Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-06
Kansas News Hotes.

OOO MOTEL
The new Catholic church at Orient
has been dedicated.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished at West Point the first of July
A heel fly alighted On TIA tire of D.
w. Blaine's automobile In Pratt and
punctured it.
Of the 100 teachers attending the in
stitute in Neosho county. twenty-seven
have red hair.
Woodbury. county has contracted
with tax ferfets to investigate it's de-
Hnquent taxes.
The Chanute band found that it had
sufficient surplus breath to blow itself
for new uniforms.
New machinery is being installed in
the canning factory at Waverly and
the plant is being enlarged.
Convicts in the penitentiary appear
to have concluded to let the warden
and his deputy run the place.
A man in Coolidge adyertises that he
has fitted UP an ice cream parlor in one
corner of his blacksmith shop.
An Atchison committee is trying to
arrange for the presence of the duke of
Cornwall at the next corn carnival.
Because he purchased ready maids
coat instead of having tailor make it,
d Dubuque pOlICSIudu WdS dTT0SIcu-
Things have been at fever heat in
Lawrence ever since the University of
Kansas conferred those 1872 degrees.
There are 1872 Congregationalists
In Kansas, and yet New England won
ders where all the Yankees have gone.
A little boy in Harrington who
couldn't wait until July 4, killed his
sister few days ago with toy pistol.
Two horses recently sold by Cyrus
Leland were shipped to New York and
then sent to Denmark for the royal
| stables.
Blue Rapids has woman who makes
| So per day as a paper hanger. She
| can hang twelve double rolls, with
| border, in eight hours.
| A modest man in Troy claims to
have been around the globe eight
times, speaks thirty-two languages and
knows the Koran by heart.
A Kansas man offers to exchange a
mule for a wife, which causes an eX-
change to remark that some men never
konw when they are we'll off.
| Ex-Mayor S. F. Medley of Leaven-
worth has given the contract for the
erection of his new S65, 900 hotel to ex-
Mayor c. A. Fellows of Topeka.
| A Mcpherson man Is sueing his wife,
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shows, amorg other things, that seam
stresses are not always what they
seem. I
The State Agricultural college has is
sued a booklet devoted to "pruns do
mestica." Probably it explains how to
| tell them from the wild or razorback
prunes.
Mrs. r. A. Baker of Concordia had
two husbands and three sons killed in
the civil war. Her first husband was
killed early in the war and her second
served toward the close.
Farmer Hales of Jackson county
| gave a rat killing bee at which 300
rodents and fifteen gallons of ice cream
were disposed of. Evidently the guests
found it appetizing work.
Dogs are not taxable under the To-
peka ordinance until they are six
weeks old, and the number of large,
shaggy, overgrown pups in town is the
marvel of the dog catcher.
Wind was so brisk in the vicinity OF
Liberal one day recently that workmen
on the Rock Island extension COM
planned that they couldn't hit thu
spikes with their sledge hammers.
A crying baby interrupted one of
the speakers at the alumni banquet IN
Lawrence. The speaker paused and
| then added: Il will suspend my re-
marks while the class of 1916 gives its
yell"
Workmen repairing the roof of the
court house at Cimarron found a bushel
of cartridges concealed in the garrett
They had been hidden there by sharp
| shooters during the county seat war in
Gray county fifteen years ago.
James Jenkins of Grant township adj
vertises in the Pratt County Union
that he will pay twenty-five cents each
for all bull snakes three feet or over in
length. He dometicates them and they
Keep the premises free from rats and
mice.
Thirty-one railway conductors have
made reports to the state labor COM
missioner of work and pay for the
year. An average run of 1888 miles
per month was made. Their average
annual income was 81 OIL and their ex-
penses SITS.
| No drafted Kansas soldier ever
served in the army of his country. Feb
ruary Is. 1865. draft actually COM
menced in Kansas and was continued
until March 16, when a peremptory or
der came from Washington to suspend
The draft and release the men who had
been conscripted. This order came in
response to official protests from Kan
sas in which the fact was set forth
that the state had furnished more
tfroOps in prODOrtion TO her population