Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-24
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

In western Kansas the football sea-
son is still at its height
Hodgeman county still has room for
an occasional prairie fire.
Lead ore of high grade has been
found in railroad cut south of Cher
okee.
An epidemic of measles in Frank
lin county has necessitated closing
many of the schools.
In Stockton, when a building has a
frontage of more than thirty feet, it
is referred to as block"
1t is the Marysville Democrats idea
that ST. Valentines day and All Fools
day ought to be combined.
A stranger was looking for work.
in Newton this week and the sheriff
thought he was crazy and locked him
up.
The executive council urned down,
as excessive, bill of sos for water
used in the statehouse during Janu-
ary-
Twelve students in the University
of Kansas have volunteered to go as
FOREIGN missionaries when opportun-
ity offers.
An Atchison tax dodger is protest
ing because a $3.50 piano has been
bought for the high school pupils to
''thump on"
The county commissioners of Ne
maha county, Kansas, pay a bounty
of cents for crows heads in lots of
ten or more.
H. c. Livermon, who has been man.
ager of the Johnson County Co-opera-
has resigned.
Admiral Togo is to visit America
late in the spring and Ottawa contem-
a ms him tO a Ike a
at the Chautauqua.
Amos Steelsmith, a former oil re-
| finer at Pittsburg, Pa, but now of
Independence says the new state re-
finery will surely pay.
An alert officer in independence ar
rested a man and booked him for
thinking of breaking into a jewelry
| store window"
Secretary of State Burrows will
| spend $4,000 wit. the press of Kan
sas this year in advertising three
constitutional amendments.
The simple life at Macksville was
disturbed last week by the arrest of
| five boys for ''tacktacking'' the win
dow of prominent citizen.
President Glass of Washburn col
| lege, Topeka, has succeeded in rails
| ing second $1,000 toward the mil
lion dollar endowment of the college.
Abilene will vote bonds in a few
| days to erect a high school building.
The high school has been holding its
| sessions in the loft above the hose
| cart house.
| The government is erecting Y. M.
| c. A. building at Fort Leavenworth.
| The Hutchinson News has suspected
| for some time that the government
| needed one.
n
| has dwindled down to a point where
the papers editorially devote only
about six columns each to the Allen
Scott contest.
| Bent Murdoch, who is sick, protests
| that he takes hot salt baths, hot salt
bags in his bed. hot flat irons and hot
stove lids, eats hot victuals and drinks
hot drinks, and still he can't get
warm.
w. w. Lockwood of Winfield is
| building a freak dwelling. The base
ment and first story from a perfect
circle, and the second story is an oc-
| tangle. circular porch surrounds
| the house.
Judge Theodosius Botkin, now the
| United States consul in Port Louis,
| Mauritus, writes an interesting four
column letter to the comrades of Joe
Hooker Post No. II, G. A. r., OF
| Hutchinson.
A woman who appeared to be un
| der the influence of liquor danced and
| screamed on the main street in Pitts
burg a few days ago, but the police
let her go on the theory that she was
simply ''hoppfn' mad"
Jacob Boudrie, a trapper "a years
old, is at it again. He is camping in
| the northern part of Leavenworth
county, Kansas, where he has set his
| traps and snareS. This has been his
custom every winter for years.
Henry Avery & Son of Wakefield
| will ship their entire stock of Per
cheron horses to the State Agricul
tural college, February II, where
they will be at the disposal of the
students for judging purposes
I'VE hear so much about putting
| the Bible in the schools observes
the St Paul Journal IF the sermons
published in the newspapers may be
taken as a guide, the Bible should
be put back in the pulpit first
There is only one negro in Smith
county and he is so discreet that
the politicians do not know whether
he is Republican, Democrat or q
Populfst- Perhaps, under the new
political alignment he is all three.
Writing home from Ceylon E. w
the prettiest tropical island in the
lounging about the hotel 1 so much
on shipboard- Tomorrow 1 shall stil
| Oh <,rrf - r.