Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Kansas Notes

hHQ q new Dr1ck plant
One farmer near Linwood, in the
Kaw valley, cleared $1,000 this year
on q little forty acre patch of pota-
toes.
A man in Pratt wanted 5 drink so
badly that finally he went to dentist
and had tooth pulled, in order to
get it.
The Arkansas valley has the right
kind of soil for sugar beet culture,
says Secretary Colburn.
In Howard the band is getting ready
to turn out and greet at the depot a
young man of that place who has just
completed four-year course at Har-
ward in three years.
Sheriff Clouston of Ness county, ac-
cording to the Russell Record, pitched
a ball with such force in game last
week that he dislocated his elbow and
broke the bone in two places.
A Leavenworth man is in trouble
for trying to steal a $500 monument
to place over the grave of his father
and mother.
The new postoffice in Kansas City,
Kas., will be completed this week.
The bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
building was signed in March, 1899.
troop of soldiers passed through
Cherryvale last week on their way
to Indian territory. They were
guarding 100000 which is to be di-
vided among the Osages.
Ottawa Herald: 81 notice. unused
Saint ePter, with sigh, as he made
note of the latest traction engine ex-
plosion in the Kansas wheat belt,
chat resurrection is going to be q
mighty busy day for the installment
department of this institution
The good roads movement in Cow
ley county is progressing.
A plague of ankle bugs is making
trouble in the vicinity of Sterling.
grown up.
Potatoes are so large in the Eudoria
neighborhood that they average fif-
teen to the bushel, or one to the
meal.
Chanute has signed a southpaw
twirler named Straight, and the other
towns in the circuit expect to take
advantage of his absence of curves.
1t is nonsense, this statement that
hot winds could not hurt the corn
now. "A hot wind,'' says Victor Muir
dock, "can follow corn to the bin and
bite it,
Work on the new hotel in Indepen-
dence was stopped because of high
water in the Kaw river, which shuts
off the sand supply.
One man in Sumner county objects
to free rural mail delivery, and refuses
to put out mail box. He says the
government is getting too alfred
gay
The postoffice at New Almeto, Nor
ton county, Kan, has been re-estab-
lished, with Antonius G. Wahlmeier as
postmaster.
Edwin l.. Cobb, of Kansas City,
Kan, has been appointed a clerk in
the engineers department of Missis-
sippi river commission at st. Louis
An old woman in Yates Center says
her idea of good>luck is to find a pair
of stockings in the wash that do not
require darning.
Clyde is thinking of offering re-
ward for the man, alive or dead. who
started the fiction about the water
melon crop being failure.
So far there has been no run on any
of the banks in Eldorado as the result
of the rush to shower currency upon
the fund to pay for an appeal in the
Jessie Morrison case.
Every year the Lancaster Literary
society has debated the problem: Re
solved, That water does more damage
than fire. This year has been I'M
| usually favorable to the affirmative.
Otto Kuehne has decided not to
move his pickle factory away from
| Topeka after all.
A Salina girl who was Handicapped
by too many brothers was entertain
| ing her favorite caller a few nights
ago. Brother No. 1 took up his posi-
ton on the front porch and stayed
there. About IL o'clock Brother No.
came home and attempted to join in
the conversation, but was met with
the question, Where have you been?'
"Oh, been to see my girl" We'll, did
her brothers sit around in the way
all the EVENING" There was an i'm
mediate disappearance of relatives.
A Lawrence paper notes that Kansas
| is getting it's due this year, as well
as its dew And when the harvest
is gathered there will be something
doing.
Speaking on the subject of capital
punishment, Colonel Je1tz thus neatly
expresses himself: The man that
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