Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-02
Kansas Hews Hotes.


are looked for any day
A man in Blue Rapids has fallen in
love with his wife. She has inherited
$50. 900 since he left her.
Charles l. Hallam, near Downs, was
struck by lightning and killed while
chopping kindling in his back yard.
The Italian fruit business in Galena
is sufficiently fourishing to enable the
dealer engaged in it to build a resi-
dence. sFStlt'-
One may form an idea of how hard
the wind blows out in sInman from the
fact that it blew a $50 bill out of a
mans hand.
The breeze is mischievous out
around Sterling. A paper there COM
plains that the old stone mill is being
blown away.
Last weeks tornado at Clifton didn't
amount to much-just enough to re-
mind the East that Kansas still has
them in stock.
Lillian Shelton was divorced from
Robert Shelton in Wilson county last
week. They must have had something
in their closet.
Several farmers around Gaylord
have made the original price of their
land this year by selling alfalfa seed
at Sc a bushel
When a Harvey county hen reaches
her eighth birthday she is given a free
ride to California and palmed off as a
spring chicken.
A woman in Strong City discharged
her servant girl because she persisted
in wearing better clothes than any
one in the family.
A man in Baldwin is doing thriving
business by raising black cats, which
he sells for IS cents each. He guaran-
tees them fast black.
There is no formula for getting rich.
The stingiest man in Topeka is worth
$500, 900; the stingiest man in Elk
county isn't worth $14.
E. w. Snyder and a.. A. Kelly, two
of the best known members of the
American colony in Leavenworth, have
consolidated their banks.
At least this will be one winter
when the venerable story about the
farmers in Western Kansas using corn
for fuel will not appear in. print.
According to the Students Herald of
Manhattan, fire started from spon-
taneous combustion in the chemical
COW barn" at the State Agricultural
college. ssss5sqs
Some of the Western Kansas papers
object to the term sfexecutive man
sion" because it sounds too high
| falutin. How would Executive dug
OUT do? 81
A Fort Scott man who fell through
hole in board sidewalk not only
wants a new plank put, down. but
wants the city to plank down $500
damages.
Robbers who went Through the gen
eral store at Danville, overlooked s165
in the cash register.9g But robbers in
the wheat belt have no time to frivol
on small change. ,s
Among the prosperous farmers of
Marshall county are counted Mrs. Anna
Holthusen and her two daughters, who
do all the work on the farm and reap
all the benefits.
The first boy born in Dickinson
county was G. w. Stats, who came
into the glorious commonwealth of
Kansas May s, 1861, in a log house
with the earth for a fioor.s.
After all, the legislative. appropria-
ton of $4,000 to exterminate prairie
dogs wasn't SO extraSa CANT. If the
estimate of 1Oo,Ooo:O60s prairie dogs is
correct, that's only one cent for each
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200 dogs.
One Downs woman is on record as a
kicker because the gas company didn't
put meteor in her house; and another
| citizen notified the water company that
the hydrogen that they placed in his
front yard leaked.
A man in Burr OAK has a bath room
| in connection with his laundry, pos
| sibly to furnish a secure retreat for
those who desire to have, their work
| done while they. watt =
A Western Kansas temperance agi
| tator makes it point to use only such
| fgures of speech as will appeal most
strongly to those in that particular
| LOCALITY. whisky he declares,
doesn't drown sorrow; it irrigates it."
The Farmers elevator at Russell
| Center was opened with a procession of
eighty loads of wheat, from north of
Bison, headed by band, with the
star spangled banner floating from
many of the wagons
There is one man at least in Russell
| county who is eligible to jury service
anywhere When he was told last
week that President Mckinley was
dead he exclaimed: Tell me all about
| it; L didn't even kno wfe was sick
Several Howard people sat up with
dead friend and the next day when
| the undertaken was directing the put
ting of the coffin into the hearse he
| found four wads of chewing gum on