The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-11-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Smith Center has a cheese factor,
which makes 400 pounds of cheese
day.
A golden eagle was shot near Ton
ganoxie and the milliners purchases
the feathers.
.Leavenworth Jews have dedicated /;
synagogue which they have named Tn
House of Jacob.
The mortgage releases in Sedgwicl
county this year will aggregate over ;
million dollars.
There are 755 men in the fedora
prison at Fort Leavenworth. It.
capacity is only 800.
The people of Eskridge turned out
and husked and cribbed Harry Spar
lings' widows corn crop.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Topeka has q
night school and the school has a me
chanical electrical course.
There is shoe shop at Olathe which
employs 81 shoemasers. Cowboys boot:
is the speciality of the shop.
The American District Telegraph ser.
vice is to be established in Atchison il
the city will grant franchise.
Sheep items are becoming more com
mon in the Kansas papers. The sheep
industry seems to be rapidly forging
ahead.
Enterprise has opened litigation with
the owner of the water works in that
city, claiming the right, under con-
tract, to purchase the same at an ap-
praised value.
w. C. Johnston has resigned his posi-
ton in the Santa Fe treasurer's Office
and accepted a position with the gen.
eral freight agent of the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe railway at Galveston, Tex
as.
Usage City is expecting that parties
from Kansas City will establish tile
and sewer ripe factory there, using the
unlimited supply of yellow ochre which
is deposited in that vicinity. Good
brick have been made from it for
years.
w. /. Allen, the Rock Island man,
who was married in Topeka the other
day, has divorced wife and she is in
shutting proceedings to void the di-
vorce decree, charging that when she
consented to the divorce and signed
papers she was not responsible, being
under the influence of a drug.
There is great lack of knowledge
of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment
Station. Many farmers have scarcely
heard of it; others who have heard of
it do not know that its bulletins can
be had for the asking by any farmer in
Kansas. The Station is part of the
Kansas State Agricultural College Its
expenses are met by an annual appro-
priation by Congress, made in accord
ance with the provisions of what is
known as the Hatch act. Fifteen
thousand dollars per annum in quar-
terly payments are sent directly to the
College treasurer. Only five per cent
of this may be used for buildings, and
at the Kansas station very little has
been SO used. The balance is used for
salaries of the staff. apparatus, mater
ials, labor and publication of results.
The station wants the farmers to have
the benefit of its results, and invites
correspondence concerning agricultur-
al topics. 1t would like to know what
problems are especially interesting
the farmers at any time, and will do
al it can to solve them. Farmers not
now receiving the bulletins can have
them free of charge.
1T is fact" says the Frankfort Re
view. that there is more railroad bust
ness to be attended to at this station
than at any other station between
Atchison and Concordia." The papers
from Clyde, Clifton, Greenleaf and
Blue Rapids will now take the floor
and make a few remarks.
In great many Kansas towns there
are stores with a show window or two
full of souvenirs of one kind and an
other from the Philippines. from beads
to cannon. No wonder the Tartar was
crowded.
John Speer was Juggling big satchel
through the st. Louis depot. on his
way home to the funeral of his son.
~hen two ladies insisted on aiding
him, and did. He asked them where
they lived and they said Kansas. They
had recognized him and wanted to
help him.
Fett Snyder, Wichita rag picker,
who was at one time worth SIS, 900, ac-
cidentally set fire to his shanty while
he was drunk. When the flames were