Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
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use was uulOdoCo los " W OA4~4~@J
and will be great help to the |
street com missioners in keeping
| the streets in order. A new
grader which was ordered at the
same time has not arrived
Russell Record
| According to the Salina Jour
nal, an Italian working on a road I
| in western Kansas was warned
to beware of rattlesnakes, but /
was told that they always ratified /
as warning before they bit. The I
/ dago accidentally sat down on a
cactus and ran to the boss howl
ing, 'Rattlesnaka bita ma lega,
4 no ringa de bella .
The case of the people against |
John Scott, who killed Jack Ben |
nett, while both were prisoners,
was tried before Judge Ruppen- |
thai last week at Quinter, Kans. |
The charge was murder, and a
jury decided that he was insane. |
Scott was turned over to the !
IProbates court for commitment !
to an asylum Times, Sharon
| Springs.
Anton Carr, who sold out here
last summer and returned to
Russia, his native land, to live
the balance of his days, returns
to Grainfield this week, bring
ing with him three other fami-
| lies. He had lived here five or
six years, and leaving, gave it as
his intention never to return to
Kansas, or America. -Grinn
Record.
AS will be noticed, many citi-
zens have requested, and Mayor
Philip has called public meet
ing to organize commercial
Club. This is very proper
move and should be an active
movement as it could do our
town lots of good. Others of
our surrounding towns have
. tried them and they are helping
their town in many ways. Hays
City Free Press.
In the court this week, City
Marshal Troth was tried in the
case of disturbing the peace in a
place where he went on official
business and where they tried to
be smart The jury decided
that the testimony of the gang
e was evidently conspiracy, he
z having been offered no prosecu-
y. ton if he would withdraw a
4 whiskey case, and that the City
:. Marshal is the boss of the town.
legally. and brought him in Not
Guilty City Free Press
The farmers and stockmen al
II over the county should interest
y themselves in the county fail
u, meeting to be held at the opera
Q house on March 18th. There i:
Is no reason why Thomas SHOULD
" not be one of the western Kan
sas counties that hold nice lit
tie three or four day fair eacl
~ year at the close of harvest. /
- you are in favor of the NOV,
NJ don't expect your nelghbo t.
represent you at this meeting
but make an effort to be Their
yourself Colby Tribune.
Squire John Clark, of Orion
was in town Saturday with tn
most of his beard shaved off, an,
. escaped recognition by many O
his friends He marketed her
= this year 14O8 bushels of can
seed off so acres, and kept 6
bushels for seed. He sold SO
st bushels at 81. 40 per hundred an
none less than $13O. He wi
put out 100 acres to cane see
this spring. The Squire LEI
Saturday night for a week
pleasure trip to Kansas Cit.
the first time he has been out {
the country in five years.-Gril
nell Record
A FL. w. Cunningham, merchal
of Morland, Kansas, who was
II Salina today says the prospec'
" of a good wheat crop in Graha
Va county and the surroundir
NJ counties never was better thu
I'D it is at present. Mr.. Cunnini
ham says that there has bee
just enough water fall the
IWo this winter to cause the whe
ort to grow. The snow in that pa
of the state did not freeze al
stay on the fields as it did in tn
locality. Nearly half of la
sod years corn crop is still in tn
ick part of the state, it is said.-S
or lima Journal.
'Or- ChaS. Dickens leaves this eve