Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-20
KANSAS ITEMS

all the other DutcneIS alC o1s
strike, Miss Jessie Morrison Stays
right by her knitting.
Some men are born great, some
have greatness thrust upon tnem'
while Others" adds the Chanuta
Tribune, .'just butt in
The Palmer Index promises to pub.
lish next week the full list OF al
the Potter people who drew farms IN
the Rosebud lottery.
According to the Cedarvale Com
mercial, there was almost lawsuit
over a mortgaged house in justice
Tracy's court Wednesday.
The Alma Enterprise saw the Santa
Fe's weed-burner at work few days
ago and wants to borrow it for the
use of the street commissioner.
In Peabody the young women gave
a dressing sacque picnic but the
Sedgwick girls go them one better by
advertising an .Igorrote outing
A member of the Marysville fire
department is able to run 100 yards
in ten seconds. The Clay Center
Times fears he may arrive at the flre
before it breaks out.
A church of the Christian denomi-
nation was sold by the sheriff in Cha
mute recently to satisfy judgment in
favor of the Rev. D. M. Harris for
$229.69, due on his salary.
A gay old man in Paola is flirting
with young woman and thinks no
>one knows it, but the Spirit is author
ity Tor the statement that the Home
Art club, the Thimble club, the Social
Science federation, the Sewing circle,
the Rathbone Sisters, the Eastern
Stars, the Royal Neighbors and the
Women's Relief corps are all talking
about it.
An insurance agent solicited a SEN
eca man for insurance. Il don't be-
lieve in leaving a bunch of money for
my wife and some other lobster to
SPEND replied the solicited man. MY
company pays Suicides replied the
agent land l would advise you to
| take out a policy with my company,
and then shoot yourself, so your wife
can marry decent man..
Barney" Sheridan of Paola, who
has been out of harmony with the
| Democratic organization in Kansas
since 1892, attended the state conven-
| ton in Topeka this week. He wrote:
Having attended only one state pow
WOW prior to this in ten years, am
rather rusty and Hstless. Old-time
| enthusiasm SINNERS low and I look
| on the proceedings somewhat like a
| widow looks on wedding-with a
| vapory impression of, We'll, l was
| there oncei'"
! Fights are still engaged in occasion
ally in Atchison as the result of lone
word brought on another"
| The Hiawatha newspaper row, grow
ing out of the county printing, has
|
Slce radium has been discovered in
Canada the Wichita Eagle is more de-
| termined than ever that the Domin-
| ion shall be annexed.
] 1t seems to be up to w. R. Stubs,
| Victor Murdoch and F. Dumont Smith
| to collaborate on reply to the Uni
Versity of Chicago professor who is re-
| sponsible for the new theory that red
hair is a sign of degeneracy.
Complaint is made,'' the Atchison
| Globe says, that it was called the
| annual children's picnic They say
it should have been, -children's an
nual picnic though there were enough
children there to make it look as If
they came annually"
| Northwestern Kansas will eat its
watermelons individually this season,
instead of collectively. The famous
/ Olyu0 WdlSTm6lOA CARNIVAL AcS UCCA
| declared off.
The Hutchinson Bee is quite firm in
| the belief that August Belmont's en-
try for the Futurity stakes will run
| better than his entry in the presiden-
| tial race.
| Members of the Kansas National
| Guard receive forty-three cents a day
and their board while they are in en-
campment. This isn't much, but it's
as good as teaching school
| E. w. IIoch in the Marion Record:
DR.. Ed Stauffer, a brother of our fine
| farmer friend, w. A. Stauffer, has de-
| cided to 1acate in Marion and has
| formed a partnership with DIR. Mariner,
one of our ablest and most successful
| physicians. DIR. Stauffer is a young
man of splendid attainments. He is
| graduate from the four years course
/ in a prominent Philadelphia medical
college, after which he returned and
| took special course in electric thera-
| peutics. The Record welcomes him to
| Marion.
| Says the Eldorado Republican:
"Our Kansas Stock Shippers associ-
ation-there are five or six members
| railway tracks, and raise the devil
| With the railway companies, seems to
have subsidized. Two of them were
elected delegates to the national con-
| vention; two are nominated to office,
| while the other two are grunting
| around little and that is all p s.