Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-07-04
Kansas Notes
KANSAS NOTES

owing a brewery company $500 Tor
Topeha's staple drug.
The Topeka Herald's advice to tha
drought stricken East: Come West
and soak up with the country
The desolation is bad enough, good
ness knows, without the Salina Union
printing its flood pictures upside
down.
Henry Allen has ADDED the Parsons
Daily Sun to his string of good papers.
Mr.. Allen says he is trying to corner
the newspaper market
Servia has an area of less than TO-
600 square miles 1t is about the
size of the big Seventh" district,
and its politics is even mode melo-
dramatic.
Senator Long is almost the only
member of the Kansas delegation who
lost nothing by the flood. There is
nothing in Medicine Lodge to over
flow.
Besides the flood, of which it had
a big share, Saline county had during
the month of May, three tornadoes,
five hailstorms and 1888 inches of
rainfall
Cyrus Leland is in control at the
convention of the Kansas Mutual's
policy holders in Topeka. Controlling
conventions is becoming hakitual with
him.
The contract for the battle ship
Kansas has been awarded to a Cam
Gen, N. j., shipbuilding firm. The
cost is a little more than million
dollars. John Seaton did not bid.
II may be that the defendants out
in ST. Francis are falsely accused. 1t
does not appear reasonable that men
named "Chauncey" and Clyde" could
De so bloodthirsty.
Alvin Beatch, editor of the Man.
kato Mnitor, has sued Henry Honey,
editor of the Advocate, for $4,000 dam
ages because Honey called him a
squad and a "booby'' In many
towns such mild epithets would be re
garded as extremely inoffensive and
weak.
A perusal of expresident Cleve-
lands latest half-column interview
leads Congressman Scott to the belief
that ''he still has nothing to say
Kansas City, Kas., may change its
name ultimately, but it is surmissed
from the remarks of it's citizens who
have expressed themselves that it will
never call itself Baileyville.
Eugene F. Ware says he does not
want to succeed Judge Hook, and
wouldn't take the job. But, as Del
Valentine points out, Mr.. Ware is a
member of the ST. Ananias club.
Pope. Leo laughs at the jokes which
are being perpetrated about his age"
says Editor Bookwalter of the Hal
stead Independent THAT is more
than some of the rest of us can do
Regret is expressed by Marion
county paper that General Funston
was not back in Kansas in order to
settle the much disputed question Of
whether he can actually swim or not.a
Cimarron women have an embroid-
cry club, but the papers explain that
it busies itself chiefly with converse
ton, and does just enough embroidery
to hold it's charter and retain its fran
chise.
A typographical error makes this
weeks Harrington Sun say: "The
legislature conversed in special ses-
sion yesterday" But, on second,
SIGN yesterday" But, on second
thought. maybe it isn't a Topographic
cal error.
The craftsmanship of the Atchison
policemen is away above the average
Two policemen fired a total of ten
shots at a pair of robbers Thursday
night One robber received four CT
the bullets and the other received
three
A Wichita man lost 100 acres of
wheat by hail this week, but says he
is kind of glad of it. Il won't have to
pay for harvesting it now" he says. 8
An Emporia paper, keenly alive to
the necessity for accurate news, has
sent a reporter to North Topeka to
see if there is any truth in the stories
of a flood there.
Burlington is going to have so many
Fourth of July orators that the com
mittee of arrangements has conclud-
ed to have them begin on the evening
Of July g. and continue until Sundays
The river cut new channel at
Blue Rapids and left the dam water
less and the surrounding factories
powerless- Here is a chance for Mr.
Bowersock to buy a secondhand dam
cheap.
After taking a conservative census
the Abilene Reflector estimates that
the are IL million mosquitoes to the
block in Abilene. and that they have
batting average of six jabs minute4
The Wellington News is denouncing
the "bank-corner devotees of tobac-
co." This is all right as far as it goes.
but it should be extended to the de
voices" who infest the other three
corners.
At smoker" in Leavenworth Jus