Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-24

Emporia's title is the Queen City of
Kansas
Downs proudly states that it las
not a lawyer.
Beloit has a 15-year-old girz who is
q bootlegger.
Fort Scott has a rail1oad foreman
named Swearingen.
One farmer near Sumner expects to
market 5000 cantaloupes.
A Dodge City banana tree shoots cut
a. new leaf every eleventh day.
An Atchison girl is a waitress in
German beer garden at the Pan-Am.
A Leavenworth woman is studying
the sun spots-she has freckle faced
boy.
The government has stocked Riley
county streams with 81 900 young game
fish.
Sixteen Kansas girls drew lucky
numbers the first day of the Oklahoma
lottery.
A new paper is to be started in To-
peka to be called the Sunfiower Tn
dertaker.
In Jewell county one threshing out
fit has to haul water nine miles for
the engine.
Two hundred and f1fty-one Touring
mills in the state ground SO, $50 900
bushels of Kansas wheat last year.
Manhattan boasts of more citizens
with government positions in Wash
ington than any other town in the
state.
A Downs youth was kicked around
/, the block for hitting a woman in the
face with rubber ball at recent
! street fair.
It is said that the drought in Kan
sas this season killed the canker worm
which otherwise would have destroyed
the apple crop.
The cause of higher education is
still forging ahead in Kansas. Five
new rooms have been added to Nc
Pherson college.
A Butler county farmer turned forty
five shoats loose the other day and told
his neighbors if they wanted to feed
them they could have them.
Longevity" is the subject for a
series of articles to be written by a
Coffeyville physician who has just cell
ebrated his Goth anniversary.
A Salina man who taught his dog
to hold the hose in his mouth and
water the lawn one evening caught the
dog turning the hose on cat.
An Atchison county farmer who lost
six stacks of wheat by a flash of fire
from the skies, says lightning is al
ways the busiest when it's on strike.
The ministers of Norton hold union
services every Sunday night in the
park and their congregation is largely
attired in mother hubbardS and shirt
waists.
Not discouraged with that $1,000
spent digging for gas, Abilene has
raised another fund of $4,000. They
are bound to strike something if they
keep on.
This is what happened to Jones: He
was travelling bootlegger selling beer
| out of a buggy. When he reached
Hutchinson he was fined 500 and
thrust in Jail.
Chanute makes the centipede look
| like a one-legged veteran. 1t has a
| new gas well which, according to the
Blade, is possessed of about mil
| lion cubic feet
Up at Ottawa the fad of putting
straw hats on the horses heads was
in vogue only a few days when dis
| satisfied nag ran away and broke into
| millinery shop.
Hopes city marshal enjoys more
! unanimous hatred than any other mu-
nicipal officer in the state. He has
! either collected taxes upon or killed
| every dog in his town.
Bourbon county's share of the new
| Indian country recently allotted was
| 44,800 acres, which is supposed to be
worth about ten acres of good land
| in the Marmaton bottoms.
An Atchison girl who was lately
| married was reported to have a for
tune of six figures. Her husband
| found it true when her father, mother,
| three sisters and an aunt went to live
with them.
The record for Kansas for furnishing
| volunteers is not marred by Sumner
county, where thirty-one acres of vol
| unteer wheat yielded an average of
nineteen bushels to the acre.
The wheat this year is the best that
Kansas ever raised. This takes away
a good deal of the satisfaction which
the .kill-joys' might otherwise feel
over the failure of the corn crop.
Two prominent state officials and
their families attended a swell we'd
ding in Topeka last week and boarded
a street car for home after the cere-
mony. Both men discovered that they
had no money with them and the
whole party had to get off and walk.
Dress suits are not handy for carrying
cash.
Twenty-Five years ago Jack Hoyt
wooed and won the belle of a New
York village After a month she
deserted him and eloped with another
man. Since then Hoyt has been known
as Poor Jack" and for some time