Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-11-01
Kansas Notes

JureQ IueSQay Dy a customer VINO
used an ak. That's certainly strenu-
Gus way of getting even-
John Klock, a farmer living near
Pittsburg, dropped one of his hands
the other day. Klock is now lookine
for a good second hand.
The Emporia Gazette has a copy OF
THE Life of Harry Tracy" over which
the carrier boys fight, when Mrs
White isn't looking, to see who's going
to read tn enext chapter.
Coffeyville is the home of an extra
ordinary girl. She wrote an obituary
poem the other day and didn't once
use that cold, stereotyped rhyme OF
left us and bereft u.s."
Miss Agnes Steinerkirchner was
elected queen of the Newton carnival.
So that the cheers for Her Majesty
may be unhesitatingly plentiful she
will be called Queen Agnes.
The Kansas Swedes are not all in
Mcpherson county. August Sweden
burg is the nominee for sheriff in
Saline county.
According to the Topeka Mail and
Breeze there is piece of land in Cen
trail Kansas that has been in corn for
twenty consecutive years and raised an
excellent crop this year. What state
can beat this record?
Hutchinson decided that brick pave
ments are not only too noisy, but too
cheap, so its main street will be paved
with asphalt.
A man writes communication to
paper out in Logan lamenting because
it is 125 feet to water, and twenty-five
miles to the nearest saloon.
who interviewed Frederick Funston
this week says the general is growing
fat He must weigh almost 100
pounds.
An Atchison girl is going to marry
an Italian nobleman and local pride
is such that it is expected the next
corn carnival will have a macaronf
annex.
Coal strikes have become so expen-
sive and troublesome that a lot Of
towns in Kansas have almost ceased
to care whether their coal holes pan
out or not.
At Topeka temperance rally this
week photographs of the interior of
several points will be shown by means
of stereopticon. The pictures will
do much to dispel the "gilded palace
idea.
n StIe0J car, CROWDED
with people going to foot ball game
the other day, stopped at Elm street
to take on several high school girls.
How are we going to get into that
crowded carr" asked one Hurry up
and I'll squeeze you inside came
from the conductor. well, 1 just
guess you hadn't better try it,
smarty,' returned the young woman,
Indignantly. And then the crowd
laughed.
J. H. Lathrop, nominee of the Allied
party for governor, advances some
good reasons why he should be elect
ed. He says: 81 have camped on the
trail of wrongdoers, poured balm on
the sick, given strength to the weak
and spread light everywhere
Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman-Catt
wants the "obey' clause in the mar
riage sermon eliminated. There is no
| reason why it shouldn't be, for all the
good it does.
THE time may not be very far
away" says the Eldorado Republican,
when political speaking will become
lost art. There is a good deal more
windjamming going on, in a political
way, than is necessary. The average
man knows his duty without being
told about it, and if let alone will do
about as near right as do the fellows
who made it their business to tell
how and what to do, and how to do
it,"
1t was bound to come, so the pub
lie was fortified for it. The first
straw vote" was taken this week on
a Katy train in Southern Kansas.
If the attendance at the political
rallies" in Kansas this year is any
criterion, the total vote will be about
so per cent of the vote two years
ago.
A Kingman dentist took up the car
| pet in his operating room and had it
sent to Chicago for an analysis. He
received $34.17 worth of gold from
| it
There are a good many cases Of
BERTHE, the Lamb in Atchison, the
Globe says. They are the young men
| who come down town in the evening,
| stand on a street corner, and think
they are wicked.
Mr.. Gerow of the state employment
agency denies that he has undertaken
/ to furnish servant girls. He says his
| department is for men only. This
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