Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-28
Kansas Notes

county, classifies shotguns, rifles and
muskets as household furniture"
A Solomon City man comes to Kan
sas City with so much regularity that
the local paper refers to him as
globe trotter.''
A Leavenworth man belongs to
forty-nine secret societies and is look
ing about for more. Joining secret
orders finally becomes a mental dis
order.
Ottawa people are somewhat recon-
ciled to the increase of half a cent
gallon in the cost of gasoline. Mr..
Rockefeller has given $4,000 to the
Ottawa university.
The plan to christen the battle ship
Kansas with a bottle of Arkansas
river water is declared by the Hutch
inson News to be impractical, as 1t
would be necessary to get Colorado's
consent before the water could be OBJ
tanned.
A woman wrote to the Lawrence
World to discontinue her paper. When
she recovered from her last illness the
paper said she got WE'LL" while the
recovery of a neighbor was announced
as a "convalescence."
The engineer who pulled the first
locomotive into Kansas City almost
forty years ago, is visiting there,
says the Saline Journal. I'VE suppose
the Union depot is the only familiar
scene which greeted the man after so
many years of aosence."
The La Harpe News advertises:
''Wanted-A perfect man for mayor.
He must be allwise, allpresent, ON
niscient, patient as Job, meek as
Moses, must turn his cheeks alter
2ately to be 'smote' and must not
cuss when kicked. We can interest
such a man for a year if he's got the
staying qualities"
The juvenile band has been organ
lied in Wellington. and the railroads
are asked to make special rates out
of town.
Emporia, which has always been
ssnguine about its subsoil, voted $780,
900 bonds this week in order I'd bore
for coal, oil and gas.
Atchison county takes first prize
for bad roads. An Effingham man
started to town with a dog following
the wagon. The roads were so bad
the dog went back.
word dainty is being overworked
renee recently a lunch of rye bread
and saradines was referred to as
dainty refreshments.
Our old froiend, Henry Clews,"
says the Ottawa Herald, writes from
New York that good times reached
high water mark a year ago. AS long
&C ic 70 fro h1I1a
for a ten-cent cigar without
cash outlay we shall be forced to re-
gard Henry as a sincere but mistaken
man.
AT the local meeting of the Cloud
County Teachers association in
jamestown recently a young woman
disposed of this disjointed subject:
children and Money; which do you
earn your money, or have
it given to you? Why? What would
you like to do with your money!
Mcpherson county has no criminal
cases on it's docket at this term of
court, and the county Jail is. empty,
but it has eight divorce cases to keep
it from undue exultation.
An armless drunken man was found
in Salina this week, and the only
theory the local detectives can solve
IS that he put his mouth to the faucet
and turned it on with his feet.
Indignation. which was general in
Coffeyville a few days ago when a
citizen was robbed by a highwayman,
has changed to mild surprise since
he information has been added that
he victim was an insurance agent.
A Register reporter heard two lola
talking on a street car One of
hem had just admitted that she and
Ter husband had separated. Yes, you
'ee," she said, 81 just couldn't stand
t. l wouldn't have objected if he
lad got drunk on pay day, or twice on
,ne pay day; but when it came to be-
ng drunk all the time 1 couldn't stand |
or it,
The result of the Democratic pri- |
naries in Leavenworth was a great |
victory for Charles Taschetta. Among |
lis strikers were Nathan Kantrowitz, |
Nike Bodenschatz and Frank Sewal- |
Xxi. '-All of these men, says the To- |
,eka Capital, ARE championitzkys Of |
he common peoplevitch-"
Mr.. Dickerson, cashier of the col |
apsed Toronto State bank, has disap- !
reared, and the depositors are guess |
ng where he decided To-run-to
Mr. Hatch of Hutchinson counted |
lis chickens too soon- He interfered |
n Len Lewis family quarrel Satur-
lay. and Lewis killed him.
Since the Smith family has started
magazine all of its own, the Postle- |
hwaites in Jewell county have con-