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

Colored female footpads have bro-
ken out in Topeka.
Fifteen cars of broom corn were
shipped from Lindsborg last week.
Dollie Tucker has heen convicted OF
horse stealing in the Sumner county
district court.
G. n. Hunneweil, of Chautauqua
county, raised LOCO bushels OF onions
on six acres of ground.
The hum of the Irvine binder has
ceased in Kansas, and the roar OF the
pell-binder has begun.
Lyman C. Gilmore of Paola, who is
now the worst penman in the state,
used to teach a writing school But
that was before he became bank
president and practiced on new sig
nature.
Kansas, so the United States census
says, has school for every 1872 per-
sons, a Sunday school for every 42O,
only one criminal for every 1000, and
an increase in wealth during the de-
cade of forty per cent per capita.
Albert Ewing of Butler county, has
on exhibition a potato raised by his
father-in-law, o. S. Williams, which
weighs one pound and ten ounces.
There is no reason why that portion
of Kansas should not be one of the
best potato regions of the west.
Harry Lowe, a Santa Fe fireman,
was to have been married to Miss Eva
Mccormick at Sharon last week. At
the wedding hour note was discov-
cred from Miss Mccormick bidding the
crowd adieu and telling them that she
did not love Harry. Harry is to be
congratulated. Divorces cost money.
Sol Miller says never before during
his residence in Kansas, has
freeze occurred as early as Septem-
Der, and rarely has there been frost in
that month. About the middle of
October, 1862. we had regular biz
gard and a very hard freeze, killing
many apple and peach trees. The ap-
pies were frozen on the trees and pota-
toes in the ground.
The opening address of the state
university by j. w. Gleed, which was
postponed on account of the absence
of the speaker in Europe, was deliver
ed in university chapel Friday morn
ing. The speaker took for his sub
ject the advantages of liberal edu-
cation. This is the first instance in
the history of the institution of an
alumnus delivering the annual ad-
dress.
Ralph Brook of Oarnett, who receiv-
ed cadet appointment to Annapolis
has returned. He lacked just half
point in Algebra of making the re-
quired grade to be admitted to a ca
detship. He averaged three and a
fourth points, or within three-quarters
of the No. / mark in all the other
branches and was the highest of any
| that failed.
IA farmer living in Mcpherson county
says that the thousands of blackbirds
which gather in that section this fall,
are destructive to the cane crop. He
says that in one field the birds had
stripped nearly every head. If these
crops could be harvested and got out
of reach, the blackbirds would be COM
PEELED to live on insects and would
keep down the pests which become so
abundant in the fall.
! The "wheat feeding" report issued
by the Kansas state agricultural de-
partment has been adopted as text
book in four agricultural colleges, and
now the Massachusetts, agricultural
college desires to make the report of
Secretary Coburn on alfalfa its text
book on that subject. If there is any
thing else the rest of the world wants,
it has only to let Kansas understand
what it is, and the want will be
promptly supplied.
Alex. Allen, little 1s-year-old mu-
latto, was convicted of murder in the
United States court Monday. He killed
Philip Henson four miles south of
Coffeyville, Kan, May Is, 1895. Allen
was an orphen boy and was working
on a farm near where Henson lived.
Henson, Will and George Erne were
passing Aliens place when he came
out and renewed a quarrel, had with
the boys few days before. He claims
the boys were beating him with sticks
when he fired the fatal shot, but the
eye-witnesses contradict him. BE has
no friends save his attorney, Judge C.
]. Frederick. who was appointed by
the court to defend the little negro.
Although receiving not one cent OF
compensation, Judge Frederick has
made great fight for his client in
each of the three trials. He took both
of the former convictions to the SUI