The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-15

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of Abilene had one majority and there
will be . recount.
The hail last week was large enough
near Guelph, Sumner county, to knock
out window lights.
MaMahan, the circus man. was shot
1t Wichita April Sd from the effects OF
which he died on the 5th.
The Santa Fe will spend $50. 900 on
the new depot and other improvements
At Dodge City this summer:
Ora Melton, the Lawrence boy who
was captured near Cuba on the Com.
petitor, is still in Spanish dungeon.
The Topeka joints are driving the
drug stores out of business. 1t is
easy to guess what kind of business
sJohn Wolf of Washington is poor and
glad of it. He makes living that
way. He is living skeleton in q circus.
It only took two hours after 6i-
vorce petition was fled in WicA lid
court to get tho decree and alimony.
According to the Chanute Tribune
the office fever can give the mountains
fever . big start and run a man quick
er.
Wichita is to have a fair and fiesta
next fall. We suppose this Fiesta
business is the old thing with = new
name.
Kansas has overworked the word
plug" It means a hat, a stopper, a
railroad train. an old horse. q blow, a
mutilated coin.
An Atchison man walking out on a
common the other night with absolute
~ nothing but the sky above him was
hit on the head by potato half-pealed.
1t came right down straight and was
probably dropped by the cook on the
airship.
The people in the vicinity of lola are
in a bad fix. The roar of the Palmer
gas well in that town can be heard for
ten miles. If a cyclone should ap-
proach it would drown out the roar of
the wind and the people would be
without warning.
A Eureka man has issued a note to
his neighbors explaining why he has
been so unsociable and unneigh borly.
He says he was SO because he wanted
to conceal his real condition. He is IN
sane and has been SO adjudged, on the
evidence of the note.
At Wellington a photographer an
nounces that he wants a photograph
Of everybody in Sumner county, over
Il years of age. For that reason he
will take them free. 1t is taking
scheme to get people to take the pho
tographs after he has taken them.
Rice county was visited by another
big rain on the nigh of April 6. Never
before has the ground been more thor
oughly soaked at this time of the year:
Crop prospects at the prasent time
could not be better. An increased
acreage over last year of both corn and
broom corn has been planted.
Ex-Congressman Il. W. Blue an
nounces his intention of removing to
Leavenworth for the avowed purpose
of beginning the practice of law. 1t
is generally believed that he has an
eye on the congressional nomination
in the new Fourth district and is NOV
ing there to get in on the ground floor.
A churnery and skimming station
will be erected OF Wichita. They will
be placed at Peck and Riverdale. Man.
ager Nissley said: 1--WE will establish
these stations in ali directions from
Wichita wherever conditions warrant.
Probably at Conway Springs, Maize,
Colwich, Derby, Valley Center, Furley,
etc. This ought to be as favorable
place for starting creamery as Abb
lene, and we are doing nicely there,
OOLu 1OE OuTSoIVCS anu Vuc 1dTIucrS.
We have learned at rough estimate
that there are IL, 900 milk cows in this
county, while there are only 1900 in
Dickinson county. The creamery pay
rolls for Dickinson county entire
amount to more than S35, 900 per
month, and it ought to be greater here
in the course of time when we are es-
tablished."
The new text book law fixes the fol.
lowing maximum prices: Spelling
book 10 cents, first reader 10 cents.
second reader Il cents, third reader 23
cents, fourth reader 30 cents, fifth read
er 40 cents. mental arithmetic. 20 cts,
intermediate arithmetic 25 cents, COM
plete arithmetic 35 cents, elementary
geography 30 cents. complete geog-
raphy as cents, elementary English
grammar 20, complete grammar 35
cents. physiology and hygiene so cents,
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