The Globe-republican., 1896-06-25
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Ixur,ei lives In LaOette county, Dut
he is no angel.
| Professor Fahnestock. the Dunkard
preacher. who was on trial for heresy,
was acquitted. He was accused OF
thinking that women did not need to
wear ugly peke bonnets to be saved.
A Lawrence woman, Mrs. Lucy
Sheets. killed her little girl, eighteen
| months old, with an AK. because. she
told the county attorney, she thought
she could not bring it up as she ought
! Lyon county has bad case of the
gold fever. 1t is hidden treasure of
an old California miner. The amount
hidden was about 500. 600 and is known
as the Walker treasure. There is much
excitement.
About the brightest woman the suf-
| fragists ever have brought to Kansas
| is Charlotte Perkins Stetson of Boston.
She is good locker and a good dres-
ser, and she thinks like chain light
ming.
Several days after the late storm in
! Marshall, Nemaha and Brown coun-
! ties, farmer picked up on his prem
Uses, in Atchison county, Mo-, what
proved to be check for 81 600, drawn
at Frankfort, Kansas, that had not
been paid.
H. E. Ware of Fort Scott has pat
ented machinery for the preparation
of fax fiber from the straw for the
manufacture of thread and cloth. he
has interested Kansas City capital in
the scheme, and factory will be cs-
ia biished at that city.
Henry Crow, a farmer who lives
near Garden City caught fifteen BUSH
els of grasshoppers off seven acres of
alfalfa in two hours with a machine
he has for the purpose. He kept them
in sacks all night and fed them to
neighbor's hogs the next morning. 1t
was great feast for the hogs.
F. NJ. Higgason of Belleville few
days ago received a letter from his son
Harry, at st. Louis. telling him OF
what a narrow escape he, Harry, had
in the cyclone. He was engaged in
running an elevator in a six story
building, which was blown down in
the cyclone, killing seven persons, but
fortunately Harry escaped by crawl
ing into sewer. In conclusion he adj
vises the old man to steer clear of
brick buildings when he sees cyclone
coming.
a number OF times, of late, the DON
iphan county board has made orders
allowing persons to redeem certain
quarter section of land from sales for
taxes for years before the war, gener-
ally 1859, These little transactions
illustra te the advance in the price of
land since these years. The original
taxes on these quarter sections were
from s. to 81. They are now the most
valua bic lands in the county, selling
for $4,000 to $4,000 per quarter. In
the years before the war, the lands in
the western part of the county were
not sought after, people not caring to
settle on the open prairie; and the as
sessed valuation was very low. as may
be seen by the amount of taxes: and
the owners even then. in many cases.
did not take the trouble to pay the
taxes. These lands have recently
been changing hands at high prices,
and, in perfecting the title, it is dis
covered that many of them were bid
in by the county SO many years ago
for taxes. that even the records were
not searched until it became necessa-
ry. and then it was found that the
land had never been redeemed from
these sales. If lands spectators had
only known it. they could have made
a good thing by acquiring the lands
by tax title. The original patents for
a large proportion of the land in Don
iphan county have never been record
ed, but are still in the general land Of
fee at Washington waiting to be call
ed for by those who entered the land.
This illustrates the carelessness of
people in regard to titles to their prop
erty.
1t was said of an Atchison man re-
Gently that he had no vices. He should
get some: every man should have a
vice or two. Being a member of a
lodge, and wearing plunes and
badges. is better than perfection. No
man should be perfect. They are SIM
ply uncomfortable
Jesse Powell of Stockton, IL years
old. has started out to get rich. jaw
Gould began with mouse trap: Young
Powell has ideas. The other day he
levied a nickel loan on his friends.
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