The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

age IN shawnee county
The lola cement plant in one day
sent out Is cars of its product and or
dered 20 empties-
]. F. Todd, formerly labor commits
sioner of Kansas, was elected to the
lower house in Oklahoma
The manager of the Southwestern
peanut butter company says he has de-
cided to open a factory in Wichita
Old soldiers at the Leavenworth Home
use $50 ounces of coffee and 100 ounces
of tobacco to each man during year
d. b. Dyer, of smith Center, was the
first announced candidate for sergeant
alarms Of the house of representatives
Near Conway Springs there is
wheat field in which the wheat meas
ures "a inches Billy Frantz measured
it.
John R Harrison, of salina, Kansas,
now postmaster at Havana, has been
made acting director general OF posts
in Cuba.
Some of the department heads in the
state house are knocking because the
governor~insists that they shall be more
economical.
a number of white persons are claim
ting to be relatives of Bert Higginboth-
am. the negro who died at Independ-
ence leaving unclaimed property.
EIgin, Chautauqua county, with a
population of 300, is the largest cattle
shipping point in the world. It 5 the
loading point for the Usage pastures
Congressman Curtis expected to visit
Indian Territory before returning to
Washington, but is compelled to aban-
it on account of pressing business at
home.
Alvin Williams was elected county
county commissioner of Osborne coun-
ty. Although he died at noon on cleo
ton day the people kept right
voting for him
The work of preparing bills is already
becoming vO1uminous. OF course there
will be hundreds presented to the legis-
1ature that will deserve no considera-
ton, usual.
The Girard canning factory put up
90, 900 cans of tomatoes and Is, 900 cans
of apples this year. They now want
to contract for $50 acres of tomatoes
and 500 acres of sweet corn
Emporia feels like Dragging over its
prospects for the coming year, which
include new depot, a new court house,
the new Carnegie library, a new ward
school and the new normal library.
the MOrmons across the plains and
wrote book about it, just celebrated
his Doth birthday at his home in Win
field. He is still strong and hearty.
The enrolment of children in public
schools of Kansas during the past year
was 800, $50; an increase of Q, $50. Wy
andotte leads with Shawnee second,
Cherokee third and Sedgwiclz fourth.
George Robinson, a negro, has been
arrested on suspicion of numbering
Pearl Forbes, a candy factory employee
of Leavenworth. The murder was
most brutal He was taken at Tonga
noxie.
Two inmates of the Beloit industrial
school set fires at that institution
which destroyed SO, 600 worth of prop
erty. The problem now is whether to
send them to Lansing for comnai ting
arson
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie
turned into the state treasury S4,I51,
the amount collected in fees during
October This paid up an existing de
ficiency and the expenses fer October
spection department
The 5-year-o1d daughter of A. NJ.
Sturm, of Concordia. fell backward
within an hour. Her father was lying
at the point of death at the time from
an accidental gun shot wound received
during the previous week
c. H Dietrich, of Hastings, Neb.
and who is probably elected governor
of that state, is the son of an Atchisou
shoemaker
The alfalfa seed crop of Kearney
county is estimated 1000 bushels
Prices are good and the seed is being
marketed.
The establishments OF free delivery Of
mail in town after town is serving tc
break up some of the gangs of 1oafers
who have, time out of mind, fiocled tc
the postoffice the arrival of a mai
train-and never received any mail.
John washberger. of Edgerton wa.
watching q steam shovel work and
to keep out of its way stepped in front
of a passenger train and was killed