The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-09-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

mormon elders working In Kan SaS
say they intend to establish church
an Lawrence.
The Rock Island hotel at Herington
was burned September 3. The loss is
about SIS, OoO-
A three-year-oIdb boy of John McKaig,
of johnson county, had both feet cut
off by a cane cutter.
The Epworth Leagne and Home Mis-
sionary societies are holding a camp
meeting at Larned-
Coroner b. E. Wheeler, of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken by mistake
Reece, Greenwood county. suffered
loss by fire 1t is small town and a
large portion of it was burned
Colonel E. c. Little, Governor Stan
ley and the Rev. D. NJ. F'isl<e were the
Labor day orators at Topeka.
The farmers of Verdi. Ottawa coun-
ty, have taken a charter for an eleva-
tor company with capital of s., 900.
The poultry storage and cleaning
house at Argonia. has been burned,
with loss of 81, 700; insurance 81 900.
partition sale, near Sedgwiclx, on
petition of heirs, resulted in the sale of
a 24o-acre farm for s., O5O cash in hand.
sas require to be constantly patroled
to keep the orioles away from the
grapes
Haze1tine, the Cavl<er thresher man
has five machines at work this year
each of which keeps a dozen men wait
ing it
barn near Sabetha and his son, aged
10, was killed The barn and contents
We're burned.
The railroads have granted u one and
one-third fare to the annual meeting of
the anti-horse thief convention at Wich-.
tia on October TO-
A farmers wife, in Dickinson county,
sued the sheriff for damages because
he searched her house and barn for
missing articles.
Ed NJ. Davis, the absconding cashier
of the Cross bank at Emporia, has been
located in Mexico, where he is clerk
for coffee planter.
b. P. Wagner gave party to the
children of Atehison, paying car fare
and giving band concert. About
$500 children attended
a Union Pacific section man has sued
that railway company for SIS, 900 dam
ages for injuries he received while
working on the track.
John Waller. of Kansas, once repre-
senting the United States in Madagas-
car, is now reported to be earning his
bread at manual labor.
Edith w. a Wichita PAGER, took the
So 900 prize at free for all race in
Decatur, Illinois She had to contend
with two very fast PAGERS
E. d. Gorham, of Gorham, had 100
acres of wheat in one field which av-
eraged "a bushels to the acre, and
which tested "a = pounds.
At target practice of company A
of the Kansas N c.. the members of
the company who We're Twentieth
Kansas boys made the best scores.
Six stone cutters working on the
Coffey county court house quit work
because they were refused As cents an
hour. They had been getting 40 cents.
Mrs. Robert Taylor. of Nortonville
lost the first joint of some of her fingers
while tying her horse. Her fingers
We're in the loop of the knot of the
halter when the horse jerl1ed back
catching her fingers, tearing off the
ends.
Charles H. Hatton and Charles Mus
selman, who recently returned from an
wheels, are now both in college; Hat
ton at the University at Boulder, Col
orado, and MusseIman at the Kentucky
university at Lexington
The Plaza mine. southeast of Galena,
was fred twice by incendiaries and
the last time it burned. 1t was owned
by eastern people
Sumner county man who went
through an old bridge with a wagon
load of apples has fled bill against
the county commissioners for $500 dam
ages
Kansas club women have Inaugural
ted n scheme to raise $4,000 in the
western states which furnished troops
for the Philippines, to erect a soldiers
and sailors club house in Manila
Atchison is to have a new bridge
over the Missouri river and during its
construction wagon traffic will be
banded the old way by ferry boat.
Among big yields of wheat reported
in Rice county are the crops of VIM.