The Globe-republican., 1897-11-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rested and taken to Pawnee for horse
stealing.
Hutchinson salt will be produced by
q new method and new machinery
hereafter
Two short term prisoners escaped
from the federal prison at Leaven
worth last week.
The hay crop of Butler county is %
short that the price of dry juiceless
grass has doubled up.
Neodesha is having a big fight over
the proposition: Shall the town OWL
her own gas and yvaterworks?
Fairview's claim of three churches,
good school facilities and no dives OF
Joints entities it to clear bill of health.
Gas is piped into Ottawa from Allen
county, where there are several places
where gas escapes from tie ground, Sc
they say.
James Whitcomb Riley, who is in
Topeka. says that Eugene Ware is
gifted in a literary way. but he makes
the gift subject to his whima
The managers of the Beloit lecture
association have requested that the
ladies remove their hats during the
progress of the entertainments.
Five hundred citizens of Seneca have
petitioned the city council to pass a
curfew ordinance. The matter was
worked up by the local w. Z. T. U.
The Florence Bulletin makes the
statement that well-worn checker
board is always to be found in the
Cuisines houses that do not advertise. {"
DIR. Charles Williamson of Washing
ton Kan. has written book entitled
pioneering in Kansas in the 'Fifties"
which will soon be ready for the pub
ic.
An Atchison man who rises the roof
every time his mother serves him
warmed oyer meals, is beginning to
fections of a widow.
The county attorney of Bourbon
county has ordered three jointists TAX
en- back to Jail from a room in the
court house, to which they had been
taken for i'll health.
A Harper county man who wished
20 vote the straight republican ticket
drew a line right down through the
column of squares; an instance of zeal
without judgment.
George Case of Jewell county, form
erly warden of the penitentiary, has
sailed on Senntor Baker for the pur-
pose of demonstrating how nicely he
wo"ld fit the position of warden Of the
federal pen.
in one of the section gangs on the
Southern Kansas railroad not long
since the boss discovered that one stall
wart young fellow was the SON of q
rich railroad president of Georgia, He
mentioned it to the young man and
the young man quit at once. The
young man, at the request of his faith
err IS learning the railroad business
from the ground up
The county surveyor of Bourbon
county has left with a car load of
mules for johannesburg, South Africa.
He shipped a car load of mules to the
same place year ago and profited SO
well from it that he concluded to try
It again this year. Mules sell high in
johannesburg. The trip will cost him
about $500 for his own passage, and he
sent man to take care of the mules,
whose passage on the steamer will
cost about $50.
Coffeyville and vicinity have been
very much annoyed for some time past
by the opertions of chicken thieves,
who have been raiding the coops with
comparative IMMUNITY. A few nights
ago at a Germans farm house one of
the gentry managed to drop his pocl1-
etbook. The German picked it up by
the hen house the next morning and
on opening it, found that it contained
sse. but nothing by which the owner
could be found, and the pocketbook
has not yet been called for.
Fred Arnold, of the Alton Empire,
was elected register of deeds of Osborne
county. George Ruede, q former edi-
tor. is now the county superintendent
there. H. NJ. Fletcher, former own
cr and proprietor of the sheet, was
recently appointed to the railway mail
ser%k Count Fred Hulaniski, who
was In charge in the early days, was
last year elected probate Judge of some
county out in Colorado. Another edi-
tor Of the Empire, when last heard of
was handicapped in his efforts 10 get
along in the world by q bad case Of