Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-17
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS


creasing it's tank capacity.
A midnight alarm at Salina refers
to a joint arid conducted by the mayor.
The Clyde Herald passed out of
existence last week-bought by the
Republican
Kansas ranks ninth on the roll of
states on the basis of the number of
rura. routes.
A clerk in the offices of the Santa Fe
Topeka, has been arrested for stealing
railroad passes
Mcpherson is planning to hold
big revival, having discovered an album
dance of raw maerial.
Salina has planned to take hold OF
her convention hall plans, and wind
the matter up this year.
Gas leases are being secured in the
vicinity of Coffeyville for the purpose
of piping gas to Wichita
Among the signs of spring, as chron-
icled by several Kansas papers, is
muslin underwear sale.
Parsons has started in to rid the
town of gamblers and drug stores that
| sell stimulants on the sly.
While lie lid is off Franklin county
has declared it ermissible-hcense or
| no hcense-to buck the tiger.
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are said to have secured the best crop
of natural ice they have cut in several
years.
A woman shopper was an object OF
some comment in Washington county
because she insisted upon being shown
"mesmerized silk"
By terms of Marshall Fields will
Fred Skiff, formerly of Lawrence, re-
ceives $4,000, which will help him to
keep above water.
! Wellington is to have a factory for
| the manufacturer of the automatic
harrow recently invented by Joseph
Crisler, a Kansan.
The commissioners of Ottawa county
want to sell the poor farm The county
has no paupers to support and no
| prospect for any.
Chanute is among the first places
to claim distinction on account of
storm condition that shut off the use
o fthe rural routes.
The Parsons police raided the
Eagles hall the other day, but no one
was caught but a dead man whose
body was lying in state.
| According to the Neodesha Registers
dramatic critic the hardest task is to
reconcile the average society play with
the usual stage furniture.
A tramp who objected to being
fired off train at Irving, few day
ago, shot off the b-akeman's thumb.
The tramp fired himself.
The school children will be asked
to contribute to the fund which will
be used to purchase markers for the
Santa Fe trail through Kansas.
Mcpherson county has farmer who
/ raises 100 acres of corn which he
never harvests at all. He just turns
the cattle and hogs in the field.
A thousand live young Kansas quail
have been shipped to Delaware and re-
leased on the game preserve of Frank
Thompson, a famous Philadelphia
hunter.
According to figures compiled by the
German department of the Kansas
state university, there are 2,S75 stu
dents of German in SO high schools of
the state.
Peck is modest town. It's name
doesn't appear in the big papers once
a month. Yet it is so large that it
takes two counties to hold it.-Sumner
and Segdwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Woodward. Gas
n City, received letter few days ago
from Herschell Woodward. their son,
whose body they thought they had
buried last July.
An OSUOIAS Hldn net d lSn-C6Al
piece and started it to circulating fiji
teen years ago, and it has come back
to him twice. Some men simply can't
keep their money.
II A young woman in Paola who spent
SIS least year for drugs for the pur-
pose of taking off freckles, counted
up the other day and finds she has
five more freckles than she had in
1905.
!, Abilene Reflector. Junction City,
whose census always is taken when
1000 soldiers are marching through
town, throws rocks at Abiline's $500
population. How jealous some towns
arei
/ "A newspaper" observed Ralph
Tennal, has a strange fascination for
2 men, A farmer from Texas appeared
in Atkinson once to buy a bull. A
newspaper was for sale and he took
the bull money and bought the paper.
| In naming the new theatre in Coffey-
vile LIE Gates has been chosen, with
a total of fifty-nine votes out of a
total of eighty. Other candidates were
Majestic Empire Olympic" Ly-
ceum,' Victoria Montrose,, ''Fas-
cination,'' 'Weismonth'' and Acme"
| Cherryvale reporters are puzzled as
to how to head the notice of the wedd-
ing of Miss Simmons and Mr.. Stuck If
. the headline reads '-Simmons-Stuck,''
it is reflection on Mr. Stuck and
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