The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

report. Is 5oa,574.
A W. Pickett of Republic, raised e4s
pounds of pumpkins on one vine One
pumpkin weighs Sc pounds
Rev. Baxter Waters. of ST. Louis,
has accepted the pastorate Of the First
Christian church of Lawrence
In one precinct ia Wichita in which
about 500 votes were cast there was
less than half straight tickets
Bids are to be opened on December
fer the construction of the public
buildfng at Kansas City, Kansas
The largest hay barn in the state is
owned by j. r. Lasswell, OF Afayetta-
1t has capacity of 500 tons of baled
hay
Harry Griffith takes one of the Cali
fornia limited trains. He has been a
long time conductor of the Topeka and
Kansas City plug.
Neodesha has experienced three
freshets, the last ORG making an island
of the town. None of the fords there
abouts were fordable-
John s. Hobson, switch and signal
engineer of the Santa Fee, leaves that
company on December to take anoth-
position in the east.
Steve Hopkins, Of Ellsworth, recent
7y declined position as paymaster's
clerk in the Philippines at $3.50 a month
with transportation thrown in
Four members of Wichita club. all
of whom voted for Fremont in 1856.
voted for Clay in Is44, and one cast his
first vote for Van Buren, in 1910
Burns, Marion county, has a null
berry switch on exhibition which is .
feet inches long, and n sweet potato
which weighs almost pounds.
The Eldridge house in Coffeyvi1le is
partially destroyed by fire; the damage
on building and furniture beirg esti-
mated at sd, 800, covered by insurance.
Attorney General GODDARD is prepar-
ing his argument in the stocl1yards
case which viii be reached by the Uni
ted States supreme court in Decern ber-
The Butler county district court con-
venes Novem be 20. and soon thereafter
will be taken mp the trial Of Miss
Jessie Morrison, charged with murder
a large light of very thick glass fell
from a sl<ylieht over the cashiers
desk of a Wichita store. The operator
of a typewriter was at work and the
glass struck her machine, just missing
herself
George w. Owens, a '95 graduate of
Kansas Agricultural college, expects to
go to Tago, West Africa, to establish
an agricultural school, in ti.e employ
OF the German government Owens is
a negro
The fish commissioner has just in
formed Mayor Ross of Wichita that he
had placed 9, 800 fish in the Little Ar
kansas river in Riverside park on Octo-
Der 81. They were black bass, rock
bass, c:roppie and blue cat.
1t was probably the desire to get the
best that could be procured in the
world which prompted the cement
of the New York Geological garden to
order ten tons of Kansas alfalfa and an
equal amount of prairie hay
Joe Hall and John Williams lived to-
Eyetf1er ON a farm in Bourbon county
Hail shot Williams for falling to sup
ply butter and other things he had
agreed TO supply. Hall seems to feel
that he was justified in his deed
Conductor Harry Edwards, OF the
Union Pacific, had his right leg cut off
rs his train was pulling into North To
pelxa-
Trainmaster G. H Sanders at New
ton. takes the place OF trainmaster on
the Chicago division. He is succeeded
at Newton by r. D. Fowler. chief dis
pAtcher at Gu 1licothe. Missouri.
Norman McGillivery, a junior en-
gineer in Kansas University, fell "a
feet from the VvaterwOrl<s stand pc.
One leg was broken and he was other
wise in jured but not seriously.
&c. [. Short. who has for some time
been trainmaster on the Chicago divi-
sion has come back to his old home and
his old job in Topeka, as conductor OF
the Santa Fe plug between Topeka and
Kansas City.
Manhattan is added TO the list OF
Kansas towns which provide resting
rooms with toilet conveniences and
literature where the country women
can comfortably wait for their men
folks to be ready to go home In this
case the ladies of Manhattan have done
the providing
They are figuring on the cost OF bricl
paving at Troy, DOniphan county.
William Tweeddale, aged -. died al