The Globe-republican., 1897-08-12

The report that Larncd mas gone ory
is officially denied.
The lice of state grain inspector is
not self supporting.
1t was the warmest July Kansas has
experienced for seven years.
Pratt county will vote on the county
high school question this fall.
The building of new car shops at
Topeka gives employment to 300 men.
The Santa Fe railroad will soon have
electric headlights of great brlliancy.
Kansas has 43.433 old soldiers and
their pensions help to relieve the mon
ey cramp.
Thirty applicants are lined up for
the Syracuse schools Worse than .
postoffice fight
A Cottonwood Falls man has bought
a suit of fur clothes and will go to the
Kaondyke fixed.
In Leavenworth where they license
tn. joints city taxes were increased
five mills last year.
An Ottawa bridegroom got scared at
what was ahead of him and hid out
until friends reassured him.
A Mnlvane man found his wife sit.
ting on another mans lap. He made
the consumer pay the tax, $500.
Aschison women will run the street
cars one day and give the receipts to
the corn carnival fund to buy red ears.
More sensational things happen at
Wichita than in any other Kansas
town, at least they get into the news
papers.
The biographies to supply the
schools of Kansas will be printed In
Chicago. and 1t will take twelve cars
to haul them.
Lee Peters, who brutally assaulted
two men with poker in Salvation
Army meeting at Fort Scott. has been
caught and jailed.
The institute has begun at Jetmore
and the young men who have been in
the harvest field are spending their
money on ice cream.
The Missouri Pacific received forty
| cents from conscience struck Wichita
minister who once beat the corpora
tic;l out of railroad fare.
A Salina beau gave his best girl
jeweled garter. She afterwards went
back and him and he now wants it re-
turned. But she isn't built that way
| The ministers of Waterville are ag-
itating stricter enforcement OF. the
Sunday observance law of that town.
Other towns in the county will do the
same
/ A Kiowa shoemaker has just beaten
an editor in securing the pOstoffice.
! The editor is mad. He thinks the
shoemaker should have ''stucls to his
last
The Fort Scott occupation tax inn
poses license on preachers and rot
OH newspapers. Why this iiscrlmina-
tion between workers in the vine
yard.
Young men are leaving Fort Scott
rather than work out their poll tax.
The women who voted at the last cleo
ton are standing their grounds like
Amazons.
Two women had a knock-down fight
at Galena recently. 1t occurred in a
grocery store and they knocked down
about half ton of canned goods. 1t
was all about man.
The celebration of the Santa Fe Sill
YER Jubilee on Wednesday of Festival
week at Topeka (Septcmber 29.) will
be the largest gathering of railroad
men ever seen in Kansas.
On account of the heavy movement
Of wheat. three new telegraph Offices
have been opened on the southern di.
vision of tine Santa Fe. The new offices
are at Wilmore and Anness on the Au-
gusta branch. and Lawric on the main
line in Oklahoma.
| The stucco industry is proving a
/; rushing ole at Dillon. The mills are
| running extra and an increa scd output
is expected for the next year. One OF
the leading manufacturers saws that
the industry has been barely existing
during the decrease in the building
| trades, and that now there are indica-
tions that there will be 4 revival all
over The country and that the building
trades will be the first to feel it. In
quiries are coming in from the east for
the stucco and the gypsum properties
are in more demand than for long
time The stocks of the material are