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

cure two rural delivery routes
Colonel Holiday paid taxes for a
number of years amounting to $4,000
The Santa Fe tracks between Flor
ence and Winfield will be ballasted IN
April.
All over Kansas the girl graduates
this year are more than twice the n UNI
Der of boy graduates
The state military board has ordered
new companies of militia mustered at
Sabetha and Sterling.
Martin NJ Jones, who lives near Can
ton, is said to be the oldest pensioner
in Kansas He is past a.
Clarence RariI, of Osborne county.
has passed the required examinations
and viii enter West Point in June
At the Presbyterian church in lola a
collection was taken up for the starv-
ing in India 1t amounted to S139-
Lieut.. Commander c. E. Vreelands.
who was executive officer of Admiral
Dewey's flagship, is visiting his mother
in Burlingame. He has served thirty
years in the navy.
1t is said that General Fred Funston
will ask for his discharge, because he
is tired of doing purely administrative
work, and now that fighting is over he
wants TO come nome
Officials of the Missouri Pacific have
examined the terminal properties of
the Hutchinson and Southern at Hutch
inson and it is intimated that they
closed purchase of them
Prairie dogs have increased to such
an extent in the upper valley of the
Solomon to injure the range and
damage crops. Logan county has a
101-ai1ie doc town coverip~
Il can take twenty brood sovvs and
five old cows, said Dan Jones of Mound
Ridge to Editor Phillips of the journal.
'sand in five years buy the best quarter
section of land in Mcpherson county,
r. E. Jones and D. j. Davis. two
farmers of Harvey county, have gone
with their families to tour Europe and
visit the Paris exposition. Every dol
lar of it was shucl1ed out of a Kansas
cornfield.
: Cyrus K. Holiday died at his home
in Topeka, March %. He was the first
promoter, really the founder of the
Santa Fe railway and has been a di-
rector of that company from its
ganization.
) Some wealthy spOrtsmen of Bridge
port, Conn. have sent to Kansas for
sixty dozen quail. AS soon as the birds
arrive they will be taken out in patches
and liberated at various points in the
surrounding country
The Mulvane post Office has been
robbed. Dynamite was used the
safe There was taken $500 in money,
300 in stamps and registered packages
in transit from the south waiting to go
north on the Florence branch
That special train which took a man
from Los Angeles to Pittsburg Pa,
made the run from La Junta to Dodge
City, 2o3 miles, in 1872 minutes. An
other squirt was from Dodge City to
Newton, 16T miles in 1913 minutes
The town of Beattie in Marshall
county has had city government com
posed of women. They are all candi-
dates for reelection but there is
opposition ticket this year composed of
men, named by friends of saloons.
Residents of European countries eat
Kansas apples, Kansas beef and bread
made from Kansas flour; and the pol
ished walnut furniture in many of the
homes of the wealthy in the Old World
was made from walnut logs that got
their growth in Kansas.
The labor unions of Wichita have
declared a boycott against the new
street railway ON the alleged ground
that the company is employing labor
ers from outside the city, paying them
81. 20 cents day while the union scale
is $3.50.
The Chicago Times-Herald says that
George L. Bradbury will assume on
May 1 the place of president of the
Kansas City and Southern railway.
He leaves the Lake Erie and Western
on that date.
Twenty-seven railroad pay checks
We're cashed in a Fort Scott crap dive
When the dive keeper turned them
into the bank a list was made OF the
parties to whom the checks were issued
and they were notified that If it is
found that they gamble again they
will be discharged
Kansas corn Went up in price last
week and the Kansas railroads Were
.snIOthered in shipments of corn The
state has a big supply of corn on hand