Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-25
Kansas Notes

quoted an Irishman as saying 'yaw
for yes
W. A. Mitchell, formerly of Olathe.
has bought the Columbus Advocate and
the Columbus Courier, and will merge
them.
The quarantine along the south line
of the state should be reinforced. Mrs.
Nation may take a notion to come
back from Oklahoma.
Coffeyville celebrated" the tenth an
niversary of the Dalton raid last week.
Among those not present was the sur
viving Mr.. Dalton.
Attorney General Godard's ruling
that castor beans are not grain seems
to be final, as no appeal has been taken
to Secretary Coburn.
There is nothing too good for a rail,
road Y. M. C. A. in Missouri Pacific
town. Helen Gould is going to give
the one in Coffeyville a pianola-
Mr.. Scantlin of Pratt advertises his
household goods for sale. which leads
the Hutchinson News to conclude that
hereafter Scantlin will board
lone of the great drawbacks to bus
iness,'' observes the Jewell CITY Repub-
lican, 'is that the people who are the
most anxious to buy are the ones who
have mot the money"
Thomas J. Norton has been appointed
general attorney for the Santa Fe &
Prescott railroad, with headquarters at
Albuquerque, N. M. He was the To-
peka correspondent for a Kansas City
paper ten years ago.
The identity of Mrs Carrie Lane
Chapman-Catt's husband has been re-
vealed. He is George w. Gait, con-
tractor and engineer, and he is now
experimenting the building of dry
dock at the Mare Island navy yard. 1
The Kansas commissioners for the
st. Louis exposition are having plans
made for the Kansas building. They
will try to atone for the Kansas Build
ing at the Chicago Worlds fair. which
was the most hideous thing in Jackson
park.
The editor of the Kiowa Signal sent
a dun to a delinquent subscriber, and
1t made the subscriber highly indig-
nant. He went to see the editor about
it, and the editor showed him some
bills of his own; one for paper, one for
fuel and several others. Now said
the patient editor, 81 didn't get mad
when these came, because 1 knew all 1
had to do was to ask several reliable
men like you to come in and help me
them When the subscriber saw how
it was he relented, and, Furthermore,
he paid up and renewed his subscrip-
.tion-
An Atchison man received we'd
ding invitation by mail He looked at
it, tossed it over to his wife, and said:
Here's a bill for YOU E
What makes the Wellington street
fair all the more remarkable is that it
is defcit1ess. The management has
paid out $4,000 and has money left. 4
Editor Gaines of the Farmers Ad-
vocate congratulates the people that
the state house has been built without
a scandal. This will strike the old
politicians as very funny.
There will be 81 xtickets on the
continues to grow the citizen will
eventually have to take his surveying
instruments along when he votes.
One enthusiast is on record as de-
claring that the genius of the Kansas
University Weekly writes funnier
fables than George AIDE, better poetry
than w. ]. hampton, and draws better
cartoons than McCutcheon."
In moralizing upon the case of two
young men who were fined in Claf1in
for drunkenness, the Clarion says: ut
does not pay, boys. We would like to
have every young man become a heavy
taxpayer, but not by way of police
court
A merry-go-round established itself
in Meade a few days ago, and every
citizen of any consequence has taken
While dozen heirs and other
claimants are fighting in the courts
for the possession of an island in the
Missouri river above Atchison, tough
citizen has taken possession of it and
has nine points of the law to all the
litigants' one.
Ewing Herbert has issued a call for
the first annual reunion of the sur
vivors of the Atehison Champion. The
plan is to organize and elect officers
and hold banQuets at regular intervals.
Anyone who ever owned or edited the
Champion, and escaped, is eligible to
membership. The reunion will be held
in Kansas City, Sunday, October 26.
This season has produced a number
of fancfful dispatches that show evi.
dences of genius, but the one from
Leon about a woman who was injured
by the explosion of a sweet potato
easily leads all the rest.
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