Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-10
Kansas Notes

1y as large as hail stones.
jamestown has a basket ball team
which the Optimist, which is neces-
sarily hopeful, declares can "out-bas-
ket'' anything in that part of the
state.
H. H. Yoder, a Mcpherson county
former, makes the report that tur-
pentine is a good remedy for Hessian
flies The flies that it doesn't kill it
puts in a migratory mood.
The Junction City Republic tells of
a young man there who was in peril
of being thrown from the spirited
horse which he was riding until he
happened to Remember the Name,
and thereby held on
While the public does not believe
in too many strikes, 1T is willing to
acknowledge that the prevailing shah
by wages of the school teachers, aver
aging $50 MONTH is due to not strik-
ing often enough.
Assurance is given that the guns
which are stored in the basement of
the statehouse are not loaded. But
guns that are mot loaded" are the
kind that are responsible for half the
casualties in the world.
They make practical gifts down in
Independence. No silly ornaments for
the parlor mantel ''go'' among the old
residents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Holt
observed their fiftieth wedding ami
versary last week, and the neighbors
gave Mr.. Holt an overcoat and his
wife a set of false teeth.
1--WE were favored" says Governor
Riddle in the Minneapolis Messenger,
with a ride in Henry Mason's auto
mobile one day this week. The ma
chine clips along like creased light
ming, and Henry manages it with per-
feet ease, but we noticed that he did
not take many observations of the
scenery as we passed along, and we
wondered. The automobile is all
right; it's come to stay, bue we won
dered if we had happened to be
blushing maiden of some eighteen sum-
mers, or whereabouts. and Henry had
ben about thirty summers younger, if
he wouldn't rather have had a Mime
apolis livery rig"
August Holm of Marysville is one of
the fifteen Hons" appointed as dele
gates to the Farmers International
congress to be held at Niagara Falls.
Oil was struck in the southeast part
of Coffey county this week. 1t is not
flowing in prodigious quantities, but
enough to place Coffey county in the
"oiI belt
George T. Anthony once said that
the drug business. was the only indus
try in Kansas whose profits exceeded
the gross receipts. But that was be-
fore the Coal trust was organized.
Naturally the state officers are
alarmed to find that explosives are
stored in the basement of the state
house, though there is hardly a state
officer who has not had a fire kindled
under him.
Pupils of the ia schools in Kansas
which are closed because no teachers
are available will be glad-or ought
to be-that the cornerstone of the new
State Normal school at Hays City was
laid Friday
Three inches of rain in one hour at
Pratt this week, which caused the Min
escah river to overflow, has brought
the term "cloudburst'' back into use,
although it is used much more con-
servatively than 1t was last spring. 3
A Neosho county man who is bor-
ing for general results says he
hopes to strike oil or gas, but will
be satisfied with gasoline
Fort Scott's troubles have COM
menced. 1t voted $125,000 for the
municipal ownership of water works
and the litigation is about to begin
1t is only fair to Wichita to explain
that Cresceus was engaged at
princely salary as a fair attraction
several months before he became a
back number
Lawrence has fifty citizens whose
wealth exceeds $4,000 each, thus
proving the error of the umption
that Mr.. Bowersock had all of the
real and personal property of that
town corAered
An Illinois man has arisen to dis
pute Colonel d. r. Anthony's title as
dean of the newspaper profession in
the United States. Colonel Anthony
has been the editor and publisher of
a newspaper continuously for more
than fifty years. William Osman, of
the Ottawa, ILL.,, Free Trader. is the
William E. Curtis. the Chicago CORE
spondent. Mr. Osman is "a and has
been the editor of the Free Trader
almost continuously since the first of
August, 1910, a period of more than
sixty-three years Even now he goes
to the office daily and does his full
share of the work.
Kansas wind blew total of 7454