Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-20
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!. SHORT KANSAS ITEMS


Governor Hoch has the grip.
Wichita has been flooded with cour
terfeit $40 bills
Atwood, Kan, has a new paper
called the Square Deal
The wheat crop has been saved for
the second time by the snow.
Humboldt is going after a rubber
plant-just as if rubber grew on trees.
d. ]. Hanna, lieutenant governor of
Kansas, has bought a hotel at Hill
City.
The oil men are wondering what
New Year resolutions the Standard
has MADE
Mrs. Anna =. iseman, who for many
years conducted a hotel in Leaven-
worth lis dead.
Atkinson has purchased a rock
cruSher in order to enable her prison
ers to lead more easy lives
Mrs. Young, aged 81 years, died in
Belleville this week. She was the old
est resident of Republic county.
The missouri, Kansas & -exas rail-
road has founded town near Galena.
The new place is called Playter.
There are 1898 veterans quartered
at the Leavenworth Soldiers home
and about 1,o.y are absent on leave.
George Walker of Clay Center sold
los mules to a Kansas City dealer this
week for 1900, an average of $133
head.
During the last year there were 344
arrests in Chanute, an average of more
than one day if you don't count Tues
days.
Attendance at chapel services at the
UniversILy of Kansas is not complu-
l., l,s1 ,%% DON. -
is 500.
Only four governors who served
during the civil war are still living.
One of these is Samuel j. Crawford
of Kansas.
Thomas A. McNeal advocates rubber
instead OF armor plate for battle ships,
so that the enemyS prOjectiles will
bounce o..
At a recent wedding in Republic
county among those present were
24S guests, a brass band and fourteen
kegs of beer.
1t is found that of the twelve boys
within the jurisdiction of the juvenile
court of Saline county, nine of them
smoke cigarettes.
The first of the Union Pacific motor
cars will be put in service on the Leav-
enworth-Lawrence branch of the Union
Pacific in a few days.
Lawrence's new $4,000 Y. M. c. A.
building was dedicated Sunday. The
principal address was made by H M.
eBardsley of Kansas City.
L. F. Hussy, state oil inspector of
Kansas, has turned $16,1S4.4O into the
treasury, after paying the expenses OF
his office, amounting to $4,000.
Clay county farmers have bitten"
on water TANKS in which they were in
duced to believe water would not
freeze even in the coolest weather.
The government officials at Dodge
City are doing a land office business.
Hundreds of homesteaders file their
entries on farms there every month.
E. T. Ellis of Abilene, Kan, hopes
to revolutionize the sweet potato in
dustry by raising tubers from sweet
potato from the South Sea islands.
Junction City's prospects hole" has
bee nabandoned. 1t was bored to a
depth of 1880 feet and the only thing
encountered in paying quantities was
soil.
The Muscath Record tells of teach
er there who placed the 23d Psalm
on the blackboard and said: Now
children, want you to learn the
Lords prayer
The tria. of Mrs. George higgins and
her daughter, Clarissa Shaw, charged
with causing the death of Mrs. Rig
gins stepson, will be held at Fort
Scott this week.
The Wichita Eagle has a depart
ment of Small Talk of the Town."
and there was almost a riot one day
because a printer changed it to Talk
of the Small Town"
A Franklin county proheu predicts
that the Marais des Cygnes river will
overflow this year. But this can hard
~ be ca.-ed a prophecy-he probably
knows lie Marais des Cygnes.
Commenting on the statement that
Shawnee county is to have but one
for a state office, the Lea
Times asks: What do you
suppose Shawnee has up her sleeve?"
Because offensive language has re-
suited in two murders at Fort Riley
the post authorities ordered every
soldier insulting comrade in arms to
which ne may belong
Bruce butcher, a Junction City man,
was fatally wounded Sunday night by
Private Van Couchie, Eleventh cavaI-
ry. Van Couchie is said to have been
deranged, as he attempted to kill two
soldiers after wounding butcher.
The Kansas state board of health
has sent a number of samples of diff
erent kinds of prepared foods to the |
state chemist for analysis If any I'M
healthy substances are found in them |
he board will bar their sale in Kan |
sas.
BY the new blanks being sent out by |