The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-12-29

The Great Bend council viii quit
licensing joints
Last week the United Commercial
Travellers organized a council 1t Nor
ton with thirty MEMBER
j. w. Amis, now assistant state sup
erintendent, has purchased half in.
terest in a hardware store at Smith
Center, and will make that place his
homo after his duties in the state
house are at an end.
State Superintendent Stryker has .
bill ready for the consideration of the
extra session of the legislature, pro.
viding for the extension of the text
book law so as to include High school
books and apparatus.
The farmers of this section Of the
country have every reason to be hope
full. Their faith in the country is
based on experience. 1t is said that q
large portion of money on deposit at
the different bank, belongs to the far
mers. They are rapidly accommodating
capital. There is little demand for
eastern money here.
1t is told that Spiritualist lying in
q trance in COTS, Kansas, four years
ago located very rich gold mine in
Arizona in a locality where he had
never been. He went into a trance
for the purpose of locating gas near
home but the spirits, who seemed to
have it in for Kansas, played q very
mean trick on him and took him off to
Arizona.
A Topeka laborer who has lately
become christian returned SEQ to
the treasurer of the Santa Fe railway
company one day last week. The
man said that one time he bought q
scalpers ticket from Chicago over the
Santa Fe and that since becoming a
christian his conscience had hurt him
because he thought he had defrauded
the company and he could not rest till
he had returned the full price of q reg
ular ticket with the interest. There
was something wrong with that mans
conscience.
Major Harvey seems to have won a
warm place for himself in the hearts
Of the soldier boys who were in his
command. All of them speak we'll Of
him, as they did in their letters, when
writing home. He is sold to have been
most considerate of his men, ard ever
thoughtful of their comfort. Alex
Jones, a Delphos printer, is one young
fellow who will always think kindly
of the major. On one of the marches
while in the east Jones was sick, and
noticing his condition, Major Harvey
took charge Of his musket and carried
it all day for the WORKOUT private.
Probate Judge Dolman, of Shawnee
county, has drafted bill which he
says will do away with about half OF
the insanity verdicts. He said: "About
half of the people who are adjudged
insane are not really insane. They
are INDECENT and perhaps half-witted
and the place for them is in the poo,
house and not at the asylum. think
it is fair to say that not more than hall
the people who are sent to the asylum
are fit subjects for that institution.
my plan is to make the verdict OF
the jury in an insanity inquisition to
hinge upon the question of whether
the person will derive any benefit from
being sent to the asylum. If this is
done it will not be necessary to en-.
large our asylums."
Secretary Coburn has issued card
bearing in condensed form a state
ment of Kansas farm products and
values for 1898, gotten up in his usual
tasty and clever manner. The artistic
feature of the card is an engraving OF
an ear of Indian corn lying atop of a
head of Kaffir. Nothing is more COM
mon in Kansas than the ordinary ear
of corn, yet there are innumerable
residents of the state who would not
recognize Kaffir corn if they were to
meet load on the way to market, and
many others will doubtless be sur
prised to learn that within the past
four years the product of Kafir corn
and other sorghums in Kansas has
amounted to 1O,O5O,0oO tons. which.
transformed into dollars and cents.
brought to the producers of this stAt~
s29, OOO, ZOO.
Not very many people would care g
run the risk of loading shells by lamp
light, but Phillips county farmer not
only took this risk but smoked pipe
at the same time. After the smoke of
tho oVn1oSiOn had cleared owav tho