The Globe-republican., 1898-06-16


Autograph iends have taken to cut
ting chips from the walls of the Jail at
Atchison.
Pawnee county farmers are engag-
ing harvest hands already and paying
them a dollar day to wait till harvest
begins.
So far every town in Kansas that has
employed teachers for the coming year
has increased the salaries and added to
the number employed.
Just nineteen years ago John Royce
struck northwest Kansas, and he says
that country never had finer prospects
for good crops than right now.
During the month of May, real estate
mortgages to the amount of $31, 122
were Cancelled in Washington county;
S14. 142 in excess of new mortgages
fled.
Fifteen Leavenworth prisoners have
been put on bread and water until
they disclose the information as to
where they got the tools to dig out
with recently.
The Eskridge Star remarks that just
at present the best known bottle on
earth is the one at Santiago de Cuba
and that no other one has a nastier
mixture corked up in it.
1t cost lady living in Hope just
500 to find out that the ordinance
prohibiting CHICKENS from running at
large in that town was no joke. She
is now living in despair.
Speaking of thrift, it is said that
there is young man in Kensington
who will ask a young lady to accom-
pany him for a ride and then allow
her to pay the rent of the wheel she
uses.
Lebanon. one of the -ustling towns
of Smith county, recently raised $500
for the purpose of purchasing base
ball ground and placing it in shape for
use. There must be lots of money in
Smith county when a small town like
Lebanon can raise a sum like that for
such purpose.
An Atchison county farmer gives the
Record the following report
the chinch bugs: They're
all right. The rain has not drowned
them out, nor the cold snap frozen
them to death. They will be found at
tending strictly TO business when the
proper time comes"
It has been figured out that last year
Sumner county raised more wheat than
all six of the New England States,
Delaware. North and South Carolina
and Florida combined: and that the
crop of the state was larger by a mil
lion bushels than that of New England,
New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland. Virginia. North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. AS a wheat producer Kansas is
entitled to considerable respect.
Warden Lands of the penitentiary
has filed notice with Governor Barnes.
IF Oklahoma. that prisoners from the
territory will not be kept at his lnsti-
tuition in the future unless higher
rate is paid far caring for them. The
present rate is % cents per day and
here are 40 Oklahoma prisoners.
For this compensation the convicts are
% be fed, clothed and cared for. Mr..
Lands says that the state is losing
money on the deal. The increase de-
will probably be given.
The Kansas City Times says: 1.-The
present war will be source of great
among the future historians
If Kansas. There will be men among
hem who will insist that the major of
he Twenty-first was son of old John
Brown of Osawatomie and will dig up
he sword presented to him by the
'sylum employees of that town to prove
t. 1t will be contended that Harvey
county was named after the first lieu
ant-governor in the state. who pre-
erred being patriot to being an
that Little river was
FAMED after the licutenant-colonel of
he Twentieth. and Graham county
vas named after the lieutenant-cOlonel
# the Twenty-second.
The Irving Leader says: people
Who usually patronize the peddlers
should remember that goods peddled
~ the average peddler are made to sell
md not for service and durability. but
heap in quality and therefore expen-
i've at any figure" A great truth. The !!
,eddler is after the profit he can get |
tut of the first and only sale he ever
expects to make to one customer He |
lOes not expect. as rule. to cover the |