Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-11
Kansas Notes

have been arrested charged with run
ming a gambling hell"
An lola dry goods merchant fixed
up his big window with such an at
tractfve display of feminine wearing
apparel that he finally had to put
sign in the window asking the men
not to crowd around and obstruct the
view of the women.
A Southern Kansas postmaster re-
ceived a letter a few days ago adj
dressed .sP- NJ meaning, of course,
postmaster" He kept it several days
and then began asking his acquaint-
ances if they knew man of the name
of Afternoon"
| Since the Indians in Northern and
Eastern Kansas have formed Pasture
trust and raised the price from So a
head to IS. Poor Lo has become High,
and it is the cattlemen who claim the
adjective Poor
| Osborne claims to be entitled to all
| the credit for Miss Elsie Reasoner.
Her father moved from Leavenworth
to Osborne when she was quite young,
and it was there that Elsie passed her
happy childhood days
The origin of this, which is going
the Kansas newspaper rounds, is I'M
known: Il am not much of a math-
ematician," said the cigarette. but
| can add to a. mans nervous troubles,
| !. can subtract from his physical en-
ergy. l can multiply his aches and
pains. / can divide his mental powers,
take interest from his work and dis
count his chances for success"
| Although he did not reach Kansas
until the spring of 1876. BENJAMIN. Hard
| ing of Wathena makes the claim that
| he is the oldest inhabitant of the
state.
The blockade against cattle from the
West is the first time the Colorado
line has been peacefully blockaded
since the cinder beetle quarantine
nearly a year and half ago.
/ A company with $3.50. 900 capital has
been organized in Fort Scott to bore
100 oil wells, and when it gets through
the face of Bourbon county will look
as though it had smallpox.
In noting that Abraham Wolff and
wife have celebrated the sixtieth ami
versary of their marriage, the Haddam
Clipper says they have seven children,
| forty grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren, land of these only one
has been married the second time"
destroyed by fire of incendiary origin
last week
An Emporig girl mysteriously di-
appeared Monday There are people
who have always said the Town Row
would eventually wind up in a kid
naping.
The Topeka Capital has been made
the official stare paper for another
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Topeka Herald.
Some of the neighboring towns are
not through laughing yet because Ar
kansas City sent its silver cornet band
down to the depot to meet the Banda
Rosa when it arrived.
A Hiawatha man had some meat
stolen. He kept perfectly quiet about
it. Along came a neighbor, who said:
Hear you had some meat stolen
Eyes, and you stole it," was the re-
ply. mo one else knew about it.
Four more statehouse janitors were
chosen by the executive council last
week, making fourteen. There are
three more to be appointed. 1t al
lows four janitors for each wing of
the building and one Eat large"
The executive council recently paid
So,UUO LOT IQc recently competed IRON
stairways in the statehouse. The work
was to have been finished last sum-
mer, and the contract called for a for
felt of $40 day for each day it re-
NAMED unfinished after the time spec
flied. This forfeit, amounting now to
81, 800. was magnanimousIy waived by
the council.
President Roosevelt may have heard
that the average Topeka man belongs
to fifty secret societies, and gave out
the anti-handshaking order to keep the
fifty varieties of grips from doing ir-
reparable damage to the Presidential
palm.
Kansas has broken into the New
York Four Hundred. Mrs Aida Walker.
colored, the wife of George Walker of
the Vaudeville team of Williams and
Walker, lives in Lawrence. She dined
with the millionaires at Delmonico's
as a guest of honor
The Eldorado Republican tells of a
little girl from town who was visiting
in the country. She soon became ia
Failiar with the cows, pigs and chick
ems, and knew where the butter and
ham and eggs came from. One day a
piece of comb honey was placed on the
table Il see,' the town girl remarked
coyly, that you keep bee"
Judge Hazen of Shawnee county has
granted new trial in the case of John
c. Lowe, who killed his WIFE He ex-
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