The Globe-republican., 1898-06-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


town in the state.
Mitchell county farmers have organ
lied mutual fire insurance company.
The beginning of the greatest har.
vest in the history of southern Kansas
will commence in about fifteen OF
twenty days.
The Eagle base ball nine at Wichita
ought to have some sympathy for
Spain. 1t gets defeated every time it
meets the adversary.
The Beloit High school is getting
aged. The members of the Alumni as
ISOLATION sat down to their fourteenth
annual banquet last week.
Tom Keene is dead He was not a
great actor, but he is the only actor
who ever gave Kansas a chance to get
a slight idea of Shakespeare's plays.
Major Hudson will not have to wear
any Identification badge during the
war. He can be known by his chin
whiskers wherever he is found, dead
or alive
The San Francisco papers seem to be
rubbing it in little too hard on the
raggedness of the Kansas boys. We
can sell half of our wheat and buy the
whole state of California.
In the short grass country few days
ago Rev. Mr.. Nessley decided to make
his victory over satan short, sharp and
decisive by saying to his audience, cit
will rain every day in heaven"
Bull City has representative with
the regiment which is on its way to
the Philippines who knows how to
handle a gun. He shot a man in a
boxer game in the old town few years
ago.
J The railroads in western Kansas are
thinking of instructing brakemen to
grab all hoboes caught stealing rides,
and to hand them over to farmers who
will soon be seriously handicapped by
the lack of harvest hands,
There is a certain amount of red tape
to 60 through, but volunteers soldiers
no matter where they are stationed,
are entitled to vote at a general cleo
ton. Think of waiting for returns
from the Philippine islands next fall!
OF the new call of 1,6OO men from
Kansas all but 900 will be used to fill
up the first enlisted regiments to their
full strength. This will not leave
enough for q new regiment, conse-
quently no new colonies will be APP
pointed.
Complaints come from the neighbor-
hood of Labette City that cinch bugs
are getting in their work on the wheat.
There ought not to be a great deal of
damage from these pests this year, as
the cold, wet weather the state has
been having is most unfavorable to
their propagation.
The recent contest of the railroads
over the transportation of the last reg
iment of Kansas troops was much in
the nature of great battle, and as in
the case of other battles the smoke OF
the conflict has not entirely blown
away. The railroads which were done
out of the business by what they are
pleased to term the brigandage meth
DDS of other lines are not inclined to
forget their injury and are going about
in their own peculiar way seeking ven
geance.
Mrs. Castor Boyd, musical director
of the Newton schools. has received a
letter from Homer Moore, on behalf of
the management of the Omaha EXPOSE
ton. requesting a big representation
from Kansas at the National conven-
tion of musicians which will be held
in Omaha, June 80 to July 4. He writes
for complete list of the membership
of the state music teachers associa-
tion. There is no such organization in
Kansas at present. This will cause
Mrs. Boyd considerable inconvenience
to compile the list of music teachers of
the whole state, but nevertheless she
will make the attempt.
From present indications it seems
certain that extremely high wages
will be paid for harvest hands during
the harvest season. Farmers in the
northern part of Harvey county are
already trying to contract with men
and teams to assist them during har-
vest. The farmers are Offering 81 per
day for a man with team and have
been unable to secure many. Some of
the farmers have standing offer of
$3.50 a day for harvest hands, but the
men are holding out for still higher
wages. Some of the farmers say that
the wages of harvest hands may go as