Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-17
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Arthur Capper describes a grass
widow as a woman whose husband
plays golf.
Topeka has eight banks, in addition
to the one being liquidated by Receiv-
er Bradley.
A picturesque headline writer in
Topeka declares that White Blood is
being shed in China
The census shows that go, 900 for
mer Kentuckians live in Kansas,
mostly in the wet" counties.
William Howard, Burton, killed and
shipped $50 quail and was fined 500
and costs Pretty expensive sport
In Salina the good little boys are
trying not to appear pleased that a
school was destroyed there by fire.
A forger has been captured in EN-.
checks, but got good money" for
them.
The monster meetings which the
Prohibitionists are holding in Topeka
are what might be called demon-stra-
lions.
The story of Robinson Cruso was
made realistic to a Blue Mound girl
last week who married man named
Friday
A whiskey salesman was in Pratt a
few days ago and the Union explains
that he was sowing a fresh crop of
trouble
One of the largest gas wells in the
world has just been brought in at
Tyro. 1t tests % ,OO0, 900 cubic feet
in "a hours.
One of the righteous reasons why
a woman in Hutchinson wants di-
vorce is that her husband called him.
self her -'Hege."
Emperor William has been married
twenty-five years, but Fred Trigg
ventures the guess that there is a good
deal of fight in him yet.
Lawrence citizens hope that the
postoffice receipts this year will
reach $4,000. which will make the Of
flee one of the first class.
Not only has the old-fashfoned SPELL
ing bee returned to Rush county. but
the people are also driving miles to
attend ''cypering matches"
Don't look too far ahead" says
the Atchison Globe. You go to bed
to rest, not for the purpose of getting
up and going to work again.
The Odd Fellows home at Eureka
Lake, will be dedicated April &c, which
is the S7th anniversary of the intro
duction of Odd Fellowship into Amer
lea.
The Humboldt man who agreed to
give 500 toward a clubhouse at
Stewart lake if 499 other citizens
would do the same, seems to be en-
tirely safe.
E. w. Howe is being mellowed by
his trip around the world. He writes
| that he is an equal suffra gist to the
extent that women should be permit
ed to go to heaven.
The Sedgwick Paragraph contends
that the grounding has just about as
much to do with regulating the
weather as mere voter has with run
ming the government
The Pretty Prairie Record is a new
paper. 1t is a newsy sheet, but the
first part of the name is likely to
queer" it. That town must have
been named by the kindergarten class.
The Kansas State Agricultural col
lege will shortly begin experiments in
breeding bame birds About so birds
of the variety known as the Chinese
or Torquatus pheasant have been Sc
| cured to start with.
A dramatic note is going around to
| the effect that after playing one week
along the kerosene circuit in Kansas
| the manager of the Buster Brown
company sent draft for $2,4S4 to the
New York office.
II appears dispatches I1dC d.
though the identity of the Republic
Oil company and the Waters-Pierce
company has been fully revealed, the
Prairie Oil and Gas company has
been somewhat overlooked.
Martin Jabbers was able to control
his tongue sufficiently to get par
don this week. He was sentenced to
be hanged in Johnson county in 1873
for the murder of his son. He is the
oldest prisoner in the penitentiary.
Col. J. W. F. Hughes. adjutant gen.
eral of the Kansas National guard,
hopes there will be war with China,
provided he can go to the front as
colonel of a Kansas regiment. His
patriotism. however, is not likely to
lead him to go a private
William d. Matthews of Leaven-
worth. who is dangerously i'll, was
one of the first railroad men in Kan
sas. He was the general passenger
agent of the Underground" by which
many slave from Missouri was given
homeseeker rate to SAFETY.
Here's a story that has been going
the rounds: Viola Moore, an Indian
squaw, went into Charley Humans
restaurant at Holton recently, and
/, bought some doughnuts for lunch on
her way home Before she left town
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