The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-22

Mayor Ross OF wichita Will not per
NIT a prize fight there.
Lal<in is the shipping and banking
point for Grant county stoekmen-
The stock of Wellington bank is
quoted at 100 per cent above par
The governor will probably appoint
the four new supreme court judges
soon.
The Glendale ranch in Saline county.
has changed hands for S1O,4so. It has
2,64o acres
Representative w c. NIillar. of Bar
Der county, was defeated for reelection
by two votes
Miss May Scott, an lola girl, is elect
ed school superintendent in Bingham
county, Idaho.
Two hundred books have been added
to the travelling library department. of
the state library.
The explosion Of a lamp in a saloon
caused the destruction of twelve bust
ness houses in McCune.
Long distance telephone lines are
completed from Salina to Plainvil1e
and Stockton via Delphos.
Jewell county farmers harvested
their last cutting of alfalfa in the
middle week of November.
Some farmers are moving their
wheat to prevent its jointing. This
experiment Will be watched.
General J. K. Hudson and Ex-Gov-
ernor John p. ST. John, are both hand
ling mines at Versailles, Mo.
The State Teachers association will
meet in Topeka during holiday week
as has become the settled custom.
Sedgwiclz county employs 279 school
teachers; exceeding the number en-
ployed by any other Kansas county.
Members of the Canton National Aid
associa ton turned out and husl1ed John
Evans orn crop because he was sick.
Clarence Olson, a Lindsborg student
at Yale college, has been selected to
participate in the Yale Harvard de
bate.
The soldier vote at the Fort Dodge
Home turned the result by two votes
for Il A Noftzgar, of Harper for SEN
ator.
Wyandotte county pays the largest
average salaries to teachers; for male
teachers $50 SO a month, for female
teachers $50 a month.
Inquiries come to Auditor from East
ern owners of large tracts of land in
Western Kansas, upon which taxes are
in default, their amount.
Cattle are being rapidly shipped out
of Finney county and fewer feeders
are being brought in than usual; in
consequence there is surplus Of hay.
The name OF Lieut.. NJ. Koontz Forty
Fourth infantry, is in the last list of
killed from Manila. He served with
the same rank in the Twenty-Second
Kansas.
Lawrence merchants, and perhaps
those of other towns, complain that
rural delivery of mails has cut down
their trade; which benefits the country
villages and stores.
Kansas University will ask this win
ter for appropriations of 800, 900 for a
new museum building, S25, 900 to COM
p1ete the chemistry building and gen
era1 maintenance fund of 500, 900.
Delegates appointed to the national
irrigation congress are: George NJ.
Munger, Eureka; D. NJ. Frost, Garden
City; W. A. Reeder, Russell; E. R.
| Moses, Great Bend; c. S. Lands, os-
| borne; II. NJ Cottren, Manhattan.
The newsboys of Topeka have banked
nearly $500 during the past year. j.
E. Nissley, on last Thanksgiving day,
promised all the boys who would save
| 10 cents a week during the year that
he would give them 5 cents each for
each week.
There will be inaugural ball in
| the Kansas state house this time.
| There has been no ball at the three
preceding inaugurations. The prac-
tice was started early and was not
| interrupted until it was Governor Nor
ri1l's turn
Probably the oldest house in Kansas
was built in Kiclapoo in 1894 by the
Catholics for mission school. Cover
nor Reeder, first territorial governor of
| Kansas, used it as his Office; later it
was occupied the first Q. s land
| Office in Kansas 1t is still standing.
/ Astarch factory company in Michigan
| has contracted for 1000 bushels of
Gull potatoes in the Kaw Valley 1t is
| promised that if he gets contracts for
| $4,000 bushels they will locate a starch
factory at Bonner Springs