The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-11-03


There are now two hundred children
in the Orphans Home at Atchison.
A Phillipsburg man is making rep
utation among the boys as the hottest
kind of an entertainer His wife is
visiting.
Westmoreland, the county seat OF
Pottawatomie county, has no railroad,
but will soon have telegraphic com
munication with the outside world.
Kingman county will vote on prop
-osition to levy tax of one and one
half mills for the purpose of purcnas-
ing and fitting up county poor farm.
A Mitchell county lady wears a curl
GUS ring It is the first one bought
for her when she was little one, and
the set is the first tooth of her first
child.
Prof. Dyche is lecturing again this
season. He has some interesting stor-
les to tell, and tells them simply and
and well, without any attempt at
spead-eagle oratory.
An election will be held in Wamego
for the purpose of deciding whether
the town will issue bonds to the
amount of 1000 for the purpose OF
putting in q system of waterworks.
Ewing Herbert has had particular
ly rough streak of luck. He was poi
soned in some manner while in the
woods, and for two weeks has been
confined to his home, almost blind and
deprived of the use of his hands.
Fred Saxey, a former resident OF
Doniphan and Osborne counties, now
living at Provo City, Utah, has just
returned from England, where for the
past two years he has been working in
the interest of the Mormon church
A year ago last summer Horton
man, grub-stal1ed by Billie Waggoner,
went 20 the Klondike country to get
rich. He is home now, but no stories
of fabulous wealth have yet been sent
out from either Horton or Atchison.
Evidently he is an honest man.
A Kansas man who tried to thaw out
dynamite in the kitchen stove isn't the
only one who has taken a recent lesson
on the power of explosives a Mis-
sourian conceived the brilliant scheme
of melting the loads out of a double
barreled shotgun. He hasn't felt well
since.
Henry Van Leeuven. proprietor of
the bingham and Whiting cheese fac
tories, will go to Madison, Wisconsin,
this winter, where for period of
twelve weeks he will act as instructor
in dairy school. The old idea that
the cattle could feed on anything, and
that butter and cheese could be thrown
together any old way is played out.
Science, skill and method count now,
and the hit-or-miss plan is abandoned
by up-to-date and practical men.
1t may not be generally know, but it
is fact that the Kansas hog is fully
entitled to stick up his snout and take
considerable pride in his juicy fairness.
BY referring 20 Secretary Coburn's re-
port it will be found that "the average
value of the Kansas hog is % per cent
greater than that of the Missouri
porker; AZ per cent above the Virginia
hog; 81 above his Kentucky relative: e.
per cent higher than the Texan: 134 in
advance of the Arkansan, and 139 per
cent greater than that of the Florida
glory for the Kansas porlSer in out
scoring the razor backed wind-splitters
of Arkansas and Florida, but there is
whole lot of satisfaction in knowing
that he lays out his brethren in states
which are supposed to be some pump
kins when it comes to hogs. There
are but eight states which have more
hogs than Kansas, and but four in
which their aggregate value is larger
Some time ago William Hasset, who
lived with his wife in little shanty
two miles southwest of Kickapoo. was
arrested and sent to Jail for stealing
His wife was left at home to live as
best she could. Mrs. Hasset was of a
melancholy nature and dreaded power
ty to such an extent that she brooded
over it a great deal. Last Monday
several Kickapoo young men went
hunting and as they passed the Hasset
shanty their curiosity was aroused by
finding the doors of the house wide
open They went close to the house
and saw no signs of lifetherein. Their
curiosity took them inside. Lying on
the bed was cat curled up apparently
alive, but which investigation showed
was dead. 1t was clearly evident that
the house had not been occupied for
some time and people who knew Mrs