Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
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Sinclair and Hampton Gragg.
Lebanon, which has bored down
more than 1000 feet in search of oil
or gas, is greatly encouraged. Traces
of iron have been discovered
The experts estimate that the DAM
age done to live stock by the blizzard
is more than offset by the benefit to
wheat. The sure system" to win in
Kansas is to have both cattle and
wheat.
The papers generally are giving
Governor Bailey credit for his refusal
to issue a lot of pardons during the
last days of his term. The lawyers
make it difficult enough to get a
wretch into the penitentiary.
Hoboes will steer clear of Seneca
for a while. The town marshal locked
one up in the holdover last Sunday,
and forgot all about him for three
days.
The Nortonville News muses. thus:
Corn, live weight, 40 cents per bushel;
turkeys, live weight, IA cents per
pound; newspaper subscriptions, gen.
orally, a long wait.
A man stole the silver baptismal
font from the Congregational church
in Winfield. After failing to pawn it
at any of the pawn shops the man re-
pented and took it back.
The Kansas Southwestern railway
never had occasion to open a con
science account till the other day,
when a woman sent IS cents to Presi-
dent Kingsbury, at Arkansas City,
stating that it was to pay for coal she
had stolen from the station at Cald-
well when she was a child.
Captain James NJ. Steele, editor of
the Earth, the monthly magazine of
the Santa Fee railway system, pub
iished in Chicago, recently visited his
old home at Topeka. 1t was there
| that he began his literary work and
later he became editor of the Kansas
Magazine and a co-worker with the
late Senator John ]. ingalls,.
By a vote of almost two to one the
people of Mcpherson have voted a
special tax upon themselves from the
proceeds of which to build and equip
a free public library.
Already three Sixth district Repub-
licans have announced themselves
candidates for state offices in 1906.
The Sixth district is becoming almost
as greedy as the Seventh.
Topeka is now claiming a population
of A 900, which lacks only 1000 of be-
ing as many as it claimed in 1887. =
A woman is president of one of the
banks in Ness City and it is not sus-
pected of having any Carnegie notes,
either.
1t was too much to expect that the
State Teachers Association could
meet and get away without being
called "pedagogues."
The Wichita Eagle refers to th>
Missouri river as that streak OF
| sand The Eagle also calls the Ar
kansas river 1.-The Kansas Nile
At the next meeting of the Lancas-
ter Literary Society this subject will
be discussed: Which would you
rather be, a pallbearer or jury
man."
The Stockton Record awards the
chicken-dressing championship to G. P.
Mallory, of Kansas City, who has been
working there for several weeks. The
| Record says: He hangs up a live
chicken, cuts its jugular vein, sticks a
knife in it's brain and picks all its
feathers off in less than a minute.
Fifty-two seconds is the worlds rec
| ord for dry picking. He has done this
several times before, but on Tuesday
he broke the record, lowering it by
ten seconds. Morris Coolbaugh, jr.,
and w. P. Backes, Missouri Pacific
baggagemen, held watches. At the
| first trial he finished his chicken in
fOrty-three seconds, but the next time
he scored in forty-two seconds. His
| average speed is a chicken a minute.
To do even this a persons hands must
move like lightning each stroke bring
ing a fist full of feathers
Governor Bailey doesn't work over
time in the exercise of his power to
pardon criminals. Out of the $50 ap-
plcatiOns for pardons received during
December he has granted only five.
After all, Tom McNeal, editor of the
Topeka Mail and Breeze, has been Of
fes ed and has accepted the job of pri-
| vste secretary to Governor Hoch, re-
serving, however, the right to make
| the race for state printer. The secre-
t&ryship pays $4,000 a year.
An lola thief who stole an overcoat
dtd not know until after he reached
the hospital that the garnet was one
smallpox patients.
The personal effects of a gang of
italian laborers in Allen county were
| destroyed by fire, and the lola Rec
erd estimates that the loss may reach
grand total of thirty cents
Pity the poor reporters, printers and
proofreaders at MCPHERSON Here is a
Ia Of he