The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-02-03

Half Of the dog tax q Kansas City.
Kansas, goes to support the public Ii
brary.
1t is reported that there is twelve
inches of snow on the level in Ford
county.
A Kansas barber advertises that he
would greatly appreciate ''less loafing
and more patronage"
Sumner county's sole contribution
to the suffering Cubans is, up to date,
! just oEe five dollar bill
In all the large eastern factories it il
becoming generally known that south
ern Kansas and Oklahoma are the most
prosperous spots in the country.
Mrs Thorpe, the police matron at
Topeka, has issued manifesto claim
ing that four-fifths of the fallen wom-
en- are the daughters of drunkards.
During the year 1897 the Canton
creamery received 1925, $40 pounds Of
milk and turned out $50. 753 pounds of
butter which was sold for S136, 1888
A country correspondent of the Eu.
dora News gives an idea of the condi-
ton of the roads there by saying that
they are navigable for gun boats draw
| ing two feet of water.
A Montgomery county man furnishes
the Santa Fe railroad company with
all the brooms it uses, from Chicago tc
California. The contract amounts to
about 1900 dozen a year.
A Ford county young lady while
coasting this week ran into a tree and
hurt herself. It is impossible to make
some eastern Kansans believe that
there are either trees or hills in west
ern Kansas.
The banks of Kansas which are car
rying an immense amount of cattle
paper, were warned some during the
recent snow-storm for fear the cattle
would be wiped out The reports now
coming in show that the cattle did Eot
suffer at all.
The solicitors who started out some
time ago for the purpose of raising
$50. 600 for Bethany College, at Linds-
borg, have the satisfaction of knowing
that the end of their work is in sight,
having secured something over $500
up to date. They struck a good year
for the undertaking, but are entitled
to great credit for their work; it is no
easy matter to raise such fund even
in the best of times
Five school districts in Stafford couH-
ty have abandoned the maintenance of
schools and have arranged to have
their children sent to Maxwell, a CEN
trail point, to be educated. Each dis
trict has entered into an agreement
with parents to gather up the children
in the morning and take them to the
school for less than 81 per day. To
maintain a school would cost each dis
trict at least So day. Superintendent
Stryker has information that combina-
ton of similar kind are being made
in several parts of the state.
One of the incidents of orcharding on
large scale is the constant warfare
which it is necessary to wage on the
rabbits that are SO likely to work great
destruction to the young apple trees.
This is illustrated by the operations Of
Wellhouse & Son, who are recognized
as the apple kings. For their orchard in
Usage county they used carload of
lumber in the construction of LOO
rabbit traps; for their three orcha rds
Leavenworth county they have 1000
traps, and in Mama county orchard,
400 traps. These traps consist of box
% inches long, made of ordinary six
inch lumber, one inch thick, closed at
one end, and with a wire gate in the
other end, which is closed by contact
of the rabbit with a trigger after he
has entered. About four feet of lum-
Der and four feet of No. IL galvanized
iron wire are consumed in the making
OF each trap, which costs from 12x to
Is cents
James w. Hughes, of Pittsburg, who
has for almost two years been closely
identified with the promotion of Port
Arthur, has severed his connection
from the company on account of the
company's treatment of him Mr..
Hughes is outspolken with regard to
the cause which led him to take this
step. He gave up the rental and local
real estate business which he had at
the time that he accepted the local
agency or rather the Crawford county
agency for the sale of Port Arthur
property. He claims that ne was to be
the sole agent in Crawford county en-
ployed by the company, but he claims