Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-07
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

The late snow has saved the wheat
crop in Kansas.
The Ottawa herd of Elks has been
Increased by 46.
The Salina Union has put on
brand new dress.
The Socialists of Parsons have nomi-
mated a municipal ticket.
All the judges in Kansas have re
turned their railroad passes
The Methodists have started their
annual conference work at Hutchison-
Thousands attended the NJ. E. union
revival at Mcpherson the past few
days.
The "drys" won out in the Topeka
and Shawnee primaries held last
week
Jerry Simpsons will has been pro-
bated. 1t shows his estate to be worth
$4,000.
The Kansas Authors club has
changed it's name to Kansas Authors
and Booklovers.
The Kickapoo Indians want to dis
pose of their reservation. in Brown
county, Kansas.
The baseball squad of Kansas uni
versity has left for its annual spring
trip to the South.
Tyro has closed a contract for ma
tural gas for the city at the low price
of 2 cents per 1000.
The santa Fe is going to extend
its line from Coffeyville southeast to
Vinita, I. T., this spring.
The Northeast Kansas Teachers as
sociation will be held this year at
Hiawatha April 5, and z.
Ames, up in Cloud county, is said
to have two open joints, and it has
population of less than 100.
A road was oiled at Hutchinson
few months ago as a test case. So far
it has proven satisfactory.
Missouri Pacific employees in the
Wichita division will meet in conven-
ton in that city during May.
Miss Hattie Lewis has announced
herself as a candidate for county SUI
perintendent in Winfield county.
Gov. Hoch will deliver an address
at Highland, April 2 to aid Highland
university in erecting a new building.
Agricultural instructors at Farmers
Institutes in Kansas say that the sheep
industry in that state has been neg
lected.
Fear is expressed that unless the
Caney gas we'll is capped within a
few days someone will write a poem
about it.
Kansas politicians are organizing
clubs and regular meetings will be
held in school districts during the
campaign.
The Kaw river is trying to break
into the Delaware at Perry, thus rem
dering the two bridges at that place
worthless.
They must be having an early
spring in Summer county, where
merchant is advertising bargains in
screen doors.
Rev. John Price, Emporia, in his
sermon Sunday severely censured the
"Clansman,' which is soon to show
in that city.
The Making lola BeautifuT' fund
has reached a total of $131. which the
neighboring towns declare is woeful-
ly inadequate.
Mrs. S. NJ. Holden, Montgomery
county owns the oldest watch in Kan
sas. 1t has been family treasure
for more than $50 years.
Newton's new city assessor is COM
planning that the people upon whom
he calls in the fulfillment of his duty
treat him like a book agent
The Denver International Improve
ment Company will probably locate a
large sash and door factory and a
planning mill at Lawrence this sum-
mer.
Senator F. Dumont Smith, who was
more or less exonerated a few weeks
ago, was beaten in Edwards county
last week for DELICATE to the Republi-
can state convention.
One of the Atchison Globes sub
scribers asks, who is this E. w. H.
| who is writing letters for your paper?"
Another subscriber in the East wrote:
Give Mr.. Hoch my regards"
Down at lola % young men who
wish to vote in the primaries. are now
| only 20 years old, although they will
be FL before election. The city coun-
Gil has undertaken to decide their
| right to vote.
An Osborne county man who is east
| ly worth $50, 900 is so stingy that he
| denies himself all of the Injuries of
| life. The Osborne Farmer declares
he is as foolish as the calf that swan
| across river to get a drink of water.
Nat Howell, of Atchison, is import
| ing ice. He has 40 cars of ice on the
| way to Atchison from Waterville,
| MINI. The ice is 20 inches thick !;
Waterville is in the northern part of
| the state; there's no ice in northern
Iowa or southern Minnesota
A Wilson county jointist who was
| convicted of thirty-sfx counts of sell
| ing liquor and sentenced to three
years in jail and fined $4,000 found
a way of avoiding both the fine and
| imprisonment. He appealed TO the
supreme court and pending the appeal
| he died