Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-07-11
Kansas Notes

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So far no one has permitted g.
Steamship trust to ply on the great
lake in which Senator Burton intends.
to store the waters of the flood for
dry day.
Fredonia's Fourth of July celebra-
ton took on the nature, somewhat, of
corn carnival Oscar Coleman and
Mrs Corn, both negroes, were public
ly IA. ried.
A Paillipsburg paper meant to say
that wellknown farmer shipped a.
carload of hogs to Kansas City last
week, but it came out in print "a car
load of kegs
The Salina Union finds fault with
the English of a contemporary which,
used the headline Joined Together
1t says they couldn't be joined apart.
and the Union ought to know.
A convict who escaped from the
penitentiary and was captured in JEFF
ferson county Saturday explained that
he ran away because he was hitched
to corn planter and made to do the.
work of a horse.
Each new paid-in-advance subscrib-
er to the Salina Weekly Herald is
given the privilege of one free guess
on this problem: will substance
flo ating down a stream go faster than
the current goes?''
You have doubtless heard me tell
of the 64-pound catfish once landed
with an ordinary hook and line" says
Dodd CASTOR. Mother says the cat
fish weighed only eight pounds, and
that it was my brother who caught
it"
the Minneapolis Better Way says the
politicians promise each one of them
a janitorship at the the statehouse-
Still, majority of them are not ap-
pointed.
Kansas has 1865 negro voters, and
Butler county has a sensation. A
farmer-by name David T. Britain
has been found who has voluntarily
cut all the weeds along the highway
passing his farm, and the lane leading
to his house.
There was great anxiety around
Mankato lest John D. Rockefeller
might give 81 100000 or so to the flood
relief fund. The Advocate says the
price of coal oil and gosaline is al
ready as high as the people can pos
sibly endure.
In Parsons a new club is being or
ganized, the members of which pledge
themselves to give no wedding pres
ents unless they are invited to both
the wedding and the reception. They
say there has been too much "of this
inviting the crowd to the church and
a select few to the house"
E. w. Hoch of Marion is billed for
a Fourth of July speech in both Bur-
Hngton and Eureka, a vocal achieve
ment which may be too much even for
Mr.. Hoch. ...,,l4. -.sssl...s.s. - 80. ~,sss.
The Parsons Herald is making on
slaughts against the fool serenaders
In case they will not desist entirely
the Herald wants them TO practice
more and sing less.
A COW died in Wilson county a few
days ago from the effects of eating
some tobacco. and a local paper says
it was because the unfortunate beast
had never been educated to spit.
Governor Bailey and his bride will
start on their delayed wedding trip
the last of this week. They will go
first to Mr.. Bailey's old home in
Illinois and then go further East.
Lawrence was left in such bad
shape by the flood that the citizens
have decided to pass up the annual
encdmpment OF the G- A. H. The
old soldiers are looking for another
town.
So many sightseers are going to To-
peka to look at the flood wreckage
that no one will be surprised when
he announcement comes that Topeka
will charge an admission
The Clyde Herald was 25 years old
ast week, on the same day that the
United States was 127 years old, and
the Herald made the Eagle scream
.wice.
Victor Murdoch has his first chance
% demonstrate his craftsmanship by
settling a postoffice row in Larned. 2
Kingman is dry" and whenever a
Seg comes into town from Wichita
he word is passed around among the
trustworthy ones that the irrigation
convention" is ready to convene
A tramp was arrested in Emporia
he other day and the policeman found
orty pairs of dice in his possession
he explained that he was sick. and
loped to win some money SO he couId
20 to the hospital.
The Topeka Herald has discovered
hat the germ of laziness is shaped
Ike hammock. The Ottawa Herald
ONES back and says that the germ of
POLITICAL purity and party reform fs
haped like a hammer
The Wellington News has an OIL
ashfoned reporter who adheres to the
Expression: THE following colloouv
nsued.''