Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-25
Kansas Notes

viva1.
A vein of coal twenty inches thick
has been discovered near the surface
at Aurora, in Cloud county
| Notwithstanding the drought and the
price of fodder and the cinder beetles.
3OS marriage licenses were issued in
Reno county last year.
| Since Iowa has become so conspicu-
Gus in national affairs lola points out
that there is difference of only one
letter in their names.
/ Lindsborg News: This office will
get a few more spaces and quads.
The editor drew s12 in the Conven-
ton hall guessing contest
| So much of the mail addressed to
Marvin postoffice is forwarded to Mar
ion that the only safe way is to address
it Marvin, not Marion
| In an effort to flatter the quality of
the butter produced by one of his sub
scribers a Western Kansas Editor
guarantees that it always stands
hitched'
| The Osborne county Fair associa-
ton has planned a racing circuit to in
clude Osborne, Beioit. Cawker City,
Stockton, Smith Center and Philips
burg.
| "F'izz water,' also sometimes known
to the plain people as wealthy water"
will be the strongest item on the Kan
sas day banquet menu except the
cigars.
| Two Leavenworth girls are adver-
tised to sing before King Edward,
but the papers do not say whether
they will sing in English or their ma
tive tongue.
The homely philosopher of the
wiseism, which none can gainsay:
You can't chew soap without spit
ting bubbles -
at Pratt and after paying 1925 cash
fare jumped from the train and
nearly killed himself to get his fifty
cent hat, which had blown off.
Finney led all the other counties OF
the state last year in the production of
tame hay" Several counties pro-
duced more hay, but it was wild, and
like Topsy, '.just growed.''
Jewell county is the banner county
of Kansas in the production of poultry
and eggs, although there may be no
| connection between this item and the
| fact that eggs are now rated as
jewels.
In the riding and roping contests
which are to be a part of the cattle
mems programme in Wichita next
month the only competitor barred,
according to the bills, is President
Roosevelt.
The papers are talking about" a
stingy young man in Howard who
saves money every year by having a
quarrel with his steady girl just be-
fore Christmas and effects a recon-
Citation each spring.
| John Collins application for a
writ of coram nobis has has been
taken under Amusement by Judge
Hazen- 1t is so late that the court is
| expected to decide the defendant had
nobis-ness asking for it.
In order to improve the standard OIL
his bees Leander Scott of Window
has imported a lot of blooded queen
bees that cost So each. He now ex-
poets them to improve each shining
hour
In the last eight weeks a representa-
tive of one Kansas City firm has
bought 37,2S7 chickens, turkeys and
geese at Downs. The aggregate
weight was 2O5,444 pounds and the
cost over $4,000.
Tom Leftwich, who sold the
Larned Eagle-Optic a week ago, de-
mics the story that he expects to start
a paper in Honolulu. He says the
cinder beetles are worse in Hawaii
| than they are in Western Kansas.
A man up in Holton, who puts the
accent on the first syllable, can't un-
derstand what the American govern
ment wants to build lot of canals
for, since everybody uses lamps or
electric lights.
| In Emporia the Firemen's brother
| hood has sent out invitations to all
members of the grand lodge of F1ue-
borers in good standing TO attend its
annual ball January 81, which be-
a. m.
| A woman in Leavenworth who
was taught in school that it is BAG
form to begin a letter with the pro-
noun T." always sits and chews the
end of her penholder half an hour
| before she can think of any other
word to lead off
| Twenty-seven years ago this week
the thermometer dropped to 40 de-
grees below zero. Harry Van Trees,
afterward police judge of Wichita
was then a member of the legislature
from Barber county and on his way
overland to Topeka, Van Trees had
both feet frozen on.
In Olathe the Herald and Mirror
have been fighting to see which could