The Globe-republican., 1898-01-13

World last year cast $1,000 It was
worth more.
Tie town of Cimarron is getting its
debt reduced to figures which it can
hope to pay.
The county clerks of Kansas have de-
clared war on the Santa Fe because it
refused to issue them passes.
Some farmers in Sumner county
make enough out of rabbit scalps to
pay their taxes, and had the fun of
hunting and rabbit meat besides.
Judge Simpson has decided that the
Salvation Army has a right to parade
the streets of Hutchinson and pound
the bass drum as hard as they can.
The Kansas and Southwestern Rail-
way company directors have filed an
official plat of their survey from Hum
newell, Kan, to Parker, O. T., with
the Governor.
Charles p Grosvenor, the young
disappeared from his home in Law
renee recently, after leaving note to
his wife and another to his father,
stating that he would never return,
has been located in Des Moines, Iowa,
and his father has gone there to zee
him.
As result of correspondence and
courtship begun through matrimon-
ial agency, Michael Disque of Douglas
county. and Miss Annie NJ. Klein, OF
New Elm Mimi, were united in mar
rage last week by the probate judge
of Douglas county. They had never
until the young lady arrived in Law
renee.
Mrs. Mollie Bailey, who disappeared
last month while en- route from Kansas
City to Ash Grove, Mo-, has been loca-
ted in Fort Scott at the home of her
aunt She was injured in Memphis
road wreck and has been in Kansas
City hospital. Since leaving there ON
Christmas day she had not been seen
or heard from. Her mind is affected,
due to the excitement of the recent
wreck.
Salina grocers feel indignant at the
action of the cracker trust in making
another advance in the price of its pro-
ducts. This time the price has been
sent up half cent a pound, making the
third increase during the past six
months. At present crackers are SELL
ing for a cent and half a pound more
than they did last summer aid the in
crease all goes to the trust. The gro
GERS claim that the advance will not
permit them to raise the retail price,
and as a result the additional money
which goes into the Golfers of the trust,
comes out of their pockets.
The Parsons Eclipse says: One of
the smoothest, most pleasant hammered
young women who ever struck the
southwest, has just finished a cam.
paign in Wichita, Parsons, Pittsburg
and Fl. Scott She has books to sell,
aud she sells lots of them. She is a
young thing, pretty of face and form
and has magnificent eyes. She can
also talk, and if talking fails to extort
the desired order, she has been known
to. throw in a kiss, which always
brings forth the cash. When she
makes sale the subscriber must pay
So cash, and it is estimated that she
took away from Joplin over 5000 in
cash subscriptions and borrowed mon
ey. From one young man she got $40
from another SIS; and from a third S1(
This money she borrowed to send t.
her sick sister, and would pay it bach
in a day or two At Pittsburg she i:
said to have taken in over $500.
Edward Myers. once wealthy an6
highly respected farmer, living nea1
Easton, Leaveuworth county, hai
disappeared. Two law suits. one di,
vorce and the other for $4,000 dam
ages, recently begun against hin
in the district court, are said to hav'
> been the direct cause of his mysteriou
departure. Just before he left he dis
posed of about &, 900 worth of persona
{ property. The damage suit which
was fled against Myers was brought b.
Katie Carson, an orphan girl, through
Mrs. Sarah Barlow, her guardian
! The defendant is charged with assault
: ing the plaintiff when she was only 1
: years old. 1t is alleged that thi
e practice was kept up for two years be
h fore the guardian of the child lesrne
}. of the true circumstances and took tn
8 girl from the Myers house Myers
|. so years of age, wealthy and has al
b ways been regarded as honorable
; About 10 years ago Katie Carson's pal
= ents died in Brown county, kansas