Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-19
Kansas Notes


really drunk as long as he is able to
get his hat on right-side up.
'f," says a fretful an in Huron,
there is much rain during April as
there was wind during March. we shall
all be drowned
Gyp Wood has been confirmed as
the receiver of the Topeka land office.
That the common people of Ottawa
might understand Carnegie's library
offer, the Republic explained: Mr-
Carnegie has offered us a horse if we
will feed and curry it,
A Wichita man who became dement,
ed imagined he was Paderewski and
tried to play the piano with his feet,
whereas everyone knows Mr.. Paderew-
ski would never think of doing such an
unladylike thing.
The Atchison Globe shouts "Hurrah
for Chanutei" because it has stolen the
Argentine smelter away from Kansas
City. The hilarity is premature, partly
because Chanute hasn't taken the
smelter, and also because there is no
Argentine smelter any more
A Salina man who lost a hitching
strap out of his buggy is advertising
for it's return, and offers a reward. 1t
must be that some precious memories
cluster around that nitching strap.
Ex-Governor Morrill, has put out 900
new apple trees in his Brown county
orchard this spring, and he did it with
out waiting for any Arbor day procla-
nation.
nra -
ami county was destroyed by fire last
week. ut was the house known as the
King johnson house. 1t was built by
Robert Reynolds in 1856. What is
said to have been the largest walnut
tree that ever grew in the Pottawa-
tonne bottoms was used in its con-
struction, and it was all built from
this one tree, a giant black walnut
over seven feet in diameter. The stud
ding, joints, siding, rafters, shingles,
were all of the black walnut and from
this one tree.
A miser who committed suicide in
Erie few days ago had $4,000 worth
of live stock on his premises, and
eighty cents worth of household goods
and personal effects.
The State Agricultural college is
teaching its pupils how to become
competent judges of horses. Infor-
nation obtained by this means is
much more cheaply than at the race
track.
A clergyman in Howard has re-
ceived SO many anonymous offers by
mail to invest in Trego county gold
properties that he has begun to ap-
prehend that preachers, as a class,
are considered easy"
A woman in Elderado who hasn't
been married long has written to ask
for a receipt for cooking high balls"
She says he dearly loves them and she
wants to prepare him a mess.
The promising young marksman
who delights to try his skill by using
mail boxes along the rural delivery
routes for targets, was heard from in
Rocks county this week. He was
bound over to the federal court.
One editor in Oskaloosa sued an
other editor for criminal libel. The
trial of the case was a continued
vaudeville performance for eleven
days, and the jury returned a verdict
of not guilty. But the prosecution
cost Jefferson county $1,00O-or more
than a smallpox outbreak.
Towns along the Central Branch
have organized a base ball league,
and Osborne, Plainville, Kensington,
Smith Center and Kirwin are in it.
The cohorts of the Topeka Capital
have dared the phalanx of the Topeka
Journal to play a game of base ball
for money, marbles or chalk. The
last game resulted Is to Is in favor of
the Capital.
Land which would otherwise go to
tax sharks in Sumner county for back
taxes is being given away by the coun-
ty commissioners to persons who will
try to raise potatoes.
A receiver has been appointed in
Leavenworth for the Correspondence
School of Cinderology, established sew
eral monts ago by Judge Adna p Girls
tlebone. The receiver was asked for
by Prof. Anthracite of Manhattan, who
says he was to have received quarter
of cent a word for the typewrirten
lessons furnished by him, and al
though he has supplied approximately
22S columns of matter he has received
only 1925 in money and $1.1O in post
age stamps. Judge Gristlebone replies
that he discovered Anthracite was
stealing his lessons" verbatim from
the last report of the state geological
survey.
An Atchison woman. went to St
Joseph a few days ago and as soon
as she had bought her ticket the story