The Globe-republican., 1896-01-16
KANsAa

DODGE CITY. KANSAS
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
W. K. Loofbourrow has retired from
the st. Francis Eagle.
Thieves are so bad in Fort Scot
that they are carrying off bird dogs.
Galena and the surrounding mining
camps are to have an electric railway
A Kansas man, who is canvassine
for John Sherman's book, neutralize.
the gall in that publication by throw
ing in an illustrated copy of the New
Testament.
Five thousand persons at Fort Scot,
guessed on the length of time a big
candle would burn. Ten guessed eight
days and twelve hours, which turned
out to be right.
James Shaver will move back to
Chautauqua county after an unprofita-
bic stay in New Mexico.
Warden French has pasted notice
in the United States penitentiary at
Leavenworth, informing prison en-
ployes that intoxicants will not be
permitted about the prison
At the Soldiers Home at Leaven-
worth on New Years morning, there
was but one man IN the guard house,
whereas four years ago, there was
one hundred and twenty seven.
A man living near Abilene told a
had been dishonest as a tenant. Now,
the tenant has sued him in the dis
trict court for 1000 damages to his
character.
The Presbyterian women of Atchi-
Son have just paid the last of church
debt which was originally $4,000.
They made the money by sewing car
pet rags and giving fairs. That's what
women will do for their church. Men
only brag and create the debts.
An Atchison man, who writes very
learnedly on grand opera, confesses
that he would not lay himself open in
any other community. He says he
knows how to play the trombone mod
erately well but beyond that his mu-
steal knowledge is only smattering,
picked up for the purpose of working
society.
The brick of which the Congrega-
tional church at Atchison is construct
ed was brought from the East by
steamboat in the early days of Kan
sas, to be used in a house for Samuel
G. Pomeroy's first wife. Instead of
building home for herself, she gave
the material to the Congregational
society, and her husband gave the lot
The papers speak of old Bill vos-
burg, the leader of the green goods
men of New York. Bill Vosburg was
the name of the surveyor who laid off
most of the town of White Cloud, in
1857. He was half-brother of Joe
HampsOn. He went south before the
war and has not been heard of since
IL was thought that he persisted on a
steamboa that was burned on the
Lower Mississippi.
The Fort Scott Paper, which closed
down its mills New Years morning,
owing, as it was reported, TO a search
ty of raw material, is seemingly in
very embarrassed condition. When
the mill closed down a number of en-
ployees were thrown out of work, but
worse, they were not paid the back
wages due them. After careful con-
sideration sixteen of the men decided
to try and collect their money.
"A Topeka six year-old boy ran I'M
der the house to escape his mothers
wrath. When the father come home
the mother told her tale of woe, and
demanded that the boy be dragged
out and punished. Accordingly the
sire crawled beneath the house after
the young culprit. Recognizing his
father, who was painfully making his
way toward him, the boy cried out in
sympathetic tones: dad, did she
chase you under too?'
The proprietors of the Mulvanc
ranch, near Rossvillc, have a $4,000
damage suit on their hands. They
formerly had a tenant named De Bar
raws, who refused to give up the
house in which he lived. The Mcssrs
Mulvane sent some men to remove
him and his family and fight ensued
in which one of the men, Foreman
Ross, was killed by De Barrows. He
has been acquainted of murder and
now his wife sues for damages to COM
pensate her for several fractured and
broken ribs and many bruises received
on different parts of her body.
:On New Years day Manhattan cell
ebrated the fortieth anniversary of
the establishment in that city of the
Congregational church. Forty years
ago seems long time when taken as
. period of North Central Kansas his
tory. Among the contributors to-
wards the establishing of this church
the names of Stephen A. Douglass,