The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-07

l "A VJrt ScOs6 man mas 1nvc0CoO
new turntable.
II. N. Gaines will deliver the mem
orial address at Glasco.
There are now just fifty prisoners
in the state penitentiary under SEN
tence to hang.
The most terrible form of punish
ment known to children in southern
Kansas is to be whipped with q wet
rope"
According to an exchange ths time
will come when every bushel of corn
raised in Kansas will be sold on the
hoof.
One man in Barber county now has
500 acres of corn under cultivation.
And the price in Chicago continues to
60 down.
The Topeka fall festival will include
a lot of floats representing scenes from
Venice. A good many people will, 60
thinking it is Venus.
The gratifying rate at which Dick
! inson's court docket dwindles away
with each succeeding term indicates
that the world is growing better.
The Lawrence Journal has been Civ
en- the county printing at full legal
rates. This full legal rate business
| appears to be growing in fashion.
Alonzo Cunningham has sued the
Sa ota Fe for damages .OOO-in the
| Cowley county district court. He was
hurt at Shoemaker, New Mexico, last
Christmas day.
Jerry Black has been married a
j whole year and he still keeps his
clothes brushed and his feet well
shod. He also lifts his hat to his wife
when he meets on the street.
Last week a horse slipped in the
| mud, fell and broke both legs of a
western Kansan: ''They hurt terribly,
DOCTOR" he said, but l amt COM
planning. Thank God for the rain
Leavenworth has broken out with
the bicycle fever. The Leavenworth
girls enjoy life now that they can
! chase out to the fort every few hours
to watch the soldiers breathe and eat.
Richard C. Meade, the Atchison thief,
adventurer and all round scoundrel.
whose penitentiary sentence has been
affirmed by the supreme court, is i'm
patient to get to work" but cannot
be taken to Lansing until the official
mandate comes from Topeka.
A Topeka justice of the peace has
decided that the services of a ''spotter''
in securing evidence against whiskey
sellers have a value, and that the Off
Ger employing such a person must pay
the bill out of his own pocket A
spoilers" chief value is to make fees
for justices of the peace.
A young tramp went to Harry Patti
sons home in Butler county Saturday
and was given his breakfast by Mrs.
Pattison. He emptied pail of slop,
after finishing the meal, and did not
return, which aroused Mrs. Pattison's
suspicious. and she then noticed that
her diamond ring which she had hung
upon nail while doing her work, was
gone Her husband was absent so she
Informed her brOther-in-law, Will Pat
tison, at once and he came down town
and told Constables Charles Schram
and George Young, who shortly after
wards arrested several suspicious char
acters at the Santa Fe freight depot,
one of whom was identified by Mrs.
Pattison as the person who was at her
house. A star on his left hand with
indelable ink was the means of Mrs.
Pattison's identifying him beyond
doubt. Upon being thoroughly
searched the ring was found sewed up
in the waistband of his trousers. He
is now reposing in the county Jail.
His name he gives as William Ander-
son, and age ,: years.
Billy Morgan, who keeps his eye on
the main chance, thus cultivates the
men of the ''short grass country"
THE inha bitants Of the short grass
country are distinguished for their
cordiality, their frankness, their lack
of conventionality, their loyalty to
each other and to the prairies which
they have converted from desert
into garden spot. The traveller can
tell the difference when he crosses the
line between Barton and Pawnee coun-
ties After that he is no stranger
No native of the short grass country
ever thinks of riding in car seat by
himself, of estimating the character
of an acquaintance by the cut of his
clothing, and Judging him by that
standard. His religion, his politics or
his previous condition, even his name
in h1S old hnr1o -