The Globe-republican., 1897-01-14

4 Newton church society gave .
zig Leaf social" 49,
The mayor of Chanute suffers from
the name of Bile&
An Ottawa dentist adveftises to pull
teeth for quarter.
A Downs newspaper man has back
slid and gone to preaching.
The State Historical society is max.
ing war on the state library.
| Humboldt will put up Sls. 900 for IN
oil refinery. Humboldt has Just walked
up
| The Atchison Champion wants the
Office of state printer abolished and
the work let to the lowest bidder.
The plan of making Kansas Day one
Of celebration in vindication of the
state has started tho eastern foods OF
ridicule again.
A Michigan man Shaa written Bill
Edwards asking him for = copy of the
Kansas law making corn and wheat of
the same value.
Newton is just now excited over a
black spot right in the middle of the
sun. It is visible to the world outside
of Newton. also.
The county commissioners of Cowley
county have refused to accept the bond
Of the new Treasurer. They insist OH
its Improvement in securities.
Allen oo6ns;; the henS q Foghorn
Funston. was named after William Al
len, governor OF OlsG;p-ras in his
day known as Foghorn Bill Allen.
Hackney of Wellington, If he does
not get the convicts to do the state
printing, will probably move to make
them deputies under the state officers
A carp weighing twelve pounds was
caught out of the Arkansas river at
Wichita last week. And still there
are liars who say that noble stream is
not navigable.
! Despite all announcements to the
contrary, Ingalls, will not be a candi.
date for tho senate in 1900. ingalls, Is
through with that. And Kansas is t.
blame, not Ingalls,.
The Sumner county member of the
legislature will that the state estab-
lish farms for the purpose of raising
seed wheat to be furnished to Kansas
farmers free of charge.
Something will come up in Bill
Whites throat when he reads this in
the local column of his home paper:
All who want Will Whites books
! please call and get them"
Barnum once had lightning ticket
seller named Powers. Powers died
while the show was in Atchison. Bar
mum had stone erected over the
grave and when he came to Atchison
always visited it.
Peanuts are a staple crop in Cowley
county. An acre of ground will pro-
duce about $50 bushels. and they bring
| for cents bushel The cost of pro-
duction is about % per cent of the pro-
duct.
Hutchinson is greatly exercised over
the loss of the money in the postofice
there. Several people are suspected,
among them a young lady clerk. The
inspectors will get 1T the bottom Of the
matter and public opinion will have
mighty little to do with it.
George w. Gilmore, the Rawlins
county man who was shot by an un-
known person recently, will recover,
but he will lose one eye and one jaw
and all of his good looks. His wife,
whom he neglected for another WON,
an, has come to.a1fse him. The buck
shot, which lodged in his face, are
working into his throat, and unable to
expel them. he swallows them.
Stella Mott, the Hutchinson girl who
disappeared, turns out to be the New
ton girl, Grace Burns, who was found
in a hay-stacl< near Burton. Stella
says she was walking along the street
| in Hutchinson the other evening when
a closed carriage came up behind her;
some one struck her on the head and
carried her away. The next thing she
knew she was lying in hay-stack.
Her father thinks she was attacked,
then dragged and appearing to he dy.
ing she was abandoned by her captors.
If Job had known the following,
says an exchange, perhaps the record
of his patience would have been lost
to posterity: The yolk of an egg
made into q plaster of honey and flour
of about the consistency of mustard
paste. gives speedy relief to one
afflicted with boils- The white. used
as coating for scalds and burns, ex.
cludes the air which $50 aggravates the