The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-04-12

BurlIzgame is talking of putting in
water works
The Frisco depot at Augusta was
robbed the other night
The city library tax was voted on in
Hutchinson and it carried
Valley Falls election went dry and
at Hutchinson the vets won
a Franklin county woman is acting
as official examiner of mortgages
a great deal of farm machinery is
carried by the railroads just now.
Hi11sboro pays its city marshal SIS a
month and its street commissioner So.
w NJ Ferguson, of Wellington paid
$50 head for LOGO , and year old
steers
A party of Topeka and northwest
Kansas men will go to Yc1lvi11e this
month
Parsons has voted $1,000 bonds with
the proceeds CT which to make another
effort to develop natural gas
The colored people of Great Bend
nominated city ticket composed en-
tirely of colored mem 1t was defeated
At an oratorical school contest in
Bourbon county Patsey Kelley took
first prize and Biddy Leahy the second
Over $50 car loads of eggs have been
contracted for in Kansas to go to New
Hampshire The same party wants
300 car loads.
The will of John l. Blair was record
property there The will covered 35
pages of the record book.
j. w. Mickey, clerk of the court of
fo1l
of the state house and sprained his
ankle badly. He is walking on crutches.
A woman, DR.. Eva Harding, was a
delegate and sat in the populist con
vention from one of the wards of To-
pelxa. The first instance of the kind
there.
Little Pearl Martin, the S-year-cld
twin daughter of James NJ. Martin, of
Havensville, was horribly burned to
death while burning some rubbish in
the street.
A divorced couple went before the
district court at Concordia and asked
that the Judgment for divorce be set
aside. The request was granted; tho
first case in Kansas
Charles T. NIcAlester, near West
more1and, finished reading a chapter
in the Bible and picked up a copy of
the Christian Herald The next in
slant he was stricken dead
The deputy warden of the Kansas
penitentiary has returned from Yucca
tan, where he bought 500, 900 pounds of;
sisal, or about 35 car loads: at a price a
trifle below New York quotations.
A car load of groceries arrived at
Abilene recently from a Chicago store
which farmers in Dickinson county had
ordered from a travelling retail sales,
man. That is a beautiful way to break.
up a county
The earnings of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for the month of March were S19,-
500 and the expenses S14, 624, leaving a
profit of 4,742. More coal was taken
out of the prison mine than in any
other month on record.
An Atchison county farmer who had
prospered made up his mind to move
to town and take the balance of life
easy. He moved to Atchison and stayed
there three months. Then he went
back to the farm. 1t is not alone the
old dogs that find it hard to learn new
tricks.
J. w. Riggs, of Sumner county, has a
4OO-acre farm: 900 acres of wheat, II
acres of oats and will have 60 acres of.
corn. His sons all stay on the farm
and help him with a distinct agreement
that as soon as each reaches twenty
one years of age, he is to have a pro
rata share of the farm for himself.
The Santa Fe has purchased ground
for the enlargement of its terminals in
Kansas City This property extends
from Hickory street 166 feet on Liberty
street, 40 feet on Fourteenth street
and 4o2 feet on Fifteenth street, a total
of .oas feet.
From the Mississippi river to the
Pacific there is only one Presbyterian
church besides the First of Wichita
that has over 1000 members This
church also stands third in the list, on
this continent in contributions for
charities and missions.
A1va Holly, aged IA, was riding on
an engine pilot in the Frisco yards at
Neodesha. He fell under the wheels
and was killed.
John Mcdonald. a Wichita mail car
rier, was surprised by visit from his