The Globe-republican., 1896-12-10

I Anew constitution would cost the
state SOC, ZOO.
A committee has been appointed to
catch Knute TRY and see where he is
at
Associate Justice Allen denied the
report that the plutocrats have bought
him.
The Brown county Exposition is
bankrupt. Perhaps it didn't have fair
show.
Abilene is slowly getting herself
seated in the creamery throne of
Kansas.
Conpressman-elect Mccormick Of the
Sixth district, served az Confederate
soldier.
Everybody would be surprise ii Cy
Leland should get an appointment in
Kansas
Will White will speak on Kansas at
the big Ohio banquet. He will "stand
up" too.
Billy Nelson continues to take a shot
at the administration, whose end is SO
near at hand.
Governor Morrill, will break up house
keeping this winter and live at hotel
in Hiawatha.
This is december, and while death
| hasn't come to all the people in Kan
sas, taxes have.
Atchison is the only townin tho state
that has . man who sharpeus skates
and advertises it.
Kansas is just now enjoying a squirt
of fine weather, which is duly welcome
after the recent cold snap.
Jerry Simpson on second thought
will not make Myron Reed of Denver
chaplain of the next house.
Farmers in Shawnee county say that
many cattle that have been turned
into stock fields are dying.
If Reed and Mckinley fall out, there
will be mighty little picking for the
congressman from Kansas.
At Pratt this winter the ice has al
ready been three inches in thickness.
Last winter there was none.
The Oklahoma football team will
tackle the Arkansas City team at Ar
kansas City one day this week.
The Lincoln curfew bars girls of Is
and boys of 20. That's more like it.
Better still make it 81 all round.
In the first story in Will Whites
new book, did the congressman run
again for congress or did he not?
Charley Harger of Abilene is writing
stuff for the Chicago papers by the
column, and the Chicago papers pay.
The talk about Senator Baker and
Cy Leland being at outs is all stuff and
nonsense. Somebody is always snoop-
ing around in Kansas feeding impossi-
BILE fires with rocks.
A Kansas editor assures his readers
that if they overlook the shortage in
local matter this week on account of
the arrival of ten-pound girl baby,
he will see that the ''same thing does
not occur again."
DR.. Smith, the gentleman from Sher-
man, thinks the irrigation commission |
law should be repealed and the unex-
pended part of the appropriation con.
veyed back into the treasury. He says
the money spent has proved nothing.
City Physician Mitchell. of Topeka,
says that there are but seyen or eight |
cases of scarlet fever in the city and |
all arc of 4 mild form. The disease |
has been less fatal than usual. Not a
single death in Topeka has been attrib-
uted to scarlet fever, but the report for
November will show large record of
scarlet fever cases.
A practical woman of Topeka, has
scheme to shut out quack doctors.
She suggests that the bars be let down
for anybody and every body to offer
their services as physicians, but that
the regular graduates and none others
be authorized by law to put out red,
blue and green signs; red for the allo-
paths, blue for the homeopaths and
green for the eclectics. Then if the
people want to take chances on death
by quackery, let no one interfere.
The newspapers are printing a state
ment that Greeley, Scott, Stanton, Has
kell, Seward, Stevens and Morton coun-
ties will lose their legislative represen-
tatives this winter. because they failed
to register $50 votes at the polls in
November. This is an error. ONLY
four OF the counties named may lose
their house members. The constitu-
ton provides that before a county