The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-09-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Sumner county high school
opened with enrolment of over 200.
Farmers about LIE Roy claim that
their corn viii turn out SO bushels to
the acre
Kiowa by hose slipping off the steam
pipe the engine
r. H. Bishop, aged y years, is dead
He was justice of the peace in Salina
continuously for thirty years
The New York World mentions
Chester L Long as among the possibiIi-
ties for a member of the cabinet.
Pratt has hole 1, 500 feet deep which
1t is proposed to sink ], 600 more before
giving up the chance of finding oil
Sterling people are agitating the
starting of city library and making a
home for it in the new Masonic temple
The farmers about Culver, Ottawa
county, have organized a cooperative
grain company to fight the wheat com
bine.
Private Robt. Taska a Sa1ina boy was
one of the guards at the Milburn house
in Buffalo prior to the death of the
president.
The first days enrolment of the pub
lie schools of Topeka was 5,6s5, being
113 over last year There Were ZIG in
the high school
The Dodge City Presbyterian church
burned the mortgage on the church
with great ceremony and saved the
ashes memento-
improvements have been made on
the Masonic temple in Sa1ina which
cost 81, 900. The sets of scenery for
the stage cost So, 400
The monument of granite to be erect
ed on the site of the old Pawnee village
in Republic county was shipped last
week from Vermont.
VIM Hobson- a Fort Scott boy, has
sold his interest in silver mine at
Cripple Creek for So, 900 He has been
mining for eleven years.
A C Courtney a soldier just returned
from the Philippines, was sandbagged,
drugged and robbed at Parsons of $500
in gold and $500 in currency.
Captain Herbert L. Draper, U. S.
-Iarinc Corps, who died at Hong Kong,
was appointed from Kansas and entered
the marine corps in July 1889.
The Carr Coal company of Leaven-
worth voluntarily raised the price paid
1or mining to 90 cents a ten of mine
run; an advance of six cents d ton.
J. w IIiatt-s son Bert, of Grand sum
NIT, is in the Winfield hospital in a
precariOus condition a result of a
fall of his horse upon him He was
driving cattle.
f. o. POpenoe, the Topeka man who
is mining in the mountains of Costa
Rica, has been appointed by the presi-
dent of that country to go to Paris to
negotiate loan
The state board of education is out
inspection tour of Kansas colleges
to learn if they are meeting the require
ments of law in the matter of preparing
students to take state teachers certifi-
Gates.
Al Patterson, plasterer, was given
a ride on a rail at Attica and ducked in
The city water tank He was then
warned never to come back to Attica
the city officers all hid away during
the proceedings Patterson had been
defaming President Mckinley.
State Oil Inspector s. O. Spencer has
filed his report for the month of August
His collections We're 81. 351. go: expenses
$3.50. 81; profits to the state 81. 9o7. o.
y man who went into Paxnee county
and killed lot of prairie chickens and
tried to ship them, was forced to put
up for fine of S25 and costs amounting
to SIS.
J. H. Dye of Clearwater, was run out
of Wichita for making disrespectful re-
marks about President Mckinley and
for proclaiming he was an anarchist
He claims to be dentist.
On a Chicago and Alton train between
Kansas City and Chicago. the other day,
young travelling man from St Louis
said that all the citizens of Kansas We're
cut-throats, thieves and liars 4 bank
CIR from Larned, name not given.
knocked the young man down twice
The Frisco, the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island trains stood still for five
minutes, from , o'clock until 2:o5 p M
wherever they We're. Al Glazier who |
was conductor of passenger train
having ministers as passengers. asked
them TO conduct a five minute service.
Owing to a short crop of sisal that
product has jumped from ) to s cents
a pound and the Kansas penitentiary