The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-04-16

DODGE CITY, KANSAS
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Great Bend Register says tina
Barton county Republicans are almOs
aunt for Ingalls,.
Mr.. +. B. McKercher. formerly O
Kansas. has been appointed assistant
general manager of the Mexican Cen
trail
1t has been said 'sThere is luck in :
coffee cup" but there is not much lucl
n CofeSville. for highwaymen, a
least
The colOred society women of Leav
enworth have organized the do tn.
Right Thing club" That ought t.
improve the hired girls of the town.
John Taylor, the wheat king O
Dickinson, has field of GOO acres OF
= growing wheat almost totally destroy
ed by the wind. He is positive tina,
600 acres of the wheat is entirely de-
stroyed.
Alma made net gain of thirteen in.
habitants by recent changes in two
pulpits there. The families of the re-
firing ministers numbered eight per-
sons, and those of the new pastors
twenty-one persons.
w. i. Swan, whose high tenor voice
used to get loose in the house of repre-
sentatives. has been made doctor of
medicine by Chicago college. DIR,
Swan still wears hi; hair ''rOached, -
and treads the air like a man inspired.
Mrs. Chris, an old colored woman in
TT. Scott, has a private oil well on her
premises that is yielding her a support
for her family. She has strained the
oil through a flannel cloth and sold it
for fifteen cents gallon to her neigh
bors.
The Forest Oil company of Mont
gomery county, has purchased of J. w.
Pugh twenty acres of timber on Elk
river, and will at once proceed to have
it all sawed up into rig timbers. A
pretty sure indication that good
many wells will be drilled.
At Junction City Saturday Fred Par
IRISH. discharged soldier, made a re-
mark about the hat of Henry Turner,
an inoffensive negro, and as Turner
answered him Parrish drew a revolver
and fired two shots, killing Turner.
Parrish escaped
The first State HighschOol oratori-
cal contest was held last Saturday at
Ottawa, the contesting schools being
Topeka, LeavenwOrth, Ottawa and
Wamego. Wamego won first place,
Ottawa second, Leavenworth third,
and Topeka fourth.
Three new oil plants were opened
up in Montgomery county last week.
When the statement was made some
time ago that Kansas would be a Sec
ond Pennsylvania in the production of
oil, it was not credited by many, but
indications point strongly in that dir
ection.
State Auditor Cole has refused to
audit claim of c. S. Dunlop for S166
salary. Mr.. Dudlop is professor of
English literature at the state univer-
sity and went to Europe as student
in that branch. Auditor Cole refuses
to pay the salary for the time the pro-
fessor was absent.
6Abe Stouffer is the old fashioned
son-in-law who takes part in family
reunions of his wife's people without
a kick, and he is SO well liked by his
mother-in-law that she gets up feed
on his birthday just as if he was her
own dear boy. That man knows how
to manage a mother-in-iaw.
Two young farmer boys near Law
renee engaged a lot of corn to mer-
chant and when they hauled it to
town, after weighing on the city scales
they would sell the load to someone
else and get the money and, as the
merchant did not go with them to u.,-
load, he supposed the corn was put in
his cribs. and the boys would collect
from him also. But it was too rich a
vein to run far and they are in jail
INV. "diCAuS IOE COuIt " convene ana
send them to ptison.
~
Ed Little has had important con-
nection with the diplomatic affairs of
this country on two separate occasions
Once was when he was consul to Egypt
and the other when q student at Law
renee he was shayed by John Waller
During test performance of the
cathode ray at Manhattan last week.
. member of the alumni was induced
70 take the chair. 1t was a test of the
ray on the brain and when the aspira-
tious of his cerebrum were pictured on
the canvas. the witnesses were sur
prised to see q man climbing a ladder
that, like Jacobs. reached into the
skies, while the Jawhawker motto.
lad astra per aspera' appeared in the
back ground.
Samuel Cooper, one Of the pioneers
of PottowatOmie county. died March
%, aged Sc years He was a native of