The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-06-06

Is almost gone 1IOIA the SIdIC
The Wichita electric street railway
took 5000 fares on Decoration day
A jewelry store in Nickerson has
been robbed of S7OO worth of its stock
There is ranch in Chase county that
has ., $50 acres of alfalfa 1t is being
cut
Nine-tenths of the applications for
jobs in Kansas are said to come from
Illinois
The state printer makes and supplies
all of the blanks used by county super
intendents-
The present membership of the Kan
sas G. A R. is IS, sos. Last year it
was 1880.
About $50, 900 is paid yearly in Wich
tia to people in the postofice and to
postal clerks
gas and coal company has been
chartered to operate at Caney- Its cap
itaI is SIS, 900.
The railroad board has contracted
for $40, 900 new railroad maps of Kan
sas to cost 1925.
c. t. K Prentice has commenced
upon his 3sth years service as city mar
shall of Lawrence.
George Milligan, of Liberal, has
started back to the K1ondike, with 80
young men with him
Two men from Belgium visited the
zinc smeIters at lola. Belgium manu-
facturers use much zinc.
There are SO soldiers of the Spanish
American war now inmates of the
Leavenworth Soldiers home
A letter from Wellington puts the
wheat prospect of Sumner county at
from IL to Is bushels per acre
Elk City is the first town to act-under
the new law which authorizes cities to
issue bonds to prospect for coal
John Collins, having learned the
printers trade in the penitentiary, has
been given subordinate clerlzship-
The farmers of Mcpherson county
have over 1000, 900 bushels of old
wheat on hand, held for better prices
f. NJ. Baker, the Atchison wheat au-
thority, says that the crop in the north
ern part of the state has probably been
damaged 10 per cent.
During May the creamery company
operating in Dickinson county paid
$40, 900 to farmers for milk. Tt was
the product of about Il. 900 COWS.
Little Miss Helen Barr, of Fort Scott
=
aged 80, great-gra ndfather aged 81
and great-great- grandmother aged IS.
The expenses of the burial of Mrs.
Sells of Topeka, and for W hich claims
have been made against her estate;
amount to $S24. IS, which amount only
covers two bills,
Sheriff Kiff, of Atchison says that
Mrs. Wells, wife of the manager of a
70
can manage an insane person better
than any man about the place
1.-The outstanding bonded indebted
ness of the entire state of Kansas
amounts to S33, e32, 3s4; while the bank
deposits reach s63, 200, ooo- Kansas
could pay every bond and then have
more in its banks than 1T had five years
ago
Experts estimate that under the new
law giving cities, townships and school
districts the power to compromise theil
indebtedness, f'inc1uding coupons and
judgments thereon it is possible te
MAX 500. 900 debt amount, in eigh
| years, to So. coo, 624. IS if bonds are re
issued under the law every two years
The Union hotel in the packing hous,
! district in Wichita, with 81 boarder
has been placed in quarantine Ever,
| male occupant was taken to the pes
house. There We're three case
of smallpox in the hotel which had no
/, been reported
VIM BarriclS1ou, a pioneer, died a
| Coffeyville on May 30 He settled IL
| Douglas county in 1885 and went t
! CoffeyvilIei in 1870, where he had sine
| lived. He was connected with the Her
| aid of Freedom that was thrown int
the Kansas river by Quantre1ls men,
Farmers of Phillips county are buy
ing spectators lands quite freely an
| there are some new corners also buyin
| lands The county raises all kinds c
grain, corn, nillet, alfalfa, etc
Harry Hubbard, of R1ue Rapids, wa
placed at FL Dorado four months since
and was transferred to independence,
His adaptabi1ity to the business an
his industry have now secured to hin
a transfer to San Francisco, where /
has charge of the Armour's egg an
poultry department of the entire P;