Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-14
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Half the boys in lola smoke cigar
Wichita has an epidemic OF small
pox-
Rural schools are closing in Kan
sas.
Glass workers at chanute are on
strike.
One syndicate owns SO theaters in
Kansas.
Dr. R. w. Wright. 81. founder of
Oswego, is dead.
There is a great demand for farm
laborers in Kansas.
Emporia has established a reputa-
ton for fine horses.
The street car service in Hutchin-
son is to be extended.
$4,000 is being raised in Parsons,
to aid the ball team.
lola is to have drinking fountains
around the public square.
"A Nemaha county farmer wants the
state to publish a paper.
A soap ''faker'' is doing" the towns
in Southeastern Kansas.
A Topeka man insists on wearing
a straw hat since March 81.
c. o. Graham, near Logan, owns
the only skunk farm in Kansas
A Wichita implement dealer adver-
tises as being out of the trust
A man named Dead Deadly died the
other day in western Kansas.
Kansas farmers say this is the
year to expect the 17-year locusts.
The Kansas white population has
increased 10000 the past five years.
Fourteen thousand dollars has been
spent in Gaping the Caney gas well.
A musical festival will be held
next month at Baker university, Bald
win.
Republican editors of Southwest
Kansas are in conference at Hutchin-
son.
An old Emporia man who began to
chew tobacco when 4 years old has
"sworn off,"
Because a policeman shot his dog
Hutchinson citizen threatens to
sue the city.
The Marais des Cygnes river in
Kansas has reached the high water
mark-14 feet.
hunter in Western Kansas killed
black eagle that measured Sc inches
from tip to tip of the wings
The A. o. U. W., Independence,
celebrated the lifting of the mortgage
over their home by formally burning
it.
A Topeka man wrote to the Capitol:
eff my wife insists on playing bridge
to the exclusion of her household du-
ties, why cantilever?"
Two men in Hiawatha engaged In
rough and tumble fight a few days
ago as the result of an argument as
to the correct pronunciation of the
word ''hospitable."
A merchant in Marysville gives as
the reason for his refusal to adver-
tise that it would necessitate the hir-
ing of more clerks and he can't af-
ford to increase his payroll.
According to the Sentinel a Gay
lord grammar teacher said to her
class. What tense do 1 use when
little scamp answered, 1.-The past
tense"
The most remarkable thing in Kan
sas last week, aside from the Second
district primaries, was wolf hunt
near Wetmore in which hunters
closed in on five wolves and killed
them all.
A Civic league has been organic |
ed in Salina, but not to regulate the |
railroads. It's purpose is to clean the |
back yards and vacant lots, trim trees, |
plant flowers and in other ways beau |
tify the town.
Lawrence is going to break into |
Lindsborg's class, with big musical
festival April 6 and z. The Univer-
sity Glee club will be reinforced by |
a chorus of 100 voices an orchestra
and Innes's band.
The Washington Palladium is en-
titled to a prize for the most correct
answer to this problem, which has
been going the rounds for several
weeks: "a banker going home for
his dinner saw SO bill on the curb
stone. He picked it up and took it
home in order to find the owner.
While at home his wife remarked
that the butcher had sent bill amout-
ing to $40. The only money he had
with him was the bill he had found,
which he gave to her and she paid
the butcher. The butcher paid 1T to
the farmer for a calf and the farmer
paid it to merchant, who in turn
paid it to washerwoman, and she
owing the banker a note of $40 went
to the bank and paid the note. The
banker recognized the bill as the one
he had found, and which, up to that
time had paid $50 of debt On care
fu1 investigation he discovered that |
the bill was counterfeit. Now will |
some of our friends tell us what has
been lost in this transaction, and by
whom?" The Palladium's an~wer is
40 follows. ssNobodv 1ocf O cont ond |