Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-14
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !

county
Six Filipino students have arrived
at the agricultural college
Judge W. c. Hook has returned tc
Leavenworth from Europe
Nathaniel E. Berry, a naval cade
from Wamego, has resigned.
A barbecue was given in Topeka at
which there was nothing to eat.
W. J. Stahl comitted suicide at
Pfttsburg by jumping in front of an
engine.
The lola Record is the official city
paper, and also the official paper OF
Bassett''
E. J. Smiley declares the railroads
reduced coal rates to kill the fuel
oil trade.
Wellington and Wichita are in
dispute as to which one produced
Pawnee Bill.
The Montgomery county jail is over
bles for murder.
Mrs. Kyle Moore, whose husband
shot her and then killed himself, died
in a Topeka hospital.
Miners at the Carr mine, Leaven-
worth, have quit work because of the
discharge of three drivers.
The Pottawatomie Indian pumpkin
show at Hoyt was a big success, all
except the pumpkin display.
Mona Moore, 9 years old, of King
man, ran a splinter in her foot a
The Brown county fair had to put
up SIS prize in order to find farmer
whose trousers had patches on them.
One of the things discovered at the
Atchison carnival was that an ear of
corn never has an odd number of rows
on it.
A j. Bingham, a wealthy resident
of Abilene, died from fright, after
barely escaping being killed by a
train.
The plant of the Peru Lamp Chin
ney company, which had just been
finished, burned down. 1t will be
rebuilt
Governor Hoch bit on the "lost
pocket book game the other night
and had to "set 'em up to a gang
of kids
IF there is no HE'LL says Deacon
Satterthwaite of Douglas, there is a
vast amount of raw material going
to waste"
Protests against the habit of exag-
gerating the Kansas crops are well
taken Exaggeration is entirely un-
necessary:
A bank in Arkansas City adver-
tises: mo officer, director or en-
ployee is indebted to this bank in any
sum whatever
Even if Governor Hoch succeeds
merely in closing the Kansas City,
Kas-, saloons on Sunday he will have
done a great thing.
In Oskaloosa the Methodist are lay
ing new cement walk and offer for
a consideration" to mould anyone's
name in the blocks.
The Lyons Republican and the Cen
trail Kansas Democrat are engaged in
desperate editorial combat on the
subject of hftching racks.
Complaint is made by the Lawrence
World because too many young men
in that town spend money las if they
were in the life insurance business
Secretary Martin of the state his
torica1 society has asked county
clerks to forward all historical docu
ments not required to be kept in the
records.
Mrs. Norman Cone of Axtell while
unloading a revolver accidentally dis
charged the weapon and the bullet,
after passing through Mrs. Cones
hand, struck and mortally wounded
Miss Emma Eighleman.
Our dispatches" says Bent Muir
dock, take up a column to tell about
American fishing boats being shot
to pieces by Canadian cruisers, which
is of no interest to anybody What
the puglic wants to know is, did they
catch any fish,
Within two months fifteen vet
Grams at the Leavenworth Soldiers
home have been killed by trains, and
the G. A. R. may take action to prose-
cute railroda employees for criminal
carelessness. Five railroad lines cross
the home reservation
Atchison Globe: Charles M. Har-
ger of Abilene recalls that a number
of years ago Abilene was a bad town |
Then T. E. Dewey, the poet-lawyer,
moved there and organized a Shelley |
club He got the young people to- |