The Globe-republican., 1898-05-05

The average Kansas militiaman is q
hot as the elbow Of q piece of rapid,
bent wire.
Joseph Puccinalli, an italian garden
er living near Atchison, is very anxiou
to help whip the dons and has joinet
the militia.
1 Letters from Klondike in tke hom,
papers will begin to take { sack sea-
now, and those from the field Of battle
will have their inning.
A lot of Kansas soldiers when they
first level their guns are going tt
shiver with the sudden realization
that Spaniards are human beings.
The oldest inhabitant of Sabetha re
members hearing Jim Lane make
speeches from a cart on the streets Of
Atchison during border rufiian days.
It isn't so much the amount of land
a man has as the manner in which il
is worked. Frank Lewis, an Osborne
county farmer, during the past year
marketed S42O worth of stock and pro-
duce off of a 5O-acre farm. Next year
he will sell produce off of a 1OO-acre
farm.
]. A. Hoefer, Of Kay county, is in
Arkansas City for the purpose of Or
ganizing troop of cavalry. Mr.. Hoefer
has permission from Governor Leedy
and the adjutant general of the state
of Kansas to organize troop of 100
cavalrymen which would be called out
in case of need.
Much damage has been done to the
plum industry in Kansas by the plum
curculio. There is scarcely a plum
orchard that has not received more or
less injury. The insect, becoming as
it has wide spread throughout the
state, is undoubtedly the worst enemy
of the plum grower.
Conner Davis, whose judgment in
such matters is very good, says: 1.-The
fellow who will blow himself for $12
in cash to get the prize at a voting
contest for his girl will also leave her
home at night after he has married
her while he blows in his money to
break slot machine"
The son of Warden Harry Landis of
the Kansas penitentiary is lieutenant
in the Asiatic squadron that is now
face to face with the Spanish squadron
near the Philippine islands. His moth
er does not look at his situation as
complacently as does his father, who
says that he wants him to take his
chances with the fortunes of war.
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
has modified its rules relative to the
of cattle. Two inspectors
will be located nea.. the Colorado line,
and all cattle coming from New Mexico,
Arizona and the Republic of Mexico
will be inspected there without charge
to the shippers unless the stock is so
located that an unusual expense is in
CURED in reaching them.
Kid Wilson, the hot sport of Council
Grove. goes to Chicago, where he will
go up against Solly Smith, the cham
pion featherweight of the world. If
Kid wins he gets 5000 and the cham
pionship; if it is draw he gets $500
and if the other fellow comes out on
top Kid will get 1.00O to bring him
back to Kansas. Lots of men who
can't fight at all would be willing to
be whipped for that sum.
A citizen of Chase Indignantly denies
the report sent from that town to the
effect that it has two joints, two or
three gambling dens and five or six
boot-leggers. He says that nine-tenths
IF the citizens of that town are con-
sistent Christians and church men,
bers, and that while there may be a |
boot-legger or one joint in town the
deal is worked SO slyly that it is i'm
possible for anyone to get onto them.
The Kansas City Journal ridicules the
work of the Hutchinson Reformatory
and cites an alleged case where two
boys from Reno county were released,
having been reformed, and, after be-
ing expelled from their school, they
burned the building. The facts are
that no boys from Reno county were !
in the reformatory at all and the only
possible foundation for the story is |
that two Bourbon county boys have |
zone to the institution because they
burned the school house in their neigh !
borhood after being expelled from
school. Neither boy had been in q re-
before.
It is SO easy to be at least half way
decent that the manner in which some |
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