The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-12-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Senator Harris chief assignment
1re to the committees on agriculture
and election. both important.
The seventeenth annual meeting O.
the county clerks of Kansas will b<
held at Wichita, December % and %.
The Twentieth" reception and en-
tertainment committee of Topeka, quit
the game with over twenty-six hun
dred dollars
Chester I. Long, of the Seventh dis
trict of Kansas, has been appointed a:
a member of the committee on ways
and means.
Money order records at the Topeka
postofice were broken when 100 were
issued in a single day last week. aggre-
eating 81 500.
1t is reported by Mr.. Barnes of the
Horticultural society that Kansas
raises $50, OOo, 900 worth of fruit every
year, on an average.
The Hutchinson and Southern branch
trains will use Wichita branch main
track between railroad junction east
and west of Kingman.
o. E. Pritchett, a brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man.
kato, and had both legs cut off. He
died few hours afterward.
There is no spot on earth, so far as
reported, that has natural roads equal
to those in the great valley of the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas.
The auctioneers of Kansas have Or
gained state association with the
view of securing legislation requiring
auctioneers to have a state license.
1t has been decided that when cattle
pass through this state bound for re-
mote points they cannot be examined
as it is interfering with interstate COM
merce.
Henry Shindler of Leavenworth has
been appointed assistant inspector gen.
eral of the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river for the Army and Navy
Union.
Senator Baker is chairman of the
committee on civil service; is third on
Indian affairs; is on invalid pensions;
District of Columbia and ON the five
civilized tribes.
The designation of the National
Bank of Commerce of Wichita as gov
eminent revenue depository became
officially in force by the completion of
the bond required.
A jury in the Shawnee county dis
trict court decided that the Master
Plumbers Association of Kansas was a
trust. =. =. Elder, of Ottawa, is sec
rotary of the trust.
A newsboy on ''Katy" train cheated
a passenger few days ago. A special
officer of the road happened to be on
the train, and at the next station the
newsboy was put off.
citation was crowded out of the state
house by the special session of the legis-
lature. This year it has both repre-
sentative hall and the senate chamber.
Since July !. the Kansas Agricultural
college has taken part in liz farmers
institutes in different parts of the state,
and arrangements for 13 additional
institutes have already been perfected.
"A creamery at Beloit has sub-stations
at Scottsville, Norway, Asherville,
Green Mound, Saltville, Sunfiower,
Blue Hill, Victor, Denmark, Glen Elder,
MAYHEM. Downs. Ports, Speed, Os-
borne and Stockton. The yearly capac-
fly is a million pounds of butter and
&c, 900 pounds of cheese.
Calves in considerable numbers are
bought at Kansas City stock yards and
sent to ranches of cattlemen in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
The Missouri Pacific has a special
train equipped for building telegraph
lines. The company is rebuilding all
its old lines and wanted to do the work
in hurry.
A man entered store at lola and
asked the boy for cackleberries. The
boy had never heard of them before,
but he thought a while and then gave
the man eggs.
The beautiful souvenir cover issued
by the Atchison Globe for the Corn
Carnival was taken from q painting and
which is said to have been the art of a
Wichita man. Whoever did it. it Is the
best study in corn ever made in Kan
saS
Mulvane is Represented to be getting
70 be quite a business center The peo-
pie there are quietly working to get
the Santa Fe to locate machine shops
there. Their hopes are based on the
fact that rhA On NJ. r., hoe ,c.-c 1a,r