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

Christ Hoffman bought it out at siA
points.
From the number of drownings re
ported in last weeks Kansas ex
changes, the streams are stocked priD
cipalIy with cramps.
With pork selling around eight cents,
the Delphos Republican affirms that
that curl in the pigs tail takes on
additional grace and beauty"
Mr.. Ow, a grocer in Eldorado. is be
ieved to have the shortest name in the
state. The only abbreviation for this
name is a shrug of the shoulders.
In order that there may be no con
fusion in the matter, an Ottawa re-
porter explains that the term zen
Danc, which has been breaking klto
the papers, has to do with the supreme
many supposed.
A jury in the probate court in To-
peka has released John Timm of Lyon
county from the asylum for the in
sane. Timm's ''eccentricity'' consisted
in shooting two officials of a bank in
which his savings of twenty years had
been lost.
While a lot of other towns in Rush
going to do. Rush Center put in a tele-
phone eXchange-and that's what
talks.
IF the men," says Anna Carlson in
the Lindsborg News, had the courage
to tell the truth as plainly as the
mirror tells it. there would be fewer
vain and silly women
Out in the Russian settlement in
eickensekize and Joseph Andrinykew-
empsicy were married last week. One
account says the names extended
through the vestry out into thu
street
A man went into a dry goods S ore
in Atchison a few days ago, the Globe
says, and wanted to look at some ten
cent socks. He said he wanted them
fancy as the black ones wore out
quickly. He told the clerk that he
once bought his wife a ten cent pair of
black stockings and that she wore
hole in them in three months.
An agent" buncoed a large number
of farmers in Geary county out of s74
each by selling them a new tangled
refrigerator which he guaranteed
would keep it's contents cool without
the use Ol any iCe
kansas will raise four times as
many apples as last year. and they
will be of finer quality This is the
forecast Of Mr. Wellhouse, the apple
king
A little girl in Emporia has watch
chain but no watch, SO she ties a rag
to it and wears it anyhow. When
asked what time it is she replies chat
it is rag time.
When Dummy Burson knocked a
home run in Chanute the other day he
raused at third base long enough to
him by an enthusiastic rooter who
rushed over the coaching line.
F. G. Crowell. one of the regents OF
the state university. refers to the
great institution as 1.-The most distin-
guished pauper in the state Its ap-
preparations for maintenance are only
$4,000 larger than they were fifteen
years ago
This Will be great year for break
fast foods" The oat crop in Cowley
county is threshing out 104 bushels
to the acre.
publican young lady out here has
a barb wire necklace.
Thre of the six prisoners in the
Oswego Jail escaped last week and the
people of Lafayette county have Wis
ions of a very Traceyesque time.
Kansas never expected the price Oh
corn to remain at ninety cents. cor.
ner or no corner. If it will hover
around fifty cents Kansas will feel
well repaid.
Is there none to accommodate the
First National Bank of Columbus? II
is advertising for some one to borrow
$4,000 which it doesn't know what
to do with.
A crop report gathered by a grain
trade journal indicates that this years
wheat will not exceed $4,000, DOC
bushels.
A man in Kickapoo sold billy goat
last week for $50 Nobody but a
Kansas man." declares a local enthu-
siast. could have got sixty cents for
him.
Two Arkansas City men have gone
to Thunder Mountain in quest of gold
and one of the papers. for the sake OF
brevity, notes that they have gone tc
Thunder
If Lawrence begins to manifest an
unusual itching, the rest of the state
may know why. Ex-Chancellor Snow
has rofurDod from Western Kansas