The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-24

Emporia has forty-two separate end
distinct lodges.
A two-headed calf was born last
week on Dickinson county farm.
A Lincoln county man has applied
for patent on an improved lister lay.
A Kansas newspaper is running de-
partment printed in the French Ian
guage.
| Wichita sent fourteen tons of sup
plies to the starving poor of Cuba last
week.
"a Jewell county young man eighteen
years of age took his first steam train
ride last week.
Over sixty men are now employed at
the packing grounds of a nursery COM
pany at Sedgwick.
The Quaker Dairy company is the
name of creamery company organ
lied at Edwardsville, in Wyandotte
county.
Lincoln in talking electric lights. It
will be a 60 if the promoter is assured
of 400 incandescents being taken for
two years.
The Independence ice factory started
up last week working day and night.
Five men are employed and the capac-
ity is eleven tons day.
A Phillipsburg merchant compro-
missed with thief who made off with
pair of shoes and a hat by making
him pay double price for the goods.
There is terrible lot of wild-eyed
belligerency in some Kansas papers
which might be accounted for from the
fact that the state is SO short on coast
line.
A White Cloud man is chewing a
dimes worth of tobacco day in order
to get hundred tin tobacco tags and
get an extra pound. Some people are
great schemers.
The body of an unknown man was
found in Buoyrus, Miami county March
16. The body was we'll dressed. No
thing definite is known as yet, but foul
play is suspected.
Prosperity has struck the Atchison
postoffice. The receipts have increased
enough to insure the raise of one hun
dred dollars in the salary of the post
master next year.
Reports from the western and CEN
trail part of the state say that the
wheat fields were never known to look
SO well at this season of the year and
an enormous harvest is anticipated.
Baker university was forty years old
March 10. Ageis becoming evident on
its gray walls, but the first young
woman graduate is living near Law
renee and still gives her age at twenty
three.
Morton county has in the past two
years redeemed over $4,000 worth of
township bonds, accordinging to the
a few thousand dollars worth have
been issued, making net reduction of
township indebtness of about $50, OOO1
Incidents and stories connected with
the big prairie fire continues to come
in, showing that it was the most Sc
we're and disastrous calamity which
has befallen the counties OF Gray and
HOdgeman in years, and one which
twill take the citizens long to recover
from.
Hamilton county has bean redistrict-
ed into townships. 1t formerly con-
tanned twelve, and now has but three.
1t was done in order to reduce the
number of officers and lessen expenses.
1t is said that there are number of
counties in the extreme western por-
ton of the state that are contemplate
ing similar action.
Not long ago George Newman, .
Harvey county farmer, was severely
injured in a runaway and has been I'M
able to work since. His work was get
ting behind, and a few days ago a num-
Der of his farmer neighbors showed up
at his place. and all going to work
with will in short time had sixty
acres of oats seeded for him.
The Kansas State Normal school at
Emporia expects this year an attend
ance of 1000 students. More than
1,5OO are already enrolled and the rest
are coming. The growth of the state
schools in Kansas may be said to have
been greater than the state itself. The
increase in the higher school popula-
ton of the state has been proportion
ately greater than that of the popula-
ton recorded by the census.
Ike Warren, the jointist who muir.
dered Sheriff Lard of Riley county .
few months ago, was last week found
guilty of murder in the first degree be-