Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-07-26
Kansas Notes

prevent the coronation OF King Corn
Eskridge may lose the County Teach
srs' institute after this summer. The
merchants have raised the price OF
ce cream soda to ten cents
Wesleyan university has a new OBJ
servatory and Salina was very proud
Of it until a farmer came along and
said it looked like a silo for green
corn.
A young man in Milan, Sumner
county committed suicide because a
girl would not marry him. The cor
oner found eighty-five cents in his
pocket
1t is believed the Concordia CORE
spondent who said the Republican
river was four miles wide in some
places in Cloud county must have feeD
cooking up stream instead of across.
For the first time in several years
he Kaw river is so high at Lawrence
hat the catfish are able to swim up
over the dam. 1t is said the fish will
De able to navigate as far west az
Ellsworth.
Even those who ought to know best
he folly of trihing with explosives
are sometimes picked as victims
Sheriff Seitz of Mcpherson county held
4 lighted giant" cracker too long and
It cost him thumb and one finger
A Washington county man who has
oeen visiting in the East tells of a
narrow escape he had in Boston. A
friend was showing him the various
charitable institutions and asked il he
would like to see the Widows home.
Not by a burned sight, he replied.
4 saw a widow home once and it cost
ne $1,000 to beat suit for breach of
promise"
A Boonville merchant advertises
'Shirt-waists one-third Off" Does this
mean that a decollete variety of the
waists has struck Boonville?
Mont P Lee is the name of Joplin
young man. He disclaims any con-
nection with the Martinique disaster
however.
Hardware stores in Central Kansas
now advertise that they carry full
line of coupon-clippers.
The Central National bank, of Kan
sas City, Kan, and the Western Ma
tional bank, of New York, have been
approved as reserve agents for the
Caldwell National bank, Caldwell
Kan.
A Leavenworth man swallowed his
false teeth while making inroads on
a cherry pie.
Mrs. Preston B. Plumb has given to
the city of Emporia a site worth
SIS 900 free for the $4,000 Carnegie
library. The council has accepted but
Mayor Morse threatens to veto the
acceptance.
Something new in the regulation OF
the liquor evil IS being tried in HOr-
ton. Enough joints will be licensed
to yield a revenue of $500 month. OF
this sum half will be turned over to
the school board.
The body of Private Richie, who
jumped off a street car into the Re
and was drowned, has been found in
the kaw at St. George.
When Dummy Burson knocked a
home run in Chanute the other day he
paused at third base long enough to
accept SIS bill which was thrust at
him by an enthusiastic rooter who
rushed over the coaching line.
Great ambitions sometimes fino
'odgment beneath the shabby garb of
street urchins. In Wichita a negro
bootblack almost succeeded in rob-
ping the Kansas National bank of $685.
200.
H. N. Loomis, who has succeeded
old Archie Williams as the Union
Pacific's solicitor for Kansas, is n
comparatively young man, and almost
boyish in appearance. But the patri-
archs in the legal profession take of
their hats to him.
Leavenworth Jared exceedingly well
in the matter of congressional appro
priations Approximately 100000
will be expended in charging the
fort; $4,000 is appropriated for the
federal penitentiary, and the Soldiers
aome gets $344,0 900 Tor maintenance
and SIS, 900 for new buildings
There is talk of moving Lane uni
sersity from Lecompton to Hutchin-
son.
A Nebraska man sued the Missouri.
Pacific railway for 100000 damages.
His lawyer called on James w. Orr, of
he firm of Waggener, Horton & Orr
he company's solicitors for Kansas
and said: 81 am business man.
know the Missouri Pacific is not made
Of money, and will make you reason
able offer; one you can accept. / am
fair man; 1 will make an offer that
will settle this business in ten min
ltes / will take $4,000. and call it
off" Whereupon Mr.. Orr said: