The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-12-07

Glen Elder and Beloit have been con-
nected by telephone.
Ottawa will build new headquar-
tiers for its fire department.
Senator Q. h. Bentley of Wichita, has
bought 500 ducks to stock his ranch.
:Jewell City has not had a saloon
since the prohibition law went into
force.
One wholesale grocery firm of Topeka
has paid their personal property tax OF
50, 200.
The railroads have to put up sc1 ,000
every year for taxes in Mcpherson
county.
Ex-Governor Click purchased bust.
ness property in Kansas City and paid
$50, 900 for it.
Colonel Dick Blue, ex-congressmau
at large, lost his entire law library by
a fire at Vinita, 1. T., the other day.
Buffalo robes are becoming more val.
liable every year. At Hiawatha man
was arrested for stealing a robe which
was valued at $40.
Topeka is to have dollar gas and
cheaper electric light, to be furnished
by a new company composed of Chicago
capitalists.
Mahlon Miller, an old soldier of Sa.
betha, Kan. tried to kill himself. His
son was Lewis Miller, captain of Com
pany X, Twenty-second Kansas.
Baker University used to be famous
FOR the crack football team of the west
but now the college paper demands that
the game be suppressed everywhere.
Council Grove has building boom.
It is Missouri Pacific division point.
The Congregationalists have built
fine stone church. A fine new hote,
has been built.
Harry Land, business manager of the
Western Spirit, of Paola, Kan, wa:
badly burned by the explosion of es.
Gaping gas in the basement of the PEG
pies National Bank.
The people of Sharon, Cowley county
have prepared to tender a reception t<
Charles Cavanaugh, a sailor who served
on Admiral Dewey's flagship, as soor
as he reaches home.
Scottsville is going to have its first
elevator. w. T. Daniels has common
ced the erection of a 1000 bushel capa
city elevator, with all the modern i'm
provements OF operating it attached.
In the next adjustment of salaries O:
postoffices, it is expected that the Lo
gan Office will be made a presidential
one. The first three-quarters of the
year show a handsome increase of bust
ness.
Senator Lucien Baker has struck il
rich in zinc at Joplin. Baker has been
very lucky in mining ventures. He hit
it right once in Colorado. He bought
a mine in Colorado for song and sold
it for 500, 900.
The Lanyon smelters at Pittsbure
have fired up again. Since the shut
ting down about month ago the coke
ovens have been kept burning and the
supply of coke is piled up in a rick ten
feet high end nearly 300 yards long.
Boyd Newcom. of Murdoch. Butler
county claims to be the champion corn
husker of Kansas. He recently de-
feated Joe Ceters of Nebraska in six
hour contest for 500 side. He turned
out 81 = bushels in six hours and Ceters
81 bushels less.
J. E. Nissley. proprietor of the Kan
sas Creamery, who is known as the
''newsboys' FRIEND" gave each of the
$50 Topeka newsboys new suit of
clothes as Thanksgiving present. He
has agreed to give each boy who banks
20 during the coming year-1O cents
a week-an amount equal to his de-
posit.
Walter Woods and Roy Neeley en-
listed in the Twenty-Second Kansas.
They were transferred to the staff of
General Miles as stenographers. Woods
is now in the adjutant generals Office
and Medley is stenographer to Governor
General Brooke in Havana.
Harry Kistler, Wichita restaurant
keeper, was hunting near Cheney,
and had a dog ana his gun in the bug
gy. The dog became restless and in
moving about discharged the load of
shot. hitting Kistler in the side of his
head. He died in twenty-five minutes.
The first grain elevator of the Central
Branch of the Missouri Pacific was put
up in Wetmore in 1870. It is still in
use,
The Associated Fanciers have decid-
ed to offer $500 in prizes for poultry ex-
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