The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-07-15

The recent cool weather Is very
agreeable to the average Kansan if II
holds out
The city school enumeration OF the
Parsons school has been completed and
shows 2,465 children of school age
| This is good increase over that OF
last year
The allowance for clerk hire in the
Dodge City postoftice. which was re
duced from $500 to SO annually OF
May l, has been restored to the orig
lual allowance, $500.
The tenth annual reunion of the Old
Settlers association of Clay. Riley and
Washington counties will be held at
Clay Center on Tuesday and Wednes'
dag, August Il and is.
A company Of boys, 10 to l6 years OF
age. from the farm school of the Chill
dren's Aid society of New York will
arrive in Council Grove. July %. to
find homes among the citizens of Nor
ris county. These children are mostly
orphans.
Active work has commenced on the
new electric telephone plant at Coun-
ell Grove. The company's agent ex-
poets to have eight or ten men at work
for the next six weeks putting up poles
and wires Over fifty telephones have
been spoken for already.
Scarcely a day passes at Holton but
someone in town secures swarm OF
bees. A swarm alightcd on wagon
wheel on Main street the other after
noon. Another entered the side of
house through a knot-hole and are
busy laying up their winter store.
d. W. Roberts, at Strong City yards,
handled for rest and pasture last year
80. 263 head of sheep, and thus far this
year he has handled IS. 2Oi bead. The
sheep came from Colorado, New Next
co and Texas. and are unloaded and
rested few days at Strong City en-
route to market.
DR.. G. A. Milton has made the first
wheat shipment from Ford county
this season. Threshe.s are busy on
his place, and he is loading cars at
Wright station for a shipment of 1000
bushels to Syracuse. at 81 cents a BUSH
Ell. He will have about $500 bushels
wheat, averaging 20 bushels or more
to the acre The wheat will grade No.
2, and weighs 60 to COZ pounds to the
bushel
J. s Haskell of Blue Rapids, has APP
piled for patent on 4 new lawn now
er. The machine is built on the tricy-
Gle plan. has two side wheels and q
wheel at the rear for steering. The
operator sits between the side wheels
the rear wheel with his
feet. while with his hands in a circular
motion he propels the machine and
works the cutter in front The cutter
is two feet long. and extends beyond
the wheel to The right so as to cut un-
der the shrubbery, etc.
The johnson City. Stanton county,
says: ANDY Davis of Mitchell
sold fifty head of vearlin2
steers last week for the neat sum of
81, coo. He bought these same cattle
last October for $40 a head. In other
he made $500 in pine months on
a $500 investment. BY the way. Andy
is not kicking any about this part of
rustlers who are living in Eastern
Kansas. in the land that is visited by
floods. cyclones and other pests toe
to mention. to read this
item. The Short Grass fellows have
circh on the business of cattle raising
and do not want to give way to any
eastern man. We have a good thing
and are selfish enough to want to keer
It undivided"
4 successful irrlgating pump is in
use in Wichita county on the farm of
]. II. Guilbert on Beaver creek. The
pump is /. feet in length, and i6 inches
in diameter; is run with belt. by
horse, or any other power. Its capaci-
" is estimated from 400 to 900 gallons
IF water per minute, varying accord
ing to the speed at which the pump is
-un. In 8 test the highest speed reach
ii with low geared horse power was
over $50 revolutions per
minute. throwing about 500 gallons, a
little over half its estimated amount,
ret at that speed nearly a solid stream
was forced out of the 10 inch spout. A
most conmendable feature of the pump
IS its simplicity and dura bility-simply
. water wheel (the reverse of a tur-
oine) at the bottom of the pump oper-
tied by a perpendicular shaft. does the
work and requires but little power: