Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-07
Kansas Notes


Baptists feel justified in building new
$4,000 church.
Winfield is going to bore for gas.
and if it finds any the town is going
to have a blow out
The supreme court has decided, in a
case from Russell county. that BARRIERS
are professional men,
i Judge Wellhouse, the apple king"
has sold this years crop for $4,000.
His crop amounted to $4,000 bushels
Chief Stahl is backing an ordinance
in the Topeka city council which will
enable him to suppress opium joints.
Clay Center's broom factory is turn
ing out thirty-fve dozen brooms every
day and makes neat profit on
them.
1t is customary to fine jointists Sill
in Winfield, and the judges record
looks like an election judges tally
sheet.
A hymn that might be appropriately
sung now at the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth is. Where are the
Nine?"
Eight hundred bushels of apples are
going to waste at Cottonwood Falls
and the worst of it is that they aren't
Ben DaviseS.
Omar Gregory of Osborne, aged 60
years. has eleven married children,
great-grandchildren
Dan Paramor of Logan may not be
so ardent hereafter. Lightning struck
his barn last week and killed five
horses and two hogs.
Abilene was boring for oil and struck
flow of brine at depth of 1850 feet.
Now Abilene is hustling for a pickle
factory to go with it.
genuine financier is the Jewell
county man who prevailed on lot of
outside capitalists to bore for coal, gas
and oil on his farm with their money.
The old Marker hotel in Centralia is
to be raff1ed off between now and
January 1. The man who owns it has
plan to sell 1000 chances at $1.00
EACH
Two Mitchell county men had five
lawsuits over one COW and each time
the jury had disagreed. 1t would be
cheaper to mix ground glass in the
cows food.
A shrewd business man in Blue Rap
ids, who had a lot of canton flannel
mittens in stock which he found him
self unable to sell, finally advertised
them as golf mittens." and didn't
have enough to meet the demand.
At the end of the present term Prof.
E. D. Adams of the department of his
tory in the university of Kansas will
resign. He has been offered the same
chair in the Leland Stanford univer-
sity.
Thirty gallons of mince meat, 1,80G
pounds of dressed turkey and two bar
reIs of cranberries will go towards
making Thanksgiving day agreeable
to the inmates of the Oskaloosa asy-
lum for the insane.
The clamor for jobs as mail carriers
on the rural delivery routes is not as
great as it was. One carrier out of
Troy, whose salary is $500 year, has
found that his necessary expenses the
first year were 1924.
No unnecessary time is consumed In
courtships out in Pratt county, accord
ing to the Union. 1t says: 'W. S.
Grant, of Emerson, came down Satur-
day and made a mash on one of our
handsomest widows. took her to
church, fixed his wires all o. k, then
returned home a happy man."
According to the Emporia Gazette
the engineer who handles engine No.
999 on the Santa Fe is a SI-iritualist of
the most genuine type and says he
talks with the spirits of the people
killed in the Lang wreck every time he
passes there
Charles M. Kinney, the nitro-glycer-
inc financier who was killed while
blowing open a safe in Hutchinson,
has wife and three children in
larned 1t was the blow that killed
father.
The unknown man who gave $4,000
to Washburn college, Topeka, has
asked the trustees to hurry up and
spend it, because he may want to make
another bequest some day.
An Eastern man wrote to the Sec
rotary of state and asked for list of
all the orphans homes in Kansas. He
explained that he is rich and wanted
to bequeath to them some money. But
the chances are that every orphans
home in Kansas will be flooded wNh
circulars advertising trundle-beds,
cures for measles and patent safety
pins.
sary to disarm the prosecuting attor-
ney last week. Now when court is con-
vened the bailiff calls: Hear We, hear
We, hear We. The honorable district
court in and for the county of Sum-
ner is now open Stack arms"
Kansas has a school population OF
56s ,OO0-more than the combined
school population of Montana. North
Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont.
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