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

April l.
Hoboe. who strike Pleasanton now
will run up against rock pile.
Box cars are the favorite hang-out
for the poker players and crap shooters
of Kensington.
Many say that most of the early
peaches in Kansas were frozen during
the late blizzard.
At a big cattle sale in Texas recently
Landergin Bros, of Greenwood county.
bought $500 steers, paying for them
sol ZOO.
Up to the e3d seventy-one real estate
mortgages were released in Jewell coun
ty this month-an average of slightly
over three day.
Neither wars nor runners of wars, nor
troubles of whatsoever nature will
ever cause the question of wet or dry
to take back seat in Downs.
A Spring Grove man came very near
crossing the dark river by eating poke
root, thinking it was a parsnip. The
doctor got there just in time.
Doniphan is a great fruit county.
One man delivered three car loads of
trees there last week, containing %, 600,
and has two more car loads coming.
The only University man who can
look with equanimity on the destruc-
ton of the heating plant is Prof.
Dyche, who, if worst comes to worst,
can put on that fur suit, build himself
an igloo of manufactured ice and chew
blubber to keep the fire of life burn
ing.
The watch that was kept over the
report of the board of inquiry was not
more vigilant than that now maintain
ed by the housewives of Kansas over
their jam and preserve department
since the freeze of the past week. OF
course they can buy supplies of this ma
ture when their own run out, but any
one knows that ''boughten" goods are
nowhere near the same class as that
which is put up in the home kitchen.
Two patrons of the Lebanon cream
cry supicioned that the tester was not
a fair one and loaded two cans for the
purpose of finding out. After filling
two cans about half full of milk, one
was filed up with water and the other
with cream. When taken to the cream
cry the report of their can showed the
highest test. The Attorney General
was asked for information as to how
to proceed to get justice. He replied
that they had better water all of the
cans.
The creamery at st. Adams, VT, is
said to be the largest in the world.
The milk of 1900 cows is converted
into butter, and about 10000 pounds
of butter are made every day. But the
creamery at Hutchinson, Kansas, is
fully as large, for it gathers cream
from it's skimming stations some of
which are go miles away, and so per-
feet are all it's appointments that it
turns out FIVE tons of butter day, and
not one pound could be told from any
other pound in color, quality and fla
vOr.
The sun of prosperity smiles upon
county. Following close
upon the heels of one of the largest
crops ever produced comes the excel
lent prospect of still better crop this
year. Wheat never promised better at
his season of the year. The fine rains
and the snow during the winter and
the warm weather of the past few
weeks have made wonderful improve
ment in the wheat crop all over the
The oats crop is now in the
ground and the farmers are busy plow-
ing for corn.
Mennonites, Russians and Germans
Of Harvey county are daily taking out
'non-resident" papers from Office of the
county clerk. They do this to prevent
their going to war in case of strife be-
tween Spain and this country. 1t is q
part of the Mennonite belief that no
one shall participate in strife of any
kind, or resist an attempt to use vio-
lence in any manner. Especially with
horror do they look upon warfare.
Many of them firmly believe, too, that
the constitution of the United States
and the laws of Kansas preclude any
on their part of ever having
to 60 to war.
A western Kansas paper says tina.
quite a number of farmers in that vi
cinity are contemplating a visit to
and other eastern points
next fall The visits of the Kansas
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