The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-05-03

C1dt14e IL voting OOnN1S 20 prove h01r
waterworka system
Arkansas City has closed the bargain
for the purchase Of the watervvorlzs
there
Much hail in Atchison comfy has
damaged fruit and broken window
glass.
Washburn's baseball team won over
the Kansas University boys by score
of z to ;.
The Hampson ranch shipped from
Burns last week a car of hogs which
sold for $3.50.
Captain Clad Hamilton, OF the Twen-
tieth Kansas, has been appointed audit
or of Shawnee county
Mrs Fred Funston has an article in
the May Cosmopolitan on "A Soldiers
Wife in the Philippines.
Rev J. C. Pratt, aged So, is dead
He had lived in Kansas since 1897, COM
ing then Baptist missionary
Southern Kansas never had such a
show of apple bloom as appeared in
one day in the last week in April
State Mine Inspector Tomlinson re-
ports the penitentiary mine to be in
better condition than it ever was be-
fore
Judge Charles Chadwick, who lived
in Lawrence since 1857, died last week.
He was the first attorney general of
Kansas.
A company has been formed at Ton
ganoxie to find out what there is in the
reported discoveries OF zinc and lead
there.
VIM. E Airport has been taken from
Ga1ena, where he has lived since 1897,
to McDonough, Ill, to answer a charge
of attempt to kill.
The state board of health requires
probate judges to record answers to
a long list Of questions from applicants
for marriage licenses.
Two hundred union carpenters are
on a strike in Kansas City, Kansas;
most Of them were employed the
new Cudahy packing plant.
Mrs Arthur Capper and Mr.. George
era wford We're called to Washington,
D. c.. where their mother, wife of ex-
Governor Crawford, is very sick.
Jim Harris, the man who confessed
to numbering John Allen, of Otturnwa,
doesn't want to stand trial. He wants
to be sent to the penitentiary forth
with.
Bishop Jesse Engle, who went from
Abilene to South Africa a year ago,
died there, aged GO. He was the lead
er of the River Brethren church in Kan
sas for many years
The body of John B1agg, once a
prominent Farmers Alliance lecturer,
was found in the Solomon river near
Abilene. having evidently been in the
water several days.
The Topeka postofice is allowed
extra clerks during pension payment
week. The pension business of that
week requires the handling of over
100, 900 pieces of mail
On Memorial Day, Chester Long will
deliver an address at Gettysburg; Cal
derhead one at Annapolis; and Charles
Curtis one at national cemetery IN
the District of Columbia.
Nemaha county streams were swollen
by rain of April 24 and damage was
done along the Nemaha valley; 400 feet
of the Kansas City and Northwestern
road was washed out, north of Seneca.
Dickinson comfy is the first to or
ganize a lodge of the new farmers or
ganization, known as 1.-The Knights of
the Soil This is the new farmers
trust to control the production and the
price of wheat
Bismark Grove at Lawrence has been
sold to private parties to be used as
shipping and supply station for the
horse and mule market at Kansas City.
The coal oil inspector has turned into
the treasury in the past nine months
SIS, 1I6.75. Salaries of the inspection
department during the same time were
50, $50.
James Edmonson, of Ottawa, has just
received S92.2O from the war depart
ment to reimburse him for money adj
vanced out OF his own pocket for rail-
road fare during the civil war.
Six cars of breeding cattle from Iowa,
billed to Winona. Kansas. We're held
in quarantine at Kansas City
picture of an old Kansas farm
house, with his mother standing near
the door. caused Edward Moon, a young
convict in the Kansas penitentiary, to
try TO escape The house is of the sort
built by the Kansas pioneers, with
trees in front and vines climbing the
sides On the back of the picture is