Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-23
Kansas Notes

the newspaper Offices.
According to a government census
bulletin Kansas has total of 173,O9s
farms. They average 240 acres, and
over 60 per cent of them are i'm
proved.
Hail fell in the vicinity of Russell
few days ago with such severity that
the Record vouches for the statement
that it knocked all the barbs of the
wire fences.
Bert Gardner stopped a runaway
team on the main street of Neodesha
last week by Selling the horses by
the bits.
A Topeka dentist has been elected
a fellow in the American Association
for the Advancement of Science by
reason of his labors along the line of
photographic odentology.'
A Missouri girl has written to Post
master w. G. Palmer of Jewell City to
know why her fellow" who lives
there, doesn't answer her letter. She
writes that she is awfully worried.
Dear Mary" wrote a brother in
Norton to a sister in Goodland, 1--WE
are all very well, only mother has
Mysteries, Tim has the toothache and
Jane has a baby. hope yau are the
same
AS a result of a change in the course
of the Republican river since the last
food a dam is left across an empty
channel, a new sewerage system has
no outlet and -four mills and an cleo
trio light plant have no motive
power.
Robert Cline of Linwood picked and
sacked 103 sacks of potatoes in one
r.Irc al frrrfn
bushels each. The land is yielding
200 bussels to the acre, and, while the
price is low, the pickers are making
good wages at four cents a sack.
The military maneuvers in Junction
local papers to eclipse those around
New York, fleets or no fleets.
Ex-senator PETER is engaged in
writing a historical novel
A good reason has been advanced
why the Rev. Dean ]. P. DeBevers
Kaye of Topeka combs his name the
way he does. James Kaye of the same
town is accused of numbering his
wife.
man in Parsons quit the news
paper business in order to become a
letter carrier.
David W. Mulvane has bought 1900
acres of land in Western Kansas.
'-Buckskin BilI'' is playing the south
ern tier of counties with A Wild West
show. His pictures make him look
brave. I'VE have no doubt he isl
says the Arkansas City Traveller.
The federal court has taken a hand
in the Text Book trust case. George
Crane of Topeka has been enjoining
the trust in the state courts. Now
from doing any more enjoining.
A woman in Atchison, the Globe
says. starved to death recently, and it
was found that she had had company
for three weeks. She kept so busy
passing things, and worrying about
them, that she ate nothing herself,
and dropped dead on the twenty-first
day while urging guest to have her
third piece of chicken.
In Howard the band is getting ready
to turn out and greet at the depot
young man of that place who has just
completed a four-year course at Har-
ward in three years.
Cherryvale last week on their way
to Indian territory. They were
guarding 100000, which is to be d.
vided among the Osages.
In Meriden the principal duty of the
town marshal consists of cutting the
weeds.
In tearing down an old building in
North Topeka this week the work
men came across an Original pack
age" a reminder of the interesting
days of fifteen years ago.
A man out in Logan has beef steer
which he says can trot mile
in $50.
A jointist in Western Kansas has
the candid motto over his bar: IF
drinking interfres with your business,
quit your business
The papers are telling of a Wyan-
dotte man who has sunflower which
measures twelve inches in diameter,
and thirty-seven inches in circumfer-
ence.''
Lost-Sunday evening on Law
renee road, between Boiling and Leav-
enworth, a lady's dress. Finder re-
turn to this Office and receive reward"
is an advertisement in a Leavenworth
paper. There is some curiosity to
know how the lady reached home.
A deputy fish warden in Manhattan
announces that he will use seines to
rake out the buffalo and other mongrel
fish in the streams of Riley county,
in order To give the bass and other