The Globe-republican., 1895-10-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is 81, 250, 900 in cash in the
state treasury.
The Million clubs train will leave
Topeka October 21st.
The State Journal tells of beet
faisad near Oakland that weighs twen-
ty-five pounds.
The Santa Fe will shorten time also
On the Southern Kansas division.
About two hours will be saved.
Sol Miller recalls the fact that a JUS
Ece OF the supreme court is not re-
quired by the constitution to know
anything of law.
Missouri is boasting of gourd six
feet long. People in Kansas havn't
time to fool with gourds, or they would
grow them ten feet long.
The Leavenworth men who appro-
priated the abandoned Kansas Central
narrow gauge cars for chicken coops
have been indicted by the grand jury.
Tbs city council at Lawrence re-
commends that the citizens of that town
discontinue the ''delectable habit" of
kissing, until the diptheria scare is
over.
Following the recent corn festival,
Atchison began to get ready for Christ
mas. Atchison has been ready for
Thanksgiving ever since the Fourth Of
July.
w. D. Halfhill, former attorney of
Cowley county, but now serving time
in the Kansas penitentiary, peels po-
tatoes on week days and sings in the
choir on Sunday.
An Atchison couple. who were mar
ried a year ago, have had their names
In the papers of two cities every day
since. The Atchlson idea of being in
social swim is to advertise.
Whist will be the entertainment in
Atchison this winter, and the dancers
are disconsolate. From genufection
to thought is a wide advance, but Atch-
ison is equal to great things when it
takes a notion.
The supreme court says C. w. Oliver,
who removed the bolts and fish plates
from the Santa Fe railroad in Harvey
county during the A. r. U. strike,
must be punished. He was sentenced
to the state prison for four years.
The output of the Galena mines
last week was S35, O65 and of Joplin,
NO., $16,O52, q little less than half
Galena's output Yet, Joplin claims
to be the richest lead and zinc mining
town in the world. She does It by
stealing the credit from Kansas
town which is three miles from the
line.
Topeka at last has ordered . new
bridge over the Kaw, but it does not
follow necessarily that it will be built.
Atchison ordered new court house in
1887, and not a step has yet been ia
ken to build it. The grave yard will
gain many new inhabitants before
either enterprise will be put under
way.
MARY A. Baldwin, &c years old, who
settle in Lawrence in 1855, died in
Denver September 90, leaving ten
grown children, all of whom attended
her funeral. Her husband was a gun
ner in the First Kansas battery and
was killed at Elm Springs. Ark. He
r.n ferry at Lawrence hefor.. Bah
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The Troy Chief spoke of Jug Nc
Chesney last week, whereupon the
Minneapolis Messenger asks, "Who is
Jug McChesney?" The question takes
the Chiefs breath away, McChesney is
SO well known. McChesney has still
another title given by the Big Four,
who used to get up the Atchison Cham
pion in its better days. 1t is Sir Ches-
ney McPot.
The coming boss of the woman move
ment in Kansas is Grace Snyder OF
Beloit. She is woman of ideas and
knows how to express them. She
reasons like a lawyer and could put
the average woman agitator to sleeI
in joint debate. The only trouble is
that she is so much smarter than the
other women that they all would hate
her if she should crowd to the front.
II A. Tice, division trainmaster OF
the Santa Fe at Topeka, was once {;
struggling young lawyer in Dakota
He was a friend of C. B. Peck, brothe
of the Santa Fe solicitor, who owned
large ranch in Dakota. When frozel
out up North Mr.. Tice came to Kansa
and struck General Solicitor Peck TO
job. He got a clerical position an
has worked himself up to his presen
position. He is favorite with tn
boys under his supervision.
The remains of Frank Mettriclk, fc
many years a resident of Kickapoo 1:
land, north of Leavenworth, wer
found in a lot of driftwood this morr
ing. He is supposed to have bee
drowned in the river Saturday, Will
returning from from Weston, NJ,
There is degree of mystery, howeve
surrounding his death, and the cor,