The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-07-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF 1NrEKEsE.


H.
The old settlers of Marshall county
win hold reunion. with barbecue
trimmings, at Blue Rapids on August
1928.
terrific rain and hail storm swept
over Abilene July 81 soaking most
of the country, but doing serious
damage
yelled near Junction City on August
IL. 1t is to commemorate the Coronado
expedition of 1912
Reports came in from central Kansas
that early potatoes are rotting from
too much wet. The late potatoes are
promising to do well.
Farmers of Lyon county had a wet
time for threshing oats, which are
turning out No l. Bluegrass is of
poor quality and short yield.
An interstate convention of Kansas,
Missouri and Indian Territory miners
is called to meet at Topeka on Septem-
Der 1. The general feeling among the
miners is in opposition to strike.
There are sixty barrels of cream
shipped from the Windhorst and Spear
vile slzimming stations weekly. Each
barrel is valued at about S14, making
= total value of $50 for a weeks ship
ments-
George Buffin gton, who shot and
killed Ode Willard, near Langley, has
given himself up and is now in Jail
Ellsworth. Burlington is quite wealthy
and controls a ranch in Ellsworth
county.
j. V Clymer, who was the first city
attorney of Hutchinson and member
of the legislature in the '7O's, is dead
at the age of 65 years. He served in
the civil war captain in an Indiana
regiment
Editor NJ. F. Amrine, of the Council
Grove Guard, and Miss Lou Becht were
out riding when their team was fright
ened at automobile and ran away.
Miss Becht was thought to be fatally
injured
The Kingman Leader-Courier tells of
~'Orient'' Edwards visiting Kingman
and mapping out a new railroad, a
branch of the Orient from a point near
Norwich, northwest through Kingman
toward Denver
Z. w. Carter, a railroad mail clerk
whose run is from Newton south, has
been quite badly hurt. While he was
at work his car was being switched
about the Newton yards and he was
thrown against the stove
1t is said that the Santa Fee system
has seventy-four branches, not count
ing any of its main lines. The system
has its greatest number of branches in
Kansas, where it ranifes into practi-
cally every part of the state.
The trustees of Baker university
have elected Harmon J. Hoover, of the
class of 81, to the chair of philosophy
and history. Mr.. Hoover graduated
from Boston university in 1891. Since
that time he has been preaching.
F. n. Cole has sued Postmaster c. c.
Gray, of LIE Roy, for 81 900 damages
for failure to deliver a postal card
which would have notified him of the
death of his father He charges the
postmaster with carelessness and neg
Hgence in employing careless clerks
The Kansas City Red Men went to
Parsons to find the best place to hold a
about HOO people
A meeting of business men called to
raise funds for the expenses of the en-
campment OF the National Guard at
Emporia, was attended by only five
business men.
The Throop hotel in Topeka is to
force water from a well by electric
power to a reservoir in the top of the
building One object is to save the
cost of water
A letter mailed in 1864 by a Centralia
banker, while in the Confederate army,
has just been returned to him from the
dead letter office
The State Soldiers home at Fort
Dodge has a beautiful new chapel
which will soon be complete and ready
for the old veterans use with their
wives.
An unusually large number of school
houses are being erected during the
present summer, Mcpherson county
alone expanding over $1,000 for the
purpose
The lola cement plant is TO have two
new sections costing $500, 900. giving
the plant the largest capacity of any
Portland cement plant earth
A report comes from Detroit. Dick
inson county, of the loss OF number
of horses from pink eye, and that one