The Globe-republican., 1896-07-02

/ Ed. Greer is advising the farmers 70
plant stubblefields in Kahir corn.
| The old foundry building at Fort
scott has been converted into = horse
market
another fine rain last night IS get
ting monotonous in western Kansas
papers
1t is now claimed that Topeka has
3l.6le people. This is an estimate.
not q count.
Charles B. Garten, late of Cimarron,
has bought an interest in the DeKalb.
No, Record.
Auditor of State Cole has gone to
Eureka to recuperate. Before going
he pot a spike in the velvet rug
scheme.
! In the northwestern part OF the
state the Russian thistle is so bad in
places that farmers fear they will not
be able to harvest their wheat and
oats
! Kansas only raised forty-three mil
! lion bushels of wheat this year. She
| would have raised more but the wealth
er reports kept saying it was poor
year for wheat.
Barns are of more importance than
houses in Kansas. A recent news
| tenn reads: ..Jim Goldberg's barn
| was blown down by the wind, Thurs
day: also his house.
The tallest girl in Troy is bicycle
fend. and when On her wheel she Of
tends Sol Miller's modesty by wearing
skirt so scant that it would not make
a shade to parlor lamp.
Miss Dolphin. who temporarily sue
ceeds Prof. Klocls as superintendent OF
the Leavenworth schools, is the first
woman to hold that position in city
of the first class in Kansas.
A Council Grove editor attended
lawn social last week and wound up
his write-up of the affair by saying:
The chigger crop promises to come
up to the scratch this year as usual.
The court of appeals has decided
that the probate court has no power
to cause the arrest of a person on an
insanity charge until the fact is prov
en-. un'ess violence makes an arrest
necessary.
Nothing has changed so much in the
last seven years as the western Kan
sas newspapers. Seven years ago
they used to be full of farming news:
now they talk nothing but cattle.
milk and pigs.
So far the oil wells in Kansas have
been shot at 1000 to 1.5G0 feet. Now
it is proposed to go down 1900 feet at
Independence and the proper machin-
cry will be shipped from Pennsylvania
to do the work.
Some Kansas men carried litter of
young wolves over into Nuclsolls coun-
ty, Neb., killed them in front of the
court house. collected the bounty, AID
came home thinking they had a good
joke on the Nebraskans.
A long-haired individual went &c
Lawrence and tried to work the town
by claiming to be Schlatter. the heal
er. He couldn't make them believe it,
SO he pulled out without paying his
board bill and started for Topeka.
where everything goes.
Harry Sanders of Clay Center went
to Texas in search of fortune. leav-
ing his wife to follow later. He estab-
lished himself in the cattle business
and when he wrote for his wife to join
him she was unwilling to change her
abode. She went further than that
and obtained divorce. which he
learned when he returned to Clay Cen
ter a few weeks ago. She greeted him
kindly. but was deaf to his pleadings
to renew their old relations. Finally |
he decided to return to Texas without |
her. and she gave party in his honor |
on the eve of his departure.
S. c. Elliott of Independence. one of |
the best lawyers at the Montgomery |
county bar. has been abjudged insane.
and sent to the asylum at Osawatomie.
4 young man from Chanute while
attending the teachers institute over
at Pittsburg became enamored OF
young lady. His addresses were re-
ciprocated and an engagement fol-
lowed. A license was procured but at
this critical moment the young man
was called home to attend some bust
ness matters. The young lady's faith
err foun out what was going on and
took her home. When the young man