Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-22
Kansas Notes

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people of Central Kansas nearly all
know the Messiah by heart
Efforts to secure a new hotel in OF
tawa are retarded by the local Livery
Stable trust. which now gets a con-
siderable share of the transient
trade.
A discovery which has not received
sufficient attention from the medical
journals yet is that of a Fort Scott
doctor who has established that the oil
of eanker worms will cure fits.
Every love sick youth in Kansas
ought to contribute to help the Abb
lene young man who has gone into
court seeking an injunction to restrain
another fellow from calling on his
girl.
Positively the latest fad in Kansas
church entertainments says a Leaven-
worth paper. is the '-bloomer drill"
in which the women wear roses and
the men wear crestfallen faces.
Girard is on one of those good. old
fashioned towns where the Young men
tune up and then ego out serenading."
A story is told about a young wo-
man in Lakin who went into a drug
store to buy a bath sponge. When the
NiCA n approached SHE D6cdIue cOHIQSSu
and asked for sponge bath.
General Funston says there is no
more war in the Philippines at pres
ent than there is in Kentucky.
Torridus buxis, or hot-box, is being
introduced as means of riding West
ern Kansas of cinder beetles. Prof.
Clinker, who devised the method, says
st is cheaper than either rustling the
beetles to death or making them in
fandescent- Torridus buxis is produced
by putin gSand in the water and pIac-
ing it near the haunts OF the beetles.
The sand causes friction in the inter
hal organs and they become greatly
Everheated. sometimes attaining q
white heat, from the effects of which
they die. One beetle upon which Prof.
Clinker experimental, melted in it's
tracks.
A man with load of superior tim
| othy hay drove along the main street
of Junction City a few days oga, and
three teams ran away.
Prairie dog poison is being adver-
tised in the Western Kansas papers,
but the prairie dog settlements show
no tremendous decrease in population.
1t is not fattering to the Sunfower
colony in Washington that Chief
Chemist Wiley should assume the only
| beets Kansas can raise are dead
There were $50 divorce cases in
Crawford county in the last twelve
months. Marriage VOWS, iii S noted,
are becoming almost as lax as grand
| jury oaths.
An Atchison man who hasn't been
in school since 1870 admits that he
| still feeds a vague dread in his heart
| every time he hears the school bell
| ring.
| John S. Gilmore of Fredonia, who
himself wears a considerable number
| of years with exceptional grace, points
to the lola man of 81 who Joined the
Elks as case of ''frisky revivication."
The Wamego merchant who is adj
vertising his enlarged shoe store
| does not explain the sudden growth in
| Wamego feet.
A little boy out in Sterling said to
his father: Dad, 1 think you should
| either cut out the family prayers or
quit your swearing. Idon't care
which,
Employees of 'Topeka's half a dozen
laundries threaten to strike unless the
demands of the Manglers union, the
! Starchers' council and the Boston
| 1GeSSerS DTOIneEnOOu are met.
| There is a mischievouS youth out
| in Great Bend who thinks it is the
height of mirthful jest to smear cay
| enne pepper on the plugs of eating
tobacco of his acquaintance.
Two little girls tagged a train on
the Missouri Pacific branch between
| Fort Scott and Topeka, and prevented
| a wreck. A bride was washed out
and the train was due.
The Topeka Capitals voting con-
test to determine the sentiment of the
| people of Kansas on the liquor ques-
tion now stands CAT for prohibition
| and 331 for resubmision.
The kindly disposed highwayman,
who relieves people of their money.
is operating in Topeka.
Six families of Swedes, all related.
| bought three thousand acres in Lyon
county, paying cash for it. In the
| six families there are thirty-two chill
| dren.
Last summer Topeka ha no ice
| competition; this year there viii be six
| companies in the field.
! Ottawa this spring the worms ar
| rived on the maple trees in advance
| of the leaves.
Captain C. N. Lee of Arkansas City,
cied at his residence 709 North Ninth
street. last week, aged 81 years.
little tot in Leavenworth described