Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-24
Kansas Notes

ing it's name good by storing away
large quantities of natural ice this
winter.
As an evidence that Geary county is
getting out of debt, $4,000 Cancelled
mortgages were burned in Junction
City Saturday. They had been accum-
ulating many years.
Governor Orman of Colorado asks
the legislature for a liberal appropria-
ton to fight the interstate suit in
which Kansas seeks to enforce the
Monroe doctrine on the Arkansas
river.
Judge Lawrence has decided against
the ordinance in Wellington levying
an occupation tax of $500 year on
druggists who sell beer. The large
number of those in Wellington who
need beer almost constantly for med
ical, mechanical and scientific pur-
poses were clearly entitled to some
consideration.
A careless Neodesha man sent his
clock to the elevator in a load of corn.
The repairs on the shelter will be $3.50.
Luckily the timepiece was a cheap
one.
A citizen of Flush has 200 cords of
wood to deliver. When he gets paid
he Will be a Flush citizen.
While other towns have been salts
fled with boring for oil and gas Lin
coin joys along contented with a new
bank.
The last car of coal reaching Wilsey
lasted just thirteen minutes. 1t was
middle
John w. Haussermann, formerly of
T oov &c nj
States district attorney for the Philip
pines, at $1,000 a year.
unloaded from both ends and the
The first piece of ground broken in
Pottawatomie county was by an Indian
with an OK and mule, so the story
goes.
An Independence woman started the
year 1902 with fifty chickens. January,
1903 the flock numbered 100. Besides
this the sale of eggs and chickens
amounted to 500.
T. B. Gerow state employment agent
wants the public schools to teach the
girls how to cook. One way to solve
the hired girl problem" is to make
them unnecessary.
An Emporia man who eloped with
his wifes 16-year-old sister blames his
downfall on whisky, but the Coolidge
Enterprise says the symptoms point
more strongly to absinthe.
Fence posts are being used for fuel
in Thomas county.
Fort Scott is talking a cooperative
electric light plant.
Three hunters killed over 200 rabbits
In one day near Colby.
The county attorney of Wabaunsee
county has a dry sense of humor.
Within a week he has closed every
joint in the county; or, as the Greeks
would say, from Alma to Wamego.
A Lyon county farmer was robbed in
an Emporia hotel yesterday of $3.50
which he carried in vest pocket. The
farmer is glad he brought only his
small change with him.
The rural mail boxes around Culver
made good targets for revolver practice
for the boys until Uncle Sam caught
on. Now the young men are practicing
on Jail spittoons.
Estell, the Kansas desperate who
escaped from the penitentiary two
years ago, was captured last week in
Memphis, Tenn. He has killed several
men, including a sheriff, and robbed
safes Vulnerable.
A recent fire at Goodland destroyed
one general merchandise store, one
grocery, two meat markets, one hard
ware store one furniture store, two
confectionery stores, two notion stores,
the postoffice, barber shop, shoe
shop, a dentists office, a second hand
store, two icehouses, one storehouse
and several living apartments.
A Brown county farmer is authority
for the statement that the 1903 peach
crop has already been destroyed.
Winfield is posing as winter resort
A two-year-old orange tree contains
four well developed oranges besides
many fragrant blossoms.
At banquet in Ottawa a speaker
was greeted with considerable ap-
plause. This reception he said, ire
minds me of the little boy whose
mother stepped to the door and called
Willie, Williei' After several calls
the boy poked his head around the
barn and said: Do you want me, ma.
or are you only jes' hollerin2'''
Prof Barzillai Bozarus Britts, whose
very name suggests the buzzing of
many wheels, was in lola the other day
trying to interest the public in mis- dis
covery of perpetual motion.
An Atchison girl sued a man for
breach of promise and the man fed to .
Mexico. Now the girl has disappeared
from town too.
A wild beast is at large in the south