The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-07-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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The Swedish Baptists of Kansas have
held a five days conference in Topeka
Scott Burns of Smith county sold
his cattle at $50 a head, receiving
s12, 900 cash for the bunch
In Sumner county an opossum was
caught up by the self binder and neat
ly bound in a bundle of wheat
Big eastern papers are doing Kansas
full justice in their editorial columns.
this year. 1t is something new
threshing machine at work in Har-
per county blew up and killed Edward
Tally. the engineer, and injured four
others.
Wichita bank bought the $1,000
sewerage per cent bonds issued by
the city. They are payable on the in
stallment plan
The convention of UniversaIist
mission in Wichita There is pros
pect of a church being erected
The Union Pacific has been starting
shipments of men to Wyoming to work
the road, but greater part of the
men have skipped off the trains into
wheat fields in Kansas.
1t is said that the demand for seed
ling trees at the state forestry station
at Oga11ah is twice great of last
year. Hail has injured the young
trees at the station this year.
There are nine packing houses in
Kansas that report aggregate in
vestment of more than a half million
dollars. The nine plants report sales
OF their products for the year at SIS,
14s, 394. 81.
George Chi1ders stepped on the belt
of a threshing machine near Kiowa
fell. drawn into the
machine and mangled to death. He
came from Urbana, Ohio, to work in
the harvest.
A deputy sheriff, of Howard county,
arrested a cattle thief Ottawa.
While waiting for a train the thief es-
capped and the sheriff broke his thigh
by falling on the railroad track, while
chasing the thief.
quarrel between an Ellsworth man
and harvester resulted in the death
of the latter. The victim was struck
the head and had his neck broken
by the blow, while his head was under
the other mans arm
The bank block at Geneseo was un-
rooted June 20 and much damage was
done to department store and to
other buildings Wheat was only one
third harvested and the storm and
heavy rain laid it fat
A young man has established a rab-
bit scalp business. The scalps are
shipped to Kansas City and from there
forwarded to him at the several county
seats of Kansas which he visits where
he collects the bounty.
On the big Gorton ranch in Lincoln
county three sets of men worked in
harvest, each working eight hours
with the same machines Many other
farmers adopted this plan of working
the whole "a hours during harvest.
Captain Irwin, of Topeka, was a
lieutenant in the English army in 1888
and was present at the coronation of
Queen Victoria Coming to the United
States he fought through our civil war,
and then became a Methodist preach
er.
The Santa Fe management has de-
rided to establish freight division at
Syracuse, Kan, and superintendent
Parker, of the western division is now
making arrangements for the imned-
tate removal of the round house at
Coolidge to that point.
aA RosedaIe family, a mother and two
children, We're train from Chicago
when they ate lunch which had been
pnt up for them by friends there, and
were poisoned by fish which the lunch
contained. They We're cared for and
are believed to be out of danger.
Two threshing outfits We're received
at Wellington and the freight charges
were so large that investigation
was made. The boilers We're full of
water and it weighed $50 in freight
Parties from Lima, Ohio, are pur-
chasing oil and gas leases in Mont
gomery county. The concern repre-
sented is said to have a capital OF
$40, 600, 900. They figuring on
supplying the big manufacturers in
Ohio and Indiana where gas is ex-
hausted, and which will have to move
to new fields
There were SO county institutes in
Session last week, attended by alta
teachers
Stafford county has organized a fair
association and will hold a fair August