The Globe-republican., 1903-07-23
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Kansas Notes


The harvest hand famine may re-
suit in leaving enough wheat 'lnhar-
vested to greatly relieve the prospec-
tive freight famine.
The Smith Centre papers overlook
en- excellent and obvious opportunity
to do good by ncglecting to insist
upon spelling It Smith Center.
Several Mormon elders who were
looking for converts in Jewell county
last week were cordially invited to
help gather the wheat crop.
The county surveyor Of Lyon coun-
ty has pronounced the hydrant water
in Emporia fit for drinking, and he
10 supposed to have surveyed 1t care
fully.
The Atchison Globe will observe
its quarter-centennial August e. with
a big celebration at which Governor
Bailey will deliver & lay sermon
and Ellery's Italian band will play.
Winding up the affairs Of the Kan
sas Mutual was costly. The three
each for few weeks srvices and
their attorneys, Rossington, Smith &
Histed, were given $4,000.
In Emporis a few days ago Sam
Jones, with that eloquence and grace
for which he Is noted, referred to the
Kansas "joint" keepers as "lopsy lit
tie DEVILS and added: "If | was rum
ming hell | wouldn't hang one Of them
to the back door"
During one of the extremely torrid
days near Coolridge last week a red
hot clnder beetle set fire to a barn,
which was totally destroyed. Prof.
Clinker of the experimental station
expresses the belief that the cinder
bette belongs to the firebug family.
A dispatch appeared a couple Of
days ago telling of a double murder
and adding that 'the killing was un-
called for" The Salina ournal takes
firm stand on the proposition that
uncalled for killings ought to be dis
couraged as much as possible.
Young Archie" Williams Of Topeka
is one owner of Trego county gold
mines hat is making money out OF
his property. He planted 1t in wheat.2
Although Kansas has more than %
million dollars Of bank deposits, the
tax assessors could find only 2A mil
lions of it, proving that figures NOT |
only lie, but testify falsely under
oath.
Gilbert Mullen, the negro murderer |
who led the mutiny at the federal peni-
Tertiary, Fort Leayenworth, two years
ago, escaped Saturday from the county
Jail in Junction City and is still at
large. But why was such a dangerous
put in a little Central Kansas
Jail?
Il. u. Wilson, county attorney OF
Sumner county, disappeared with $780,
900 of other peoples money. His hat
end coat have been found on the Rock
Island bridge over the kaw river at
Topeka, indicating that he either COM
mited suicide or Is Dr. Frakering.
When Eugene Ware heard of Re-
preventative Bowersock's loss by the
flood he put his rhymster to work and
sent the congressman an engrossed
copy of the following
The rain water tumbled in torrents.
And washed out his mill dam at
Lc.wrence.
He said; Though bereft
I've a dam-site yet left"
Which language occasioned abhor-
snce.
1t Is related by the Meade Globe that
/ county superintendent In a neighbour
ng county asked every teacher at the
institute who took the local or county
,aDer to hold up bis or her hand fnd
,ut of 100 only six responded. The
expressed great sur
rise and said. "You don't spend 81
year with these papers( yet You ex-
,ect them to print. free of charge,
lotices of all institutes. insert long
Programmes. thus advertising and as
listing you to climb the ladder to bet
er salaries withou q cents expense |
n return
A baloonist was dangerously injured
t Barnes, although he fell "only $50 :,
eet" The parachute failed to open.4
Kansas has 1895 negro voters, and s
he Minneapolis Better Way says the 3
OPTICIANS promise each one of them
janitorship at the the statehOuse.
till, a majority Of them are not ap
ointed. A
The military company sent to Nor
yay, s. G., Saturday night returned a
unday to Columbia. They had no c
lash with the negroes and report the
,wn quiet, although some of the citi-
ems there are still apprehensive
The Postoffice and War departments =,
ach have scandals, and If the Leav. -
lworth Times has its way there will =,
Q an investigation of the Interior de- "
The new catalogue Of Baker uniyer'
ty. lust out, shows that 1t has an en- n,