The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-11-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsE
Improvements are being made in
Rock Island property at Lexington.
The wheat fields in southern Kansas
look exceptionally fine for this season
of the year.
Some grand improvements are being
made on many of the Kansas farms.
Prosperity is apparent on all sides.
Twenty-eight convicts were taken
from Muskogee this week and will be
landed in the Kansas penitentiary at
Lansing.
There is no getting around it. Win
ter is here. It is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price of cobs has been
doubled.
The Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches
are holding a council to decide wheth-
er they wish their reservation opened
to settlement or not.
Brass bands in the southwest appear
to have made more money out of the
campaign than those in any other Sec
ton of the state.
The newspapers in this state con-
tain fifty per cent more advertising
than news. This is great sign of
prosperity for the newspaper publish
ers.
A stone quarry at Irving ships its
output all over Kansas and to adjoin-
ing states, and has on hand now orders
for between 400 and 500 car loads to be
delivered before the first of next jan
nary.
A Wilson county farmer who came
into Fredonia the other day on top of
. load of fax, said that more good
barns and other buildings had been
built in his township the past year
than in any one season for the past
twenty years.
Kansas is the most wonderful state
in the Union. In Atchison county a
man bought farm of twenty-five
acres five years ago. He never touch
ed the farm and it has now grown to
thlrty-fve acres It is next to the
Missouri river
There are several points throughout
the state where the soldier vote will
decide local contests. What fearful
worry the state would be in now, if
the vote on the state ticket had been
30 close that it could have been swung
by the soldier vote.
r. NJ. Cook, one of the progressive
boys of Nortonville, has been in the
government printing Office at Wash
ington for the past five years. He re-
Gently graduated in the law depart
ment of the Georgetown university,
and will locate in the west for the
practice of law.
The county commissioners in Har-
vcy county are after the tax evaders.
The other day they subpenad two
Newton bankers to testify as to the
amount Of money certain taxpayers
had of deposit on the first of March.
The bankers refused to testify, alleg-
ing that the relations between bank
ers and depositors were sacred and in
violable. A contempt suit will follow.
Down on the Verdigris river in Mont
gomery county, Kansas. the farmers
have established free delivery mail
system. The men of the neighborhood,
ing the mail from Independence and
delivering it at the farmers doors
every morning. Every postmaster
with rural constituency is familiar
with the parties who come in, usually
on Saturday, and call for their own
mail and that of their heighbors.
The matter of Missouri Pacific shops
ut Atchison will not be defiditely set
tied until after the remainder of the
Central Branch is disposed of. At
present the Missouri Pacific owns only
the first hundred miles of the Central
Branch, although it is operating the
remainder under lease 1t is probable
that within thirty days the entire Cen
trail Branch system will become the
property of the Missouri Pacific, and
then the shops matter at Atchison will
be settled.
When Wichita people succeed in pre-
venting the wholesale theft of water
by Colorado irrigators from the Arkan-
sas river, as there is every probability
that they will do in the near future.
the river will again become something
more than a name. There was q time
that river boats ran as high as Arkan-