Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
Kansas Notes

state penitentiary has graduated 5000
men and women, which is more than
twice the output of the state univer-
sity and the Agricultural college for
the same period.
A boy in Sheridan county, who
was assisted by his teacher to write
a composition on wheat, concluded
it with the great truth: Wheat
yields from one to fifty bushels per
acre"
The wife of DR.. Gray of Garden
City has sued for divorce. Gray was
tried for murder in Chicago. but was
acquitted. His wife sets forth half a
dozen sufficient reasons.
A stingy man in Minneapolis was
finally persuaded to pledge So a year
toward his pastors salary, after which
he agreed to make the payment on the
spot for 10 per cent discount.
A woman has a right to change her
woman who was robbed of 81 900 by a
mind reader it is contended by the
lola egister that she would have done
better to mind her change.
Two of the sweetest girls in Topeka
are to be married within a week but
persons who look at the society news
III lHo IOpehd papers Will De tT0IHeil-
dously relieved when it's all over.
District Attorney Dean has promised
to prosecute to the very limit any To-
peka saloon keeper who sells liquor to
Indians.
} Miss Cora Suberkrup, the prettiest
girl in Anna Held's dashing company,
is a Leavenworth girl. And she talks
English almost as intelligently as An
RI Held.
joker sent a tombstone dealer in
Howard out to solicit an order from a
man who had just ''lost his wife, The
dealer narrowly escaped with his life
The lost" wife had eloped with an
other man.
/ A woman in Chanute saw a man
looking at her window a few nights
ago She seized a poker, threw up the
window suddenly and landed blow on
inlm that almost paralyzed him before
he could get away. Not many men
could have played a poker hand any
better than that.
Here is the letter sent by a Topeka
man with present to a bride in Chi
cago: MY Dear Girl: You will find
in the box a thingamajig which has
something to do with eating grub off
a table. 1t looks like cross between
a harpoon and hayfork. l am so old
fashioned that l don't know; you will
Ee so happy you won't care"
A farmer in Summerfield figures
that one dog costs as much for keep
ing as sixty hens, which will lay 900
dozen eggs, worth $50.
One inmate of the Labette county
poorhouse has been there thirty years
and the county suspects he has come
to "stay for supper
A federal warrant has Eeen issued
for the arrest of Isadore Rhott of Hia-
watha for selling liquor to the In
dians
1t is understood that the Metho-
6-sts of Mcpherson are preparing to
church Bishop Andrews for admit
ting, in recent sermon, the reason
ableness of evolution.
Parson Louther of Mcpherson, con-
victed of heresy, is preaching in the
"opera house He has the stage set
with a forest scene, producing Gar
den of Eden effect.
Notwithstanding its name, it is
thought the Peoples Gas company OF
Coffeyville, which has just been char
interests of its stockholders.
A suit was brought in Wichita in
volving the ownership of a four-story
building and the lawyer asked wit
ness; What space, If any, does this
building occupy?''
A consignment of buttermilk received
at the State Agricultural college this
week was shown to be 10 proof, and
i. was only five days old. y
A Wichita criticism says Paderew-
ski played with perfect finish And
Paderewski's finish is harder to see
than that of most instrumental So
1oists.
Five hundred shares of stock in the
BONANZA Gold Mining and Milling
company" is the prize for the prettiest
lawn in Leavenworth this summer
The street railway company in To-
peka is going to connect with the gov
ernors mansion
Abilene admits its prospects of
striking natural gas are somewhat
doubtful" 1t has bored 1850 feet
straight down without coming in con-
tact with anything except subsoi1 and
alfalfa roots.
A son of the late ishop Thomas was
chosen for bishop of the new Episcopal
diocese of Western Kansas
A Mcpherson woman has a hen that
lays black eggs. 1t is supposed, also.