Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-15
! SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES <st<
The Easton: Herald has, reduced It's
size from eight to four pages.
w. H Ransom has recently taken
possession OF the Downs News
Ottawa does not wish to appear
proud, but it had a tornado. a $l2, 602
fire and an assassination all the same |
night.
fey county recently was announced in |
the newspaper under the heading:
was a double wedding
Great Bend has raised $4,000 for
the purpose of building an opera house
and is evidently ambitious to become
known as the Lindsborg of Barton
county.
Kansan has encouragement for hor-
ticulturists. He says: I'VE havei
noticed that not all the apricot buds
have been killed.
John Q. Royce, of Phillipsburg, is
another editor who has been placed
in charge of the affairs of the state.
Governor Hoch appointed him state
bank commissioner
bank in Anthony prints quite an
elaborate advertisement headed: ''Ad-
vantages of a bank account There
are many of us who did not know, and
welcome the information.
The probable result of the election
in Atchison is further complicated by
reason of the fact that both candi-
dates for mayor are so popular that
the community hates to defeat either
one of them.
Applications for work in the sum-
mer session of the University of Kan
sas are already being received by the
university in large numbers. The sum-
mer session opens June 8 and con.
tinueS six weeks.
The heavy wind last week caused
a great deal of damage to telephone
and telegraph wire through the east
ern and central parts of the state.
However in a very few days everything
was again in repair.
If a man got his leg caught in bear
trap everybody would be excited until
he was helped out; but when he falls
into the whiskey trap, which is worse
and much harder to get out of. they
call him fool and let it go at that.
The Wisconsin senate has passed
the Evans anti-cigarette BILL The
bill, which absolutely prohibits the sale
| or manufacture of cigarettes or cigar
cite paper. has already passed the as
sembly, and now goes to the governor.
H. Pierce formerly superintendent of
| packing plants for Nelson Morris at
ST. Joseph and East st. Louis, but now
of Des Moines, Ia, was united in mar
riage at ST. Joseph with Miss Adelia
Mae Bagby, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. w. Bagby.
The Barton County Democrat dis.
covered county commissioner who
established a new record for economy
at the last meeting of the board when
he kicked on a bill for ribbons for
typewriter ''She's a nice girl" said
thIIf a 1txy &c nm.
der no obligations to buy her Clothes"
Guy Gardner, who some months ago
| disappeared from Winfield, where he
| was agent for the Santa Fee railroad,
| and who since that time had not been
| heard from, and was mourned as dead
by his family, was located last week
| in Carlo, Ill, by his father and was
brought back. He was in the employ
| of the Big Four at Carlo. and says
| that the time since his disappearance
| is a blank to him.
County Attorney Lee Bond, of
| Leavenworth county, who is attorney
| for the Kansas City-Leavenworth
| railway, has filed complaints against
Maret and Powers, the two young men
| who fired into an electric car near
| Wolcott recently and injured two men,
| A Kansas City attorney will defend
| Maret who, it is said, will claim that
| he is but Is years of age and not SUBJ
| ject to a penitentiary sentence.
1.-The subscription list of a local
! newspaper is one of the very best fl
| nancial directories that can be imag
| ined,' says the Highland Vidette.
while we do not divulge it, we could
go over the entire community and
| classify everybody as follows: Prompt,
| good but negligent, good but slow,
| deadbeat. A glance at the various
| date tags beats any Brads treet or Dun's
| commercial agency rating ever pub
| lished.''
Miss Ida Tarbell, the Standard Oil
| historian, has reached Chanute in her
| tour of the Kansas. oil field, and is in
terviewing producers with special ref
erence to the 20-cent differential the
| Prairie Oil and Gas Company main
| tanned between the North and South
| Neodesha fields for several years.
| She will go to Humboldt from here
| to interview Webster, the Humboldt
refiner, being DESTROYS of getting data
| on the refining qualities of the oil in
the north field.
Frank S. Thomas, Santa Fee watch
| inspector, wants $4S, 1888 from the San
| company broke off contract with him
| to sell its employees 1890 watches and
| take the money out of their wages.
| The contract was made in 1896 Thorn
| as sold 720 watches at $50 each.
| When the contract was annuled, he
| had, he claims, 4.074 watches still on
hand He would have made $12
| on each watch had he sold them.