The Globe-republican., 1899-03-16

to the effect that he would sign compromise
bill making appropriation for the expenses Of
the contest.
Final adjournment was postponed to tomor'
row at p n.
No further business OF any Importance was
transacted by either house or council today
and tine body adjourned to meet at tho usua
hour.
The assessor is making the rounds
with his catechism now.
A whistle on one of the lola smell
tiers can be heard Is miles away.
4 man with his wife and step-daugh-
ter as assistants, was caught stealing
corn in Sumner county the other day;
pleasant family affair.
An ordinance recently passed by the
Wellington council provides that here
after only brick and cement sidewalks
may be laid in that city.
The next meeting of the State Board
of Pharmacy will be held at Lawrence
in May in connection with the annual
meeting of the State Pharmaceutical
association.
S. II. Dodge, who was last week
named as one of the regents of the
state normal, has held that position
for over eight years and for the past
six years he has been treasurer of the
board.
One of the Kansas boys at Manila,
in letter to the home folks, says that
turkeys are worth IS. %, while good
chickens may be procured for quar-
ter. Turkey ought not to be preferred
to chicken at even money.
Residents of Browns Creek end
Prairie townships, on the southern
tier in Jewell county, will make an
effort to get in on the experiment in
rural free delivery for which congress
made an appropriation of $500
Everyone has heard of the man who
built barn around his horse and for
got to cut door in order to get the
animal out. At Cedarvale the other
day a man did trick almost equal to
this. He received an order for gal
vanized iron water tank, which was
made according to the plans submit
ted. The tank was such big one
that after it was completed it was
found that the only way to get it out
doors was to take out a side of the
shop.
The bulletins of the Kansas Agri-
cultural Experiment station contain a
lot of matter that is of great value to
farmers. Any farmer in the state can
receive them. .All that is necessary
for him to do is to forward his name
to the station at Manhattan and 70
quest that it be entered upon the mail
ing list. This will bring the bulletins
as rapidly as they are issued. This 10
only one of the ways in which the Ag-
ricultural college directly benefits the
farming interests throughout the state
of Kansas.
A mountain lion story brought the
nimrods of Pratt county out in hot
haste the other day. but they failed to
made connections with the beast.
A travelling hypnotist who held forth
in Ottawa recently had great difficulty
in inducing subjects to come upon
the stage. 1t is to the credit Of the
town.
Viewed from the Concordia stand
point, it doesn't make any difference
in which direction the Central Branch
is extended, that town is bound 20 be
division point.
The smallpox scare in Mcpherson
county is over. There are other local
tiles in the state that are not so for
tunate.
The superintendent and train dis
patcher's Office of the Union Pacific
has been moved to Ellis from Cheyenne
Wells. The force consists of q super
intendent, two clerks, q porter and
four dispatchers This settles the
question of the railroad division, the
greet bugbear which has come up
every six months to retard the pros-
perity of Ellis in the past
A squad of Salvation Army workers
is giving the sinners of Oketo q great
shaking up Nothing takes better in
a small town than q series of Saliva
ton Army meetings; not even a medi-
cine show.
Not long ago q Dickinson county
man cruelty abused his wife, kicking
and beating her in an irhuman man
ner. Last week she commenced liv-
ing with him again; only another IL
lustration of the fact that woman is
just about the most abstruse PROPOSE
ton ever up for consideration.