Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
Kansas Notes


~bumper'' weed crop.
A real estate man out in Great Bend,
the Tribune says. has for his motto:
'-Skin your friends if you can; your
enemies won't give you the chance
eJay-Buzzard'' was the headline of
a wedding notice in Salina paper a
few days ago, from which it is seen
that birds of a feather do not always
flock together.
The merchant who hid his money in
a waste paper basket when he closed
at night and the clerk who burned the
contents of the basket when he opened
up the next morning live in Pratt.
During his long career as an officer
of the law. Frank McGrath of Mitchell
county has killed sixteen men and cap
tured more than fifty horse thieves.
The text book trust has been barred
from Kansas by order of the supreme
court until it shall obtain a Kansas
charter.
A Great Bend boy was trying to ex-
plain to his best girl what Cuban reci-
procity meant, and illustrated in this
way: IF l have no wife and want one,
and you have no husband and want
one. l offer you a husband for wife.
In this way we are each benefited.
Now if 1 should, on the other hand,
require you to pay me sum of money
to become my wife, you would object
because you would say that 1 needed
you as much as you needed me, and
there should be no such discrimination.
you are the United States and 1 am
Cuba, suppose?" Yes. And what
is it that the United States wants of
Cuba?" asked the young miss. Sugar"
A blush on the already crimson cheeks
denoted that he had made the case
| quite clear and satisfactory, and when
sne next met her companions she told
them how "cutely' he had proposed
| Silver ingots weighing two and one
| half tons, and valued at $29,761, were
| piled up on the Emporia depot plat
form a few days ago. They were be
| ing shipped to Bombay from smell
! ter.
Some one has discovered that
Russian thistle can be distinguished
| from any other weed by squeezing it.
| The Parsons Sun says this is also a
good way to distinguish hornet from
| a horsef1y.
A farmer in Mcpherson county has
what he thinks is sure scheme for
exterminating potato bugs. He catches
| a few, ties strings around their necks,
| and hangs them from the vines. The
| rest of the potato bugs, says this farm
err solemnly, take warning and leave
the field.
In making up the list of champion
mean men one Brown county farmer
must not be overlooked. A picnic
party composed exclusively of girls,
most of them Kansas university stu
dents, camped near his place and
swiped twelve ears of corn for lunch
| The farmer went to town and caused
| warrants to be issued for the arrest
of ten of them.
| Two descendants of the Dymoke
family, the hereditary kings cham
| pions of England, live in Kansas.
One is Mrs. r. S. Fillmore, the wife
of Marshall county physician Her
| mother was Dymoke. The other is
| Oliver Dimmock of Hfawatha, a re-
tired farmer and stockman.
The Elks' base ball team in En-
poria is declared to be the worst in
the world. The Gazette says it
couldn't even beat the Daughters of
| Rebekah.
| Senator Burton will leave in two
weeks for Hawaii to investigate in
dustrial conditions in the Sandwich
| Islands.
Kansas paid out approximately PA
million dollars to foreign life insur-
ance companies last year, and only
| 1859 900 came back in the form of
| death losses.
Secretary Barnes of the State Hortf-
| cultural society says Kansas will pro-
duce an unusually large apple crop
| this year.
A Smith county photographer got
two good pictures of tornado at
distance of three miles. The twister
| is described as looking like IAN ele-
plants trunk let down from the
sky"
DR.. Brownfield, who got into Jail in
Eldorado by some gratuftous testi-
mony in the Morrison trial. wants to
get out. why doesn't he butt out?'
Harmon Wilson asks, That's the way
he got in
The state live stock sanitary COM
| mission is alarmed by the prevalence
of the Texas itch in Western Kansas
| The commission realizes that IL an
| epidemic of the itch is avoided it will
| be by a scratch.
Beef has become so high out in Clark
| county that according to Tom Cordry,