Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-07-18
KANSAS NOTES.
Kansas City Star.

| KANSAS NOTES.
Kansas City Star.
Farm hands command $1.75 a day in
Jewell county and are hard to get at that
Way out in Kiowa county farmer will
produce this season over 5000 bushels oil
corn.
The apple crop in Kansas is later this
it will be hummer.
One of the horses used in the police
wagon chews tobacco, but it draws the
line at Kansas. whisky.
Eugene F. Ware is the most prominent
fire insurance lawyer in the state. Poet.
ry with him is merely recreation.
The Topeka 7on>naz didn't get the city
printing this year, but lightning struck
the editors house the other evening.
PETER and Willis do all of their spout
ing away from home. They can't talk
against the threshing machines in Kan
sas,
A Jackson county young man, % years
old took his first ride on the cars the other
day in going from Holton to Topeka to
spend the Fourth.
Out in Phillips county a woman II
years old set out rhubarb plant last
spring which has leaves this season that
are thirty inches broad.
Peaches can be had for twenty. five
cents bushell on the streets at Harper.
They are already 80 cheap that grocery
stores refuse to handle them.
The latest improvement in the Salina
peanut shucks in. Thus does the woody
West hold over the effete East.
General Rice, formerly of Fl. Scott, is
operating loan office on Wall street,
New York. The general fought Ingalls,
last year because he was plutocrat.
Instead OF raising the flax for that
purpose aud making its own binding
Irvine, Kansas paid out thousands of
dollars for that article this year.
Farmer Knight, of Montgomery
county, has just finished threshing q for
ty acre field of wheat which averaged
fifty-two bushels to the acre.
The Salina News says that grass hop
per can swim like duck. They are like
prohibitionists- they don't take to water
naturally, but it doesn't kill them to tack
le it.
A Rice county farmer gathered eight
bushels of gooseberries from his bushes
this season. He traded OF six bushels of
them for sugar enough to put up the re-
mainder.
The regular, ANNUAL grssshopper scare
has been brushed up, reprinted and put
in motion. Which reminds us that the
Bender family has not been discovered
as yet, this year.
Kansas has been completely boycotted
by the tramps this season. The chances
for getting work are so sure that it is not |
safe for loafer to strike the state.
The first sight of Niagara was disap-
pointing to the editor of the lola Register.
It takes something more than water to
appeal to the enthusiasm of q Kansas
Every year Major Joseph K. Hudson
goes down to Excelsior and takes a
course of sulphosaline water. The tone
of the Capital recently indicates that he
has not gone yet this season.
Since Plumb's return to Emporia that
town has been visited by some of the
most violent thunderstorms which it has
ever experienced. Is the Presidential
lightning hunting around for the sena-
tor?
Benson, the Mettman murderer.
reads all the time and never joins his
iall mates in game Of cards or any other
He is cultivating his mind
and fitting himself for more elevated
station.
There is one thing which will prevent
Col. Dan r Anthony from ever becoming
> full hedged alliance man. Nothing
would ever induce him to say the kind of
things about Kansas which the PETER
Willis crowd serve up on all occasions.
The report has gotten ont that Robert
Moore, Bent Murdock's candidate for /,
yovernor, has only one arm. He had two
II right when the last Republican state
convention met in Kansas. He used one
or pounding on the speakers desk with
carpenters mallet and the other for 9
hopping the perspiration from his honest !
eek and brow. He has two arms and what
3 OF mole importance In gubernat0rial I
anva1s, be has two feet.