The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-01-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTERI;sr.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTERISr.
At Newton the girl clerks are asf'
tating for early closing to give then
time to make new toys.
Ewing Herbert says there are many
different kinds of kisses and the one
you want is the one that is hard to get
Lane county produces good celery.
A little water and patience will do
anything out in the short grass coun-
~.
A chattcl mortgage was given in
Rice county last week on Jerry S;mp.
SOD. This Jerry Simpson is . ''bay
ge!ding"
One of The troubles with the postof-
fee at Hutchinson it develops, was
that everybody knew the combination
of the safe.
A Saiina young man who fell out
with his girl two weeks before Christ
mas Is now trying to make up but she
won't have It.
The Arkansas City Traveller thinks
the new brewery will suit Wichita bet
ter than opening the Arkansas river
to navigation
A Barton county man makes q regu-
lar business Of killing farmers hogs
lalsvn~srp 6voSSnA
at so cents each.
The relatives of the Wellington man
who returned $500 he had wrongfully
drawn from the government have had
him put in custody as insane.
The criminal record in Ottawa coun-
ty was very short last year. Ten per-
sons were put in Jail, two were sent to
peniteutiary and Joe Tomlinson was
defeated for representative.
St John has had carnival" one
of the features of which was drill by
sixteen Cuban patriots. The patriots
we're pretty girls and a call for volun-
teers would have secured regiment
of men.
There is q concealed laugh some
where in the request of a Cheney wom-
an to young man who called on her
daughter to return the nursing bottle
which he had carried away in his over
coat pocket.
This is the time for southern and
western Kansas to get together and
get United States senator. The next
opportunity is four long years off.
Procrastlnation has got his hands
down Times jeans.
An Arkansas City young man sent
his best girl a box of flowers and could
not understand why she sent them
back until he noticed that they were
packed in a box labeled ''men's bal
briggan drawers"
The Liberal News reports man in
it's town who doesn't take a newspaper.
He recently sent so cents in answer to
an advertisement show to maks pants
last He received the reply: make
your coat and vest first"
An Oklahoma paper says that any
Republican who breaks over the line
for the pie counter before March will
be convicted of soonerism. Kansans
should also adopt this method and
avoid all political trouble.
The northern department of the
Kansas courts of appeal has decided
that decree of divorce is not opera
tive until six months after it is grant
ed. This is to shut off marriages with
in the six months following divorces.
Becky Sharpe, in the Mail and
Breeze. says man buying gloves for
present for lady should always get
No. So. They won't fit, but she will
be pleased to think her hands are con-
sidered SO small and she can exchange
the gloves.
There is something comfortable in
seeing Doster chief justice. He is the
greatest dreamer in the state. He can
get away from all mankind nov and
dream his dream out, reveling in the
pleasant atmosphere of the thought
that his salary is sure Doster is an
admirable man. The state will come
to know him as such before he is
through with his term.
Some interest Is excited throughout
Kansas by the reports that the Wich-
ito reservation and some of the Choc-
taw lands are to be opened for settle
ment. BY tue arrangement with the
Choctaw Indians 10, $50 square miles,
or 6,6ss. 900 acres of territory have
been brought within the jurisdiction
of the federal authorities Il n q ccrn-
try as large as New Jersey a>d E:s.a-
ware combined. The land will be sold
to actual settlers, and the transfer
will eventuate in giving good titles to
homes and establishing law and order