The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-03-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

klI1ed by his nOther-1n-laW, over a /
family difficulty
Independence and Coffeyvil1e are |
rivals, and they sometimes show their /
teeth at each other.
Mr.. 7. Vineyard, a prominent citizen |
of Wellington, aged 73, is dead from |
drcpsy of the heart.
During the late snow storms cen
trail Branch train was II hours getting
ever AZ miles of track.
State Auditor Cole has refused the
appointment rendered to him of war
den of the peniteD tiary.
Fort Scott is named for the annual
convention of the Kansas Christian En-
deavor Union May 21-23.
Two shot frers were killed in a coal
Tninc at Weir City The timbers of
the shaft We're torn to pieces
Rev. j. W. Vanderlip, of Ransom,
Kansas, was among the injured in the
wrecked train at Mil1ersburg, Indiana.
Jerry Simpson is opening a branch
in Wichita of the commission company
of Kansas City which he is a member
of.
The employees of the house of repre-
sentatives have given Chief Clerk Lob
dell Soc set of silver knives, forks and
spoons.
Nearly 5000 hogs were received at
the Wichita stock yards on February
%, and s,446 of them went the
scales
Another good wheat crop will turn
all the slurring talk about Kansas now
appearing in Eastern papers, to the
old style.
Chas. j. Webb, the grand master of
the Masonic grand lodge. has been pre-
sented with magnificent grand mas
ter's jewel
Walter Dunlap. of Bonner Springs,
was silly enough to quarrel with his
wife and fool enough to blow out his
brains latter.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes has
gone to Washington to get pointers
his future work private secretary to
Senator Burton.
clyde Miller, of Usage City, succeeds
Henry J. Allen as private secretary to
Governor Stanley He graduated from
Kansas University
In the fifth annual oratoricaI con-
test at Midland college, at Stirling,
Martin H. Dirks took first place and
Oscar Woods second
@. D. Metcalf, miI1wright, was
caught by shaft in mill at Coffey-
Vile and was terribly mangled. His
death was instantaneous
A gang of train robbers walked into
a trap at Riley, and Frank Wharton,
their supposed leader, was captured
and taken to the Jail at Manhattan
According to a census completed in
Kansas 40 years ago in February the
territory had n population of s,5O1, of
which e,9O5 were voters. There We're
4Os persons of foreign birth, 151 free
negroes and 1872 slaves
English parties owned :, O5S acres of
land in Sedgwiclo county and sold it
recently to firm in Wyoming, who
have sold it to Newton real estate
firm for s27, 600 Tney bought it a
speculation and are selling it out in
single quarter sections.
The Eureka fire department enjoyed
banquet we'll that it took fire
alarm at 800 a m. to ad journ the at
fair.
Upon her return from Peoria 10 To-
peLa, Mrs Nation went directly to the
county Jail and delivered herself to the
sheriff Her bond was cancelled.
The injuries received by Postmaster
Guthrie of Topeka, prove to be seriou:
His fan from street car dislocated hi.
shoulder, burst an artery in his shout
der and split piece of bone off hi.
shoulder blade
Kansas University will probably ust
the SEQ, 900 received from the govern
ment the old Free State hotel claim
for gymnasium and armory.
j. CLARK Baldwin, who was employed
IN job printing Office in Wichita
committed suicide, leaving as n reason
his i'll health and the fear of becoming
insane. He left directions for the pay
u1ent of certain bills and that his es
tate, most of which he had but recent,
come into possession of, should go t
his sister, who is a professional QurS
and Is living at Larned-
horse and mule buyer, direct fror
South Africa, with veterinarians wit
him has reached Kansas City afte
more Kansas horses and mules
Somebody suggests the profit ther
might be realized by shipping trai
loads of Kansas soil to New Englan
and setting it by the pound as a fertil
yer