Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-21
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Wichita is to have new wholesale
hat house.
Another bank has been established
at Scott City.
The new postoffice at Lawrence has
been completed.
A new Y NJ c. A. building has
been dedicated at lola.
The last rural lady mail carrier of
Kansas has resigned.
Lawrence will have a big musical
festival April 6 and z.
Kansas towns are making prepare
lions to celebrate July f.
The drag system has proved of
great help to Kansas roads.
Kansas agriculturists are expert
menting with sugar beets.
High school students at Indepen-
dence, have introduced hazing
The Civic league of Winfield has
taken up the temperance question.
Salina has secured Sen. La Toilette
for its first Chautauqua this summer.
Farmers of Pottawatomie county,
have started corn growing contest
Emporia is complaining because
better shows do not come to that
town.
No betting will be permitted on the
races at the Mcpherson fair this
year.
The NJ. E. Conference is Southern
Kansas has completed it's appoint
ments
Wheat and oats are showing up
we'll in Southern Kansas since the
recent rains.
A Kansas police judge recently SEN
fenced a habitua1 drunkard to bed
for a week.
Commanche county is the first this
year with an announcement of an
ice cream festival"
The 18th annual tournament of the
Sportsman association will be held
at Great Bend, April Is and 49,
There are so many babies along
one street in Eldorado that it is COM
monty known as Roosevelt avenue.
In order to make sure that her vote
would be counted Leavenworth
woman signed her name to her bal
lot.
Attention is being called to the fact
that no strike has been declared at
the penitentiary coal mines in Lans-
ing.
The word mutual no longer be-
longs to the insurance companies ex-
clusively- There is a Mutual Ice COM
pany in Topeka.
1t is estimated, since alfalfa seed
is worth So a bushel, that a farmer
can carry enough of it in his beard
to pay for shave.
Out Mcpherson way women do
not prize their electoral franchise
very highly. Only forty-two women
registered for the spring election.
Around Caney the drilling of gas
wells has suspended for the time be
ing. They believe there, as in Trego
county, in letting well enough alone
w. Y. Morgan explains that the
American government is divided into
four great departments: The execu-
tive, the legislative, the judicial and
"Joe'' Cannon.
An expert estimates that the OF
tawa water works and light plant
which the city contemplates buying
for $4,000, could reduce the rates
and still give the city an annual
profit of 81 800.
Ottawa imagines it's troubles are
| ended since it declared Tuesday by
a vote of more than eight to one in
favor of municipal ownership of the
water and lighting plants; but in
| reality they have only begun.
story is being told of reporter
| who was sent to interview Henry J.
Allen the day after he was defeated
| for Congress. The reporter returned
with the statement that Allen had
said he was knocked speechless
what did he say them" asked the
editor Nothing; how could he when
he was speech1ess?" replied the re-
| porter.
Thomas A. McNeal, the state prii.
ter, was telling few days ago about
| the year of the big wind. 1.-THE wind
commenced to blow in March and
| kent it up without even stopping to
spit on its hands. until along in the
| middle of the summer he said "a
mans hat blew off his head just as
the Cannon Bali train was pulline
out of Hutchinson The hat rolled
into Newton four miles ahead of the
train 1t had been word down by
rolling over the ground until there
remained only circular bit of the
| crown the size of a silver dollar. A
| tumble weed rolled over the earth
1 at such a rate that it set fire to the
grass with the friction. A horse
Travelled at the rate of six miles an
hour against the wind for ten hours
and at night was just seventeen miles
| back of the point where he started
| in the morning. There was some lit
tie talk of calling the legislature to
gether to appropriate money to pa,
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