Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28
Kansas Notes


Huron is trying to induce a tomato
canning works to locate there.
A man in Wellington can't remem-
Der who he is, or recall anything he
ever did
On still day artillery practice al
Fort Riley is audible in Alma, twenty
five miles away.
man in Muscotah traded a horse
for bushel of potatoes, but they were
not very good potatoes. either
Ex-senator PETER has prepared an
index of all the debates in Congress
up to 1861 and wants to sell it to the
government
The most popular person in EN-
poria now is the man who won five
cases of rye whisky in the Conven-
ton hall guessing contest
A Mitchell county cattle king is go
ing to erect mammoth department
store and Office building. two stories
HIGH" at thestown of Simpson.
The Hutchinson News has increased
its size, which is good; and the press
man has quit wetting down the paper
with garden hose, which is better.
In order to attract Christmas shop
pers hardware dealer in Emporia
has made holiday rate of twelve
pounds of nails for twenty-five cents. 2
Women of the Methodist church in
Smith Center have found a new way
to raise money. They are publishing
cook book of $50 pages and selling
it
A roadhouse two miles west of To-
peka was destroyed by fire last week,
and it turns out that the American
Bible society had $1,000 mortgage on
it.
There is considerable complaint in
Topeka because one of the daily pa
pers now condenses it's railroad news
into four and one-half columns a
day.
Since Mrs. Nation sold her home in
Medicine Lodge and left word she is
never coming back, the town is ex-
perencing the first boom it has had
since 1885,
Editor Klein Of the Dodge City Re-
publican claims to nave discovered a
fish in Ford county that has four
legs and travels across the country
from one pond to another.
Mr.. Summerfield of Canton has OBJ
tanned patent on a device for lifting
and moving sick persons What is still
z,
amount of the doctors bills.
Referring again to lands flowing
with milk and honey, Mr. Coburn's
last report shows that Kansas pro-
duced 356,S45 pounds of honey and
beeswax last year, and 800, 952 mich
| cows.
C. j. Devlin, owner of the Santa Fe
| coal properties, has increased the
amount Of 70 i'm TO
| 900. He will have an excellent joke
On the insurance companies when he
| dies.
The Wichita match-makers are try
| ing to start something doing between
| F. S. Brooks who won $4,000 by
| guessing the total vote in Ohio, and
Miss Beals, who drew claim No. 2 at
| Lawton.
James M. Cisham, postmaster at At
Gibson, wants Congress to reimburse
him for $500 lost in the failure of the
Atchison National bank two years ago.
1t was government deposit, but CHS
| ham had to make it good
/ Evangelist Williams told a story be-
| fore leaving Wellington of beautiful,
| pure young girl who fell dead at
dance. An angel and the devil each
showed the devil where the girls name
was written in the books of heaven.
The devil was displeased, but gave up,
exclaiming: We'll, she died on my
territory, any way
/ DIR. Shearman L. n. Foote of lola
has brought suit against his wife for
divorce. The doctor files a long Pc
tition, of which this is the concluding
paragraph: Then she left him alone
with none to love and none to caress
He could bear that but she took valu-
able papers with her. including an au-
tograph letter of John J. ingalls, and a
handsome specimen of tapeworm, cas-
lily seventy-four feet long
The papers are discussing the ex-
IRENE youth of Tom Wagstaff, judge
of the Coffeyville city court, and of
Oscar Learnard, judge of the Law
renee city court, both of whom are
~. John S. Gilmore recalls that Judge
Learnard is year older than his
father, Colonel o. z. 1earnard, was
when he was elected judge of the
Fifth judicial district in 1859. Albert
H Horton was not quite 25 when he
!, was appointed district judge in No
vember, 1862
Pitt Ross, a son of Edmund G. Ross,
the former senator from Kansas,
writes from New Mexico to deny the
story widely published in Kansas that
his father is setting type in Albu-
querque to make a living. Although
rs years old the ex-senator's health