Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
Kansas Notes

of $4,000.
In Garnett the chief of the fire de-
partment dreamed that an alarm had
been sounded. He made an emergency
toilet, broke the sprinting record get
ting to the engin ehouse and was in
dignant to find everyone sound asleep.
Mary Mayhood of Aachison was
given judgment for 1896 damages
against the city for an ankle broken
on a defective sidewalk. She was de-
several weeks.
IT, advises the world-wiSe OBJ
server of the Russell Record, "a tree
agent happens along and deserts his
wife at the hotel, don't waste too
much sympathy on her. A couple are
playing that game in the northern
counties
The Fort Scott foot racers have been
more successful even than the Bulga-
rian bandits in realizing on their
ran-some
H. Clay Park estimates that Kan
sas contains 1892 COS, 10000 square
feet. This is figuring pretty close.
considering the uncertainty of the Mis-
souri, river.
Tom Thompson of Howard has OBJ
served that in cleaning snow off
walk woman will go after it with
a broom, no matter how deep it is,
while man will use shovel, no mat
ter if there is ever so little.
After reviewing the evidence in a
divorce suit, in which a tramp who
married rich widow is also demand
ing $4,000 alimony, the lola Register
concludes with the sentiment: "And
Frank Bryan of Meade received
car load of corn this week and the
paper there says it tastes like money.
and the chickens are taking on a
golden hue from eating it.
Fort Scott will have a fair to raise
funds to pay the 5000 debt which
still hangs over its Convention hall
Last year. said a Dickinson coun-
ty farmer to the Abilene Chronicle.
1--WE had to take fifty pounds of corn
meal to tawn to get twenty cents;
but now we have to take twenty cents
but now we have to take fifty cents
to town to get twenty pounds of corn
NEAL
Evangelist Williams saved" Hia-
watha year ago, and now he is going
back to do it over again.
A railroad note from Moran Herald:
Superintendent Webb of the Missouri
Pacific passed over this division
Wednesday in his private car. He
stopped here long enough to get a
chew off of Jim Hurlock's plug and
then proceeded westward
The Santa Fe Limited was in a.
hurry the other day beyond Dodge
City and logged along at merry clip
that averaged a mile every fifty-two
seconds. Some day that train will
forget to stop and have a head-end
collision with the Rocky mountains.
man in Valley Falls is so econ
nomical that when he shoveled the
snow from his sidewalk, instead of
throwing it into the street, he careful
ly toted each shovelfull into the back
yard and scattered it on the garden.
Topeka wasn't painted red by the
Kansas day banqueters, but the town
was Illuminated in water colors.
The new-fangled neckties which. by
pulling a cord, disclose the word NO
on the ront, are considered quite de
rigueur by the gi1ded youth of Eu-
reka.
Near concordia a farmer struck a
bed of ochre at a depth of seventy
five feet.
Forty Atchison merchants have
signed an agreement with the Retail
Clerks union to close their places of
business at $50 p. m.
The real philanthropist in lola is
the man who advertises that he will
sell corn chop, delivered, for $1.35 for
every 100 pounds.
The Council Grove Courier Guard
says: Ever notice how women can
swear without uttering an oath? A
Union street woman called a man a
puppy recently, and he smarted and
fumed under it two weeks. There are
not words enough in the directory of
profane emphasis to make him worry
two minutes if a man should speak
them
A devout Fort Scott negro. who
wished to say the right thing after
the police judge had sentenced him
for drunkenness, murmufed: God be
with you till we meet again.
"A country dog" tells the Atchison
Globe, came to town this morning,
and when a town dog rushed at him
and looked him over, the country dog
didn't appear at all afraid, and acted
as though he were saying Il have
heard a good deal about these town
dogs. They don't seem to be SO many.
have a notion to whip the life out
of lhis one The result was that the
country dog trotted all over town with
out a fight; his bluff won. Had he
shown the slightest fear every dog in