Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.


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If you spread the barney on thick
enough, some of it is sure to stick.
The trouble with some people seems
to be that they have a muzzle-loading
We have observed that income and
expense make poorly matched team.
When you are not using the whip on
the former you are hanging onto ths
reins to keep the latter from running
away with you.
An up-to-date butcheEin Great Bend
adyertiseS that he makes a specially
of mail order business.
Thomas Cordry, VINO fought in the
legislative war of 1898, has organized
an Old Soldiers club in Salina.
E. w. Howe's two sons have started
a newspaper in Horseshoe Bend,
Idaho, and have named it the Horse
shoe Nail.
Out in Dodge City honorary titles
are in such general use that a man
who runs a soda fountain is called an
engineer"
Wichita has the most intelligent pol
iticians in the state. They realize that
the only way to get out a crowd this
year is to feed it.
Roy Ritchey, who was stuck" for a
81, 400 shortage in the state treasury,
seems to be the most conspicuous
Big Stick exponent in the state.
w. c. Rose of Fort Scott is excavat.
ing to build an addition to his house
and has struck what the Monitor calls
"all but a gold mine.'' After digging
down two or three feet stratum Of
building rock is found, and under it
there is a vein of coal twenty-five
inches thick. For this coal, Mr.. Rose
gets the excavation made, the dirt
hauled away and the rock thrown to
ore side. The man who is doing the
work sells the dirt at thirty cents
load. Under the coal there is a &C.
ment rock, and this is sold to the &C.
ment company at good profit. while
directly under this Mr.. Rose finds a
fine quality of ochre, from which yell
low paint can be made. He will use
this to paint the house. The excava-
ton is costing Mr.. Rose nothing, and
he expects to get enough out of the
sale of cement rock and the ochre to
Mr.. Rose says, he has made since he
ty, some thirty years.
Prof" Wilcox of Iowa explains that
he said the people of Western Kan
sas are irritable" instead of crazy"
If he is unable to make a better ex-
PLANTATION than this, the professor
ought not to try.
Mack p. Gretchen gives respectful
notice to Colorado that what Kansas
wants in real water. Colorado is
welcome" he says, ito that yellow
paint it has been sending down the
Arkansas river"
Atwood Is Ready" is a headline in
The Hutchinson News. 1t refers, how
ever, to the readiness of the county
seat of Rawlins countoward the Gulf,
Hutchinson & Northwestern, and not
to John H. Atwood
A man was in Abilene a few days
ago looking for his partner, who, he
said, had disappeared with 5000 and
a sandy complexion"
A non-union fortune teller who
tells" for ten cents is operating in
Emporia-
Herington will find that the princi-
pal disadvantage of the monument
which it is going to erect in memory
OF Juan de Padilla is that it will be
mistaken for cigar advertisement
An <..chison man who has invested
in much oil stock has received no
dividends yet, but this week he receiv-
ed by mail a photograph of the first
check received from the Standard.
Why nc leave the state treasury
dispute to referee, and make Joseph
l. Bristow that referee? He has had
considerable experience in such mat
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