The Globe-republican., 1896-07-09

Scott county has the best range in
the world.
The pitch game at Troy is said to be
harder than the poker game at Smith
Center.
Topeka is to have Fiesta of flow
ers," providing, of course, it does not
cost anything.
Fort Scott has . 1a-year-old preach
err It is not claimed, however, that
he can preach much.
+! A man wrote to Chancellor Snow
for some ''infested bugs" That man
knew what he wanted.
Cherokee street, Leavenworth, is to
be paved and the people in that end OF
town are getting proud.
The report to the Southwest Millers'
association puts the Kansas wheat
crop at so, OOO, 900 bushels.
A Lawrence loafer insulted woman
| on the street and she didn't do thing
but turn around and black his eye for
him.
The wicked road houses west of
Leavenworth have been closed, and
farmers are no longer afraid to go to
| town.
Lyon county has ninety-eight Sun
day schools in full blast with an at
tendance that outnumbers the public
schools
w. c. Lansdon, late editor Of the
Daily and Semi Weekly Monitor, was
elected principal of the Fort Scott
high school Monday.
Wilson county is being covered with
oil and gas wells. At the little town
of Benedict there is a very strong flow
of gas; in fact there are but few wells
that issue more gas.
The Kaw bottoms between Lawrence
and Kansas City have 1850 acres in
potatoes this year. The crop is excel
lent and the total yield will not be less
than 9, 500, 900 bushels.
Russell experienced heavy loss by
| fire Thursday afternoon. The store
| and general stock of James e. Smith
| and the First National bank building
and its furnishings are a complete
! loss.
There is no rest for the weary on
the alfalfa farms of Sheriden county.
1t grows SO fast that no sooner has
one crop been cut than the mower
must start on another. Sheridan will
have four crops this season.
Topeka tramps are so well dressed
that they quit work ON the rock pile
whenever visitors enter the bull pen
and, joining the procession, make the
round of the sights in the city jail and
! walk out to liberty, undecided by the
man on GUARD.
II. B. Ware, of Fort Scott, has pat
ented machinery for the prepare ton
of fax fiber from the straw for the
manufacture of thread and cloth. He
has interested Kansas City cap ital in
the scheme, and factory will be es-
tablished at that city.
A Kingman county woman fed re-
Gently into a cyclone cave. Presently
her husband joined her: SIS it COM
ing, John?" mo" he answered, there
is no cyclone: It was a mistake"
Goodness" exclaimed the woman,
''What fright must be. Is my hat
on straight?''
For 10 years Charley Goodlauder OF
Fort Scott has been paying on an en-
dowment policy of $500 Next year
he will settle and get 81, 900 in cash.
He formerly carried 100. 900 more, but
got into business difficulty few years
ago, and cashed this policy. and the
amount he received for it put him on
his feet.
Many big fish are ioundering about
in the overflow water that now almost
i covers the big sandbar opposite the
| city of Leavenworth. Numbers of
them are being either shot OR speared.
Sandy" Cord the other day shot
twenty-pound German carp. He also
set trammel net and caught several
hundred croppie of good size.
j. w. Rutherford of Sumner county.
is very enthusiastic on the subject of
alfalfa, cows, and creamery. 1t is
not all theory, either. He has had
three years experience with alfalfa
and has been one of the largest pa
irons of the creamery since last fall.
He has sold horses and wheat machin-
cry and invested the proceeds in cows.
A great many farmers say there is
more profit in feeding the milk to
calves than in selling it to the cream
cry, but Mr.. Rutherford says he has
| had Ano SucceSS with faod;n0 SL;r,