The Globe-republican., 1896-01-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

Howard has . blooded FLY know
to turfmen as the "-Campbellite Mare.
Colonel J. d. Snoddy, of La Cygne
is clamoring for an extra session of tn
legislature.
Miss Lizzie High, of Lane. county
has put in $50 acres of wheat this fall
How is that for high?
White Rock, once bustling town il
the Central Branch country, is now re
duced to single store.
The Rush county man who wrot.
Sleep on thou cold, cold dead deaG
year must have been out of fuel.
The wooden mills machinery recent
ly sold in Topeka. will be put into
operation in Las Vegas, New Mexico
The Pittsburg mines, those no,
Hooded with water during the recen,
rains. are running to their utmost ca
pacity.
Kansas man recently went to Ke
okuk, Iowa, expecting to have a good
time. and found everybody had taken
the Kelly cure.
Mrs. Al Norris, one of the gang OF
counterfeiters arrested at Pittsburg,
tried to kill herself by taking NOR
phine. but was saved.
Leavenworth woman has started
Kitten garden and is now prepared
to furnish the feline market at prices
ranging from 81. so to s..
Stafford county has minister named
Inches, but the citizens there declare
that he comes along with both feet
when revival is In progress.
The six months supplies of the in
sane asylum at Osawatomie have COM
menced to arrive by the car load. The
quantity is larger than ever before.
A skeleton was dug up at Smith
Center Monday which is believed to be
that of young man believed to have
been murdered twenty years ago for
5000.
The school directors of the town of
Huron in Atchison county gave the
children Christmas holiday, and re-
quired the teacher to be on hand the
next day as usual.
The latest fad among Atchison's
swell women is to teach Sunday
school class. 1t is having such a great
run that children are rounded up and
run in to give all the teachers material
to work on
A tramp up in Leavenworth county
was taken in and given good supper
and a place to sleep. He paid for the
generosity by looting the house of all
the money, watches, diamonds and
other jewelry and left before break
fast
Footpads held up Fort Scott man
and got not a cent or the value of
cent, because he had blown everything
in for Christmas. He is laughing a
good deal at what he calls "a joke on
the footpads," but it strikes practical
people that the Joke" was having its
run about the time fool and his mon
ey were parted.
Judge Owen A. Bassett, who for
many years presided over the Law
renee judicial district, but who of late
years has resided at Ellsworth. has
been taken to Chicago for surgi cal
treatment by brother there, who is
skilful surgeon. Judge Bassett is suf
fering from diseased leg. and it is
the opinion of his Ellsworth physician
that it will be necessary to amputate
it.
Tobacco smoke is offensive to the
postmaster at Russell, and he has
posted notice that unless the patrons
of the office cease the practice he will
the mail This is an abridgment of
ancient rights, but the postmaster
seems to have the whip-hand and at
last accounts nobody had ventured to
smoke in the office since the order was
posted.
The cages in the old Jail at Atchison
were placed close against the wall,
and directly under a barred window.
When the cages were moved few days
ago a big pile of saws, files and other
tools desirable for Jail breaking pur-
poses, were found between the cages
and wall. The tools had been pushed
through the barred window from the
outside, only to fall behind the cage,
where they could not be reached.
Fifty-six convicts were received at
the United States penitentiary at Fl.
Leavenworth Christmas eve. three of
whom were Cinnamon. They shed
their garments and took bath all
right, but when the prison barber
went after their queues. there was a
fight right away. They used their
wooden shoes to good advantages: they
scratched bit and swore but a dozen
guards overpowered them. They al
most went mad after the shaving pro-
cess was completed and even talked of
suicide. A guard is maintained over
them lest they should attempt some
thing rash.
John Mcclure, who has been en-