The Globe-republican., 1895-12-12

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]. w. Elder of Kiowa county draws
pension of $50 month.
The Santa Fe's gross receipts a,
Leavenworth are So, 900 a month.
Shawnee county is shy thirty-three
citizens who are doing time in the pen
itentiary.
Fred Skifrs Job in Chicago pays
$1,000 year. Again the luck OF
Kansas man.
One thousand head of cattle took the
train at Liberal, Monday for trip to
Kansas City.
Six thousand rabbits were killed in
one hunt in Kiowa county. Affidavits
from the rabbits furnished if required.
The Civic federation has taken an
other grip on Chicago, which means a
continuance of Ralph Easley in his
Job.
The meanest man in Topeka has
been found. He recently gave a big
party and set apart a smoking room,
but provided no cigars.
| a war is in progress between two
rival lunch houses in Atchison, and
one of them has introduced the novel
| ty of bargain counter.
w. H. A. Freeman of Harper county
has turned his Sunday school class
over to a substitute and will spend the
| winter at the Soldiers home.
George Peck escaped the Kansas in.
vasion at Chicago last week. Nettles
had him hidden some place, and gave
out the report that he was in New
York
The Santa Fe will have to put Oh
| another sleeper on No. or permit
passes on No. g. Under the exist
ing order trains are too crowded for
comfort.
Although George Peck is making
more money than ever before, it is
said that he don't like his new job so
we'll as the old. 1t lacks the bluff,
hearty Kansas way.
The Rev. Father Hayden of Solomon
recently protested to the authorities
that there was too much drunkenness
in town, especially ON Sunday. The
next day the buns were cleaned out.
Il barefooted tramp passed through
Fulton one day last week. Assistance
was offered, but he refused it, saying
that he could steal what he wanted.
A Kansas man is nothing if not proud.
Father Leak, a venerable Methodist
preacher, is fatally i'll at the old town
of Doniphan in Doniphan county,
where he has lived for many years.
His son is one of the famous preachers
of Chicago.
The Atchison Schlatter says he is
nothing more than an ordinary plug
man and that he lays no claim to heal
ing powers But a Schlatter has bro
ken out at Huron, in the same county,
and the boom goes right ON without a
slip or a break.
"Father Miner" observed former
Kansas man, in conversation with
visiting friend in Chicago last week,
has asked me to come over to the
Armour Mission Sunday school and
teach a class, and 1 believe Ill quit
swearing and do it.
A holster house, which in the mines
means a covering which stands over a
piece of machinery, was blown up by
an explosion of giant powder at Gale
ma last week. The Telegraph used
cap II in holster, and thus the plate
papers got story headed "a Galena
Hotel Burned"
The Rock Island railroad company
is just completing the largest dam in
northwest Kansas across a branch OF
the Solomon river at Phillipsburg. 1t
will be 300 feet long, IS feet at tho
bottom and 30 feet wide at the top, of
solid masonry, and impound about JOG
acres of water. The supply will be
used for the engines of the road and
for power for mills.
S. H. Hill member of the legislature
from Leavenworth says their saloons
are of no benefit to the town as the
revenue not only fails to support the
city government, but the saloons add
fully as much expense to the city and
county as the city derives in its license
and fines. Mr.. Hill says he looks on
all efforts to enforce the prohibitory
law in Missouri river towns as useless
A story is told that once when Rein
hart was president of the Santa Fe
rich countryman, who owned bonds of
one of the branch sand hill lines.
called on him in his New York Office to
make some inquiry abont his holding.
Reinhart had the report on that branch
at hand ard he was able to talk glibly.
After the man had departed, Reinhart
turned to his clerk, saying: where
the hell is that road? 1 never heard
of it before"
When the Bos ton men started the
Santa Fee west from Harvey county.
there was not q white man, outside
the military posts, between that coun-
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