The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-04-30

Leonard Stout, the pioneer of Min
nescah township, Cowley county.
dropped dead the other day.
The commissioners of Shawnee
county are roaring because the coro-
ner wastes" too much money on In
quests.
| Little Miss Thirsk of Cowley county,
tickled the hind leg of an old family
horse the other day. He kicked and
| broke her skull.
A man on the streets of Abilene was
defending free silver with frenzy the
other day when suddenly he stopped
stopped and picked up a gold twenty
dollar gold piece.
Elk county assessors require every
property owner to hold up his hand
and swear to the statement he makes
in regard to his taxable property.
ANY falsifier will be prosecuted.
Rockefeller is said to be in Kansas
looking after his coal interests. A re-
| porter asked him: what about poll
tics?' And he replied: Damn poll
tics!'
| Chancellor Snow of the State Uni
versity has bought = wheel and il
learning to ride it. The snow fall IL
Douglass county is expected TO be
quite heavy for the next few weeks.
1t is said that the towns in Kansa'
which have the most theatrical per
formences are as rule the most pros
porous. Theaters bring in money IRON
surrounding points.
John Waller wrote the same letter
to 3,457 newspapers in the Cnitec
States, thanking each paper particr'
larly for its words in his behalf. That
is Kansas mans way of doing bust
ness.
The coroner of Jewell county vii!
investigate the cause of the death o.
lake Dodd. whose body was received
in bruised and battered condition
from the Topeka asylum by his friends
at Salem recently.
Lawrence man asked an acqualn'
lance to ..break" pair of new shoes
for him. and he consented, put on the
shoes and walked away. When the
Lawrence man met him again, three
months later, he wanted to sell his
shoes to the acquaintance, whereupon
the fellow offered him fifty cents fol
them. provided he would have new
soles put on them.
The nasty looking black worms that
last year destroyed SO many fruit
trees in the county, have appeared
again this wear at AtchisOn. and are
more numerous than ever, and are
stripping the trees of foliage as fast
as i appears. The worm hangs by a
web and when tree is shaken they
drop in clouds. dangling in the air till
all is quiet when they crawl back tt
their perch.
Herman Mitsch of Woodbine is test
ing the efficiency of sub-irrigation by
thing. Finding his young orchard
about to perish he purchased $50 worth
of three inch tile, planted them two
feet under ground in rows invent!
feet apart, between rows OF trees
The pipes are filled with water liftet
100 feet and from the same well thar
waters his stock. The effect upon the
trees was visible in less than ten days
He is delighted with the result OF M
experiment. has saved his young or
chard and. if the work had been done
a few months carlies, would have
been double the value.
The badly decomposcd remains o
Ben Adams were found in the Mis-
souri River south of Atchison Tuesday
by two fisherman. Adams was ;
Young man. and night clerk at tn
Bvram Hotel in Atchison. On the 12tl
of las January he disappeared. and
was thought he had run away. Later
however. the boat in which he wen
hunting was found upside down. will
his gun securely fastenee in one OF tn
compartments. Afterward his Goa
was found in some driftwOOd. when j
was surmised that his boat had cap
sized and that he had been drowned
A reward was offered for the recover!
, of his body. The Coroner and jur.
viewed the remains Monday evening
after which they were sent to Atchi
son for burial.
Speaking o: the Albert Bigelov
Paine divorce case Ollie Royce says il
the Pittsburg Dispatch: 1T was tn
wife's mistake to fold ner hands: sh
should have kept up with her HUSBAND
in intellectual growth. Rats! TIL
wife of Albert Bigelow Paine was in
tcllcctaal enough to copy all the stu.
:. he gave to the publishers. Her father
who was a man of means. furnishes
the money to set Paine up in bushes
and helped him to such success as h