Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
KANSAS NOTES

tention to the fact that this seasons
presentations about the boy who
climbed the highest cornstalk and got
lost is late in making it's appear
ance.
A sunrise wedding in Ottawa was
delayed until after o'clock In max
ing the arrangements the young peo-
pie forgot that the bride required at
least four hours to make her toilet.
The Salina Journal was making
great Roadway in its agitation for
paved streets until it dawned on some
members of the local Paddock club
that street paving costs considerable
money.
Thomas w. Morgan points out that
the Fort Scott Tribune prints fewer
dull editorials than any other paper
in the state. The reason is that the
Tribune never prints any editorials
at all.
In most of the counties this years
delinquent tax list is longer than for
several years; due, it is presumed, to
the unsatisfactory wheat conditions.
But .ae list is nothing like it was in
the early '9Os.
The venerable fiction which the
Wichita correspondents used to send
out about an eagle Inat swooped down
and carried off baby has a successor.
The baby is now reported to have been
carried off by a mosquito.
I'VE wonder if there is any good
reason" the Jewell City Republican
says, why the United States govern
ment should take thirty or forty years
in which to allow just claim against
it, A Mitchell county man filed a
claim over thirty years ago, and it
has just been anowed. The claimant
is dead and his descendants will build
him a monument WIN the money. We
undertake to say that there is no sense
in such monkey work on the part of
this government
One of Tom McNeal's recent fables:
A self-confident man was lost in the
woods and, although he had a compass
in his pocket, he wandered about for
two days before some of his friends
finally found him and brought him
home When asked why he had not
taken the directions from his compass
he replied that he tried to get the
blamed thing to point north, but it
would jiggle around to the southwest
every time, and he saw that there was
no use to put any confidence in it.
Moral: There are people who cannot
be convinced that it is possible for
them to be mistaken.
Those seven women arrested in
Ransom, Ness county, for joint smash
ing, are calculated to lay additional
emphasis on Ransom's Folly.
Automobiles are called "benzine
drays' in Wellington.
A visitation of cinder beetles is re-
ported along Ash avenue, in Salina.
Wilbur F. Smith, who died last
week in Kingman, was page in the
United States senate during the civil
war.
1T looks to u.s. says the Coolidge
Enterprise, "as if the Kansas congress
men paid too much attention to irri-
cation and not enough to good
roads,"
Frank Brooks of Lawrence used to
be the United States vice consul at
Smyrna. but no warships ever went
to visit him and he became lonesome
and quit.
An Abilene man obtained divorce
because his wife tried to kill him. Del
Valentine thinks the court ought to
have given the wife another chance.
Colonel "Bilr' -Sapp of Galena, chair
man of the Democratic state commit
Tee, never careQ TWO WnOOpS ABOUT
the silver issue. He has always
pinned his faith to zinc
In 1896 there were 140 Populist pa
pers in Kansas; now there are 79. In
1896 there were IS Democratic papers
in Kansas; the number is now SO.
Three men who committed highway
robbery in Atchison this week las a
joke" are likely to be the recipients
of a mirth-provoking sentence of sew
eral years side-sp1itting labor at Lam
sing.
1t is certainly not reasonable to ex-
pect Governor Bailey to sell many of
his fat steers at the prevailing prices
to help elect the Boss Buster state
ticket this fall
The mob which pursued Umpire Col
Inns in Topeka Saturday and would
have laid violent hands upon him but
for the police, is said by the local pa
pers to have been angry"
E. w. Hoch in the Marion Record:
There are poole in this sunlit world
the doors and windows to whose souls
are forever closed to the light and
warmth of love and literature alike.
No wholesome books or magazines il
1umine their darkened minds. and the
kindly, genial influence of the ten
der passion called love and friendship
never radiate from their cold. cIammy
natures, and no ripple of laughter ever