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


gas
practice at Fort Riley is heard at Alma,
- miles away
The gross receipts of Kansas post
offices for the year was I.75e, 10000, or
SI-2o per capita
The constitution of Kansas was draft
ed in building the EVyandotte flats,
since washed away
There is nothing in the way novx of
preparing to build the new asylum for
epilepties at Parsons.
Two carloads OF turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days
There were i, 900 of them
The Logan Republican denies the
story that there are 20 widows in Logan
1t says there are only ten
J. w Amis, a prominent educator,
once assistant state superintendent,
died at Smith Center recently.
The Kansas wheat crop of 1901 is
%. Is per cent greater than the average
annual crop for the past ten years
Miss Julia McInerney, of Abilene, re
Gently sold to Chicago publishers two
musical compositions for 500 each
Judge Glass. of MarysviIIe decides
that the search and seizure clause of
the Hurreli law is unconstitutional.
The state board of pharmacy at its
meeting in Leavenworth, made 1 : new
drug dispensers out of 80 applicants.
J. A Young, a colored Baptist
preacher of Fort Scott has been arrest
ed for using Cancelled postage stamps
R. NJ. Wright, state forestry commits
sioner, reports the Russian thistle as
taking the country in Western Kansas
Geo. Hendricl1, the Smith Center band
leader, has gone to Carson City, Nevada,
TO lead the Nevada state band, of so
men
The bod carriers at work the Lyon
county court house struck for more pay
and the work is now done by horse
power
Stockton shipped carload of pota-
toes to San Francisco, and on the same
day the Alton mill shipped 1000 bags
of flour to Liverpool
superintendent Nelson reports that
the consolidation of schools is especially
strong in Jewell. Dickinson, Cherokee,
Rice and Shawnee counties
w. H. Lewis, for twenty years ticket
agent for the NJ. X & L. at Parsons,
died suddenly at his home. He was
prominent in Masonic circles.
Professor Lucien Blake, of Kansas
University, is said to have sold to New
Workers for S25, 900 a process for sep
arating gold without the use of water.
Atchison capitalists are cautious.
They have taken an Arizona charter
for the company which proposes to open
a coal mine there, so as to avoid the
double liability law of Kansas
Fort Scott proposes to tax lawyers
from So to $50 n year. The lawyers
are to be placed in four classes, each to
choose his class. Ministers who receive
81 900 year are to be taxed $40 a year.
So said the city attorney while in To
peIza-
December was Topel<a's 47th birth
day. At the old settlers meeting the
only survivor of the original town com
pany was present He is John Arm
strong who never wears his best suit
except at these annual old settlers
meetings.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has purchased a lot in Law
renee upon which TO erect an eNchan gre
bnilding- 1t is to be of pressed brick
plate glass front. two stories and base
ment-
The warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth does not approve of the
rnooted plan to confine Aguinaldo
there, because visitors would constantly
annoy everybody connected with the
prison by wanting to see Aggie. They
have much bother from people who
want to see Oberlin Carter
Nemaha is the banner county
this year. the product being 3.1o7 ,e64
bushels, as shown by Secretary Coburn's
report
farmer near Arrentine has been
awarded damages against chemical
company for the destruction of crops
by fumes from the company's works
r. W. Wells, the youngest member of
the Maryland legislature. lived several
years at CoHeyville, Kansas. He was
admitted to practice in the Kansas su-
preme court in 1896 He is now &c
years old
c. G. Hill, mayor and postmaster at
Burr Oak, quarreled with j. NJ. Hotch-
kiss, farmer Hill locked the door