Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-26
Kansas Notes


that one dog costs as much for keep
ing as sixty hens, which will lay 600
dozen eggs, worth 500
One inmate of the Labette county
poorhouse has been there thirty years
and the county suspects he has come
to stay for supper
A federal warrant has been issued
for the arrest of Isadore Rhott of Hia-
watha for selling liquor to the In
dians
A farmer near Chanute sold his
place a few days ago and has gone
back to Tennessee-from the land of
sunshine to the land of moonshine-
1t is understood that the Metho-
d.sts of Mcpherson are preparing to
church Bishop Andrews for admit
ting, in a recent sermon, the reason
ableness of evolution.
Parson Louther of Mcpherson, con-
victed of heresy, is preaching in the
opera house He has the stage set
with a forest scene, producing a Gar
den of Eden effect.
Notwithstanding it's name, it is
thought the Peoples Gas company of
Coffeyville, which has just been char
cred, will not entirely overlook the
interests of it's stockholders.
An Emporia girl gave the following
report of a party which she attended
recently: We went about $3.50 and sat
and talked until 10 O'Clock, when we
ate a cup of lemon ice. At IL O'Clock
we began to yawn, and at IL O'Clock we
went home
One Kansas paper expresses great
sympathy for the kansas man. who
lost so heavily in the Baltimore hotel
poker game, and draws the conclusion
that the best a Jayhawker can get in
Kansas City is the worst of it.
A seventeenth child arrived in the
home of Carey Rousch of lola a few
days ago.
There is an eccentric old farmer in
the extreme southeast corner of But
Ter county who has an odd claim to
distinction. His name has never ap-
peared on any of Jessie Morrison's
bonds.
In response to criticisms Senator
F. Dumont Smith of Kingsley ex-
plains why he parts his name in the
middle. I'VE concede,'' he says, that
a man named anything but Smith has
absolutely no excuse for violating the
traditions of American society and
using the initial of his first name in
stead of his second. But we note
with pain from this weeks papers that
in one short week Fred Smith has
been killed by a Union Pacific train
in the northern part OF the state, has
been arrested for stealing horses in
the southern part and has taken a
position as general something or other
on a railroad in Kansas City Hardly
a week passes without something hap
pening to Fred Smith. He occupies a
large space in the prison records, is a
bigamist, forger, preacher, horse thief,
miller, farmer, and so on without limit.
Smith is good, honest name. 1t is
perhaps the oldest family in the world,
but it is certainly also the most numer-
Gus, and a parent of that family who
sends his boy out into the censOrious
and unthinking world without some
thing to distinguish him from the
other Smiths deserves no flial piety,
and the boy has right to correct his
parents error.
The former citizen of Ottawa who
tried to commit suicide on a train
few days ago is believed to have had
other motives for his self distractions
An Abilene girl has written popu-
lar song called 81 Love You Just Be
cause 1 Do which is as good an ex-
generally produce.
Miss Doran of the Macksville Argus
refers to the man who prints the oppo-
sition paper as ''barbaric specimen
of fossilized antiquity, who has to lean
on a cane when he walks
A woman in Kansas City, Kas., or
ganized a literary club for other pur-
pose than to have herself elected a
delegate to the federation meeting
this month in Los Angeles, Cal.
The supreme court holds that an ex-
press agent is not guilty of violating
the prohibitory law by delivering and
collecting for a package of liquor
shipped C. o. d. The express agents
are almost the only ones in Kansas
who are able to produce a complete
generation
An Atchison girl, the Globe says,
is said to have had travelled extensive
ly. She has had so many experiences
in Pullman dressing rooms that she
recently gave an exhibition before
girls club of how she could dress
complete standing on one foot in a
rocking chair that moved violently
while she dressed.
Aggressive Topeka" says the Otta-
wa Herald, ''is tearing down the house
where General George Custer once
lived, and where he made his telling
plans against the Indians. From this
it would be inferred that Topeka would