Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-31
LATEST KANSAS ITEMS


ally receive the statue of former
United States Senator John ]. ingalls,.
which has been presented to congress
by the state of Kansas.
The grandmothers of Everest have
grown tired of reading about the
social doings of their children and
grandchildren and have organized
club of their own. The aggregate age
of the twelve persons present at the
first meeting was S9I years.
Powhattan has the youngest chauf
feur. Although only 4 years old, he
went out one afternoon and, after. ask
ing an older boy to open the gate fol
him, ran his fathers auto out of the
barn into the driveway. He was per
suaded by the older members of the
family to desist, and as they could not
run the machine back into its place
he did it for them.
Walter Mullins cashed over SIS,
1880 for 504 acres of land in Smoky
Hill township, Geary county, Kansas
recently.
The University of Kansas has cost
the state little as compared with other
state universities. The present value
of private gifts to the university is
$4OO, 900.
An Iowa Point citizen estimates that
400 gallons of whisky have been ship
ped to that place this year, and re
marks that Highland has helped tc
consume it.
independence is raising a fund with
which to build an auditorium, and Cur
tbs Rork, a farmer, recently brought
in a load of pumpkins to contribute
The largest one weighed 1913 pounds.
A Newton, Kan, man, when digging
his sweet potatoes, found one in ex-
actly the form of duck. Was it the
wet weather last summer that caused
it to take the form of that water.
loving fowl?
DIR. F. H Snow of the University OF
Kansas has made twenty-one scientific
collecting expeditions in the past
Twenty-Five years-eight to Colorado
six to New Mexico, four to Western
Kansas and three to Arizona.
Willie Sells, the well-known Kansas
circus man, is working on a plant to
| establish camel ranch in Western
Kansas. From 1000 to 1000 camels
are said to be browsing around in the
ella river country in Arizona, ano
Sells is going to- try to bring lot OF
them to his ranch in Kearney county
Kansas.
The records of the Brown county
| Jail for the past twenty-five years
show a total of 1.OO7 prisoners.
"a carload of millionaires" passed
through Salina a few days ago and
the Union deplores that they did moi
| receive more attention.
The Wichita Eagle indorses Charles
S. Jobes for comptroller of the cur
rency, but it wants him appointed "as
| a Kansan, not as Missourian."
1.-THE editors of some of the big city
papers, says the Atchison Globe
seem to be all right during the week
| but on Sunday they go crazy"
Without begrudging Mort Albaugh's
| appointment to a life job, the Barber
| County Index admits that he is 1.-THE
| luckiest soul this side of Paradise"
According to Senator-elect Horace
J. Smith of Franklin county, the mos1
useful member of the legislature is
| the one who aids in killing the most
| bills.
| The Chanute Blade has carved out {
| new home for itself and moved into
| it.
| A Wheaton news gatherer recently
noticed a young lady at church with
| three engagement rings on her fin
| ger.
The Rev. S. w. Fulk, who died re
| Gently at Holton, was stung on the
| jaw about two years ago by a bee.
swelling resulted, which defied opera
lions and all other kinds of treatment
| The trouble gradually grew worse til
| death resulted.
A big jack rabbit near Hiawaths
| has for two years eluded all the eff
| forts of dogs and men to overhaul
him. They all know him when they
see him, however. and he has beer
| christened Dan Patch" He seems tt
enjoy the chase as much as his chas
| ers do.
| A ride over the Santa Fe up the Ar
kansas river bottoms, from Dodge CITY
| westward, shows an almost unbrokeI
alfalfa field for more than 100 miles
Alfalfa grows to perfection on the
| low lands, and no other country raise:
| heavier seed crops Two crops of hal
| and one of seed is the rule, and FIRE
| quently $40 an acre is realized from
the sale of the seed alone.
This from a Kansas paper is good Oh
bad according to whether or not yor
| like fine writin': About O'Clock
| yesterday afternoon the death ange
noiselessly entered the NJ. E. parson
| age, touched gently the emaciatel
form of the parsons daughter, left
piece of inanimate clay to the tendel
care of weeping loved ones and bOrs