Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-11
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Good rains all over the state have
helped the wheat crop
Industrial activity in the state has
created a shortage in farm hands,
The Leavenworth Laundry Co.'S
plant burned witn loss of $4,000
Lincoln Center has vo;ed for mu-
nicipal water and electric light plant
Goodland is the place where high
waymen relieve people Of their
money
Leslie Patterson, who founded the
town of Mineral. ended his life there
recently.
The hardware jobbers have won
their case for decrease of the rail-
road rate.
Congressman Curtis declares he is
strictly in line with the presidents
railroad policy.
There was a great lineup of would
be-pie biters at Senator Longs coun-
ter at Topeka Friday.
Coffeyville is demanding city hos
pital. Does Coffeyville contemplate
having a football team?
The Missouri Pacific is re-employ-
ing the shop men laid off recently at
Fort Scott and other places.
A Beloit man bought a high priced
bulldog to guard his premises. and
within a week some one stole it,
The fencing which is included in the
State Agricultural college gymnasium
course is not of the barbwire variety.
A Lawrence papers idea of a man
who mas nothing on earth to do is one
who leaves town to attend a horse
show.
The state has determined not TO
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post in the First National Bank of
Topeka.
A Smith county man 80 years old
had a bullet removed last week that
was planted in his back in 1864 by
Johnny Reb.''
A Wichita boat that managed to
navigate it's way along the Arkansas
river as far south as Ralston, Okla,
kept log book
On the MunseH ranch near Sl1iddy is
a tree thought to be the largest in
Kansas. 1t is 125 feet high and TWEEN
ty-two feet in circumference.
The City Federation of Women's
clubs has petitioned the board of ed
ucation of Newton to abolish corporal
punishment in the city schools.
| Frank COLON, a Burton comfy con-
Wet, was overcome by a thirst at Lam
sing and drank wood alcohol. He will
| be buried in the prison cemetery.
The "new law buiIulng' at the Uni
| versity of Kansas will be dedicated
November 13-unless, like most new
laws, it is found to be unconstitution-
! al.
An inquiry may also be started to
ascertain what has become of the old
! fashioned man who said the Devlin es-
tate would pay 100 cents on the dol
| lar.
The Oriental hotel at Chanute,
| which is quite occidental in every
thing but name, has been sold by d.
! H. Fisher to Frank HardeSty of Cha
mute.
The Abilene Reflector expresses the
hopeful belief that the Kansas suit
against Colorado will be decided soon
not later than the latter part of this
! century.
Somebody recently robbed the home
of DR.. A. A. King of Junction City,
| taking a large number of valuable
gold nugget ornaments, all valued at
about $4,000.
The Leavenwortn police don't seem
to be any different. After a supposed
mad dog had been dubbed to death
one of them succeeded in shooting it
with his revolver.
Tobias Larson, the Highland editor,
| explains that since he has lived in
Doniphan county he has helped to
build sixteen railroads-some on pa
per, but mostly in the air.
The assistant attorney general for
Wilson county, Mr.. Mikesen, has piled
up So, 900 in fees" for himself as the
result of liquor prosecutions at the
| term of court just ended in Fredonia.
In Caney an ordinance has been
passed providing for a jail sentence
and a fine for the driver of any dray
or other vehicle to deliver liquor from
| the depot or express office to the per-
| son to whom it is consigned.
A dealer in b1ooded chickens sent
| the editor of the Washington Register
one of his choicest hens and the edi-
tor remarks that when he finished
eating that chicken there was nothing
left of it but the pedigree
Tuberculosis continues to carry off
more kansans than any-Other disease.
During September there were sixty
two deaths Typhoid fever carried off
fifty-one and there were twenty-four
deaths from cholera infantum-
The total amount of cash held in
trust for the First National bank of
Topeka, September so was $197, 942.5O.
Of this amount the comptroller of the
currency holds $196,775-1S and the re-
ceiver, Mr.. Bradley, s1.167-32-
Charles Sallee of Fort Scott is the
youngest game warden in the state,