The Globe-republican., 1898-10-13

Stock hogs are in demand in Kansas
just ut the present time.
Inside of month q telephone ex.
change will be in operation in Bur.
lington.
At Conway Springs the city council
has passed an ordinance requiring
vandors of liquors to put up license
of 81, 1000.
The poultry raisers in Kansas are
making better showing every year,
and it is becoming quite a profitable
industry.
A Sumner county man got thirty
days for mortgaging property that he
did not own, to secure loan. he
ought to figure that he escaped easily.
The Kansas man who goes down to
Kansas City with few loads of stock
comes home in far more contented
frame of mind than the average Klon-
diker.
Stock all over the state is said to be
doing well and in splendid condition
for the approaching winter. Kansas
stock will not suffer for lack of feed
this winter.
Within radius of two miles of home
a Montgomery county thresher has
turned out $4,000 bushels of wheat,
oats and fax. The greater part of the
grain was wheat, the average yield of
which was eighteen bushels.
A few weeks ago George Parks, fv-
ing in Solomon, was hit on the head
by band from bursted threshing
machine cylinder, the blow splitting
open his head and causing the loss of a
portion of his brains. He is now able
to be up and around the streets of his
town.
On the 18th of February two love-
sick creatures in Sumner county got
The bride was eighteen; the
groom seventeen. Now there is di-
vorce case on the docket. The action
is brought by the wife, who alleges
that her husband has no trade, pro-
fession, or means of livelihood, and no
way of earning living for the family,
all of which she knew perfectly we'll
before she consented to become his
wife.
Because she was the first woman to
attempt to lift a sack con-
tanning 1900 silver dollars in the Kan
sas state treasury, Miss Anna Rose
should not get the idea that the wom-
In of Kansas are a set of weaklings, as
, class. There are hundreds and
thousands of good women in Kansas,
1aily discharging their round of house
hold duties, who could perform the
feat as easily as Miss Rose. Not many
IF these are to be found though, in the
class who have a good time travelling
around seeing the sights.
Considerable excitement prevails in
The south part of Cowley county over
he discovery of lead and zinc ore, pro-
rich, and it is believed in pay
ng quantities. The discovery is on q
.reek bottom east of Arkansas City
md so far is confined to a small tract
# land about two miles long and q
lalf mile wide. For long time it has
,een known that lead ore existed there
tut no one supposed it was there in
my quantity. Wells have been dug in
he territory and after the rain had
ettled the dirt taken out this ore in
mall quantities has been found.
During the next two months the
Wear Coal company will install cleo.
rical mining machines in its shafts
wherever they can be operated to adj
'antage at Pittsburg. Several other
'perators contemplate doing the same
hing, but prefer to see the machines
q other mines well tested before in.
esting in them. The reports as tc
heir work vary greatly. 1t is claimed
y the miners that until the inventors
ucceed in making digging machines
hat will weigh much less than those
low in use, they will not be very sue.
essful competitors with skilled min.
RS. The machines require moving
cry often, and when the bottom of q
nine is soft they cannot be moved ex
ept by the aid of many men, which
equires time and expense.
Literary Notes.
John Kendrick Bangs newest stcriea
re to appear in The Ladies' Home
ournal They are called "Stories Of
Suburban Town." There are several,
nd each will relate some droll Incl.
ents in the life of small town which
very ''suburbanite" will instantly ap-