The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-02-10

It is said to be wonderful at the mum
Der of mortgages recently cancelled IL
Kansas.
| A Kansas barber advertises that b,
would greatly appreciate ''less loafine
and more patronage"
l With the close of business Saturday
! the Norton county state bank closed it.
doors and went into voluntary liquida
ton. This is the oldest bank in Nor
ton county and goes out of business
because of conflict between the stock
holders, which seems to make it unpro
fitable for them to continue longer.
An application has been fled will
w. E. Bush, secretary of state, for {
charter for the Nebraska, Kansas &
Gulf Railway company. It propose.
| to build line from the Nebraska rive,
in Nebraska to tho Gulf of Mexico
passing through Jewell, Mitchell
Lincoln, Ellsworth, Rice, Reno, King
man, Barber, Harper and Sumner
counties in Kansas, and having it,
headquarters at Hutchinson.
THE establishment of a club house in
Argentine by the Santa Fe railway
company for its employees is now as
sured Plans for the building have
been decided on and site will be Sc
lected this week. The buildings di'
mentions will be 5OxSS feet and two
stories high. The plan is to spend
SIC, 900, $1,000 to be contributed by the
Santa Fee company, and $4,000 by sub
scriptions by the employees. The
basement floor will contain the gym
nasium apparatus and the baths. The
ground floor will be the reading rooms
and the second floor will have a rest
ing room and lecture hall
In responte to numerous inquiries
upon the subject Professor S. J. Hun
ter of the Department of Entomology
in the University of Kansas, Lawrence,
has just published full treatise upon
''Scale Insects Injurious to Orchards. :"
He has given special attention thereto
to the San Jose scale, the most perni-
cious enemy to fruit trees. The prog
eny of single female in one season
amounts to over three billion individ-
uals and, when these scales are once
well spread over an orchard, the only
remedy is to burn the trees To dis
cussions and illustrations are added
the laws enacted in the several states,
thirteen in al, relating to the exter-
mination of the pest This publica-
ton can be procured by sending adj
dress to the author.
There is trouble between the repre-
sentive boards of Franklin and Usage
county. On account of the unsafe con-
dition of the Usage Jail it has been q
custom for the officials of that county
to send important prisoners to Ottawa
for safe-keeping, the customary rate
of payment in such case being 60 cents
per day for each prisoner, 40 cents of
which goes to the sheriff. Recently
Usage county has manifested an indis-
position to pay these amounts. In
one case, the last but one, the Frank
lin county board appropriated the
amount due Sheriff Church, ana then
sent a bill for the whole amount to
Usage; it was turned down. In the
next, and last case, the board declined
to pay Sheriff Church, but instructed
him to send in bill for the full
amount, some $40. The Usage people
sent him a draft for his individual
share S2s, but held out the balance.
It is claimed by Usage that there is a
sum due them from Franklin for re-
pairs made on the joint bridge across
creek 10, near this county but within
the Usage line. There is sentiment
to the purpose that the board instructs
the sheriff not to receive any more
boarders from Usage.
We noted several weeks ago that the
Kansas Sunflower appeared to have .
great future before it. 1t has been
discovered that the seed yielded an oil
that would beat cottonseed oil any day
in the week and that the meal of the
sunflower seed after the oil had been
taken out made the boss cattle feed.
It has also been found that the stalk
can be worked up into the finest grade
of paper and that the lining of the
stalk can be worked into drapery that
beats linen Or silk. But this isn't all
It is now found by careful experiment
that the pith of the sunfower is 20
light that by comparison, cork seems
like pig iron. In other words, cork
has specific gravity more than ten
times as great as the pith of the sun
flower. Formerly the life boats were
made with compartments filed with