The Globe-republican., 1897-01-07

Tho only National bank IN MePhsr.
soo county Is 1t Lindsborg.
Garden City ordered 600 feet Of new
hose in time to hang it up Christmas
Eve.
Mistletoe was scarce at Great Bend.
but SO far neither party has moved foR
. recount
The first of the week Kansas people
enjoyed sleigking as of former back
east" dayA
The average Kansan has turned owe,
= new leaf and will begin The New
Year right
The Tribune literary society is solv
ing all the great problems with neat
ness and dispatch.
Undertakers are doing SO well at Sa
lima that one pulled mp and went ther,
from Abilene last week.
At an Ell Dorado masque bali, on.
young woman appeared in the imper
sonation of "a girl of sixteen"
A bloomer club has been organized
BY the women of Wathena- Lone
dresses no longer are visible on the
streets.
If Governor Leedy tries to enforcs
the prohibitory law he will not get the
assistance of Attorney General Boyle
so it is said.
The probate judge Of Harvey county
claims to be BILE to tell when q man j.
going to apply for y marriage licens'
by his walk.
The Topeka papers now think tha'
Fave Overmyer standr q chance for the
United States Senate. Oyermyer lives
in Topeka too
Jack Remington. who used to whaci
the mules on the stage between EN-
poria and Eureka, lives near Eu.oks
and is prosperous.
Southern central and western Kan.
sas now has a chance to get United
States Senator and should insist
Northwestern Kansas should have .
rest
The good town of Ho!ton has become
used to drug store whisky, and las,
week a mass meeting Of citizens adopt
ed resolutions opposing constitutions,
The first severe storm of the season
began Jan. I'd, aster a twenty-fc.ul
hours rain. The wheat crop through.
out the state will be helped by the
rain and snow.
Some one has resurrected the fact
that Tom Anderson led the Greely
campaign in Kansas. The idea is thaS
this will injure Anderson with McKin
ley. 1t will not.
Three men in Kansas have defied al
the analyses of newspaper correspond
ents-Frank Doster, David Martin and
John J. Ingalls,. Neither ono has ever
been truthfully analyzed.
Jerry Shaw, an engineer on the San
ia Fe, says he has made the run from
City to Dodge, distance of fifty
miles, in 43 minutes. Few engines on
the road can make this time.
If Frank Doster were not on the su-
preme bench he would be in the race
for the United States Senate. Doster
would not be in the Senate two months
before he would be 4 national figure.
In the ancient sacriicial mound near
Arkansas City which is being explored
heavy verified paving bricks have
been found. Can it be possible that 10
some ancient day some one ralSed o4e;
in a paying contract in an
extinct Kansas town?
In every Santa Fe passenger coach
is saw, an AK and hatchet. This
had long puzzled prominent Kansas
editor and he asked conductor about
it the other day. He told the editor
that they were provided to enable the
train crew to get away with the chick
en- sandwishcs which arc sold on the
depot platform at Emporia.
The farmers of Pottawatomie county
are much excited over the advent of
land jumpers who have sprung up
since it became known that much o
the railroad land held by residents of
the county had never been patented.
The farmers of the eastern and west
ern portions of the county have formed
societies for preventing illegal home
The ill feeling engendered
is growing in intensity.
There are seven separate and distinct
salt companies in Hutchison, owning
fourteen salt ''plants" The compan-
les are: The Hutchinson Salt Company
the Kansas Salt company; the Hutch
inson Packing company; the Barton
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