The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-01-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ed Howe carries $50, 900 life insur
Ance.
Lorraine in Ellsworth county has .
new brass band.
Coffeyville has just shot another
gushing gas well.
Cloud county people are complain
ing of dry weather.
1t only costs $500 year to belong te
Topeka's Swell club.
Kansas stands third in the column
in railroad mileage.
One of the commissioners in Ness
county is named SidebOttOm.
The late J. c. Kyle of Topeka left
S25, 900 to Christ's hospital in that
city.
OKeene over in Blaine county wants
a good -four mill, and they ought to
have it.
An Atchison billiard hall pays $50 a
month for lunch alone. People who
drink billiards must have a bite with
it.
Cashier Colean will be tried at Fort
Scott February 3. L. c. Boyle, who
ordinarily is a mascot, will defend
him.
Miss Belle Bennett, formerly of To-
peka, who has for some time been a
missionary in Africa, is dead from
fever.
A Kansas City man carried a war
rant to police headquarters for his owl
arrest, thinking it was for the nan
who had tried to lick him.
According to the Ottawa Journal the
new woman" has not yet invaded that
town but some fellows ''old woman
gets out at 6 q. m. and splits kindling.
The new NJ. E. church at carlton
will be dedicated by Rev. Bernard
Kelly Sunday, February A special
invitation has been issued to old sol
diers to attend.
A woman broke into Abilene selling
. patent button fastener for men last
week, and stories are coming out that
cause storm of indignation among
the usually amiable wives of the town.
A southern Kansas exchange says a
''new woman" issued an ultimatum to
her Anticipated father to the effect
that she would wear boomers or moth
ing. The old man preferred the
boomers.
1t is impossible to keep good man
down. John Preston Campbell, crowd
ed out of all other classes, breaks into
print as the owner of a thirty-dollar
inlaid chessboard. In reserve ne has
q proposition.
Atchison's street car line has been
tied up for day or two because of a
broken clutch on the shafting at the
power house. People have been wa
ding through the sticky slush and
abusing the company.
On the cath of December Hattie Nc
young girl of West Plains,
went to Liberal. where she married
Lee Wilson. On the 3Oth she thought
better of it and left her new husband,
ii is supposed, to former steady.
Atkinson Globe: A certain girl in
Atchison has at last got nibble; the
nibbler earns good salary, and is
even inclined to be good looking.
There is nothing the matter with him
except that he has the consumption.
C. P. Carlson. the new Greeley coun-
ty man, who has located on Wilson
creek in Weskan township, is the adj
vance guard of a number of Greeley
county people who are going to locate
on the low lands in Wallace county.
and go into the irrigation and stock
raising business.
The home of +. NJ. Sheldon of Otta-
wa was entered by burglars Monday
night and $3.50 worth of silverware
was stolen. Some Silverware was
found hidden in a corn shock near the
town, but it was evidently the pro-
ceeds of some other robbery, and has
not yet been claimed.
Here comes the Dalton gang" OBJ
w. w. Guthrie as Cy Leland,
John Schllling, Phil Kelly and some
more of the lambs" entered the din
ing room at the Copeland the other
day. When Leland heard of it after
ward, he said: about once in eigh-
teen years Guthrie gets off a good
thing. In 1878 he said. in speaking of
the same gang" ''These damned
are to congressman what
the yellow dog is to movers wagon"
4Jim Arterbridge of Topeka opened
snap on the Sante Fa's coal last week,
and until the police closed him out he
did land Office business. His scheme
was to sell coal for cash below the
price, and direct the buyer to
'tany of those cars on the track there
and help himself. In defense of him.
self before the police court he made a