The Globe-republican., 1896-02-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

liza bllltleS OF about 5000. Slow col
lections on securities was the cause.
The Haskell county school marms
have added to the attractions of the
attractions of the old fashioned spell
ling bee the interest OF .'ciphering
match.
ID. Il. Anthony of LeavenwOrth has
begun Improvements on his new home
for the Times and will eXpend $500
in fitting up the building he has lately
purchased.
Recently Roy Farrell Green of
Cowley county. had a poem in New
York Truth and it was illustrated by
Charles Howard johnson. an old-time
Kansas boy.
Uncle Toms Cabin failed to draw
the usual crowd at Chetopa. The
towns high school graduates have be-
come numerous enough to govern the
tastes of the community.
\ Michigan farmer traded his daugh-
ter for her weight in pork. If this
should become a Kansas custom big
girls would stand no earthly chance of
ever getting husband.
The city council at Lcavenworth
was besieged at its last session by a
number of da mage claims from per-
sons who had been IN ured on account
of bad sidewalks, and they each got
nothing.
The oil fields in eastern Kansas are
booming and the Kansas City Gazette
thinks new Pennsylvania will be
located there. Shouldn't wonder if
the Standard Oil company would locate
in the greatest state on earth. vet.
The town of IIcwins. since Ed Hew-
ins left the country, is booming in all
branches of industry. Trade is good.
marriages and births frequent, and
even the churches are doing we'll One
evangelist dips fifteen converts every
Sunday.
The PleaSantOn Observer saws Mrs.
i. IL. Jones is the first to report a
brood of young chickens. For several
years Mrs. Jones and her favorite hen
''Speck," have been the foremost ones
in presenting to the public herd of
young fowls.
Nathan +. Brown. aged Il. is being
tried at Lawrence for bigamy. The
jury will try the case in full on Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. Brown is well
known i'm Lawrence. He was married
in 1854. Last April he married Ellen
Fisher of Kansas City.
The Kansas state board Of railroad
commissioners. in its fight for lower
corn rates, threatens to complain to
the Interstate commerce commission,
BY the time the interstate commerce
commission gets around to the ease
there will be no corn for shipment.
There is always Il way to work the
people
Wednesday night at Pittsburg ]. II.
Price left his bride of two months and
one knows where His wife is a lady
of rare intelligence. and she feels her
condition keenly. She is utterly pcni
lses, and has written her fat Their for
means to ena BILE her to reach the pa
rental roof.
For the first time in the history of
LeavenwOrth an electric car was used
to convey a body to the cemetery. The
infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Laren
died Wednesday evening and the cas-
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on special electric car in waiting
and the funeral party was conveyed
from Tenth and Ottawa streets to
Mount Muncie.
Special Agent Dixon of Washington.
sent out by the government to
make the much-talked-of Delaware
payment, has arrived in Coffeyvilie.
He says the payment will begin at
Bartlesville. l. L. by the 18th. This
will be joyful news to a great many
would have been taxed to their utmost
TO stem the tide had this payment
been delayed much longer.
Fred Funston. one of the sons of
IA u. Is SSbtiHS W oS III uShiduu ~
the standard periodicals.. He has
written a great deal for Harper's pub
LEGATIONS, and the last issue of Har
per's Weekly contains full page of
illustrations and two column ac
count of his Alaska trip. Funston is
a son of eN-Congressman Funston, but
he doesn't work on that reputation.
He is a newspaper man. an explorer,
an all around writer and good fell
low.
Dr. Martha Hall Smith OF Fostoria
has the henor of being the only wO-
man who has ever sat upcn a jury in
Kansas the case was a trial for in
sanity, and the law says a jury shall
be composed OF SIX persons. at least
one of whom is a practicing physician.
As there was was no male physician
in town, DIR. Martha Hall-Smith was
summoned to act and elected as fore
man. and upon her decision as phys
ician and the finding of the jury q wo-
man was adjudged insane and sent to
the asylum.
A Cowley county boy will carry off