The Globe-republican., 1904-07-14

To its department OF Boy News
the Emporia Gazette has added acol
umn Of Girl News" The Hutchinson
News remarks that if it will now get
up some news for the grown people
the Gazette will be all right
It develops that when Attorney Gen
eral Coleman handed down an opin
ion last week to the effect that the
proposed constitutional amendments
had miscarried, he oyerruled the de
cision Of Justice David J. Brewer in q
very similar case.
The Abeilene News Is one Kansas
paper that is fond Of using the wore
"ere."
The old-fashioned creditor who still
believes Grant Gillette Is coming back
to pay all he owes lives in Wood
bine,
Atchison is SO happy since it has
struck that three-foot vein Of coal thai
it is even reconciled to the loss Of the
Missouri Pacific shops.
A man in Gaylord mistook a can Of
choice maple syrup for floor polisf
and did not discover his error unit
he had smearcd it all over his parlol
floor.
The reason, presumably, that indie
pendence Is the darkest town in Kan
sas, is mat it is in the middle Of the
richest oil and natural gas fields II
the country.
A town in Indiana makes a practice
of opening dances with prayer, but
the Lindsborg News thinks this is ne
worse than the custom of opening the
sessions of the last Kansas Legislature
with prayer
Congressman Charles r Scott ad
mlts there is some righteousness ii
the protest against the Congressional
Record being issued six weeks aftel
Congress has adjourned. 1.-THE last
issue Of the Record" he says, ICON
tains a long anl yyrv able Republican
speech by Congressman McClcary Of
Minnesota, SO there can be no pOlitica
prejudice in our protest. But in case
1t had been a Democratic speech We
are free to admit we should have re
garded 1t as a gross violation Of the
printing privilege. The Record shows
that Mr. McClaary was granted oae
minute of time on a certain day
toward the last day Of the session. Il
is upon that slender foundation thai
he builds the right to print at govern
ment expense, nearly two months lat
er, a hundred pages or so of politica
argument. Personally, we are very
fond of Mr., McCleary, but we must
confess that in this case he seems tc
have stepDed over the limit"
The corner stone of the st. An
thongs Catholic church was laid Sat
urday by Bishop Cunningham of Con
cordia.
A heavy fall Of rain at Leavenworth
Saturday flooded cellars and greatly
injured ripe wheat on nsighboring
farms.
The railroads at Kansas City are
preparing to handle a big wheat croC
this fall, Track room is being greatly
increased
Tramps in Southern Kansas tell the
sympathetic housewives that they are
deported miners from Colorado.
The mayor and police judge Of Cuba
have been arrested for permitting the
joints to run, but they are not kept in.
communicate.
An Ottawa woman is quoted as say,
ing: I'VE owe 50 many calls that COS.
sip two months Old would seem like
fresh news to u.s.
A Fourth Of July fable" by T. A.
McNeal: A Kansas mother, reading
Of the manner in which the Japanese
gave up their sons to their country in
the present war, said: ut is wonder
full the manner in which those pagans
are willing to sacrificetheir sons.
"Oh, | don't know that they hold the
edge over me SO much,' said the wo-
mans husband. Our boy has just
struck me for 50 to buy bombs and
firecrackers and a toy pistol for the
Fourth of July, and let hin have the
money"
The published record Of Senator
Fairbanks is incomplete, according 10
the salina Journal. 1t omits the most
important of all the dates-the date
when Mr., Fairbanks was in Salina.
The Clay Center Times expresses
the hope that Paul Moston, the new
secretary Of the navy, will lose no
time in eeuipping the battleships with
safety couplers.
So many coyotes have been killed
owt In Kiowa csunty that a bond issue
may be needed TO pay the bounties On
their scafps. Since May 1 there have
been s4s killed. :
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