The Globe-republican., 1896-02-20


Greenwood county.
! j. S. Emery is trying his irrigation
! lecture in Oklahoma.
| Rents have advanced in Moline on
account of a report that the Howard
branch is to be operated as a part of
: the Southern Kansas division.
Governor Riddle speaks of woman
''stooping down to tie her garter. =
What kind of garter is tied. or did
she .'stoop down to tie his gartcr?''
The faculty of Ottawa university has
expelled twenty-one young men who
! refused to say they were sorry because
they had been to e college banquet the
| night before.
Henry Booth. who once cut a wide
swath. has taken great fancy to inn
. migration. irrigation and other fads,
and is willing for the fellows who are
| on earth to run politics.
! A dramatic company is now in
j Southern Kansas displaying litho-
graphs of an impossible scene, where
in an impossible horse jumps in n most
impossible way over an impossible
chasm.
l.. c. Boyle OF Fort Scott was admit
ted into the cell to see" his client
Coiean. the bank wrecker. Just three
minutes" The iailor locked them in,
and forgetting them. kept them there
three hours.
Frank Smiths "Al!-Over-Linn-CO un-
/ ty'' page ranks right along with Joe
Bristow's country correspondence. but
for picturesque ideas and unique style
AIDE Reynolds corps of correspondence
distance all rivals.
Jerome Pitney. who lives on the Red
Vermillion river. a few miles from Wa
mega. has ranch of Q. 40 acres. upon
which he feeds 1000 cattle and 800
hogs. For grinding. he has twenty
! five horse power engine.
There have been in Southern Kan
lecturers who were never.hear d of be-
fore they came and will be never
heard of again unless they should re-
! turn. which is not at all likely.
George and Charles May, brothers.
engaged in a fight Sunday noon with
w. |. and William Burdett. father and
son. The Burdetts are dying. The
Mays are under arrest. The fight
To ,f 4 f..l,
ison.
Howard Cummings. son of Judge j.
Il. Cummings. department command.
er of the c. \. r.. of OlIlahOmS. COM
mitted suicide Monday at Fort Scott
by taking morphine. He was dar-
ing gambler. well known in Missouri,
Kansas and Texas
William +. Hedy. charged with the
killing of William \. Applegate, at
Morton last November. was found
guilty Friday OF murder in the second
degree. The men formerly quarreled
over Hedy's wife. The defendant
pleaded self-defense.
+. VI. Piper. an inmate of the Lcav-
enworth Soldiers Home was found dead
cifc railroad track. His face was
bloody and everything indicated that
he had been struck by the tram. Pr
per was out on a pass.
\ half breed Indian girl lives near
White Cloud. who has suitors by the
score She has s. 1000 in her own name
and also owns 100 acres OF land. 1t is
SAID that hardly a day passes that she
does not receive Il proposition of mar
riage. She has good deal of sense.
it is said and has refused all the for
tune hunters.
Willie Goshorn who has lately been
sent from Topeka to Ration. y. NJ,
set the example of doing his errands
on a wheel, thus getting over the
ground quickly and removing the
temptation to play marbles or foot
ball or to fight with other boys. He
employed his spare time at the instru-
ment. and now at only Is he has a fine
position, ard can send or receive .
message as well as anybody.
The Waterworlls company of Abil.
enc has received a new miliion-gallon
pump for use in pumping Sand Springs
water to Abilene 1t is from the
Worthington pump mandatory. New
York, and is a splendid piece of ma
chincry. 1t will be put in at Sand
Springs station in addition to the
pump used at present ard will thus
double the capacity of the plant. The
old pump has become somewhat Worn
and needs reinforcing.
A COwley county man by the name
of Reed. advises the tidy housewife
not to clean house or take down the
stoves until after February. He says
six years ago he put up the thickest
ice ever put mp i'll this country after
the fifteenth of February. The wealth
err had been mild. but turned bitterly
cold in February and the ice was over
ten inches thick. In addition to his
ice house being filed. ice was stacked
on the north side of the house in 4 pile
sixty feet long and about eighteen feet
wide \ temDOrarv shed was built