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

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groom so
Holton people expect their electric
light plant to be in working order
within a week or two.
The city council of Cawker has put
. tax of IS day ON travelling doctors
who wish to operate there.
All of the Kansas towns where No
BILE Prentis ever lived are glad and
proud to refer to him as former citi.
zen.
Miss Babcock's testimony is damag.
ing against young Colling. If he is
convicted her testimony will certainly
do it.
The Lincoln county court house, .
stone structure burned the other
night The building was put up be-
fore the war.
Norton claims to be the banner re-
publican town of the Sixth district.
Stanley received 24O votes there, and
Leedy got 11s.
Representative Wilson has presented
his son with $40 acres of Atchisop
county land, and yet the young man
persists in studying law.
| Atchison's Indebtedness amounts tc
six hundred thousand dollars or about
twice as much as the entire indebted
ness of the territory of Oklahoma,
Grace Snyder claims that Cawkel
City was the Kansas pioneer in the
work of inducing ladies to remove
their hats in places of public entertain.
ment.
Piclz-pockets are now plying their
their trade in the crowds at the Col
ms trial in Topeka. Topeka is at
last getting a have genuine metropoli.
tan air.
| When Miss Babcock went on the
| witness stand she was closely watched
by the reporters so closely watched, in
fact, that every motion of her eyes Is
recorded.
! Rev. Dr. Olden, the Topeka man who
went to Cuba for the votes of the
Twenty-third regiment at Santiago,
warns all Kansas negroes against To-
eating in that island.
Westmoreland is the only county
seat town in Kansas without railroad
and there is some talk of building one
from Wamego. The distance is twen-
miles and the roads bad.
All the carpenters in Howard are
busy. Among the many improvements
four new substantial store buildings
are in course of erection. and will be
occupied Immediately after comp.e-
ton.
Neat pamphlets have been published
by the South Central Kansas Poultry
and Pet Stock association announcing
| its third annual exhibit in Hutchin-
son. The date of the exhibition wsll
be December 20 to "A.
The Kansas national guard will be
recognized within the next fifteen,
days. Governor Leedy has signed a
requisition for the rifles, side arms
clothing and complete equipment for
| 1000 men, This was done in order to
obtain the annual appropriation from
the government of $1,000 worth of
equipment for the national guard.
Had the requi>ition been delayed until
after the first of the year, the appro-
priation would not have been availa-
BILE. Adjutant General Allen says the
guards will be fully recognized and
partially equipped before the admins
tration goes out of Office.
Mr.. Winter of Kansas is probably
the most delightful fellow in the
world. He is whimsical, old, white
bearded scamp who usually swoops
| down on the state in November for a
week, with snort, cavort and rear
up. Then he again stalks off slowly
before the sunshine, satisfied that he
has demonstrated himself December
comes in while he is still truant.
Sometimes January passes with sun
shine and light rains. In February
Winter comes back, angrily, reels,
blows, and busters, and content that
he has impressed himself, plods off
majestically before the March thaw.
He is an old buffer and wouldn't
harm anybody for the world, unless it
was q coal dealer.
! The Meriden creamery company, of
Meriden, find that their patrons who
know how to feed get from $40 to SIS
| income per year from each cow, while
the patrons who do not know how to
feed get from SIS to S25 per cow per
year; and that the net profits received
from each cow by their best patrons