The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-07-12

W. OGSNE a O4y
Lexington viii lay only brick side
walks in the future
Topeka horses are suffering an cpl
demic of the pinlz-eye-
The Kaw valley potato crop west of
Topeka is said to be small
Ex-Governor Leedy has been admit
ted to the bar at Lawrence
The deed to the farm which was re
Gently sold in Covwley county, required
S37 in revenue stamps
The bargain is closed and the Vel
nngton waterxorks has gone into
the possession OF the city.
The clerk of Usage county reports
an increase Of taxable property of
500, 600 during the past year
Ottawa had family consisting of
a widow and three widowed daughters
One of the four died last week
man has offered Salina $500 for
the privilege of running a merry-go-
round during the street fair there
The Ottawa creamery, with its
Wel1svi1e auxiliary, received 50, 900
pounds of milk in one day recently.
Charles B. Hass, of IIalstead, who
was a sailor on the old Constitution,
has been granted a pension or $50 a
month.
It is said that Governor Leedy lost
a years time and what capital he put
into zinc speculatiops in the Galena
district.
Hon. E. G. Dewey-s mother was
shopping in Moline one day last week.
Mother Dewey is quite active for one
90 years old
Perry Albin, of Inman, bought a
span of mules 25 years ago. One of
them died year ago and the other
last week. It was 81 years old.
J. L. Gilbert. who says his home is in
Topeka, and that he belonged to the
Third Missouri volunteers, is arrested
for a dozen burglaries in Salina, all
done in one night
Among recent appointments of
cadets for West Point from the state
at large are Morrill, E. Spalding, of
Concordia, and Norman E. Ramsey, al
ternate, of Topeka
When John Dearborn settled in JEFF
ferson county in 1856 there We're only
two men in the township. He went
80 miles to postoffice. He still lives,
at the age of "A, where he first settled
Many of the present farmers of Dick
inson county got title to their $50 acre
farms on contracts with Z. c. Henry
who gave them deeds for a quarter
section each for the wheat in sacks off
40 acres, for which he had furnished
the seed.
Philips county has nearly ten thou
sand acres in alfalfa. The first crop
has been in stack for a month, in fine
shape and the second crop is being cut;
and a third crop will be harvested.
The crops sell for double what the
land would bring at current prices
The work of strengthening the floor
of the new state library room over the
secretary of states Office in the capitol,
is completed and the iron supports for
the book cases are being placed t is
expected that the library will be re-
moved to its new home in August
This makes one of the finest library
rooms in the country
While threshing on the farm of VIM.
Tweed, in Mitchell county, stack
caught fire, destroying 500 bushels of
wheat. Stacks and uncut wheat on
three adjoining farms Were fired by
sparks from cigarettes which boys
We're smoking they passed, and
1900 bushels Of wheat was destroye ed
together with three wagons and two
header boxes.
Governor Stanley has received the
1OfLQal THANKS the of1E1Sh govern
ment to the people of Kansas for its
donation to sufferers in India.
Sixteen years ago r. s. Parl1hurst,
of Parsons. divided 1 400 acres of Kan
sas land among his children. Last
week he divided 1.40O acres more in
the same way. He still has 700 acres
left
A full antlered deer head fell from
the wall in an office in Emporia and
ran one of the points of horn in
| Richard Cannon's face.
Cyrus Dix, aged 65, an old citizen OF
| Sedgwicl1 county, was thrown from a
wagon and had both legs broken. He
was otherwise painfully injured
Governor Stanley is said to favor the
| plan of keeping a commissioner at
| Washington to attend to pension
claims; thus relieving members OF
/ Congress
Someone in Valley Center caught q
snap shot OF the three governors on