The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

c. A. rooms at Ottawa
B. B. Smyth has been elected libra
rian of the Kansas Academy of Science
for the sixteenth time.
Farmers Institutes are being held all
over Kansas this year. They are grow
ing to be very popular
w. n. Rankin has been designated
as member of the civil service board
for the postoffice at Lawrence, Kas-
The poor commissioner gave away
200 tons of coal to the poor of Shawnee
county during the month of December
The bill for lighting against Leaven-
worth for September, October and No
vember is So, 1913 O3, and the city coun-
ell refuses to pay it.
There has been but one death in
Smith Centre in the past seven nonths'
and that was the death of a person who
went to the town sick
Major j. NJ. Harvey has been chosen
for Kansas as department commander
of the National association of Spanish
American War Veterans
Representative Curtis has introduced
"A bill to appropriate $4,000 for the
protection of the Kansas bank of the
Missouri river at Atchison-
An Iowa man who went to Pratt
county for his health found it all right
enough, bought a piece of land and
tells his neighbors that he has come to
stay
John T. Prather, commission man at
the Union stocl1yards, Wichita, met
his death from an attempt to jump
from moving Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train.
c. f Ressegue, who has assumed
the general superintendency of the
Santa Fe, will move his family from
Galveston to Topeka as soon as he can
find suitable home
Captain Coulter, head of the G. A. r.
in Kansas, says that the order will
take steps to prosecute by fine and i'm
prisonment, mon in Kansas who are
wearing the G. A. r. button without
right.
Chaplain Schliemann, late of the
Twentieth Kansas, is at his home at
Phillipsburg after a lecture tour
through Illinois and eastern Kansas,
and after a couple of weeks will start
out again.
George Theis, Jr., of Ashland, one of
the biggest cattle dealers in Kansas
is we'll pleased with the business out
look for the coming year, and is increas
in western Kansas.
The sheep barn at the fairgrounds
in Topeka, used by d. w. Kent as a
training stable, was completely de
etroyed by fire and ten horses and sew
eral buggies and sullzies We're burned.
Kent's loss is large
Governor Stanley has appointed Ed.
II. Madison. of Dodge City, judge OF
the Thirty-first judicial district which
comprises the counties of Ford, Kiovva
Comanche and Clark, in place of Judge
F. c. Price, resigned.
w w. Schwinn, Kansas lawyer
who left Wellington some time ago, il
search of a location, landed first al
Salt Lake City, then at Kansas City
and is now going back to Wellington
He finally lit" just where he started.
A Wichita man has shipped sample
of canned jackrabbit to England. L
this is received favorably he will gc
into the business large scale.
R. E. Torrington, who was formerly
employed in the Santa Fe freigh
offices in Wellington, has been appoint
ed ticket agent for the Rock Island a
Wichita.
At Chinicothe, Illinois. the mothe
of J. G.. johnson of Peabody, caugh
fire in lighting lamp and was burne'
to death. The children We're gather
ing for a family reunion Christmas
Wellington has voted for municipal
ownership of waterworIzs and e1ectri
lights Fifty thousand dollars wa
voted to purchase the waterworks an,
$4,000 to erect light plant.
The class of large girls at the Sol
diers' Orphans home at Atchison Ia
been reduced from thirty to ten in tn
last three months w. f. Martin. stat
agent for the home. places about eigh
children a month in families, and tn
number of children in the home ha
been decreased from $50 last August t
1o5 at the present time
Two years ago w. H Love. who fc
many years has manufactured broom
on small scale in Fort Scott. bougt
about so bales of broom corn for 81
per bale and the other day he sold 1T
St Louis for S15a per bale
William Wood. the millionaire lun;
tic who has been in the Topeka insar