The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-12-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The national government is doing
o10o, 900 worth of dental work in the
mouth of the Kaw.
Arkansas City will take precautions
against diphtheria. The malady has
not reached that town.
The great Collins trial is now in pro
gress in Topeka The first difficulty is
the usual one-securing jury.
The butter which was on exhibition
1t the Topeka state creamery conven-
tion Is to be shipped to the Sandwich
Islands.
Gillet, the bankrupt cattle king, has
sailed for Spain. That country is
busted and Gillet will naturally feel
1t home.
Wichita people figure it out that for
several reasons, all of them good, a
railroad commissioner should be
named from that town.
It is charged that the prairie fires in
Pawnee county are set out by gang
who plumber while the fire has the
neighborhood out fighting it.
The real sporty boys of Kansas
those who will be found the most
ready to put up their good money for
. horse race or prize fight-are found
down in the mining district.
A wave of Noble Prentisism has
started over the state. 1t is we'll. No
BILE Prentis is one of the brightest
men WHO ever did time in this state,
and any honor done him is we'll de-
erved.
The Holton Recorder speaks of the
tendency on the part of the people to
favor young men, and as an instance
nays that seven out of the nine officers
of jackson county are under forty
years of age.
Atchison saloon keepers have been
acting little too gaily and the coun-
Gil has determined to pull the strings
little more tightly: Atchison would
he up stump deprived of the revenue
secured from this line of business.
Once in a while there is a bright spot
for aman who humps along life's path
way and tries to do his duty. The ed
itor of the Humboldt Union was given
goose and a turkey by admiring SUBJ
scribers for his Thanksgiving dinner.
A fellow down in the mining district
while in a booty condition walked into
. widows home and amused himself
by shooting at her cook stove. He was
arrested and fined. Fined, mind you,
In place of being made to ride rail
out of town.
The people of Kansas who have been
through a couple of dinky snow storms
this winter sympathize most heartily
with the residents of the east who
have suffered such terrible loss of life
and property as the result of the
storms of tets season.
Two buns who tanked up in Girard
and were caught in the act of stealing
. pair of pants were given twenty min
utes in which to get out of town, and
they got In the absdnce of a rock
pile that is better than feeding them
for term at the expense of the city.
Many deaths of cattle in the vicinity
of Manchester have been caused by
feeding the stock on oats that was
frost bitten. The animals ate heartily
- the volunteer growth was abundant
In some of the fields. They soon show
ed the effects of the poison and no skill
could save them. The disease was 1T
arst thought to be contagious.
A special dated, Guthrie, Nov. 22nd,
says: A. {. Springs, vice president Of
the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and
Southwestern railway. returned this
morning from meeting of the direc-
tors and officers of the road, held at
Coffeyville, Kan. Mr.. Springs says
the road is now graded from Caney,
Kan, more than fifty miles in this
direction, and that at the meeting,
bridge material and steel were bought
60 complete the road not only that far,
but seventy-five miles more, which
will take it to the crossing of the Ar
kansas river.
considerable competition exists be-
tween Wiley o. Cox, and the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Trust Company,
both of Kansas City, over the collec-
ton of more than four million dollars
due the Cherokee Indians from the
government, with indications favora-
BILE to Cox. The Indians think the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Trust