The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-07-30

man has been discovered.
The coddling moth has begun IN 1T
tack on Kansas orchards.
Twenty-six fairs will be held in
Kansas during September.
In many portions in Kansas the
people are roaring for a drought.
John Tygarter is q general favorite
in the social circles of Smith county.
The Mo. P. depot at Colwich was
struck by tightening during the storm
Thursday night and burned.
The ''sky parlor" of the Santa Fe
general Office building at Topeka, is
the coolest Office in the building.
The delinquent tax list is again max
ing its dreary appearance to the Kan
sas reader. The editor alone smiles.
Whitney's Easy Rosters are in camp
on Brownlee lake in Stafford county
and game and fish are drug on the
market.
There is so much politics this year
that the Kansas papers make very
little mention of the corn crop. which
is in fact the greatest in the history of
the state.
Rev. Sidney of Marion county. really
runs a 1O-cent dray when he is not
preaching. He is not inconsistent,
Sharon himself is something of a trans
fer man.
The officials of the Rock Island and
Santa Fe deny that their roads are as
yet suffering from threatened car IA
mine, and they say they will supply
the demand.
Mutes association of Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Iowa held a reunion at Law
renee. Charles Curtis of Lawrence
was elected chairman and Lincoln
Eller of Watson secretary.
A domestic jar is about to break on
account of the wife of a dear, Kansas
man wanting to be her husbands stem
ographer. He insists that the Office
work would be too hard for her.
There is a gambling house in Topeka
where women, some of whom are well
known in the city are allowed to play
their money. They may be seen every
day coming or going from the place.
Harry Webb and wife from San
Francisco, visited several Kansas towns
last week on their way on bicycle
tour. They went south intending to
go through Texas and from there to
New York.
''Plow ahoy!' cries the Kansas farm
er this year. "Jettison that bundle of
oats and starboard tack with The bind
er. What's that? Man overheard!
This is the doggondest corn year l
ever did see."
There is band in Topeka that meets
six evenings in the week and practices
three hours each time. During two
hours and fifty-six minutes of that
time each night they hammer away on
May Twins ''Bully" song.
At noon Thursday the dead body of
Julius Haug, representative German
citizen and prominent in business cir
cles of Leavenworth, was found on the
Fort Leavenworth reservation. 1t is
believed to be case of murder.
Mrs. Lease says there is absolutely
no truth in the report that she has
bought a house in Kansas CITY, Kan.
OF course it might happen that the
deal is not closed yet. The does not
go into the future on the subject.
Ned Riordan. aged 90. an inmate of
the Soldiers home. Leavenworth. has
just made application for naturaliza-
ton papers. He was born in Ireland
but came to America when a young
man and served through the late war.
Edward S. Washburn has been cleo
ted president of the Kansas City, Fort
Scot and Memphis. and the Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham rail-
ways at the semi-annual meeting of
the board of directors held in Boston.
Owing to the sudden activity in the
corn trade, in Southwest Kansas, in
duced by cut rates to all points, a car
famine is iminent. The movement is
immense, and the apple and peach crops
and enormous quantities of vegeta bles.
adds to the difficulty.
George II. Fisher, who was arrested
several weeks ago at Topeka, on the
charge of stealing $40 worth of harness
from the reform school and was bound
over to the district court by Justice
Grover, pleaded guilty before Judge
Hazen and was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. He was also
wanted in Leavenworth county for
horse stealing.
A Kansas paper says: IAN east side