Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-05
Kansas Notes

A man in Pratt went to an auction
and bid persistently against a woman
who stood on the other side of the
| crowd. He was so decided and posi-
tive that the woman, who could not
see her opponent. became discouraged
and quit The man got the goods and
| then learned that he was but bidding
against him wife.
There are six pairs of twins in one
block on Massachusetts, street in Law
renee.
H L. Wilson, formerly a steno-
grapher for A. l.. Williams in Topeka.
| is the editor of Puck.
| j. NJ. Dunsmore and Mrs. Nation Will
debate in Chanute April 8, on pro
hibition." AS Mr. Dunsmore is already
as bald as the Mojave desert he has
nothing to lose and everything to
gain
A bishop for the new Episcopal dis
trict in Kansas, the Salina diocese, will
b echosen in Cincinnati next month
A man passed lot of Mexican sill
yer dollars in Pittsburg and got away
before he was detected.
John Collins lawyers filed an appeal
to the supreme court this week from
Judge Hazen's decision refusing to
grant writ of coram nobis.
A story is told of Rock Island
agent in Western Kansas whose depot
burned down. The next day the divi-
| sion superintendent arrived and saw
a lot of hand grenades on the ground.
why didn't you use these?" he asked.
Didn't have any corkscrew," the
agent replied.
Jerry Simpson, it is announced, is
10 h., 1;& 1t
become a resident of New Mexico.
His home is to be at Roswell, on the
Santa FEES Pecos Valley branch.
The story about a 5-weeks-old baby
in Kingman county who shouted "sev
] en- years of drought in Kansas and
fell over dead has SITUATED denials
from nearly everyone.
/ A man fro INST. Joseph is in Topeka
trying to persuade some public spirited
capitalist to back a base ball team this
season.
There is demand in Wellington
that the first person who revives the
old liquor quarrel be placed ON the city
rock pile.
H E. Van Deman, who was profess
sor of botany for several years in the
state university, now owns an oyster
farm in Virginia. The uses of a thor
ough knowledge of botany are varied.
According to the report of the state
board of health there were 421 cases
of smallpox in Kansas during Febru-
airy, and not a death from the disease
| during the month.
The Holton Tribune says the way
for business man to get the advan-
tage and keep it is found in the first
three letters of the word advangtage. 2
A lot on Commercial street, in EN-
tporia sold for $500 front foot a few
days ago, Notwithstanding that the lot
doesn't extend clear back to the city
limits.
Two thousand dollars has been ap-
Dropriated by Congress to encourage
silk experiments in Kansas. Some of
the papers favor quittin gsilk and ex-
perimenting with banana culture or
! pineapples.
John Conway of the Norton Cham
pion devoted the greater part of a
column to the account of the arrival of
son in his household, which is n
highly temperate way of celebrating
the event.
Paola Spirit: cit would be hard to
make that young man believe that he's
burning up the value of twenty square
yards of ground at SIP an acre. re-
marked a large taxpayer as a boy paid
five cents for a cigar and lighted it..
Yet the taxpayer was right. boy
smoking twenty-five cents worth of
cigars a day from Is to % years of age
burns the value, counting interest at
z per cent, of thirty-five acres of land
at S12 an acre. Every ten cent~cigar
is one square rod of ground at SIG an
acre"
The opening of the Fahrig mill for
the extraction of gold from Trego
county shale has been postponed
again.
III Central Kansas the wind blew
such gale from the south all week
that toward the last the fragrance of
Texas magnolia blossoms was discern
able.
An Ottawa man sent $4,000 tobacco
tags away and will receive a buggy
with red wheels in return. He will
probably have to pay cash for horse.
An Ottawa woman who is doing mis-
sionary work in China writes home
that she will ''sail for the West April
l."
Albert Griffin, now 6S years old, a
figure in Kansas affairs since the Dor
der days, showed up at the state print
ing office in Topeka one day this
week and went to work setting type.
He showed working card issued
nv the Chicago TyDograDhical 11piou