Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-07
Kansas Notes

me eQltOr OF the DOWuS LINES say >
that the editor of the Ellis Headlight
weighs Ill pounds with his shoes on,
and 101 with them of
Mrs. Julia Whitmore of Weir CITY
has seven daughters whose names
rhyme They are Dora, Cora, Nora,
Flora, Fora, Lora and Clora-
Haskell county has concluded an un-
usually long term of court. 1t lasted
two hours ard a half The spring
term onl ylasted fifteen minutes.
A big Buffalo fish was caught in
the Solomon river few days ago.
The Delphos Republican describes it:
The fish weighed thirty-five pounds.
twelve inches tall and thirty-eight
inches long, mouth like haymow and
eyes like pirate A section of him in
the frying pan looked like the dia-
phragn of 10-year-old steer"
AS the result of long litigation the
Larned Opera house has been closed
Indefinitely. The court has decided
that the owner of the opera house
does not own the entrance, which is
through the Opera House hotel The
owner of the hotel refuses to rent the
entrance and the owner of the opera
houses refuses to buy the hotel.
Mr.. Crochet of lola, "spotter,'
was mobbed by jointists in Gas City
last week. Crochet should stay at
home hereafter and attend to his knit
ting.
A man named Earl is running for
Office in Butler county, but inasmuch
as it is his family name, not the first
name, it is not used as an argument
against him.
Great Bend young man, who is
seven feet and seven Inches tall, join
ed curcus last week.
The Union aPcific had nine wash
outs last week between Oakley and
Plainville, and the officials of the road
sang merrily as they gave orders for
the necessary repairs.
Sometimes it is difficult to remem-
Der whether it is cawker worms that
are destroying crops around Canker
City, or canker worms that are de-
stroying the crops around Cawker
City.
Three oPmona gentlemen" accrd-
ing to a local paper, "a blacksmith,
the foreman of a livery barn and a
balloonist, are making preparations to
tour the United States in a special
car. They will give hypnotic enter
tainments, spiritualistic seances and
balloon ascensions and expect to carry
with them a band that will play under
hypnotic influences
One business firm in Howard ac-
oording to a local paper, is so stingy
that it refuses to rent a box at the
postoffice. In order to save twenty
cents every three months this firm re-
ceives all its mail through the general
delivery, and one of the proprietors,
or, of their many clerks, takes his place
in the line and when his turn comes
waits patiently until the postmaster
sorts through big stack of mail for
Tom, Dick and Harry, and then
marches away with an armful of mail,
proud in the consciousness that he is
saving a grand total of eighty cents a
year by not renting postoffice box.
A strange thing happened in Wash
ington last week. The editor of the
Republican wrote a mean piece, the
kind that is called "scathing," about
Editor Veatch of the Post-Register.
The Republicans engine broke down
and veatch allowed the Republican to
Run off its edition with his press and
engine.
Five good citizens of Glen Elder are
putting in a system of water works for
their own use. "A Iou-lOOC wen mas
been sunk, a gasloine engine bought
and a 35O-barrel tank will supply the
homes through pipes.
Not a Kansas woman was elected
to any Office by the Federation of Club
Women.
The Juvenile volcano which appear
ed in Brown county few weeks ago
is quiet and inoffensive now, but the
farmers intend to take no chances.
They will plug it up the moment it
shows any hostile tendency.
The Mexican Central railway has re-
elected A. A. Robinson of Topeka to
be president of the system.
James F. Legate has been stricken
again. A few months ago he became
partially blind. Now a stroke of paral-
ysis has deprived him of the power of
speech.
An old story has been revived about
the time John Guthrie, now postmaster
at Topeka, delivered the Fourth of
July Grafton to the patients at the
asylum for the insane. His subject
was "the Blessings of Liberty" In
the midst of his speech he was inter
rupted by a man in the audience who
calculated: Your speech may be all
right; but I say dang the liberty that
keeps man locked up all the time"
The Santa Fe has given $4,000 and
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