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

The Kansas druggist who committee
suicide by drowning might have nad
. neater job Of it by drinking his ON
whiskey.
Captain s. ]. Stewart received owe
$1,000 in checks to be paid to land own
ers who have leased lands to the For
est Oil company, this money going t
parties owning farms in the vicinity o
Roehl well.
A Topeka wife sued her husband
for divorce, but when the case wa
called before Judge Hazen: the attor
ney for the plaintiff arose and said
81 understand, your honor. that thu
plaintiff has eloped with the defend
ant" The judge smiled and dismissed
the case.
i Prof Geo B. Penny. dean of the de
partmcnt of music of the State uni
versity, has left Lawrence for New
York, from which place he will EN-
bark for Europe. He will visit Athen:
and other points in Greece and spend
the summer in Florence in the study
of music.
The "Uncle Toms Cabin" company,
now hitting the high places in South
ern Kansas, has two little Evas IN
stead of two topsies. Just how they
| work the death bed scene with two
Evas and only one st. Clair and one
Tom is one of the inscrutable things
that we can only family imagine.
Eddie Foy, the comedian, will spend
the summer at Troy, and the Pickwick
+; club of that place has already claimed
him. He will take an interest with
! some Troy sports in ball club, and
manage it on tour of Kansas, Iowa
I: and Missouri. Phil Kelly also has
some entertainment in store for FOy.
The Rev. Edward Locke, secretary
of the Kansas conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, has recently
issued in pamphlet form a complete
report of the proceedings of the forty
first annual session of the conference,
which was held at Atchison in March.
The sta :istical report shows a total of
go churches in Kansas, with 27.317
members and an aggregate value of
s662, 200 of church property.
All of the State university students
who were suspended short time ago
for their participation in the Junior
Promenade. have been re-instated by
the university council. There were
seven students disciplined for taking
part in the riot, seven being suspended
for thirty days, and two reprimanded.
There were no arrests as a result of
the trouble. The next excitement to
he looked forward to is the annual
May day scrap.
County Surveyor Bomig of Dickinson
county gives the Abilene Reflector
some valuable information on irriga-
ton. A link belt irrigation plant of
300 gallons capacity per minute will
cover one acre of ground with six
inches of water in nine hours. 1t can
be operated by horse power and will
cost ST for twenty-five foot lift. This
volume of output will irrigate thirty
acres if the pump is employed in the
fall, winter and spring to wet the Soil
thoroughly before seeding.
A Centropolis man was returning
home from town with his family in
carriage when his team became fright
ened and ran away. He was thrown
out the first dash and the team rushed
madly down the road. But son was
out horseback riding and seeing the
runaway team. took after it and after
chase of several miles caught and
stopped it. The occupants of the We
hiclc had not n scratch and the old
gentleman had clawed the gravel from
his eyes and was pursuing on foot
when they met him.
John Urguhart, ore of three survi-
vors of the defense of Fort Sumter died
Monday at the age of 20 years. Urqu-
hart first enlisted in 1858 in the First
artillery and was at Sumpter at the
time of it's evacuation, with Major
Hammer, then quartermaster sergeant
and Capt. James Chester, then first
sergeant. The deceased was for some
time member of the Washington Sol
diers home. He had lived in Leaven-
worth for several years and of late
was getting quite feeble. He was laid
to rest in the National cemetery at the |
fort.
Adam SCOTS son, Adam Scott, Jr.,
has been appointed general manager
of the Russian Hebrew colony, now
numbering 500 people. and who are
being located in Logan county. Each |
colonist is given two acres of irrigated |
land, small house. team, a COW and |
farm machinery and will raise vege- !
tn bles and small fruits for the Denver |!
market. They have fifteen years to
pay for their outfits. This is a branch |
business of T. c. Henry. formerly the
Abilene wheat king. He owns :,OOO.-
600 acres of irrigated land.
Prairie fires are doing much damage
in Dickinson county. North of Man
chester a sweeping one did consider