Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-24
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS


there are just 761 boys and 761 girls.
The members of lodge at Liberal
have decided to give a performance of
Ben Hur."
Vernon county, sold its old
court house to the highest bidder and
it brought $40.
Absent treatment works best, says
the Chillicothe Tribune, in those cases
where the mind is absent.
A thief in Stotts City tried to
steal 20-foot flight of stairs. Fail
ing to take the flight he took flight.
1.-The Iowa idea" says E. E E. Nc
Jimsey, seems to be to get a farm
in Missouri as quickly as possible
Burglars robbed a pickle factory at
Carthage. These women burglars
seem to be getting rather numerous.
President Roosevelt will not be
asked to stop the strike of S25 000,-
600 worth of zinc ore near Carthage,
Mo
Richmond is to have a lecturer who,
after the big show, gives a concert
with whistling, singing and imperson-
ations.
The Chillicothe Tribune point out
that the appearance of the popular
song, MY Panama GAL" is several
days overdue.
During a period of dullness at
Greenfield, few business men
went out of the city limits and dis
covered natural gas.
All the stumps are to be pulled out
of the courthouse yard at Butler and
the loafers feel that the county is get
ting entirely too gay"
Congressman and Mrs. DeArmond,
are the only Missourians whose names
appear among the list of guests at
the Roosevelt wedding.
The Christian church at Sturgeon,
Mo, hopes to get 81 900 from the gov
eminent for damages to the church
edifice during the civil war
For a source of confusion and an
origin of perplexity, says the Pleasant
Hill Times, the Wamsley game law
takes the ham, platter and all.
A good many persons. says the Tar
kio Avalanche, are like up-to-date
crackers mighty little nourishment
done up in much flourishment
A 10-year-o1d negro boy of Macon
shot his father to make him stop beat
ing his mother Then the mother
thrashed the boy for killing the old
man.
A Missouri paper explains the lack
of news in last weeks issue by ask
ing how anyone can go anywhere
with the roads so muddy they would
mire a horsefly.
Webb City furnishes the latest dyna-
mite story. Two workmen built
fire in hole and after removing the
fire put the dynamite in the hole to
thaw- Both leave a wife and several
children.
Not many youngsters nowadays,
says the Chillicothe Tribune, would
stand on the burning deck after every
body else had run unless there was
chance for him to roll a cigarette in
the excitement.
While opening a coal slope near
Levicks Mill, not far from Jackson
vile, Dave Summers and Dick Ridge
way also opened a jackpot of snakes.
Fifty: four blacksnakes and one house
snake were killed.
Two strangers were arrested at
Warsaw, the other day, on sus-
picion that they were hose thieves.
They proved they were Mormon ell
ders. The local paper said they made
a bad matter worse.
A young woman in Henry county
killed a wolf during a recent round
up. A pack of hounds ran the wolf
under a water tank. The young
woman, whose name is Miss Anna
Baker. secured a gun and shot the
animal.
There is a $500 reward offered for
the arrest of George Taylor, who with
his brother. Bill Taylor, was sentence
ed to hang for the murder of the
Meeks family several years ago. Bill
was hanged. but George broke jail
and has not been seen since.
Recently one of the Missouri's own
gaint trees was felled on farm near
Laclede. 1t had diameter of six
feet. From it were made sos good
fence posts and fifteen big loads of
wood. Counting its age by years
yaers old
w. o. Atkeson of Butler has
chicken eating hog that devours all
the neighbors' fowls that trespass up
on his place. The porker is said to
be so fleet that it can catch anything
that runs or flies close to the ground.
Mr.. Atkeson is thinking of trading
ths hog to a wolf hunting club of La
fayette county.
The Richmond Missourfan defines
gossip: Gossip is a human bird with
eagle wings and a voice like a fog
horn. 1t can be heard from Dan to
Beersheba and has caused more
trouble than all the bedbugs, flies, |
ticks, neas, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, |
rattleSnakes. smallpox, |