The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-02-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS,

are sowing oats The blowing was
done in January.
Horace NJ. Horne of Sumner county.
has been appointed head foreman at
the Osawatomie asylum.
Sumner county has surplus of S1O.-
900 cash on hand, and is in the market
to buy some of its own bonds.
The La Crosse newspapers have a
rival in a local milliner. who takes
butter and eggs in exchange for head
gear.
The patrons of the Hoxie postoffice
pr,t their spare cash in money orders,
and SO make the Office postal savings
bank.
A Butler county woman, in 1antici-
patton that her cow will go ~ has
canned a lot of milk for the use of the
family.
Kansas lawyers who have located in
Cripple Creek make mining law" a
speciality. A Kansas man is equal to
any emergency.
You may not get rich in Kansas so
fast as in Cripple Creek. but you will
be great deal richer when you do
get your fortune accumulated.
Topeka's amateur ''Mikado' per-
fcrmances netted $500 for charity.
That's more than the mummies would
have brought had they sold them.
In southern Kansas and western
Kansas this winter several men have
been injured by heavy logs. This.
fellow citizens, was once prairie
country.
c. Wood Davis has got back into the
newspapers. Davis, like a comet,
moves in an irregular orbit, but he
gets around often enough to keep his
memory green.
That Butler county coal hole is ere
ating a great amount of curiosity be-
cause of the secret Kramer in which,
the work is prosecuted: all boring is
done after dark.
The Atchison Globe which knows
nothing about Western Kansas says
that the people in that part of the
state have been living on fresh air and
IA bbit tracks this winter.
At Corbin i'm Sumner county. skunks
have invaded the cemetery and eaten
the hands and feet off the dead peoples
buried there. If this is one of their
tricks, they deserve their name.
l.. c. Boyle of Fort Scott was admit !
ted into the cell to ''see' his client |
Colean, the bank wrecker. just three |
minutes" The iailor locked them in,
and forgetting them, kept them there |
three hours.
More money is paid for lodge dues !
in Sumner county than for taxes, and |
the egg crop sells for more than the |
interest money on the farm mortgages |
amounts to. There is no kick coming |
in that county.
Il. s. HEX of Manhatton. was n mem
Der of the Illinois legislature when
and Douglas had their cele-
brated contest for United States Sena
tor. Hick will deliver an address at
Westmoreland February %.
J. H. Brown, the new manager of
the Leavenworth opera house, has in
formed the city council that if they
will reduce mis- license from 500 to
ESQ year he would cease to have
Sunday night plays. The matter was
I:isen under Amusement by the coun
ell.
=. coal carrier at ottawa has been
and denying himself
many of the little sweets that go to-
ward making life a pleasure, for the
purpose of helping to keep up fund
10 continue the hopeless litigation
against the Anneke Jams estate. He
will sooner have fortune by putting
his spare pennies in his pocket.
Marbles and mumble-peg are now
raging at Topeka.
William Heddie committed suicide
in the Jail at Norton Tuesday night
He had been convicted of the murder
of Albert APPLICABLE, and sentenced to
serve term of fifteen years in the
at hard labor.
The people of Rice county are much
favored. There is only one brass band
in the county, and that IS at Rich
mond, which is SO far from the popu-
lous centers that it disturbs compar-
atively few of the county's inhabitants. !
Sunday night one of the lady mem !
hers of the choir at the Presbyterian !,
church in Abilene sang n solo. Her |
grandfather who is in his oath year.
was occupying a front seat. and no |
ticing that no one else of the choir |
and congregation was singing. con-
cluded that his granddaughter was |
abandoned and forthwith struck in |
and sang the solo from start to finish |
with her. It SO amused the singer |
that she was scarcely able SO sing for
The good old man after
ward remarked that it appeared to |
him that the singing at the church al |