Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-30
Kansas Notes

Shredded corn stalks is esteemed
quite table delicacy in the northern
tier of counties.
If the bank deposits of Saline county
were equally divided, the $1,342. 900
would make SIS for every man, wo-
man and child in the county,
A Fort Scott woman took the blan-,
ket on the bed, cut hole in the center
for her head and produced a raglan
that made all her neighbors wild with
envy.
| A man in Lawrence advertises in
one of the papers that he will not be
responsible for any more of his wife's
debts while she continues to live
away from his dodicile.'
A woman in Kansas who talked in
| cessantly stopped all at once and
doctor was called in. He found that
corns had formed in her throat and
it was necessary to cut them away.
According to the reports received by
| Frank Nelson, state superintendent of
| public instruction. from ninety-five
out of los counties in the state, there
have been $50 new school-houses built
in Kansas during the last year at an
aggregate estimated cost of 100000
Society note in the Wellington
News: The Senior club of the Sumner
| county high school met last night at
the home of Miss BERTHE Andrews.
After the usual routine of business
and study of the life and work of
| Raphael, various kinds of amuse-
ments afforded pleasure for "Hoi
Akademaikoi'' until a late hour.
| AS chairman of the state board of
| charities. Henry j. Allen is importuned
] for positions by women oftener than
any man in the state. He always adj
vises them to give up the idea of hold
| ing public offices and instead. to learn
| the art of housekeeping. There are
| thousands of homes in Kansas" he
| says, where a girl who knows how
to properly cook and sew and make
beds and do ironing might make 81 to
SIS week, with board and washing.
The reason why domestic help gets
no better wages is because most of
them are ashamed to become compe-
tent in their service. A majority of
girls who seek positions in homes
have not fitted themselves to excel in
| the work they seek to do; hence they
do it poorly and get poor wages for
it."
Mrs. S. c. Cramer was killed at
Galena by burglar, who in turn was
killed by Mr.. Cramer. 2
Fred Slusser, of Argentine, the San
ia Fe fireman scalded in the recent
wreck at Usage City, is dead.
/ Governor Stanley has paroled John
Bell, sent up from Woodson county for
nanslaughter. Bell is in the last
stages of consumption. 2
Salina is trying to raise money to
build a bishops residence before
Hutchinson beats the town to it. If
| a suitable mansion is prepared Salina
will be the headquarters for the new
Episcopal diocese created at the San
Francisco convention. 2
w. M. Morgan, sent to prison from
| Wyandotte county. has asked for a
parole. He claims to be victim of
perjury. Odin Simington, who impli-
!cated Morgan in robbery, has con-
fessed that he perjured himself and
that Morgan had nothing to do with
il.
The prospective quarantine against
Colorado coal on account of the pest
of cinder beetles presents several
| complications. The state mine in
spector claims the quarantine comes
within it's scope and the geological
survey has word from Washington to
proceed with the work. The railroads.
too. claim the right to appoint the in
spectOrs, as they are to be paid by
fees collected from the companies.
At Lyons a solid phalanx of bank
ers' daughters who wanted to be car
nival queen were rejected in favor of
Miss Lowry, telephone girl who
makes only $50 a month, but is as
pretty as a peach
Barton county is probably no more
serves as an example: The tax as
SCISSORS reported only $29 1866 in cash;
the statements of the banks in the
county shows that the deposits are
81, 323. 317.71.
Wellington is having almost as
much trouble as Kansas City with its
municipal water plant. The town has
been without water nearly half the
time since the plant was bought, and
now the mayor and council are dig
ging a series of town wells
The Armour plant at Emporia en-
ploys nineteen men. That is exactly
the number of pupils with which the
Kansas state normal began business
and it now has nearly 1000.
A young woman in Onaga has COM
posed an anthem which has been sung
by the choir and pronounced excellent
An anthem is a hymn that requires
four sheets of music to dispose OF
each two lines of verse
The original sRuffa1o ZONES who