The Globe-republican., 1895-09-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Senator PETER has bought control
ing interest in the Topeka Advocate.
Atchison people will burn coal
mined at home this winter
There is locality out in Graham
county known as Sodom and Gomor-
ali,
A Mitchell county farmer marketed
over one thousand bushels of peaches
this year, all of his own raising.
The Presbyterian synod of Kansas
will meet at Parsons, October 3, and
continue in session till the following
Tuesday.
Capt. Samuel Burke, at one time a
popular business man of Leavenworth
was buried in the Potter's field there
this week.
The SAINT Fe's August earnings at
Abilene station were $500 greater than
the earnings of the corresponding
month last year.
The new organ in Lindsborg college
orig inally was priced by the man
ufacturers at s., 900, but the trustees
''dickered" until they bought it for
5000.
Jim Hamilton. who was once state
trea surer and the SWEETEST dresser in
Topeka, now owns a big ranch in
Kingmap county and looks like a
cowboy.
The Topeka Press is Waiting to the
front as a mighty sprightly newspa-
per. The trio of young men who are
running it are proving themselves
equal to the task.
Abilene has a sweet little school
teacher by the name of Emma Vine
gar. She may be sweet, but no one
can pronounce her name without hav-
ing a sour taste in their mouth.
Clay Allen, young electrician,
earned enough in thirty days putting
in the electric fixtures of the refor-
matory in Reno county, to pay the ex-
penses of years schooling at Chicago.
Cowley county has thirty-eight pris-
oners in the penitentiary at Ian sing.
Only one county, that Of Wyandotte,
out numbers her, being represented in
that institution by eighty-three of
her citizens.
David Overmyer's fee as master in
the Black Bob cases was $4,000. He
was in the case less than a year, but
the court took into consideration that
he wound up q controversy that had
been on the docket a generation or
more.
A place in Chanute, advertises ''Cher-
nv Bounce" for sale. In the bright
lexicon of our past youth, ''Cherry
Bounce" was the name of seductive
beverage that looked good and tasted
better, and had more DRINKS concealed
about it than any other beverage
known to man.
William Morehead of Troy, has been
living in Honolulu several years and
for time drove a royal coach. He
knows Queen Lii and has waited on
her many times. Of course he knows
Cy Leland, so his crowned head ac-
quaintances were not all gone when
the queen lost her throne.
Chancellor Snow will not be present
at the opening of the State University
as he is in Europe. The opening adj
dress by J. w. Gleed has been post
poned until October, because he is in
Europe, and Prof. Dunlap's classes
have been taken by a substitute, be-
cause he is in Europe. In the face of
State Accountant Challinor's charges,
this looks bad.
Lew Thomas, the Eskridge man who
assaulted the imbecile daughter of D..
E. McElfresh, Monday night, is safe
in Jail at Lynn, where he was taken at
/ o'clock Tuesday morning, after an
unsuccessful attempt was made to
lynch him. The feeling is now more
quiet and it is not believed that anOth-
er attempt at lynching will be made.
A bashful fellow who lives at Nor
rill called on his best girl the other
evening and they both sat on the sofa
at opposite ends. After a silence OF
considera ble duration evidently spent
by both in hard thought, she mustered
up enough courage to ask him what
he was thinking about. He, hoping to
please her, replied, II was thinking OF
the same thing you were" She, turn.
ing around, replied, "Il slap your
mouth if you try it."
The following charters have been
fled with the secretary of state; The
Kansas Million club with headquar'
tiers at Leavenworth, capital stock
500, 900 organized to bring one million
settlers to the state. The director.
named in the charter are E. n. Morrill,
Hlawatha; E. Jameson. Leavenworth
F. N. Perkins, Lawrence: j. L. Dur
ham, Topeka; A. S. Denison, COlum
bus; w. w. Watson, Salina; James A
Shaw, Plainville; j. U. Brown, Trib
une and A. c. johnson, Sterling. TIL,
Blue Valley Manufacturing compan.
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