The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-17

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better sewer system.
Seven women have been authorized
to practice law in the Kansas Supreme
court.
Sumner county has contributed 35,-
664 pounds of -four to the Cuban relief
fund.
A Kansas newspaper is running a de-
partment printed in the French Ian
guage.
Secretary Coburn is now sending out
blanks for the assessors statistical re-
ports.
The Santa Fe railroad will soon have
a double track from Kansas City to
Florence.
About half the insurance companies
have supplied the information demand
ed relative to salaries paid officers.
The town of Coffeyville has grown
tired of street fakirs and has raised the
license fee to $40 day. This is prac-
tically prohibitive.
Lawrence is congratulating itself up
on the fact that for the convenience of
the people sidewalk has been ordered
built to the cemetery.
Olathe has granted franchise to a
gas company which is to supply gas by
drilling well or piping it from Osa-
watomie within year.
Thirteen of the seventeen business
houses in Berns, Nemaha county, were
destroyed by fire last week. Five res.
licences were also burned.
Twenty noisy tramps were in Coun-
Gil Grove one day recently. They should
have been promptly impressed into
street cleaning brigade.
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.
The Smith County Pioneer is onto .
man in Smith county who walks one
mile and back, weekly to get to borrow
the paper. That is, he travels 1O4
miles year for 81. That ought to be
taken as a compliment to the sheet.
II never saw as many new wagons
as have been sold throughout the coun-
try this year. At almost every farm
house between Phillipsburg and Good
land can be seen a new wagon, new
buggy, or something new in the way
Of farming utensils" So says Engin-
eer Jenkins, of the Rock Island road,
and his chances for observation are
certainly good.
The central Kansas counties have
had generous rain which has been a
God-send to the wheat and oats. A
large amount of the latter is already
in the ground while the wheat is con-
sidered past the danger point. Exper-
fenced wheat growers say that the
Golden Belt wheat section. including
eight counties of central Kansas. has
not for years had SO fine prospect.
The editor of a Hebron newspaper
also runs a second hand store in con-
nectiOn with his newspaper plant.
Over at Cuba, in Republic county, one
of the ''moulders of public opinion"
runs restaurant and lunch counter in
the front end of the printing Office
when not busy moulding the minds of
his valued subscribers, he is moulding
balls and hot tamales for the
stomachs of his hungry customers.
The eastern half of Kansas was
favored with a general rain March II
and at night. The fall was heaviest
along the eastern border, and grew
lighter westward. The largest portion
of the wheat belt received moisture.
The rain extended into the territory
along Santa Fe and Rock Island r. r.
On the Union Pacific, rain was report,
ed as far west as Russell. The rain
has improved the already bright pros
poets for heavy wheat crop in Kansas.
The schools of Smith Center appear
to be in bad way. Not long ago the
was let out because his
conduct was said to be unbecoming to-
wards some of the young ladies in the
There did not appear to be
much in the charges brought against
him, but it was thought best that he
quit. Another man took his place on
months contract. at the expiration of
which he, too. is out. and now a third
man is at the helm. This will, of
course. work great hardship to the
schools.