The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-12-05
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Santa Fe gives all of its men not
in the operating department holiday
on Thanksgiving day.
The city employment agency of To-
pelxa has secured work for more than
800 people since it opened last May.
Bishop Hennessy has decided to erect
new building at Notre Dame academy
at Fort Scott, and to use the present
conservatory
A man with three acres near Wichita
raised three crops this year; the last
crop was of turnips. of which he gath
cred 500 bushels and sold them at 25
cents IA bushel.
The United States still owes Kansas
$46s, 600 for money used to take up
Quantrell raid claims An effort to Sc
cure an appropriation from congress
this winter will be made.
The red soil of Kingman county has
proven to be very productive in the
raising of alfalfa; and therefore among
the best cattle and hog producers
Turkeys also thrive there.
According to custom the most of the
officials and employees at the Kansas
state house received their monthly pay
on the day before Thanksgiving. They
always get it the day before Christmas
also.
There is case from Franklin county
before the supreme court involving the
question whether contract to sell
land at a specified price necessarily
cOmpels the land to be transferred by
deed.
Kearney county beets Were marketed
at Rocky Ford. They tested % per cent
sugar. The crop was the best paying
one of Kearney county, and more acres
viii be planted to beets next season
than in the past.
Anderson Bros, breeders of thor
oughbred sheep have sold their fine
ranch of 40 acres just north of Valley
Center, in Sedgwiclc county, to Frank
C. Cusicl1, of Cornell, Ill The price
paid was s26, 400.
Conductor Samuel Lightcap has been
in the employ of the Union Pacific for
more than so years His present run
is between Kansas City and Ellis. He
has been on day RIM through Kansas
for many years.
Governor Stanley has told the rail
road commissioners that they need not
make a report to him this year, but
wait until next year when the Iegisla-
ture will assemble This saves 81, 900
or So 900 in printing.
Mrs. Strange, a widow of ElIinwood.
was bound and gagged in her own
house and the party who did this then
attempted to assault her 12-year-old
granddaughter Newt HarboId was
arrested on suspicion and taken to Jail
at Great Bend to avoid lynching.
A swindIer with variety of names,
A.
w. II. Burton and Andrew Adams, has
victimized number of ladies in east
ern Kansas. He represents himself as
an agent of a New York cloak company
whicd does an extensive mail order
business. He takes cash deposits with
orders and also from parties whom he
pretends to make agents in different
towns; these being usually mi1liners.
The National Cloak company will pay
500 for his arrest
Patrons of the South Haven postoffice
stand by their postmaster and have
nearly all signed a remonstrance
against his removal.
There We're so acres planted to tobacco
in Kansas this year which yielded 1850
pounds, valued at 81 .225. The largest
acreageS were in Ellis, Rush and Frank
lin counties.
The unpublished opinions of the
court of appeals. together with a digest
of the whole ten volumes of appeals re-
ports, both in one volume. will soon be
ready for distribution.
David Nation and his wife are di-
vorced by the court at Medicine Lodge;
their property being divided between
them by order of the court.
A. G. Drew, has been teaching coun-
try schools in Atchison county for
thirty years, and claims the record in
Kansas for length of service in one
county.
The Wichita commercial club decides
that S., 900 is about the proper figure to
expend in entertaining the 900 cattle
men they expect to attend their meet
ing on February 11-13-
James Wilmington. of Emporia, has
left his family because his wife would
neither cook an opOssum he brought
home. nor would his wife and daughter
allow him cook the nasty thing HIM
self He took a train voVviug that he