The Globe-republican., 1904-02-25
KANSAS NOTES

plank walks walk the plank
Frank Snowden Of Caldwell appeared
| on the streets few days ago wearing
| q coonskin coat, and bodyguard was
necessary to keep off the dogs.
1t is estimated that the Dewey trial
will cost the voting population Of
Cheyenne county $24 apiece, and there
is considerable doubt If It is worth the
price.
George X, Addison Of Kansas City,
Kan, was dismissed from the state
grain inspection service Wednesday.
He was weighmaster and was found
wanting.
"Qui Pense Quomodo" was tho title
Of an editorial in the Emporia Repub-
lcan this week and everyone outside
Of the state normal school is wonder.
ing what 1t was about.
In Abilene the W, c. T. U. is trying
to stop the milk dealers from deliver.
ing milk on Sundays, Del Valentine
says what ails the W, c. T. U. Is too
much zeal and not enough babies,
A captain of industry Is not neces-
sarily one who directs vast wealth;
he may be one who accomplishes great
results, By this standard the Rev, Carl
Swcnsson was a captain Of industry Of
the highest stamp.
During the big fire in Topeka last
week the fire pressure was so weak
that streams could not be thrown to
the second stories. But the city coun-
Gil is now bringing ample pressure to
bear upon the water company.
When Parsons was talking of NUM-
cipal ownership the water company
assured the city that its plant was
earning per cent on 100000 capital.
Now the water company is trying to
convince the tax assessor that 1t was
only fooling.
The smallest paper in Kansas is the
Cedaryale Champion. Its pages are
only seven inches by five and a half
inches and If anything OF consequence
should happen in the town the news
would have to be printed as a serial.
The subscription price Is fifteen cents
a year, strictly In advance.
In the Forthcoming annual report Of
Judge Adna P. Gristlebone, chief in
spector of the cinder beetle quaran-
tine, chapter will be devoted to the
thunder bugs which have been dis
covered recently in Western Kansas
The thunder bugs are somewhat larger
than the lightning bugs, in the company
of which they are usually found. Judge
Gristlebone has observed in the course
of his experiments that each time the
lightning bug turns the current on its
illumination the thunder bug growls
audibly. The sound is not unlike y
peal of thunder. The judge will ask
for an appropriation to continue his
experiments.
Not Crazy but Only Nutty" is the
Kiowa County Signals headlines in
the case of Paul Stack of Greensburg,
who has been locked up for acting
queer"
Improvement note from the gas belt:
1.-THE hotel at Benedict has at last put
in a register"
Fortunately, Russia's hatred of The
United States is not shared by the
Russians in Ellis county,
The fruit growers Of Sedgwick coun.
ty formed an association last week,
and expect to bring united pressure to
bear on the correspondent who kills
the peach crop each spring.
The McCune Democrat voices the
sentiments Of all who enjoyed the hos.
pitality which Lawrence extended 10
the editors last week when it says:
We shant forget the Presbyterian
ladies'"
During the big Topeka fire last Sat,
urday the firemen were unable to
throw stream above the first story.
Topeka has just arranged to purchase
the city water works, and the public
Is wondering whether 1t has bought
a gold brick.
Notwithstanding the new truancy
law, the school attendance in Kansas
reveals decrease of 9,O1S since a year
ago. After the Wichita convention per.
haps some one will take time to OK.
plain why.
A farmer in Neosho county is en-.
gagged in what Fred Badger calls eight
farming" He sunk a well in hope of
striking oil. but it yielded gas instead.
Now he keeps six stoves going in his
house; lights every room, including
hall and cellar; has gas heaters in his
coops and hog pens; a furnace outdoors
Tor cooking food for his live stock; a
gas engine to shell corn, grind feed
and pump water, turn grindstones and
work the churn; gas light with re-
Hector to light the barnyard; con.
trivance to illuminate the barn when
he opens the door, and heaters for wa.
ter tanks in the field, so that his cattle
may drink tepid water all the winter
II they want to.
Billy Morgan Is impatient to find