The Globe-republican., 1898-07-28

It is now and announced that the
Kansas regiment will sail for Manila
in a few days and that Ed. Little is
sufficiently recovered to accompany
them.
The salary of the city attorney at
Holton has been reduced to 5000; but
that is probably pretty fair compensa-
ton for the amount of work he has to
attend to.
The Phillipsburg Dispatch says: A
rich harvest is waiting the show outfit
that visits our town latter the corn is
laid by Our people are becoming
show hungry.
A thief visited Plainville recently,
took horse from one man, set of
harness from another, and a buggy
from a third and then went on his
way rejoicing.
Leroy has no negro population an in
consequence citizens of the town who
plant watermelon patches have a rea-
sonable guaranty of eating fare
share of the crop.
There is a dispute among the rural
papers as to the king in Kansas. Some
say it is wheat; some corn. and some
the hog. 1t is neither of these. 1t is
either the hen or the cow, and Secre-
tary Coburn ought to settle the ques-
ton.
j. A. Buckles, jeweler at COTS, has
been working for some time on a sub
marine torpedo boat of his own inven-
ton. The other day, while reading
paper he ran across description of his
destroyer. Some man down in Ken
lucky who had been struck with the
same idea had beaten his time.
When the news reached lola that
fully 90 per cent of the local military
had become engaged to girls
in San Francisco, one of the lola girl
who belonged to the Soldier Sewing
Socity sent in her resignation with the
remark that she did not intend to sit
up nights making housewives and
for the benfit of those bold
pie-faced California misses
The estate of J. S. Collins has been
sued for money collected by Collins
and not turned over. Perhaps this
is another clue to the murder. It is
cad that should be followed. The
more traks made in the trail, the more
lifficult it will be to fasten the crime
upon the devil who did the murder
hat is to say the ''skulking negro" or
he phantom of the Dewey parade.
A funny man at Hutchinson sent
some of the boys of the twenty-frst
regiment box containing a lot of trash
This was the Hutchinson mans idea of
a joke. A soldier can send letter,
he postage to be paid by the receiver.
Every day now the funny fellow re-
.eives a grist of letters from soldiers,
him for the box, and promis-
ng that all the boys will write again
next day, and he has to put up all the
postage.
"A few years ago Mr.. Fox Tail,
Jomanche Indian, welded Miss Bull
all, an Arapahoe girl. living near Ell
Reno. Foxt Tail promised his wife's
ather the usual number of dogs, cat
lie, ponies and tobacco. Up to the
present time Fox Tail has failed to
Keep his promise with his father-in-
aw and last week the father-in-law
vent to the home of his son-in-law and
ook away his wife and four children.
Now Fox Tail is bringing suit to get
hem back
Threshing has begun in the north
I'm part of the state and the first in
sos, wheat crop has made its appear
lnce on the market. 1t weighed fifty
'ix pounds to the bushel. and the field
rom which it was threshed produced
and a, half bushels to the
lcre. 1t is estimated that this years
,rop in Pawnee county will aggregate
|. 500. 900 bushels. and the most of it
will grade fairly good No. .. There
ire now about fifty threshing ma
chimes with their outfits at work in
county.
A talented young woman of Kansas
who is fast making place for herself
IN the art world. is Miss Jo-Shipley
Watson of Enporia. Miss Walton was
l special student in Wellesley college
n lSsS-9O, and afterward studied in
Paris and Berlin. where she became
proficient in the French and German
She also gave her atten-