Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-21
: Kansas Notes

Joined a theatrical company is in great
luck She was given transportation
home when the show reached Joplin
So many Kansas towns have bored
for gas and oil, or intend to bore, that
such items may safely be excluded on
the ground that they have ceased to
be news.
Neodesha is so wide open that police
protection is given to young man
who sings 1.-The Holy City and Hello
Central, Give Me Heaven" at entertain
ments.
Evangelist Oliver, who is holding
services in Topeka, recently prayed
that God would "either convert OF kill
the present mayor" He also describes
the city officials as the dirtiest pup
pies this side of hell
..what is there about the district
court" asks the Howard Courant-
that draws so many loafers? Big
able-bodied men will sit in the court
room hx1r after hour, listening to evil
dence and tedious testimony of wit
nesses, in cases in which they have not
the least interest, or knowledge of.
What is there in it to interest them ?"
What the Globe calls squire,
poker has been introduced in Atch1-
SON. When a player makes noise
with his chips, to bet, the other players
all disappear, as a squirrel at hole
does when the hunter raises his gun
An industrial school for negroes in
Quindaro has asked the legislature for
an appropriation of $4,000. 1t is a
good school engaged in a good work
but not excessively modest.
John Fulcher, the champion slumber-
er of Wyandotte, has been defeated
again Mrs. Mehala Cross, an aged
negro woman in Cherokee county,
slept eight days and eight nights.
1t is told as a true story that John
Chapman of Galena fell down a twenty
foot tramway at the Blind Tiger mine
and dislocated his shoulder. He went
home and stumbled down the cellar
steps, and in falling his shoulder was
thrown back into place. He took a
drink and returned to work.
Mamie Taylor, of lola, who could
not help it because a seductive mixed
drink was named in her homer, brought
a suit for divorce last week.
For once Mrs Nation was right
When she alighted from train in
Chanute last week she snatched
cigarette out of the mouth of a little
boy.
Hens belonging to a Wellsville man
have taken to laying eggs in neigh-
boris barn, and the two men, both
being thrifty and frugal. have gone to
law to decide the ownership of the
eggs.
Convicts in the state penitentiary
already mine coal and make binding
fny;.a ic 70 M tf1 q
build roads and manufacture brooms
and other things.
Social note in the Brown County
World: The following Hiawatha-
young men assisted the show com
pany, which was in Hiawatha the lat
ter part of last week: "BilP' Hatch,
Onion Davis, "Chick" McQuary and
Ted HUMPHREYS They foocked to
the stage whenever crowd was
needed, acting the part of supers.
A railroad laborer working in Wal
lace county as section hand was
killed a few days ago, and was found
to have $2,O56 Concealed in his clothes
He had saved it during Sixteen years
working at the poorest paid job in the
railroad service.
An Emporia girl was married last
week. During the last seven days be-
fore the ceremony, the Gazette esti-
mates, she was the guest of honor at
five parties, ate peck of salad, drank.
a key of coffee, stood on her feet
twenty hours, walked 100 miles, let the
dressmaker paw her over thirty hours
and packed and unpacked her trunk
twelve times. When she was married
they remarked she looked pale
"Our postmaster says the Phillips
burg Post, was in a quandary few
days ago. A letter came addressed to.
Mrs. L. Halbert and he did not know
to whom to give it. Mrs. T. J. Hal
bert's name is Louesa; Mrs. H. z. Hal
bert's name is Louisa; Mrs. w. t.
Halbert's name is Loucas; Mrs. e. NJ.
Halbert's name is Lille; Mrs. Earl
Halbetts name is Lulu. The postmas-
ter said it was probably intended for
the whole family, SO he gave it to
t. j. Halbert, the head of the family,
and asked him to take it home and
fight it out among themselves.
The ground hog is not a myth
Three of them were captured in Lin
wood last week before they could ac-
custom their eyes to the glare of the
sun
The fog was SO dense in Wellington
Wednesday morning that one of the
papers declares the annexation of the
Philippine islands has changed the
climate of Kansas.
A recent visitor in Topeka protests
that Cliff Bakers street cars are so