The Globe-republican., 1896-12-17

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When Newton people want to hav'
q real hot time they visit in Emporia
Miss Ruby, who lives at Arlansa
City, will be q treasure for seme man
Dyche has started out again. He vii
lecture in Hutchison on December IL
The salt well which was found il
Dickinson county last week has beer
lost.
A great Kansas man once said tha'
our debts were evidences of our pros
perity.
Perhaps the 400 deserted wives O
Topeka refused to support their pool
husbands.
Senator Baker has gone to Washing
ton. He will not return to Kansas fol-
tho vacation.
Lyman Nauglc comes out like a man
and acknowledges that he would like
to be state printer.
Paola ships 1000 rabbits a week ia
New York and it is feared that the 400
will have the govt.
The Lawrence opera house is reno
waited, refitted and ready for another
amateur show or a fire.
A Harper county farmer has $4,000
bushels of wheat which he is holding
for one dollar per busheL
Phil knowlton comes out in favor of
a cooking school Phil is anxious she
should learn how to cook.
Calvin Hood of Emporia held one
$4,000 block of stock in the Kansas
City bank which failed last week.
The irrigation appropriation has not
been wholly without good result. The
state ponds afford excellent skating.
The Topeka woman who drove nails
in the stucco work in the representa-
tive hall didn't do any worse than the
voters who stuck sticks in the hall.
The fellows who do not think that
Judge Dennison is running do not
know the man. He has never vet en-
tered a race just for the excitement.
A Brown county schoolmarm walks
around a section of land every evening
after school. 1t takes muscle to teach
the Brown county idea show to shoot.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gar
vey's position as government statistical
agent is under civil service rules there
ire half dozen Topeka men who are
lfter it.
This years increase in the acreage of
Italia is put by correspondents at %
Der cent. Assessors returns show the
'ear's area in kaffir corn as 373, O5S
'cres, a gain of 1ss. $50 acres, or 1O2. So
Der cent
The price of corn now being contract
d to feeders and others is from IL to
g cents per bushel, with an average in
lie contrasting, cattle-feeding coun-
les of between Is and Is cents. Forty
'er cent of the crop is likely to be sold
t these prices before January. The
lumber of cattle to be fattened is about
he same as last year.
Governor Morrill,, who will control
he appointment of postmaster at Hia-
vatha, has not joined the Ewing Her
'ert boom, but is said to favor a man
vho has long been on the public pay
oil. Mr.. Morrill, will come round all
light at the proper time. The newspa-
er men have been good to him, and he
will not 60 counter to their wishes in
aaking a postmaster at Hiawatha.
Addie r. Connor, wife of VIM. H.
onner, half-breed Usage Indian,
treasurer of that tribe, who sued her |
for a divorce some time ago,
las filed petition in court for $40, 900
limony. She alleges that Conner is
worth s1OO.OO and that his yearly in
ONE is $4,000. Mrs. Conner is the |
aughter of rich Dexter, Kansas,
aerchant. She asks for the custody of |
er 10 year old bow. 1t is reported
hat Conner is dying with consumption.
The wife's petition for divorce is ex-
eedingly sensational
The Kansas Board of Agriculture has
ssued final bulletin showing Yields
+ the more important crops grown in
he State in the year 1896. The total |
ield of winter wheat is 27,153. 365
or 11,641.l24 bushels more
han in 1895. Its total value is put At
13.0l6.e e9. The average per acre for
he entire State being 81 bushels
he corn crop is Gel ,4l9,4l4 bushels, or
8. &c.. Ols bushels more than last wear.
he average being as.0s bushels per
ere. Its value is SIS. 633. 0l3, as against
46. 1s9. 77s for the previous years crop.
II oats the yield is 1s,3I4,77a bushels.
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