The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-02-27


Wild fowls are plenty on the Chey-
enne marshes in Barton county.
Two well developed cases of small
pox are reported from Kansas City.
Death loves shining mark. A Blue
Rapids man of that name is visiting in
Kansas City.
! A Douglass county man is planting
; an orchard of $50 acres and a paying
| investment it will be.
/ An eastern Kansas editor says: The
| clock and the delinquent subscribers
are about the only things that go on
! tick nowadays
Muscotah, said to be the toughest
town in the state. has turned out an
evangelist" and he has struck job
| at Washington.
Some women are SO worthless in
Lawrence that when another woman
kills one of them she gets only four
years in the penitentiary.
4 labOrer over at Cherokee had one
of his arms torn off in a clay crusher
at the Cherokee Zinc company S works.
He has sued the company for SIS, 900.
A peddler of piano polish is travel
ing through Kansas He is reported
as being very impertinent to ladies
who refuse to buy his worthless stuff.
Prof. Huber has quit the LindsbOrg
college and gone to Minnesota to live
with his son. He will devote the rest
of his life to writing commentary on
the Bible
The business men of Clay Center
have incorporated a stock company and
organized brass band. The business
men will furnish the money: the band
boys. the horns, and the corpora ton
the wind.
The farmers of Brown county are
turning their attention to the raising
of kaffir corn. James Hite, of Baker,
raised II acres, 81 bushels to the acre
and Ga tons of fodder. kaffir corn
sells at IS cents bushel.
Nathan Z. Brown, aged Il, is being
tried at Lawrence for bigamy. The
jury will try the case in full on Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. Brown is well
known in Lawrence. He was married
in 1884. Last April he married Ellen
Fisher of Kansas City.
Michael M:Ardel. an AtchisOn man,
who is now in the penitentiary, and
whose sentence was recently commu
ted to expire April 10. has written to
the governor asking him to let him
out March !, instead of April 10. in Or
der that he may have time to put out
a crop on his farm in Atchison county.
Railroad Commissioner Loves name
is pronounced 10" and Railroad
Commissioner IIOweS How" The
other day granger, who has slight
acquaintance with Mr.. Lowe, called.
and while waiting for him remarked
to Secretary Flenniken: ''Ain't it
funny that you have Mr.. 10 and
Mr.. Ho on the board at the same
time"
While John Roder OF Grant county
was absent on visit to Missouri,
thieves entered his house and carried
away his furniture and clothing, took
out windows. unhinged doors. tore up
part of the floor and one side of the
roof and hauled all away, leaving no
trace. Mr.. ROder is thankful hOwev- I,
err that the foundation of the building |
was not disturbed.
Leavenworth revels in ''fagot'' par
ties. The young ladies are seated |
around the CRATE fire. and as each one
in turn drops tiny bunch of fagots |
tied with baby ribbon on the Goals,
she is supposed to relate story. |!
which must be finished before the fag- |
OTIS shall have burned. 1t develops a
sense of brevity in the young ladies !
which prove an alluring faculty, as a !
prize is given to the person telling the !
best short story,
Charles Bush, who has been sleeping |
On straw and eating corn bread in /
Haskell county for ten years. last |
week received word that he had been /
eft legacy of $4,000. Years ago |
Bush's father gave poor boy lift. |
The boy grew into manhood and pros
pered. The Bush boy fell into hard |
lines, and became stranded on a Has |
zell county claim. Not long ago the
man, who as boy had been helped by
old man Bush, died, and in his will |
lett s., 900 to Charles Bush.
D. F. Sorrow and other eastern cap |
italists interes ted in the distillery at |
Peoria, ILL.,, have submitted propo- !
sition to erect $780, 900 plant at Leav- |
provided they arc given a
bonus of SIS, 200 in real estate and |
cash. A meeting of twenty-five of the |
leading citizens was held Saturday !
night to take steps toward raising the
bonus. The plant will distiIl only
alsonol for scientific purposes, and
there will be no conflict with the Kan
sas prohibitory laws.