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

There is not . physician in either
Grant or Norton counties.
The wife of Senator George d. Bowl
ing died at Scandal March 70.
The Topeka medical college has
turned out nine new doctors
Abilene now has population of
300. 1t has lost about 100 during
the last year.
! Thirteen men died in Topeka last
week. Another proof that that num-
Der is unlucky.
S. NJ. Scott is now general advertis-
ing and subscription agent of the To-
peka Advocate.
Fred Haugawout: ''There is the
coal man, taxes and death; but the
least of these is death.
The editor of the Lyons Republican
counted seventeen kinds of weather
in one day recently.
The average condition of the Kan
sas wheat crop is put at 81 by the
Orange Judd Farmer.
An old soldier at Kansas City was
arrested for sending a dun" on pos
tai card through the mail.
| Barton county intends to ship pota.
toes this year. They are now selling
there for 30 cents per bushel.
| For love-making purposes. A King
man county man says, the moon isn't
| in it with horizon prairie fire.
The smallpox scare in Crawford and
| adjoining counties is dying out and
| nobody was scared to death either.
George Nesbit. aged IS, is under ar
rest at Atchison charged with the abb
duction of 15-year-old Jessie Landers.
The official ballot in Kansas this
year will be the biggest ever printed.
1t will measure sixteen by twenty
inches.
Cowley county will furnish $50 and
an orator, and one of the cars in Syl
Dixon's Mckinley corn train will be
named Cowley.
Another Kansas man has come to
the front. A Leavenworth contractor
secured a $500. 900 government contract
in New York City.
This is the time of year when Wis
itors to southern Kansas want to sit
up all night on the front porch watch
ing the prairie fires.
Tnnal-0 hor iyo6
ny to manufacture ''acelclyne gas"
That's the same stuff those dams and
the new bridge were built Of
Don't list the corn too thick is a
hogany and hung in the barn. says a
western Kansas agricultural editor
A Smith county farmer after full
feeding his horse on turnips killed
him and sent the meat to his Eeigh-
bOrs. They pronounced it excellent.
A Leavenworth girl wrote to news
paper for recipe to keep her hands
white ana received the following re-
ply: ''Soak them in dishwater three |
times day, Immediately after meals"
Kansas newspapers are very gentle |
as rule. Most papers i, writing up |
gradua ting exercises say: 1.-The excr-
cises though somewhat lengthy were
good" 1t means they were bore.
The Abilene Reflector is engaged in
a heated controversy with the London
correspondent of the Associated Press
over the SOudan question. The Lon
don correspondent is being whipped.
A colored man in Sumner county re-
Gently sold a hog. In paying for it
the firm held out the amount of a
debt. The colored man went to law
and after taking a change of venue
discovered that he had paid S15O for
giving the hog away.
Phil Armour says wheat, he believes
will sell for a dollar bushel before
long: that it ought to sell for that on
its merits now. If Kansas can raise
a fair crop of wheat and sell it for a
dollar a bushel it would be the end of
hard times for while, at least.
Arthur McMurray. B. B. Mccall, r.
L. Netherton. S. J. Home, n. S. Guyer
and George Kingsley. all of Kansas
university. debated Friday night for
the honor of representing the institu-
ton in the approaching contest with
Nebraska. Mccall, McMurray and
Guyer were the chosen three.
A Topeka man who every week or SO
adds to his will regulating the details
of his own funeral has lately added
codicil barring fly nets on the hearse
horses should he die out of the fly sea-
son. lie reasons that the only purpose
of fly nets is to protect the horses from
flies. and If there be no flies why load
the horses with nets? OF course he
that the nets being black
are meant to be a sign of mourning,
but if the human mOurners be not
clad in summer attire. why should the
horses be so clad? Indeed why should
the horses go INTO mourning at all?