The Globe-republican., 1895-09-05

Mrs Diggs is to speak in Topeka on
Labor Day.
Atchison is going into the o'clock
curfew, copper-get-the-boy business.
Ben Harrod of Cowley county has
been appointed guard at the state
penitentiary.
Secretary of State Edwards coyotes
are bowling at the Baxter Springs re-
union this week.
Morton county had more rain dur
ing July than any other county in the
state-21.31 inches.
A Westmoreland man will try ship
ment OF twenty horses to the Scotland
market as an experiment.
Ed Howe says this kind of weather
he would like to be an insect so small
there wouldn't be enough of him tc
sweat.
Mrs. Lease, it is said, has made the
horrible discovery that she can not
leave foot prints in the sand of time
if she rides bicycle
"a Black Sheep" is the name of a
play to be given in Atchison and one
might suspect from the title that it
was all home talent.
Base ball enthusiasm runs so high at
Manhattan that one of the fans was
willing to contribute two cents at the
gate to see the game.
The board of managers of the Hutch
inson reformatory want $50 car loads
OF stone. There is pointer for Cow
ley county contractors.
The only drawback to a large corn
crop in Kansas is that the rain neces-
sary to make it raises corresponding
ly large crop of mosquitoes.
Atchison rushes forward frantically
with the claim that Rowe the Embez-
zler formerly lived in that city, before
any other Kansas town gets cinch.
The Globe advises as proper course
of conduct at Atchison's corn carnival
to she sober and act drunk" The
Globe wants to spoil Atchison peoples
fun.
Judge Violet, the Oklahoma states
man has returned from Honduras and
is trying to make the boys believe that
it is not as hot down there as it is up
here.
The marshal at Coffeyville made IA
bullseyes out of Is shots at the shoot
ing gallery there. Civil service like
this is apt to cause stagnation in the
outlaw industry.
Cowley county had a midnight bu-
rial this week which cast such wierd,
"scarey" feeling upon the young men
that they have taken to saying good
night at 10 o'clock.
State Oil Inspector NJ. c. Kelly Thurs
day fled a report with Governor of the
operations in his department for the
months of March, April, May, June
and July, but the report is not salts
factory to either the Governor or
State Auditor Cole who has refused to
file it. The law requires the oil in
spector to make an annual report but
Governor Morrill, has determined to
have report once month.
There is great howl made at Atch-
ison because boys go swimming in
ponds around town. The boys are sa-
fer in the ponds than they would be
in the river, and the women who are
shocked by the boys appearance should
look the other way, instead of sending
for a policeman. For our part we ad-
mire swimming boy much better
than one who takes to crOcheting.
In the case of Police Officer Gaines,
of Topeka, who killed man he was
trying to arrest, the coroner's jury
Thursday brought in a verdict that
"said Albert Kruger came to his death
by pistol shot fired by Officer Gaines
while in the discharge of his duty as
policeman, and while we cannot justi-
fy Officer Gaines for the act, the fact
that he was assaulted is an extenua-
ting circumstances in his favor" The
coroner says he is not justified in caus-
ing a warrant to be issued for Gaines
arrest.
State Treasurer Atherton is proceed
ing to collect the money due the school
funds of the state from various coun-
ties. The whole delinquency amounts
to Sl73, 424.19 in defaulted bonds, s142,
600 of which are the Scott county bonds
by the late investigation;
500. 931.3 81 interest due on the bonds
and 1854. 54s.7s in unpaid taxes by va
rious counties-S551, 927.2s all told.
Treasurer Anterior has certified these
items to Attorney General Dawes
with the request that they be col
lected.
Mosley brothers who live or Silver
creek, in Cowley county, have novel
and economical system of irrigation