The Globe-republican., 1897-11-11

DODGE CITY, KANSAS
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
John Speer says that if he was forty
years younger he would be in Klondike
today.
The machinery for big vitrified
brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
There is Buzzard in the peniten-
tiary recently sent from Waubaunsee
county.
The onion crop of Meade county is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
Parsons people have 100 men putting
in the mains for the gas from the Neo-
desha oil fields.
The registration at Newton is 1899,
being ninety more than year ago.
Newton is growing.
A vit-ifed brick plant at Cherryvale
will be fred with natural gas 1t will
be the largest in the state.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition a stock of corn on which
are six well developed ears.
The Kansas Building Loan league
will make demand for better state
law goyernoring associations.
The Kansas University football
eleven won out over the Iowa eleven.
Outside of Lawrence no one cares.
Independence had large fire on Nov.
6, in which ten head of horses, togeth-
er with wagons, buggies, machinery
and several thousand bushels of corn
were consumed.
Ex-senator John j. Ingalls,, of Kan
sas, will have quarters in Washington
during this session of congress. He
denies that he intends making the Cap
itol his future home, but that he ex-
poets to do considerable writing during
the session.
The Newton mills broke the record
last month in the output of flour. Six.
teen cars have been exported. The
two mills are kept running all the
time, the aggregate capacity being 525
barrels a day. The capacity Of the
new mill will he 400 barrels day.
The compilation of figures from the
quarterly statements of Kansas banks
made by Commissioner Breidenthal
shows in Kansas there is less borrowed
money than at any time during the
past few years. The amount now
against the banks is S29s, 723. s4. The
amount loaned by the banks is ST.
14S,941.91. The percentage of the le-
gal reserve is so 90. The total resour-
ces of the banks now amount to S33,-
s,66s. SO.
Nine out of twelve persons who par :
took of n supper given at the McReady
ranch, near Manchester recently, were
taken violently sick before midnight.
The symptoms were cramp and pain in
the stomach with excessive vomiting.
A panic ensued for some time but
finally the remedies applied proved eff
fectual and today all were able to be
about except the elder Mrs McReady.
The cause of the trouble is not known.
but it is supposed to have been due to
canned goods of some kind.
Some time ago the body of q man,
supposed to have been murdered, was
found in sraw stack near Arkansas CT.
ty. AS yet he has not been identified
The DESCRIPTION of the body corresonds
to that of Lyman Smith, who left the
home of his brother, east of Mulvane
to 60 to Oklahoma. Nothing had been
heard of him since then, and his rela-
tives there have instituted search. An
effort will be made to have the body
of the murdered man exhumed. When
he left there he had $500 in money and
a good team and wagon. The supposi-
tion is that he has been murdered for
his money. He had not lived in Null
vane for several years, but had been
visiting relatives there before he start
ed on his last trip.
While out hunting last week Mr..
Isaac A. Wright, a real estate dealer Of
Kansas City. shot and killed rabbit
with well developed horns. Funny
was an ordinary cotton tair'' and
the horns, which are three-quar-
tiers of an inch long and rough and
hard like those of a goat, are less than
an inch apart just in front of the rab-
bits left ear. The first horn ID close
to the left ear and the other is Just