Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-10
KANSAS ITEMS

county.
Mr.. Pepper is the owner of an oil
well near Neodesha which is admitted
to be hot stuff.
Harry Loss, who lives in Madison,
is supposed to have had some kind
of falling out.
Bethel has had so much trouble get
ting pastor for its church that the
pulpit may have to be filled by a den-
fist.
Returns from the state K. N. G. en-
campment last week indicate that Mr..
Hoch would be perfectly safe in call
ing out the militia to enforce the pro-
hibitory law.
Marshall county takes pride in re-
nominating E. R. Fulton. He is the
only member of the legislature who
refused to draw his salary and mile
age for the extra session.
The dangerous injury of four per-
sons by the explosion of a barrel of
turpentine in Argentine suggests the
awful consequences that might follow
the explosion of a barrel of Argen-
tine whisky.
A double funeral was held at AS
saria recently and two aged women
were buried in one grave. They were:
Mrs. Hanna Peterson, aged 80 years,
months and 16 days, and Mrs. Inga
Peterson, ager 80 years, 1 month and
20 days. They were near relatives
and died within one day of each 9TH
er.
The Kansas National Guards did
lot Of drilling at Topeka this week,
but struck nothing.
The Washburn College Review must
have a large circulation if all the ed
itors and assistant editors are bona
fide subscribers.
A few years ago Eldorado was the
nineteenth town in Kansas in point
of population; now it is thirty-first.
The Commercial club has decided that
it is up to US to begin to get ready
to do something"
The lightning rod agents have been
given a new lease of llle out in Mitch
ell county. More people have been
struck by lightning. and more cattle
killed and property destroyed by light
ming this year than ever before. The
papers hint that it is because the old
reliable lightning rod had fallen into
disuse.
The Standard Oil company is doing
big things at Humboldt. This is the
southern terminus of the pipe line
which is to feed the refinery at Sugar
Creek, and subsidiary lines from Hum
boldt tap large territory in the oil
belt Nine 35,OOO-barrel storage tanks
are being erected on the oil farm OF
the company at Humboldt.
The Parsons Sun is nothing if not
superfluous. "She is young 15-year-
old girl and the daughter of a widow
woman" it alleges in reporting a story
and concludes with these remarkable
allegations: 1.-THE punishment for the
attempt, if found guilty, is one-half
had he succeeded" and, "she asks that
the law protect her against any fur
Their exposure to such as she claims
the young man to be-"
It is stated that down around Gar
den City the grasshoppers are so thick
that they often darken the sky, and
vegetation is almost gone. Some one
has invented a grasshopper harvester,
and they are being harvested by the
bushel. One man is said to have har-
vested 1000 bushels. Some people
are saving them up for chicken feed
next winter. Whether the fowls will
like dried hoppers as well as live ones
remains to be seen.
-Concordia forty young women are
saving railroad fare and travelling ex-
penses by renting house and fixing
it up as a summer resort. 1 he house
has seven rooms, dining room in a
tent, a dancing pavilion under anoth-
err tent, and numerous small tents are
scattered around for the overflow.
Tennis courts, hammocks, a creek and
plenty of shade have converted the
place into the next thing to a seaside
resort. Half a dozen mothers chap
eron the young women, and their
meals are cooked by an ex-dining car
chef and served by an ex-dining car
waiter.
Thomas Benton Murdoch, who was
In Topeka recently, was greatly i'm
pressed with the flower beds in the
state house square. They fill" he
says, 1.-The nostrils of the overworked
sons of toll who have been grated
into tue public service to toll and
MOL for the public good at salaries
wholly inadequate for the service rem
dered; and as we tramped for an hour
this morning worshipping at the
shrine of f1owers-love1y flowers
| startled at every turn at some new
| landscape design, from God Bless Our
Hoome' so delicately worked in block
letters in front of the governors Of
| flee, to the more significant close
| clipped motto, BE Virtuous and You
| Will Be Happy under LIE window of