The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A new bishop will be selected mex
week at St Louis for the Diocese Of
Concordia.
A Blue Mound merchant insinuates
in his ad. that his competitors play
draw poker"
Speaker Street of the house of req
resentatives is experimenting with .
cure for hog cholera.
Emma Kelly, the Kansas girl who
married rich in Klondike, sent her
father in Kansas $500 for a Christmas
present
The officers stationed at Fort Leav-
enworth are said to be almost unanim-
ously in favor of war, reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The seed stores in Kansas are doing
more business at the present time than
ever before noted in the history of the
state at this season of the year.
Last week the Bank of Beloit and
the First National bank, two of the
oldest and firmest institutions of north
west Kansas were consolidated.
Thank beauteous heaven that the
day is gone in Kansas when a man can
put a theory at the end of a pole, shake
it and scare this state into Mysteries.
A deputy sheriff of Cowley county
went to Dexter few days ago to ar
rest horse thief and got so drunk
that he was arrested and locked up in
Jail.
All the Books county teachers in at
tendance At the State Normal school
are Christians, and every Saturday
night they hold a rousing prayer meet
ing.
The city dads of Irving have put up
tank and will pipe water to a public
watering trough. Nothing is too good
for the Kansas farmer when he comes
to town this year.
There is man living in Woodston.
Rocks county, who makes a handsome
thing every year raising st. Bernard
puppies for sale. He has soms ragni-
ficent dogs of this breed.
The Manhattan lodge of Knights of
Pythias has secured fine new ster-
eopticon, aud will hereafter be enabled
to turn on q few extra side lights for
the benefit of the new candidates.
The towns along the line of the north
prong of the Central Branch think
they ought to have better train SER
vice. They have thought SO for long
time. The line is eighty-four miles
long, and has one mixed train each
way day.
The county commissioners of Jeffer-
son and Douglas counties held JOINT
session at Lawrence and decided to ad-
vertise for bids to construct bridge
across the Kansas river at Lecompton.
The bridge will be built jointly by the
two counties
The disciplinary committee of the
Kansas University faculty has sent out
notices to $50 students who have been
negligent in complying with the rules
of the institution. The committee will
act on the cases if the students do not
report promptly.
The Graphic warns the wife beaters
of Osawatomie that unless they let up
they will be given an opportunity of
finding ont how wet the water Is in the
river there. There is one man there to
whom the warning does not apply. He
went home with good sized jag few
nights ago and tried to clean up the
mouse, when his wife laid him out with
q stove poker.
A fellow down at Clement, who
claims to be able to mesmerize animals
is laying foundation for a fortune.
He is teaching chorus of cats to sing.
He claims that they can already carry
q number of tunes. OF course. they
cannot articulate the words, but they
give the tune. If they attain the
proficiency the mesmerizer anticipates,
he will travel and give cat concerto
Who would not give dollar to hear a
dozen musical tom cats sing: "a Hot
Time in the Old TOWN."
During the past year over two thou
sand cars of wheat were shipped out of
Rush county. A little figuring will
show the magnitude of the statement
Call it an even 1000 cars, each averag.
ing 200 bushels and the total amounts
to 1.4OO,OOO bushels Eighty cents a
bushel is not too high an estimate for