Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-07-05
Kansas Notes

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There is some chagrin in Concordia
because one family that has been kept
by the county nearly a year owns ten
dogs. The marshal knows of four
other poor families that own among
them forty dogs.
A certain Judge of Clyde, according
to the Clay Center Times, once went
into Winegar's store in Atchison to
negotiate for a high silk hat The
judge was then unknown to Vinegar.
After trying on several he asked Wine
gar if, in his judgment, an orthodox
any such frivolity in a man of his
cloth and avordupois and reputation.
Vinegar thought not, of course. Then
followed the question whether or not
reductions were made to clergymen.
his way closely followed the judges
way, said that he would only be too
glad to give a rake off to members
of the cloth. A trade Immediately fol-
lowed. The judge put on the hat, took
his old one in his hand and started
to the door, but stopped, looked back
and inquired as to how it stacked up
in actual service. Vinegar assured
him that it was more than all right,
when the judge looked him squarely
in the face and innocently announced:
We'll, Mr., if that congregation of
mine don't like this hat, they can go to
hell Then Vinegar, VINO could take
joke, got his hat, and together they
went out into the street picking up
converts here and there as they went
until they had a mighty following all
the long afternoon.
Two little girls in Cowley county
wrote to young Teddy Roosevelt.
telling him about Kansas and asked
him to write and tell them about
Washington. The presidents bow
wrote them a polite letter in reply
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
will lecture at the Emporia Chautau
qua assembly July 2, but the announce
ment has caused no commotion. The
young women understand quite gener-
ally that Captain Hobson has re-
formed.
man in Enterprise advertises that
he wants to sell his Jersey COW land
other household articles
Independence had water, water
everywhere, and not a drop to drink
last week. The flood at the water sup
ply pumping station got into-the en-
CINE room and disabled the ma
chinery.
The Spirit spring at Cawler City,
also called the Waconda, is described
as showing signs of agitation in the
last few days Clouds of smoke come
out with the water, which is boiling
hot. Deep rumblings are continually
heard, and all the nearby people are
in fear. No bottom was ever discov-
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with an iron weight on a wire to a
depth of 1900 feet. At that depth the
fifty-pound weight fioated and would
go no further.
Prof. Henry Worrall,, who died in
Topeka last week, was a genius and
the father of a family of geniuses. He
had lived in Topeka nearly forty years
and was well known to all the old
timers. He arranged the Kansas ex-
hibit at the Philadelphia Centennial
in 1876, and the state was proud of it's
display. At the Chicago fair ten years
ago he was in charge of the Rock
Island railroads exhibit. He was an
accomplished musician and a com
poser of must. but it was as a painter
that he was best known; his favorite
subject was the Kansas prairie. Mr.
Worrall was born in Liverpool in 1926,
and ran away to America before he
was a dozen years old During his
first few years in this country he was
a newsboy in New York and Cincin-
natl. He was the only regular sub
scriber to the London Punch in Kan
sas, and his bound files extend back to
1855.
Bankers are supposed to be exempt
from error in money matters, but a
banker in Marquette was swindled on
the old rare coin" game last week. 1
Jewell county's thirty-four inch vein
of coal contains only .006 per cent sui
phur, and is, therefore, classified as
hard" 1t burns like Pennsylvania
anthracite. The two shafts now being
sunk will have an output of 1000 tons
a day
The Goodland Republic is the latest
paper to balk, and to promulgate the
rule that hereafter resolutions of con-
dolence, cards of thanks, obituary
poetry and all notices of entertain
ments given for the purpose of realiz-
ing money will cose five cents a line
for each insertion.
Dave Leahy tells the story of a man
who had only one hand and an Irish
man asked him how he lost the other.
He replied: Il had long suspected
tina. I was part Irish-that | had Irish
nd in my yeins-and / was con-