The Globe-republican., 1899-01-05
KANSAS ITEMU OF INTEREST.

A two days Catholic fair at Clay
Center Melted $500.
Cigarette smoking is prohibited in
The postohice building at Beloit.
Arkansas barber is advertising baths
1t seven for q dollar as q matter of in
Producing them.
Wellsville Baptists raised $3.50 at the
recent dedication of their church and
are out of debt.
The Kansas papers had . better run
of Christmas advertising this year
than ever before.
Wichita is having trouble with its
electric light company and may find
Itself in darkness.
The farmers of Barton county esti-
mate that they raised 1850, 200 bushels
of wheat this year.
What Kansas needs more than any
thing else is intermarriage with race
with less hysteria.
1t is difficult in the whole state to
find a single woman who believes that
John Collins was guilty.
Most of the corn cribs in Kansas are
filled to their fullest capacity at the
present time. 1t is of a mighty good
quality, too
A wealthy Atchison county farmer,
who lives south of Atchison, is organ
fzing a band. Look opt and stand
from under
w. II. Haskell of Gaylord feeds
daily 500 worth of corn to cattle and
hogs he is fitting up for the market a
little later on.
An exchange says the only wonder
about the fast mali up to date is that a
big freight train has not come up be-
hind it and smashed it.
The stay-at-tent vote among the col
pred boys of Kansas in Cuba is suffi-
eient indication that the American cit
zen when his vote is going to be mi
sroscopically counted, prefers not to
rote.
The most intelligent witness that
has appeared in the Collins murder
case SO far is girl of twilight COM
plexion named Kitty Smothers The
sblest lawyer in the case couldn't rat
tie her
Christmas day there was rumor all
over Kansas that John Collins had
committed suicide. The rumor was
broadcast simply because it occurred
to people in widely distanced places to
tell the same lie.
The business of the Hutchinson and
Southern railway in Oklahoma has in
creased SO much that two new trains,
a passenger and a freight, will be add
ed to the service Medford is now the
southern terminus.
Some Kansas men should learn from
Hobson the little lesson that farce
comedy does for the stage, but it can
not be attached to a man who is
knocking about the world in per-
fectly human way, with safety.
A great deal of roaring has been
heard in Kansas on account of 'hard
times" On account of two crop fail
ures in succession in province in
China, thousands and thousands of
people are dying of starvation, the
death rate having reached $50 in one
day from this cause. Kansans should
thank the LORD that never yet have
they been up against hard times Of
this nature. The inability to get ths
best there is in the market, with thea
ter tickets at will, starts the cry of
''hard times with two many Kan
sans
A lot of ''hard-working" men, bar
tenders, etc. have been thrown out of
employment in Allen county recently
by their employers being placed in
Jail Thus the cruel arm of the law
takes bread out of the mouth of the
''poor but honest" man.
Missouri and Kansas are gradually
monopolizing the interior department
Hitchcock is from Missouri. Tom
Ryan is from Kansas and Webb Davis
from Missouri. Harrison started it
with Noble. Cleveland switched of to
Georgia for Hoke Smith once
A Central Branch locomotive engi-
neer has quit the road and is now pres
ident of bank at Corning.
j. w. Giliett, hardware and imple-
ment dealer, has turned over his bust
ness at Woodbine tn his creditors
Giliett is brother of Grant C. Gillett.
the absconding cattle king, and held
$3.50, 600 worth of cattle paper issued
by his brother. The cattle which J.