The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-01

A Wichita man has gone as mis-
sionary to China.
On March 2Sth Kansas was visited
by another general rain.
DR.. Pilcer Is said to have a sure :inch
Oh his old job at Winfield.
Mr.. Lewelling takes his place on the
railroad commission next week.
Fifteen children from Indiana have
been given homes in Barton county.
| There are eleven Methodist preachers
and fourteen newspapers in Marshall
| county.
Ex-Labor. Commissioner Bird is get
ting up an organization of native Kan
sans.
| Wellington people saw an aurora
borealis. The county attorney ought
| to investigate where they got it.
Prosperity is advancing in Western
Kansas. Twenty-seven numbers were
! recently sold 1t dance at Ingalls,
| Governor Leedy has asked the police
commission of Leavenworth to make
a monthly itemized statement to him.
A three foot vein of coal has been
| struck at Ottawa since Joe Bristow
was made fourth assistant postmaster
general.
The Lawrence Comedy Club il not
afraid to go to Emporia and present a
play. An arbitration treaty mas been
| arranged.
There were 21O babies born in Tope-
ka las year. The babies were not con-
| suited and should not be held respon.
! sible for their birth place.
A Kansas editor. commenting on the
fact that Postmaster General Gary has
eight daughters, thinks he ought to
| understand how to handle females bet
| ter than mails.
The buds on some Of the peach trees
are almost ready to burst open into
bloom. If the weather remains warm
the trees will soon be covered with
! bloom, but if very many hard freezes
should come now, the peach crop
would be very much damaged.
The creamery at Salina is progress
Ing fnely-nearly all of the machinery
is already on the ground and in the
building. A huge churn capable OF
making 1000 of butter per day, a 25-
horse power boiler, large steel tanks,
an immense separator and various 9TH
er machines used in first class cream
erles.
| Miss AIDA Stewart, teacher in dis
trict No. IS, Shawnee county, was re-
moving fire from the stove to the coal
scuttle, when her apron came in con-
! tact with the live Goals and in an in.
slant her clothing was a mass OF
flames. Scholars came to her help
and the flames were finally extinguish'
ed. but not until the young lady was
horribly burned on the back and arms
The plans and specifications for the
new depot for the ST. Louis & San
Francisco railway are completed. Also
the plans for the freight house. The
contracts for all the work on these new
buildings will be let to home people
Ever since the Frisco road has been
into Wichita they have used the depot
of the Santa Fe. They now propose tc
erect their own station which will be
done within the next six months. They
! will discontinue the use of the Santa
Fee tracks entirely. The road will have
1000 feet of ground, which will be fill
ed with sidetracks and switches
People living in the towns on the
Rock Island have already commenced
calling that road the butter. egg and
poultry route. The Kansas Creamery
company, with headquarters at Tope
ka, having established 4 creamery al
|
or separating stations at several points
both east and west of Belleville. One
has recently been completed in Scan
dia, and another at Lebanon, with
good prospects that the farmers and
business men of Smith Center Ken
sington, Agra, Phillipsburg, Norton
Almena, Dresden, CORTLAND, Formoss
and other places will subscribe enough
to erect separating stations at all O
them. The milk is to be received a
these stations and the farmers to b,
paid the same they would if they hat
churning station. The cream will b,
shipped to Belleville and churned. L
is understood the Rock Island peopl,
, are urging the movement which is al
ready opening up a great industr,
along that system of road through
northern and northwestern Kansas il
the raising of mich cows. With nj
, these sklmming stations in operate