The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-01

Hoisington is troubled by serenaders-
Joe Richards who is in Washington
wants to be q federal Judge.
Leavenworth and Topeka are both
after the State soldiers reunion.
There are no daily Democratic papers
Atchison, Leavenworth or Topeka.
Traffic over the Anthony branch is
to be resumed. So much for kick.
10 B-istow rs fourth assistant post
master general gets four thousand
year.
The measles is having q run 1T Ell
| Dorado and decreasing school attend
ance some.
| The building in which the first dis
trict court was held in Kingman has
just been fitted up to use as skim
ming station.
The entire debt of the Southwestern
college at Winfield is to be paid as a
result of work at the conference recent
ly held there.
Those who know say that Kansas
in its requests for federal appointments
is, in point of numbers, among the rear
states of the Union.
A crank passed though Topeka the
other day in wagon on which was
printed: "The strange young man re
turning from Jerusalem"
On the evening of March 90 General
Condor spoke at Wellington. His es-
cort to the hall was made up of yeter-
ans of the Blue and the Gray.
A western Kansas paper remarks
that one reason the prize-fght is better
than the street fight Is the almost GER
tain exemption uf the bystander.
The Kansas Musical Jubilee will be
held at Hutchinson, May IS, 10, 20 and
81. A splendid program has been ar
ranged and no lover of music can af-
ford to miss it.
A st. Louis man offered to put in an
electric light system at Wellington for
a franchise of twenty years and con-
tract to light the streets for five years.
The city council knocked out the fran
chise.
D. S. Welsh has bought and shipped
out of Newton in the last two years
over 900 head of horses. This means
that he has paid out to the farmers of
Harvey county nearly $4,000. At any
rate it is safe to say that he has paid
out to the farmers an average & $780,
600 year for horses.
The best showing that has been
made in several years in Labette coun-
| ty was made last week in the way of
reducing the mortgage indebtedn ess of
the county. The mortgages released
last week amount to $4,000 while the
new mortgages filed only amount to
81 900, a net reduction of indebtedness
of SIS, 900.
The following will perhaps be some
consolation to the Hutchinson man
whose slumbers are continually dis
turbed by his w;fe's snoring. It has
long been discovered that snoring is
positive evidence that those doing it
are generous, charitable, kind and pos
sess all the nobler impulses. A person
who breathes easy and quietly while
asleep is tricky, treacherous and has
shrivelled soul.
During the recent cold snap the prai
ries of northwestern Kansas were COW
cred with drifts of snow, which fell
on the 21st and 22d. The roads in
many places were blocked. The snow
was accompanied by heavy wind that
drifted it badly. Railroad cuts were
filled with immense drifts and trains
delayed to some extent. This snow
will prove of great value to farmers
and wheat raisers.
No damage has as yet been done by
high water at Atchison, but much APP
prehension is felt by residents of the
Missouri river bottoms over the reports
from the north. They fear a repeti-
ton of the flood of 1881. when the en-
tire bottom lands were inundated. re-
sulting in great loss of property.
The Missouri Pacific and Burlington
and Missouri River roads are preparing
for high water and large forces of men
are at work quarrying rock to be used
to protect the tracks from the encroach-
ments of the river
There is general movement on foot
g. among the farmers of Norton county
to construct dams over the draws for
purpose of irrigation. Meetings are
being held in different parts of the
county, and organizations are being
formed who will cooperate with other
societies for the advancement of the
work of draining the draws and build
ing reservoirs. The first of these meet.