Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-23
Kansas Notes

Fifty conversions each night for
ten nights is the record of the Win
field revival.
An Atchison woman set fire to her
dress while smoking pipe and was
burned to death
The compulsory school law which is
supposed to be in force in Kansas leaks
badly in Wamego.
One Beloit girl is incapacitated from
playing the piano by having had a
finger crushed in clothes wringer-
A Cowley county man has 10000
bushels of apples in storage and tells
all inquirers there isn't going to be-
any core
A lazy man in Eldorado has fixed up
a motto that p1eases him. 1t is: Il
don't care what happens. so it doesn't
happen to me-
A man in Kensington, who owns
more than his quota of shaving uten-
sis is called barber shop magnate''
by the local paper.
dry goods merchant, has sold out to
good advantage and will live on the
interest of his name.
Kansas is still on it's way to the
stars. An Eastern man has given $780,
600 to Washburn college to found an
astronomical observatory.
The cost of the new buildings just
contracted for at Fort Leavenworth is
sufficient to have put up 542 houses of
an average cost of $4,000.
All that remains of the saloon that
formerly fourished on an island in the
Kaw river at Wamego is the skeleton
of the shanty and a sandbar.
The $4,000 which the Santa Fe en-
oicn6 TO oi6 IN, fI,a <,f
the murderer of George Montgomery
has been voted to his widow.
AS soon as the Kaw river rises suf-
| ficiently to make it worth while a
Lawrence man intends to go over Mr.
Bowersock's dam in a barrel.
George Observation-Disclosures was
given eight days on the rock pile by
Police Judge Blochberger of Leaven-
| worth for being drunkoffskiwitz.
The Washington National bank has
found SO few customers who want to
| borrow money that it has gone into
| the poultry business on the side.
| Barton county has so much surplus
| money that it is building a new poor
house. 1t thinks it may need it some
day, when the reaction" comes.
Two ST. Joseph detectives were
| prowling around on a case in Leaven-
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man arrested them for vagrancy.
| A Harrington man who, in a playful
moment, killed a man in order that he
| might marry the victims widow, has
also Joined the Lansing Pardon Club.
1t is announced that oysters are to
be raised in the Barton county arti-
fetal lake as soon as the lake has been
| busted and the bed has been made
up
| In Junction City the marshal pub
| lished a card of thanks extending
his gratitude to the soldiers of Fort
Riley for not getting drunk last pay
day.
A section of Butler county land
which was bought three years ago for
| So an acre was sold last week for 81
an acre. The next man who gets it
will pay SIS.
Some of the Kansas admirers of Ex-
| plorer Baldwin are considerably dis
| mayed because he has been gone near
/ ly five months and he hasn't reached
the Pole yet.
| Clay Center has also record for
heroic recuperation. Two months ago
| it's electric light plant burned down.
| Now it has a new electric light plant
| in operation.
A brand of coal called Peerless IS
| sofa IN SMITH center 1t Is SO-Cdti6O
| because every time one takes the coal
| bucket and goes to the bin the coal
seems to appear less.
A man in Manchester advertises that
| if you want a good shave or hair cut,
| your shoes mended or want to sell
| anything from a sewing machine to a
farm, or feel the need of any kind of
| insurance, cyclone insurance a spe-
cialty, to call on him.
One hotel in Northern Kansas has
two rates-"with" and without po-
/ tatoes.
Ottawa is thinking of holding a
| guessing contest to raise funds to
build a new hotel.
In boring for coal at Belleville last
| week a rich deposit of water in pay
| in quantities was struck at depth of
1O8 feet.
| At Lyons solid pha1anx of bank
| ers' daughters who wanted to be car
| nival queen were rejected in favor of
Miss Lowry, a telephone girl who
makes only $50 a month, but is as
/ pretty as a peach.
/ Barton county is probably no more
untruthful than the other 104, but it
! 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, 1925, Bill.