Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-09

in Ottawa last week and stole 49,
The 200 feet of new hose which has
been received at Horton means fire
hose of course.
Hutchinson is making such a success
of its salt mines that a company has
been formed to bore for pepper.
Some of the richest FARMS around
Pleasanton are about to be pdnctured
by an incorporated oil and gas COM
pany.
Lightning hit the Avondale hotel at
Harrington amidships recently and the
paper there says the guests were thun-
der struck.
Safe blowers got $50 at the Santa Fe
depot in Kingman. The nitroglycerine
fnanciers are becoming numerous in
Southern Kansas.
Kansas is TO have an alfalfa exhibit
at the ST. Louis fair The desire to
make a creditable showing is like the
alfalfa-deep-rooted
The Manhattan man who is being
tried for grand larceny for stealing a
silk skirt will be wise enough to take
a petit-coat the next time.
Complaint is made because cattle in
Gray county have nothing to protect
them from the cold, these chilly
nights, except Texas fever.
Ottawa stole the saxophone player
from the Salina band. and when En-
poria heard of it she sent out of town
and hired xylophone' soloist.
The Eskridge Tribune has been sold
to F. A Seaman, o. S. Chester and
F. NJ. Hartman. and it will be pub
lished hereafter in Alma, in the same
county.
Unlike most men who write pieces
on the subject of practical farming.
T. A. Hibbard, who writes. for the
Wellington News, has really farmed.\
Kansas is much delighted over the
formation of a missionary district in
the western part of the state diocese.
This will mean an additional bishop.
The market is being "squeeZed' in
Wichita. A dealer in such things has
lately" according to Wichita paper,
put a new corset upon the market.
Minneapolis, Ottawa county. is to
have an electric lighting establishment.
Now watch st. Paul. m Neosho county,
roll up it's sleeves and start something
Ewing Herbert is going to give
parlor organ to the most popular
school district in Brown county. He
fears that ali work and no play" will
make dull pupils.
The farm connected with the Sol
diers' home at Leavenworth, contain
ing 12O acres, has already yielded $4,000
worth of products this year, and there
is more stuff to sell.
The latest faker to work Northeast
ern Kansas claims to be a Estate in
surance adjuster of sewing machines"
and some people really are foolish
enough to pay his inspection fee.
The largest peach of the season was
deposited on the desk of the editor OF
the Arcadia Times few days ago. 1t
measured. but you know what the
largest peach always measures.
Nancy Staffieback, the esteemed lady
from the zinc region who tried to fill
up all the abandoned shafts in that
vicinity with the bodies of those who
came her way, wants pardon.
What is the matter with Kansas?
The quarterly report of the county
physician of Wyandotte county shows
only seventy eight births for the last
three months, against 121 deaths
An Clathe boy of 10 years who COM
mitted suicide only followed the ex-
ample of his mother, sister and one
grandparent He may not have lived
up to his family traditions, but he
died up to it.
A Sunday school teacher in Coolidge
asked the names of the twelve apostles
The pupil mentioned Matthew, Mark,
Luke John, Peter, Paul, Agrippa. Au-
gustus. Nero, Jesse, James and Jo-
sephus-
The Wichita man who mutilates
plate glass with diamond succeeded
in practicing his vandal diversion
nearly ten days before the title of
Jack the Scratcher" was pressed
down upon him.
In Kansas it all comes out in the
wash The boys who have been husk-
ing corn if the crop has been all right
are going to school and learning to be
statesmen
In six years the grain rent of farm
in Marshall county, for which the
owner paid $4,000. has amounted to
$4,000 Does farming pay in Kansas?
Well, rather.
The proposition to build electric
street railway in Emporia implies that
the reason that the mule line failed
there some years ago was that it was
too slow.
James F. Rounds of Hutchinson
wants to pay mortgage on his farm
before it is Que. and is suing the loan
company to force it to take his money.
He might try dropping the money over
the transom and then running.
Two thousand Italians in Crawford
and Cherokee counties met in Fronte
nae last week and celebrated the dis