Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-30
KANSAS NOTES

where people still have '-bouncins
babies
The purchasers of the Fort Scott
Monitor expect to make good paper
of it as soon as they get it out OF dry
dock.
"A Social Glass; will be given in
Pratt by home talent. 1t is for chart
table purposes-not medical, mechani-
cal or scientific
A shower bath has been installed
In Howard for the convenience of a
citizen who is so fat that when he
gets into bathtub there is no room
for the water.
The worst blow yet dealt to the
gentle science of hypnotism was hand
ed out by the Shakespeare club OF
Newton, which has decided that Rich
ard III was a hypnotist-
A magnetic healer in Emporia ad-
vertises that If those whom he has
healed do not call and settle their
bills at once, he will reverse the cur
rent and bring all their ills upon them
again.
Mayor Grist, OF Tonganozie, and
four councilmen resigned this week
because they found themselves I'M
equal to the task OF suppressing the
sejoints." If this precedent is to fol-
lowed there will not be half a dozen
towns in the state with a mayor or
an aldermanic quorum.
Dighton has decided to scoop the
big cities of the country by holding its
horse show next month.
The Atchison Globe proposes this
as the title for new coon" song:
Talk to Me, But Don't Talk Sassy"
Dodge City has what the Hutchinson
News terms something worse than
girls baseball club" 1t has two.
Topeka ought to be immensely hap
py. 1t has what is likes best-a
| vicious row between the saloon and
| anti-saloon crowds.
1t is a matter of some humiliation
| to Coffeyville that it has the largest
| brick plant in the world, but not
| block of brick pavement.
Attorney General Coleman's arrest
in Clay Center for kidnapping seems
| to answer all requirements of what
| the politicians call "roarback."
| Waverly held municipal election
this spring and did not know until
| afterwards that under the new law il
should not have been held until next
| years.
A merchant in Pratt fed his horses
chicken feed for week before he dis
| covered his mistake. Now he is in
| constant fear of discovering a mares
| nest.
Some of Colonel Je1tz's editorial
| paragraphs in the Negro Ledger We
need no liars in our business.
Justice in darn" poor thing to ex-
| pect. Ed. Howe of the
Globe is an infidel, they say. because
he makes his subjects out of the
| feminine class. - A girl II
years is trying to get rid of an OLD
sinner in Iowa. because her mother
was not only shady in her character.
but a very incapable lady to daugh-
ter. = We don't need your love
| put your love where it will do the
| most good. There are a GER
tain class of damnable rascals who
| think they are the whole show, but
they are not What has Bur
ton done CD our answer is no more
than hundreds of others who have
fought life's battle and won. While
he poor fellow lost, alas poor tYor-
lex"
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
has given a mortgage of 1913 million
dollars on it's Kansas properties, which
Billy Morgan explains, does not in
clude the state board of railroad COM
missioners.
"The News does Job work. is a par
agraph kept standing in the Hutchin-
son News. That's what the Reno
county Boss Busters have persisteu-ly
claimed.
Down in the southern part of the
state a couple of men are working a
} swindling scheme on some of the farm
ers. A stranger appears on the road
: diligently searching for lost diamond
ring and offers a reward of 800 for its
recovery. He goes away without find
ing the ring and shortly afterward a
tramp picks up ring The farmer
who is to be the victim offers the
tramp $25 for the ring, expecting to
get the 800 reward. The tramp &C
cepts it and leaves. When the farmer
: cannot find the stranger he grows gus
| picious and has jeweler examine the
ring. 1t is generally pronounced to be
worth about fifteen cents.
The culture of American Ginseng is
getting to be of considerable import
ance from a commercial standpoint
1t is unquestionably the greatest
money maker known to the world to
day. 1t is becoming very popular as
an adjunct to the truck garden