Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
Kansas Notes

militia company, and at this rate it
will soon be marching.
The flood caught the Rock Island
with e57 head of cattle and eighty
horses at Beleville. The feed bill on
the bunch ran up to s1,400.
Pawnee county has 100 900 acres OF
wheat which will ripen next week
and is advertised to yield thirty-five
bushels to the acre. The county asks
for 1900 harvest hands, which is sew.
enty-three more than Pawnee coun
tvs total vote.
Lawrence might be induced TO 40
cept the payment of Price and Quan.
trell raid claims as full settlement for
damages done by the flood
A little girl out in Great Bend sur
prised her parents a few nights ago
when she was asked to repeat the
Twenry-third psalm. The little one
started off bravely: The Lord il
my shepherd-and He lost His sheep
and don't know where to find them"
Il will be greatly obliged" adver
tises a farmer in the Wamego Times,
IF the owner of large sand bar will
come and remove the same at once
replant some corn.
changed to a national bank with its
capital increased to $50 900. 1t is
surmised that Editor Badger has TAX.
en- his hoardings out of the tin can
which he had buried in his back yard3
farmer up in Atchison county who
was telling how badly rain is needed
for the crops. began with the cautious
preamble: Its no josh"
George RyEe eScaDed a sentence for
burglary in Topeka by pleading insan-
kty and was ordered to an asylum in
stead. Wheels are supposed tc run
in the Byke family.
Regret is expressed by a Marion
county paper that General Funston
was not back in Kansas in order to
settle the much disputed question II
whether he can actually swim or nota
The Rev. John Milton of Rosedale
has resigned, to accept the pastorate
of a Baptist church in Fort Worth,
Tex, where immersion is optional and
not compulsory
The craftsmanship of the Atchison
policemen is away above the average.
Two policemen fired a total of ten
shots at a pair of robb.rs Thursday
night One robber received four OF
the bullets and the other received
three.
Because the body of a negro baby
was found in the Garnett water works
basin few days ago. Mayor Bailey
caused this warning to be published:
Notice is hereby given that fishing
or bathing in the city water works
lake is prohibited"
smart young nan in Anthony,
the Bulletin says, called up a tele-
phone girl few evenings ago and
asked her what she did when she was
doing nothing. She replied in the
sweetest tones that she put in her idle
moments talking to pests He mas quit
the telephone habit
At Smoker in Leavenworth JUS
tice David J. Brewer declared there is
no town where the people form "such
strong and lasting ties of friendship,
as in Leavenworth. The ancient town
row" is proof that the ties of hatred
are also possessed of great staying
qualities.
According to the Sedgwich Panta-
graph they are telling these stores or
the cyclone in Grant township. One
fellow unhitched from his pillow in the
field and scooted. The wind took that
pillow and turned it round and round n
a widening circle until the whole field
was neatly plowed up. Another farm
or had a bin half full of old corn on
the cob. There was a knot hole in
the bin, and the wind sucked every
cob in the place through the knot
hole. leaving the corn neatly shelle1
within. On one wagon a wheel was
started. revolving SO raDidlv that all
efforts to top it have so far been with
out avail.
A girl in Jewell City was Offered
$50 by her father If she would gradu-
ate in a calico dress. She called the
bluff, but she rugged up the dress I'M
til no one would have detected its real
texture.
Hutchinson, where the property loss
b. tie overlooking of Cow creek is
estimated to be between / and mil
lion dollars, is getting lot of conso-
lation out of the annual Kansas Must
cal Jubilee, which is singing away just
as if nothing had happened.
No one in Abilene ever sneers at the
efforts of the club women They are
raising more money for the flood sIlf-
ferers than anybody, and a few years
ago they pitched in and established
waiting to hear from Carnegie.
Prof. George C. Wakefield who
teaches one of the Language" classes
in the Sumner county High school,
called on a pupil to define an "impera-
tive sentence" The correct answer
was given. He then asked a boy to