Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-18
Kansas News notes.

An army of elm worms has appeared
at Ottawa
Strong City's auditorium has been
dedicated
evidence at Hope
Nortonville is advertising for a first
class dreSSmaker.
Harper will soon enjoy all the COM
forts of telephone
Most all over the state the man with
the hoe needs a diving bell.
One Golf firm claims to have handled
$50, 600 worth of eggs in March
Fred Delano. an implement sales
man: is quarantined in Hutchinson.
Visiting snake root diggers have oc-
cupied all TIE vacant houses in Stock
ton.
Before another new moon rolls
around, Alma expects to have an cleo
trio light plant in sight
Baker university is not only out of
debt but has $4,000 for added equip
ment and new buildings
A public ordinance prohibits tho
town herd from running on the streets
of Neosho Falls after May L.
Farmer Robinson of Butler county
has planted 500 peach trees along the
roadway of his country ranch
A Decatur county farmer took 25
young lambs in his house the other
night to protect from the cold.
postoffice has been established at
Willowdale, Kingman county, with
Nicholas NJ Meyers as postmaster.
An Atchison 15-year-old girl has run
store elevator year without an ac-
cident or a break to the machinery.
AS many as seventy-five Kansas
teachers have volunteered to go to the
Philippines and teach the young ma
tives.
The most extensively advertised boy
in Beloit is the one who does the
washing and ironing when his mother
is sick.
years in the penitentiary for breaking
into a house and stealing a few simple
articles.
A new state law, passed last winter.
provides that no wife, widow or chill
iren Of soldier shall be sent to a
poor house.
A Wellington woman chased her
husband from the town because he was
such a lion among the girls, also so
beastly at home.
An Olathe boy who doesn't belong
to gun club killed a blue heron one
| hundred yards away with a rifle ball
through the neck.
A chambermaid in Clyde hotel
found s1S5 under a pillow and forgot
| to mention the matter until threatened
| with Jail sentence.
| Joe Hudson and his son-in-law, Dell
! Keller, will start a new daily paper in
| Topeka about June 1, to be known as
the Evening Herald.
One Wilson county township pro-
to
| by purchasing a rock crusher and mac
| adamizing the roads.
! A worthless yellow cur sneaked into
| the corral of the Clay Center coursing
club recently and killed sixty jack
| rabbits worth 50 each.
Orange blossoms have been in de-
mand in Eureka this last week, where
| the probate judge issued eight licenses
and married six couples.
While other towns are throwing out
| hints to Carnegie. Parsons has gotten
out it's paint brush and is making it's
! library bloom like a rose.
While burning off pasture a Lyon
| county stockman discovered a nest of
| nine puppy coyotes whose scalps will
| bring him as many dollars.
Every Kensington merchant who
fails to keep a barrel of salt water in
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| has no other fire protection
| The consolidated gas plants at Fort
| Scott have been sold by Samuel t. Bo-
| dine of Philadelphia to the Fort Scott
Consolidated Supply company.
Twenty-eight Greek immigrants en-
| ployed at ]. w. Waggener's rock quar-
| nv, at Atchison, as an experiment, have
| been discharged en- the ground that
| they were too lazy.
| A story comes down from Woodbine
of a hound chasing a rabbit under a
! flying train, the only damage being the
| loss OF the caudal appendagc to the
| dog.
| A pension of SIT a month has been
allowed Spcnenbarger Of Burlington,
| formerly member of the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas regiment. He became
| blind in one eye at Camp Alger in
1898.
Over an article in which she recounts
that a certain farmers wife marketed
eighty-seven dozen eggs in one day,
Argus, prints the picture OF a Growing
rooster
| James F. Legate of Leavenworth.
the pioneer politician of Kansas. the
story of whose life would read like a
novel, is almost blind. He had an
operation performed Ine other day and
| if it does not prove successful he viii
| lose his sight entirely
| Harry Miller of Butler county
shipped a carload of chickens from Ell
dorado to San Francisco recently and
| the hens laid enough eggs in transit