Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-26
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the subject, Elections in Canada"
A 50-horse power engine in Leaven>
worth exploded suddenly" this week,
instead of bursting gradually.
The campaign closed in blaze OF
glory" at Strong City, also Drillers
struck a flow of gas sufficient to make
small blaze. -Gs
A protest is being made in Erie be-
cause four divorces were allowed
there in an hour. 1t is pointed out
that divorce takes less time than is
required to replevin a calf.
The Meade Republican has recently
received several pumpkins on sub
scription, and one Kansas pumpkin is
big enough this season to make at
least $50 pies.
Judge Adna P. Gristlebone, chief in
spector of the cinder beetle quaran-
tine, insists that Roosevelt's 100000
plurality in Kansas is due to his we'll
known interest in the cinder beetle
quarantine movement He is prepar-
ing statement to prove that if Hoch
had not ignored the cinder beetle he
would not have run $4,000 behind
Roosevelt.
A New York dispatch announces the
election of a Kansas man, William J.
Young, to the state senate from one
of the city districts. Mr.. Young is the
son of John NJ. and Carrie Patten
Young, and was born in Topeka, April
%, 1870. He was educated in the pub
lie schools and at the Williamsport,
Pa, seminary, and in 1889 entered
Cornell university. He has the unique
distinction of having played during his
course on the varsity base ball and
foot ball teams and of rowing in the
varsity crew.
A man who was prepared to dis
prove the allegation that he was sober
wandered into restaurant in Winfield
the other day, the Free Press says.
Has your Wish'ta Eagle Gomez" he
inquired of the ever-patient man wear
ing the white apron. mo. it will not
be here until about 10: 30" replied the
latter. We'll, 1 want to see it when
it comes" went on the man who held
to two sides of the cigar case to keep
it from tipping over. do you know
OF Man Murdock?" The man who
knew the cigar case would not tip over
said he did not know Colonel Murdoch,
but, of course, had heard of him.
well, by gum! he's all right went
on the other, looking toward the wait
er as if he saw some one away off in
the distance. He was still balancing
the cigar case on one leg. Il tell We
1 live in Wishta an she's a damn
good town. or Man Murdoch is one
of the smartest men in the whole
country. 1 like that Eagle fer the OF
man he's alters got something in it to
set yer to thinkin'. Believe tibet pa
per's got the bigges' circulation of
emmy paper in the world
Thomas T. Kelly, state treasurer, is
now at liberty to jerk the string on
communities where hunters still go
his escrow" resignation.
Since the discovery that most
whisky contains wood alcohol, and
beer contains arsenic, the old form of
barroom salutation has returned to
vogue in Chanute: Line up and NOM
mate your poison"
IF you are smart" muses. the Sedg.
wick Paragraphs sage, people will
find it out without your telling them
about it,
In Lyons a double-barre1ed shotgun
which nobody thought was loaded did
nothing worse than blow out the front
of hardware store.
One good effect of the tank drama
which is now doing the kerosene cir
cult is, according to G. NJ. Harger, that
it teaches the people there are three
as in Niagara.
For a good many years the name of
Richland used to be regarded as a
good joke; but you can't buy farm
anywhere around there now for less
than $50 an acre.
The Wichita Eagle takes exceptions
to the statement that General Funston
"shrinks from being caricatured." 1t
insists that if he shrinks any more he
will disappear entirely
Two men who voted for William
Henry Harrison in 1910 and for Henry
Clay four years later, live in Newton.
They went to the polls this week and
voted for Roosevelt
The Eldorado Republican relates a
good story. He was making a long
drive in the western part of the state
with a companion They were out |
were full of gyp water,
were wholly enveloped in the dust of |
the desert, their bronchos being COM
pletely tagged, while YEARLY approach |
ing lne end of a 5O-mile drive Not a |
word had been spoken for half an |
hour. ingalls, sat stiffly beside his |
his hair, his face, his \
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