Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
Kansas News Rotes.

There are eighty secret societies in
the state.
Rocky Ford of Kansas is the title
of Sylvia
Allen county is to have further free
rural delivery.
Fort Riley Is the geographical CEN
ter of the country.
Elgin is the largest cattle shipping
point in the world.
Small towns of the state are suf-
fering from croquet fever.
Through the influence of women's
clubs in Leavenworth. benches are
being put into the parks.
Moody is the name given to a poor,
defenseless baby girl in Neodesha.
Burlingame's water supply is to be
Investigated. What has it been doing?
Instead of the annual flower parade,
Winfield will this year have wheat
parade.
1t is mistake to suppose that the
cow peas that grow in Kansas have
milk in them.
There are $1,000 negroes in Kansas
"a good many, considering the short
watermelon crop.
The garbage from the Osawatomie
asylum for the in ane is sold to far
mer for $50 a month.
fessor who is soon to marry a Kan
sas City girl is not given.
There is hard feeling in Lawrence
because the county officers buy their
stationery in Leavenworth.
Miss Julia r. Pearce of Kansas has
been appointed analyst of soil in the
department of agriculture, Washing
ton.
Fort Scott is to have new jail.
The county commissioner has awarded
the contract and the cost will be
SIS 900.
The fellow who broke into the Katy
depot at Mound Valley secured only
IS pennies and some antiquated rev.
enue STAMPS.
j. c. Weathers of Howard, prophet
with some honor in Elk county, says
next summer will be as dry as 1901.
He may be right but what does the
81. c." stand for?
Atchison has grown to be such
good place to live in that a merry
go-round which pre-empted vacant
/ lot in the business part of the town
/ lost $50 in two weeks
Atchison has a novelty in the way
of woman loafer who takes her
stand at certain prominent places and
knocks on every one of her own sex
who happen to pass by.
Emporia objects to the Gypsies who
are camped near that town, because
they are so dirty. 1t would take
| about all of the water in the city
reservoir to wash them.
| A new floor is being laid in the
| basement corridor of the state normal
school at Emporia, where the young
men and young women promenade and
/ SinO sInhu RrOWTl'S ROdV'
l. An Atchison man has been trying
to play on a comet for thirty years.
and makes botcn of it still. Once
probably, in a century, man is born
who can get music out of cornet.
Clyde is the shining buckle on the
| watermelon belt and the town is go
/ ing to have a carnival the latter part
/ of this month at which everyone will
Z be invited to eat all the watermelon
| he cares for.
/ John Moore, the Hutchinson muir
| derer who killed his five children, is
not satisfied with having escaped the
| gallows through the weakness of the
Kansas law. He wants to be pardoned
/ and is actually figuring on getting
| out of the penitentiary.
A company in independence has Sc
! cured the contract TO- furnishing
crackers to the penitentiary for the
/ next six months. TIE cow cts at Lam
sing don't subsist on crackers. but the
-mpliment to Independence is some
! .hinE.
The Newton Republican seems to
/ think it strange that three pairs of
/ girls and boys in that town, not over
| Is years old, are engaged. Doesn't
the Republican know that people never
love as hard at any other time of life
| as that age?
Just as Of the eychan-e editors
| in Kansas were abandoning the hope
/ that anytt ing would ever happen again
| in Burlington, a Young woman in GraI
| town flashes a diamond ring on the
public.
There is house in Waverly where
| the death of a woman and her daugh-
| ter occurred only a day a art last
| week. A year ago man and his wife
| di I'd within forty-e ight hours time
| at the same house.
A farm hand near Lyons started to
| His employer walked about five miles
looking for the constable before he
| remembered that he was that officer.
When he returned to make the arrest
his man was gone.
The following fake appeared in a
| Los Angeles paper: The ladies of the
| First Baptist church at Dodge City.
Kan, will hold popcorn social in the
cornfield of Brother Asa Freeman to-