The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-08-07
KANSAS IrEsas OF 1NrEREsr.

visit to the Kaw valley
The Santa Fe depot at Ness City to-
gether with two cars of coal, de-
stroyed by fire
Hogs are scarce and hardly TO be
bought to take the enormous corn crop
OF Kansas this year
The Farmers Grain & Livestock as
ISOLATION commenced last week tc ship
grain out of Wichita
Reports come from Dexter, on the
southern border of the state that Texas
fever is killing many cattle
Fifteen girl operators have tied up
the Atchison telephone system by stri-
king They want S. raise
Phillips county, where corn had been
suffering, had general heavy down
pour for over two hours July &c.
Adding new switches in railroad
yards is very common thing in the
busting shipping towns of the state
The shipment of new wheat to mar
ket has commenced. The Santa Fe
made the first reports of such shipments
The Catholic church at Hutchinson
is burned. The fire started from can
dies which always kept or the
altar.
The twenty-second anniversary of
the Kansas State Grange was duly
celebrated a Olathe. A big crowd was
present.
Senator Burton announced on Sun
day, July 27, his selection of w H
Macl1ey, of Junction City, for U. s.
marshal.
Abilene has abandoned its gas we'll
In the second well put down the drill
stuck at I, 400 feet and could not be
taken out
says he has not been called upon any
official service but twice this year. He
travels for implement firm.
At Independence Harry FeItz, the
12-year old of "a retired farmer,
was drowned in the Verdigris river
while bathing He was alone.
A secret committee from the strikers
at Cleburne, Texas, has been in Topeka
to get the men in the Santa Fe shops
to. go out on a sympathy strike.
A fire in the shoe shop of the peni-
tertiary at Lansing caused a $50, 900
loss to the state. The fire ragged two
hours before it was under control.
The fire department at the peniten-
tiary is made up of TRUSTEES and they
did strenuous work at the shoe shop
fire which occurred in the night.
Farmers about Cawl<er City who fur
nlSh milk to the slzlmnlng station,
compared notes and found that their
cows paid average of So each in so
days.
a BelOit, Kansas, dispatch tells of
the birth there of a boy baby which
weighs 25 pounds The mother is %
years old and the baby is we'll devel-
oped and hearty.
c. b. Buck, of Burlingame bought
10 steers about ten months ago and
turned them into stalk fields and fed
them on roughness, sold them and
cleared S32 head. A shipper bought
them and made another profit.
The district court ordered that O. w.
Coffelt be taken from the Cowley coun-
ty Jail to Wichita, on account of threats
of an attempt to rescue him. Coffelt
has had two trials for the murder of
Detective G. c. Montgomery, resulting
each time in disagreement of the
juries-
The state encamprnent of the Kansas
National Guard, billed for Emporia,
has been declared off by the state mil
itary board Emporia was unable to
furnish the required number of artii-
1ery horses The encampment will be
held later in the fall at Fort Riley.
f. n. Cole has sued Postmaster c. C.
Gray, of lie Roy, for 81, 900 damages
for failure to deliver postal card
which would have notified him of the
death of his father. He charges the
postmaster with carelessness and neg
ligence in employing careless clerks
TopelSa's police matron, Mrs Thorpe,
and J. E. Niss1ey, took 200 Topeka
newsboys to Mcfarland for a picnic.
They filed two Rock Island passenger
coaches. The excursion left at $3.50
a. H. and returned at $50 p. m.
Mrs Eugene McKibben, living near
Mayfield, jumped into a cistern and
saved her baby, just big enough to be-
gin to walk, from drowning. She
stood in the water which up to her
armeits, holding the child until its
father came from the field and drew
them out with a rope.
The Emporia Chautauqua had re-
ceipts of about 81 500 and had a balance
of 5000 in the treasury at the end.