Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Kansas Notes


Wichita is trying to get a gunpowder
factory, among other things
Wichita is making big effort to In
duce a million dollar sugar mill to
locate there.
Earl Ellis of Pratt county has been
made a lieutenant in the marine
corps.
Lindsborg and Mcpherson have been
connected with long distance tele-
phone line.
At McCracken the city marshal has
resigned and the papers announce that
he will go to work.
The Kansas Day club claims that its
banquet will be greater and grander
than ever this year.
A Wichita man has bought Geuda
Springs. the Kansas health resort.
and will make Improvements.
News comes from Dighton of wo-
man who was injured by the "prema-
ture discharge of a sorghum can"
Annie L. Diggs advocates law re-
quiring newspaper reporters to sign
their names to everything they
write.
Since twins arrived last week at
America City it has total population
paper.
Jerry Simpson failed to show up in
Salina to take the Shriner degree. He
sent word that he was sick.
Samuel Bannis.er, an inmate of the
Brown county poor house, is a gradu-
ate of Oxford university and was for
merly rich.
A real estate man in Valley Falls
advertises that he charges only small
commissions because he is in Kansas
for his health.
Farmers in Northern Kansas are
now selling stuff to their city custom
ers by long distance telephones and de-
livering it by rural mail carriers.
Emporia has Tiffany corner
bakery" but it might be worse-it
might have been a Delmonico jewelry
store.
A sheriff from Ellis county has gone
to Minnesota with five acquisitions for
Charles Kerfess for as many different
| crimes. Kerfess is expected to admit
| his guilt.
1t was the fault of the printer, not
the harware dealer, that the price of
stoves was reduced 100 per cent by
| the Burlington JefferSonian last
week.
|
| been out shopping went into the post
| Office and told the clerk at the window
| she would like to look at some 2-cent
postage stamps.
The editor of the Republic City
| News tells of a couple of young wo-
| men who "acted the part of queen and
| princess to perfection" at a recent en-
| tertainment.
The Ottawa Herald is in favor of
! buying the Panama canal, which can
| be bought for nearly nothing, and talk
| ing it to Western Kansas to use for
| irrigation purposes.
| 1t is proposed not only to require
| wide tires on the paved streets of At
| Gibson after the first of the year, but
also to require fat men to wear ex-
| tension soles on their shoes.
| Kansas papers are figuring on Gen
eraI Funston coming straight home
| when he lands. But he may want to
stop in San Francisco and get ac-
Quainted with his new hoy.
1t may be the scheme of the new
trolley line from Kansas City to To-
peka to extend on down to Emporia,
and thus place Topeka in direct COM
munication with the Orient
George M. Munger has offered his
beautiful estate of 1900 acres at Cat
alpa Knob, near Eureka, for sale for
SIS 900. He will move to a larger city
and take a rest from active work. He
has accumulated one of the largest
fortunes in Kansas.
During the absence of the teacher of
class of small boys in Holton Sun
day school, says the Holton Tribune,
the minister taught in his place. In
illustrating the workings of the Holy
Spirit he said: Now, children, let us
Illustrate by the air. You have all felt
the air, btu nave any of you ever seen
it," Mop" came in chorus. Did
you ever hear of any one who saw the
air?" Yep, 1 have" from one of the
small juveniles. "You have? Well,
my boy, who did you ever hear of that
saw the air?' why, my paw says if
the teacher didn't saw the air so much
when he was a-preachin' he wouldn't
make him SO tired
Colonel Jeltz of the Negro Ledger
had something on his mind when he
wrote this. but before he got through
he forgot what it was: mo mother
ever gave the urchin a piece of pie who
cries and frets, but it will be a cold
day in summer if hens eggs Matched
if she did not turn them Can you
read between the lines CO..
Leavenworth jointists have been
worked" by a new trick A tramp