The Globe-republican., 1903-04-09
Kansas Notes

quantities at a depth Of 656 feet, bu,
will keep on boring In the hope o.
finding pepper, vinegar, cstsup or to
basco sauce. Si y
An Emporia girl admits she Is liv'
ing In the hope that some day sht
may meet young man as handsome
as the clothing advertisements in tht
April magazines.
A man is under arrest for forging
the name Of an Atchison county farm
er to a check for s2,250. The farmel
may not prosecute, he is so grateful
that the forgery was for SO small 8
sum. s-
Peter Anderson, the lucky Dickinson
county man who made an ample Tor
tune in the Klondlke, Is not content tt
let well enough alone. He is going tc
Brazil to invest it oil in diamond
mines.
In Lindsborg the marshal arrested
tramp, but when he tried to lock
him up he found that the lock on the
Jail door was so rusty from long dis
use that 1t could not be opened. 'He
kept the prisoner at a hotel over
night.
Governor Bailey has rejected the
plan Of the state militia to hold its
annual encampment at Fort Sill, OK
He has Travelled in Western Kansas
and he knows whereof he speaks when
he tells the guardsmen: kansas is
plenty big enough"
They call the joints "doggeries IN
Concordia, and in Burlington two men
have been arrested charged with rum
ming a gambling hell"
An lola dry goods merchant fixed
I'D his biz window with such an at
tractive display Of feminine wearing
apparel that he finally had to put a
sign in the window asking the men
not to crowd around and obstruct the
view Of the women.
A Southern Kansas postmaster re-
ceived a letter a few days ago ad-
dressed "P. M.," meaning, OF course,
postmaster" He kept it several days
and then began asking his acqualnt-
ances II they knew man Of the name
Of Afternoon"
Since the Indians in Northern snd
Eastern Kansas have formed a Pasture
trust and raised the price from ~ a
head to IS, Poor Lo has become High
and II is The cattlemeh who claim the
adjective Poor"
Osborne claims to be entitled to all
the credit" for Miss Elsie Reasoner'
Her father moved from Leawenworth
TO Osborne when she was quite young,
and 1t was there that Elsie passed her
happy childhood days"
The origin of this, which is going
the Kansas newspaper rounds, is un-
known: 81 am not much Of a math-
ematician," said the cigarette, but
can add to a mans nervous troubles
l can subtract from his physical en-
ergy, can multiply his aches and
pains. | can divide his mental powers
I take interest from his work and dis
count his chances for success
Although he did not reach Kansas
until the spring of 1S46, BENJAMIN. Hara, :.
ing of Wathena makes the claim tnat
he Is the oldest inhabitant OF the
state.
The blockade against cattle from the
West Is the first time the Colorado
line has been peacefully blockaded
since the cinder beetle quarantine
nearly a year and a half ago.
A company with $35O,Ooo capital has
been organized in Fort Scott to bore
1CO oil wells, and when It gets through
the face of Bourbon county will look
as though It had smallpox.
In noting that Abraham Wolff and
wife have celebrated tue siztieth ami
yersary of their marriage, the Haddam
Clipper says they have seven children
forty grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren, "and Of these only one
has been married the second time"
The Topeka Capital has been made
the official state paper for another
wear. The other candidate was the
Topeka Herald,
The Peerless hotel in Newton was
destroyed by a fire Of incendiary origin
last week.
Some of the neighboring towns are
not through laughing yet because Ar
kansas City sent its silver cornet band
down to the depot to meet, the Banda
Rosa when it arrived.
A Hiawatha man had some meat
stolen. He kept perfectly quiet about
1t. Along came a neighbor, who said;
"Hear you had some meat stolen"
Eyes, and you stole it." was the re-
ply. mo one else knew about It,"
-Four more statehouse ianitors were
chosen by the executive council last
week, making fourteen. There are
three more to be appointed 1t al
lows four janitors for each wing Of
the building and one at large
The executive council recently paid
$4,000 for the recently completed iron
stslrways in the statehouse. The work