The Globe-republican., 1898-04-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Attorney General Boyle holds that
militiamen are not exempt from pay.
ment of poll tax.
If Independence will put up bonus
, foundry and machine shop will be
established there
Chancellor Snow says that Lawrence
citizens have raised $1,000 to rebuild
the buildings recently burned.
There have been three deaths in
Cherokee county as q result of bite
from rabid dog. There are too many
dogs in Kansas.
People never fall back on the wealth
er to bolster up a lull in the converse
ton in Finney county. 1t is either
cattle or politics.
Samuel Ream, who has been arrest
ed for stealing whisky from railroad
cars, was at one time a representative
from jackson county.
The old fashioned photograph car IL
. familiar sight in Kansas, but out in
the western portion of the state some
enterprising dentists have adopted the
idea.
The Twenty-first Annual meeting of
the Woman's Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions of the Southwest
will be held at Wichita on April 2sth
and Goth.
The law department of the state Ii
brary will be moved to the new rooms
at once, but the remainder will stay
where it is until the permanent finish
of the rooms is decided upon.
The Hibernians, at their annual ses-
sion in Leavenworth county recently,
made the statement that 1873 of the
men who went down with the battle
ship Name in Havana harbor were
1rishmen.
Western Kansas cattlemen are feel
ing particularly good just at present
over the reported shortage of the cat
tie supply in the mountain states. This
means an advance in the price of Kan
sas cattle.
In Logan county cattle are assessed
much higher than is the rule in most
of the Kansas counties. The system
of prohibition and taxation in Kansas
is in one respect like man-fearfully
and wonderfully made.
A Plainville man brought down two
white swans at one shot, each of which
weighed close to Is pounds. One was
mounted and sent east to friend in
Massachusetts,. Imagine the surprise
of the eastern man on receipt of a
white swan shot out in what was
known as the s'desert" country.
Governor Leedy has ascertained he
is man of some distinction. He has
been reading up the records of sons
and daughters of the American revolu-
tion and fiIds that he is the only per-
son living who had an ancestor in the
revolutionary war who was not a cap
tain, colonel or general. His grand
father was private.
Harmon Wilson, the philosopher of
the Topeka capitol concludes from the
altitude at which muskrats are build
ing their nests this year that there will
be plenty of rain in Kansas. Harmon
believes that the ground hog, the
muskrats and other animals know a
thing or two about the plans of the
weather clerk.
There will be no creamery 1T Sedan,
and for a rather peculiar reason. The
people realize that it would be a good
thing, but they are afraid of Texas
fever. There will be so many southern
cattle brought in that neighborhood
farmers are afraid to stock up with
good mixers for fear of losing them by
fever.
In letters received by Chancellor
Snow from state senators who have
been written to in regard to reimburs-
ing those who put up the money for
the replacing of the machinery lost by
fire at Kansas university couple of
weeks ago, the sentiment is almost
unanimously in favor of the plan of
raising the money now and providing
for its payment at the next session of
the legislature.
Otto Fox, a Miami county boy, ought
to be placed in q cage. He recently
pushed playmate under train. The
boy was killed and the coroner's jury
found that he met his death by being
''maliciously pushed under the train
by Fox" He once threw a switch hop
ing to see passenger train ditched.
but it was discovered in time to avert