The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-07-05

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wichita; September ~;
| donia; August 21-24.
Scott Burns of Smith county sold
his cattle at $50 a head, receiving
! So, 600 cash for the bunch.
Miss Edith Howell of Franklin coun-
ty, received a check of $3.50 from the
New York Weekly for her last story,
Aiken -
w. A. McKeever resigned the super
intendency of the Smith Center schools
to accept professorship in the Kansas
Agricultural college.
Heavy thunderstorms are reported
in Barton county and number of
stacks of wheat were struck by light
ming and burned. One man lost 500
bushels of wheat
The Union Pacific has been starting
shipments of men to Wyoming to work
on the road, but a greater part of the
men have skipped off the trains into
wheat fields in Kansas.
It is said that the demand for seed
ling trees at the state forestry station
at Ogallah is twice as great of last
year. Hail. has injured the young
trees at the station this year.
A little girl had leg cut off by a
street car in Leavenworth. She was
following long used path which
crossed the tracks. A suit for SIS, 900
damages has been commenced.
Two threshing outfits were received
at Wellington and the freight charges
were large that an investigation
was made The boilers were full of
water and it weighed $50 in freight.
There are nine packing houses in
Kansas that report an aggregate in
vestment of more than half million
dollars The nine plants report sales
of their products for the year at S7s-,
14s, 3e4.57
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.
There is a scheme on in Central Kan
sas to organize Preachers and Ply
sicians' Mutual Protective association.
The preachers are tired of seeing men
go around with a box of cigars in each
hand setting 'em up to the boys on
the strength of a marriage before the
wedding fee has been paid. The
physicians are sore on the fellows who
do the same thing following a birth in
the family before the physician has
been paid.
Jackson county has Jew, a Catho-
lie and a Presbyterian contesting for
the republican nomination for repre-
sentative.
Edward Collins, of Topeka, and his
cousin, Edward Fitzgerald, of New
in
both young men, were bathing in the
Kansas river and We're drowned.
Real estate sales are numerous, but
very little money is being borrowed
for the payments Eastern people are
hungry to invest money in Kansas farm
loans, but cannot place them.
The summer term of the state nor
NAL school has 800 teachers in attend
ance and more are expected after the
close of the county institutes
The state school fund holds local
Kansas bonds amounting to Sc, 6o1, 500.
OF this S6s3. 900 is in bonds of the state,
the rest of counties and school dis
tricts-
Three hundred Sunday school chill
dren paraded the streets of Wichita in
long line of new farm wagons drawn
by traction engine They were go
ing to picnic
VIM Fo1lsche, of Doniphan county,
died in so foot well.
Milk used in Kansas creameries is
supplied by 49, $50 persons The milk
comes from SO, 1s2 cows. The cream
cries belong to L, 4eS firms who have
average investment therein of
S.. 932- A. The product of the industry
in 1899 was 81, 0O4, 49s- Their receipts
from sales were 81, $50, 5s3-43. They
paid 81. 157.74o for milk. Thirty-four
per cent of the products were marketed
in the state The average amount
paid for milk, for each cow was s24.