Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-17
KANSAS LAND ALL GONE.
Only 100000 Acres Left in Public
Domain in Kansas.

Kansas, the officials of the Colby land
office must work for Uncle Sam for
the next five months for nothing.
Under the law the register and re-
ceiver of a land Office cannot draw to
exceed $4,000 each. in fees per year.
That is the maximum. During the
first seven months OF the fiscal year
officials at the Colby office reached the
maximum, and from now until next
July they must give ali their time to
the government without IL cents COM
pensation. 1t is understood that the
same condition exists at the Dodge
City land office.
People are taking homesteads in
the Colby districtat the rate of about
100 month. TO be exact, 72O home
stead entries weac made here during
the past seven months. About the
same number of entries were made at
the Dodge City office. AS near as
the officials of the land office figure,
there still remains about 100, 900 acres
in the Colby district and zoe, 900 in
the Dodge City district open to home
stealing. The Colby district has about
Is, 600 acres left in Wallace county,
As, 600 in Cheyenne, 10000 in Logan,
1000 in Cove, $500 in Rawlings, 1000
in Sherman, and / 200 i'm Ellis. The
rest is in 40 and 80 acre tracts scatter
ed over the district and good only for
grazing purposes.-Salina Journal.
A ST. Louis syndicate is figuring on
erecting an opera house in our city
sufficiently large to accommodate any
opera, entertainment or public gath
ering. The proposed plan is octagon
in shape, 80 feet on each side, y feet
in diameter and IS feet high to flag
pole. The stage is to be As feet wide
and 80 feet deep. If the building is
erected-and we are told the plans
and specifications are here and bids
being received 1T will give Hays
City good, clean theatre building.
The syndicate putting up the build
ing will also secure the best operas
and entertainments an the road; and
there is no good reason why we should
not have them. Encourage the build
ing by all means.-Hays Republican.
The sheep industry in Kansas is
one that is neglected, and yet it is
one of the best paying investments.
No farm is complete without from
thirty to fifty head. They eat the
weeds in the pasture that the other
stock refuse; corn stalks, damaged al
falfa and weedy hay they relish.
Sheep consume all the good there is
in kaffir corn without threshing or
IL, 80
live stock that will pay for their feed
and care and have the original flock
clear in one year. The Ferris Bros,
whose ranch is north of McCracken,
have handled sheep for the past five
years and have come out ahead each
year on their Investment, and have
demonstrated that sheep is paying
Investment in western KanSas.-Mc-
Cracker Emf erprise.
A sweet girl student thus described
the manner in which a goat butted
the boy out OF the front yard: 'He
hurried the previous end of his anat-
omy against the boys afterward with
an earnestness and Velocity which,
backed BY the ponderosity of the
goats avoirdupois, impaired mo-
mentum that was not relaxed until
the boy landed on terra frma beyond
the pale of the goats jurisdictIon-r-
A young lady in nearby town not
feeling as well as she would like call
ed on a young physician, who had
been located in the town but a short
time for consultation SWELL" said
ut lror
tongue, feeling her pulse. and asking
her numerous questions, Il should
advise you-yes. 1 should advise you
aheml to get married" Are you
single, doctor?" inquired the fair pa
tient with a modest smile Il am,
my dear young MISS" he said but it
| is not customary for physician to
take the physic he prescr ibes- "-Ex.