The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-08-20
Lindsborg is about to have q tele-


phone system.
Marion county taxes are consider
ably lower this year.
Ottawa has established free bath
rooms in the city.
The stand pipe at Wellington is dry.
And there are others
You can ride your bicycle on thu
sidewalk if you go up to Seneca.
1t is claimed that Ed Little persists
in using fork when he eats pie.
A young patriot at Nortpnville has
named his kittens Mckinley and Ho
bart.
A blind man ran against an open
gate in Kansas City and broke three
ribs.
The Leavenworth county officers
shut up saloon and riot is immi-
nent
There is scandal in a Lawrence
church which has put an end to the Ii
to talk for a few days
A snake thirty feet long has been
seen near Fort Scott. Fort Scott Is
near the Missouri line.
A western Kansas exchange chron
icles the departure of Mr.. Buster. But
Mr.. Busted is still with us.
If Topeka wants a goddess of Beau.
ty for her fall festival we can suggest
some good Seventh district girl.
The only luxury that has come down
in Kansas is the upper berth-the
porter regularly attends to that.
Ex-senator Ingalls, will be one of
the curiosities at the jefferson county
fair, but he will not be in the fat stock
show.
John D. Hays, who formerly lived
at Atwood, leaving there to go to
Cripple Creek in the beginning of that
camp, died of pneumonia last week.
The Howard Courant editor is anx.
ious to know what q certain young
lady's complexion is like just after she
washes her face.
A young man at Caneyville was
calling on lady friend last Tuesday
evening when some one at the gate
called him by name and asked him to
step out a moment. Scarcely had he
left the door when he was seized,
gagged aud bound und left on the
sidewalk. He was found and released
by the young lady later on.
Trego county stocl1men have organ
lied stockmen' S associa ton. The Ob.
ject of this association is to protect It's
members from the wholesale stealing
of stock which has been going on in
that part of the country for some time,
by nabling them to hunt the thieves
down without being at SO much es.
pense individually.
During the lopulist convention at
Abilene last week, the Western Union
Office of that town sent 54.442 words
to outside newspapers On the first
day, Miss Cullen, the manager, di6
the work unaided, but after that she
had the assistance of w. F. Clendenen
and E. Hetrick. two expert opera tors
sent from Kansas City. The service
throughout was first class: no Office in
the state ever has given better on such
an occasion.
Louettc Jacobs, aged l., favorite
young lady of Lacrosse, fell into an
abandoned we'll on the prairie
last week and died before she could be
rescued. She was riding with party
in the night when a storm came up.
The horses went astray. and In trying
to get back to the road went astray,
and in trying to get back to the road
Miss Jacobs fell into the we'll. She
was killed by foul air, and John Miner
who was lowered to her assistance,
was rendered unconscious by it.
kickapoo township, Leavenwortk
county. has three damage suits in the
district court at Leavenworth, all on
account of one old bridge that had
been neglected by the road overseer.
Mrs. w. A. White is in the noun
tains for the summer. aud Bill is not
far from there much of the time.
The city authorities of Chapman
think they have the tramp problem
solved, at least to their own satisfac.
ton. When a hungry tramp comes
along, they give him a meal ticket.
When he presents the ticket to get his
meal, he discovers that he must per-
form two hours labor before he can
eat. The authorities are never called
upon the second time by the same
tramp.
An experienced farmer expresses the
| opinion that farmers will soon take to