The Globe-republican., 1895-10-17

| grain elevator.
A Lawrence citizen boasts of having
a violin made by Nichols Amati in
1923.
Now commences the season OF the
year when the tumble-weed begins its
annual pilgrimage over the Kansas
prairies-
w. II. Slavery, who was once county
attorney of Cloud county, has located
at Butte City, Montana. But he will
come back. They all do.
Lottie Bowes of Topeka, hand
some and very bright young girl,
has joined the Alabama company, un-
der the nyne of Charlotte Crane.
Thirteen divorce cases are set for
trial at the next term of the Doniphan
county district court. A great deal of
appleiac is drunk in Doniphan county.
Preparations are being made by the
business men of Beloit to hold Mitch
ell county corn carnival in Beloit
some time during the present month.
Adjoining counties will be invited to
participate.
The county attorney of Wyandotte
county has two wooden legs and gets
around with the assistance of two
crutches, and it is said he gets around
better than the ordinary man with
two good legs.
The Rev. S. Y. Lum, 70 years old,
who conducted the first religious SER
vices ever held in Lawrence, and who
organized the Congregational church
there, was killed by a train at Ruth
erford, n. S. last week.
There is man living in Chautauqua
county who, rather than work his road
tax, left the county and went over to
Baxter Springs, where he got his leg
broke in two places. He then return
ed home without fear of molestation
as he was no longer an able-bodied
man.
Harry Root, who knows Grace Sny-
der well, says of her: Grace Snyder
can tell the difference between a good
horse and poor one. In her Cawker
City items in the Beloit Gazette last
week there appeared not less than five
separate items about that animal.
The next thing we hear of she will be
betting on horse races.
The state fish commissioner has
placed twenty-eight croppie in the
Wakarus, not far from Topeka. He
expects the spawn to stock the stream.
Twelve years ago $4,000 croppie fry
were placed in the Walnut and that
stream now contains many thousand
of that species of fish. They inhabit
all the deep holes and far outnumber
the bass.
J. F. Goodale, of Gridley disappeared
in Kansas City about three weeks ago
and nothing has been heard of him
until Sheriff T. L. Reid located him at
Coffeyville, Saturday, where he was
roaming about the Missouri Pacific
yards, insane. He had S295 left of the
$500 which he started with. He is now
with his family at Gridley.
The ''wheat feeding report issued
by the Kansas state agricultural de-
partment has been adopted as a text
book in four agricultural colleges, and
now the Massachusetts, agricultural
college desires to make the report of
Secretary Coburn on alfalfa it's to-.
book on that subject. If there is any
thing else the rest G. the world wants,
it has ely to let Kansas understand
what it is, and the want will be
promptly supplied.
H.G. Steward, the lawyer who was
convicted at Seneca of embezzlement,
had a mania for holding Office. He be-
gan as city attorney of Sebetha, then
when he was close-pressed by the law
for his crime he fed. In Colorado he
became postmaster as Edward Dunbar
at the town of Dallas. Here he stole
again, and was sent to the peniten-
tiary. Then he drifted to Oklahoma
| where he was elected city attorney OF
| one of the new towns. His opponent
contested the election, which brought
out the Sebetha story, and his arrest
followed.
Lawrence World: ''Ha, this is my
kind of weather.. said Judge Norton
rubbing his hands as Whit of colo
morning air followed the entrance Of
the reporter. This is the weather fol-
squirrel hunting. There's nothin {
like it: if l had an old Kentucky rifle
would go up the Wakarusa to-day to
place know where they are thick
The only way to hunt squirrels is witt
old-fashioned long-barreled rifles lik'
we used to use on the Ohio in Maso1
and Bracket counties. 1 used to star
out in the morning with ten bullet
: and never come back with less thai
nine squirrels. We took a piece o
creased patching and rammed it dow
, with a bullet, and never brought bac
less than nine, you understand, an
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