Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-04
5 SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !


A Salina man threatens to sue for
damages because a reporter accused
him of leading "a sedentary life"
John NJ Bailey, a veteran at the
Leavenworth Soldiers home, commit
ted suicide by drowning in the lake
Carr Taylor attorney for the rail-
road board, has decided that the board
has jurisdiction over interurban cleo
trio lines
Work on the Salina & Upton rail
road has progressed SO far that mic
miles of the temporary survey have
been made
The president is telling Kansas Wis
reappointt Gen. w. S. Metcalf pension
agent at Topeka.
October ribs broke today under
liquidation is really a market return
although it sounded like football re-
port to Fred Collier.
Other Kansas towns should emulate
Coffeyville's hustling spirit. Three
miles of brick pavement have been
laid there this year.
Paola, which is right down where
the natural gas is most abundant,
voted bonds last weeA for municipal
electric light plant.
A frugal visitor asked a landlord
in Hiawatha where he could find
good $1-a-day hotel. Il. never saw
one" replied the landlord.
Dell Valentine OF Clay Center has
been reelected clerk of the supreme
court by the judges of that court.
The election was unanimous.
w. H Barnes, secretary of the state
board of horticulture, finds there are
6,191, 347 peach trees in Kansas-anj
some of them actually bloom.
Julius p. McDinough, convict in
the federal prison at Leavenworth, has
been identified as Martin Mcmahon,
a murderer escaped from England.
Chanute's fire department lost $500
on its street fair, although it was gen.
orally understood that the department
was to put the money into it's hose.
The Lawrence World describes a
rich man as one whose ancestors were
disgracefully poor, and whose de-
scendants are disgracefully wicked.
An Atchison grocer, the Globe says,
has found it necessary to put up this
sign: I'VE do not sell postage stamps
on credit, nor do we deliver stamps
Ed Underwood, a Manhattan gam
bier, was found in his rooms nearly
dead from smuggling. His assailant
robbed him of large amount of cash.
Col o. E. Learnard of Lawrence is
planning to write a history of Kan
sas. He is a Kansas pioneer and no
one is more competent than he to do
the work.
Newton is no longer wild, unfet-
tered frontier town, but it is still able
to switch with something like impair
TALLY from a Presbyterian synod to
street fair.
A woman has been found in North
eastern Kansas who is so frugal that
she takes all the medicines she finds
around the house to keep them from
going to waste.
Governor Hoch has granted the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railway COM
pany suit to recover a large tract of
land in the Indian territory under an
old land grant.
Sheriff Timmons at Fredonia de
stroyed 500 cases of beer, six barrels
of whiskey, 5000 bottles of wine and
whiskey and six sets of joint fixtures
valued att $500.
''murder-every day" class. After a
drunken fight Walter Egglestont shot
and killed Will Behen, city employee.
Both are well known.
Coffeyville has been offered a new
$4,000 theatre if it will buy $4,000
worth Oh tickets for the opening night.
But %10 seat is considerable to ask
for Uncle Toms Cabin"
The "snappers'' in the glass fac
tories of southeast Kansas, who have
been on strike for higher wages the
last two weeks, have returned to WORK
at the. old scale of pay.
A temperance congress has been
called to meet in Salina November 1
and under the direction of the Anti.
Saloon league. Governor Hoch and
governors and public men from other
states will also be requested to speak.
Sparksville in Cherokee county, is
building a new schoolhouse, although
it is stated that not one of the tax
payers has child of school age. The
school is for the children of the miners
of the town, none of whom is tax
payer
A Mound City man found a pocket
book containing $50 which he re-
turned to the owner, who offered him
thirty cents as a reward for his dis
honesty. The finder told him to keep
the money, as it was more than he
could use.
-.Crappy Dan" Goodrich, a Leaven-
worth character, was shot and killed
by Jack Johnson, a negro cavalryman,
who was Shooting at another negro.
The negro cavalrymen having been
keeping things lively at Leavenworth
ever since they arrived there.
In Humboldt the city council re-
duced the salary of the superintendent