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

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Peanuts flourish in Dickinson coun
".
The Santa Fe pays $4,000 . yea,
taxes in Kansas.
The Minneapolis electric lights have
been turned off.
The Topeka pension Office uses $40.
600 envelopes year.
Jim Hollowell's son has position
in George r. Peck's law Office.
A prairie fire near Brookville, threat
ened that place and destroyed much
farm property.
Osbore county sends horses and
young men to Louisiana to grow up
with the country.
Most of the leather prepared at the
Lawrence tannery goes to the shoe
factory at Ottawa.
An Ottawa merchant confidently and
proudly announces that his store is the
'achme of completeness"
Mrs. Hannah Brink of Coffeyville,
fell dead while talking to her HUSBAND
Wednesday. She was 60 years of age.
Thad Platt, who formerly conducted
q swell ice cream factory in Topeka,
is now employed in Kansas City dry
goods store.
An animal without any cerebum has
has appeared in some Kansas towns
which scrapes up fallen leaves and
burns t hem on the street.
A Missourian who is visiting at
Sparta, Mcpherson county, is aston
ished at the crops. He said he never
saw SO much of everything.
It is said that the ella monster
which recently died in the K U. mu-
scum was unspeakably ugly. 1t was
not curiosity in Lawrence.
A boy in an emigrant wagon which
passed through Ottawa helped to pay
incidental expenses by exhibiting a
two-headed chicken for compensa-
ton.
The telegraph and the proofreaders
have put so many spells on the name
of the young student who pilfered at
Atchison that he may be able to prove
an alibi.
The Burlingame Enterprise is the
title of new venture. 1t begins with
. good local page, but it threatens to
he funny and says it has to fill a long
felt want.
The term of q. S. court at Leav en-
worth is measured by the patience of
the court officials with the hotels.
When they can't stand it any longer
the term ends.
It is thought that if the diphtheria
epidemic should continue in Ottawa all
winter the local papers will find out
before spring how to spell the name
of the disease.
There is some talk of erecting a NOR
ument to dead soldiers on Mt. Dread,
Lawrence, but it would appear is the
memorial is to be that high up the
soldiers might as well wait till they
get to heaven.
The third pair of twins has just come
to the family of John Oliver of Butler
county. Twins could save good deal
of domestic bitterness if they would
agree between them for one to say
mamma" first and the other papa"
Twenty cents bushel is the ruling
price for choice hand picked apples in
Mama county. Dealers who sell APP
Piles three for dime ought to get
their supplies in Mama county, and
possibly they could afford to give more
for the money.
/. The town of Kipp, which was named
after Chief Justice Martins mother-in
law, has taxed upa boom. The stucco
mill which had been shut down has
been started up; new elevator is
nearing completion, and dancing
master visits the town twice a week.
Sparks from Memphis engine set
the grass on fire just east of Cherokee
and while Mrs. Mary Baldwin was try
ing to extinguish the flames, her
clothing caught fire and she was SO
badly burned she died.
Leavenworth people are going to
give chrysanthemum show. That
dow er being distinguished for its big
head, the event will doubtless follow
the apple carnival.
A runaway team in Harvey county
drove the pole of the buggy through
horse ahead from rear to front, the an
NAL dying instantly. The young wo-
man who was riding the animal es-
capped unhurA
Thousands OF cattle are weekly
driven from mo Mans Land" and
shipped to Kansas City from Liberal.
Over 1000 head have been shipped
since the season opened, and the rush
has only begnn.
Prof. and Mrs. A. G. Garfield who
were married last spring at Lawrence