Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Kansas Notes

Coyotes are matching out IN tue
ighborhood of Clifton. according to
one of the News correspondents
Clay Center has a rival of General
Funston. Marshal Tolles. in the pur-
suit of a burglar, had to swim the
river twice before he caught the
man.
Plans TO light Fort Riley by cleo
tricity have been approved by the War
department.
(: Kansas is inclined to be proud be-
cause the statistics show that it has
only one criminal to each 1000 inhab-
itants.
Harold Challiss, a Hiawatha boy
who is studying music in Italy, has
had both tonsils and a part of the
nasal bone removed" He still re-
tains his thorax and practically all of
his teeth.
Mr.. Gerow estimates that Kansas
will need 1876 harvest hands from
outside the state next summer, which
is pretty close figuring considering
that the wheat crop must be saved"
thirty-eight times yet, and the corn
crop seventy-nine times.
According TO reports gathered by the
State Society of Labor and Industry,
the cost of living has increased A per
cent in Kansas in the last two years,
while wages has increased only 1917
per cent.
Had Jessie Morrison gone TO the
penitentiary after her first trial, when
she was sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment, her tern would now be al
most ended. Instead of that, she is
just starting on a twenty-five year
term The moral is, according to Del
Valentine, clerk of the supreme court
to Let bad enough alone"
In Meade the people are so honest
that they permitted silk umbrella to
stay in the waiting room of the depot
during three rainy days, until the
owner returned for it.
William Williams of Topeka has ap-
piled for divorce. 1t is a self-evident
fact that there are too many Williams
in his domestic arrangement
. A young man in Arkansas City
created a disturbance in the theater-
His name, the paper says, was not
learned by the police, which was an
oversight upon their part
The Liberal News has found it ex,
pedient TO admonish the young women
of that town that their favorite ejacu-
lation, wouldn't that rattle your
slats?" is not considered bong tong
among folks who are folks.
A ruling is made by the attorney
general that the railroads are not
compelled to provide land for grain
elevators. 1t may discourage the ele-
vator men, but the ruling that the rail-
roads are not in the business of giving
is plausible law.
N H Loomis of Topeka, Frederick
Dumont Smith of Kinsley and S. s.
Ashbaugh of Wichita have been APP
pointed to help the attorney general
prosecute the Arkansas river case in
the United States supreme court, and
Eugene Ware may also assist.
A census out in Rice county reveals
the presence of forty inhabitants who
have passed three score and ten years.
and there are three who are over go
A Lawrence man who admits ne
used to loiter around the stage door
twenty years ago for Cecil Spooner
is enjoying the New York decision
which speaks of her as young
girl
Atchison Globe: A drunken man
stopped a business man on the street
and wanted to talk. The
drunken man had hold of the business
mans coat collar, and he could not
escape. MY time is worth money"
said the business man; this CONVERSE
ton will cost you twenty-five cents
a minute. In two more minutes you
will owe me a dollar" The drunken
man paid the dollar, and, when time
was up he said he guessed he had
The big bass whistle on the Santa
F'e shops, by which every resident of
Topeka has regulated his watch dur
ing the last thirty years, was taken
Town this week, permanently.
Kansas has 100000 acres in alfalfa,
which is ten times more than in 1893.
Yet alfalfa has neither bounty nor SUBJ
'idy nor prohibitive tariff to "eneour-
age'' it.
"A prepossessing and intelligent
voung man, a stranger in town, came
nto this office last week on business
Jays Deacon Hoch of the Marion Rec
ord, land would have won our admir-
alton had he not marred his other
wise brilliant conversation with pro-
anity- When will young men, and :
Did men too, for that matter, learn
hat profanity adds neither emphasis
or ornament to human speech? 1t is
coarse and offensive to all refined peo-
lie regardless of moral considerations.
t is especially unwise in a business
nan dealing with strangers. This
act is so fundamental and so obvious
hat it seems like an insult to intel
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