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

at Leavenworth is nearing completion
| There are go students now attending
the Agricultural College; $50 more thar
ever before.
Carlyle intends to 60 after gas. E
II. Funston is member of the company
that is pushing the matter.
The cold storage plant at Nortonvill<
has $1,000 dozen eggs on hand ready
for the annual winter rise.
To keep up with other debt-payers
the Efingham Methodists have lifted a
mortgage of 1865 on their church.
Miss Alice Spradlin, the Topeka girl
who nursed the sick at Manila, is a
graduate of the State Normal; class OF
'94.
The business of the Abilene post
Office is increasing so fast the town is
looking forward to free delivery with
in year.
For the first time in ten years or
more the Franklin county fair assOcia-
ton is out of debt; and better yet, the
treasury holds $500.
Thomas NJ. Potter, of Peabody, was
chosen at its recent meeting as vice
president for Kansas of the Farmers
National congress.
The old artillery sheds at Fort Leav.
enwOrth are burned to the ground.
They had been empty since 1891 anc
were of no real value
A. Mueller of Burlington, spent
seven years in the Transvaal and he
does not have very favorable opinion
of President Kruger or of the Beers.
Heavy rains have fallen in Jewell
county, breaking six or eight weeks
drouth. Stock water was getting
scarce in many localities and wheat
was needing rain.
Weir City is in tears because the fires
have been drawn from the last furnace
of the Cherokee-Lanyon smelter and it
is believed that it is the intention to
move the plant to some other point.
Kansas has been an excellent field
for pickpockets this year. The street
fairs, carnivals and reunions have
brought together people for them tc
work on and they have done the rest.
On the farm of Charles F. Hutchin.
son in Smith county there is cheese
factory which has been in operation
since 1892, which has capacity OF
1000 pounds of milk day, with daily
output of about 400 pounds of cheese.
Wichita Eagle: Asked if the salt in.
dustry in Hutchinson in which he has
an interest would be reduced, Frank
Gould said Thursday while here: mo.
sir. the salt industry is here to stay.
and increase from year to year, not
withstanding the so-called salt trust
Topeka Capital: An account of the
coronation of the Wichita street fair
and carnival should be sent to Queen
Victoria. The Wichita style will prove
an eye-opener to her when she reflects
on the pokey style in which such func.
lions were performed in. the long ago
when she was young.
Wichita Eagle: z. S. Spore of the
government experiment station, Hal.
stead, Kan, was in the city interest
ing himself in the agricultural and
horticultural exhibit at the Street Fair.
Mr.. Spore made arrangements to Sc
cure great many of the exhibits for
the government display at the Paris
exposition.
Dell Valentine, the newly appointed
clerk of the supreme court, has appoint
ed subordinates as follows: Deputy
clerk. Herbert L. Armstrong. Topeka;
Stenographer and copyist. VIM. Ogg,
Olathe. The other copyist will prob
ably be Miss Grace Foulks of Topeka,
daughter of the late Chas. Foulks of
the Santa Fe claims department..
Col. Dick Blue will soon settle down
in Columbus.
A Topeka mill has just secured con-
tracts for three carloads of product 90
be delivered at Chinese ports. The
west is going to take hand itself in
this increase of foreign trade
The Wathena Star notes a strike OF
rock haulers working in Doniphan
county quarry. They wanted more
pay. and got it. :'Some of the men
who refused to work." says the Star,
were making $50 week. and some
weeks they were doing little better"
New York Press: Reports are that
Kansas will be lending money to New
York and New England before long.
A tramp. half crazed with liquor and