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

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state meetings in Topeka during the
next four weeks.
Tho w. j. Lanyon smelter at Pitts
burg has started up again after several
months idleness.
One weeks turkey shipments OF
single Osborne dealer amounted to IL,
600 pounds; all dressed.
Within the past year and half Pitts
burg Methodists have paid off $4,000
debt on their church.
Charles Curtis is the only memba
from Kansas that was appointed chair
man of a committee.
The Topeka ministerial union will
establish circulating library for the
benefit of its members.
In some of the western counties the
railroads pay more than half the tsxes
and have always done so.
The Christian Scientists of Wichits
chartered train to take them to at
tend a lecture at Ell Dorado.
The cost of holding the elections in
Sedgwick county averaged thirteen and
seven-tenths cents for each voter.
Quite number of the young mer
who were members of the Twentieth
Kansas are applying for pensions.
The Shawnee county treasury re
ceived taxes during December, prior tc
the limit date, the Goth, about $500, 900.
| There is movement in Kansas and
Oklahoma to erect a monument to Ed.
Hewins on his old ranch near Cedarvale.
The new electric road from Leaven.
worth to Kansas City will be opened
for traffic January /, after repeated de-
lays.
The students of the State Normal are
agitating the matter of change of the
weekly holiday from Saturday to Mon.
day.
There are $4,000 sheep on one ranch
in Pottawotamiec county. Twenty-foul
men are employed at $50 month and
board.
A Farmers Institute has just CLOSED
at Wellesville. 1t was the seventh an.
nual meeting there and was well at
tended.
In Lincoln six new business houses
are being erected and there is not a
vacant business room in the town and
only one dwelling house without .
tenant.
T. C. Kirby, proprietor of hotel at
Perry, shot and killed G. A. Foley, and
riding to Oskaloosa surrendered to the
sheriff. Kirby asserts the dead man
had ruined his daughter.
In the Fifty-sixth congress Kansas
ranks higher in committee assignments
than at any time since the retirement
of Ryan, Morrill,, Peters, Perkins and
Anderson, at the close of the Fiftieth
congress.
In the last ten months more than 300
farm mortgages have been discharged
in Lincoln county, and not renewed,
and eighty-two farms. aggregatine
&c, 600 acres, have been sold to new
corners. Farm land has increased
greatly in value.
Beloit Call:-Fred Beeler,s Jewel,
and Mitchell county taxes amounted
to 81 400 this year. This is what il
costs to be cattle king. but the Cali
ventures that Fred paid it without
grumbling. His ranch keeps him busy,
he never has time to get colicky.
"Taxes are being paid more prompt
ly in Kansas this year than ever be-
FORE" said State Treasurer Grimes.
The people are taking advantage OF
the discount by paying up quickly. ]
believe that at least so per cent of the
1900 taxes will be paid the first half OF
the year, although only so per cent il
DUE
Information has been received by
the Santa Fe officials that from present
appearances next years shipments OF
of livestock all along the system would
be larger than it has ever been.
Colonel John Pearson, who was the
first superintendent of the Alchison
Orphans home, died in Germantown,
O., last week. He won distinction a
as an officer of the Tenth Michigan dur.
ing the war. He left Kansas some
years ago to reside with his daughter
in Ohio, and had reached the age of g.
years.
Miss Lizzie Wooster, of Topeka, has
received word from the department of
Indian affairs at Washington that her
primary educational works entitled
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