The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-31

gas center" of the state.
City elections are on deck now and
the vets and drys are lining up.
Prairie fires are getting in their work
in western Kansas. Plow fire guards.
A creamery has been established at
Furley, with Representative l. n. Mer-
rill as president.
A Jewell county farmer who last
spring paid S12 for calf sold it the
past week for 1861.
The report that the cavalry from
Fort Riley had been ordered South is
untrue. Three batteries of artillery
are all that have been transferred.
The right kind of Kansas patriot is
one who plants few trees every spring
The time will never come when the
State will have too many-trecs and
patriots.
A western Kansas editor who has
been appointed postmaster predicts
better times this year. So far as he is
concerned the prediction is doubtless a
good one.
A car load of supplies were donated
by the people of Hutchinson for the
Cuban sufferers last week. Over $50
in cash was also secured and sent to
help the sufferers.
Many thousand yards of silk have
been manufactured at the private con.
Germ at Silkvale in Ottawa county. II
was not profitable, and the farm has
been converted into a stock ranch.
The regents of the Kansas State Ag-
ricultural college have made their
latest and most astonishing move and
have established book and stationery
store in the basement of the main
building to be opened July 1st.
The st. Paul creamery, which was
established last summer, has met with
SO much encouragement that it has be.
gun the erection of skimming stations
nearby. One is now being completed
near Greenbush, and another is to be
built in South Mound.
James Nellin, a farmer living ten
miles east of Newton suffered loss by
fire amounting to nearly $1,000. Seven
head of horses, large barn. threshing
machine. several hundred bushels of
wheat, corn and oats. wagons, farm
implements, sheds. etc, were CON-
pletely lost.
The people of Lcavenworth are MAX
ing an effort to secure the location of
the department headquarters of the
reorganized Army of the Missouri.
Leavenworth was the first headquar-
tiers of this division and is in the center
of the district. Omaha is off to the
north and is not convenient center.
The old lightning rod swindle was
worked on a Dickinson county farmer
last week. An agent agreed to rod the
farmers house as an advertisement and
he was asked to sign an agreement to
let the agents to do the work. The per-
NIT turned up later as note for S140
in the hands of an innocent purchaser.
Ella, the six-year-old daughter of
Ames Lingard, we'll known stock
man, living in the south part of Frank
lin county, got an eye punched out
last week while playing at school.
She was watching the boys shoot point
ed sticks when one of them struck her
in the eye, penetrating the coverings,
allowing the humors to escape. The
child was taken to Kansas City for
treatment.
Prices of corn in Kansas are 30 to sc
per cent higher on the farm than they
were a year ago. and oats are fully SO
per cent higher now than then. The
consumption of both is very large, and
there is an extraordinary export de-
mand for them. SO that very moderate
reserves of old grain will be carried
over into the new crop year. More
over. the prices of cattle and hogs are
satisfactory and seem likely to be
maintained for sometime to come, en-.
abling feeders to pay fairly good prices
for corn. The outlook for the farmer
for the coming year is bright. and he
can go on planting large areas with
confidence that he will not be forced to
sell big crops at loss this year.
Reno county has ten-year-old Grim.
inal in Jail. He gives the name of Ed. |
die Cartlier and says that until re-
Gently he has been living with J. NJ.
Jones of Baileyville. Kan. He is a
delicate looking boy and appears to be
very much frightened over the scrape
he is in. According to his story he has
been quite traveller. the traiamen |