The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-06-12

The price of land thermometer is
still going up in Kansas
The Rock Island has nearly 200 acres
of land at Topeka gridironed with
tracks
Some one remarks that General HUI
Nudity has had command in Kansas
this May
Pension Agent Metcaf finds scores
of pensioners the list who bear his
family name
Sixty-tvvo of the Wichita high school
alumni held their 13th annual banquet
on May 26-
In thirty-four days store at West
more1and took in something over 1900
pounds of butter.
Glasco Odd Fellows bought a home
and decided it to the widow of a mem
Der of the lodge
Between April and May Is a firm
of stock buyers in Wichita paid nearly
$50, 900 for horses Over ESQ head were
shi pped by the firm.
Dean Minnicl, Is years old, son of
DR. W. A Minnick, of Wichita, has
been named by Representative Long as
cadet at West Point.
The largest represent ation of the
colored people of Kansas in a state
where there were forty of them.
The Catholic church at Hutchinson
has purchased property near their
church which is to be remodeled for a
school building. The school will be
opened about Sept. L.
Colonel LOOMS, the new departing n t
commander of the G. A R., says that
he will work especially for the up
ganization in Kansas.
The recent storm struck Pao1a and
street lamps, awnings. trees and Chin
ney tops suffered. The strawberry
crop was destroyed. Wheat was laid
fat and washouts are common on
farms.
J. NJ. Evans, who has been chief
machinist of the Ossawatomie asylum,
has been transferred to the Boys In
dustrial school at Topeka to take
charge of the industrial department
there.
The railroads which handle the
merchandise, in and out of the Wichita
wholesale houses, have been very kind
of late in giving better rates for the
distribution of their sales in mixed
carloads.
been very high. Two Jews, with a
wagon load of junk, attempted to ford
the creek They saved their lives by
clinging to a tree, from which they
were rescued.
Saffordville, Chase county, is inn
proving rapidly this year. Good stone
sidewalks are being laid, a new Metho-
dist church is projected and several
business houses and a fine Woodmen's
hall have been completed.
At Wichita after his nomination for
governor, w. J. Bailey offered S. H.
Kelsey of Atchison, the position of
adjutant general and Kelsey accepted
Kelsey was Atchison's candidate for
auditor and was defeated.
I. and Jerry Cuban, farmers of
Dickinson county, have just enjoyed a
pleasant surprise by a visit of their
two brothers, John Culham of Detroit,
and T. Cu1ham of Canada, whom they
had not seen for 25 years. They are
all over SIS years old and have all been
prosperous.
D. B. Wolford paid Se2, 900 for $40
acres of farm and grass land near
Oswego. The size of the purchase is
not unusual in Kansas, but it is
worthy of note that the purchaser is
less than 80 years OF age and that
every dollar of the purchase price was
made by him upon a Kansas farm
Mr.. and Mrs Owen Jones celebrated
their golden wedding at their home
near Everest with their seven children
and twenty grand children The ven
cradle couple has lived on the same
farm since 1857, having pre-empted the
land.
T01, z
of Kansas during Governor Lewel1ing's
administration, was instantly killed at
coal mine three miles east of Jewell
City. He being lowered into the
shaft when a rope gave way letting
him fall one hundred feet
Four carloads of brick have arrived
from the state penitentiary for the new
insane asylum at Parsons The state
board of charities held a session in
Parsons approving contracts and mark
| ing sites for the buildings