The Globe-republican., 1899-03-09

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The wheat over the state is looking
well
Every body seems anxiously await
the coming OF spring.
The Kansas colored troops will soon
be quartcred at Fort Leavenworth
again.
A Dickinson county man manufac-
lures merry-go-rounds and shooting
gallery outfits
A Ness county man last week caught
big bald eagle in trap he had set
out tor coyotes.
It IL very seldom you see snow
in this state in the month of March.
but We got one this year.
A number of residents of Hutchinson
will take trip through Europe next
summer. The project is being steerec
by men who have co7ered the ground
before.
Kansas is further south than most
people suppose. 1t is gradually in the
southern part taking on southern
dishes. Chilli is used extensively In
southern Kansas, as are tamales.
Louis Strohle, 4 single ma1 living
near Manchester, O. T., has committed
suicide On his claim. His mind was
disordered and he claimed that his
neighbors had poisoned his we'll. He
shot himself in the temple. His par
ents live at Nickerson, Kan.
The collection Of bills for threshing
wheat, after the product has been mar.
keted, is one of the problems which
has caused complications in the west
ern part OF the state. TO remedy this
difficulty Representative Beezley pre-
sented a bill providing that charges
for thrcshing should constitute lien
upon the grain.
A man at Hutchinson is attempting
to establish wagon yard and the
farmers are bowling. The wagon
yard is southern. Farmers are expect
ed to drive into the yard and pay for
the use of it. 1t has crept northward
through Oklahoma into Kansas. In
Kansas the custom has been to tie in
front OF the grocery store.
Twelve prominent citizens of Ellis
worth county have returned from
Wyoming where they were inspecting
. copper mine in which they interest
ed. Owing to the snow and stormy
weather they were compelled to
abandon an inspection of their proper
ty but will return north again soon.
They are confident of making q rich
strike.
Orders have been received by the
officials of the United States peniten-
tiary ut Fort Leavcnworth not to ad-
nit any more prisoners from Indian
and Oklahoma territories while small
pox exists in that country. Prisoners
sentenced to the federal penitentiary
will be held in the territories until all
danger of the dreadful disease is over
before being transferred.
Mankato wants to have a public IL
brary. The people of that town think
that if Cawker can support one, they
certainly ought to be able to do so. If
there are as many hustling ladies in
Mankato as there are in Cawker the
project will 60 all right. The bulk of
the credit for maintaining the excel
lent library which for years has been
the boast of Cawker belongs to the
ladies of that town.
A western Kansas man melted his
rollers while trying to warm them
into condition for use during the cold
spell. The ordinary reader may not
appreciate what an accident like this
amounts to in a country print shop.
A printer with his rollers melted has
the same cheerful layout in view that
confronts a shipwrecked sailor cast
ashore on barren crag with no grub,
no clothes, no whisky, no hope.
The Advocate claims that Mankato
is freer from cigarettes than any other
town of its size in the state. Be is said
to the everlasting credit of the place.
Clinton Irwin, the new judge of Ok
lahoma is fat and Irish. He will
probably get into the swim at once,
remarks prominent Kansas newspa-
per.
The Twentieth Kansas, which hiss
bcen doing the butt of the fighting
around Manila, got the butt end of the
joshing given the troops before they
left this county.
A Brown county man says that
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