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

Helen Gould has sent 500 volumes
to the library in Stockton
Onaga is to have a chemical ire
engine and a phone system
One Rush county farmer dug up
$500 while blowing N his field.
An Emporia waitress awoke the
other day to find herself an heiress-
Farm values have increased over so
per cent in Kansas in the past year.
Mcpherson has strong hopes of get
ting the new Swedish Lutheran col
1ege.
On the Blackstone ranch in Chase
county, 1.15o acres of alfalfa are ready
for harvest.
Seventy per cent of the farms in
Kansas are owned by the men who
live on them.
An atrocious Central Kansas poet
makes Abilene rhyme with thin
and fell in,
Auditor Cole reports SIS. 900 acres of
vacant school land to be available for
wheat raising.
At Leavenworth the Missouri river
has averaged lower this spring than
any year since 1855
An Indian girl, pupil at the Has
kel1 institute. is running ahead in the
most-beautifuI-lady contest
Saiina is getting ready to buy med
ais for the boys of Company NJ.
Twentieth Kansas regiment.
A Caldwell man who had two ribs
broken in a humiliating manner is
feeling very sore about it
The new catalogue of the State Ag-
ricultural college shows an enrolment
of .321. increase of 227.
The blackberry trees around Burr
Oak are being destroyed by creature
resem bling the alfalfa worm
Trouble over class co1ors in Win
field resulted in five black eyes and
two cases in the police court
A little sod house up in Smith
county contains piano worth five
times as much as the residence
Ness county comes to the front with
a story of bunch of rye thirty-eight
inches high with five inch heads
One of the wheat kings of Western
Kansas is J. A Franz, who has LOO
acres which promise full crop
An ex-warden says there are 1000
convicts in the Kansas penitentiary,
of whom about fifteen are guilty.
"A man died in Leavenworth a few
days ago at the age of 80 years, and
he used both tobacco and liquor.
The state agricultural college is
booming the Soy bean, said to be val
liable food for all stock raised the
farm.
While two men in Winfield were
attending a meeting of the Anti-Horse
Thief association their bicycles were
stolen.
Peabody is working up sentiment in
favor of a Fourth of July demonstra-
ton that will interest, elevate and
instruct"
Barton county is already complain
ing of a shortage of harvest hands
and a surplus of hands that are snow
shove1ers and ice cutters by profess
sion.
Pleasanton people are in mourning
over the death of two of its popular
boys, Harry Norman and Todd Blakey,
who were drowned in tie river east OF
town
a 10 cent admission fee is being
charged all visitors to the Lansing
penitentiary. Considerable revenue
from this source is being made for
the state.
A Paola man has sold two black
wolves to the Geological garden in
New York for 500. The commission
ers of Miami county only offered 81
for the beasts.
Senator Wulfekuh1er of Leaven-
worth owns 66.OoO-acre ranch in
Wallace and Sherman counties, in
closed in seventy-nine miles of fence.
There are over 5000 head of cattle on
the ranch.
Since it has been discovered in New
York that q geranium plant will die
when sprayed with alcohol, the bibu1-
men in Great Bend have resolved
to quit using alcohol external
application.
Lucy Leidigh, a Hutchinson high
school graduate, has been neither alb
sent nor tardy during her twelve
presented with a gold medal by the
school board
This class yell comes from Kansas:
And a beeyo, and a bivo; and a
beevo bivo, bum. Bum kill a rat ira p
| bigger than a cat trap, bum kill rat
| trap bigger than a cat trap, cannibai.
canniba1. zip boom bum, Newton high
| school. 1901
| A Kansas man who had been away
from home a spree for a week re-
| turned the other day expecting to find
| his wife in tears, but found her with
her skirts half mast, cleaning house
| and softly singing to herself. Il Don't
Care If He Never Comes Back
A story is being told OF a Wilson
| county farmer who caught cflinch
| bug He fed him poison cracked
| him in the doors and frs5ze him in ice.
| The bug always came Up smiling a
| fiendish smile and looking at the man
| with sardonic eye Finally he car
| ried the bug to foundry and dropped
| it into 1adle OF melted iron Then
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