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

Wheat in Dickinson county is report
cd in fine condition, completely COW
ering the ground.
The monthly payroll of the Santa Fe
at Ottawa lacks hut little of reach
ing the SIS, 900 mark.
The Santa Fe railway pays about
$26, 900 taxes on its Shawnee county
property every year.
There are only two families in John
son City, the county clerk, who il post
master, and county treasurer.
Henry Van Lewen is called the
cheese king of Atchison county. He
has number of cheese factories.
Colonel Edward c. Little of Abilene
and Miss Edna Steele were married in
the chapel of Bethany College, Topeka
The Christian denomination has
about completed their church at Ran
dali at an expense to build and furnish
1t of about $500.
VIM. Baaman, merchant of Kansas
City, Kas., was forced into bankruptcy
by his creditors and within three weeks
paid off every obligation in full.
There are several Mormon elders
In Kansas preaching. They are in the
state most of the time. They must
get converts or they would not stay.
An attempt will be made to secure a
pardon for Harry Mason, the Marion
banker, who, after having been sem
fenced, went to the penitentiary unat-
tended.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Kansas State Temperance Union
will be held in Topeka Wednesday and
Thursday January 10 and IL, beginning
at 4 p. N.
Work will commence soon on bridge
across the Kansas river at De Soto. 1t
is to cost SIS, 900; of which johnson
county contributes ST.. 200 and Leaven-
worth county $1,000.
Special Agent Lynn of the postoffice
department has concluded the location
of a rural free mail delivery route, run
ming west from Lawrence. The route
will supply $50 families.
Judge Williams has decided that cor
porations organized outside of the
state need not report their business to
the secretary of state The law applies
only to Kansas companies.
Kansas cattlemen will get together
to devise ways and means of opposing
the action of the railroads in putting
in the system of charging by the hun
dred pounds instead of by the carload.
Mrs. Charles Lusk, of Caldwell, is
instituting suit for $4,000 damages
against the city of Caldwell and the
owner of a saloon for causing the
death of her husband from alcoholism.
The financial condition of all the
western part of Kansas is improving
rapidly. The cause is cattle and alfalfa
Also the large crop of broom corn,
which brings sl1O per ton in Syracuse
The Exchange bank of Stockton de-
cided to quit. In thirty days time
every loan made by the bank was col
lected, all depositors paid in full, stock
holders paid in full with 80 per cent
profits.
j. w. Wilson, pastor of the colored
Baptist church in Atchison, recently
preached funeral sermon over the
body of a poor. hardworking woman
who supported her family by doing
washing. She was not a member of
any church and the preacher told his
congregation that she was suffering
among the damned because she had
died without repentance.
Baldwin has had a fire which de-
stroyed all the frame business buildings
in the town. Loss about 5000; in
surance not over 1000.
The new l. o. o. F. hall at Delphos
is one of the finest. The building is
owned by the lodge, which rents the
lower story for $500 year. The hall
is 36xlO5 feet.
A new Presbyterian church is being
erected near Donegal, in Dickinson
county. The Germans are building a
church in the southern part of the
county.
Judge Isaac Monet died in Washing
ton recently. He was once a county
commissioner and once probate Judge
in Sumner county.
General Agent Chaplin of the Santa
Fe is preparing an exhibit of Kansas
agricultural products for the Paris ex-
hibition next year.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished at Marysville, Marshall coun-
ty, Kas., on December 1, with one car
rier; length of route e5 miles: area COW
cred. % square miles; population to be
served, 200.