Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
Kansas Notes

A. G. Stacey. formerly of Kansas.
is running four weekly papers down
in Arkansas. That is nearly as much
of a job as running one daily
Mr.. PEARS. superintendent of the
Haskell institute, Lawrence, wants
the government to issue guns for two
companies o. Indian cadets, ard an
army officer to drill them.
When reference is made to 1.-THE 400
in Holton it means the 400. who have
Joined the churches since the revival
began.
Garden City wife, In her petition
for. a divorce, charges her husband,
among other offenses, with killing
another woman"
Some of ehe most conservative pa
pers in the state do not hesitate to say
that the farmers are ''jubilant'' over
last weeks snow.
In the last six months Osborne
county has paid off SIP goo of rs bond
ed debt to save interest. The bonds
are not due until 1915.
Jake Admire formerly one of the
foremost newspaper men of Kansas,
has been made receiver of the King
fisher, Okla, land Office.
BY cutting a coupon out of a Leav-
enworth paper it is possible to have
ones fortune told for the greatly
reduced price of fifty cents.
One graduate of the law department
of the state university is trying to
make an honest living; he is a brake
man on the Missouri Pacific rail-
road esq
{ A man in a. Valley Falls is so eco
clares was a IA caliber'' revolver,
was fined in Ottawa for carrying con-
cealed weapons How did he ever
manage to keep it hid?
My son, if you are seeking a place
in which to establish yourself in bus
iness,'' says the Jewell Republican,
find a town in which those now en-
gagged in your line do not advertise.
You will find it easier to compete
with three dead men than one live
one
The old fashioned man who, when
there is turkey for dinner, wants the
''pope's nose, the gizzard and the
neck lives in Leavenworth.
Some of the Western Kansas papers,
in order to bolster up the theory of
heredity, are pointing out that Jerry
Simpsons grandson was born without
socks.
An Atchison woman who makes "cof-
fee by roasting a mixture of corn
meal, eggs and molasses, which the
neighbors say can't be told from the
genuine imported article.
There's one girl in Howard who ad-
mits she never saw the sun rise more
than half a dozen times in her life.
But she knows more about the moon
than the Moline philosopher
Jim Butler, president of the Farm
ers' Cooperative Grain Association,
does not attempt to conceal the fact
that the present high price of wheat
and corn is the result of some of his
1abors.
The Wichita Commercial Club is
going to send out one of those scat
ter sunshine" expeditions as soon as
it stops showing. Wichita doesn't
want to do anything to discourage the
moisture.
Frank Thompson, who had both
hands cut off in shredder near Hia-
watha last week, had very hard luck,
Of course, but he can't hold a candle
to the Heripgton brakeman who lost
both legs.
A man in Valley Falls is so econ
nomical that when he shoveled the
snow from his sidewalk, instead of
ly toted each shovelfull into the back
yard and scattered it on the garden.
There is a widespread Kansas be-
lief that picked team of half a dozen
corn fed Shooters, headed by Fred
Funston, could make those Teuton
giants. who are accompanying Prince
Henry, jump off the Atlantic sea-
board.
Since the Santa Fe moved it's di-
are hardly enough night fueborers,
cInder pitmen,. wipers, GOLFERS at the
chutes and back yardmen left in EN-
Poria to muster quorum and do de-
gree work.
At the meeting of the State Editorial
association in Manhattan February 3
and 4, papers will be read by Grant
Harrington, c. A. Kimball, J.. G.
House, E. G. Pipp. Annie l. Diggs.
Victor Murdoch, George w. Martin and
]. F. Smith
The Kiowa county signal allowed a
truthful citizen to write up a marriage
notice last week and he concluded:
The young couple took the morning
train for St Louis, where they will
spend more money in few days than
Willie can earn in three months. The
groom gets a salary of $27 a month,
which is about the allowance Anna
has been used to for pin money. We
wish, for Willie's sake. that the old
saying that it takes no more to sup
port two than one wasn't a lie