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

year 1895 entalled . loss of 500, 900.
Fire-guards are being burnt on town.
ship lines in many western counties.
j. Z. Burton:s lecture is entitled,
'Talking and Takers It is said to
be very fine.
L. L. Dyche, certain that his lecture
alone will beSsufffcient to draw crowd
has had his hair cut.
Ex-Probate Judge johnson of Cow
ley county has gone to California with
the view of locating there.
A single firm raised $4,000 pounds of
garden seeds in Stevens county last
year. its value being $1,000.
Kansas has 3s5 mills. employing
2.349 men with an annual output of
-four amounting to $50. 600. 900.
Judge C. w. Smith of the Stockton
district, has appointed his wife to the
position of court stenographer.
Stag parties are So common in Stock
ton that the Record speaks of "a party
to number of friends of both sexes"
Leavenworth people are preparing
a magnificent entertainment for the
editorial association, February II and
18th.
Christ's hospital at Topeka will re-
ceive bequest of $4,000 from the es-
tate of the late j. C. Kyle, of that
city.
A Kansas minister preached for a
congregation for two years and did
not get a cent of his salary. He has
resigned.
Colonel L. c. Weldy and Bill Sapp's
brother John have organized a theat-
rical club at Galena, and will play for
sweet charity.
The Rev. J. A. Bull, presiding elder
of the Beloit district, preached 800
sermons in 1895, and the Call says they
were good ones, too.
DR.. Mabel Spencer, of Manhattan,
has been appointed physician for Re-
public county. She is the first woman
in the state to he SO hOnOred.
The Short Creek run of lead and
zinc has jumped Shoal Creek, and a
town on ''Teanesee prairie south
west of Galena. is talked of.
There is over 45. 900 bushels of corn at
Ellsworth. 1t is expected that over
1OO, 900 bushels will be stored before
spring. awaiting better prices.
Bank robbers at Baldwin, Sunday
night blew open the State bank with
nitrO-glycerine, but were frightened
away without securing any booty.
Out in the Solomon valley where
corn is king, the hen has risen to the
rank of queen, bushel of corn going
at market rates for a dozen of eggs.
People who read the Hiawatha
World hereafter without paying for it
will have to borrow it. Herbert has
hung out the sign, mo pay. no paper.
An Atchison job printer, finding bus
mess little dull. has induced lot of
young gillies of the town to put
comic opera on for the benefit of char
ity.
A Seneca man. who owed SLIGO to
Stockton Record on subscription, sent
a check for $l6O. and the honest editor
didd't do a thing but send it back for
The Topeka Capital Almanac and
Year Book is complete encyclopedia
of state and political information. 1t
is especially valuable to pu bile speak
ers aud writer's.
1t is believed that Atchison has been
hoodOOed as show town by young
who wear knitted fascinators
on their heads to the theaters and
keep them on during the performance.
: A Lawrence man has struck plan
to avoid paying rent for a telephone at
his residence. He has established a
telegraph line of his own and with
ticker at each end. keeps up a COM
and pays no toll.
Local newspaper writer's are allow
I'd great deal of latitude, but the
young man on the Topeka Capital
cTOSSSu lllc equator WHICH uc SdlO q
wearing a Mother Hubbard,
walked into court like queen.
When an Atchison man gets ahead
enough to lift the mortgage from
MS house and a little extra to build a
brick porch, his wife prints all her ,
names on her visiting cards. As per
Mrs. Jonathan Millsop
Blllkins.
A profitable industry in Leaven-
worth is the organization of Cripple
Creek colonies. The victims. in addi-
lion to railroad fares, pay fee to the
promoter for the privilege. When
hey get to Cripple Creek they hustle
With the rest of humanity.
John McCool of BroOkdale, who
shoots rabbits for the market, went
out last week with seventy-nine shells
and brought home seventy-seven
rabbits. That kpOckSthe record