The Globe-republican., 1896-12-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pany.-National Irrigation Congress.
The National Irrigation Congress vii
meet At Phoenix, Arizona, Decembe
18th to 18th, inclusive. For the meet
ing we will sell round trip ticketr from
all points on our line in Kans. to Pheo
nix, Arizona, and return at rate of on
fare for the round trip. Tickets vii
be on sale December 10th to 18th in
elusive. For rates and information re
sarding stop over privileges, call on Of
address City Ticket agent, Corner MAR
and Douglas Ave, Wichita, Kansas, OF
agent at our nearest point.
Judge Dennison. on senatorial matter
says his name is Barkis.
An Atchison girl been fined $50
and cost for assulting young nan.
Liberal will dig town well and run
1t with gasoline for all who come to
drink
The way to settle prohibition ques-
ton Is to have a vote on that question
straight.
Ewing Herbert opposes proposition
to license billiard hall in the city of
Hiawatha.
There are 400 deserted wives in To-
peko. Most of them are doubtless in
luck if they only knew it.
1t is fact that for the first time in
six years Kansas today does not really
know where Mrs. Lease is.
As soon ~ the appointment fights
get started IN Kansas the fellows
who do dirty work with affidavits will
begin to make things hum.
Personal item in the Emporia Ga
zette: IF the man ON CONNER cial
street who got behind a door and told
his clerk to say he was out, his name
will be withheld"
The New Nork Sun editorially clears
up the rumor that John j. Ingalls,
wrote the whats the Matter With
Kansas article by explaining the idcr-
tity OF Will White.
Bob Semple says the proposition to
create chair of physical culture in
the state university is a thinly disguis-
ed scheme to pay the institutions foot
ball captain a salary.
ut is not east against west or north
against SOUTH said Leedy, after be-
ing worried by aspirants ut is all
sides of the states against the middle
and vice versa and all around the COM
pass"
A milk man at Humboldt, Tenn, has
written the state board of agriculture |
for a copy of Sow Culture, and in
payment for same he enclosed in his |
letter a scent milk ticket on his |
dairy.
The slot machine in the Larned rail- |
road station is great comfort TO the
oafers of the town. Besides it gives |
the place an air of travel The station
agent thinks he is doing business, if he |
is not
A. D. Hubbard of Topeka. who en-
bezzled 81, 900 and left his bondsmen to !
pay it, suggests that the court allow
him salary for his services as receiver
n part settlement of the sum he stole !
How's that for nerve.
It is strangely suspected that the
Herr Richter now running for the |
reichstag in Germany used to live in |
Morris county, Kansas. At any rate,
that is Harvey Fleming's guess in the
Kansas City Journal.
Now is the season for charity ball. - !
A charity BALI is scheme for women
to spend hundreds of dollars on fine |
raiment in order to pick up few dol |
lars for the poor. Better abandon the
ball and give all the money to the !
needy.
A Lawrence man says he is opposed
10 boy students being given SO much |
prominence in the newspapers It
spoils their minds for their studies.
Children ought to wear gingham
aprons and fed on porridge until they
are grown up" he says at is good
for their bodies and good for their in
tellects."
The total acreage now sown to win.
ter wheat is reported as per cent less
than one year ago: AZ counties show an
increase. ranging from per cent in
Sheridan and Wabaunsee. to Sc per
cent in Bourbon. while 40 counties
show a decrease from per cent in
Woodson to So in Stanton. With few
exceptions the counties having the
smaller acreages sown show increase
and are located in the eastern half of
the state. The average price for the
year is given as 65 cents a bushel
Prospects and conditions of this years
seeding are quite invariably reported