The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-04-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a meeting and decided to establish a
creamery.
Len G1anville, of Hutchinson has
fallen heir to valuable estate near
Utica, N Y
Secretary Barnes of the state horti-
cultural society says that fruit pros
poets are good
During March the Kansas peniten-
tiary received 81 convicts and only p
were discharged.
Montgomery county has more money
on hand than the law allows to be de
posted in banks.
There were seventy-one volunteers
for the Spanish war who We're Kansas
University men,
The Barton county fair association
has applied for charter. 1t has cap
ita1 stock of $4,000.
Daniel FuItz, a Sumner county farmer
was killed by dehorned bull which he
was trying to halter.
Fred l. Diggs, a son of Anna L.
Diggs, was elected mayor of Perry,
Kas., on ''wet ticket
Vaughan Mckee, who enlisted from
Mulvane, has been murdered in Puerto
Rico. He was % years old
Three colored girls are members of
the class which viii graduate from the
Sabetha high school this season.
Lebanon had S176. 60 in its treasury
at last official count, not cent OF
which was received from joints.
John E. Gibson. a Santa Fe lineman,
fell from the top of pole in the Tope
Ia yards and was seriously injured
The two new buildings to be erected
in Pittsburg by the Kansas City and
Southern railroad, will cost about S4O,-
600.
The steam mill at Axtel1 is burned
at loss of So, 900 with s7oo insurance
1t had been sold the day before the
fire.
Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson is
commencing to prosecute contractors
who fail to observe the eight hour labor
law.
A daughter of Captain w. R. Hardy,
of Eureka, met prince while she was
studying in Italy, and is now engaged
to marry him,
DIR. Swan, the secretary of the state
medical board, reports that there are
now 2, 1879 registered physicians prac-
ticing in Kansas.
a rate of one fare for the round trip
will be named for the annual meeting
of the Knights of Pythias, to be held
May 1916 at lola
James Harris, now one of the literary
lions of London, in 1878 took a special
course in oratory and literature in
Kansas University.
Frank w. Elliott of the Troy Times
recently convicted of libel, was SEN
fenced to 100 days in jail and to pay
500 fine and costs After being in Jail
two hours he was liberated on an APP
peal bond, on order of Judge Wells of
the appellate court.
The internal revenue department for
the district of Kansas issued during the
last fiscal year ASST retail liquor deal
ers' special stamps (Why Will intelli-
gent newspapers continue to speak of
these stamps licences when the
United States has not issued a liquor
dealers licence in the past 80 years?)
At NIiltonville two of the Heald boys
married two of the Comfort sisters, and
at the same time two of the Comfor t
boys married two of the Heald sisters.
George Helwig, an old resident of
Labette county, died and this coroner
jury said his death was from arsenic
poisoning. The evidence is kept Sc
cret.
The officers of the Leavenworth Light
& Heating company have infor nation
of a fraudulent issue of 14o bonds for
81 900 each, now in circulation and
offered for sale in Chicago.
A fund for the widow of Douglas c.
Coates, the Santa Fe operator at South
Winfield station. who was killed in his
office, is being raised among the EN-
ployes of the road in the southern part
of the state. Contributions have been
generous
H. L. McNurney and Ethel Bacon. OF
Butler county. were to be married, and
on the same day, while riding, the
horses ran away breaking the bride
yroom's collar bone and bruising the
bride severely They We're married or
schedule time.
Clerk of Court Cook of Ness county
drove to the nursery at Sedgwick fol
a load of apple trees He plans to SCI
out 40 acres of fruit this spring.
Martin Hoyer, the owner of the mil
at Ashervi1le was in a boat on the Solo