The Globe-republican., 1897-08-26

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salina is kicking against the SAINTS
Fe's fast mail.
Newton ladies give good old fashion
Cd quilting bees
The slaughter of plover in the short
grass country is immense.
James Long, near the town of Jen'
nings. was killed by lightning recent
ly.
Tie state officers have been invited
to attend the Neosho Fails old soldiers
reunion.
Dwight Fowler, formerly of Newton,
was drowned near Dyea, Alaska, while
trying to ford stream.
Kansas products will bring more
money this year than ever before in
the history of the state.
Thieves stole two Windsor bicycles
in Newton recently, and Sa5 is offered
for the return of the wheels.
Two brothers named Palmer, of Gal:
Valley, were in the pen at lansing,
and one recently made his escape.
Seventy coaches of Kansans rolled
into Kansas City one Sunday recently
That town has open saloons on Sunday.
A prisoner in the Fort Scott lookup
refuses to work on the rock pile and
he gets nothing to eat but bread and
water.
The Leavenworth city council has
increased the tax levy, the necessity
for such action being due to previous
misrule.
The Usage county Fair Association
will hold its twenty-frst annual fair
at Burlingame September 40. There
will be special features each day.
Madison Staley of Ottawa, who was
killed in bicycle accident last spring,
carried $4,000 life insurance, and his
wife has just received the first pay.
ment
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has been requested by ]. A.
Mosher of Rydal, Republic county, to
order the Rock Island to establish
telegraph Office at that point
A western Kansan, having been de-
serted by rich woman, whom he had
married, is suing her for years sup
port. The poor fellow thus thrown on
the world, has no wife to provide for
him.
A bushel of corn makes four gallons
Of whisky which retail at SIS. Out of
this the government gets So, the rail-
roads 81, the manufacturer 49, IS, the
vender 81, the farmer 25 cents and the
drinlser the jim-jams-sometimes.
Those government engineers who
have been around through the north
and east portions of Smith county for
some time, are now having a 70 foot
tower built in Smith Center which will
be set up near Reanlsville for an oh.
tower and land mark.
The bfoomcorn 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
weather, and there are many that will
be shortened.
An Atchison woman kept store for
her husband one day recently and
wrote twenty-three letters to friends
This is the first time that she has had
time for letter writing since she was
married six years ago, and she wishes
to hear nothing further of how hard
her husband works.
We should hate to tempt the good
young women of Harper, who have re-
solved not to ''go with" any young
man who drinks, smokes or uses pro-
fame language, by planting a young
man in Harper who does all three
with a certified statement that he is
eligible and gets 500 a month.
The church and Sunday school peo-
pie of Usage county are anxious to see
something of the dark side of life and
have arranged for an excursion over
the Santa Fe to the State penitentiary
at Lansing on September l. Inciden-
tally, the Soldiers home at Leaven.
worth will also be visited. The excur-
sion train will start from Usage City
and will take on passengers at Carbon
dale, Burlingane and Scranton. 1t is
expected that eight coaches will be
needed for the excursion.
The new hedge law is now effective,
but it rests with the people of each
county to say whether it shall be made
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