The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-12-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The old settlers of Shawnee county
held their forty-fourth reunion last
week.
The first day of the Sunny Slope cat
tie auction S34, 900 was raked in by the
auctioneer.
Kansas newspapers are charging to
meet the demands of the holiday adj
vertisers.
Dick Blue will practice law at Vini-
Ia, Indian territory, but his family
will reside in Chetopa, KS.
Formerly of Atchison people get
three offices in the new Kansas club
which has recent y been formed in
Kansas City.
The Agra Breeze reserts the action
of several newspapers in publishing its
obituary. The Breeze is still blowing
away and has no intention of subsid-
ing.
The World is still hammering in an
endeavor to wake the citizens of Hia-
watha to realization of the fact that
Hiawatha is in need of a good new
opera house and is evidently going to
succeed.
Cattle thieves are becoming altogeth-
.r too numerous in Clark county and
it is limited that if there is not let-up
in their depredations the people in
that section of the country will resort
to the Missouri anti-horse- thief law.
Geo. Culver, a former resident of
Woodson county, has been living in
Colorado for the past couple of years,
but a couple of weeks ago hit the back
trail for Woodson county, where he
knew he could make things come his
way.
George w. Rohr of Aschison county,
has returned from the Philippines,
where he served with the eighteenth
infantry. In his case there is some
thing in a name as he is roaring fear
fully about the condition of the army
out there.
A subscriber of the Humboldt Union
has received every copy of the paper
since Its first issue. nearly 80 years
ago; and that he is the right kind of a
subscriber is shown by his act in last
week sending the cash to extend his
account two years.
A Chase county man, who served as
election clerk, refuses to accept the So
allowed for his services. He claims he
is entitled to 81, and talks of suing
gets an ''office'' he wants everything
that rightfully belongs to it, and if
there is way on earth to get at it, he
will obtain it, too.
In the American Monthly Review of
Reviews for December the editor re-
views the November elections, the pro-
gress of our peace negotiations with
Spain, and other matters of national
and international moment. Some very
suggestive and interesting cartoons
from recent issues of the Spanish jour
nails are reproduced.
The Parsons hunters who left that
city about two weeks ago for the
south have returned home, bringing
with them the finest lot of game any
party of hunters has ever brought to
Parsons. The collection consisted of
five deer and over fifty wild turkeys.
The hunters report small game plenti-
full. Other hunting parties are going
down and expect to return as equally
laden.
When the farmers of state are pros
porous the whole state is prosperous,
and when the farmers O. a nation are
prosperous the entire nation is prosper
Gus. Farming, which includes raising
stock, vegetables and fruit, as we'll as
grain and hay is the very bedrock of
prosperity in this great agricultural
country. Farmers are the producers
who add to the wealth of the country.
Other vocations live off from what the
farmers produce.
The Twentieth United States infan-
try at Fort Leavenworth has orders in
dicating that it will be sent to Manila
to relieve one of the volunteer regi-
nents or to increase the force already
on the island of Luzon. The first in
timation that the regiment was to be
sent to the far east came several days
ago in the form of an order from the
war department notifying the officers
to make requisition for such food and
supplies as will be needed in tropical
climate. Orders have been forwarded
for the regiment to be in readiness to
move on short notice. 1t is believed
that it will soon be on its way to San
Francisco. The regiment still lacks