The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-10-17
kA7ssAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Newton has a factory employing 20
young women in making ladies belts
Saline and Dickinson counties are
much troubled with horse thieves of
late
Fort Scott has voted 70 issue 10000
of bonds for the prospecting for gas
and oil
The swapping ratio in Kansas is
two bushels of peaches for one bushel
OF potatoes
Wellington proposes to build another
dam across Stale creek, to increase the
supply of water for the town.
The city of Goodland has been sued
for non-payment OF a block of coupons
from an issue of funding bonds
A company at PIeasanton has 81 600
to prospect for gas. The scheme includes
taking leases on 10000 acres of land.
Thirty-fve sophomores of Kansas
University must apologize for ungentle-
manly conduct or vamose the ranch
TIE Santa Fe will not be stingy of
expense in the effort to bring the muir
derer Of George Montgomery into court
Coopers of Hutchinson. though kept
busy making salt barrels, have 1000
apple barrels to make at once. on con
tract
1t may be only talk but there is talk
that the Rock Island will build from
Pratt to Medicine Lodge and thence to
ILfovva.
a commission has been appointed by
the supreme court to recount the To-
pelza vote for mayor and the count is
being made.
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county proved a bene-
fit to the crop by cleaning the boards
from the wheat.
The Holton Tribune says that Sarah
Burr Daniels, who iEes in jackson
county and is 96 years old, is an own
cousin of Aaron Burr
The local union of Coffeyvillle inter
fered with the business of a milling
company there and District Judge
Soule issued an injunction against the
interferers-
Frank Scott, Wichita banker, gives
farming attention as a side line. He
raised 1, 92o bushels of sweet potatoes
from IL acres OF land and sold them for
81 a bushel-
Jno A. F1eener, of Arkansas City,
has settled his claim for SIS, 1000 for
damages sustained to his person while
being initiated into the Order of Pyra-
nids, and has accepted 5000
An iron bridge over Pawnee Creek in
Bourbon county went down while a
herd of cattle crossing it, killing
and inJuring many cattle Mr.. Straitor
and his little girl were driving cattle
under the bridge at the time and the
girl was nearly killed
Fred Wellhouse will clean up a profit
of $50, 900 or S25, 900 from his apple
crop; but then he has ,24o acres of or
chard to gather from. Up to 1875 this
apple king worked for others, but
studied orcharding all the time. A
IeavenwOrth lawyer L. B. Wheat, had
a lot of rough land and took Wel1house
into pa rtnership and the big orchard
resulted. Governor Morrifl's 500 acre
orchard is handled on Mr. We1lhouse-s
plan and it brings the ex-governor
large returns.
The National Association of Live
stock Sanitary commissioners in session
at Buffalo, decided that their next an
nual meeting be held at Wichita. thanks
to Billy Bolton, who first suggested it
and worked for it.
The Kansas supreme court decides
that when railroad runs through a
farm the company must provide gates
for the convenience of he farmer but
the farmer must keep the gate shut.
1t was in suit for damages for the
killing of a horse which reached the
railroad track through an open gate
E. O. Strickland has been appointed
as instructor in music at Haskell insti-
tute at Lawrence. He was a member
OF the Twentieth Kansas band and was
later in the quartermaster's depart
ment at San Francisco.
The southwestern division of the
Friends church met in annual conven-
ton at Friends university in Wichita
the 10th with about 200 delegates
present The jurisdiction includes
Kansas, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Northern Texas and Eastern
Colorado.
Governor Stanley promptly offered a
reward of $3.50 for the assassin who
shot George Montgomery, but the San
ia Fe had already offered 81 900.
George Montgomery, the secret SER
vice man employed by the Santa Fe,
who was killed in his own home, was
son If rsr-aa o1sar- xz-bo lives