The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-12-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A young man of Jackson county re
gently husked and cribbed 16O bushels
of corn in one day and then walked
mile or two TO see his sweetheart il
the evening.
A Kansas editor says that ''hope'
viii cause a IMAM to bear his bosom
and rush into the 6ercest gehenna o.
the contest" He ought to get rid OF il
# it treats him like that
A Larned girl lost a black feather boa
on q country road and advertised for it
She won't get it. 1t is probably chas'
ing some poor fellow who got too much
Enid whisky in him and started to ride
nome.
A Kansas newspaper in speaking OF
The death of George w. Ferris OF the
big wheel says: "Such is fate" Ferris
died q peaceful death and was an old
man. Did the editor think he ought to
have been immortal.
Kansas is not a state of whitt]ers.
Missourians and Texans whitfield SO
much that forty years ago the whole
country was known as nation Of whit
tiers But Kansans never white.
When they want kindling they take an
AZ IN get it.
A Mankato man has lost Is young
horses by some disease which has been
puzzling veterinarians He says the
feed has nothing to do with it as he
tried all kinds. Sometimes they ran
in the stalks, sometimes they were fed
hay and corn, then again they were
fed cane and corn, and then alfalfa
and oats, but with exactly the same
results.
A Kansas man is trying to secure
government protection on . combina-
ton of machinery which is run by the
power of gravitation. or in other words
. gravitation engine. He has spent .
long life in working on the invention
and now claims to have it perfected
is and ready to give the benefits of his
labor to the world, ~ soon as they
will furnish him protection. The pat
ent laws protect devices, but not prin-
ciples, hence his difficulty in securing
protection. His discovery is princi-
pie and not device.
A Beloit man reports four dead hor-
ses. as the result of the new disease
among them. A neighbor of his lost
five and Jewell man lost fourteen.
Several have been examined after
death and the brain was found conges-
ted. The veterinarians say it is caus-
ed by substance which grows on differ
ent kinds of grain and is eaten by the
horses. 1t may be found on one farm
and on no other in the neighborhood.
1t is poisonous to man Us we'll as beast,
but does not find its way into our food
in sufficient quantities to injure us.
On farm near Sedan is a gas we'll
and the flow is something remarkable
The we'll is down 100 feet and the
pressure throws out broken stones
from the hole. A board laid across
hole with three men on it, was thrown
off like straw. 1t is the intention, II
possible to confine the gas, to sink the
shaft lower with a view of discovering
oil. The extraordinary flow from this
well has again excited comment in the
scheme to sink more wells. The we'll
On Grouse creek was piped some time
since, and when ignited throws blaze
about eighteen inches high, and, &C.
cording to the theory of gas men, Kan
sans ore living over mine of wealth
and don't know it.
The patrons of the Amazon ditch
met at Garden City to consider the
threatened water famine The Garden
City Imprint says of the prospect: ''We
have been shown . recent letter from
headquarters, regarding the future of
the Amazon ditch for the season of
1897, in which there in nothing in the
least hopeful for the patrons of that
ditch. As the case now stands, water
will not be turned into the ditch unless
prompt action is taken by the farmers
The ditch traverses the best farming
districts of Kearney and Finney coun-
ties, and the farmers along its course
are among the most enterprising and
energetic to be found, but without wa
ter their energy, enterprise and thrift
are of no avail We regret that tho
situation is rs stated, and it is useless
for the farmers to sit still and wait the
action of the company, for disappoint-
ment will be the inevitable result-no
water will be sent down the Amazon
in 1897 from that source. If the farm
ers want water they must get a move
on themselves For the past several
days water sufficient to water overy
acre of alfalfa under that ditch has
passed by this place on the way to the