The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-08
This is sublime spring we.safer se

skimning station.
Senator Baker is interest in.a gold
prospect in Northwest Colorado.
Congressman-electW W. d. Vincent has
appointed his daughter as his clerk.
Judge Benson and Judge Smart have
formed law partnership at Ottawa.
A Strong City man writes back from
Port Arthur for his rife so he can kill
mosquitoes.
A. B. Campbell, the Kansas man who
went insane in California, is now liv-
ing in Indiana
Railroad Commissioner billiard and
Glen Fairchild are thinking of estab-
fishing Ia " office at Galena.
| A lot of sugar beet seed has been re-
/! ceived at Ellinwood. and extensive ex-
periments will be made this season.
| In Wellington in 1895. LAST people
registered: this year ESQ; a decrease
! of 2O9 registered voters in two years.
i An Atchison turkey which had been
imprisoned for four weeks under . Tub
! without food or drink was found still
| alive.
! Last Sunday an old man, with long
! white locks walked up to the altar rail
in a Topeka church and said: Il am
Jesus Christ.
Inman sent car load of eggs to
Massachusetts last week. The hos
tility between the east and the west
is growing less.
The Newton Kansan has come out in
favor of few divorce marches as the
wedding march business has been over.
done slightly.
The depths of human misery are
reached at bingham where there is
young man SO bowlegged that his girl
can't sit in his lap.
Advance men for shows have a new
scheme to make themselves solid with
the newspaper boys by claiming to
personally know Bill White.
Wild geese which have been shot
near AtchisOn have been discovered to
have singed wings. 1t is thought they
came in contact with the electric mo.
tor on the airship.
Mrs. John Myers of Newton knocked
a patent gasoline lamp to the floor the
other evening and was very seriously
burned. Her husband in trying tc
save her from the flames was also very
badly burned.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Northwestern Kansas Teachers asso-
citation will be held at Horton April
Is, 16 and Il. Railroad rates of one
and third fare on the certificate plan
have been secured
"A colony is being organized in Rus.
sell county to go to Central America.
An advance agent sent down there |
some months ago is back with glowing |
accounts of that country. and large
number have already agreed to join
the colony.
Geo. NJ. Sargent, general freight |
agent of the Prescott. Phoenix Il Ari- |
IONA railroad, started as check clerk |
in Atchison. That toyn has given tC |
the country more high-up railroad
men than any other railroad town in
the west.
Leavenworth preachers charge that
the society wemen of that town play
poker, and one knows of a young WON
an visiting there who was beaten out
of $500. dollars. 1t is nov easy to un-
derstand how Leavenworth women fly
SO high.
A beautiful young lady at Norton.
vile, while standing in the postoffice
lobby the other day. suddenly grasped
her skirts at the knee and turned pale
All the men went away kindly and the
girl loosened her grasp and dead rat
fell to the floor.
Kansas is getting the favor of re.
action in the eastern papers. Many
nice things are being written of the
state just at present. During the last
six months Kansas has received more
advertisement of one sort or another
than at any like period in her his
tory.
The railway committee. appointed to
confer with similar committees from
Kansas and Texas. will meet the Kan
sans at Oklahoma City ut : o'cloci. or
April 5. They will go over the Santa
Fee railway to Texas. the overland trir
having been abandoned. They may
return overland.
The Winfield Assembly this yea,
will begin June 18th and continue to
June 24th inclusive. Several contract.
with first-class attractions have already
heen closed and neOOfi in fionS a ~, vou1 |