The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-01-19

Hope will buitd town hall ON the
Kansas City method
No criminal cases on the Ellsworth
court docket this term.
A Junction City firm will put in the
waterworks system for Wamego.
!. Three Clifton crap shooters TUNED
s13 each into the city treasury the 9th
er dag.
The superintendent of the Morris
county poor farm draws . salary OF
Fs4oo year.
The ice harvest in Kansas this sea-
SON is as satisfactory as the grain har-
vest of the past year.
The net reduction of mortgage in
debtedness in Ellsworth county for the
year 1898 amounted to SOS, 1854.
An Ottawa man is the owner of . pin
of common size on the head of which
every letter of the alphabet IS en-
graved.
For fifteen years Miss Jennie Mar
shall has taught the school in District
No. /, in. Cloud county, school in
which she was once pupil
The poor farm in Osborne county is
a money maker for the county. The
humble hog is largely responsible for
the showing on the right side of the
ledger.
There is considerable county print
ing trouble in the air just at present.
1t will lash away for few weeks and
then die down until the time rolls
around for the contracts to be let
again.
BARRIERS of Ellsworth have refused
to work on Sunday. There is really
no reason why barber should be ex-
pected to work on this day which is to
the great majority of the people day
of rest.
The same rain that will swell up a
tub will shrink steer. A paper print
ed out in the cattle district is authori-
ty for the statement that big rain
Will sometimes cause steer to lose
100 pounds.
An exchange says: Deaths are men,
toned in Kansas papers with remark
able frequency of late In the first
seven papers picked up of the issue OF
the present week there were>seventeen
death notices.
In compliance with request from
the members of the Anti Horse Thief
association the commissioners of Sum-
ner county have raised the reward of
fered for the apprehension and convlc-
ton of horse thieves from S25 to $50.
Regent Dodge says that the big
Cross ranch in Mitchell county will not
revert to the State Normal, as the
back interest and taxes due have been
paid up. The Cross ranch is the big
gest thing out doors in Mitchell coun-
| ty.
There was a time, and it wasn't very
long ago, either, when Kansas town
with telephone system was consider
ed very hot thing. They are getting
to be SO common now that they are
hardly considered worth Dragging
about.
A Kansas paper puts up dolorous
wall to the effect that many Kansas
merchants are seriously considering
the advisability of remaining in bust
ness another year. This is false
note in the harmony of humping bust
ness, which is in evidence the state
and nation over.
Council Grove is a town that at the
last enumeration was credited with
:. 500 inhabitants. At the close of bus
mess on December 81, there was on
deposit in the two banks of the town
S365, 34s. A.. Of this sum it is said that
about four-fifths belongs to the farm
ers of Morris county.
Ex-Register of Deeds Newbold, of
Sumner county, has brought suit
against the county commissioners to
recover something over 900 in fees
which he turned over in 1895 and 1896
He bases his suit on the alleged dis
covery that the law reducing fees of
county officers was not properly pass
ed.
Orville Parker. one of the boys OF the
Twentieth Kansas, writing from Ma
Mia to his folks at Coffeyville, says
that he pays five cents dozen for ban
anas, gets six oranges for nickel. fif-
teen or twenty cigarettes for two
cents, while cigars are rated at half
q cent, or a cent apiece; and the cigars
and cigarettes, he says, are made out
of real tobacco.
| One of the Kansas Creamery patrons