The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-22

DODGE CITY. KANSAS.
KANSAS ITEMS or MTEREsE.
Cows arc worth more than gold
mine&
Neodesha Get 'em up to = large num-
Der Of editors April eth.
Medicine Lodge viii follow the lead
Of New York and have dog show. ,
The Presbytssisns Of Pratt have
bought judge ;Bashore's house and
after purifying Il will use it for par
sooage.
One Of the youngest doctors g:sdu-
ated 1t Topeka this week is under
conviction of completely in grave rob
bling.
The Hutchinson Military band has
begin its street concerts to be contin-
ned once q week through the entire
summer.
The first settlers in Kansas are .
sturdy crowd. The grim reaper has
bent his scyther on many = Kansss
pioneer.
In Kansas the people used to be for
ever assuring each other that ''this
year" the grasshopper eggs would not
hatch ont.
There is girl in Dodge City who
says that kiss has 500 vibrations
minute. She evidently doesn't kiss
her brother.
Fred Funston in writing to Law
renee friend says that battle il hell
with its halter loose and its tail over
the dashboard.
The drug stores of Burlington have
quit selling whisky and the water
sprinkler has begun business sixty
days earlier than usual
Kansas always considers the East
good victim of her jokes. Alfalfa tea
is now being advertised Is Kansas
product east of the Mississippi river.
We are not prepared to say who is
the biggest corn raiser is Kansas, but
John B. Rea of Jewell county, who
raised 0.0Oo last year, is no SLOUGH
himself
A very ngly old bachelor in West
ern Kansas town was married recently
and the local paper said it always be-
lieved ''he was invincible to the charms
of the fair sex"
The large creamery business in Kan
which is attracting 50 much attention
is largely in the hands of the River
Brethren, q Shaker religious sect in
Dickinson county.
There is running through Kansas at
the present time a special car carrying
physicians who glide from town to
town, charge big fees and starve the
local physicians to death.
The Union Pacific has engineers in
the territory going over the proposed
line of the Hutchinson & Southern
railway to coal folds in the Chickasaw
country. 1t is given out that the Un-
ion Pacific will buy the road and build
through from Medford to Texas at
once.
A Kansas man who spent nearly all
his life on the frontier says that most
of the brave men were killed because
they did not draw their revolvers soon
enough. He says the towards always
whipped their guns out first.
The Dunkards of northeastern and
southern Kansas met in convention on
April Is, IA and Il at Sabetha. The
convention comprises one-fourth of the
membership in the state and about $50
delegates were in attendance.
The Kansas Creamery Company,
which has factories in the northern
part Of the state, has completed ar
rangemcnts for the establishment at
Wichita of large factory. Spinning
stations will be located throughout
southern Kansas and Oklahoma.
J. l. kise, a Sumner eouaty man,
has . bunch of carrier pigeons which
he turned loose ut Mayfield the other
day and started them for Wellington.
Five of the eight birds made the trip
of nine miles in twelve minutes, or 1t
the rate of forty-five miles an hour.
This talk about the short grass not
being productive is rank stuff. Norton
county has baby 30 months old that
weighs lis pounds. The name of the
child Is Mamie Chambers Assuming
that Mamie will keep up her lick and
reach her growth At 20 she will weigh
ss5 pounds
Rice county was visited by another