Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-03
Kansas Notes


tors to quit fighting that suggests the
cars futile proposition to disarm-
There can be no doubt about cold
weather having set in in earnest, now
that the first complaint has been made
Western Kansas.
The Arkansas City Traveller has an
able editorial protesting against the
use of gospel hymns in merry-go-
rounds. The truth is that one good
citizen objected to yield Not to
TEMPTATION too late in the day
This seasons mosquitoes are SO
large in the neighborhood of Fort
Scott that the milliners expect to trim
hats with them
he Topeka Commercial club has
allowed Tom Anderson 800 for lex
penses" in getting through a resolu-
ton at the Trans-mississippi congress
asking the government to do some
thing to prevent overflows by the
Kaw.
The Injunction to "hoId your
wheat" exploited many years ago by
Wood Davis, is being adhered to at
present, Billy Morgan says. because
the formers are unable to get any
1t is hoped that R. H. Allen, who
is asking for street railway fran
chise in Chanute, is not getting ready
to sacrifice any of his public owner
ship principles.
A critic for the Salina Journal heads
a criticism: "Oh, Cora, cut it out
Somebody Must Have Told Miss Van
Tassel She Could Act" The critic
explains that her play, 1.-THE Volun-
teer," is not even a raw recruit.
Fourteen cases of typhoid fever have
been found in Eureks. Translated.
Eureka means II have it,
Leavenworth is having a series OF
races this week. and the papers record
that they opened with ''ecls't.'
Jewell City is another Central
Branch town which, like Clyde, hasn't
a negro citizen within it's limits.
A girls brass band has been formed
in Washington, and the Republican
expects the men to organize a. rubber
band.
Adjutant General Kelsey finds fault
because, although his title is general"
his salary-$1 ,5U0 year-is that of q
lieutenant.
George E. Col, may awake some
morning soon and find himself the
most popular man in Kansas. He
settled" the tax controversy.
Henry Aliens libel suit against Bar
ney Sheridan, which should have been
settled out of court a year ago, is on
trial this week in Ottawa.
A Chanute man, Morris Montague,
is laid up by the bite of horse fly.
The fly bit the horse, the horse kicked
Montague and his condition is seri-
GUS.
Frank E. Grimes, in order to give
all his time to the Orient railroad, has
decided to sell his shirt factory to any
bosom friend who can produce the
price.
Will the Kansas legislature also
ask to be reelected ION it's merits? ?"
In Atchison no young man is con-
sidered refined unless he carries;
silk handkerchief.
Thomas Madison, who killed two
women and child out in Smith coun-
ty, has probably escaped in the tall
corn.
The lola Register tells of local
Shylock who went to Colorado, and
while he was away gained a pound
of flesh"
1t is taken for granted that tho
Topeka man who was fined $3.50 for
swearing at his neighbor must have a
remarkable and picturesque command
Of words.
Really the only thing made certain
by the tax controversy is that Kansas
has great need of watchdog of the
treasury"
Carelessness on the part of Mr..
Brick Mason, chief clerk of the
house of representatives, may result
in the loss of SIC, 1000 to George Clark.
or two years profits from the state
printing. Mason was Clark partisan,
too, but Mr.. Clark will probably re-
gard him as a gold Brick.
Girl messengers have been hired in
Topeka, and unless they respond more
promptly than the boys used to they
will become cognizant of an eloquent
and forceful side of the English lam
guage of which they have heretofore
been kept in the dark.
ALI the trains into Pratt have been
50 late during the last few weeks that
the travelling men who have had to
wait for trains are thinking about
renting houses"
One farm of 300 acres in Trego
county which yielded 5000 bushels
of wheat this year proved that there
is gold in that Trego shale, after all.
A man in Garrett, a local paper
saws became i'll by reading the patent