Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
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The Excelsior mills in Marshall
county, which were destroyed by fire
recently, will be rebuilt
A Smith Center woman is advertis-
ing for set of lower teeth which she
lost at the county fair.
Howard is the old-fashioned town
where the editor extends thanks for
a mess of cantaloupes.
A Topeka company is starting
factory at Concordia to manufacture
toilet soap and buttermill1-
Henry Chambers, a laborer, while
digging a ditch at Leavenworth found
six old gold pieces in tin box
The village of Latham, near Win
field, was nearly destroyed by fire
Sunday night, the loss being 100000
|, Carr Taylor, attorney for the rail-
road board, declares he will prosecute
all state officials who ride on passes.
The advance in oil is said to be
worth $4,000 day to Kansas, and o.
particular benefit to low grade wells.
A man in Emporia who started to
talk in favor of street fair for next
year was saved by the intervention OF
the police.
In the last three months forty-seven
new state banks have been organized
in Kansas, with an aggregate capital
of $57S,0OO
Col. o. e. Learned, who owned the
Lawrence Journal twenty years has
sold the paper to G. E. Carroll and H.
G. Sticher of Alma.
There is an epidemic of typhoid fe.
yer at the insane asylum at Topeka,
and the source is laid to the ice used
by the institution.
There is said to be no hope of an
amicable settlement of the coal rate
case and the state board and the rail-
roads will now fight it out
An lola man has ordered an auto
mobile which local paper described
as regular Pullman train, con-
densed, in its appointments"
Mrs. S. J. Grandslaff, wife of
Great Bend teamster, while insane
tried to poison her two children and
then kill herself, but failed.
The department of agriculture says
somebody is raising cranberries in
Kansas, and the state board of agri-
culture wants to know who it is.
The Newton Weekly Journal started
on Vol. XXXIV last week, and in the
language of the circus poster it is
greater and grander than ever"
Clay Center's firemen cleaned up
two first, one second and tie on
third prize in four contests at the fire
mems tournament at Junction City
Secretary Barnes of the state horti-
culture society advocates public own
ership of cemeteries. Washington
county has the most cemeteries, forty
seven, and Marshall county the largest
acreage, 300.
II Of he nov a.
tional bank took no chances and
waiteda day to open the bank Sep
TENDER A. The day officially set was
September Is.
A bootlegger was found guilty on
four counts of selling liquor at the
Spiritualist camp meeting in Delphois,
and was fined $400 and given four
months in jail.
Governor Hock has been invited to
attend a meeting OF governors In
Washington at which steps will be
taken to change the presidential in
auguration date.
One of the weeks interesting news
paper changes is the sale of the An
thony Bulletin. D. T. Armstrong sold
the property to w. L. Hutchinson, one
of it's former owners.
The biggest cabbage crop in Kansas
is being grown on the state prison
farm at Leavenworth, and $50 barrels
of kraut will be put up for the prison
tables this fall and winter.
Governor Hoch has ordered the
state accountant to find out how much
the old state board of charities spent
in paying employees for extra work not
counterbalanced by law.
il Brady of Lawrence recalls that
when Senator Jim Lane was asked
whether the killing of jenkins would
not ruin him politically, he exclaimed:
Dead men don't live long"
Dell Travis, the state game warden,
says the new game law will bring in
a revenue of $25, 900 a year, which will
pay all the expenses of the warden's
office and of the state fish hatchery.
In case of a sudden invasion by
foreign foe Kansas people will gather
around Fort Riley for protection The
war department has just shipped
thirty-six carloads of rapid-firing guns
to that fort
Superintendent Dayhoff says cor
| poral punishment is legal in Kansas,
| except pulling the ears, nose or hair,
| or the use of the ruler on the palm
| The ruler may be applied elsewhere
with perfect propriety.
Garrett lays claim to having tho
| only self-flushing sewerage system in
the state The workmen tapped
| spring and Connected it with the pipes
Out in Meade county there is only
one family in the school district and
| one child of school age in that family.
The father and son have elected them