The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-01-23

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Three holdups occurred At Fort
Sect in one day recently.
The Kansas county treasurers will
meet January ssnd At Topeka.
The Santa Fe paid its tax in full in
Chsutauqus county. and it was 81. sos.
A number of old veterans have left
Horton to spend the winter in Georgia.
The Labette county medical society
is waging a war against quack doctors
A Leavenworth man has uncarthed
an old city directory of the year 1859.
Howard has blooded FLY known
to turfmen as the ''Campbellite Mare"
Ten cars of grain have been shipped
from Lebanon to Galveston during
1896
Seven of the thirty-three SHOWS
promised for this winter have come
| and gone.
The Santa Fe company has added a
compressed air plant to the shops At
Topeka.
The Chautauqua circle is taking
steps to stablish public library at
Pittsburg
Colonel J. d. Snoddy. of La Cygne,
| is clamoring for an extra session of the
legislature.
The Lawrence Journal publishes an
acrostic dedicated to ''Duffys Pure
Malt Whisky"
Lawrence has ''Wild Charlie" club
organized especially for the purpose
of taking care of the hard cider output.
La Crosse dealers have bought 1885,
600 bushels of wheat since last August
and paid the farmers of that section
ST., 900 for it.
Pat Rydgers, S. l. Kendall and J.
w. Maxim, with their families. left
Horton this week for the Horton col
ony camp in Georgia.
An Atchison barber who went to
Cripple Creek to seek his fortune was
one of the few successful ones. He is
now a retired capitalist.
4. A. Stewart, who made . good
steward of the asylum for deaf and
dumb, has resumed the editorial man
agement of his paper, the Manhattan
Republican.
Dickinson county is the home of two
men who are in the front rank of old
citizens. One is a Mr.. Yarhain. and
is aged 1Os years. The other is Ken
meth Gum, LOG years.
4 Harvey county man claims the
distinction of having lived next door
to Mrs. O'Learv and her kicking cow
and was one of the first to be burned
out in the great Chicago fire.
Bill White has been hired to write
up Cripple Creek for the Santa Fe pas
senger department. His articles will
appear in newspapers and afterward
will be issued in pamphlet form.
This will go down IN history as one
of the boom years in the attendance
of the state agricultural college at
Manhattan, notwithstanding ''hard
times" There are $40 already enrolled
for the winter term.
The remains of Jacob Kaut. a we'll
known Doniphan county farmer, who
died a few days ago, will be exhumed
and an autopsy held. There is a SEN
sational story to the effect that he was
poisoned.
Atchison Globe: The people OF
Leavenworth think so little of their
electric line that they steal copper
wires and other things from it. Up
here we swell with pride every time
car goes past.
Several attempts have been made
lately to burn the town of Huron, the
most recent being the firing of the
Doyle building. The citizens have Of
fered $500 reward for the apprehension
of the parties.
Mrs. Charles Duncan died Saturday
morning at Lawrence of a long illness.
She was one of the oldest citizens of
Douglass county and was prominently
identified with Kansas history prior to
and including the Quantrell raid.
4 highwayman appeared at the
house of the widow HolbrOok in Chau-
tauqua county and demanded her mon
ey. She had none and told him SO.
whereupOn he apologized for the in
trusion and putting some wood in the
stove departed.
The editor of western Kansas pa
per received three pounds of dried APP
plies on subscription the other day and
before he could get them home the
devil ate nearly all of them. To the
physician he remarked that
he never had suca a swell dinner
before.
John Miller. who was arrested few
weeks ago upon the charge of stealing
Mr.. William Hoch's harness, at HOlton.
but who was discharged at the pre-
liminary examination. brought an
action in the district court last Mon
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