Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
KANSAS NOTES

ceal the fact that its lecture course
this season will be an "all-star" ag-
gregation-
Junction City drillers struck a
strata of petrified fish 800 feet down,
and now they are in hoping of strik-
ing cod liver oil.
Leavenworth is the only county in
the state where the office of coroner
ranks right up with that of sheriff in
Importance
The dramatic season has opened at
Arkansas City with ''Finnegan's Ball.
at the opera house. A local dramatic
critic records that the costumes were
rich and tasty"
1t is the opinion of the editor of
the Florence Bulletin that as long as
a man can say Narcissus he is all
right, but when he gets to saying Mar
thithuth it is time for his friends to
take HIM home.
The Round Prairie Christian church
near Potter is being advertised for
sale, together with the furniture.
Many of the members have moved
away and the remaining members will
transfer their membership to Pot
ter.
Many people are complaining about
the continued warm weather, but there
are a number of farmers in Kansas
who will endure it patiently, inasmuch
as it is ripening their corn and rapidly
getting it out of danger of frosts.
Referring to the case of the man
who killed himself because he was
going crazy, the Eldorado Republican
thinks that if everybody threatened
with going crazy would do, the same
thing, there would be nobody to at
tend the international vegetarian con-
gress now in session in st. Louis.
After nine weeks of anguish and
mourning real widow in Emporia
perked up sufficiently to marry
again.
A man who says he invented the
folding bed lives in Potter, and he
surely would not make the claim if he
hadn't.
Howard is thinking of giving BEN
eft for young musician of that town
who now plays the calliope in a cir
Gus.
Abilene is unable to understand why
people should be so keen to pipe gas
and oil when they might pipe Abilene
water.
The Crawford theater in Topeka will
be open next Sunday night For Moth
er's Sake" but chiefly for L. M. Craw
ford's sake.
Otto Haas, who is running for con-
stable in Emporia, finds solace in the
Scriptural assurance that unto him
that Haas shall be given.
The Real Estate building in Topeka,
so called because it is made of brick,
was bought by c. ]. Devlin this week
for the Catholic church.
Cottonwood Falls has found anoth-
er reason why it should not remain
unknown to fame: A cousin of the
man who owns Dan Patch lives
there.
In passing judgment upon George
AIDES comedy, "The County Chair
man. the dramatic critic of To-
peka paper says: while the comedy
can scarcely be said to be up to the
AIDE standard, it deserved a larger au-
dience than was present last night
The situations are strained and over
done and often the thread of the play
takes the audience into the realms of
cheap melodrama. Topeka was glad
to welcome the big brawny Theodore
Roberts back once more, even without
the gray mustache and ungainly stride
of Colonel Candy. Mr.. Roberts will
probably try a great many roles be-
fore he dies, but it is doubtful if he
ever finds any one that suits him so
well as that of the gruff, kind-hearted
old Arizona rancher in the beautiful
play of that name by Theodore
| Thomas
An exceedingly cheering report is
| made by the Aulne correspondent for
| the Marion Record. He writes: "a
very excellent and successful ten
| days meeting closed at the M. E.
! church Sunday night. There were
| over twenty persons who protested
| conversion. Several were reclaimed
| and the whole church quickened. No
one attended the meetings without
| being made better. Brother Runyan
| is an earnest and forceful speaker.
| Had he turned his attentions toward
| the stage, he would have made an
actor or personator of no mean order.
| These elements, together with his
splendid physique, Christian earnest
ness and bubbling enthusiasm, his
knowledge of men and the use of
right arguments, enlivened and en-
| forced by apt. clean, witty and some
| times humorous illustrations, yet
| never detraction from the serious con-
| sideration of the always appropriate