Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-03-25
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Baldwin is going to have a new lum-
Der yard.
Kelley is one # the remaining towns
where the city prison is called cal
aboose-"
The Standard Oil does not believe in
Kansas, and Mr.. Ware may write a
poem about it.
S. S. Hoover, of Coffeyville is in
Peru looking after his interest in the
gas wells there
Gas City has been improving during
the last few months. 1t has built a
number of new homes.
L. t. Hussey of Usage county, the
new state oil inspector, is likely to be
buster than his predecessor
E. E. Myers is spending a few days
in LccomptCn fixing his farm that he
bought from ]. H. McClanahan-
! The postmaster in Delphos, who
heretofore has overlooked nothing, has
appointed Miss Chance to be his de-
putty.
An Atchison politician is SO clever
that the Globe declares he can tackle
a crowd of ten men and get eleven
votes.
Chas. E. Banker, of Salina was sue
cessful for the nomination for railway
mail clerk. He was appointed last
Tuesday.
J. w. Burk ex-country commissioner,
of Gypsum, is seriously ill of heart
trouble at his home six miles north of
Gypsum.
The opinion has been expressed that
President Roosevelt would enjoy being
a citizen of Kansas during these siren
uous times.
] w. Buckle and H. Woo have organ
lied a telephone company at Pittsburg.
They will start ort with two thousand
feet of wire.
J. H. Franklin, of Humboldt. has
just been offered $4,000 for his gas
lion cubic feet.
After studying the new game law
carefully the Hutchinson News finds
there is no change in the season for
hunting trouble
The bank of Chapman has moved in
to it's new place of business. 1t is
now in the new bui- -ng C. DR.. McShea
On Marshall avenue.
The WI ting journal has cornstalk
that Mrs. G. B. Wheeler brought in
that is 103 feet high. 1t was raised
by her in her garden.
The Orient graders are making the
dirt fly at Eldorado, and it is thought
that the laying of track will begin
about the 1st of May
The destruction OF John Fierys
home in LeavenHorth Oy fire Tuesday
night is quite certain to be commented
upon all over the state.
E. B. Manning of FIT. Scott, is the
s composer of a lively two step called
Teddy, the Whitehouse. 1t has been
published by Chicago firm.
Dad Stypes, of Olathe, had his toe
amputated at Springfield, Mo-, last
week He has been in the employ of
the Frisco system for ten years.
Since the adjournment of the
legislature the Chanute date line is
expected to crowd Topeka completely
off the first page of the newspaper.
A Kansas City, Kan, man confes-
ses to 6S years has welded woman
one year his senior. By the way, DR..
Osler's attention is called to this item.
The man who is willing to promise
to build an oil refinery if he is given q
site and a considerable bonus is
beginning to infest the towns in the
oil district
The houses of Smith Center are all
occupied and the town is calling to
have investors build a few new houses,
which shows that Smith Center is
building up.
! Arkansas City is getting so accus-
toned to big events in these stirring
times that the bringing in of the lat
est big gas well caused hardly ripple
of excitement in the town.
D The Beioit Call says that there will
be SO Sundays this year. and it will not
happen again for ITO years to come,
but it is bound to happen every time
that New Year comes on Sunday.
4 The Winchester Star says that the
Winchester Telephone Co. has men
putting up poles for the new line be-
tween Winchester and Oskaloosa. They
will have a direct line to the county
scat.
Carl Cavney of Baxter Springs, Kan,
had the misfortune to lose his valuable
driving colt the other day. 1t was SO
injured in the field on barbed wire,
where was playing, that it had to
be killed. 1t was worth 5000.
That the lawmakers CT Kansas are
not serving the state altogether for
| their health IS SurmiSed from the fact
that they adjourned in very few days
after their pay as legislators dropped
from So per day down to nothing.
Nearly all of the big eastern mag
azines have lately had representatives
in the Kansas oil fields gathering data
for articles on the big fight with the