Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Kansas Notes

sons who use dynamite to kill fish.
They deserve q blowing up.
Theer is a man in Olathe so meek
thathe has paid $50 to buy his wife an
electric seal jacket, and has had her
last winters raglan cut down to fit
himself.
Leavenworth county is disgruntled
to discover that Doniphan county has
the more apple trees. The latter has
454,01S, while Leavenworth has 451.-
SGT. The two are among the thirty
greatest apple producing counties in
Ae United States.
What is good for bed bugs?" an
Atchison man asked a doctor. The
doctor wrote something on a piece of
Whereupon the man said; 'I didn't ask
you what would-kill them; I asked you
what was good for them
Judge Hook has appointed Lucien
Baker, John H. Atwood and 1. E Lam
bert to defend the mutinous convicts
in the Leavenworth federal peniten-
tiary, who escaped last November, and
are now accused of murder.
A lot of Topeka clergymen are try
ing to induce Attorney General God
ard to bring impeachment proceedings
against Mayor Parker, because he per-
mits the saloons to be licensed.
Will Holstin of Cottonwood Falls
evidently is tired of being suspected"
He prints a card in the local paper
in which he says: 81 desire to say
that 1 will give $25 to any man who
will prove that I have more than one
wife living. 1 am ever so much
obliged to them that say 1 have. I do
not have to steal a girl. I go away
from here the first of November, and
expect to take one with me credit
ably
Sine ethe Anti-Horse Thief Associa-
ton in Southern Kansas has taken to
pursuing chicken thieves it may be-
come unsafe even to take possession
of an unemployed umbrella
An Osborne county farmer has a
four-legged chicken and is disposed to
organize Drum-stick trust.
Wichita failed to get the Banda
Rosa for it's fair, but it is advertising
seven bands of music" that are
equally as good"
The late Judge Horton left sur
prisingly small estate. 1t consists Of
$11 900 Of life insurance, a valuable law
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| about $4,000.
| Since a Leavenworth woman was
dangerously injured a week ago by the
explosion of can of tomatoes, Warden
Jewett is figuring on substituting to-
matoes for dynamite in the state pen
itentiary mines.
| An Eldorado man took out license
to marry his niece, who is thirty-five
years his Junior. AS soon as their re-
lationship was discovered the license
was revoked. The old man explained
that he didn't know it was against
the law.
| A man who owns eighty acres of land
just north of the Lanyon smelter in
lola, has sued the company for $39, 682
damages. The land used to yield a
large crop of clover, but the smoke
and gases from the kilns have killed
all the vegetation.
| A negro named Sam Short who had
escaped from the Hutchinson reform
atory rode from Hutchinson nearly to
| the Colorado line underneath the pilot
of an engine.
| Women are sometimes too Jealous
in the payment of their husbands
bills. A Parsons woman ran away
with fiddler
| John Doe, under arrest in Winfield
for running a gambling house, put up
a cash bond. The papers spell his
name John Dough.
| One of the Emporia f1ue borers laid
of this week on account of his rheum-
| atism, and the Gazette's railroad re-
porter says he had a hitch in his
| get-along."
A clergyman who has become The
| pastor of the First United Presby-
| terrain church in Topeka is referred to
by the Capital as the new shep-
| herd
| w. T. Bland has resigned as judge
of the district court of Atchison coun-
| ty, to give all of his time to the
wholesale drug firm of which he is a
member.
A campaign against billboards in
Valley Falls has been dropped, on the
| advice of the New Era They are
the paper says, "oftentimes the best
part of the show.
Captain p. H. Coney of Topeka has
| written an open letter. of two col
umns denouncing General Eli Tor
/ rance, commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army, for appealing for aid fol
aged and decrepit ex-Confederates-
Thirteen doctors have been nomin
ated for members of the legislature in