Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-17
Kansas Notes

An eccentric man on the Central
Branch carries a life insurance made
payable to his wife's second husband-2
There are thousands of calves, colts,
pigs and spring chickens in Kansas
that have never seen a rain storm,
and when one finally comes there is
danger of their stampeding.
The twenty young men who were
suspended from Baker university for
watching the young women play bask-
ct ball will never repeat the offenSe-
partly because of the discipline i'm
posed but chiefly SO the young men
say, because it wasn't worth watch
ing.
A barber advertises in the Kiowa
County Signal: Facial upholsters
and designers of features. Whiskers
trimmed in all languages. Automatic
hair cut and hydraulic shampoo. Hos
pital in connection No extra charge
for ambulance. Gas, chloroform or
ether
c. ]. Devlin says that after 10000
years of continuous mining Kansas
will still be producing as much coal
as at present. The estimate is based
on the amount mined in Leavenworth,
Osags and Cherokee in the course of
the last 10000 years.
The twenty Baker university stu
dents who were expelled a few days
ago are, dispatch says, taking their
punishment in "gentlemanly man.
ner," which is a great relief. 1t was
feared they might become enraged and
go forth to kill, pillage and destroy.
A peculiar deed was filed in the
icfp Of off
last week. 1t covers fifteen acres and
a little church near UniontOwn. 1t is
made by John Tennyson and wife 'tto
all those who trust in Cod and further
says that 1.-The property is set aside
free to all those who trust in the AL
mighty"
A new swindling game has made
Its appearance in Harvey county. A
mis- place and paid down $25 to bind
! the bargain" Then he went away
Along came another stranger. He
offered $4,000 for the farm. He was
| told to come around in a few days
Back came the first stranger. The
farmer paid him s275 to give up his
option land now he is patiently wait
| ing for the second stranger to come
back
j. Ostlund, farmer near New Colt
| land, let go of a few bushels of the
| wheat he has been holding for two
years, and will spend the sumner in
Europe.
Five of the buildings at the Parsons
asylum for the insane will be built
of brick made by convicts at the state
penitentiary.
On the pulpit of the First Baptist
church in Wichita is the only Bible
| that was ever replevined. During a
division in the church many years age
IT, was necessary to get an order from
court to recover the Bible from the
preacher who had taken it.
Warden Jewett has planted 600 ap-
pie trees and 1000 peach trees on the
penitentiary farm He planted more
peach trees than apple trees because
the peach crop is destroyed oftener.
Twenty young men in Baldwin have
been suspended from Baker university
for watching a game of basket ball
on the sly
Mr.. Wilson, the secretary of agricul-
ture, will address the Beloit Chautau-
qua next month.
permits to live there a man who calls
attention to the fact that he predicted
the present drouth six years ago. He
says he also foretold the drouth of
1890 and of 1874.
An Atchison girl, the Globe says, is
called "Andee" by her family. She
left the earth tree weeks ago when she
became engaged, and hasn't returned
yet
A heartless Galena man has deserted
his three Children 16-year-old wife
and their two babies
A girl out in Central Kansas, who
was unable to find any negro coach
man. eloped with a joint keeper.
The Rev. Mr.. Osborne of Hope has
discovered that the people of that
town paid $500 for tobacco during
1901. For the same period the public
schools cost $1.747, and the Methodist
and Presbyterian churches together
cost $1,4O9.
The recent south wind was so strong
that a lot of seagulfs, blown inward
from the Gulf of Mexico, were seen
around Fort Scott.
Jason Frederic Stiles, Linn county
bard, has written drought song" to
the tune of 4Beulah Land" One
stanza:
Newton had a narrow escape one
day last week Ominous clouds ap.
peared in the southeast The sky was
black, the atmosphere oppressive, the
beasts of the field and the birds sought
Sh and for time uoS