Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-10
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Chanute. is to have a street rail-
way system.
| A six-foot vein of gypsum has been
| discovered at Beattie.
Franklin county is beginning the
erection of $4,000 jail
j. L. Bristow expresses fear that
| the recommendation for a lock canal
may result in a deadlock canal
Good roads lead to better schools
\ says John Mcdonald. In fact, that's
| where every road in Kansas leads to.
Fights and other disturbances in
Winfield are still attributed by the
reporters to old John Bareleycorn"
| 'The Alice Roosevelt hat" is al
ready being shown by the milliners
In Hiawatha; but it isn't the $3.50
kind
| A new use has been discovered for
natural gas in Kansas. An Arkansas
City man is using Nthe new fuel in in
| cubators.
Coffeyville is planning to have a
! Chautauqua assembly this year How
| does it happen that no assembly is
ever held over in Chautauqua coun-
ty?
The pastor of Harvard church
announces that henceforth he will be-
gin services promptly on time,
| whether there is a quorum present
or not
A man who sells refrigerators
| along the Central branch has been
called in by his firm. The weather
has been fine for his business-only
there's no ice
| At teachers meeting in Doniphan
county one young woman played a
cornet solo and another teacher a
violin solo Psychology of Corporal
Punishment
The Circuit Rider expresses sur
prise to find that every Kansas man
is press agent for his own town and
state. 1t is his first extended visit
through Kansas.
A Brown county man who was
severely burned and disfigured in
! fire is growing new eyebrows by hav-
Ing hair and skin transplanted from
the back of his neck.
An "oldest native SON. contest has
been started in Kansas. James Simp-
SON of Highland holds the record so
| far He is 40 years old and lives on
the farm where he was born.
Joseph W. de Alamo, a native OF
Spain, has taken out final naturaliza-
| ton papers in the district court at
Leavenworth, in order to apply for
| commission in the regular army.
A Leavenworth man was injured
the other day by the explosion of a
| can OF tomatoes 1t was the severest
casualty of that sort since a pie blew
up at the Wichita pure food show
A clergyman in Horton advertises
that he will sell his Bible for enough
money to get out of town. This. .
says the Horton Commercial, sis not
flattering reflection on our people
In Conway Springs the Methodists
| have erected a fine brick edifice and
the Conway Springs Star says they
propose from this time forth to call
it the Methodist Episcopal church.
Shawnee county woman who was
divorced twenty-five years ago is
trying to have the decree set aside.
In the prerogative of changing ones
mind there is no statute of limita-
| lions.
A H Linn, a farmer who lived
near Easton. was accidentally killed
| last week In attempting to put his
shotgun into a wagon it was discharg-
ed. The load entered the body near
| the heart.
BY allowing the gas street lamps
to burn all night and all day in Ne
odesha is saving $50 a month which
was the salary of the man hired to
light them in the evening and turn
| them out in the early morning
| jamestown is talking of forming a
| fire company in order to bring down
| insurance rates. Other towns have
been deluded into doing the same
| thing, and found the fire insurance
rates stayed exactly where they were
A prosperity item from the Brown
| County World: Charles Carothers
has sold his place near Abilene He
| left here nine years ago with little
| or nothing. Now he has stock and
| implements, s., 900 in the bank and
| has sold his farm for $4,000"
1t has been learned that Carrie Ma
ton took course in hypnotism from
a magnetic healer at Nevada, before
she began her saloon smashing career.
| There is a religion sect in this coun-
| try that teaches that hypnotism
| spiritiSm, ETC.. were originated by
Satan to bring the true religion into
4 disrepute- That explains it.
| 1T must be nice to be an evange-
| list" remarks the Atchison Globe.
HE goes into strange town under
| the most suspicious circumstances.
Everyone is glad to see him, the
| church members give him their best
| cooking, listen tearfu1ly to his scold-
| ing and beam at his praise. His old
| sermons are new to them. and If he
| lifts any sinners out of the mire he
| is gone from town and spared the
humility when they fall back again
| He is like a bright light in the church
| sky; gone too soon for the people to
| discover that it is only an ordinary
candle light, and perhaps not as