The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-06-23

A Russell county man who had in
100 acres of wheat last season cleared
just S25 an acre on the crop.
The harvest season has opened in
southern Kansas.
The electric light plant at Usage
City is now owned by the city.
The wheat area in Osborne county
shows an increase of 90, 367 acres over
last year.
Jacob Livingood, IA years of age, son
of George Livingood, who lives four
miles north of Independence, was kill
ed while riding on cultivator blowing
corn. His team became frightened and
ran away, throwing the boy under the
cultivator, crushing his skull and
mangling his body terribly.
In Harper county the continuous
rains of last week ilnperiled the enorm-
Gus wheat crop. It has been ready for
the harvester several days past but the
machines mire in the soft fields, find
ing it impossible to move. Winds and
the heavy weight of moisture on the
heads have broken down the wheat
generally.
When the appellate courts were es-
tablished in Shawnee county three
years ago the supreme court was 5years
behind with it's business. It is now
stated that within one year it will have
caught up so that case can be heard
soon after it is filed. It will certainly
be satisfactory to litigants who have
had to wait for years for final decis-
ion.
Geo. T.. Pricer, of Brown county, is
the pioneer of movement that will be
popular with many of the farmers.
He has put in a telephone and al
though he lives full two miles south of
town, can converse with his Hiawatha
friends at pleasure. Those farmers
who wish to get thoroughly in touch
with Hiawatha will lose no time in
putting in telephones.
Several years ago a fellow by the
name of Gordon worked gold brick
game on a jefferson county farmer.
He was arrested and gave a cash bond
of $1,000. His attorneys got this cut
to 81. 500 and put up bond and with
drew the cash. Now the Shawnee
county district court holds that the
bond was void because it was approved
by the clerk of the supreme court in.
stead of the court itself.
James Parker, a fine old gentlemen,
was run over by the cars and killed at
Winfield the other day while picking
up coal along the railroad track. He
was one of the California Argonauts
and accumulated fortune which pass.
ed from him in his declining years.
Though having no children of his own,
he reared and educated no less than
fifteen orphan waits picked up in his
travels about the world.
The natural gas question is no long
er an experiment at Ottawa. The we'll
has been cased and tested with salts
factory results. At the test, it showed
a gas pressure of 100 pounds per square
pound per minute, so that it is safe to
say that the pressure of the gas will
reach about 200 pounds which means
about one million cubic feet per day.
The company is very well pleased with
their results and have shut the we'll
up, taken down the derrick and moved
it about 700 feet almost due north,
where another well will be drilled If
the gas found there be of as much
pressure as has already been struck in
the present well it will also be cased
and finished up for use in connection
with the we'll already down. Another
will then be drilled down to the last
layer of sand to determine what are
the prospects for getting still greater
pressure. During the drilling of the
second we'll, the gas from the present
we'll will be used in making steam.
Kansas with 400 creamcries. includ.
ing skimming stations, is surely des
tined to be the butter factory of the
country in the course of a few years
The recent big convention in Topeka
gave a new impetus to this branch OF
farm work and the rapid increase in
the number of creameries this spring |
is little less than marvellous. With
attractive prices and SO far a very
favorable season the output of Kansas
creameries this season will be enorm. |
Gus. Eastern buyers have invaded |
the state just lately and are buying
big supplies at present. However,