The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-10-21

Newton's council has decided that
board sidewalks must go
A bulldog mangled little girl al
Wier City few days ago.
A bum reproduction of the Corbett-
| Fitzsimmons fight was egged by Gar
nett audience.
The Santa Fe railroad has already
paid out in the neighborhood OF $685.
600 for the Emporia wreck.
The first annual reunion of Kentuck-
ians at Wellington was pleasant
gathering and a social success
| Topeka has secured the next meet
ing of the National Creamery associa'
ton. which is to be held next Febru-
airy.
Leavenworth's reunion was grand
success Every body knew it would be.
Leavenworth is great and good
town.
Under the new ballot law Jefferson
county will get its ballots printed for
95 cents per hundred It cost 81. so two
years ago.
The temperance people of Kansas
ask all Christians in the state to OBJ
serve the third Sunday in October as
temperance day.
The Topeka Journal says that 1877
people have been drowned in the Kan
sas river at or near Topeka since the
town was founded in 1854.
Kansas will never hang anybody.
Kansas used to threaten to string JEFF
fecson Davis up on sour apple tree,
but even that song is forgotten.
It is remarkable now many intelli-
gent men make mistakes in voting.
This year you must put your mark IN
the square to the right of the candi-
dates name.
Emporia is the champion guying
town of Kansas. A poor short grass
young man recently mistook macar-
oons for ginger snaps in that town and
he is in danger of being run out.
Atchison is P pretty old fashioned
town, Notwithstanding its corn carnl-
val and its mp to date politicians. A
bridal party leaving there the other
day was covered by showers of rice.
Atchison's corn carnival is more ia
nous than any other Kansas event of
the year. The eastern high-grade pub
LEGATIONS are illustrating it, and many
of them writing up her wonderful re-
sources.
A we'll known Kansas breeder of
hogs recently said that he never suf-
fered loss from socalled hog cholera or
other swine diseases He also said
that he gave the hogs all the fresh
water they wanted to drink and never
allowed wailow on his farm.
Harvey Jackson, who murdered Jane
Singleton, his housekeeper near Mus
lsogee, Indian territory, in 1896, has
been arrested near Chetopa. He is
also charged with numbering a man
years ago, near Oswego, and with
shooting a man at Muskogee
The Rock Island furnished water
during the drouth to dried up Yelling
ington from the well at the Rock Is.
land depot which is believed to be in
exhaustible. The we'll is about eight
inches in diameter and at thirty-two
feet the drill dropped in cave full of
water.
The A. B. Clippinger slate fence
factory, located in Centralia, is work.
ing full time, day and night. 1t is used
to large extent in the west for cribb-
ing corn. He has orders ahead for 40
car loads, and orders coming in almost
daily. The slat fence is getting to be
popular wherever tried. His trade has
grown SO rapidly that he has ordered
new machinery, and will double its
present capacity.
James Russell, a private grain in
spector of Kansas City, Mo-, was ar
rested recently charged with inspect
ing grain on Kansas territory contrary
to the Kansas State grain inspection
law. The arrest is the first legal &C.
ton taken in the fight that Is being
made on the Kansas State inspection.
Russell, it is alleged, has been going
into the railway yards at Kansas City
Kans. and Argentine and making in
spections without being regularly ap-
pointed.
Judge Simons of the district court at
Leavenworth has decided that the new
text book law does not abrogate exist
ing contracts for text books because it
does not apply to them. Nearly every
district in the state has contracts and
some are observing the law and some
are not All other district courts that