Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
KANSAS ITEMS

has decided to call the Rev. Mr.. Moo
NAV.
d. NJ Whitehead has been nominal
ed in Crawford county for representa-,
tive, and the betting is 2 to 1 in favor
of the blonde.
The Nemaha county fair always has
something worth seeing, but Seneca
regards the trotting ostrich as quite
feather in its cap.
D.. r. Anthony's automobile is In
a Topeka repair shop He should
have known better than to take an
anti-Curtis machine into Topeka.
A farmer near Logan raised more
than ], 600. 900 pounds of cabbage ON .
27-acre tract, and expects to feed his
cattle cold slaw all winter
While the authorities in Clay Cen
ter were trying to decide to whom
the crop of walnuts in the court house
square belonged. some small boys
solved the question
AS the newly appointed sheriff OF
Teller county, Colorado, lived in Has
ken county, Kansas, during the coun-
ty seat wars, there can be no reason
able doubt concerning his Qualifica-
lions.
Bison is also drilling for oil. The
Bee is SO hopeful that 1t declares the
well already smells oily" The New
ton Journal suggests that perhaps the
drillers have been oiling the machin-
cry.
Protest from the Erie Record: Last
Saturday on Main street we ran into
q bunch of q half dozen or more
spoons who were plying their trade
well. Now, We don't object to 'spoolr
Ing but there should be q time and
place for all things"
Clay Center Times: The Union Pa,
cific officials who have been investf
eating the cause of the wreck near
Junction City hacve decided that it
was not sun kfnk" in the rails, but
are almost convinced that cinder bee
ties must have been at the bottom
of it.
For the time being Mr.. Hoch's Ma
rion Record is containing no Thoughts
We've Been Thinking, but last week
it had something almost as good. 1t
prefaced a clipping: These beauti-
full thoughts from the pen of Orison
Sweet Marsdoen are worthy of place
in the Record columns. There is
SOAACtAAhS SidAOCi III ILLS WOIlQ lHaA
the mere getting of money
Miami and Franklin counties have
also discovered that this is the open
season for shooting oil wells
The latest bon mot of Colonel Jeltz
of the Negro Ledger, Topeka, is that
his paper has a circulation of 10000.
Chief Stahl of Topeka appears to
have mistaken the German-AmericaD
Skat club OF that town for an ordinary
Skate club.
Topeka's municipal lighting plant,
which cost SS5, 900, is worn out The
city is discussing making a street
lighting contract with the Edison COM
pany.
The Wichita Eagle, which is rabid
on all things Canadian, is expected to
create a scene when it hears that the
Canadian river is on a rampage in
Oklahoma.
Rival implement dealers in Green's
burg have a column of space apiece
on the front page of the Kiowa Coun-
ty Signal each week in which they
advertise their wares and fuss with
each other. One of them paid his
respects to his competitor last week
in this wise: THE captain knows
SOOu OedI ABOUT tWlD0- II Is TOO DaQ
that more men who know so much
about Irvine are not where he says
mine is manufactured. 1t might not
help the Irvine any, but it would inn
prove the communities from which
they were sent 2
Perhaps Colorado thinks the fabu-
lousy rich gold fields of Trego and FL
lis counties are included in the ex-
treme western 100 miles of Kansas,
but they are not 2
Chief StahI of Topeka raided the
German-American Skat club a few
nights ago and among the members
who were present was Judge q. r.
Hazen of the district court
Representative Reeder and Repre-
sentative Murdoch continue to make
speeches daily in their districts, I'M
mindful of the scheme to cede the
western half of their districts to Colo
RADIO.
Advocates of good roads are getting
together and preparing to make .
move upon the general assembly.
State appropriations aggregatfng $751;
900 will be asked for and a similar
amount will be asked from Uncle
Sam.
The good roads movement IL max
ing great progress In Kansas, a condf-
ton that Is inevitable now that al
most every farmer in the state owns
fast horses and an automobile