The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-10-26
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST
Cobs are being advertised for sale at
different points in Kansas at ten cents
load.
A Marshall county farmer expects to
get 10000 bushels of potatoes from a 35-
acre patch.
In the Labette County district court
there were during the first week, ten
convictions and pleas of guilty.
The Exchange bank of Stockton has
gone into liquidation. The owner
claims that banking is not profitable.
Professor L. L. Dyche has 3e requests
for lectures from points in Nebraska,
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa.
Another new electric light company
is after a franchise in Kansas City, Kan.
The promoters are James A. Blair and
James H. Frost.
Norton county is having warm
campaign over the location of a county
high school. Every town in the coun-
ty is candidate.
Cawker City Ledger; ''Twenty-one
months ago w. r. Oliver purchased q
SOW for s12. For the SOW and increase
he has realized S172.sO.
Fred Roberts of Wellington attends
college at Norman, o. T., where all his
expenses are paid in order to secure
his services on the foot ball team.
It is said that a Kansas man who
used to make money operating rock
quarry in this state went out to Colo
RADIO and went broke on gold mines.
Since the legislature established the
Irvine plant at the penitentiary the
price of hemp has gone up 100 per cent.
This is due to the war in the Philippines.
The Horton Headlight man heard
farmer offer a laborer 2H cents bus
hel to pick corn the other day, and the
fellow actually refused. He said he
had a better thing and could make more
money.
Elmdale has a race problem. A
teacher refuses to stay with her school
if a colored girl is allowed to attend,
and patrons are threatening to boycott
the institution. The board is trying
to make peace.
Topeka now has a garbage crematOry
in which is consumed all dead animals
and ali garbage gathered and carried
to it from the city. Its capacity is 100
tons every ten hours. There is no
smoke or odor from it.
The Clay Center Rock Island depot
was burned on Oct. IA. The fire start
ed in the freight room. The origin of
the fire is unknown. The ticket case
and some other furniture were saved
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
There is more green grass in the
Rock Island lawn in front of the Good
land depot than any other place on
their Kansas system. 1t is kept clean,
given plenty of water and has become
a pleasing sight to sight-seers on the
Rock Island. The grass is as green
now as it was any time during the
spring and summer.
Annually in Kansas when the asses
sOrs of the various townships arrange
the basis of assessment there is roar
on account of the glazing inconsistent
cies in the taxation scheme of the state
A great stir is kicked up, and the de-
mand is made that this Great Evil be
remedied. Then the kicking dies away.
soon it is forgotten, and the old yell
sleeps for another year. to break out
with the same old vigor ard the same
old result.-Capital.
The synod of the Presbyterian church
of Kansas has been holding its sessions
in Concordia.
The estimate is now made that the
whisk broom corn crop, nearly all of
which is raised in Kansas. is fully 600
tons less than last year. If this is true
there ought to be no trouble about
good prices from now until the next
crop is harvested. Last year the jump
to 500 did not come until the first of
December. 1t is fully two months ear
lier this season, and indicates some |
what, the drift of the current.
A man who leased mill on the north |
fork of the Solomon is watching his |
rent climb up every day and is unable |
to turn a wheel on account of the lack |
Of water in the river.
Kansas has her hook in that Trans
vaal trouble. Charley and Walter |
Price. formerly of Atchison are super