Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-20
Eansas News Notes.


While the Hessian fly has been
known for many years as a great af-
Fiction to wheat growers in the older
states it has not until recently attract
ed much attention in Kansas. There
has been more complaint of its appear
ance this year than ever before al
though only in scattered neighbour
hoods, and all familiar with the pest
ana its destructiveness realize the i'm
portance of taking steps to prevent its
spread.
Secretly Coburn of the Board of Ag-
riculture says there is nothing so thor
oughly effective in this direction as
burning The stubble as soon as the
wheat is removed from the field. He
is of the opinion that if everyone of
the five million and more acres of
wheat stubble which Kansas will have
this year were carefully and thorough
ly burned over within the next month
it would do far more to destroy vari-
Gus harmful grain insects than any
and all other means available. Fields
so purged by fire this year would have
much more likelihood of immunity
from not only the Hessian fly, but in
Vulnerable other injurious insects for
several successive seasons. Unless
something like this is done systematic
ally the wheat fields of Kansas, like
those of other less favored States, are
likely to become the breeding grounds
for pests that will be very annoying
and very expensive, not only by their
depredaticns upon wheat fields. but
upon other crops as we'll
Baker university is now out of debt
Mr.. Ole Olson, of Salina, is doing"
the land of the midnight sun.
Wichita lumber dealers are fighting
among themselves over prices
A junk dealer purchased $3.50 worth
of old rubber shoes in Salina in one
month
A Sedan farmer marked a growing
stalk of corn. Twenty-siX hours later
it had passed the line five inches.
A Franklin county young couple of
limited means took their bridal tour
afoot toward western harvest fields.
Pottawatomie county man once
had his heart Jared six inches out of
plumb by the discharge of cannon.
In many counties in Kansas farmers
are feeding hay to their cattle, as all
the grass has been burned by the hot
winds.
In Holton, which is railroad town,
bowling alleys and billiard layouts are
classified under the general head of
rolling stock.
A man in Harrington has in his pos
session costly lamb skin, or Masonic
apron, owned and used by his father
fifty years ago.
They are even robbing the cradle
to get harvest hands in Pratt county.
One boy years old is working with a
threshing crew.
Belvidere, in Kiowa county, has de-
cided that it will be too busy bring
ing in the sheaveS to celebrate the
Fourth of July.
An Ottawa man is building barn
100 feet long, 40 feet wide. and of two
stories height. His own house is not
SO commOdiOus.
1t never rains but it pours in Kan
sas. The state is overrun with a
plague of jack rabbits and big crops
New York Press.
A Delta Omega chapter is to be
formed at the State university, Law
renee. Freely translated Delta Omega
means who dealt last?''
The most successful Fort Scott burg
lar is the man with fish pole, who
hooks trousers from the bedrooms via
the window route at night.
George Mccall is under arrest in
Phillips county for shooting the fiddler
at a dance. That is clearly against
the rules, even in Arkansas.
The Goodland News is varying the
monotony of the Who-is-the-most-
beautiful-lady contest by ballot to
determine who is the towns model
husband.
Wellington now turns up its nose
at Winfield and Arkansas City. The
four hundred there have had a genuine
shirt waist ball with not coat or
vest in sight.
Coolidge, on the Colorado line, has
one advantage over all other towns in
the state. 1t has the first whack at
every trainload of melons that comes
from Rocky Ford.
A lunar rainbow was observed in
Winchester one night last week. To
the cloudless cyclone and other Kan
sas phenomena must be added the
colorless rainbow.
An AtchisOn woman and a worthless
husband own a team of mules jointly.
She has asked the court to divorce
both her and the mules from the man
and pass him along.
The owners of Teddy the Terror
a ferocious Goodland bulldog, have
been sued for 81 900 damages by a vic
tim who was bitten through the nose
by the beast while in a playful mood.
A religious Thomas county settle
ment, without church, is receiving