The Globe-republican., 1896-01-16
Ed Howe carrie. 5000 lii. insur-

Ed Howe carries 5000 life insur-
ancc.
OF the 1884, 734 inhabitants AZ Kan.
sas, 5e9, S65 are natives.
The Santa Fe paid its tax in full in
Chautauqua county, and it was g, $685.
Only 1850 of the es,66 inhabitants
of COwley county were born in Kansas.
The assessed value of Kafir corn
raised in Kansas in 1895 was 81 $3.50, 3s9
50.
The farmers of Cowley county har-
vested 336,911 worth of wheat last
year.
There are 77s colored people living
in Cowley county, 800 of whom are
males
OKeene over in Blaine county wants
a good flour mill, and they ought to
have it.
Mr.. Burton has taken the lecture
field and will open in Lacrosse Janu-
airy oath.
So far as heard from in Kansas, the
Leap Year association still has unbro-
ken ranks.
Little rusty runt' is the label Sol
Miller has put upon Andy White, and
whatever Sol says goes.
Atchison will bore for artesian wa
ter. That's what the towns along the
kaw and Arkansas ought to do.
There is one thing that can be said
about Topeka: Nobody ever gets
away with man there until he is
dead.
! The Grand Island railroad company
refused to pay their tax assessed at
the city of Hiawatha and now there is
talk of . boycott
Topeka physicians declare there is
young negro living in that city whose
body is covered with skin exactly
like that of an alligator.
The Missouri Pacific delivers Kansas
City freight to the Wyandotte and
Northwestern at COTS, and Atchison
! is making fuss about it.
There is chance for a scrap in ev-
cry editorial of this weeks issue of
the Troy Chief. The old man was in
! an unusually grabbed mood.
A Notawaka man who is buying
corn, says his average daily purchase
is 1900 bushels. That is a pretty
large supply for so nall place.
A Lawrence merchant advertises an
alarm clock that ''can make more
| noise than forty tom cats with their
tails tied together on frosty night
Out in Norris county, the county
commissioners supplied many of the
farmers with seed corn. They are now
taking up their pay in corn at :5
cents bushel.
I A Kansas district has written con
tract with a teacher to teach the
school, chop the wood, make the fire,
sweep, and find the matches for $S5
month. The teacher is a woman.
The city fathers of Lawrence, are
considering the plan of consolidating
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districting South Lawrence into five
wards Of about equal population. :.
When the Kansas Farmer asked tho
question, ''What kind of calves arc
considered the best for dairy cows
subscriber wrote in answer that he
calves were usually considered the
best
A meek and humble follower of the
Lord at Wauneta whipped half doz-
en- toughs who were disturbing meet
ing last week. One of them was Geo.
Pease, who was pardOned from the
penitentiary in 1894.
Under the law of Kansas, when
man dies without leaving will, the
widow inherits all his property, if
there are no children. Likewise, when
a wife dies her husband gets all of
her property if she has no children.
Bill Lowe of Lafayette was in Lib
eral Monday with wagon load of
watermelon seed. Western Kansas
is the only region in the country where
farmers make garden seeds part of
their annual crop product.
George w. Lambert was killed at
Howard Saturday night while attempt.
ing to uncouple cars His foot caught
in frog and before he could extricate
it the train was upon him. He lived
at Howard and had wife and one
child. He was the son-in-law of ex,
postmaster DObbinS, and brother of
Will Lambert Kansas City banker.
The Atchison Globe confesses that
Atchison county has had some inter
! esting ups and downs. In 1860 it was
fourth in population in Kansas: In
1870 it was third; 1875, second, being
! exceeded only Leavenworth; in 1880,
third: 1885, eight: 1856, twelfth, and
1895. ninth. But there must be com.
fort to the old citizens of the county
in the reflection that the county has
given to public life more big men than