Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Kansas Notes


when 1t takes three to milk a cow.
An Atchison man who once bought
stock in one, describes q gold mine
as "a hole in the ground, owned by a
liar"
A sorceress in Fredonia who calls
herself Madame" charges so cents
for the operation of "palm-reading of
the hand
In Severance the papers have to be
more careful than anywhere outside
of Pennsylvania Miss Clara Libel
lives there.
A new depot is being built in Bur
lington. "The next thing" says the
Ottawa Republic. "is to persuade peo-
pie to get on at it,
When the river rises at Topeka the
Atchison Globe notices that Topeka
discards it's sidecombs and permits its
hair to slowly rise with 1t.
A Lawrence editor says that every
time he sees the name of Prince Chigi
in the dispatches from Rome he wants
to stop and scratch himself.
The crop statisticians evidently be-
gan on Rocks county first this year.
They find that the proceeds from the
sale of the wheat will average $1,000
for the family of every farmer in
Rocks county.
Claf1in, out in Barton county, is
booming. 1t has a movement on foot"
for a new general store, steps are be-
ing taken for a new jail. and quiet
rumor is going around" of a new
depot.
If there is any paper in Kansas that
has not yet used the joke about Mrs.
Lease turning Spirtualist in order to
commune with the ghost of the Popu-
list party, it is because the editor
hasn't got around to it yet.
Members of the legislature are not
surprised to find that Representative
Peck of Cloud county played cornet
solo in a Clyde church. During the
last session he was detected once or
twice footing his own horn.
The Kansas Chief of Troy renews
its claim that it is the oldest paper in
Kansas. Its first issue was June
1857. The Atchison Champion still
claims the distinction and the Leaven-
worth Times is being mentioned.
E. J. Smalley, secretary of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers association, esti-
mated the wheat crop at 70 million
bushels this week. It's not everyone
who would come within 21,426.000
bushels of it.
Otto Eckstein, smart Wichita law
yer, is gettinng ready to bring big
damage suit based upon the conten-
ton that hogs are Cattle
The hot weather which prevails in
Lawrence can be attributed to the
discovery that the State university
has granted 2,431 degrees.
Mr.. Bledsoe is having something
akin to a hemorrhage in Ottawa. He
is conducting a Spiritualist camp
meeting and denounces the churches.
The Salina Journal is becoming care
less with its grammer. 1t uses the
expression: None of them don't seem
to make any fuss about it."
Grant and Stanton counties are miss
ing in the crop returns; but all the
wheat Grant and Stanton counties
have ever raised wouldn't keep Battle
Creek going over night.
If Attorney General Coleman is look
ing for an opportunity to make him.
self really useful let Hmm part COM
pany with the prohibition mischief
makers long enough to put . crimp In
the coal trust.
ing to reduce it's rate to SO cents .
month in Wellington. It is a good
thing for Wellington, but does not
tend to reconcile the towns where the
rate is anywhere from 81 to Sc.
Joy over the merging of Congrega-
tfonal and a United Brethren church
IN Salina is Offset by the determina-
ton of the members to call it the Con-
gregational-United Brethren church.
1t has nearly as many sylables as
members.
In her examination papers last week
a Dickinson county woman who was
a candidate for a certificate to teach
wrote: "At present the Democrats
have control of the government.
A Wellington man is going TO fhe
trouble of advertising for some lost
certificates of stock in a mining COM
pany.
A Topeka man whose patriotism has
settled at the base of his brain advo-
Gates growing sunf1owers in the TWEEN
ty-acre state-house lot.
The Topeka man who resigned a
So 900 Job to go Unto literature may
have been misunderstood. Maybe he
intends to go into Littauer.
Geary county papers are chagrined
to learn that a recent smoker" to
which they generously gave much pub
1icity was in reality prize fight
What was that noise, pa?" asked q
little child in Lenape after an unusual
ly heavy clap of thunder. That, my
child" replied the farmer, els only the
drought breaking"