Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07
LATEST KANSAS ITEMS

On the Lookout for crisp ones, makes
use of the word .'pthisozoics."
As another holiday incentive an
Atchison dentist advertises a reduced
rate on Christmas crown and bridge
work.
Out of S64 votes cast in Abilene at
the recent election the canvassing
board threw out 256, or so per cent. as
defective
A woman in Arkansas City is adver-
Using that she will give a reward of
$40 for the return of her husband.
dead or alive.
The Kansas Gas Protective Associa-
lion is expected to issue a statement
that the pipe line was not destroyed
by dynamite, but by cinder beetles.
Out in Preston the superintendent of
schools, who received the sum of $50
! month for his services, has resigned
ito accept a position feeding cattle"
we'll digger in Salina succeeded in
pushing the long ladder out of the
well and then had to call loudly sew
eral hours for help before he was able
to get out
A party of millionaires in a private
car passed through Abilene a few days
ago, but the Reflector says they at
tracted less attention than the rosy
checked bride in the chair car.
The only clue to the ''Hugger" who
is frightening young women in Con-
cordia is that mis- first name is
Jack"
The Coffeyville dynamiters should
be given treatment right away, be.
fore they become addicted to hitting
the pipe.
According to the Official count of the
state canvassing board, the total vote
for governor this year was 322, 4CS.
This is an increase of 25 900 over two
years ago. A Topeka man won an
automobile by guessing within two
votes of the total.
During the past two years there
| have been eleven designations among
the professors in the Kansas state ag-
| riCultural college at Manhattan, and
twelve among the assistants. Salaries
too small.
A man out in Kiowa county is re-
| ported to have fractured his right
skull by falling from load of hay. 2
The success of the penitentiary
Irvine plant has inspired the sugges-
ton of building state oil refinery.
Editor Welter of the Belle PLANE
Defender sold his paper last week to
Byron Cain, a heavyweight, who is ex-
pected to change its name to the Ag-
6ressor.
| Montgomery countys pipe line dy-
namiters seem to have found a way to
make their cause as unpopular as pos
sible.
If the Clay Center library has too
large a percentage or fiction it may
be attributed to the fact that Mrs.
Story is the librarian.
Seth Wells has reduced the name of
the Erie Republican-Record to plain
Erie Record: The name Republican
was superfluous, especially as Mr.,
| Wells is the state auditor.
Work was begun on a new SOO-foot
bridge across the Arkansas river south
of Ellinwood.
The Junction City Republic num-
bers Marie Corelli' among it's staff
Of country correspondents.
| The Boston minister who declared
that Kansas is undoubtedly the most
Christian commonwealth in the world
probably got his information second
hand.
State Superintendent Dayhoff be.
lieves that school officers in Kansas
| should receive more pay, that the tax
limit should be made considerably
higher, and that the qualifications OF
teachers should be raised.
An old-fashioned singing school,
has been discovered in Chase county
not far from Cottonwood Falls.
Most of the weekly papers managed
to squeeze into twelve pages last week,
although some required sixteen, and
the Delphos Republican was over
crowded in twenty-four.
| There are almost as many gas In
functions as gas wells in Montgomery
county.
The Topeka druggists are reported
to be manufacturing large quantities
of whisky for the legislative trade
and marking up the price of poker
chips.
Arkansas City has her tow line out
for a sugar beet factory" 1t is pre-
sumeG, however, that she would be-
satisfied with a beet sugar factory.
While cases of small POKE are re
ported from many Kansas towns
scared about it as in former years
Science has made wonderful progress.
in the treatment of this disease. an6
a great many people have ceased tt
worry, even when it is in their imme
diate neighborhood.
Washburn college at Topeka was
named in honor of Ichabod washburn
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