The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-10-29

"A southern AIuSdS HAL WIZ AoS
! spent his life time in street discussions
says there is only one way to impress
. crowd.
Dyche has the distinction of being
the only Kansas man at present at
tracing attention without running for
something.
The great council of the Improved
Order of Red Men of Kansas for G. S.
h., 4O5, convened at Chanute Tuesday
of this week.
The farmers of Harvey county are
buying the vacant houses in Newton
and removing them to their farm to
store wheat into.
The Atchison Globe, which keeps a
man on the lookout for freaks, says
that the more worthless man is the
more time he spends talking politics.
The Potwin council hopes to settle
its light question at the next meeting.
Potwin has been in darkness for nearly
six months, during the light agitation.
A new kind Of candy has appeared
on the local market which looks like a
mixture of taffy and other sugar can
dies mixed up together and broken
into irregular pieces.
Dick Roe, who used to charge around
in the state senate and get red in the
face, has bobbed up after disappear
ance of six years and is making speech
es in Chautauqua and Elk.
The rise of wheat is making every
one glad in Kansas. Kansas is always
willing to forget politics and think of
something else, If the politicians
would only give it chance.
Edward Wilder af Topeka. who is
given to writing articles on money for
newspapers, refuses to listen to public
speakers on the same subject. Mr..
Wilder evidently does not believe that
the hair of the dog is good for the
bite.
Owing to the fact that the drouth
this summer damaged to considera BILE
extent the wheat crop of New Mexico
Kansas grain is now on the move into
that country. The Santa Fe is hand
ling a great amount of this grain, and
the officials of that road expect to ship
over 1000 cars into Mexico within the
next two months.
Talk about the fond affection Atch-
ison and Leavenworth have developed
for each other! Leavenworth was SO
jealous because Topeka fiirted some
with Atchison recently that she arrest
ed an Atchison boy at her carnival for
kissing Leavenworth girl. Wasn't
the Atchison boys punishment enough
as it was?
How times have changed! A man
in the north part of the state used to
be cowboy in the early days in the
wild and woolly west. He would eat
snakes three times a day, and shoot
pipes out of the tenderfoots mouth for
practice. Now he is afraid of imagin-
airy things which creep out of his
boots.
Curiosity is stronger than love or
duty. A Florence woman last summer
remained away SO long that her hus-
band became anxious for her TO return.
She would not heed his entreaties for
her to return. So he cut few pieces
out of the home paper and sent the pa
train to learn what the clipped pieces
were about.
The death of young Stevens Fair
child is to be ''agitated.7 Young Fair.
child was employed on the city street
force at Topeka and it is claimed that
he was compelled to work in sewers a
greater number of hours each day in
the city for the fall festivi-
ties than his system was able to stand.
A Miss Griffin of Van Buren, street and
other friends of the family will inyes-
tigate.
The crack correspondent of an East |
ern newspaper, sent to Kansas to
write the situation" was in Topeka |
one day between trains-just that long
and no longer-and the next week his
paper contained five columns of Kan
sas predictions and estimates oyer his
signature. On Monday of this week a
New York specials correspondent
spent two hours in Topeka, and in . |
few days his guesscs will be due.
Buck Dawes is not a very old man,
but he is old enough to have good |
horse sense and to know that brag be-
fore election will not materialize into
votes on election day. He said along
that line the other day: ''It makes me
weary to hear candidate making es-
Inmates of the result. The man who
knows least about the situation is the |