The Globe-republican., 1896-03-12
KANSAS ITEs.s OF INTEREST.

The junction City creamery makes
over a ton of choice butter every week.
A Sumner county expression is that
''prices are no higher than cats
back unhumped.
The Standard Oil company is put
ting up 200 dericks on their ''oily"
property in Wilson county.
A license to sell cigarettes in Pitt
burg costs $500 and but one dealer
there has had the courage TO try it.
Out in Kingman county recently a
girl fred shotgun into the air in or
der to brighten dog. She killed the
dog.
Ewing Herbert is still working on
that Florida trip, and at the same
time he insists that his circulation is
increasing.
Bishop Vincent will deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon at the commence
ment exercises of the State university
this year.
Bertha Hurst, poor girl who was
deserted by her parents when baby
and who has since gone wrong, has
been arrested in Ness county and will
be sent to the Beloit school.
Harper county paper on the last
day of February Withdrew its prOpO-
sition tC take corn on subscription at
twenty-five cents This is bad sign
for the corn market in that section.
A Sumner county farmer drove into
town the other day with a load of
corn before daylight. He probabl
wanted to get it sold before the rail-
roads showed up the corn rate a little
higher.
E. e. Houghton. who recently went
from Cowley county to Cripple Creek,
writes back to friends that he rents
his lot which cost him 5000, for SIS
per month. That is fair interest on
the investment.
The recent visit of several hundred
editorial missionaries to Leavenworth
seems to have borne fruit already in
that sinful community. 1t is officially
announced that there is to he no more
Sunday theatricals
Six young ladies contested at the
high school in Ottawa Tuesday night.
Miss LettO Chamberlain won first place
and will represent the Ottawa high
school in the state contest to be held
in that city April 4th.
Anderson Gray, the man who hyp-
Noticed another man into the commits
sion of murder in Sumner county, has
an easy jObsin the penitentiary. He
begins to show sign of age, but is
still hopeful of release.
Mrs. Mabel Jenness Vcnter is teach
beautiful. We understood from the
Journal that the ladies of Lawrence
could not possibly be more beautiful
and now let the Journal explain.
A Coffeyville man, suspecting that
was peeping through the
keyhole of his Office door, investigated
with syringe full OF pepper sauce
and went home to find that his wife
had been cutting wood and chip had
hit her in the eye.
The average number of bushels of
wheat per acre raised in Cowlev cOun-
ty the past five years is thirteen and
one-half bushels. This puts COwley
in the lead of wheat growing counties.
Sumner county raised more wheat but
she had in almost twice as many
acres.
Some Galena young men began a
prospect and they named 1t Mae"
But, although they dug deep into the
ground and drifted in many directions.
their labor was dead loss. Then
they took down Mae and put up
''Mary" and the next day they cut
into big run of ore.
The League of American Wheelman
in Kansas is preparing book. descrip-
tive of the roads in each county of the
state. Each county is taken up separ-
ately and the best road between the
prime pal towns in that county is
great convenience to persons driving
or ''scorching" over the state.
A number of leading business men
of Abilene have organized company
for the purpose of furnishing light.
and the city council will be asked to
pass an ordinance giving a franchise.
The company intends to use the new
illuminant. acetylene gas. The right
to manufacture and sell this illumi-
nant in Kansas was recently bought
by Topeka man.
William Hargreave. travelling repre-
sentative of the Arctic Machinery
Manufacturing company of Cleveland.
Ohio, has secured the contract for
Martin Il. DonOvan's big artificial ice
plant to he installed in Leavenwor tn
on Main street between Delaware and
Shawnee streets. The plant will cost
complete $1,000. The capacity will
he from fifteen to twenty tons daily
Work is to be commenced in three
weeks and under the contract the
plant must he in ODeratiOn bafwecn