Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-29
KANSAS NOTES

y IN a JOINT IN Horton is sign WHICH
reads: IF You Can't Pay, Don't Load
Up The sign was painted for coal
yard, but a wag stole it.
Salina is quite indignant that the re
port that the Smart Set danced the
plastering off the walls of the Masonic
half should have gone broadcast.
There are so many divorce cases on
the court docket in Labette county
that the clergymen have decided to set
apart a week of prayer to check the
domestic discord.
Fullness'' is the subject announced
for the Rev. Mr.. Lockhart's sermon
at the Paola Christian church. 1t is
not stated whether it is to be a tenn
perance sermon or not.
Mack P. Gretchen gives respectful
notice to Colorado that what Kansas
wants in real water. Colorado is
welcome" he says, Ito that yellow
paint it has been sending down the
Arkansas river"
Horace, the county seat of Greeley
county, is too proud to speak to it's
neighbors since it gave a reception in
Miss Helen Gould's honor last week.
Colonel Ed Little is reported to
have called off the dogs that were
barking at the pyramids, but does he
still feel unkindly toward the "Grut
street scribblers?''
The travelling evangelists who cali
themselves the Flying Rollers conclud-
ed that the natural gas district was
a good place to light They are il
Neodesha this week.
A man who was serving a term in
the Douglas county Jail for wife beat
ing was pardoned by Governor Bailey
this week.
Fire was discovered in the hold of
the batuleship Kansas at the New
York Ship Building company's yards
this week. That was as near as Kan
sas ever came to losing its hold.
An Atchison drunkard had the Jim.
jams a few nights ago, the Globe says,
during which he saw a procession of
turkeys walk past his bed, and every
turkey wore straw hat.
An Indian over 100 years of age
lives on the Kickapoo reservation in
Brown county. He is distinguished as
being the only member of his tribe
who has a white mans scalp among
hi strophies.
A Lawrence paper declares that all
the political enthusiasm in that coun-
ty could be put into pint flask. Well
pint flask has been known to con-
! tain a considerable amount of enthusi-
asm.
During the grand lodge of the Odd
Fellows in Topeka this week the ghost
of the De Boissiere Orphans home
walked. The lodge decided to bring
1O8 suits for total of $4,000 against
| Troutman & Stone
Charges and counter-chargeS OF
graft in the state house have caused
so much smoke that the public can't
4 help surmising there is some fire at
the bottom of them.
| John StOnebrOker is the acting po-
lice judge in Salina, affording him a
chance to increase his tribe materi-
ally.
Carrie Nation passed right through
Winfield the other day without stop
ping. wouldn't that" exclaims the
Free Press, pickle your watermelon
rinds?"
THE hapI lest man in the world, -
says Bent Murdock, SIS the common,
everyday chap who makes his own
living, pays his bills and has a little
money as he goes along, but he doesn"
strive to get corner on the local out
put, and he is a slave to neither am
bition nor society. He loves his God
and his fellow man, thinks there is
no place like home, the haven of rest,
prefers the company of his wife and
children to that of any one else, never
has to sit up at night to poultice his
conscience, believes in the doctrine of
| live and let live, and when he encoun.
tiers one of the needy he doesn't slut
ter with his pocketbook. The plain
man is happy because he is satisfied
and doesn't spend the best of his life
yearning for something four sizes too
large for him.
The Marion Record tells how it oc.
Cured. 1t says: "A very serious ac-
cident happened near Florence last
Tuesday evening, about 7:30 o'clock.
had been camping alongside the rail-
road and were making a fire of some
railroad ties, were injured by an ex-
plosion of dynamite which was in one
Of the ties they threw on the fire. One
man had a leg and arm terribly LAGER
ated by the force of the explosion, one
arm so badly that amputation was
necessary. One was wounded about
the head and back of the neck. The
other escaped injury but was placed
under arrest. They tell conflicting
stories about the affair, and were prob
ably planning some mischief, which
the explosion forestalled. We have
1 not learned whether there have heeu