The Globe-republican., 1897-08-19

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!. 1000 population year -Four OF them
were added last year.
At Pratt recently . chicken hatched
ont from an egg in an egg-crate. 1t
lived only . few days
An old woman near Ottawa chases
prairie chicken hunters off her place
with Colt-45-calibre.
Agents taking pictures for art firms
to enlarge. have been receiving part
pay in advance and swindling people
in Eastern Kansas
Plums are so plentiful in the neigh.
borhood of Garden City that children
can make 81 a day at picking them, al
4 cents per basket
The banks of franklin county have
on deposit more than half million
dollars and the greater part of it be-
longs to the farmers
Now that the Wellington waterworks
have been shut down by eastern CAPT
talists, the people OF that town de-
nounce the original ordinance granting
the franchise a scheme, fraud and rob
berry, secured by bribery.
Ed Howe says that old people are of.
ten fretful and seemingly unreasona'
BILE because they are sick. The young
should remember this After a man is
seventy years old, he is simply . lot Of
decaying matter waiting for burial
Another train will be put on the
Oberlin branch. This new arrange
ment is called for by the increased
business of the line. One train will
handle all through freight and ex-
press. The other will take care of
local freight Both trains will carry
passengers.
George Zebb, a farmer living west of
Lawrence, brought in load of oats he
sold to member of the city council
He had the load weighed on the city
scales, and as ne went to deliver it he
was seei to unload a quantity of rock
concealed in the oats. Officers had the
load re-weighed and it was found 4s0
pounds short.
A nest of thieves was found at Plema
last week and three burglars are now
held in the Reno county Jail. They are
VIM. johnson of Ossawatomie, Tom
Harris of Indiana, and Charles Smith
of Springfield, III. The trio has been
doing big business lately, and when
arrested were in possession of large
of goods stolen recently from
a store at Sylvia. They admit having
robbed the store at Sylvia.
The rush of grain from the northern
and western points is so great that the
Missouri Pacific yards at Atchison have
been blocked for several days and it is
necessary to sidetrack Central Branch
freight trains mile west of town. It
takes seven switch crews to handle the
business in the Missouri Pacific yards.
The Central Branch shops forces are
working 10 hours a day to keep the
rolling stock in good order.
Kansas was visited by another good,
soaking rain on the night of August
Is, which did much good to growing
crops throughout the state. Especial
ly did it do much good to grapes, APP
Piles and peaches aud all other grow
ing fruits and vegetation. The hay:
crop is now assured and likewise the
kaffir corn. Besides all this the suffer.
ing humanity were greatly benefited
by such generous cooling off of the
The broomcorn harvest of the belt
where that product is raised extensive
ly has begun, and the fields are filed
with workers this week. There are
of acres that will produce
little or nothing because of the dry
and there are many that will
the uplands is particularly injured.
and there is much Encouragement
among the Swedes and Mennonites,
who depend on this crop.
By an error just discovered in the
schedule of time to be deducted from
the terms of convicts in the pen, it is
estimated that the state of Kansas has
secured from convicts within the past
years, $4,000 days work
to which it was not legally entitled.
This labor purchased at the ordinary
rate would amount to more than
81 900, 900. The schedule was prepared
in 1867, and has been in constant use
without change since that time.
The 100 pound rate is now in effect
on all the Kansas railroads and mere
after live stock will be charged for by
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