The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-01
n. q. KLAINE, Parishes.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS.

KANSAS ITEMS OF 1NTEKESTs
Geo NJ. Seward, recently assistant
treasurer of state, has gone to Chicago
10 live.
Silvers Dixon of the corn train fame
mas gone to Washington after some
hing.
The Lawrence Dramatic Club played
before the inmates of the Osawato,nie
asylum. The inmates were compelled
20 attend.
six brick buildings for Neodesha's
refinery are now in course OF construc-
lion. The Rockefellers are behind the
refinery.
The Santa Fs's deep water well at
Kinsley reached heavy salt brine at
The depth of $50 feet. The we'll is be-
ing plugged to within $50 feet of the
surface, where fair quality Of water
was found.
A large quantity of broom corn has
been marketed in afford county this
week, ranging from SIS to $40 per ton,
about an average of $40 less ton than
the same would have brought five or
six months ago.
3The Kansas patriots who became
exes on the 4th of March would be
ever SO popular if they would return
to their homes and settle down to hon
est toll. Office seeking is a bad habit.
The good things should 60 round.
A young woman in an Uncle Toms
Cabin company in Wellington went &c
a local dentist. She cried copiously
while he filled tooth and he asked
her if he hurt her. She said mo, l
am crying because Jim Corbett was de-
feated.'
Fate Russell, the colored man who
fell under Union Pacific train at Per-
ryville, Kan, last September and had
suit in the United States circuit court
against the railroad company for the
sum of $1,000 damages. Russell lives
n Topeka.
An Abilene undertaken who moved
% Salina, hoping to better his fortunes
,as returned to his old stand. He found
hat the rival burier had corrailed all
he lodges and his wife's kin had lead
pipe cinch ON all the preachers That
:ort of a combination is invincible.
William Martin. of Stippville, was
shot and killed by his stepson on the
morning of March 81. Martin came
home drunk and threatened to clean
out the family. Horace Parks, STEP
son, came to his mothers rescue and
shot the irate parent. He gave himself
lp, but public sentiment is with him.
Superintendent John f. Carr of the
Leavenworth coal company recently
said to John H. Barry of Atchison that
MS company would pay half the cost
Of sinking a coal shaft in Atchison,
providing the city would pay the other
half and donate it to the company.
Half of the expense would not amount
10 S., 900, and Atchison would get for
It coal mine employing 300 men.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company began extending its lines to
Lancaster subscribed $50 to get a tele'
phone there, and now the Missouri
Pacific agent at that place is bowling.
Heretofore the merchants of Lancaster
were compelled to take the cars for
Atchison when they wanted to order
goods, but when they get telephone
in their midst, they will save their car
fare by using the hello instrument
john Finner, who carries the mail
from Portland to Caldwell, upon his
return from one of his trips March 25,
was removing some mail sacks from
his "buckboard." In doing SO his re-
volver. big 44-calibre affair became
tangled up with the sacks and came
out with them, when it struck the
ground it exploded, the ball entering
Finner's left foot just above the ankle
1t made horrible wound, completely
SCATTERING the ankle bone, and necessi
tated the removal of that part Of hi:
leg.
An Atchison man has an interesting
war relic. 1t is the property of Mrs
Phillips of Doniphan, who brought NJ
from Tennessee about 81, 500 in con fed
crate currency. Recently in examin
ing the paper she discovered So bill
which, at first sight, she supposed wa:
confederate currency. but is Kansa:
bank bill issued by the Drover's bank a
Leavenworth, July 1, 1856. and wa.
probably carried to Tennessee by som,
Kansas soldier. The Leavenworth bill
has an engraved herd of buffalo on it
face and is signed by r. Constant
president, and J. c. Sargent, cashier
Printed IN one end are the words. ssyy