The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-06-08
KANSAS ITEds OF INTERESE

The early closing movement has
caught on at Girard
A bad girl dressed up in male attire
and paraded the streets of Fort Scott
It cost her SIG.
Everything is making a very rapid
growth in Kansas and the ground is
filed with moisture.
There may be no deluge in sight but
Noah Cline is building a forty-foot
boat for the Solomon river.
A Neosho county farmer last week
marketed a couple of hogs, one weigh
ing 500 and the other $50 pounds
After a severe hailstorm in Doni-
phan county the other day there was a
foot of cobbled ice in some places.
This is the proper time to attend
church strawberry socials." Berries
are cheap and the dishes are generally
large.
Coffeyville felt very proud before of
her paper mill and her pottery; but
now the capacity of both plants are to
be doubled.
Since Frank Grimes was elected
state treasurer Leoti has blossomed
out with a brass band; the only one in
Wichita county.
Four Indians robbed man in Brown
county. Watch for a story in the
eastern papers concerning the '1ndian
uprising in Kansas"
A Cloud county woman is 80 years
old and has seventy-four grandchild-
rem. She was born lit days after
George Washington died.
Sergeant Hull. recently discharged
from the Seventh cavalry, has pur-
chased plantation in Cuba and will
be joined soon by his wife who is now
at Fort Riley.
What is science when it comes to
law? West, assistant encouragement
al, has thrown CONSERVATION among
the scientists by announcing that
natural gas is not a mineral. 1t is gas
An Osborne county man who weighs
only 135 pounds won $50 last week by
carrying $50 pounds of -four three
miles without putting it down. And
then he offered to bet $50 more that
he could GO another mile without any
rest.
A Sedgwick county bred America
merinos fleece of twelve months and
sixteen days growth weighed fifty-two
pounds, and surpassed the world S
record of seven and one-half pounds.
The sheep sheared as a two-year-old
thirty-seven and one half pounds
1t is said that the recent hail storm
out in Saline county moved one farm
er's alfalfa crop down SO neatly that
he raked it and put it up with as little
trouble as though he had cut it with
his own machine. Probably if the
storm had lasted little while longer
it would have finished the job and
stored the hay as well.
The increase in the county's popula-
tion to over $4,000, as shown by the
assessors returns, puts Sumner in a
higher class as regards the salaries of
county officers under the general fee
and salary act of the last legislature.
Heretofore the county has been rated
in the class of 100000 population and
less than 25,OOO," for whose officers
certain salaries are prescribed. By
getting into the class above nearly all
the county officers get the benefit of a
raise of from 500 to $50 in pay, and
hire goes to the county clerk and
treasurer.
A great deal of the corn N Kansas
has already been plowed over once
this season. 1t is said to be in good
condition.
There is roar in Kansas on account
of lack of workmen. It is better
than the roar of a few years ago on
account of lack of work.
The New York papers, poor credu-
lous souls, are now running pictures
of handsome Kansas girls ploughing
in the fields to fill the places left va
cant by their brothers, fighting in the
Philippines.
In Grant county last week lobo
wolf killed two calves. John Stuart
and Howard Maxwell took out after
it and after a chase of seven miles.
killed the wolf and received SIS for its
scalp.
After the question as to where the
Twentieth Kansas is to be mustered
out is settled the ring will be cleared
and Everest, Fairview, Morrill,, Rob
inson and Powhattan will be allowed
tn fight it out and decide which OF
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