The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-10-31

| Straton, the great Victor, Col. min
ing king, was a resident of Oberlin in
1886.
In an orchard in Mcpherson county
there are seven cherry trees in full
| bloom.
| If Corbett really wants to fight he
should address Tug Wilson of Cowley
county.
There may be poor men in Kansas
but there is no excuse for poor horses
| or cattle.
Leavenworth'sa apple carnival will be
incomplete without Cy Leland and his
apple jack.
Baker university has shut off foot
ball and is instructing the students in
military tactics.
A carload of apples which was sent
from Ottawa to Philadelphia didn't
bring enough to pay the freight.
The success of dog at the Goodland
coursing meet may be said to depend
on ''knowing more than rabbit"
Some people have gone so as to
charge the frequency of violent deaths
in Pittsburg to the large kilns there.
Osborn is as proud of her new water
works plant as a boy with a new top
and it only cost her $1,000. Cheap
enough.
Topeka papers travel to Kansas City
by fast freight, arriving at destination
twenty-four to thirty-six hours after
publication.
An "informal wedding" at Fort
Scott is when the pair drive to the pro-
bate judges office and have the hack
man for a witness.
Old soldiers within radius of 200
miles of the soldiers home at Leaven-
worth, will hold a big reunion at the
home November End.
Commissioner Saxon of Pottawato-
mic county has just returned from
Scotland, where he sold consignment
of horses at good prices.
The NJ. K. & T railroad people should
feel thankful that their conductor who
disappeared at Kansas City recently
didn't take his train with him.
AS the Investigations of the Fort
Scott bank failure continue the won
der increases that Cashier Colean did
not take the vault aud fixtures.
Another tradition is shattered. An
Abilene young man put some wedding
cake under his pillow and dreamed of
a girl he has hated all his life.
In Burlington a man who goes to
see girl two nights in succession and
follows it up by taking her to the
theater is regarded as her promised
husband.
If the professor who is to lecture on
soils at Lawrence will subject some of
the foot ball players sweaters to an
alysis he will probably find as many
varieties as he needs for the purpose
of illustration.
A. Garrett, of Derby, was somewhat
surprised last week when he was pre-
sented with a note for collection for
Sos for cigars bought in Denison, Tex.
AS Mr.. Garrett was never in the state
of Texas in his life, he has concluded
he does not owe for any cigars here.
Those poor fakirs will have to try
someone else.
The other day Lawrence deaf
mute was writing an ad. for the paper,
and coming to a word that stuck him
in spelling he proceeded to spell it out
on his fingers, and followed this with
his pencil and had no further trouble
in getting the word right. Lots of
people not deaf mutes have nimbler
fingers than minds.
A. c. Hutchison who was one of the
and best editors in western
Kansas one year ago, is now in Grip
pie Creek, Col, holding down gold
mine, and also looking after the edito-
rial interests of the Mirror. He visits
Kansas at regular intervals and will
eventually succumb to the charms of
Greedy county maiden.
The Cove City Gazette is making a
fight for the county high school propo-
sition, which will be voted on in that
county this fall. 1t figures it out
that after the Union Pacific, the big
lumber and land corporations and
the non-residents pay their share the
people will have to pay only eight
cents per capita to meet the annual
expense.
A novel idea has been put into ac-
ton by one of Sumner county's citi-
zens. He has herd of cattle which
he drives to pasture in the morning
and home at night. He also has BIZ
cycle. One night a reporters attention
was called to the fertile minded man
as he went down the road on his bike"
driving his heard of cattle. He could
dodge hither and thither and control
his herd with ease.
Cherokee county makes the best
showing of the log counties, and it in
G1icates that things are prosperous