Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-13
Kansas Notes

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Mr.. Green is bright enough to secure
1000 damages from Ottawa for acct
dentally finding broken sidewalk
after dark.
large wild geese down at one shot
and went out the same evening and
caught two possums.
Mr.. Calender of Neodesha found
wee little baby on his front doorstep
the other morning. He considers it
a red letter day in his calendar.
A countryman went to Hiawatha
last week with sixty-nine ducks, which
he had killed during the forenoon.
And he wasn't particularly proud of
the mornings work, either.
4 A church up in Seneca has or
dered $4,000 pipe organ and has the
cash to pay for it The cost repre-
sents more than 81 from every in
habitant inside the city limits
In order to better prepare them for
Life's Battle, the seniors in the Min
] neapolis High school have been re-
quired to prepare, by next Thursday,
"a soliloquy as near as possible to
Shakespeare's style in Macbeth.
There is some curiosity to know
whom the editor of the Cuba Day
light is "alluding to- He says vague
ly that "to be a coward is a physical
misfortune, to be liar is criminal,
and the two combined makes a nasty
combination
Hutchinson is becoming metropoll-
tan. A woman was robbed of 500
Old a train and a farmer was buncoed
put of $50 at the depot, both the same
day.
The Santa Fe has increased the
wages of the locomotive engineers east
of Albuquerque.
lola, which is a wide-awake town,
had a $40, 900 fire this week in which
the Sleeper block was destroyed.
1t is proposed to increase the sal
aries of the justices of the supreme
court from $4,000 a year to $4,000.
so you want to become my son-in-
law?' inquired the Howard father of
the young wooer. Not by blame
sight, replied the youth, but as
intend to marry your daughter, 1 sup
. pose I'll have to r".''
= A school boy in lola was asked to
define meridian. He said: ct is a
menagerie lion running around be-
. tween the North pole and the South
POLE The teacher had said ''imagin-
airy line" and the boy misunderstood
her.
There is a case out in Barnes in
which litigation has accomplished
some good. A bibulous citizen ap-
, peared on the street one day last sum-
mer absolutely sober, which was sc
unusual that he was arrested and fined
a dollar and cost, as a sort of joke
He appealed his case, and has just
stuck the city for cost. Now the city
is laying to get even by running him
y in when he is really drunk but he has
reformed.
A lot of hogs around Cherryvale are
dying from an undiagnosed skin dis
ease.
A Missouri Pacific train was
IS wrecked near Roper a few days ago
IS The wreck was caused, the local paper
3 says, by the track slipping from un
D. der it, which is a good excuse.
IS An Elk City man and wife published
e the following card in the Enterprise
y "lnaSmuch as certain persons hav'
D. been circulating story to the effec
IS that Mrs. Saunders had accused Mis-
d Matte Griffin of stealing $25 from he
IS about two years ago. we, the under
d signed, hereby brand the story as 1
o. malicious falsehood. She never statet
that Miss Griffin stole it, and neve
10 even suspicioned her of stealing it
10 Miss Griffin is in our employ now, ant
le has been during the greater part o
le the past two years, and we have al
N ways found her Industrious, capabl
'e and upright. and entirely above sus
IS picion of being thief.-W. F. Saun
Is ders, Mrs. Louisa Saunders.
e Pitching horseshoes is the lates
ID diversion around Lebanon
p A Neodesha man who used to owl
meat market, and quit, prints carr
r in the newspapers thanking those VIII
a. used to patronize him.
s. A Santa Fe eating house is bein,
1t opened up in Syracuse, and town so
IS ciety is "agog'' over the prospect of
E. dozen comely mattresses
sr At Ellis after shutdown the othe
y night a sneakthief threw a rocl
E. through a merchants window and alb
y stracted pair of shoes.
d Up in Leavenworth the courts hav
d broken up happy family. The fathe
e has been sent to the county Jail an,
d two sons to the state penitentiary.
It The school enumeration shows SIT,
s. b22 children of school age in Kansas
Wyandotte county leads with 25, 29s
and Morton county is last witt
ninety.
o The Prairie Chicken zinc mill an,