The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-09-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Lacrosse girls have hip pockets 1
their boomers for pistols but fe
curling irons.
The next "spirited" affair at Atcf
ison Is promised when the corn earn
val gets ripe.
Ed Howe says woman will neve
get used to boomers, because sh
can't put them on over her head.
An old maid in Hiawatha says Their
Will be no marriages in heaven be
cause there'n be SO few men there.
Kansas City has Century club. I
Is safe to say not single one Of then
have lived in Kansas City century.
The girls up at Holton have to hav,
their photographs taken the long wa,
OF the card, on account of their biz
sleevea
The latest fad in Dickinson county
IL the watermelon dance" Probably
the owner of the patch gets after then
with gun.
Dell Valentine says the young man
who Is hoping to make his living with
his lead pencil should learn to use the
eraser at the other end freely.
Tuesdays Kansas City Times con.
tanned most excellent picture of Mrs.
Emma B. Dalton of Cowley county.
Mrs. Dalton is president of the Ladies
of the G. A. r.
Dickson county will certainly have
boom right away. A farmer living
In that county, named Eugene Stauf-
fer, has inherited 81 ,OOO, 900 from an
aunt in Pennsylvania.
If Prof. Snow will work up some
infection for the chigger which will
mash, we will use our influence with
the legislature to get an appropriation
through to reimburse him.
An Atchison bride got up the morn
Ing after she was married, and went to
making tomato catsup. Think of stir
ring up such peppery stuff with the
taste of honeymoon in your mouth.
Prospectors have struck oil at To-
ronto, in Greenwood county. The
well is down !, 300 feet and a two-inch
stream Of crude petroleum flows from
It. The oil was first struck at q dis
tance of 500 feet
The Merriam Investment company of
Kansas City, has fled its charter with
the secretary of state. Its capital
stock is placed at SIC, 900, and tho d.
rectors named in the charter are VIM.
Merriam, B. B. Merriam and F. D. Hutch
inga
The old Drake block in Chetopa,
was consumed by fire Friday night.
Eighty tons of hay, owned by J. F.
Shields, which was consumed, was
covered by insurance. Cogeins' loss on
buildings was total as he carried no
insurance. The aggregate loss is
sec, 1000.
"Youd better lock me up; I've shot
my stepfather," said 16-year-old Archie
Porter at midnight Saturday night as
he walked the police station at Topeka.
Inquiry developed the story that the
boys mother and his step-father, Hen
~ Porter, were quarreling. Porter
began to beat his wife, when her son
seized a revolver and fred three shots
1T his stepfather. Only one shot took
effect. but it killed him.
The cattiemen won big victory in
Topeka Saturday. The inspection fee
Of two cents per head levied by state
live stock sanitary board will be abol-
ished and the inspector discharged.
Governor Morrill, announced Saturday,
coupled with the statement that there
could be no actual inspection of cattle
passing through Kansas north of the
Quarantine line The work was use
less and the fee unnecessary.
Foundry B, of the Great Western
Stove works, Leavenworth, has re-
sumed work, after being closed for
three months. Foundry B is on the
east side of the works and gives en-
ployment to about 100 persons. The
employees of the company are natural
~ feeling jubila-t over the prospects
Of q long steady run. It is not proba-
BILE the foundry will close down again
for any length of time before next
summer.
Miss Mana Medil of Leavenworth,
commenced suit Thursday to break
the will of her father, James Medin,
who died last July leaving an estate
Of $500, 000 The will was probated at
the time by Sherman Medill, q son,
who was made executor. Miss Medin
claims that her father was unduly in
Auenced in making the win, which
Disseminated against her, and she
asks for one-third of the property.
Among the convicts released from
the Kansas state penitentiarv last
week were two mules named St. John
and Click. They commenced service
In that institution during the terms of
their godfathers n chief magistrates