Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-27
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !

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Kansas fruitgrowers will work for a
spraying law.
Neodesha, is to have a Portland
cement plant.
prising $500 acres.
Dodge City, has a new newspaper
called the Daily Chronicle.
1t is said that Ellinwood has
jackrabbit canning factory.
The Kansas authorities are con-
Quoting a pure food campaign.
Emporia is getting ready to pave
and put on other metropolitan airs.
Graham county owes only 81 900,
the smallest county debt in the state.
Superintendent D. F. Shirk of the
Newton schools viii go abroad next
year.
The independent oil refinery at
Erie, is now rapidly nearing compile
ton.
All the Independent telephones lines
In Parsons, have been merged into
one company.
Manhattan has the largest agricul-
tural college in the world. 1t has
1000 students.
David M. Bowman of Fort Scott has
been elected president of the School
Teachers association.
William Blake has been arrested
at Wichita for brutally beating his
11-months-old baby.
Cawker City is in high glee over
the prospect of getting the projected
Salina-Tipton railroad.
Pending the land fraud investiga-
tons, all homestead proofs in Kansas
have been suspended.
John Detjen, a Crawford county far
mer, 81 years old took his first ride
on a train the other day.
Emporia has completed it's Carnegie
library and has called on Andy for
another $4,000 to furnish it.
Macksville, women drove a whisky
drummer out of that town. They
pelted him with superannuated eggs.
Hutchinson's Independent salt man
ufactories are planning to have the
affairs of the salt trust investigated.
George Albin, Logan county
farmer, raised 1892 worth of cane
seed on land that cost him $3.50 last
spring.
Druggists liquor sales greatly fell
off in Topeka last month, which
shows that, the joints are doing a bet
ter business.
The Leavenworth negro who acct
dentally shot himself with a shotgun
he had stolen is dead from the effects
of his wounds.
The janitor in the office OF the
Atchison Globe formerly was a mem
Der of the Mississippi legislature from
Copiah county.
The motor train on the Union
branch between Lawrence and Lea
Il
''The Red Special
The city fathers and the saloonkeep-
ers of Weir City, are at outs over the
imposition of fines, and the lid is on
in earnest as a result.
c. NJ. Rankin of McLouth has done
the cause of anti-profanity a great
service by inventing and patenting a
stovepipe connector.
The Kansas state board of health,
which is analyZing various foods in
Topeka, says some of the stuff of
fered for sale is vile
The county clerks of Kansas have
decided to bring a test case with a
view of securing for themselves %
cents for each hunting license issued
"An apple a day keeps doctors
away but the editor of the Conway
Springs Star, who has tried it, says
one is about as cheep as the other
this year.
Many Kansas points are complain
ing that a new disease is epidemic
among horses. Hundreds of animals
have died in the last two months from
this cause.
Mrs Joseph Garland of Cawker
City is an enemy of race suicide. She
is proud of her thirteen children and
five grandchildren. Mrs. Garland is
81 years old.
There is no likelihood that Kansas
will follow New Yorks example this
year by asking one of its senators to
resign. The Kansas legislature will
not meet unit next year.
Representative J. NJ. Miller and Vic
tor Murdoch of Kansas are after a
s25, 700 appropriation for the establish
ment of a fish hatchery in Butler
county on the Walnut river.
The story that Frederick Funston
swan the Bag Bag has been eliminat-
ed from the Kansas school history;
but the fact remains practically undis-
puted that he waded the Rio Grande-
Clay Center citizens are enjoying
vitriolic fight among the newspapers
of that town, that is, those who are
not mixed up in the fight are enjoy
in git
Henry Van Leeuwen. of Ottawa,
controls the cheese output of Kansas
He operates eighteen of the twenty
four plants and ships the finished pro-
duct to the seaboard by the train
load
A Leavenworth man who is the
father of fifteen children, all living.