The Globe-republican., 1896-07-09

OF kamr corn this year.
Larned IS to have . new bank with
Tim Mccarthy as cashier.
No cyclone -.er occurred in Kansas
as far west as Garden City.
j c. 8. Jobes, of Barton county, has
$50 head of cattle ON pasture.
Western Kansas is filling up this
spring with free shows" where the
admission is a passed hat and the
hope of generosity.
The Rock Island railroad is using
salt to put around piling in bridges.
1t is supposed to preserve the timber
better than pitch.
"A boy who has been mixed up with
humble bees" says Dick Howard,
may be considerably swelled up and
vet not be conceited."
Speaking of land of plenty, black
berries are selling three gallons for
dollar down in AIDE Reynolds cOun-
try, Chautauqua county.
The regents of the State university
want the legislature to appropriate
money for the erection of statue OF
Charles Robinson in the University.
The little town of Mayfeld is very
much worked up on account of the al
| f,,1 Of
man named Mack Smith. It is claim
ed he cures all kinds of chronic and
acute diseases by simply laying his
hands on the patient.
A band of Nortonville girls have or
ganized society which they have
named Bachelor Maids" The object
of the society is to assist in public i'm
provemcnts. BY their last effort an
ice cream social, they made money
enough to pay for electric lights for
| the band stand for the summer.
The hottest Fourth of July celebra-
ton in Douglass county is one in which
an old hermit asks ''all young people
who do not love dishonesty; who are
Industrious. and who do not chew gum
smoke cigarettes or use slang to Gel
citrate with him. The Baker Univer-
sity people take it as special invita-
ton.
The wife of John R. Boyd was grant
ed decree of divorce by the Shaw
nee county district court recently, on
| the ground of abandonment. She tes-
titled that she believed he was living
at Fort Smith, Ark, but that she had
not heard from him for some years.
Boyd was gambler when he lived in
Topeka, and presumably that is his
avocation still. The divorce proceed.
ing recalls famous homicide in
Boyd's career. In 1872 he was mayor
of Baxter Springs and John Taylor
| was city marshal. At that time Bax-
ter Springs was the northern terminus
of the Texas trail, and the place was
full of cowboys and tough characters.
In the performance of his duty, Tay-
lor had offended Boyd, and their quar-
| rel became so fierce that, as both were
desperate men, it was only matter of
| time until one of them should be kill
ed by the other. One day Boyd be-
came involved in a controversy with
]. H. Smith. Words led Boyd to strike
Smith, who swore out warrant,
which was given Taylor to serve. 1t
| was Taylors opportunity to humiliate
Boyd. He found Boyd sitting in
chair on the sidewalk. The warrant
| was read, and Boyd unhesitatingly
consented to go with Taylor. 'Iwant
that gun, l must disarm you" said
Taylor. 'Why?" asked Boyd, throw
ing up his left hand as if to cover a
weapon, at the same time, his eyes
holding Taylor's gaze, pulling
derringer from his trousers pocket and
shooting his captor fatally. ''It was
my life or Taylors;" Boyd said in pal
liation. He was acquitted on the
ground Oh Sclt-ueIenSc.
The biggest corn in Southern Kan.
sas is raised on Ed Hewin's old farm
| in Chautauqua county.
Operations in the Kansas oil fields
are just now very quiet, but no one
gives a cause
Mrs. Brush of Garden City, found on
her door step last week, during
storm, boy baby along with $40.
She took them both, and when the
ten gives out will add more to raise
the founding.
A man and woman were fined in
Atchison for caressing each other on
the street in daylight. Atchison be-
lieves in having such performances
confined to the hammock and front
porches- proper place.
Billy Morgan is mad. He says a
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