The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-10-04

Stockton wants telephone service,
and a line to Plainvil1e.
Next week six counties unite n a G.
a r. reunion at Peabody.
The appellate courts. of Kansas all go
out of business on January 1. 1901
The Coffey. county fair was postponed
until this week on account of the rains
a Marshall county farmer has just
sold 900 bushels of old corn at 317z
cents
Representative hall in Topeka, Sep
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Reno is credited with more bearing
plum trees than any other county in
the state
Counterfeit nicke1s are plentiful
in the towns along the southern bor-
der of the state
The ninth annual convention of col
ored Baptist churches held in To
peka last week
Congressman c. l. Long was called
to brownsville, Mo. to the funeral of
his oldest brother
a company has been chartered for
manufacturing gas and gasoline en-
gines at Cherokee.
6The Kansas Society of the Army of
the Philippines was organized at the
Hutchinson reunion.
Frank c. Goudy, nominee for COVER
nor of Colorado, formerly lived in JEFF
ferson county, Kansas
The enrolment at Baker University
is nearly four hundred; nearly one
half are new students
The official count shows an attend
ance at Kansas Agricultural college of
So Last year it was 639-
Miss Laura I<imba11, of Burlington
accidentally shot herself in her left
breast with a rifle She may live
Nerdigris river was on tear four o,
five days last week It was out of its
banks in many places, doing much
damage.
The G1aseo State bank, with paid
up capital of Sc, 900, has 500, 600 on de
post, of which "a per cent belongs to
1917 farmers.
The new Catholic church in Beloit
is contracted at $40, 900 to a Topeka
firm. To finish aud furnish the build
ing will bring the cost to $50, 900
Ten Missouri Pacific freight cars
went into the ditch, west of Sedan; six
of them loaded with wheat. Eight
ears We're totally wrecked. An un-
known tramp was killed
George a. august, a Topeka clothing
merchant, committed suicide in New
York few days since Six months
ago his wife procured a divorce. since
which his business has been bad.
Miss Martha d. Kaufman, of bbey-
vile, Kansas, has been appointed
teacher at the Western Shoshone school
Nevada, and Miss Frances E. Atner, of
bingham, Kansas, has been appointed
teacher at Round Valley, Cal
A Galveston family came to KAN
sas town with a communicating dog
which was much loved and cared for
During the great storm the baby of
the family was swept off the porch and
seemed hope1essly lost But the dog
plunged into the flood and rescued the
child.
The convention of county clerks held
in Emporia, named the following as a
committee on legislation: S. w. Swim
ney, Cherokee, chairman; c. E. Hobbs,
Usage; J. A Davenport, Franklin, j.
G. Ruddy, johnson; W. E. Wood, Sum
ner; John H. Cain, Sedgwiclx: A d.
Rulnmel, Sherman; John y. Carnell
Norton; n. E. Peach. Lyon: John NJ.
son.
The Santa Fe announced in advance
that special trains would be run to the
Wichita street fair from Kiowa and
from Pratt.
Orson Kent. OF Burlington. has held
commissions notary public in Kan
sas since 1859. the first bearing the sig
nature of Governor Medary, a terri
torial governor.
J. Il. Ralston- who formerly conduct
ed the Detroit, Dickinson county, Press.
was attacked by Eli Bushey and Sc
riously injured Ralston's horse got
into Bushey's cornfe1d.
Jack Gossage, of Baldwin, dreamed
at the hour of the destruction of Calves
ton. about his son, who was there He
went to Calves ton, but found that he
had been crushed by falling building
while helping two comrades out of the
hospital
Toronto and vicinity experienced
destructive winds on the NIGHT of Sen