Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

mere are 5fZ OKlanOma prisoners
at Lansing.
Dresden business men have formed
commercial club to boom Western
Kansas.
There are twenty-five epfleptfc
children of school age in the Parsons
lnsanse asylum
Kansas has the record of the largest
combined crop of wheat and corn of
any state in the world.
A Swedish building patterned after
the architecture of Sweden has just
been erected at Lindsborg.
C. NJ Rankin of McLouth has con-
tributed to the cause of morality by
lnventing a stovepfpe connector.
Twenty-four men in a German set
Element north of Grinnell killed $50
jack rabbits in one day recently.
In Sterling the argument against a
curfew ordinance is that every family
should have curfew regulations of it's
OWN.
Elmda1e has brought in its third gas
we'll 1t is the strongest of the three
and will furnish the town with light
and fuel
Hudson has the largest herd of
home bred Aberdeen Angus cattle in
the world. The herd numbers 1926
pure breds.
Since the recent earthquake most
Of the wells at Skiddy have gone
dry. Prior to that time the wells al
ways stood half full.
Secretary Coburn says that every
one of the papers read at the annual
meeting of the Kansas board of agri-
culture was a classic.
A Kansas paper is commenting in
the projected wireless telegraph sta
ton at Wichita, speaks of harness
ing the Kansas Winds"
Bank deposits in Kansas average s75
for every man, woman and child in the
state, or more than twice the general
average of the United States.
Emporia has the largest Hereford
breeding establishment in the world
with 700 head of registered animals
and an annual crop of 500 calves.
Kansas claims the record of the
largest annual income for her farmers
of any state in the world or an aver
age So, 900 for each of her $50, 900 farm
ers.
The old Bowersock dam at Law
renee has been repaired and the mill
was operated by water power the ether
day for the first time since the flood
in 1908.
A suit to restrain Glen Elder from
extending its corporate limits has been
filed in the supreme court by a man
who does not fancy being citizen of
that town.
Emperor William II. of Germany
has invited Stephen Kesse. Wichita
man, to attend the 25th anniversary
of the kaiser's wedding, Feb. 81. lIoch
der Kaiseri
An unusual sight on the street at
Lyons was that of IA full wagon
loads of new corn chained together
one after the other and headed by
threshing engine.
1t is reported that Col w. A. Harris,
formerly United States senator from
Kansas, is negotiating for the pur-
chase of his Linwood farm, which he
sold few years ago.
Miss Sadie Oldson, Downs, who died
the other day, was buried in her we'd
ding gown in compliance with her
ante-mortem request. She was too
have been married soon.
The state forestry commissioner has
distributed about 100000 trees to
Western Kansas farmers during the
past year, which is a larger number
than has been distributed for some
years.
1t is now estimated that the SIS per
cent. dividend which the receiver Of
the First National bank of Topeka an
nounced as a Christmas present. to
the depositors will be available about
February 1.
w. S. Williamson, large grower of
potatoes of Lyon county says that con-
trary to the general idea, potatoes are
only half grown when the vine dies.
This is the time when many farmers
dig the tubers.
Coffeyvi1le is gaining experience.
Property owners there want the paw
ing assessment set aside. They want
the assessment set aside because the
brick and curbing were not up to
specifications.
A laborer on the Midland Valley rail-
road, near Arkansas City, a few days
ago sat on can of dynamite to warm
it, The dynamite exploded and mis-
fellow 1aborers gathered up the frag-
ments of the mans body.
The Sabetha Herald expresses the
belief that if mothers paid less atten-
ton to keeping their boys hands
clean and more to keeping their teeth
clean, a majority of men would have
a more peaceful old age.
The maddest man in Jewell City is
the one who has been paying his dog
tax for six years and has just dis
covered that he lives outside the city
limits But doesn't the dog do most
nf IT'S barking in the city ANYWAY?