The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-12-05

The Leavenworth coal n1neEs won
their strike.
Corn II worth is cents bushel IN
Stafford county.
A move is ON foot to build a new mil
itary prison at Fort Leavenworth.
The Cooper college quartette is Civ
ing concerts in western Kansas towns
The cattleman of Chautauqus coun-
ty are. dehorning~ their Texas stock.
One firm has dehorned I, 100 head.
The fast horse which ruined Frank
Mileham, of the Topeka postofice, was
cold IL New York last week for $500.
The leaves of the Kansas sunfower
may be put to a new use. It has been
found out by actual experiment that
they make better filler for . cigar
than cabbage leaves.
Martin Mohler has taken a fancy to
English Berkshires. He will raire no
more wheat. Instead he will plant
Kaffir corn, sorghum and other forage
crops Tor hog feed.
Five miners came from Leavenworth
last week to work in the Deming mine
at Burlingame. They only stayed a
day or two and then went back home,
declaring that the vein was too thin.
John Thomas and his two boys of
Stafford county raised 5000 bushels of
corn this year, some of it running
sixty-five bushels to the acre. They
also have put in 125 acres of wheat
this fall.
Ellsworth ingalls,, who is his moth
er's pet, is to be married, the young
woman interested being Harriet Mar
shall of Nashville. There have been
reports on Mr.. Ingalls, before, but
this time it seems to be 60.
Charles Snyder of Holton snagged a
finger on q fence barb. Blood poison
ing set in and the member was cut Off
But too late, the poison had spread to
Still too late, the sufferer died. He
had lived in jackson county thirty
years and was the father of nineteen
children.
DR.. 81. B. Callahan, one of the oldest
physicians of Leavenworth, was found
dead seated in chair in his Office Sat
urday forenoon. Heart disease was
the cause. Death was evidently in
Simultaneous, for the doctor had news
paper in his hand and his feet were
resting in . comfortable posture on
the table.
p. ]. Youngberg accidentally took
strychnine Wednesday evening at o.
tawa and in twenty minutes was dead
He had gone behind the prescription
case in his sons drug store to take
some medicine, and seeing . glass
graduate put his medicine in it and
drank the dose. Unfortunately his
son lad left strichnine in it.
An Illinois farmer living in Jewell
county has discovered that seed corn
soaked in coal oil renders the growing
corn chinch bug proof. He plowed up
his wheat and planted the ground with
corn The seed of five acres was
soaked in coal oil and tho other forty
was not. Tho bugs ate up the forty
acres and never touched the five acres.
1t Is worth million if true.
N. G. Marshof Chautauqua county,
has taken twenty steers of L. 81. Sui
Ivan to feed out for late market; he
is to have 6]S cents a pound for what
he puts on them; the cattle were tailed
out of a bunch that averaged l192k
and only fell 80 pounds short of tina:
figure, weighing 1,16O1s pounds. 1t
will be of interest to know the result
of this deal-to see who makes the
profit in the transaction.
George NJ. Munger has an irrigating
plant located at his Catalpa Knob fruit
farm, seven miles south of Eureka. in
Greenwood county. The farm COM
prises over 500 acres of fruit trees, be-
sides 200 acres of forest trees, all mod
erately rolling upland prairie. The
water supply is furnished by an arti-
fetal pond, which with the dam now
constructed, will cover about 100 acres.
The plant for pumping is quite similar
to the water works of many of our
towns, q heavy engine, suction and
force pumps.
The Kansas girl who INDUCES in the
dizzy waltz will hear with interest
that the heads of society have decided
that sitting out waltz this winter
will be more fashionable than dang
ing-the only difference is you sit in
stead of dance. The mans right arm
is around the girls waist, while his
left hand holds her right. Her head is
placed lovingly on his shoulder, and
all you have to do is to listen to the
music. It is nuisance to have to
gallop mile or SO in order to get q
hug or two, and Dell Valentine, who
has . corn on his toe, says people sit
ting around on sofas hugging to mu-
sic is more to his notion.
Nary E. wilkins has done some
thing new In the piece of work just
completed and given by her to The
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