The Globe-republican., 1896-02-06

A St. Louis company is putin & mon:
ey in the Kansas oil fields
The two Kansas land offices have
been ordered consolidated.
Ka nsas is the only state in the
Union that hadn't patent medicine
factory.
A movement is on foot in North To.
pela to send monster petition to
congress to pension all the ex-slaves
in the United States.
The Salvation army which once quit
LeavenwOrth as an impregnable strong
hold of sin. has sent another brigade
there and will try it again. Ensign
Williams of Kansas City is in com
mand.
A Concordia blood has the follow
ing Leap year hint for the girls: ''It's
mighty expensive counting where one
has to board the young lady and keep
her horse on hay and oats at the liv-
cry barn"
Society put the winters crop of
brides at Coffeyville on dress parade
last week. 1t was the swell function
OF tie season. and half the men are
broke from buying gowns and MILL
merry.
Judge W. 4. johnson of Garnett
served through the war in a Kansas
regiment. His father served in the
! war of 1912. and his grandfather and
| great-grandfather in the war of the
revolution.
Senator Lucien Baker will deliver
the address of welcome to the Kansas
Editorial association at Leavenworth
February Il. Baker has what is
called horse sense. and he knows that
the editor men are good people to
stand in with.
William Harvey Brown, who attend
ed the Kansas-university several years
ago. went direct from Lawrence to
South Africa and became mining di-
rector Brown stood up alone in
meeting gotten up by the English in
Johannesburg and made a speech car
rying the whole assemblage over to
the Beers.
Last year +. NJ. Whitlaw began ex-
periments in irrigation on his farm
east of Abilene, pumping water from
the Smoky Hill river and moistening
about fifty acres. The results were SO
satisfactory that he will this season
increase the area and pump water on
100 acres of bottom land.
Receiver C. w. Mitch of the State
bank of Fort Scott, which was wrecked
by the speculation of Cashier ]. r. Co.
lean, Saturday brought suit against
Colean for his shortage. The receiver
is convinced that Colean did not lose
all the money gambling, but that af-
ter losing beyond what he had hopes
of replacing he took the reserve fund.
The prisoners in the county Jail at
Fort Scott have asked to have some
minister or religious worker conduct
divine service at the Jail on Sundays.
There are fourteen in the Jail and
they promised Sheriff Wheeler to give
good attention to anyone who Will
conduct the service. The sheriff will
allow any of the ministers of the
city to comply with the prisoners, re-
quest.
Word has just been received at Abil-
enc of serious accident to VIM. Bar
tell. farmer living near the city.
While hunting with a party in a wagon
Bartell sat with loaded gun both
hammers open and his hand over the
muzzlc. A jar of the wagon discharg-
ed the gun mangling the right hand
SO i. was necessary to amputate it at
the wrist 1t also tore off the first
and second fingers of the left hand
and badly burning the right eye and
cutting the side of the face by scat
tered shot.
Lawyers and heirs are in row over
the estate of the late Edward i.
Grimes of Atchison. Grimes was. from
the outbreak of the war until his
death in 1890, a quartermaster in the
United States army. He obtained his
commission through Jim Lane, who
when the war came on, was king in
Kansas. Lane had promised Grimes
something else. an office of less profit,
but, with characteristic faithfulness,
he gave that place to the husband of
a woman whose favor he enjoyed.
Then Grimes made great row, and
was so cnraged that he frightened
Lane. The scene occurred in a room
of the old Massasoit house in Atchison.
A lamp was making dim and un-
certain light, and the quaint form of
Lane was stretched upon bed, Grimes
standing over him talking angrily, a
half dozen men looking on, wondering
at the latter's nerve. Rising half up,
mis- body supported by one elbow, and
gesticulating with the other arm said:
Grimes, you judfie Jim Lane wrongly.
Jim Lane never broke faith. Great
God! Never! know promised you
that place, but, my friend, you de-
serve better. Jim Lanes best friend
shall have the ODOOrtunitv of his life