The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-24
Plenty Of rain this spring will make

Plenty Of rain this spring will make
good wheat.
March 90 is the day that the churches
have been requested to observe as tenn
perance day.
Dates for campaign meetings have
commenced to appear in the state pa
pers.
An Atchison county man sold his
12S-acre farm two miles south of Eff
fngham last week for 5000.
Many of the Kansas farmers have
their oats in the ground and are get
ting the ground in condition to plant
corn.
The creamery men of the state are
organizing a mutual fire insurance
company. This will afford much cheap
er insurance than IL now obtainable
for this class of risks.
The Kansas Midland. running from
Ellsworth to Wichita, has been fore
closed on and will be sold by order of
the Federal court. It is 1O4 miles long
and the claim is 81, 7OO,O 900.
Most of the newspaper men in Kan
sas are Just now, with terrible effort,
suppressing an inclination to remark
about the United States marshal for
Kansas striking the ceiling.
Secretary Gill of the State Board of
Health is actively pushing the fight
against unlicensed persons who prac-
tice medicine. He says that every
quack should be driven out of the
State.
If we are to have war the fellows
who are so loud in their efforts to be
heard as to their desire to fight will
not be ones who will be of the most
value. The fighters are those who are
saying little just now.
A good house wife over at Holton is
suffering from an attack of nervous
prostration, brought about by the Of
fer of a tramp to saw wood for half an
hour for a cake of soap. And it was
no bluff, either. He sawed.
A prairie fire has been raging in
Gray county for several days sweeping
everything before it. Thousands of
acres of pasture land have been burned
off, and reports are coming of losses of
live stock and buildings, but SO far
no losses of human life have been
heard of.
Superintendent Stryker has discov-
cred a decision of the supreme court
which says that school district officers
have no right to purchase charts, maps,
globes and such things without vote
of the people. He has called the atten-
ton of the school officers to this deci-
sion.
Saturday afternoon is ''sale day" in
Marysville, when everyone with any
thing to sell brings it to town, and
man is employed to auction off the lot.
This has been a regular custom for the
past three years, and gives great salts
faction to buyer and seller who are en-
abled in this manner to easily get to-
gether.
The assessors of Reno and Sedgwick
counties are collecting statistics to be
used in the fight against the irrigators
at the headwaters of the Arkansas riv-
err, who are using all of the water, and
are thereby damaging the farmers of
those counties by lessening the rain
fall. The figures are being compiled
by order of the county commissioners.
Secretary Coburn is making an effort
to get Kansas Congressman to agree
to vote for measure giving $4,000
for q corn display at the Paris exposi-
ton. Senators Baker and Harris and
Ridgely have already agreed and the
others have not been heard from. A
suitable corn exhibit at Paris would
open the eyes of Europe to its value "a
a food product and benefit the corn
raisers thereby.
The County Commissioners of Reno
county have instructed the assessors
to ascertain whether the people favor
the contribution of money to fight the
Colorado irrigators who are taking all
of the water from the Arkansas river
The Hutchinson city council has decid-
ed to let the matter rest, believing
that the development of the country
mp the river is of more than enough
value to that city to compensate TO,
the loss by the shortage of water.
David Viewers the young man who
successfully stood off his family and
the neighbors with Winchester last
week, and who has been in Jail in
Harvey county since, having been cap.
tured by q sheriff's possee. was on