Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Kansas Notes

Gently Al l1ldW dlud says lA1l SoAAS |
arrived on horseback and some OF |
"toot'
Topeka has encountered the same
old obstacle in it's effort toward |
cheaper gas The manager of the gas
company proves" that it costs $1.02
per thousand cubic feet to manufac-
ture it.
A Council Grove woman says she is
glad of the cool weather as the dress
waist she had to wear in warm
weather was so full of lace holes she
looked like a tatooed woman every
time she wore it on a dusty day.
An epidemic of tattooing has
reached Ottawa, with the result that
there are almost as many sore arms in
town as at the height of the vaccina
ton season. Most of the young men
are wearing hearts pierced with ar
rows and other delicately sentimental
symbols on their forearms.
Persons who know, or think they
know, say Kansas will feed 100000
steers this winter; that they will cost
about four cents a pound, and that the
average weight when put into feed
lots will be 1000 pounds. In other
have $32 900 900 worth of steers, eat
ing 100000 bushels of corn every
day.
Although the carriers on the rural
mail routes are not supposed to tote
freight, Harvey county carrier had
to take 625 pennies in payment for
money order.
The divorce case of Mrs Mouldy
a much needed airing in the distric.
court of Shawnee county this week. 8
! Hedges are the paramount issue in
Harvey county, and the two tickets
stand for ito trim" and mot to
trim
| At an orchestra recital in Atchison
recently No. on the program was
ga Musical Phantazmagoria-" The
Century dictionary doesn't know a
word about it.
H. D. Perkey lectured in Topeka
/ last week and said the appetite for
strong drink is caused principally by
/ improperly cooked food. Instead of
| tracts and lectures the State Tenn
perance Union should send out some
health food.
! Judge w. D. Webb, a lawyer and
politician of Atchison, has prepared a
! lecture dealing with the legal phase
of the trial nd crucifixion of Christ.
The lecture will be delivered at Linds-
borg this month. Judge Webb shows
that the trial was not according to the
laws under which PLATE was supposed
to act. But in those days the new
trial, writ of error, habeas corpus
stay of execution, writ of certiorari
coram nobis and nolle had not been
invented.
An Abilene Sunday school mad every
enrolled member present last Sabbath
for the first time in years.
Regularly once each week Win
field admirer presents Coman's mill
tary band with a bushel of peanuts
and pop corn.
] Neodesha teachers do not use a pad
die. Their theory is that a short sec
ton of rubber hose has more dreaded
memories to the pupil.
A couple were married in Emporis
this week and Immediately separated
for life. The young bride took west
bound train and the groom boarded tn.
Santa Fee east.
A bunch of Greek laborers fresI
from Athens were initiated on the
SdnId II Z SGCllOH SOuln OIL AThduSd:
City with green persimmons for sup
per desert They had nothing to say.
Although he reached home from tht
poker game at midnight the wife hat
the doors locked so tight that a Toron
to husband was compelled to shive
the remaining hours until dawn unde
the porch.
Colonel W. F. Colud, a veteran O
the Twelfth Kansas regiment, attended
the Ottawa reunion last week. Speak
ing of the early day distinctions be
tween Kansas and Missouri, the col
onel told this story: A Missouri mai
travelling toward Fort Scott met an
other Missouri man coming the othe
way, in the early days How far is i
to the Kansas liner asked the first
''Oh, only little ways" said the sec
ond. s'Wen, amt there any way t,
tell when come to it?' the first asked
You bet" the second replied. ''Yo'
just keep goin' and when you feel al
Irresistible desire to steal something
then you're in Kansas"
A Newton druggist received a con
Segment of 2O0,0 headache tablet
this week. There must be prospect
of something doing in Newton
H. Kicker was convicted of sellin
liquor in Topeka this week, and he ha
a 500 fine, besides a bill for cour