Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-03
Kansas Notes


friends are discreetly waiting until
they catch glimpse of a fraction OF
1t before going into ecstacies-
The AT state banks and 100 national
banks in Kansas have deposits aggre-
eating 821k million dollars. and out
standing loans and discounts of 6S
million dollars-figure your own per
capita
After boring 1000 feet in search of
oil, or coal, or gas, the people of Her
ington have quit Still, there is a lot
of satisfaction in knowing that the
rich. fertile soil is at least one fifth
of a mile deep.
The thirteenth biennial report of the
state board of agriculture gives prom
Use of being Secretary Coburn's biggest
pages and $50 illustrations. Ut will be-
issued from the state printing office
next month.
The Sac and Iowa Indians in Brown
county were paid $105, 900 Saturday,
the Sacs receiving s277 each and the
fowas $346 each. And five days be-
| fore Christmas.
There was a man in Marion who
hated another man. He was afraid to
challenge him to fight, but at last he
| found way to get even. The enemy's
portrait was in photographers show
case. so he broke the glass and had the
fun of mutilating the picture.
| A man from Lawrence has intro
duced a long distance telephone system
into Porto Rico.
| 1t is proposed to invite General
Leonard Wood to make speech at
The Kansas Day clubs banquet.
| A company has been formed to start
/ fifty or more farmers cooperative
grain elevators in Kansas, Oklahoma
| and Nebraska.
One farmer near Hiawatha made
| $4,000 above all expenses this year
by his crops on a tract of land of less
than ], 200 acres. And there are up
wards OF 81 million acres in Kansas
i Two burglars have been found in
Abilene who stole $1,000 worth of silks
and furs. Kansas is reaching a point
where the farmers wives need burglar
proof vaults for their wadrobes.
i One county seat paper in the CEN
trail part of the state announces that
it will print the name of every citi-
zen who receives Christmas orders
from mail order" firm in a large
town. 1t is a good scheme-the paper
won't do it, but the threat pleases the
local advertisers.
A Southern Kansas farmer, says the
Neodesha Register, is the inventor OF
a new game called improved ping
pong" 1t is to be played on farm
in the fall of the year. The player
gets up at o'clock in the morning,
mi1ks the cows, feeds the hogs and
horses, eats breakfast, then bitches
team to a wagon about the size of
| a box car and starts for the corn field
Here is where ping-pong comes in
You grab big ear of corn in the left
hand and with the right hand and a
contraption of some kind you yank
the shucks off the corn and throw the
ear at the wagon. When the ear OF
| corn strikes the throwboard it goes
. ping" and when it hits the bottom OF
! | the wagon it sounds pong" making
a very interesting game at about 21k
cents bushel.
Il A Downs stone dresser was asked
. by a smooth looking stranger il he
I might have the large pile of stone dust
4 hat had accumulated under the saw
y and file. The workman told him to
help himself and the chap boxed It
, up with many thanks. When the stone
dresser got home to dinner he found
that his wife had paid twenty-five cents
for a few ounces of the stuff, which
had been highly recommended to her
as a silver polish.
The officers of the Lanyon Zinc COM
pany of Allen county have been cited
to appear before Federal Judge Hook
, in Leavenworth for contempt of court
They neglected to obey a summons in
a patent infringement suit.
1t is told as true story that an old
man in the Douglas county poorhouse
was taken into the probate court and
declared insane by jury. His hal
llucination was that his body was over
run with lice He was taken to the
asylum in Topeka. At the end of two
days the superintendent of the asylum
wrote to the probate judge that the
patient was being returned to Douglas
county. 1--WE found" wrote the super
lintendent, that the only evidence d
insanity about him was his constan
complaint that his body was covered
4 with lice. We examined him and dis
: covered that his body was covered will
:. lice"
lel A Kiowa county man has disap
&c peared and a bunch of cattle in which