The Globe-republican., 1898-11-24

Immense amount OF range, wheat. anC
one thing and another before it burnt
itself out.
Sterling's boss foot racer is a mai
named Beatt: poor name to go into
race with i. would seem. but .he gener.
ALLY manages to get it over the Inns
ahead of the other fellow.
The county commissioners of Mont
gomery county have offered a bounty
of S1.50 for wolf scalps A bounty on
wolf scalps are always a source of pet
ty larceny in public life and ought t.
be stopped.
Frank Rhinehart, formerly of Dor
iphan county man, was candidate foz
sheriff on the republican ticket dowz,
in Oklahoma territory, and was the
only man of that faith who won out L;
the county.
In Atchison a free lunch is given
with a glass of beer. In Clay Center q
dealer gives free lunch with each
pair Of shoes sold. There will be more
free lunches given out in Atchison than
in Clay Center-bccausc sclaooners are
cheaper than shoes.
A fire started by spark from To-
connective destroyed three hundred
fruit trees for Pratt county man one
day last week; and three hundred
trees-and fruit trees at that-malze
no small item in Pratt county, where
fruit trees are scarce.
At Kincaid on November 18th, at .
depth of 955 feet oil was struck in the
prospect hole of the Kincaid Oil and
Gas company. E. c. Miller, head drill
er, says it is high grade of petroleum
and will yield forty per cent kerosere.
The drill has already penetrated the
oil-bearing sand to a depth of twenty
five feet, and still it holds out.
The Missouri Pacific will put in $500
feet of new side track at Auburn to
accommodate increasing traffic and
travel. There will be three new tracks.
One passenger and one.caboose and an
engine track. Surveying has already
begun. The company will also put in
3, 900 feet of new side track at Rama
pso, the grading for which is about
ready.
So far twenty-eight new families
have arrived in Atch;son as a result of
the recent order of the Missouri Pa
,iic consolidating divisions at Atch-
son. One came from Omaha, one from
six from Hiawatha and twen-
" from Kansas City. Others are ar
living every day. The figures are OBJ
aimed from the railroad company who
hauled the household goods free of
charge.
An exchange remarked the other day
hat the fight for the state partnership
vas going to be the fercest, cleanest
Ind most Christian contest ever known
% be waged in Kansas. "And that's
what want it to be-" said Charley
lands, in commenting on the remark.
If am not the successful one, no one
will congratulate the winner with bet
;er grace than 1 will"
On the night Of November Goth cold
wave struck Kansas. A light snow
ell the latter part of the night, and
t continued showing, and drifting the
following day. There was change
n the temperature of about twenty
i've degrees in considerable less than
hat many hours. Heavier snow is
'eported in the northern part of the
state, but as yet no suffering has been
'eported.
Only little more than half of the
1oters in Cimarron township voted on
he high school proposition, the result
,eing fifty-eight to nine in favor of the
'CAOOIs 4AC PCOPAS AZ VIC SOuAGAy Ao0
ome misgivings in regard to the prop
'sition and in nearly every precinct
outside of Cimarron voted against it
llmost to a man. The official returns
now that the proposition carried by a
najority of twelve.
There is political phrase that ought
o be retired. 1t is 81 have no sore
pots on me-" When a man humps
himself double in the effort to corral a
or to get an Office after
he nomination is secured, and falls
Town in either case, he is expected to
rave at least a few sore spots. It is
luman nature to have sore spots in
uch an event; and it also seems to be
,uman nature to deny their presence.
In 1881 an Ellsworth lad was injured
~ a moving machine operated by a
nan in the employ of the city, SO bad