Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-21
Kansas Notes

Governor Lewelling was dedicated
this week.
A laundry out in Abilene advertisea
that it uses only mineral water in its
cleansing process
C. ]. Delvin, the millionaire coal
operator of Topeka, has $642, 900 in
life insurance which the cinder bee
ties can never reach.
A dry goods clerk in Emporia wears
shoes with such wide extensions on
the soles that it is impossible to pass
him on a four-foot sidewalk
Another plant for the manufacture |
of freight cars has been located in
Wichita, to operate in competition |
with the Burton car works.
At the trial of Policeman Hall for |
murder in Topeka skull was offered
in evidence to show the wounds from
the effects of which George Head
died..
Poultry shows will be held this
month in Newton, Atchison, Film
wood, Manhattan, Salina and Burr
Oak. The Helpful Hen is becoming a
proud bird.
The Upton hotel in Osborne, which
is to be closed for lack of patronage,
was built twenty years ago by Colonel
d
Sir Thomas
A Wichita policeman who is far
from being fastidious cuts off his eat
ing tobacco with a dirk ten inches
long, with which a man was stabbed
to death several years ago.
A jOintkeeper in Galena gave
banquet and ball to some of his Gus
toners, at which forty baked pos
sums were served. Then they danced
the 'possum-mala.
A Lawrence man intends that he
shall not be outdone by George R.
Peck, of Chicago. He has arranged
to have Company H, Kansas Nation
al Guard, ordered out to protect the
presents when his daughter gets mar
ried next week.
A collection which melted a neat
sum-" was taken up among the En-
poria shop men this week to defray a
section workman's funeral expenses.
If it had not been so long since pay
day tidy sum- might have been
Melted.
! A farmer near Oswego is building a
barn that will be ninety-six feet long
and fifty-six fet wide. 1t will be larger
than the Hutchinson auditorium.
Five hundred and twenty converts
Wellington opened.
1t is feared in Leavenworth that
unless the state hastens to buy
Stafger's island in the Missouri river
the island will be washed entirely
away before the money can be paid
over.
A Concordia man who lost $50 in
poker game on a Central Branch
train has sued the railroad. He
claims that if the train hadn't been
so slow he could have reached his
destination before the fatal jackpot
was opened.
F. Dumont Smith of the Kinsley
Mercury knocks on the woman who
keeps so many skirts and things
hanging in the closet that a man has
to grope half an hour before he can
find anything suitable for him to
wear.
John NJ. Stah1, editor of the Farmers
Call of Chicago, will be the principal
speaker at the annual meeting of the
state board of agriculture. His subject
will be Three New Farm Hands,
and it will treat of rural free delivery,
the rural telephone, and the teaching
of elementary agriculture in the public
| schools.
Little Cissy Sodhouse, the 7-year-old
daughter of "Cy' Sodhouse, a farmer
and ex-representative of Kearney
county, may lose her right leg as the
result of bite from her pet cinder
beetle. A month ago the child found
the insect eating the door scraper.
She took the beetle into the house and
has made a pet of it. 1t answered to
the name of David and was trained
to drag little cart filled with sand
/ David" was being trained to eat at
the table with the family. A little
dish full of cinders and carpet tacks
was always placed for David" beside
the plate of his little mistress. 1t was
in correcting his table manners that
Cissy was bitten. The beetle was eat
ing its knife
The Globe tells of an Atchison wo-
man who went through the Union
depot in Kansas City and was told
by the gateman that her train was the
first to the right "Will you please
tell me which is right she said, 81
always get so turned around in the
city"
1.-THE man of to-day says EvangeI-
list Williams, who is in charge of the
revival at Wellington, spends six
nights week in lodge rooms riding
the goat, and leaves the lamb of his
bosom at home to bleat with the
kids
/ A letter mailed in France, addressed
to THE Great Apple Grower, Kansas,
North America was delivered to