The Globe-republican., 1896-06-18

DODGE CITY, KANsAA
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsT.
The youngest graduate in Kansas
was . girl in Atchison-seventeen
John S. Gilmore says the bicycle b
al right, and has bought pair of tan
shoes The world do move.
Judge Hazen, of Topeka, is gaining
IN Oklahoma reputation for granting
DEGREES of divorce. Monday he grant
ed three divorces while he rested At
noon.
Item in . Kansas newspaper: "Johu
Bicks went into his storm cave with
his family last night" A year ago q
man would have fought the editor for
that squib. Now it is taken as . mat
tor of course.
z. c. Raney, who succeeds a school
teacher as the editor of the Fort scott
Monitor, has been succeeded by .
school teacher rs the editor of Har-
per county paper, which proves that
it IL not the rule for one man to profit
by the experience of another.
The strongest flow of gas yet struck
In Kansas was developed by the For
est oil company at Benedict. The
pressure is 700 pounds and the gas
may be heard escaping three miles.
Surely Kansas is in fair way to put
up the greatest gas belt in the world.
The railroad taxes of Chautauqua
county are 81, 452 more than 6 per cent
interest on all the railroad bonds vo-
ted in the county. This is not such .
bad showing for the railroads after all.
A net gain like that every year would
in time amount to enough to pay the
principal
A Leavenworth young tough dis
mantled an unused fire engine belong
ing to the city and sold the brass and
copper-the larger part of the machine
TO junk shop keeper. When the
6remen and police found it out they
proceeded to dismantle the young man
of his liberty.
Editor Harger of Abilene calls to
mind that in 1898 a leading magazine
gave Kansas professor commission
to 60 to Pullman to write up the ac-
tual condition of the people there.
He did it. His article was paid for
but never appeared. Harger wants to
know why it was suppressed.
Wellington had big mad dog scare
last week. They had a good deal of
fun out of it and number of the
schoolmarms who were attending the
normal thought they would humor the
joke After looking around in vain
for a mad dog, they hit upon ghost
and had the whole town scared out of
their wits But the ghosts were found
out and an unmerciful scoring they got
in the papers. And the citizens are
vowing vengeance on those school
marms yet.
Twenty-One years ago when Ida May
Griffin, now Mrs. George Hanna of
Jetmore, was IS months old, she was
stolen from her parents at Independ-
ence The child was taken to Illinois,
where she fell into the hands of a
christian family named Rice, who took
her to Iowa, and seven years later to
Hodgeman county, Kansas, where at
the age of &c she was married to Geo.
Hanna. Meanwhile her father, after
spending a great deal of money in
search of the child, died, and his wild
ow afterward married Mr.. Williams
1T Taylorville ILL.,, where she now
lives. Mrs. Hanna a shoft time ago
told her history to the Jetmore paper,
and copy of the paper fell into the
hands of her aunt, who forwarded it
to Mrs. Williams, who with her hus-
band took the first train for Kansas.
Arriving at Jetmore they were met by
the editor and drove out to the Griffin
farm.
The 5-year-old daughter of NJ. s.
Amos of the Cedar Park house at Man.
haitian was drowned in small pool OF
water in the rear of the hotel Monday.
The child was playing about the prop
erty and wandered outside the lot
when in some way she fell into thi.
pool, which is hole into which the
city drains water from the streets in
that vicinity.
Twelve years ago when the cedar
block pavement craze struck Leaven
worth, one citizen refused to paw his
$500 special tax. He based his refus
NJ on the ground that che ordinance
was illegal. because it had been signed