The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-05-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF lNTEKEs0

KANSAS ITEMS OF lNTEWESO
The papers appear to be chronicling
IN unusual lot of petty thievery.
Secretary Coburn thinks there vii
be three-fourths Of a wheat crop,
which isn't so bad.
Since the recent rains the wheat is
making rapid growth and the farm
ers are well pleased with the present
outlook.
This late spring will compel the
farmers of Kansas to crowd a big lot
of work within mighty small space
Of time.
Beloit will have a rock pile with the
usual ball and chain attachment for
the hoboes who strike town, or the
erring ones who transgress the law OF
the land.
Holton will make the strongest kind
of a pull to get the grand army en-
campment for next year; and the town
would no doubt take care of it in q
creditable way.
Superintendent Church has admit
ted the Boston Fire Insurance COM
pany to do business in the state OF
Kansas This company has capital
stock of 1000, 600. This is its first
application for Kansas license and
it has never done business in the state
before
Osborne county lost $426. IS recently
by the death of a jointist who had
fines standing against him aggregat-
ing that sum. He had been released
from Jail on his promise to pay s25 a
month until the score was cleared up,
but before the first payment was due
he was on his death Ded.
A large acreage of broomcorn will
be put out in few days; much larger
than was raised last year. Broomcorn
has been a very scarce article during
the past few months and has sold AS
high as 500 ton. This encouraged
the farmers Throughout the state to in
crease the acreage of this product.
Dickinson county is making a great
record for morality these days. On
April 26 Judge Moore rescinded the
order for jury for the May term of
the district court. there not being a
single criminal case for trial. Two
cases were on the docket, but one
minor offender has jumped his bond
and the other will plead guilty. It is
tho first time in years that no criminal
cases have been tried.
At Beloit recently the school board
offered prize of $40 to the person
who would present by the fast of May
the best landscape plat for identifying
the grounds. There will probably be
numerous responses, but the people
who really know how to do such work
will show up after the completion of
the plan and begin to criticise and
show how it should have been proper
ly done. It is so much easier to cSiti-
rise the work of others than to exc
cute plan yourself
Warden Lands has returned from
his trip with the board of penitentiary
directors from Saltwater, Mimi, where
they had gone to investigate the Irvine
plant The trip, the warden states,
was q very hard one. Every moment
of the visit at the Minnesota peniten-
tiary was occupied in securing infor-
nation covering the Irvine manufac-
turing business. Advertisements for
bids will at once be prepared by the
board and published. twill be sew
eral weeks before the machinery can
be secured, and months before the
plant will be in operation.
On April 81 the quartermaster at
Fort Riley was notified that 1000
mules would be shipped to that place
to be grazed this summer on the big
reservation there. The reservation
contains nearly 10000 acres
Originally we crossed the prairies as
of old, the pilgrims crossed the sea, to
make the west, as they the east the
homestead of the free. Now Kansas is
crossing another sea to make the east
as they have the west the homestead
of the free. We are nearly around the
world.
Eskridge is to have lady band. AS
q rule lady band looks a lot better
than it plays
1.-THE ammunition train and reserves
of the Goth Kansas volunteers, Colonel
Frederick Funston, marching through
Csloocan At night after the battle of
February To-" This is the line be:
meath a spirited, double-page illustra-
ton in the last issue of Harper's
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