The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-12-29

Kansas wheat is in the best - con-
dition.
The stock in all parts of the state is
looming we'll.
Arkansas barber is advertising baths
ct seven for dollar rs q matter of in-
PRODUCING them
Wichita is having trouble with its
electric light company and may End
itself in darkness
The farmers of Barton county esti-
mate that they raised q, $50, 200 bushels
of wheat this year.
What Kansas needs more than any
thing else is intermarriage with race
with less hysteria.
A Central Branch locomotive engi-
neer has quit the road and is now pres
ident of a bank at Corning.
A vast amount of money has been
spent for Christmas presents this year,
in fact much more than is usually ex-
pended.
Many of the Kansas farmers are
still holding on to the wheat crop
with the expectation of getting bet
ter price.
Most of the corn cribs in Kansas are
filed to their fullest capacity at the
present time. It is of mighty good
quality, too
A wealthy Atchison county farmer.
who lives south of Atchison, is organ
izing a band Look out and stand
from under.
When it comes to plain, unornamen-
tai quarter-oak lying the statement Of
campaign expenses fled by candidates
all over Kansas is easily entitled to
the blue ribbon.
More than one disappointed Office
seeker who imagines himself to be
enough of . wedge to split his party
wide open afterwards finds that his
splitting powers are not so great after
all.
Mrs. Kittic Bawl, a colored woman
of Lyon county, is dead, aged "a. She
was born in Kentucky and sold down
the river, being in slavery 40 years.
Her husband died last year, aged 116
years.
Some Kansas men should learn from
Hobson the little lesson that farce
comedy does for the stage, but it can
not be attached to a man who is
knocking about the world in a per-
fectly human way, with safety.
Missouri and Kansas are gradually
monopolizing the interior department.
Hitchcock is from Missouri. Tom
Ryan is from Kansas and Webb Davis
from Missouri. Harrison started it
with Noble. Cleveland switched off to
Georgia for Hoke Smith once
Jack Blood, an inmate of the Hutch
inson reformatory, made his escape
last week and took with him pony
belonging to the institution. Blood
was a trusty and had the care of the
horses. He had been sent up from
Galena for grand larceny and his term
had nearly expired.
j. w. Gillett. hardware and imple-
ment dealer, has turned over his bust
ness at Woodbine to his creditors
Gillett is brother of Grant C. Gillett.
the absconding cattle king, and held
$4,000 worth of cattle paper issued
by his brother. The cattle which ].
w. Gillett supposed he owned have
been found to have been mortgaged to
others. His assets are placed at $780,
600.
The investigation made by the Kan
sas Experiment Station of the cream
cry business of the Meriden Creamery
revealed the fact that there was one
man that sheltered his cows in winter
by two wire fences, another by a wood
lot, and still another by wind breaks.
Out of 81 patrons there were Is, or 90
per cent that compelled their cows to
drink ice water from a creek or pond
in winter. When we stop to think
that the dairy cow, unlike the steer,
has q thin hide, with little or no fat
beneath the skin and poor surface
circulation, we can understand one of
the reasons why the yield of some
herds is SO low. The dairy cow is
very sensitive animal, anu when she is
forced to keep up animal heat and to
stand shivering while taking her fill
on ice water she certainly cannot be
expected to make very good showing
at the milk pail Few people realize
the loss sustained from cold barns. In
an eyDeriment carried on in ENGLAND