The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-12-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS l.EMS OF INTEREST.
The Santa Fe railroad is by far tn
largest taxpayer in Kansas
A Pratt county man has been ap
pointed assistant state auditor.
Oak Mills township in Atchison coun
ty cast all of its 7e votes for Bryan.
Fort Scott man claims to be abb
to make railroad ties and posts out o
clay.
Judge Randolph of Emporia ha!
married Emma. an official court steno
graphe-:
Not one-half Of the clerks in thu
state house will return to the countie:
from which they came.
Governor Riddle will prepare bio
graphy of George 7. Anthony for the
State Historical Society.
More Mandolins, guitars and banjos
are sold in Lowrence than in any other
three cities in the state.
..Will this new constitution they arc
talking about. asked a man yesterday,
''provide for more rain"
The program of the Kansas lay
clubs banquet is out and promises to
be fine entertainment.
m. U..o..o yVo.l1 So ~ tho onin
ion that Maceo will accomplish dead
what he failed in, living.
The billiard hall at Cottonwood Falls
is "parlor" and not 'saloon" SO the
gentleman IN charge maintains.
1t is said that Cy Leland and Senator
Baker are agreed hard on Ike Lambert
for United States district attorney.
The ''husking bee" to be given by
the people of parsons will be great
success If enough red ears are pro-
yided.
The Canton Champion thinks that a
street car line would pay between Can
ton and Lehigh. There are joints in
Lehigh.
The New York Sun says the author
Of "The Real Issue" is entitled to
high place among American short
story writer's.
The Leavenworth people are kicking
on the kind Of books in the public IL
brary. Eeght hundred and seventy
out Of SIS are novels.
Kansas always has to be in it. 1t is
now offered in evidence by the Atchi-
son Globe that Salvini caught his fatal
cough in a Kansas opera house.
Attorney General Dawes thinks that
Tiger Bills fight for the enforcement
of the prohibitory law has never been
e9ualcd. He says so in his report.
Complicated maxim in the Atchison
Champion: Faith is cable which
never breaks, but sometimes its strong
est link is at the bottom of the WE'LL
Eastern Kansas papers which are
trying to consolidate western Kansas
counties will kindly look up the re-
cords and see if their own city scrip is
a: par.
Frank Greer infers from close read
ing of Grover Cleveland's message
wherein it deals with public land that
he will veto the free homes bill should
it reach him.
A prominent Kansas editor says that
a woman's influence is all right but he
has seen many man slaughtered for
the reason that he was the "woman's
candidate.
John G. Otis is showing signs of re.
vivi6cation. His name appears with
two or three hundred others in the re-
ception committee which will welcome
Governor Leedy to Topeka
The Lawrence Journal offers a good
bargain: If those towns that are pay
ing out q lot of money to have pros
pect hole sunk will come to Lawrence
they can buy one about a thousand
feet deep ut greatly reduced prices,
with terms to suit purchaser.
A Kansas newspaper throws into
Massachusetts, teeth that Kansas
doesn't burn witches But when Sa-
lem was booming along that line tie
residents of Kansas were known to
take pioneers and burn them at the
stake or make them run the gauntlet
This is one Of Frank Montgomery
stories: The first territorial legisla-
ture Of Kansas assembled 1T Shawnee.
July Is, 1855. One of the members of
the council was David Lykins, of Mia
ma county, who had been a resident of
the territory for twelve years as q
teacher in one of the Indian schools.
Opposite each members name on the
roll was some sentiment which he had
uttered, and that opposite Lykin's