which is to supply natural gas
| to Kansas City, Kan, and Rosedale,
| has reached Lenexa.
Editor ]. L. Brady of re Lawrence
| World is almost persuaded to be
| candidate for congress to succeed Con-
| gresham Bowersock.
The 16-year-old son of Mrs. Andrew
| Forsister of Arnourdale ran away
| from home last week and was serious
| ly injured in an accident at Topeka
Salina has arranged to have a gala
week" beginning May % and it will
| be the first gala week of the Kansas
season unless the Lindsborg Mes
Siah'' is counted.
The Troy Chief publishes list of
| leading taxpayers of Doniphan
| county, and Cyrus Leland heads the
| list as the contributor of 81, 1865 to
| the public revenue.
Cherryvale is the third city in Mont
gomery county that is now entitled by
reason of the volume of its postal
| transactions, to free delivery of mail.
| The other two are Independence and
| Coffeyville.
General Bells plan to make Fort
| Leavenworth and Fort Riley a separ-
ate Department of Kansas should
| be enlarged so as to give Fort Scott,
| Fort Hayes and Fort Dodge honorary
| membership.
The thirty-fifth semi-annua1 reunion
| of the Scottish Rite Masons of the
Valley of Wichita is in session at
| Wichita. There are about seventy
| five candidates in the class that will
| take the work.
| A farmer near Leloup named Moses
| Swinney recently sold his implements
| and stock and rented his farm. A few
| weeks later he concluded he wanted
| the old farm back and it cost him $3.50
| to get possession.
| James O'Brien has escaped from the
county Jail at Great Bend. O'Brien
| broke into the Missouri Pacific depot
at Harrington some time ago and stole
| several suits of clothing. He has
served a penitentiary sentence.
| In Leavenworth the telephone wires
are being put underground, because
| the cables were a menace TO the tall
| buildings The skyscraper evil is
| one of the most serious with which
| Leavenworth has to grapple.
| Mrs. Mary Cairnes, 50 years old,
whose home was in Memphis, died re-
Gently at Winfield. She was a pris-
| oner of the county at the time of her.
| death, having been bound over to the
| district court on a charge of arson
| w. J. Anderson, a policeman, at
| Fort Scott found the door of a business
| house open at night and while looking
| for burglars fell down a stairway into
/ the basement. In the fall his revolver
was discharged, severely wounding
| the officer.
| 1t cost preparatory scholar at the
| Emporia College, four dollars to
| throwan egg at freshman who was
| on his way to banquet Three others
| cases were continued to the juvenile
| court, as the props were under 16
| years of age.
| Work on the Topeka & North
| western railroad is progressing with
| increasing vigor. The working force
| between Onaga and the big cut has
| been increased by about 100 men and
| between forty and fifty teams during
| the past week..
| Ottawa is making plans for grading
/ a long stretch of South Main street,
/ to be treated with oil from the Ran
| tout wells by the oil promoters, the
| railroad and the township and city
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