Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-24
Kansas Notes

failure, but what was saved finds an
eager market at 800 ton.
Public ownership Of the board of ed
ucation is likely to be the paramount
issue at the next municipal election in
Kansas City, Kas. &
Two Salina young men who have in
vented an airship are having some
difficulty in deciding what to do with
the $500 900 prize offered by the st.
Louis exposition.
Coal mining operations are tc be
resumed in Jewell county next week,
and the community for miles around
is glad. A coal mine is a thing which
the railroads are unable to confiscate
'.in transit
There seems to be no reason why
school teachers should continue to
worry along in Kansas on an average
salary OF $50 month when the insular
Manila at once. at 5000 and $1,000 a
year.
Ten years ago J. H Todd, then labor
commissioner under Leweling, COM
piled large report of 600 pages to
prove that farming in Kansas was I'M
profitable. Since then Mr.. Todd has
ulSdPQcdTcu, WHICH, ne SuOulu nave
done before compiling that report
A young woman aiignted from the
katy train at LaCygne few morn
ings ago, and after the train had gone
she asked the station agent where she
could get a train west for Horton.
Kas. He told her she should have re-
manned on the Flyer and changed
cars at Kansas City. why, isn't this
Kansas City," the young lady inno-
Gently replied. THE brakeman came
through the train calling K. c. The
young lady had mistaken La Cygne"
for TX. c. She was given a pass to
Kansas City and left on the afternoon
train.
Medicine Lodge makes the boast
that it is the only town anywhere
along the kerosene circuit where the
opera house stairs are kept clean. 2
The Ben Hur" company stopped in
Abilene several hours on it's way to
Denver, and an enterprising man, a
local paper says, entertained few of
his friends at 'sbox party" on top of
a box car.
Coffey county's courthouse will soon
be defended by Spanish cannon
there is nothing in the recent achieve
ments of Spanish cannon to warrant
any sense of increased security.
Atchison is able to ''claim" B. F.
Winchell, the new third vice president
of the Rock Island system at $4,000
a year. Back in 1875 he was the chief
clerk in the Missouri Pacific's passen-
ger department there
General J. w. F. Hughes of Topeka,
the fearless and resplendent leader of
the Kansas National guard, feels that
he has not lived his forty-some years
in vain. He will command a brigade
at the army maneuvers at Fort
Riley.
A couple of years ago "Billy'' Nor
gan built new home in Hutchinson.
He provided the funds and let Mrs.
Morgan arrange the plans and details.
to suit herself. Deacon House tells
this story: Three months or SO af-
tier they had moved into the new
house Biz went rushing into the hv-
ling room one evening. My dear he
said to his wife, I wish you'd come
out and show me where the back
stairs are; 1 want to take some things
back stairs having been pointed out to
him, things moved along smoothly for
three or four months longer Then,
one day, he went home to dinner, ap-
parently much perturbed. Say he
said to Mrs. Morgan as they sat down,
have we a cellar under our house?
Mrs. Smith asked me to-day and I
had to tell her that didn't know" 2
The Clay Center young man who
made a run of 202 consecutive billiards
must be eligible to start out as pro-
fessional nurse.
Six Kansas counties-Greeley, Nor
ton, Stevens, Stanton, Haskell and
Grant-are without banks. But the in
habitants of those counties have cat
tie on thousand hills, which suits
them just as well, and is fully as Sc
cure.
A flour mill in Manhattan sent sew
eraI carloads of flour to Minneapolis.
Mimi, last week, right while its press
agent was watching.
Assurance is given, although some
what needlessly, that the Saiina wo-
man who lost chatelaine containing
upwards of 800 is prominent"
George A. Clark takes a hopefm
view of Chancellor lStrong's school Of
journalism. He thinks the young men
will probably not learn anything that
can't be drilled out of them in a few
weeks by a practical editor.
White Cloud takes considerable pride
IN he nj v0uur m6n