Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-30
Kansas Notes

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The Ottawa Chautauqua made $500
this year.
w. F. Boyakin, who has been renom-'
mated for coroner of Marshall county,
is SO years old, and has held the office
thirty years.
A prize hard luck story comes from
Goodland- An engine ran over q mans
foot and cut on his five toes, and his
corns were all on the other foot
A Chinaman wants to be elected cor
oner of Leavenworth county.
Steve" Osborn, who was speaker of
the house of 1899, has moved from
Salina to Coffeyville and formed law
partnership with H. c. Dooley. Mr..
Osborn was judge of the district court
nine years.
Some people," says Anna Carlson,
who wonder why their prayers are
not answered might profit by reading
the story of the little boy who prayed
o Lord, make me a good boy; 1 asked
you the other day to do it but you
didn't
DIR. R. A. WATSON writes to Ottawa
from a summer resort in Michigan
that the weather is so cool there he
has been compelled to purchase pair
of wooden socks.
Wichita is threatening to bore for
salt, and Arkansas City is going to
see if it can strike natural gas.
County Clerk Harms of Mcpherson
has caused the assessment basis to be
increased. The owners of taxable
property will try to keep it out of
Harms way.
Kickapoo in Leavenworth county, is
much disturbed because the Rev. Mr..
York, who is temporarily occupying
the Baptist pulpit, appears on Sunday
wearing shirt waist
During a revival service held by the
Firebrand sect near Abilene one
brother was moved by the excitement
of the occasion to exclaim: do hur-
ry up, Lord; you're SO slow."
Jack" Light was fined $50 in Salina
few days ago for being drunk and
disorderly.
A Salina firm is sending out medi-
cine wagons over the state, each one
equipped with twenty two remedies
and each remedy warranted to cure
one disease.
A swarm of bees tried to settle on
a live electric wire in Galena last
week, and some of them. have not re-
gained their composure yet. There, is
no fury like singer stung.
In Emporia the distinction is this: A
residence is a house that has been re-
Gently painted, and a house is resi-
dence that needs painting.
There are other vital issues in Har-
svey county this year, but the one that
is paramount is whether the hedges
are to be trimmed or not
A man in Great Bend was complain
ing over the telephone to the pumping
station about the insufficient pressure
and he declared himself with such fer
,vor that the wire snapped.
A little negro boy in Barton county
stole a pair of trousers, which he sold
for 81. Then he bought a dollars
worth of raisins and had devoured
nearly all of them when he was ar
rested.
John Macdonald, editor of the West
ern School Journal, says the spelling
reform that is most needed is to teach
the children TO spell correctly. He
urges a revival of spelling down con-
tests.
Some of the carriage patrons in To
peka are inclined to protest against the
new ordinance which permits hackmen
| to charge seventy-five cents after mid
night.
An Ottawa paper printed the follow
| ing jingle in its society news:
| There was a young girl from Siam,
Who said to her lover named Priam
ITO kiss me, of course, you'll have to
use force,
And the Lord knows you're stronger
than 1 am
| Leavenworth has decided to begin
| enforcing its curfew ordinance, which
| will help some, although the adults in
Leavenworth are the ones who need
| regulating.
In Meriden the principal duty of the
town marshal consists of cutting the
| weeds.
| In a recent teachers examination in
Kansas one of the questions was:
Which is the farther north-venice
| Italy, or Boston, Mass ?" Most of the
teachers supposed Boston is, but they
were wrong
Emporia is being ridiculed about Its
new Jail, which was supposed to be
secure against stratagems from within
| and mobs from without Several days