The Globe-republican., 1896-04-02

For the first time in two years, q
good work horse is worth as much rs
q cow in Kansas.
A. G. Stacy is again in the employ
of the LeavenwOrth Times, as travel
ing solicitor and correspondent
There. is said to be $50 joints in
Crawford county. Is this part of the
Crawford county system of renown?
What supplemented people there
are in the short grass country! A La
Crosse man advertises for lost ten
dollar bill.
Heavens exclaimed Butler coun-
ty belle, when out of hearing of her
partner, that man dances like a news
paper man."
1t is said that the late cold snap in
Southern Kansas lacked about Is de-
grees of doing the fruit any harm or
the plumbers any good.
c. p. Dewy. large ranch owner of
Manhattan, has just finished buying
zoo, 900 bushels of corn to feed his cat
tie. Saturday he dined the farmers
from morning until night on an old
fashioned oyster dinner. He used the
opera house and thOuSan ds were fed.
The Russian thistles, which grew all
over Rawlins county in great album
dance last year, are now being blown
across the prairies, scattering the seed
everywhere. Wire fences catch and
hold the pests until the fences in some
places are places are nearly hid from
sight. Uuless some decided action is
taken by the farmers to rid themselves
of the obnoxious weeds the pests will
cover the whole county next year.
There is some wild animal at large
in the vicinity of Wamego that is car
rying off and killing young pigs. One
of William Darnelrs boys was with
in forty feet of it. He beat hasty
and both he and his father,
who is an experienced hunter, went
in search of it, but without success
Other hunters have gone after its
scalp, but have never seen the animal,
only its tracks being found. 1t is de-
scribed as having long. nearly yell
low body, long tail, and large feet.
S. Stout. who lives at Axtell, has
been a resident of Marshall county for
years. He has made farm
work more of a luxury than a burden.
He has taken out no less than six
patents on different farm implements.
He claims to be the original inventor
IF the first One-rOw riding corn Guilt
vatOr ever patented, and this was in
1859. He is now working on a two
row cultivatOr, tho models of which
ire completed. In 1895 he patented
! corn fodder loader. which will load
IN entire shock at once, without tear
ng it to pisces 1t will load . shock
! minute.
In a few days one o. tha most CEN
raj brick business blocks in Fort
Scott will DC sold at public auction in
of the estate of an old col
bred man named Samuel Hagan, who
'ccently died and was supposed to be
without means. Since his death it has
developed that he owned some resi-
lence property and city lots in Spring
ield. ILL.,, some valuable stock in the
inc mines at Galena. Kan. as well as
! half interest in the business block
n Fort Scott known as the McDer-
mott building. the other half interest
,eing owned by Judge +. L. McDer-
mott, prominent lawyer, who was
I'D Hagan's friend and adviser.
Miss Anna Burroughs of Marysville
will take front rank with the best
lnown cornet soloists of Kansas. She
las played in public since she was 10
ears old. In 1891 the band of which
he was the leader carried off the first
,rize in the bond tournament of the
)akotas. Miss Burroughs took part
n the concerts given by the MOdOc
hub in Topeka in 1895, which were
,iven to raise money to take them to
he national g. A. X. encampment at
louisville She also led the Oketo
,and who played on Mckinley day at
he Beatrice, Neb.. Ciautauqua. She
has grown to womanhOod in Marys-
lille and is popular and pretty.
A train of IS cars loaded with ice
rom White Bear lake, Minnesota, has
ust reached ConcOrdia, consigned to
Cunning, BetOurnay. and John Stew
lrt. The train load contained over
100 tons of CONCEALED Minnesota eli |
nate which will be doled out to the
,eople of the town at IS cents per cwt. |
The ice is from Is to Is inches in thick |
less.
The slayers of Charley Rodman, of
1aryer county, are in the coils of the
aw. They are Mrs. Charley Rodman,
Nm. Mattox, who was highly re-
pected citizen of that county. and his |
,rother-in-law, named Clark. All
we're arrested last week. Mrs. Rod. |
nan confessed, and says Mattox ON |
lifferent occasions offered to furnish |
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