Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Kansas Notes

sance.
One firm at Erie has seven oil wells.
fifteen gas wells and eleven dry
wells.
The Minneapolis Messenger has an
able editorial on the subject, How
to Get Out of Bed" in which the Ian
guild method is defended.
Editor Padgett of the junction City
Sentinel offers to accept hay, corn
oats '-or anything else that will do to
eat" on subscription.
The Effingham New Leaf has only
two subscribers who are as much as s5
in arrears, and both of them are for
mer county officers and rich.
Under the requirements of the new
truancy law there are several married
women in Ottawa who may be CON-
PEELED to so to school, as they are IN
der 49,
OF 700 newspapers in Kansas, tweD-
ty-six are known to be machine
papers, forty-eight are avowedly
'anti-machine" and the remaining 626
are sensibly Indifferent.
The lola Register was twenty-one
years old this week, and just to keep
prospective purchasers from snooping
around Editor Scott announces that the
paper is not for sale.
Two asylum attendants who caused
the death of B. L. Maxwell, an aged
patient, were tried for manslaughter
in Topeka this week and were acquit-
ted Their plea was .'self-defense."
Mr. Carpenter, chairman of the Kan
sas board of Worlds fair commission
he h,Iil
Louis will be completed in four weeks
and Carpenter ought to know.
Prof Penny of Washburn college de-
clares that many of the gospel hymDs
are Immoral having reference to the
music rather than the words. He says
the tunes of six hymns are waltzes.
two are twO-steps and seventeen are
polkas. He regards God Be With
You Till We Meet Again as pas-
ticularly fragrant. =
Billy Morgan calls upon the poll
ticians to quit rocking the boat.
although IT is pointed out that he js
one of the few who are able to swim
The AntiHorsethief society met in
Lawrence recently. The usual Law
renee resolutions condemning QuaI-
trell and pledging loyalty to the flag
were adopted by rising vote.
The tornado which swept over
Greenwood county Wednesday night
has SO far escaped being called =
cyclone
The river congress, incidentally, af-
fords Senator Burton an opportunity
to reaffirm his theory about putting
the flood waters in cold storage.
The district court of Sumner couD-
&c e. ~
is entitled to the office of county at
torney. Last July Emera Wilson, who
held the office disappeared, and wss
supposed to have committed suicide.
and Governor Bailey appointed M,
Burnette to sncceed him. Later VII
son returned. The county commits
sioners have paid the salary amount
ing to 1915, into the court and viii
let the claimants fight it out
Antonio Galenicci, who runs fruit
stand in Atchison feels pessimistin
about the future of the fruit industry
in Atchison the Globe says. He waa
blue when a reporter passed his stand
the other day. He said: American
he wanta know how mucha da pare
/ tella him two a. cent. He eat up
one and say pare no good, and he
donta want. Dam. He tasta dA
peach and through on sidewalk, and
/ gotta clean up. Dam. He say he
call again when / gotta something,
eat. Kerambo. I buy lots banan on
account cool weather. and sun come
down hot and rot al baDan. Dam,
/ buy first grapes in season and put
all over front stand, and see where
mekka big mon. Swarm bees lita or.
grapes and stingga my hands, and
gotta drink quart whisky. Whoopen
Full whisky and break snow case
and policeman mekka me pay f. dol
lar in police court. Dam American
quitta eat fruit and eata free lunch
Dam And then, Kerambo, Worsta
all. and on toppa everything, I gotta
brekka my face tryin' speakka the
language"
1t must worry the Rev. Bernard
Kelley, when he goes to Grand,
Army reunion, to know whether tn
greet those he meets as "Comrade"
or Brother"
W. H BiddIe who was the state
treasurer during the Lewelling admi7-
tstration, now runs a hotel in a new
railroad town in Oklahoma. You can't
keep a good man down.
The most remarkable thing about
the get-rich-quick concern which coli
lapsed in Peoria a few days ago is
that the suckers who invested In it
may get as much as seventy-fve cents
on the dollar