Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-18
Kansas Notes

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them to work like Helen Advertise"
whoever she is.
Forty members of the German Agri-
cultural society are coming to Kansas
to study the science of farming One
great lesson the Kansas farmers had to
learn was to devote more time to soil
| culture and not so much to statesman
ship.
A prisoner at the Fort Leavenworth
penitentiary was shot Saturday while
trying to get away. The public is glad
that the guards are seeking to dis
| courage the practice, which has be-
come more or less prevalent among
the convicts of escaping.
A Leavenworth literary critic says
he would like to read novel in which
the hero has a pug nose, buck teeth
and freckles instead of the invariable
Clean, square-cut chin and acquiline
nose" Evidently the critic has never
read the '-Boyville" stories.
A brother-in-law of Grant Giilett,
the absconding cattle king of Wood
| bine, says there is no truth in the re-
port that Gillett has struck it rich in
Old Mexico, thus Indicating that the
creditors will continue to get just what
they have been getting for four
years.
Zone of these fine days. predicts
the Junction City Republic, which is
long suffering and slow to wrath. IAN
awful apparition in human form will be
seen to scud through the trees, mount
the stairway. and, standing on the
threshold, will be heard to shout in
words of fire with birthstone border
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vocating the wanton slaughter of tele-
phone girls, as a rule, but the spirit
of downtrodden people is restless and
unsafe
Mrs Myrtle Brown, a write woman,
has been divorced from James Brown,
OF Emporia. As his name indicates,
Brown is a 'colored' man.
An omitted "r" in a word can make
considerable trouble. The Ottawa Re-
publican told of a girl who had gone
to visit fiends in Baldwin"
AS an inducement to four big factor
les to locate there, Independence has
pledged herself to give them total of
8 million cubic feet of natural gas
daily, free for two years.
Howard L. CASTOR, a farmer near
Seneca, found $4,000 of United States
bonds in pile of rubbish. They be-
1onged to the former owner, w. L. Max
well, who died recently in sanitarium-
CASTOR took the bonds to the admins
traitors of Maxwells' estate and said.
After you
"A woman who has been working in
the heather business for good many
years says it takes $16.75 to get one
dollar to the heather" says the Ell
of
people who take toll for handling the
contributions. She further remarks
that if one will put 81 into bottle,
cork it up tight and throw it into the
river, it will stand just as good chance
of arriving in heather lands as it
would by giving it to some collector
of heather money.
The new battleship Kansas is to be
16, 1000 tons instead of $1,000, and will
cost more than $4,00O,0O0-
The Lindsborg chorus has sung the
oratorio, "The Messiah" forty-one
times and will sing it six times more
next week. The people of Mcpherson
county whistle it instead of BILL
Bailey and Under the Bamboo
Tree"
A brakeman who was hurt in a
wreck recently, the Emporia Gazette
says, went to Topeka to find out what
the claim agent was going to do about
it. He expected he would be allowed
pay for the time he was laid up
but instead the claim agent made the
brakeman apologize for not being
killed in the wreck.
J. B. PARROT, 80 years old, who has
lived in Paola thirty-eight years and
has a great grand-child, was married
last week to a widow of IS.
A dispute is raging between two
of the papers edited by the old sol
diers concerning "Old Abe the fam
GUS eagle that went through the Civil
war with a Wisconsin regiment. One
paper contends that "Old Abe" was
rooster fixed up to look like an eagle,
and the other contends that the bird
was genuine The Lawrence Gazette
now breaks into the controversy, and
insists that ABE was a sure enough
eagle. But it adds: Both the papers
miss the chief point in the story about
old Abe He went through the war
at the head of his regiment, helped in
battle and was loved by all the old
soldiers. But change came over the
spirit of Old Abe's' dream when the
war ended Instead of settling down
in quiet to ENJOY the honors he had
won, old Abe astonished and scan
dalized his friends by making a nest
and laying a bunch of eggs"