The Globe-republican., 1897-08-26
n. B. KLAINE, Publisher.
KANSAS

DODGE CITY. KANSAS
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
must DO sold for cash in Kansas this
year.
Michael Rainaker, of Pawnee cOSnty
is dying from injuries received by slid
ing from load of hay upon pitch
fork.
Listen to an old man talk and you
will hear him lie about the great
amounts of money he made when he
was young.
The Kansas Supreme Court will soon
pass upon the law taxing judgments.
The law was upheld in the District
and Appellate courts and now goes to
the Supreme Court
Deductions in the office of tho coun-
ty clerk show that the actual debt OF
Newton is between S23 and Se4 per
capita-less than $e5 for every man,
woman and child in the city.
Ayoung man hired a fine horse and
buggy in st. Paul Neosho county. re-
Gently, and drove off with it. He sold
the buggy and harness in Parsons, but
he and the horse have not been over
taken.
The latest petty thieving in the East
ern part of the state is the purloining
of butter from wells, placed there for
cool keeping by good farmers wives
the fresh yellow butter, the rich Ier-
sey butter they hang in the we'll
A handsome Hutchinson young lady
who has been engaged three weeks,
had her fortune told recently, and said
she wouldn't tell her friends what the
fortune has in store for her for a mill
lion dollars. With that sum of money
she might avoid it and marry foreign
count
All but two of the coal operators of
the district comprised in Crawford and
Cherokee counties have signed the
agreement made with the executive
board at Pittsburg, August II. These
are the Kansas and Texas Coal COM
pany, and the Central Coal and Coke
company.
Here's a farmers sure rat eradicator:
Take one-half pint OF sifted meal and
put into it q thlmbleful of calomel,
such as used in families Mix well and
place in small tins or some shallow
vessel in or near where the rats infest,
all to be used dry, and in short time
rats will be scarce on the premises.
An Atchison paper, in recounting
chat Bishop Millspaugh of Kansas was
introduced to Queen Victoria during
his recent visit in London, declares
that Topeka has decided to make him !
i feature of the fall festival by stand
ing him up somewhere and allowing |,
the people to shake the hand that was
pressed by her majesty. Here's a
chance for Kansas miilionaires' daugh- |
tiers to get touch of high life and a
royal thrill.
Great excitement prevails in the vi
cinity of White Church and Piper, two
small villages in Wyandotte county.
on the Northwestern road, and battle
between the villagers and gang of
,ramps is expected at any time. A few
days ago the tramps and farmers of
Piper had fight and one tramp was
shot and badly injured. Later some OF
them returned and attempted to set
fire to farm house but were driven
off. At the same time they posted no.
tees on gates warning the farmers
that they are to be burned out. Six
armed men patrol the county roads
now with we'll arranged signal sys-
TEN aud vigilant watch is kept for the
tramps.
The Santa Fe railway freight de-
partment is experiencing the greatest
rush of business in the history of the
road. The movement OF fruit from
California and grain from Kansas has
never been SO great and every availa-
BILE chr fit for shipping is being pressed
into service. Last week and a few
weeks previous the company was doing
rushing business in potatoes and live
stock, but the big end of the potatoe
rush is over now, while the live stock
business is again normal. The fruit
which the Santa Fe is hauling comes
from northern California and consists
principally of plums. grapes and
peaches. The bulk of it goes to Chica-
go and other eastern cities. All of the
cars are re-iced Mt Argentine, and the
company has big force of men en-
gagged in this work. A dispatch from