The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-04-05

State Superintendent Frank Nelson is
qeite sick
Chapman has organized a vide awake
commercial club
Burning of brick begins at the peni-
tertiary at Lansing on April l.
Plans are accepted for the erection
of a sc, 900 court house in Reno coun-
ty
The Mail and Breeze is named as the
official state paper. by the executive
council
Wellington is to have more side
tracks on account of increase of bust
ness there
Secretary Coburn says that great
many Kansas farmers are raising An
CORA goats
lit now seems possible that the rumors
of the purchase of the Midland railroad
by the Frisco line are true
Mrs. J. Conrad, at Roper, was burn
ing trash in the yard when her clothing
caught fire. She cannot recover
DR. Mary A. Chamberlain. a direct
descendant of the Puritan, John Rogers;
died last week a Alma at the age of
81
The Union Pacific is arranging to put
on an early morning flyer to leave Kan
sas City about a. and to arrive at
Mcpherson at p
Martin Gordon, of Galena- a miner,
was killed by an accident in the mine,
and was buried on the day which had
been set for his marriage
The life insurance companies are pre-
pairing an appeal of the Hillmon case
At the last term Mrs Hillmon got
verdict against two of the companies
j. H. Jones, of Smith Center, who
chief electrician the oregon
during its famous voyage around Cape.
Horn, has left Kansas to represent a
Chicago electric firm at the Paris ex-
position
Gueda Springs people are busy in
putting their town in better condition
by the building of additions, repairing
and painting Lake Juniata is again
full of water and better place for
bathing and boating than before.
The receipts of the Wichita post Office
for the year closing March 81 were over
SCI 900; an increase of over 20, 900 over
four years ago There Will probably
be d sub-station put in for the conve-
nience of the people of west of the river.
at the post Office on her way
to school aud received letter telling
her that maiden aunt in Massachu-
sets had left her SIS 900 in cash. She
taught her school that day and resigned
IN the evening
Applications for national bank char
tiers have been forwarded to Washing
ton from these towns in Kansas: Stat
ford, Augusta, Nortonville, La Cygne,
Kiovva, Dodge City, Garnett, Leaven-
worth, Goodland, Argentine, Belle
PIaine, Harrington, Winfield, Cove City.
W. L. Brown, of kingman county,
set out 135, 900 forest trees fifteen years
five years later He has cut !, 800 fence
posts and could take out 1000 of them
now, he says. Besides the profit from
the timber he thinks he is repaid for
the expense by saving of feed and flesh,
his stock and hogs always thriving and
contented in the grove.
For twenty years the Bethany college
at Lindsborg has sung the Messiah
leaders came from Illinois, but now
there are SO many in that Swedish
colony who have grown up there, and
in that school. there will be none but
home talent in the caste The Ladies
Home Journal gives a full page to this
years event in this Kansas village
The railroads have granted a rate of
one fare for the round trip for the Re
publican state convention in Topeka
May To-
Job T. Gift, near Wellington, has a
pig with one eye, one head, one mo nth
and snout, eight complete legs and feet,
four ears, and two bodies from the
shoulders back
The Grand Island road has bought
land and viii establish stoclzyards and
switches at a point east of NarysvilIe.
The new yards are to have telephone
connection for convenience of shippers.
According to the report of the state
University Geological Survey, the river
at Blue Rapids, at low water, is good
for 800 horse power
Warden Tomlinson expects that de-
rnands for Irvine viii be far in excess