Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-31
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

The gas well at Caney gave her
one of the brightest lights of modern
times.
Citizens of Emporia are endeavor-
ing to establish a street car system
for that town
The consolidation of the rural
schools in Mcpherson county is said
to be most satisfactory
Ed Howe, editor of the Atchison
Daily Globe, has just completed a
tour around the world.
Tyro has closed a contract for
natural gas for the city at the record
low price of cents per 1000
The Missouri Pacific railway is
running excursions to Caney on ac-
count of the burning gas well.
A smallpox scare in st. Paul is
based on the presence of one case,
SO the accent is on the small
Many people think that the burn
ing of the Caney gas well will ruin
the whole gas field in that section.
Eastern capitalists are talking of
establishing interurban electric lines
in various places throughout Kansas
The Chicago White Sox will spend
the next two weeks in Wichita pre-
paratory to the opening of the sea-
SON
A Wichita man gave speech to this:
"A town can be kept young by it's
young men, or kept old by its older
men"
Returns from the Lyon county pri-
mary indicate that the Emporia town
row has spread to the outlying town
ships.
A fund is being stated in lola to
be given as a prize for the most
/ beautiful lawn shown in that city
July /.
Ed Cunningham, a section boss at
Horton, is reputed to be worth $780,
900. His salary for years has been
s1.35 per day.
Manhattan is the place where a
young man removed an electric light
globe and took it to bed to keep his
feet warm.
Although the Hiawatha World lost
the county printing it has cheered up
considerably since a brass band was
named in it's honor.
Much interest was manifested as
the new Strang gasoline motor car
for interurban railways passed
through Kansas.
The Topeka Capital has a theory
that the Society islands are so-called
becase tube natives wear their
clothes cut so low.
Kansas undertakers have formed a
trust and now require people to pay
cash or give approved security before
they will bury their dead.
An 1S-foot fly wheel, weighing over
80 tons, burst in Neodesha several
days ago and wrecked the plant of
the cement company at that place.
A Washington county farmers barn
was destroyed by fire last week and
,r1an "a tod
dozen chickens and an automobile
Money may become factor in the
spring municipal campaign in
Wichita. The Socialists have nom
mated Charles Coins for councilman.
A Concordia girl was given a hose
shower and had to try on every
Gift in the presence of her guests.
How shocking! But only the girls
were present.
E. w. Howe arrived in Atchison
Sunday, although his correspondence
indicates that he has just arrived in
Rome from the Holy Land. He left
October 25 and is now almost per-
suaded that the earth is round.
Thee good Methodists who direct
the Kansas Wesleyan University of
Salina have this college "ye1l' to
answer for:
Hot Potato. Hot Potato,
Half Past Alligator,
Ram BAN Booliator,
Chic-a-wa-Saw,
Wesleyan, Wesleyan.
Rah. Rah, Rah,
SS-S-S-S,
Boom, Tiger, Wesleyan.
The wind blew so hard in McPher-
son county one day last week that
the Lindsborg Record declares wire
fences were knocked down and some
corn huSks. were blown through a
brick wall. A man east of town tried
to dig some post holes and the dust
blew in faster than he could dig out
the dirt, and when he quit there was
a pile of dust two feet high where
the holes had been. A clothes line
with a weeks washing all marked
Perry, Ok" was picked off from a
telephone pole south of the river
bridge, and it is said that a fish was
blown out of the river southwest of
town
A parable by Thomas Benton Muir
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