The Globe-republican., 1896-04-23

DODGE CITY, KANsAA
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A large fierce wildcat has been
killed Gear Abilene.
C. A. Boyd of CORTLAND killed two
blue herons on the marsh near by last
week.
If boomers are an indication OF
fruit, Kansas can ship peaches to
Delaware.
Tho ladies of Wellington want the
curfew bell for the benefit of the mar
lied men.
One place in Dorthern Kansas never
expects to have the measler. It's
Haddam.
The manager of the Ellsworth thea
ter draws the color line at the re-
terved seats.
Colonel John C. Carpenter will deliv-
" the Memorial day address at ''99"
Wilson county,
A man at Preston recently actually
sued his wife for divorce on the
ground that she is poor cook.
There is sensational rape case in
the Pratt county district court. 1thas
already cost the people 1000.
The editor of the Belle PLANE News
spent last week building cyclone
cave. He thinks it is the most pala-
tial in the west.
Scarcely any -ba nks fail in western
Kansas any more, but in western Ne
braslka bank failures have been daily
occurrences for year.
Judge A. L. Greene, who has recent
~ been east, says that the people back
there are grumbling more about hard
times than the people of Kansas are.
A. L. Hare of the town of Horace
recently had a horseshoe over the
door of his store. He took it down
and is very sick. He has ordered it to
be placed back. The signboard men
are laughing at the doctor.
In Ford county one evening last
week, while bachelor was preparing
his supper, a spark from the stove set
part of Ford and Edwards county.
The bachelor has concluded to get
married to mollify the feelings of his
neighbors.
The diptheria scare is over, at Os-
borne, and the public schools again
open after being closed for ten days.
There were only two cases, one prov
ing fatal. The Osborne high school
has an attendance of over seventy.
There will be fourteen in the gradu-
lting class this year.
Prof. Blake took a Roentgen picture
Of Chancellor Shows foot Wednesday
night be, ore the Eastern Kansas Med
ical society. A five minute exposure
with current of u million volts re-
vealed the chancellor's foot through
his shoe, the bones showing clearly.
About 100 Kansas doctors were pres
emit.
Perry Williams, aged 10, a school
boy who boosted that he could out
Jump and out run any boy in Chautau-
qua county, jumped SO hard short
time ago that he died last week from
of internal injuries received.
The probate judge of Atchison held
MP the license of John Seaton's pros
pective son-in-law until he could run
down story that the young man had
passed the Atchison stores by and
bought his furniture in Kansas City.
But it was a false report and the Ii,
cense was issued.
Lord Scully owns $1,000 acres OF
land in Marion county. 1t is assessed
for taxation at valuation of 81 an
acre, but its market value is not less
than SIS an acre, or 81, CSC, 900 in all
Scully rents the land without improve
ments; the tenants must build houses
barns, fences, etc. He cxacts a cash
rent, and tenants must pay all taxes
allowing few acres free of rent t.
Offset such charges. This has the eff
feet of preventing bond issues to build
school houses, bridges or railroads
His rent charges average about So al
acre.
p. E. Simmons of Marysville, wht
served rs juror at Topeka on tn,
Hillmon case. believes that if the cour
had given the jury humane treatmen
and reasonable time that they woul,
have arrived at verdict and settle,
the case. He says that after hearin.
the case they were crowded into q dir
ty, uncomfortable room, and an effor
was made to compel them to jump at
verdict by not allowing them to slee]
until they had agreed. They wer,
kept without sleep for sixty-ive hour
in . room where the walls were s
grimy that he did not dare to toucl
them, and where the dirt on the foo
was SO deep that any attempts {
sweep or clean would choke the Jurors