The Globe-republican., 1897-12-30


1. 500 hundred head of cattle feeding,
requiring mech corn, hay and othel
products of the farm. Besides making
these products in demand, it naturally
forces the consumer to pay the highest
market prices for everything.
Two parties have died at Elk City AZ
. result of drinking rough on rats with
coffee. Two more parties are very i'll
from its effect and are expected to die
The fifth, which made up the party,
will probably recover. The poison ar.
ticle was placed in the knife box and
sifted through into the coffee with the
above results.
An exchange remarks that toe man
who gets the fewest letters complains
most of the postofice; the man who
complains most Of. his neighbo- is the
meanest neighbor, and the man who
has the least sense is the most con.
ceited. It may also be added that the
man who borrows his neighbours paper
has the most fault to find with the
way it is run.
A Rocks county farmer, who has
done as much torec,aim the prairies of
western Kansas by his constant talk
and practice of irrigation, as anybody,
will set out in the spring on his Bow
creek irrigation ralch 5000 peach
trees, 1000 apple trees, 500 cherry
trees, and will make a test of German
prunes He will also start five acre
strawberry patch, all of which he in
tends to grow by irrigation. His sys-
tenn of irrigation, on Bow creek, in
Rocks county, produces 200 gallons q
Eight acres of sugar beets
yielded over 5000 bushels, which he is
feeding to his stock. His alfalfa yield.
ed him five tons to the acre X the
season is favorable he will plant q
number of acres in potatoes and cab
bage next spring.
A somewhat novel business transac-
lion all around occurred at Leaven-
worth over two months ago when
Jessie George called on a loan agent
md asked for loan of $50 with which
10 go to Oklahoma. He sat down to
The desk and drew up a note and a bill
If sale of his library on the back of it
Ind took the $50 and departed About
Two months later he sent the lender a
etter, endorsing his check for $25,
saying he had not time to call, and
adding: 81 trust this this will be sat-
sfactory." The ''money shark sent
him his note by letter, enclosing his
check for So, saying that his conscience
vas not sufficiently elastic to permit
he acceptance of such robust COM
mission and advised him to be less
generous aud more guarded in business
.ffairs in future.
F. d. Coburn, secretary of the Kan
.as state board of agriculture, has pre-
Jared for general circulation glazed
lard printed in purple ink with the
"Kansas" on top, the letters
oeing made of ears of corn and heads
# wheat and beneath table showing
hat the value of the agricultural pro-
lucts in Kansas for 1897 was $135, 1885,.
;5S, that the value of live stock is $94,-
'74.ss5, and that during the year the
,eople of the state have paid off S5,OOO.-
100 of bank Indebtedness and So, OOO,-
100 of mortgages. There are people in
he east who believe that mort cages
ire never paid off in Kansas Such a
,elief cannot maintain itself il the
ace of the splendid record made by the
people OF Kansas this year. They are
ust like other people. They pay when
hey have money to pay with
R. F. Bond of Erie, has invented and
patented novelty in cyclone retreats
which is attracting considerable atten-
ion. He calls it disappearing
and it consists of ater-
light casing about nine feet deep and
tx feet square, having bcvelled stills
lround the top and post standing in
he center, the casing being into the
!round, SO that the bevclled stills come
wen with the surface. A cage or ele-
'ator car, is made to move up and
Town in this casing, a hole being in
he floor of this cage to allow the CEN
er post to pass through. The roof
projects over the sides of the cage
bout five inches, which, when sunk
nto the ground, fits snugly over the
stills of the casing, thus MAX
ng it impossible for water or wind to
enter. The cage when not in use
stands constantly above the ground,
md is held in position by four bolts,
which are located under the cage floor
md controlled b. \ lever, one move