The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-05-17
Kansas 1TEA1- or INTEREST.

O. A. $500 for improving their rooms
Dickinson county7s district court
has not single criminal case on the
docket.
High priced corn is crowding cattle
and hogs to market from Decatur
county.
The gun and rifle clubs of Winfield
are planning to import some Chinese
1,heasants-
Evelyn Louise Lease, late"of Wichita,
won the prize at the annual debate in
the Normal college in New York
The Sumner county commissioners
have accepted the new Jail and sheri ifs
residence, built at a cost of SIS, 900.
Frankfort, with a population of 400
or over, has department store which
has a floor space of : 900 square feet.
Reports of the officers of the Sons of
Veterans show that the order is de-
creasing in camps and in membership
In one day of pension payment week
She treasurer of Shawnee county took
In Se1O in pension vouchers for taxes
Bank Commissioner Breidentha1 says
he will take up certificates OF banks If
they do not quit allowing overdrafts.
z. f. Hughes, of Phillipsburg has 3
pair of harness names which were
made in Virginia before the Revo1u-
&sonary war
The valuations of railroad rolling
stock were not changed by the state
board of railroad assessors from those
iAxed last year.
The Kansas conference of the Swed-
ish Lutheran church convened last
week at Mariadah1, for its thirtieth
annual session.
The Fort Scott city council has under
consideration proposition for the pur-
chase of an electric street railway line
and light plant.
Roy Jordan, a Hutchinson boy who
served in the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry in Manila, died in San
Francisco, May :.
An agreement has been made by
which La Crosse is to have SO barrel
flour mill, to be in operation not later
than September l.
Christopher Hester of Lone Elm came
to Kansas in 1883. He is "a years old.
He still does a full portion of farm
work. He says he never was sick and
never tasted liquor
There is a gas engine factory at Pitts
burg the business of which requires
larger quarters; this has given Chero-
the removal of the factory to that place.
The statistician of the department of
Agriculture says in his May 1 report:
kansas, which ranks third in the
scale of acreage, reports the high aver
age condition of LOT, the highest
average reported May 1 of which
there is any record"
John Speer says that Josiah Miller,
IF the Kansas
motto lad astra per aspera'' and that
he had never heard before the present
discussion of the matter that John J.
Ingalls, claimed to be the author of it
Mr.. Miller was chairman of the com
xnittee on state seal in the first Kansas
legislature and ingalls, was clerk Oh
the committee. The motto is engraved
on MilIer's ombstone. Miller once
told Speer how delighted he was when
he hit on the motto.
Mrs G. r. Landers, of Harper coun
ty. was attracted by the pleasant flavor
of castor beans and ate four of them
Physicians saved her life
In November. 1896 the banks O.
Wichita held $500, 900 id deposits; now
their deposits are about two million
dollars.
A special car load of Wichita knight.
of Pythias visited the Mount Hope
lodge where they We're royalty enter
tanned While there they assisted il
the initiation of seven members of the
Mount Hope lodge
A very large delegation of snnda.
school workers of Wyandotte count,
attended the annual state Sunda,
school convention at Atchison.
An epidemic of measles has run it.
course at the Orphans home at Atchi
son and at the deaf and dumb schoo
at O1athe, but there We're no deaths a
either.
Fully half of the Paris excursionist.
TO the exposition are farmers On.
township in Ottawa county contribu
ted five farmers and their families I.
the crowd
Thirty-eight graduates Of the O1ath,
high school received diplomas at tn
commencement exercises in the oper,
house
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