Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-02-25
!: SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

factory and IS making prOnOunceo
success OF the business.
The Winfield Free Press tells of
citizen who is so crooked you couldn't
feed him with a round steak
The official count for the winter
term shows an attendance at the state
agricultural college at Manhattan OF
1854.
The Parsons Sun suggests that the
governor might use in that investiga-
ton, the Search Light club of COffey-
VILE
A man in Neosho county is SO mean
that he embezzles eggs from the pam
try and trades them at the store for
cigars.
The Kansas Security Oil and Gas
Co. has shot its third well. which pro-
duced about 25 barrels of good oil the
first two hours.
The Reporter at independence has
figured it out that the profits to the
state of state oil refinery would be
$28,579 a month.
A large drilling outfit has arrived
at La Cygne to be used in prospecting.
The machinery is capable of drilling
| to a depth of 5000 feet.
Burlington has abandoned her eff.
| forts to find oil or gas, having gone
down about 1,4O0 feet and then lost
their machinery in the hole.
Chautauqua county has furnished
several hundreds of rabbits to the poor
people of Kansas City, the distribute
ing being done by the Salvation Army.
| The two easiest jobs in the state are
| those of jailer and superintendent OF
the poorhouse IN Rush county. Both
| institutions have been empty for sew
| eral weeks.
An editor out hunting for coons in
the woods of Michigan found a pocket
| hn0l< SQT All the Rdi-
tors in that part of the state have
| taken to the woods
The Lincoln Club of Pleasanton will
| give an entertainment on February %
at the opera house, the proceeds OF
which will be applied in the starting OF
a new public library.
Edward A. Goodnow of Worcester.
| Mass, has been good, not, and be-
queathed $4,000 to Washburn college
at Topeka, according to report eman-
ating from his home town.
The last Kansas Day banquet held
at Topeka recently was not so largely
| attended as usual and only very few
guests were present But the speeches
and other entertainment features up
to the usual high standard.
Kansas has an editor governor, an
other editor his private secretary and
editor auditor of state, an editor state
superintendent two editors in the sen
ate, and three in the house, and an.
other editor secretary of the senate.
The sales of booze in Topeka as re-
ported by the drug stores for the
| month of January were several hun
dred less than in December. Which
proves that Topekans, like other peo-
pie, turn over new leaf at the be-
ginning of the year.
The sixteen public institutions OF
the state of Kansas have asked for ap-
preparations, the total amount OF
which is 81 ,62S.5O. OF course they
do not expect to get all they ask for;
| yet as a rule the state deals pretty lib
orally with its institutions.
Colonel w. F. Sapp, chairman of the
| Democratic state committee, has re
ceived an acceptance from W.. j
Bryan of the invitation to address the
Democratic banquet in Topeka Feb
ruary %. Mr.. Bryan writes that his
subject will be Back to the People,
The Atchison Globe refuses to be
come indignant because the death pen
atty is to be enforced in the case of a
New England woman who murdered
her husband. The Globe says she
should be hanged so high that the
sky-larks will build nests in her hustle
A new game law his been enacted
by the Kansas legislature, prohibiting
the killing of game by hunters except
IN the following mum berS. Grouse
Is; prairie chickens, s. plover, 20;
wild ducks, 20; wild geese, 10; wild
brant, 10. All of these may be logged
by one hunter on any one day.
A Kansas editor went to the Worlds
fair in an $4,000 automobile had q
suit of five rooms on the first floor OF
the Inside Inn, purchased a $4,000
painting of Ruth Gathering the
Sheaves, and was about to start home
again, when his wife awakened hin
for breakfast.
Colonel Thomas Benton Murdoch
editor of the Ell Dorado Daily Repub
1ican, who is one of the original squat
ter sovereignS of Kansas or "Sover
eign Squats,'' as he puts it, having
done a good job in the work of boss
busting in Kansas, is now very mucI
inclined to do little ''trust-busting,
and favOrs starting in on the Stand
ard Oil company, win a new state re
finery.
A man called up Mayor James w
4 Orr Of Atchison over the telephone Z
few evenings ago and asked: "Whe
| is our congressman? 1 know but
| can't think of his name" "Moun
| Cochran replied the mayor. who i.
a good deal of a joker, and who want
ed to ascertain if the fellow really die
know. ooh, yes" he replied, "hov
stupid of me to forget. Much obliged
Good night
Henry w. Young, the veteran Popu
list of Montgomery county, the editor
of the Independence Times and ex
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