The Globe-republican., 1896-07-02

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Dickinson county has the arm.
worms.
Red June apples have appea red OF
the market along the southers border.
of Kansas
An old Fort Scott nan. aged 90. uset
to work in a mill with Mckinley.
grandfather.
Ford county churncd $4,000 worth
Of milk last year. and its record this
year will be even greater.
Hell's Half Acre, so long a mere
spot on the state line. seems to have
spread all over Wyandotte county.
Che Kansas farmers are taking uI
the idea of two crops in year and
are putting in Kaffir corn on wheat
stubble. The rains helps the idea out
An Atchison man has invented a
continuance by which two bicycles can
be attached and run along a railroad
at high rate of speed. = trial was
made on the B. & NJ track Tuesday
aud the wheelmeu went at the rate of
ten miles an hour
A Wilson county farmer had an oil
we'll drilled on his land about a year
ago The oil flows from day to day
and no curbing has been put in. PeO-
pie in the neighborhood all get their
supply of oil from the well, carrying it
away in jugs.
The Fort Scott ice plant turned ont
to the trade thirty-uine tons of ice in
one day. Nineteen tons were sold to
local trade in Fort Scott and was the
largest amount consumed by the local
market any day this season. Twenty
tons were shipped.
The last number of ''nrhe Fourth
Estate" published in New York. con-
tains life like portrait and an excel
lent sketch of Arthur Capper, one of
the editors of the Topeka Mail and
Breeze. Mr.. Capper being one of the
brightest and purest young editors of
Kansas, he is worthy of all the good
things said of him.
A Wellington boy found large
cartridge ON the street. He picked it
mp and after playing with it a while
concluded to apply a lighted match to
its business end to see if it would go
of. 1t did. Three fingers of the boys
hand also went off and have not come
back yet. That boy will never have
any more curiosity regarding cart
ridges.
The wheat harvest is about over,
early apples are growing mellow, ear
corn is in silk and tassel, buddcd
peaches are showing their red cheeks.
the bee is busy in the meadow, alfalfa
doodles stand thick on the ground, the
fragrance of new mown hay is on the
air, chiggers are doing business at
lawn fetes. brass bands are practicing
for the Fourth and driving people
crazy-summer is here.
Grocer Boggs of Downs thought a
little joint on the side would fill long
felt want; now he hovers on the Ne
braska line while the sheriff is in pos
session of his place. In the same raid
the sher' If took in the joints of three
other keepers, but like Boggs. they
had been warned of his coming and
fed. All of which ought to be les
son that jointkeepers should not be
hunted with q brass band
At Fort Scott Saturday afternoon
after the south bound passenger train
on the Memphis road had departed a
pretty little girl baby, apparently
about months old was found on one
of the seats in the ladies' waiting room
where it had been deserted by its in
human mother. A small parcel of
clean clothes was beside the babe. but
not mark could he found to lead to
the child's identity. Several persons
have expressed desire for the little
stranger and it will have no difficulty
In finding home.
Considerable commotiOn has been
caused at Ottawa among the Santa Fe
traiumen by a new order issued to j.
C. Armstrong, the watch inspector at
that point. The new order prescribes
the style Of watch each man must car
ry. before it may receive certificate.
First. it must be a standard watch,
seventeen jewels, adjusted to tempera-
ture. positions and isochronism: may
be carried in any description of case
The rule is to be in effect August /,
and employees are not required to pur-
chase watch prior to that date. The
new standard watch will bear the COM
pany's trademark and is made ex-
pressly for the use of this road. The
road takes the old watches at fair