Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-16

20 pan OUT topeka mas decided TO
drill for coal. oil and gas.
The little town of NortonviIle is
said to have ffty-fve widows. For
further particulars go to Nortonville.
A horse was stolen from Salina
man this week and all the papers
attribute the theft to a desperate"
The approach of frost has enkindled
firm determination among the peo-
plant.
An order has gone forth that all
the "squatters" must leave the old
Fort Hays premises, without any
reservation.
At a recent dance in Atchison the
caller sang out: Swing the girl that
bakes the pies; swing the girl with
the goo-goo eyes"
The state board of charities is buy
ing $500 bushels of potatoes this
week, If there is such thing as 1900
bushels of potatoes.
Since another gas well was struck
in Chanute the stuff is so plentiful
that it is kept burning all the time
to light matches on.
Alfalfa seed on the market around
Osborne is said to contain Russian
thistles, and the innocent purchasers
are likely to get stuck.
Complaint is made in Leavenwortn
because some sharks have baled a lot
of scrub oak, weeds and hazel brush
and are selling it for hay.
There is a proud, naughty girl in
Wellington who refuses to live at
home, and for no other reason than
that her mother married negro.
A Fort Scott curio dealer has a set
of knitting needles which the late
Queen Victoria used over sixty years
ago-that's what the curio dealer
says.
Papers for an obsolete legal proceed
ing were filed in the court at Wa
keeney few days ago. Old timers
recall that the technical name for it is
foreclosure.
Broom corn is selling for $3.50 ton
around Sterling, and it is regarded as
quite the correct thing to tie ribbon
on the broom and keep it on the piano
in the front room.
A Frenchman invented a pillow that
is propelled by alcohol, which leads
the Leavenworth Times to observe:
alcohol has run greater things than
plows into the ground"
L
additional coal shafts in Atchison ''as
soon is the first one is a success A
| lot of people are ready to buy Trego
shaIe on the same conditions.
| Warden Jewett has ordered $3.50
worth of books for the state prison
library The money was derived from
the contributions of visitors and the
ten cents admission fee charged
The latest shooting in Hays City
resulted from a dispute in which two
men wanted to pay for the same
round of drinks. It is always safest
to acquiesce before firearms are pro-
duced.
A Central Kansas editor has figured
that two years ago it would have
taken five billion bushels of potatoes
to pay the national debt; now one
billion bushels would be more than
enough.
| A too sensitive school teacher In
Western Kansas sent a boy home for
no other reason than that he killed a
Mephitis Americana with a club the
last thing before appearing in his
class
B. H. Giger's scheme to have thu
farmers in the wheat belt refrain from
raising any wheat next year, in order
to force up the price, will be splen-
did thing for the farmers who do not
follow his suggestion
/ Complaint is made of the telegraph
service along the Frisco road in South
ern Kansas. An Oswego man tele
graphed to Wichita and then caught
q freight train and reached Wichits
two hours ahead of the telegram.
! The banks at Inman refuse to accep
any more deposits. 1t is especially in
convenient because there is no place
60 store the money, as the corn crib.
are all full.
The greatest drawback to the schem,
to exterminate the prairie dogs appear
to be the reluctance of the prairie dog
to diet on bisulphate of carbon aftel
the state has bought it for them.
Woodlawn also has model hus
band" While Mrs. Pearl Bennett
was at a health resort her husband
put up 400 cans of peaches and tool
! care of eight children, besides at
! tending to his cattle and farm
New grinding machinery has beel
put in Kepple's barber shop" says tn
Burlington Jeffersonian. and severa
editors arise simultaneously to in
quire what strange manner of whis
kers grow Whereabouts, that an emor.
wheel is needed to remove them
At the Sterling fair, according to tn
, Bulletin, man lost SIS at a sure
thing game The wife saw the famil
, idiot lose his last cent, and marchinI
lup to the desk of the CRATER grabbe
| a handful of money from the box, toll
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