The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-02-21
7~sAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

one days notice to leave town
Albert Moon, of Bazaar, caught a
very large eagle wolf trap
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to s13e- So
The Wichita Country club has com
nenced work on a new club house on
the College Hill Golf links.
a Sa1ina mill employs coopers to
make barrels in which to pack flour
for the New England trade
The NJ. X & T. shops at Parsons
have turned out a s25, 900 private car
for the president of the road
A farmer near Sedgwick has received
notice that his house Will escape dyna-
mite by the payment OF $780,
a commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
to light in a lawsuit at Atchison-
The ladies of Enterprise have estab-
1ished a fine reading room in the place
where a joint was recently smashed.
The cities of Topeka, Atchison and
Manhattan were all incorporated dur
ing St Valentines week, A years ago
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities Of Crawford and
Cherokee counties with trolley line.
Jas. Stewart, a veteran of the 55th
Massachusetts volunteers, was run
over by train at Sterling and killed.
The Prohibitionists of Topeka de-
clare that Mrs. Nations practices had
nothing to do with the movement to
close the joints
A block of one of the zinc shelters
at lola, containing GOO retorts, was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the ignition of gas.
Two hundred and ffty-eight women
of Eureka have petitioned the probate
judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists of Eureka
A committee of ten men is appointed
from each of the churches OF Emporia
with orders to close the joints. The
women are ready to do their part.
Besides A. w. Smith there are others.
Major r J. Anderson and Senator S.
J. Stewart are candidates for Cyrus
Leland's place, that of pension agent.
Robbers entered the Grand Island
depot at Beattie, emptied the money
drawers and cut open and rified three
mail sacks of registered letters. Blood
hounds were put upon their trail.
Mrs. Achman owns the building in
Inman which has billiard hall up
stairs; she suspected that a joint was
there also and demanded admittance-
Being refused she broke down the door
and smashed the outfit
man with smallpox took the train
at Colorado Springs, with his face and
hands covered. When the train
reached Philipsburg it was found what
allied him. The car was sidetracl1ed
and converted into pest house.
Quarantine in Wichita is riddle
child had a mild case of scarlet fever
and was entirely well in ten days, but
the household was shut up behind the
big red card for ~ days. A case of
smallpox occurred in a big block with
hundreds of people in it. The patient
was promptly taken out and the top
floor of the block was quarantined,
and the riddle is why the quarantine
was declared off in less than a week,
while the other case was treated differ
emily.
At Olpe the ministers and women
gave the joints fifteen minutes to close.
When time was called every one was
shut up tight. The same process was
repeated at Cottonwood Fails
Clifford Brown has been in one of
the hospitals in Wichita ten or twelve
weeks with a broken thigh and with
his jaw broken in four places The
case which was placed on his face has
been taken off and his features are not
altered. After a long. doubtful fight
for life he now has prospects of being
we'll man soon.
During the past four years Rush
county has produced 6.2so, 694 bushels
of wheat and all that time La Crosse,
the county seat. has been wanting a
mill. Now there are prospects of there
being two mills built there
Leading ladies of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; to be followed by destructive
acts
A trip to the Kiowa-CoInancfle coun-
try is proposed for the Seventh district
editors after their annual meeting in
March
There is rumor af1oat that Genera
J. K Hudson viii return to Topeka
and start afternoon republican pa
per
Numerous Atchison saloon keepers