The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-03-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTFREsA

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTFREsA
Genuine spring weather would be
welcome visitor.
Bethany College at Lindsborg, is
now free from debt
A Stanton county man cashed in his
broom corn crop for 81 500.
It is hard to find a Kansas town
now that Is not groauing over house
famine
Attorney Callahan of Montgomery
county has started campaign against
jointists
Owing to the insufficient tax levy,
the state treasury is expected to run
dry in May.
Thirty sheep are killed for the Sum
day dinner of the old soldiers at the
Home at Leavenworth.
Ottawa thinks it has reached the
degree of gayety where it can sport
and support lodge of Elks.
Spinal meningitis is epidemic in
Leavenworth county, the disease start
ing January 25th. There have been
fourteen deaths
The construction of the addition to
the Topeka Federal building, for
which SIS, 900 has been appropriated,
will begin May /.
Galena is putting us street signs and
having houses numbered. Galena has
population of something over 5000,
SO that this move is not made at all
too soon.
The talk of Atchison now is that
professional pitcher and catcher will
be secured and situations secured for
them, and that in the future Atchison
will have only Sunday base ball
A western Kansas paper says that
the only sure sign of spring is the
sight of lot of school girls out grub
bling for wild onions 1t is fact that
about all the signs have failed this
season.
A man who joins the militia of the
state of Kansas not only gets to make a
display of his patriotism, but renders
himself immune from the ravaging
raids of the stony hearted poll tax
gatherer.
The Philippine Islands are long on
snakes A Kansas lad, in letter to
his folks, says that the Kansas boys
greatly regret that St Patrick did not
visit the islands with his ''Rough on
Reptiles"
An Atchison colored fellow was Civ
en- ten months in the county Jail this
week for stealing canned fruit from
the cellar of housewife of that town.
It is good thing for the judge that
his official position is not at all de-
pendent on the vote of the women.
The women will say unanimously that
q sentence of ten months in the coun-
ty Jail for stealing home-canned fruit
Is ridiculously light in comparison
with the enormity of the crime
The grand lodge of the colorcd Ma
sons of Kansas will hold its annual
meeting in Atchison in August. About
two hundred delegates will be present,
In addition to several hundred other
members Special importance will be
attached to the convention from the
fact that monument to the memory
of the late d. G. Lett at Mt. Vernon
cemetery will be unveiled. d. A. Jones,
grand master of Kansas, will be in
Atchison in few days to make ar
rangements 10 have the monument
erected. The late D. G. Lett was the
first grand master of Kansas, and the
Masons desire to perpetuate his mem
DRY with q monument
Harry Tornbloom of Mcpherson
county, has Swedish dirk, the blade
OF which darts forth when q spring is
touched. In playing with this the
other day Tornbloom touched the
spring by mistake and cut q cash over
q friends heart
Mary Choteau, aged 70, widow OF
Pierce Choteau, the historic early set
tier who founded a trading post in
johnson county, Kansas, near Turner,
years ago. is dead. Her husband ex-
plored and traded in the southwest
when it was still wilderness
1T takes positive evidence to con.
vict under the prohibitory law" says
. Kansas exchange; but from the way
some cases turn ont it appears that
positive evidence even, don't always
do the work.
The estate of John T. Lamborn.
murdered at Fall Leaf two years ago,
was settled last week. It amounted
to 1000 in value, and was settled