The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-04-30
w;lliam Hawley Smith is in Kansas

again.
Topeka will use 5000, 900 bricks for
sidewalks this year.
Many calves are dying in Franklin
county from backlog.
Will Morgan says no woman should
lean back when she laughs.
The corn crop of Kansas in twenty
five years has aggregated SIG, 600. GU.
There will be no essays by the grad
uating of the Erie High school this
year. Senator Charles F. Scott will
deliver a lecture instead.
lin Dickinson county the wheat is
jointing, and the Abilene Reflector
says it has no bulge on the towns IN
that respect, for the towns are too.
The lecturer who is sweeping south
ern Kansas with lecture on"Eiec-
tricity" may yet be caught out In q
Kansas thunderstorm and find out
more about his subject than he wants
to know.
The county attorney of Cloud coun-
ty, after canvassing the county At an
expense of $4l2, was compelled to dis
miss whiskey case because he was
not able to prove anything BY the
prosecuting witness.
A man at Halston has issued rclig-
ious circular in which appears wood
cut of a naked Eve with serpent with
baby legs on it tickling Eve under the
chin. Why, oh why do people do such
things?
v. L. Kellogg. who went from Kan
sas to Leland Stanford university, has
just been made full professor. He
now draws a higher salary than does
any professor in the Kansas State uni
versity, aud has all the time he wants
for pursuing his studies.
Belva Lockwood recently appeared
before q committee in Washington as
an attorney for John Friend of Butler
county, whose wife was scalped by the
Indians and his boy taken into cap
tivity twenty-seven years ago. He
asks Sc, 500 of the government.
When Harry Tebbs, an Atchison
street car conductor, was a boy in Ken
lucky, his great chum was negro boy
named Eli Green. whose father was
owned by Tebb's father. Last week
Tebbs discovered that Green lives in
Atchison, employed as porter. They
had not seen each other in over thirty
years.
w. P. Tomlinson. Kansas man, was
sent to Europe by the New York Ev-
enlng Post in 1859. He landed at Glib
raltar, travelled through Spain on foot
and spent several months in France.
England and Scotland. Mr.. TOnlin-
son was a poet in his earlier days. In
1862 he published volume of his YER
ses entitled s'Home and Abroad"
Some Labette county farmers are be-
ing worked by the representatives of
Nebraska firm who agree to pay
certain price for their produce the
year around, and agree to exchange
therefor groceries of the best grades
at prices which local merchants cannot
buy the same commodities for. Farm
ers who patronize this concern will
eventually learn that it pays to pat
ronize home merchants.
Nav Evans. Is years old, of Topeka,
can whistle the notes of songbirds so
accurately that the birds themselves
are deceived. From her early years
she has been ..whistling girl" and
for two summers she has been imita-
ting birds OF visit to the country
last year she tells this pretty story:
Il spent few weeks at Granville
last spring and = redbird woke me up
every morning with his noisy call.
When it got tc be a regular thing de-
[ cided to answer back. The bird did
| not know what to make of it, and one
morning ventured to fly in at the win
dow in search of his mate. l tried to
catch him, but he was gone before
could think" The young lady has
had tempting offers to go on the stage.
| They called Oh Sol Smith Russell when
he was in Topeka and complemented
Miss Russell very highly and told hel
I there was fortune for her in New
York. Miss Evans has wide range
gong from c below middle c to high L
with the greatest ease
VIM. Gales. of Cowley county. is in
the Elk county Jail under the charge
Of perjury in connection with the de-
Tense in the O'Hare case-the old cat
tie thief who escaped from the jailer
County Attorney Marshall thinks he
has dead open and shut case agains,
him.
1t is said the Cotfeyville faith heal
err cures by rubbing saliva on his pa
tients. This statement is guara u teed
by Gion Roberts. who says while he
was talking with the ''healer'' stran
ger appeared with Ian orange blossom
on his nose" The healer spit on hi.
thumb and rubbed it on the man:
nose and told him to come back mex,
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