The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-08-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

changed into a syrup plant Inc WORK
has been going on for six months
Leavenworth- coal miners threaten
a strike on September 1 if their pay is
not raised. About 900 men are affected
Lawrence Boyington, assistant coach
at Cornell uni Versity, is to coach the
Kansas University football team this
fall
The work being done by the Santa Fe
In strengthening its tracks and redu-
cling it's grades is going on upon a large
scale.
There is an increasing demand for
contracts for Kansas hay. The crSp is
short from the Mississippi to the At
1antic-
Judge Otis, Of Atchison, estimates
Senator ingalls, wealth at $3.50, 600 It
is said that he left his estate to Mrs.
Ingalls,
Automobi races will be a part of
the entertainment prepared for the
good roads congress in Topeka on Sep
TENDER %.
Governor Stanley has appointed j.
D. s. Riggs. president of ottawa Uni
versity, as a member of the state board
of education.
w. j. Turner, one of the marines
killed in Pelkin, was Topeka boy.
During the Spanish war he served on
the Indiana.
Ray Simpson, a 1o-year-old boy, is
blowing the wheat stubb1e on the
home farm for another crop. He has
no assistance.
A Mulvane man who decided his
property to his children, is said to
have appealed to the courts for aid in
obtaining food.
Mrs Henry Hewitt was found dead
in her bed at her home in Marshall
comfy, in which she and her husband
had resided for 40 years
A company of volunteers is being
raised in Leavenworth to go to the
Orient. They offer to go as United
States or Kansas volunteers
Civil service examinations are APP
pointed at Parsons October 10; Wichita
October and %; Topeka September
IS; Sa1ina October 10 and %.
The Fort Scott log rolling was called
off by the executive committees on ac-
count of failure to get rates from the
railroads which they wanted.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and
Jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen 1ogrolling August 90
If Hutchinson's new ordinance is
valid it will cost telegraph companies
about 5000 year, the Bell Telephone
company 81 600 and the express com
panies 500 year each.
William Jones, a negro who con-
fessed stealing a watch, was chased by
the city marshal of Newton, and, re
fusing to stop on the marsha1s com
mand, was shot in the leg.
Hutchinson dispatch says that /.
P. Campbell and Claude Duval have
joined in asking that new conven-
ton be held in the Seventh district to
name candidate for congress.
Some of the creameries are getting
out of butter to fill orders. The
shrinkage of the diaries on account of
continued dry and hot weather is the
cause. The weather, however, is i'm
proving.
Secretary Coburn told the National
Agricultural Congress, assembled at
Colorado Springs, that Kafir corn, al
falfa and the soy bean must revolution
ize the agriculture of the se1ni-arici
plains.
The First congressional district has
21s, 500 population; a net gain of 5,14s.
The Second 227, 292; net gain 2,3os.
sOS~s gam S-9SOs the
Fourth 1s3, 6ss. gain 3,4o3; the Fifth
III, 1853, gain 1907; the Sixth los, 424,
gain IL ,232; the Seventh 252 900, gain
17,345.
Mrs Helen Lamplzin. of Chil1icothe,
Mo-, and her husband, both under &C
years old, were travelling towards Ne
braslza in a wagon. when she was at
tackled with typhoid fever and died at
Abilene They We're very poor
OF course it was Kansas soldier
who scaled the wall of Pelxin, took up
the end of the rope and his comrades
climbed the rope. He enlisted in Nich-
ita April Is, 1899. He first enlisted in
Vermont in 1898 His name is Calvin
g. Titus, and while in Wichita be-
1onged to the Salvation army.
w E Hart, president of the Nation
al Association of Accountants, is or
ganizing Kansas boolzkeepers. The
object is technical education, the eS-
change of ideas and the maintenance
of an employment bureau