The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-09-26
KANSAS NOTES

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One Of the wonders of SaIina is the
wire walking OF a 7-year-OId boy.
An active Clay county dog caught q
large sand hill crane on the stable lot
pond.
Dry creek, Osborne county, not only
got full this week, but did considerable
damage.
at is better" says Warden Jewett.
to give a discharged convict q job
than a Bible"
The Sterling Bulletin admits that
age improves wine, but wonders who
wants to wait.
OF course it would be at Industry
where the lightning kills five head Of
cattle in a fash.
A Butler county woman has a Ealf
gallon Of preserved figs from a tree Of
her own raising.
Autumn has come" exclaimed a
Wellington editor. And yet he must
see the autumn leaves
Coffey county sunAowers grow Is
feet high with cultivation and none
too careful measurement
A Wichita man ate two dozen hard
boiled eggs in minutes, and then
went out and got a lunch.
Brighter days are coming for Ottawa
bOarders. The Marsh house is to be
renovated and Tejuvenated-
A Winfield citizen who is the father
Of twins will attempt to show that
man can serve two masters
A Rice county man reports that in
his keeping is a wooden clock, 167
years old, TO his knowledge
An Osborne county farmer has a
fOur-legged chicken and is disposed to
organize a drum-stick trust
The St. Marys papers refuse to say
Joints" or drug stores; they call
them what they are, saloons
Chanute is slightly pulled up, owing
to the simultaneous starting Of a $780,
600 depot and street paving
The Hoxie Sentinel has on exhibit
ton the hip joint bone of a mastodOn
of the vintage Of NOah's days
Fred Gray went to Germany Tues
day says the Meade News, to paint
the German Lutheran church
As soon as cabbage gets two heads
for a nickel the Scranton housewives
will begin making sauerkraut
Santa Fe engine No. 1898 ''toted" 30
loaded cars from Hutchinson to New
ton, but it made the monster pun
An Ottawa wOman's idea of annoy
ing a neighbOr is to empty a can Of
fishing worms in the neighbor's we'll
Many Morris county farmers COM
plain of rural delivery because they
no longer have an excuse to CAD to
town.
Wichita is to lose its octopus, the
Burling car works. WOrkmen are
tearing the ancient owl and bat rOOst
down
A Perry man will pay a liberal re-
ward for the return of missing dog
with one toe of each front foot also
missing
Seventeen fat steers of a Clafiin
stockman became overheated and died
recently. And yet it hasn't been so
very hot
A Topeka man mOurns for $50 that
he paid for a gold brick It's funny
that when a man is taken in he feels
put out
The Hutchinson News needs calling
down. It openly admits that there are
fewer apples in Reno county this year
than last.
One Of the attractions Of CimarrOn
is a lake in the center of the town,
with hogs and geese hourly stirring up
the water.
A Topeka miIkman claims TO have
bIOOded COWS. and his customers. judg-
ing from the milk, thin they must be
blue bloOded-
The BeIlevilIe Telescope intimates
that Secretary COburn has another
guess coming on the population OF Re
public county
The Neodesha Register contains the
funeral announcement Of a citizen who
sought to become drunk by drinking
carbOlic acid
A Reno county mother gave her per
mission for a 14-year-oId daughter 70
wed, so probably no one else has
protest coming.
An Abilene horse has passed away
at the age Of "a years, and his owner
relates his good qualities in a half
column obituary.
A Franklin county girl had a citizen
arrested for hurting oaths at her She
has down in writing i've separate and
distinct ''cuss" words used
A Chase county lawyer who is out
on the river after fish nearly every
day says he is becoming a regular
anglOmaniae on the subject
Emmett Dalton. safe and fast in the
Lansing penitentiary. VIII be a Ui1e
surprised to learn by Joplin paper
that he was in that city last week
A world renowned palmist," who
is supposed to be able to read between
the lines, is tarrying in Mcpherson
until something better suggests itself.
A clergyman who has become the
pastor OF the First United Presby-
terrain church in Topeka is referred to
by the Capital as the new shepherd
A Riley citizen over so years OF age
walked to Manhattan and home
through the mud, IS miles, the other
afternoon. and declared ne enjoyed the
trip.
Since the Anti-Horse Thief sssocis-
ton IN southern Kansas has taen TO
pursuing chicken thieves It may be-
come unsafe even 70 take possession OF
an unemployed umbrella
A nan who doesn't want to work is
compelled 70 leave Jewell county faster
than Z troL The harvest is over. but
the new ccal mines are Offering en-
pl0yuent te everything that looks
brse1y