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

yard of bandage in order to show his
friends his smashed thumb
A favorite joke in the Kansas pa
pers is to advertise for setting hens
for use at the state fish hatchery,
which is to be established in Pratt
1t is noted by Republic county pa
per that John Konovalski and Mollie
Levandofski have committed matri-
manyski in a neighboring villageski-
County Attorney Mold of Nemaha
county was not caught mapping by the
liquor sellers. He has closed a series
of prosecutions that put practically
all of them out of business.
John Trzeciakvwski took out his
first naturalization papers in Leaven-
worth last week. Leavenworth ought
to take a man with such a name into
full fedged citizenship without fur
Their red tape
Notice is served by Ewing Herbert
that those High school graduates who
and Kansas City. One was the bill
vote to buy their graduating pro-
grammes away from home must expect
to get their fattering newspaper no
tees at the same place
A farmer near Westmoreland. G. A.
Whitehurst, sold his farm recently for
what he thought was a big price and
spent several weeks looking for an
other good place. Finally he returned
and gave the purchaser $3.50 bonus to
sell back
The district court in Emporia de-
cided the library site litigation Satur-
day In favor of the Plumb site. and
the West side faction announces it
Will appeal to the supreme court.
In Neodesha the bill posters are so
persistent that they even tack their
bills on the front doors of the citi-
zens.
A new soap factory has been estab-
lished in Armourdale, by some capi4
tal1sts who are not altogether philsn-
thropic
Foreign life insurance companies
took $2,465, 1S4 in profits out of Kan
sas last year, which is one of the PEN
alties of being robust
Ottawa is greatly agitated by the
problem of how to pronounce Sor-
rentino's name. Several real estate
men want to put the accent on the
rent"
A Weir City drug store has been
robbed "~ree times since the first of
the year. The fragrance of Kansas
ilquor sometimes acts as a powerful
magnet.
Students at the State Agricultural
college are being taught to serve as
Horse show judges.
An lola man was severely stabbed
in the left cheek the other day, yet
he decli~es to give the police his as
sailant's name
AT about p. M last Friday sman
but energetic cyclone passed west of
town." says the Independence Populist-
AT w. Orwig's place, two miles west,
his 2-story house of nine rooms was
r.oved about fifteen feet until stopped
by tree and one end torn out. The
house was pretty badly wrecked His
barn was also blown to pieces. At
the Cain farm two miles west, occu-
pied by Will Kingsley, the barn was
torn to pieces and the house unroofed.
In both of these barns there were
horses but they received no injury
worth mentioning. No person was
hurt but the damage done was great.
Several other pieces of property were
damaged along the line of the cy-
clone''
An absent-minded man out in Prae.
deposited several children in his bug
ey a few days ago. climbed in him
self tucked the laprobe carefully,
picked up the lines and started to
drive home. Then he discovered that
he had neglected to unhitch the
horse.
An Abilene man who manufactures
has received an order
fl ON China. He can make it, all right.
but he does not know quite how to
construct the apparatus so that it will
play Chinese music
Still, it must be said for the boy in
Scandia. who playfully pointed a gun
and said, 'T'H shoot YOU just for
fun, that he attended the funeral and
seemed really quite broken up
A school teacher in Atchison. ac-
cording to the Globe. asked one of her
pupils to name the capital of Con
necticut- 4 refuse to answer" replied
the boy, who is a lawyers son, 'be-
cause l don't know, and the answer
might incriminate me-"
The elliott Call received a piece of
sheet music composed by a man who
left there and came to Kansas City
I'VE think it is very pretty" says the
Call, but we would appreciate more a
remittance of S16.25, which he shows
no disposition to pay, and which ac-.
count has been standing on our books