The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-11-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1raira1 Dewey, is asking to be appointed
postmaster at Chanute-
Shawnee county voted against the
proposed levy for fixing up the state
fair grounds at Topeka.
Chase county apple growers are be
coming desperate. They cannot find a
market for their apples
C. T. Miller. of Oberlin, while cutting
ont cattle thrown from his horse
and dragged to dragged to death
The 62nd report of the Kansas su-
loreme court will be ready for those who
want it, sometime in December
Julia F. v. Harris, of Wellington, is
the only woman lawyer of Kansas who
practices before the supreme court
Reports are ont that oil has been dis
covered near Blackstone. Sumner coun-
.ty. between Caldwell and Anthony
The place of Physician at the insane
asylum at Topeka is vacant and lines
are out to find the best man to fill it.
A new Congregational church is to
be built at Osborne 1t will be of stone
and viii cost between So, 900 and 81 600
Three banks of Salina hold deposits
amounting to s1,341. o24.5o, which is
over SIS for every inhabitant of Saline
county
Thirteen banks do the business of
the %, 900 people of Brown county
The combined assets of these banks is
s., 179, COG. 3d.
Galena is trying the United States
courts TO further the effort to force
down water rates 40 per cent, accord
ing 20 the city ordinance
In and within three miles of Cherry
vale there are Sc gas wells with pro-
I =
feet daily; equivalent to $500 tons of
coal, 400 carloads.
The Catholics are building new
churches at Frontenac, Chicopee and
Greenbush. Work has commenced
a hospital at Pittsburg and new school
building will be built there.
The binding Irvine plant at the Kan
sas penitentiary will start to work
about January 1. Warden Jewett has
secured enough sisal to keep the work
going through the winter months.
superintendent Church proposes to
vigorously prosecute the Mercantile
Fire Insurance company, of Chicago,
and its agents in Kansas for doing bust
mess without a license and for refusing
TO settle losses.
The counties of Stanton, Grant, Has
4xen, Morton, Stephens, Seward and
Meade and part of the counties of
Hamilton. Finney, Kearney, Gray,
Ford and Clark are not within the
Louisiana Purchase
Rev. p H Anderson has just re
turned to Abilene from the K1ondike,
where his mines have this year given a
large fortune, and has purchased sew
eral farms in the county and settled
his relatives upon them.
The present term of the supreme
court has ON the docket CAB cases. 1t
will take the court a year to catch up
There are about 40 new cases coming in
monthly, which would make j, eoo. cases
in sight for the next year
The old law suit over the mineral
springs property at Carbonda1e has
reached a verdict in the Emporia dis
trict court for ST., 600 damages for the
Burdiclxs- The ease is against the Car
bondale Investment company and it
has been in the courts for II years
Ed Winchester of Leaven1xorth, has
has had n leg amputated- 1t was the
result of Injuries received in a football
game
Cattlemen are buying up tax deeds
and unsold school lands in western
counties, taking every acre they
get hold of.
H L. Jones, aged Il, the first mem
Der of the legislature from Saline eoun-
~. is dead. He was the original s.Buf-
falo Jones, representing a large section
of the state which then covered
with buffaloes-
Reports received by superintendent
Nelson from 95 of the 1O5 counties of
the state show that $50 new school
houses have been built during 1901
The second jail delivery within
month occurred at Great Bend. Four
prisoners took a stone out of the wall
and the next day We're lodging blood
hounds
Blaclxleg among young cattle in Sedg
wick county is attributed to sudden
change of the stock from grass to pas
turage on early sown wheat with
rank grozvth-
Two sets of heirs and the state of
Kansas are trying to get the property
left by John Gamer, of Butler county.
The states claim is 11ron he.