The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-02-13

Sol Miller saws never marry for mon
ey but always for love. II q girl has
money though, try and love her.
Bill Morgan says there is no excuse
for old maids in Reno county. where
are 900 more men than women.
d. r. Anthony picked mp what he
thought to be a good news item one
day last week. but his son Dan threw
it out.
The Kansas military board is over
run with applications for arms and
equipments for military companies
all over the state.
A monument to union soldiers is to
be erected at Baldwin. An effort is
being made to get it ready to unveil
On Decoration day.
Franklin county's poultry product
is valued higher than the wheat crop.
She ella inns more thoroughbred chick
ems than any other county in the
state.
Tom Harding from north of Cheney
delivered the prize bunch of hogs to
Harvey Grace last week. There were
thirty-seven of them and they averaged
346 pounds.
Bv becoming treasurer of S., 600.
900 mining company Joe Ady appears
to have gone to Colorado for the pur-
pose of invigoratin his pocketbook az
much as his health.
State Labor Commissioner Bird il
making war on fraudulent employment
agencies: he should not overlook an
Atchison man who has promised to
make half the men in town chief of
police.
John SeatOn having heard that the
stage of the Ottawa theater is larger
than that of the Atchison house i'm
mediatcly gave orders to have the
latter enlarged. That's the kind of a
citizen SeatOn is.
The channel cut for the river at
AtchisOn last year SO as to save the
bridge and what remained of East
AtchisOn, has continued to widen and
deepen. and the river is working its
way back toward the Kansas line.
The Maize Critic is now cursing it.
self for doing business on the pay you
when l sell my crop" plan. That's
right! Let every country newspaper
esta blish itself on cash basis and note
the difference at the end of the year.
DIR. Horton. of TurOn. was recently
convicted of adultery and sent to the
county Jail for six months. The citi-
zeus now come forward with petition
for his release and assign as one of the
reasons that they need his services on
account of the prevalence of diphtheria
there.
J. X. COlean. the Fort Scott bank
cashier, whose defalcation of $4,000
resulted in the failure of the State
bank in that city. and who pleaded
guilty to one of the charges of en-
bezzlement. was Saturday sentenced
to five years in the pcnitentiary, the
maximum punishment for embezzle-
ment. After receiving his sentence.
Colean sobbed piteously. and present.
ed to Judge Simons written state
ment. in which he asserted that, dcs-
pite assertions to the contrary, he and
his family were penniless.
In preparing for the burial of the bO-
dies of the Hildebrandt family at
Beattie last Monday, the grave was
dug full length and wide enough to
receive all the bodies. and they were
laid in the order or their age. There
was no separate box for each coffin.
but box was put in the size of the
grave and covered with boards not
properly supported, SO that when the
grave was filled this board broke III
with heavy crash. The cOncourse Of
people was immense and the funeral
procession was more than a mile III
length.
NJ. Il. Nicholson of Council Grss.j
has difficulty in remembering na.,s.
For three years he has known Frank
Jarrel. but his name always slipped
him when he wanted it. For a long
time FARRELL good naturally told him
his name, but one day. a little out OF
patience, he said. why, my name is
easy to remember: my name is Smith. =
.'Oh. yes: dear me-" replied Nicholson,
'.of course it is: forget so easy" In
few minutes Jarrel found Nicholson
in Governor Morrill's Office. Hello,
FARRELL said Morrill,. After FARRELL
had passed out of hearing. Nicholson
observed to Morrill,: '.SOme men like
to lie. That young man. not ten min
utec ago. told me his name was
Smith.
In country school near Lawrence.
lot of small boys got into row and
when the teacher asked was to blame,
little fellow said he was and was
kept after school. After all the other
pupils had gone. he looked at the clock
and told the teacher it was 4 o'clock