The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-12-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


lights
that services in church had be
omitted.
The school children of Fort Scott
have sent $40 for the public schools in
Galveston.
At special election Cawker City
voted against buying the opera house
for city hall
Asbury Thorp, of Winfield, pulled a
gun out of a buggy. He leaves a wife
and three children
More corn and wheat is being mar
I1eted in Cherryva1e than has been done
before in fifteen years.
The ladies of Meade have made
successful fight against the illegal sale
OF liquor in their town.
The Santa Fe is expanding over s2,-
900 in fitting up reading rooms for it's
employees at Dodge City.
Judge Sl1idmore fined five Coffeyville
lawyers So each for not being in court
when their cases were called
Jos. Condell, a breeder of thorough
bred Herefords, has purchased Butler
county farm for fancy stock ranch
J. NJ. McCIain, of Syracuse, delivered
to Coulter &c Hatcher, of Finney county,
30 mules, to be placed on their ranch.
Thos. Shaw, a Wichita merchant,
gave a Thanksgiving dinner to 200
newsboys and bootblacl1s It is his
annual custom
Mrs. Mcclellan, a daughter of an
Abilene banker, has been for a year
the teacher of English in the native
schools of Honolulu
The Thanksgiving dinner at the To
peIxa insane asylum included 200 pounds
of turkey, SO mince pies, cranberry
sauce, cake, fruits, etc.
A well drilled by the city of lola is
sPouting gas enough to run the electric
light plant and the waterworlxs plant
both of which are city property.
A minor married in Usage county
and while still under 21 years of age
was sued for divorce. Then came in
the statute declaring that a minor can
not be sued in a court of law
Kansas has 342 state banks and s.
private banks, besides numerous ma
tional banks. Bank Commissioner
Breidentha1 says there are none too
many for the business of the state.
The attorney for the prosecution
says that the suit against State Treas
urer Grimes, brought just prior to the
election, will be dismissed before the
time set for the trial in Usage ccun-
ty.
superintendent Nelson reports that
receipts for common school purposes
for the year were SIS, e77, 7o2.I1- The
amount expended was S4,622, 800. &c,
leaving a balance on hand of $685.
3SS. 35.
Attorney General GODDARD says that
during his term of office, up to the date
Of n iS 4 Of lot Il
been sent out from his office in reply to
queries of a legal nature. and that the
court work during the term has been
much heavier than usual
Superintendent Nelson has sent out
blanks to the different county srperin-
tendents asking the following infor-
nation: School population; assessed
valuation of county by districts: num-
Der of mills levied for school purposes;
number of weeks of school MAR tanned.
A. L. Sutor, of Turon, has the largest
apple orchard in the Seventh congress
sional district; next in the state to the
great WellhOuse orchard
Colonel Henry NJ Green. a Lawrence
pioneer, is dead. He came to Lawrence
IN 1857 and that city has been his home
ever since He was severely wounded
ut the time of Shelby,s raid on West
port, being then lieutenant colonel in
the Kansas militia Colonel Greer
was one of the founders of Lane Uni
versity at Lecompton and was its frs
president.
The county clerks of stanton and
Morton counties have examined record.
OF the L. s. land Office at Dodge Cit,
and found considerab BILE decided LAND
that was not on their tax rolls, ant
some government land that had beer
listed for taxes
Despite the facts that rs, 900 peopl
left Kansas for Oklahoma. since tn
census of 1890, and that $4,000 left tn
western counties because of advers
weather conditions, from 1892 to 1896
the present census shows a gain in tn
ten years of about B per cent
s. o. Spencer, state oil inspector
thinks that the enactment of a Lax
creating the Office of state fire marsha