Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-03
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y III Ci1lIuS IN the h1OWa-COmancQ9
country.
Clafiin wants a $4,000 hotel, but
neglects to make it clear what it
wants it for.
Corn may be king in Kansas, but
ais throne is tottering and his crown
has dents in it.
In fattening the Kansas porker for
market the sward will he found
mightier than the pen.
Nearly $1,000.00O will be expended
by the government this year improy-
Ing Forts Leavenworth and Riley
Two Maple Hill boys have killed a
half dozen wolves the past month
that the heat made too lazy to run
away.
Wellington's city council has put a
tax of 81 200 per year, payable semi
annually, on drug stores where liquor
is sold.
Miss Katherine Crew, of Lawrence,
graduate of the Kansas university, is
recognized in New York as a portrait
painter of ability.
With hay selling at $40 a ton in
Bourbon county, the farmers are
equipping their hay mows with COM
bination time locks.
j. NJ MatSon, postmaster at Geneva
Allen county. FOR thirty-seven years,
Is 81 ySlrs old and has pever tasted
Honor or used tobacco.
There is TO be a fencing match in
Shawnee county this month. Such
work in the hot weather is apt to
make the contestants feint.
The widow of the late Governor
John A Martin is to be the matron
Of the girls dormitory at the Baptist
college in Ottawa next year.
Ottawa county, which has a coroner
named Van Schoiack. has ceased to be
merry at the expense of City Clerk
Przybylowicz of Leavenworth
1t has finally occurred to a Butler
county man that it is cheaper to have
well on mis- ranch than drive his
cattle a mile twice a day to water.
If it does not rain soon the Hutch
inson News predicts that a crust will
form on the water and it will have to
be turned over to find any moisture.
Winfield takes a great deal of pride
In young woman vocalist of that
town who, the papers say, Sang Ali
Fors e Lui without missing a high
place."
A baggage smasher at the Atchison
depot refers to a jug of whisky-and
he handles many of them in the
course of day@as crate of
snakes"
All of Ben Davis old friends will
rejoice to read the declaration of
President Wellhouse of the State
Horticultural society that the apple
crop is safe.
Every silver lining of the clouds has
a few black polka dots. Complaint
comes from Southern Kansas that the
rain which broke the drought injured
the watermelon crop.
An Emporia woman who refused to
pen up her chickens and was sent to
Jail is wondering if her fowls might
not as well have destroyed the neigh
bors' gardens as he drouth-
A farmer near Preston whose fam
lily would have suffered two years ago
had not some kind neighbcr furnished
them with provisions, harvested 5000
bushels of wheat this summer.
A romantic Parsons girl has To-
Gated her hammock in the back
yard, one end of which is swung from
pig pen, the other from tree at the
foot of which stands the swill barrel.
D. w. Blaine of Pratt, who owns
the only automobile west of Hutch
inson, often stops in the middle of
the highway and laughs and laughs.
for hay is selling at one cent a pound.
A year ago $4,000 apple trees were
planted in Ex-Governor Morrill's big
Brown county orchard and only three
per cent of them were lost. He now
has sc, 900 apple trees in a thriving
condition.
This year the cheerful Kansas sta
tistician must devote his talents to
figuring out how many times the
ears of corn that were destroyed
would have reached around the world,
laid end to end.
Editor Shedden of the Frankfort
Review had what he describes as
kings feast" last week Some Oh
his subscribers brought in a mess of
new potatoes, two large cabbage heads,
and a bucket full of cherries.
Cattle are suffering for water in
parts of Southeast and Western Kan
sas. Pastures and ponds have become
exhausted and the farmers are COM
PEELED to get rid of their stock or ship
1t to where the grass is green
A young woman whose picture re-
Gently appeared in an Atchison paper
has received a crate OF fine peaches
from an unknown admirer in Mont
gomery, Ala. It was a very pretty
way of telling her that she was a
peach
When a Kansas sunficwer gives two
gasps, lifts it's head for a moment and
with its right hand clasped over its
heart gives one long piercing scream
and falls dead-then. in the judgment