The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-10-20

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Rev. BuDser, Of Emporia. has been
appointed to secure thereading mat
ter for the reading rooms Of the Santa
Fe railroad.
A Cherokee county man will put in
. plant and Kansas win make its own
hasd coke for smelling purposes Al
fifty cents q ton instead of buying il
from Pennsylvania at 81. so q ton.
The report that the festival at Tope'
ka was cold failure because the joints
were closed, is pared a good deal by
the cloves the old soldiers wives are
finding in their pockets now that they
are home.
The Womens Industrial exchange
for women will soon be established in
Parsons. The exchange was first be
gun in some of the large eastern cities
about the close of the civil war as a
help to gentlewomen in reduced cir
cumstances, and there were many in
those days.
! Word was received in Atchison last
week to the effect that Arthur Lett,
second lieutenant of the Atchlson com.
pany of colored volunteers, now at
Santiago de Cuba, has sent in his re-
signation. Persons who are in a posi-.
ton to know the reason for>his resig-
nation will not talk. 1t is believed
that there has been some trouble in
the company.
One of the things greatly in demand
in Dickinson county is the threshing
machine. Owing to the big acreage of
wheat and the delays caused by wealth
err, it has been very difficult to get
threshing done. One farmer of Ridge
remarked last week that he has waited
on thresher for two months and the
ground is now so soft that it is uncer-
tain when the workmen will be at his
place.
j. A. Lackey, merchant at Falum,
a small town near Saiina, reported to
the city marshal at Salina that his
store had been robbed of about SIS
worth of cutlery. Mr.. Lackey is also
postmaster at Faium and about three
weeks ago his place of business was
robbed of about $500 worth of postage
stamps, money, etc. He has not the
slightest clue as to the identity of the
thieves.
NJ. A. Rogers of Cheney, Sedgwick
county, has just shipped in over the
Wichita & Western from Santa Fe,
New Mexico, $500 head of lambs which
occupied a special train of twenty
three cars, all double deckers. Mr..
Rogers bought them at 81. so per head
last July for October delivery. Such
lambs now sell for Se.1O. There are
thousands of sheep in Sedgwick coun-
ty and more coming.
F. ID. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has received
letter from William Miller, of Saline
county, with a sample of the worms
which are destroying the wheat there.
The worms eat the grain out of the
drill row after planting, necessitatins
replanting. Chancellor Snow, of the
state University says the pest is the
wire worm Or swapping beetle. 1t does
greater damage to wheat than any
pest which has yet infested Kansas.
It's damage is not so extensive, how
ever, as that of grasshoppers.
At Leavenworth on the night of Oct.
14th, electric light, telephone and troll
ley wires were mixed up in a fashion
that would put to shame Chinase
puzzle, and there was confusion in all
quarters. Telephones absolutely re-
fused to work and electric lights
would not burn with any amount of
shaking. Linemen, called out in
hurry, climed poles all over town and
after an hours hard Juggling and yell
ing, finally got the lines Strengthened
out so that they would work. Bril-
liant flashes of electricity lighted up
the streets every few moments and
nervous pedestrians were kept dodg-
ing as if afraid of getting shocked.
Bovine Royalty.
About 1900 animals comprise the
live stock show at the Trans-Mississ-
ippi Exposition at Omaha,-the larg-
est number of animals ever gathered
together for show purposes at any one
time in the United States. The quail
ity, also, is especially fine. In this
respect the wonderful display at the
Worlds Fair is entirely out-classed.
Almost all of the exhibitors arc own
ers of large stock farms and the entries
they have made are the pick of their
pets. Rarely has any one breeder