The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-10-11

being erected in Winfield
The Newton street and Harvey coun-
ty fair was decided success
Over $50 new schoolhouses have been
erected in Kansas during the past year
The enrolment in the Wichita pub
lie school is 4,o9a. The high school has
49,
The Wichita Eagle carries advertise
meats for ~ wholesale firms of that
city.
Thirty cattle nysteriously disap-
| peared from pastures in the vicinity OF
Hoxie.
Topeka is out of hard coal and the
dealers refuse to book orders for the
future
while ago eight cattle were killed
by lightning in Pottawatomie county
pasture.
Colorado buyers found and bought
carload of 1,40o-pound horses in Wal
lace county
Joseph Allen. a sewing machine
agent from Iowa, fell dead in the street
in Enterprise.
A permanent recruiting station for
the United States army is now estab-
iished in Wichita
Mcpherson is one of the Kansas
towns that IS compelled to provide
more school rooms.
Ten thousand people are said to have
attended the Chetopa old soldiers re-
union and street fair.
Every room at Midland college is
occupied and rooms about town are
also used by students.
Six special trains ran out of Wichita
on the Santa Fe during Friday night
of the carnival week.
James Eek, of Cavlzer City, was
killed by his shot gun which fell
through his hay rack
Wellington people raised 500 for a
former resident of that town who lost
everything at Galveston.
The Leaven wort b overall factory has
20 machines running and the payroll
is more than $3.50 q week.
The state board of education will re-
ceive applications for state and insti-
tuition certificates on October IL.
Phe water company at Cherryva1e is
seeking to enjoin the city to prevent
putting in municipal waterw rks.
Thousa- DIS of bushels of apples are
reported to be going to wa tie in Riley
county from the lack of shipping buy
ers.
The 43rd annual encampment, with
1900 delegates from the Odd Fellows
lodges of Kansas, meet in Topeka on
October s.
The Wellington gun club offers 1925
reward for the arrest and conviction
of any person buying, selling or ship
ping quail.
The pupils OF the Burlington high
schools have bought d piano and pro-
pose to pay for it with the proceeds on
entertainments.
Mrs George T. Anthony has given
to the Ottawa City library the valuable
collection of books that belonged to
her late husband.
divorce is sought to separate a
couple in Montgomery county, aged 70.
who have lived together so years. The
husband is drunlzard
horse named Coney tried to go
against Joe Patchen the Kansas stall
lion, at St Louis the other day and
couldn't keep up with Joe
An Osborne county man raised 5000
worth of wheat land that he paid
$500 for about year ago. In addition
to this good showing he figures that
the land has increased in value 100 per
cent
Ensign Lands, from Medicine Lodge,
is said to have been on the gunboat
Villabos- which is either lost or cap
tured in the Philippines
Mrs. Bernice Winchester was cross
ing the railroad tracks at Marion WHEN
pilot bar the engine struck her
shoulder and neck. She was killed in
stantly-
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, lived
in Dighton, Kansas fifteen years ago.
Dighton had but two buildings then,
one of them sod hotel with muslin
partitions
Winfield received four inches of rain
in four days last week Seeding is
not finished, but the wheat that is
planted is getting good start.
The short crop in Illinois and in the
northwest caused many threshermen
to ship their machines to Kansas