The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-12-16

Pr0Sper1tyT Inc farm Oh 1. .
White. deceased. sold At auction il
Cowley county for $3.50. The farm
has 400 acres and is said to be splend:,
land
The number of rabbit scalps received
at the Sumner county clerks o6ic'
yesterday was 5000, for which $50 il
bounty was paid. The total number
of sca!ps received since the bounty
was offered, 10 $4,000. representing Z
cost to the county of $40 for these
pests.
Fable from the Mail and Breeze
A Kansas hen that had attended strict
ly to business, laying an egg at least
every other day, was rewarded by the
farmers wife with extra feed. And
thereupon she began to get fat and
and neglected her regular business
entirely, saying in an alecky manner,
when asked why she didn't lay any
more eggs, that she didn't have to.
And the farmers wife, seeing that she
was simply loafing around, doing nc
good, said: "As you are no good for
anything else, 1 will feed you to that
gang Of Methodist preachers who are
coming here tomorrow.
Every since the Santa Fee car sheds
were opened in the Topeka yards inn
provements have been going steadily
on. Everything to facilitate the work
in this department has been done. Yes
terday the new machine shop in con-
nectiou with the car building depart
ment was in running order for the first
time. Heretofore the work that will
be done by this department has been
done in the mechanical department
bu: by having wheel press, wheel
lathe, drill etc, at hand it will be a
saving of time and trouble. Like all
other departments the machines are
operated by compressed air.
Judge Simons has decided the
Crawford county cases involving the
costitutionality of the scrip and screen
laws, by sustaining the laws. The
only question he said was whether or
not the legislature has the power to
pass the statutes. If it had this pow
er in any case, then it was the sole and
only judge as to it's expedicncy. The
court has no right. Judge Sim
ons decided, to inquire into the rela-
ton or conduct of their miners and
their employers. If is not essential.
the court suggested, that the law effect
all persons alike as was claimed by the
defense. 1t is sufficient if it apply to
all of the same class alike
The lola Brick works which are now
shut down after running steady for .
little over half n year have done per-
haps as much to build up lola as any
thing else. Up to the present, over
1000, 900 have been sold apd delivered
and there are about 500, 900 on hand,
part of which are already contracted
for. Over IS per cent of the product
has been used in lola, no effort having
been made to work the outside trade.
The largest shipment made out of town
was about so, ZOO to Hutchison, and car
load lots have been sent all over the
state. The work has given employ
ment to about thirty-five men. nearly
all home people. The recent break in
the machinery will be mended in
short time and work will be resumed
and the output increased.
John E. Gilbert, the Kansas stock.
man, brought suit in the common pleas
court of Kansas City recently against
the Missouri Pacific and Rock Island
railroad companies, jointly, to recover
81, s99.s5 damages. Gilbert charges
that the railroads failed to disinfect
cattle cars after cattle afflicted with
Texas fever had been shipped in them.
Gilbert's petition sets forth that he
purchased los head of cattle last Aug
ust, which had been shipped to Kan
sas City from Lyon County, Kansas
He shipped them to Lost Springs, Kan
sas, for feeding and soon after thew
were placed on his ranch they became
sick from Texas fever. He alleges
that the two railroad companies vio-
lated the Kansas tine recula-
tons, which require cars to be disin-
fected.
The Santa Fe's re-establishment of
the trainmaster's and train despatch
er's Office at Wellington has led to the
that the division superin-
tendent's office, which was abolished
along with the other places two years
ago. will be put in again. For the !
last two years the business of the Pam |
handle division has been directed from |
Wichita and Arkansas City. There is
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