Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-21
Kansas Notes


ing May. The Arkansas valley would
be the garden spot of the world if it
could get it's water in installments.
Attchison Globe: When we see a
girl of 10 crying these days, we don't
know if we should give her new doll
to comfort her, or tell her that no
mans love is really worth crying
for.
o. J. Bodley of Richmond lays claim
to the title of champion corn husker
of Kansas. In 1888 he husked 1854
bushels in nine and one-haf hours,
and produces an affidavit to prove it,
Andy White of Atchison county
tells curious story of how his first
ancestor in this country became an
American patriot. This ancestor was
Andy's great-grandfather. He came to
America with General Tarleton as
British soldier, to help whip the
Yankees. One day, in fit of anger
Tarleton horsewhipped Andy's ances-
tor, who turned upon his commander
the American army. He was with
Washington at Valley Forge.
The whereabouts of Dunn, the
escaped bank robber and murderer,
was revealed to a Wichita man in
The man has impaired his knowledge
to the police-but Dunn is still at
large.
1t is feared that the Kansas water
melon crop will not yield more than
40 per cent.
A man in Atchison has found it
necessary to write an open letter eA-
planning that he wears white socks,
not because they are fashionable, bu.
because socks of any other color hurt
his ankles.
The town of Doniphan, which, in the
early days, was an important trading
post on the Missouri river, is now
three miles from the river, and this
year the thousands of acres of bottom
land is sown in wheat.
A railway engineer in Caldwell drew
q check for his last months services
amounting to ten cents. He has had
it framed and will keep it as a SOU
venir in proof of the fact that he drew
tn smallest check written by the
company.
During May Topeka ate $4,000
pounds less meat than during the
same month a year ago. The food in
spector's fees dropped from S245 to
s194.
"A
a platter fell near Hoxie last week
and the local scientists disagree
whether it is a meteorite or frag-
ment from Mount Pelee.
Pearl Brown, a little girl in Par
sons, tried to open a 44-caliber Win
chester cartridge with Ratchet to
-see what was in it,. The doctor
hopes to save the other eye.
A consignment of poles intended
for the Wellington electric light ser
vice has been rejected by the CITY
council.
All the work that is being done on
the streets. avenues, alleys and public
places of Wellsville is being paid for
now. since the term of the last prisoner
expired this week.
Pratt county, which last year en-
ployed 1856 men and 4G6 teams from
the outside to help harvest the wheat
crop, announces officially that this
wear it will need 1858 men and $50
teams.
Chanute has agreed to set the eu-
phonious name of Elias Tobias, Bos-
ton capitalist, to music if he fulfllls
his promise to build smelter there.
A farmer was fined in Junction City
this week for hitching his team to the
army post
A man who, has attained the vener-
able age of n generally has some
thing to boast about. Such patri-
arch in Pratt boasts that he has never
owned a dog cow or a horse
The Arkansas river, the kansas
Nile" now looks like a meadow brook
in comparison with the Neosho river,
the Amazon of Kansas.
A girl in Abilene wrote to paper
there for advice. She said: 81 am
in love with young man
whose only fault is his love for red
soda pop. Do you advise me to marry
him?" The editor answered: No,
tender maiden, you would not be happy
with a pop fiend. "A man who has no
more strength of character than to
drink pop, will not fbe able to make
a living for you. If he drank beer or
straight rye you would have the fun
of reforming him. But pop fend
would stafve you. The oatmeal box
would grow achey with void and the
bacon board become a greasy memory
Never marry a man with weak vice
The worst husband.I ever had was a
deacon who smoked cubebs to keep
from smoking tobacco. The happiest
wife I've ever been was when living |