The Globe-republican., 1903-05-07
Kansas Notes

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cents, ION account Of the high price
of soap and other edibles."
The Nebraska, Kansas & Gulf rail-
road elected Its first board of direc-
tors in Salina last week, and expects
to have charter obtained and Its an
nual passes in circulation in few
| weeks.
Park college has defeated Washburn
in a debate on the subject, Resolved,
That Strikes Are, On the Whole, Bene-
fetal" Washburn had the affirma-
tive, and the Strikers are left in an
embarrassing plight.
Governor Bailey has appointed Pam
coast Kidder of Topeka to his military
staff with the rank of captain Of en-
gineers. He is an insurance man who
will look well in 5000 worth Of uni
form.
Mcpherson has been chosen for the
state encampment Of the G. A. r. next
month.
There has been so much inebriety
and bibulous convivlality in Holton
lately that one writer calls the town,
1.-THE land of the spree and the home
of the grave"
The mother who leaves the bottle Of
carbolic acid within the baby's reach
was heard from in Osawatomie last
week; but this time the little one may
recover.
A Franklin county woman who was
married in 1886 brought suit for di.
vorce. She is past rs, and has been
married ffty-seven years. 1t is hoped
it Is only lovers quarrel.
The Alrich family, of Cawker City,
protests because the printers always
make the name read Aldrich. The
name, which Is pronounced All-rich,
carries with it an impression of prom.
inence."
Daniel Trott, who died in Dickin-
son county recently at the age Of 81
years, must have been an exception
ally good man. A writer in the Abb
lene Reflector pays him this high
tribute. He did not leave a debtor
in the world. He may have had
faults, but never have | known him
to deal dlshonorably, use deception or
even make an impure expression
never"
Pardon day." on the fifteenth Of
each month, has been abolished by
Governor Bailey. Sad news for the
9S5 innocent convicts at Lansing.
Senator F. Dumont Smith of Kinsley
lectured on Words" in Wichita few
nights ago. He Is for spelling reform,
and in advocating 1t in his lecture, said
he knew of only one argument in favor
of the old way and that was given by
an English bishop who declared that
the present method Of spelling helped
the churches, According to the bishop:
by the time you can make boy
believe that through spells
Through that Though spells
though and tough spells tough,
you can make him believe anything"
Maud Downey, on trial in Topeka
for grand larceny, testified that her
husband made her steal. A man who
is too lazy to do his own stealing
should not be tolerated in any com.
munity.
Salina is finding Its Gamewell fire
alarm system a costly plaything. 1t
has been out of repair for some time
and the council has hired an expert
electrician to find out what's the mat
ter with 1t.
The man who stabbed Pool Grin.
stead in Wathena was sentenced to
two years in the penltentiary. 1t may
yet become safe for an editor to live
in Doniphan county.
When a boy grows up" wrote a
little girl in Hutchinson, in the course
of a school essay, "he is called a hus-
band. The grown-up girl is a widow
and keeps house"
According to a Mankato paper, lit
looks like some live, energetic man
could do well in Mankato in the mar
BILE business
Esther Death Of Blue Rapids mar.
ried Willis Ray Lea recently. The
event has occasioned number Of
pleasantries, the most popular Of
which Is that the groom literally
courted Death
Leavenworth has discovered that
the clay which abounds thereabouts
mixed with shale, makes excellent pay.
ing bricks. Why not mix it with
Trego shale and make gold bricks?
Just TO show It's appreciation, High
land has decided to put It's city of.
fcials on a salary, The pay roll will
be as follows: Mayor, $25 a year;
treasurer, $40 year; councilmen, 81
for each meeting attended.
General W. W. Guthrie of Atchison,
who died last week, had practiced law
in Kansas forty.fve years, He came
to Kansas in 1857, He was 6S years
old,
A Kansas company has received a
contract to furnish the navy with AGO..
300 pounds Of butter and 1t will be full.
filed without Kansas living on skim