The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-03-13
KANSAS 1rEms OF INTEREST


The Arkansas river case is up now
SO is the river
Topeka, or a portion OF it, has an
epidemic of scarlet fever.
A Caldwell miller says he is receiving
1900 bushels of wheat day
The Eighth Q. S. cavalry has come
from Cuba and is stationed at Fort
Riley
One firm at the Wichita stock yards
bought in one week of February 800
900 worth of cattle
E. T. Guyman, who has large inter
ests at Liberal, has bought one of the
finest homes in Hutchinson
The contract for the marble work on
the ground floor of the Kansas state
house is contracted for at s17,5e2-
Ordinary work horses sell at Salina
high as $3.50. Mules and cattle are
in demand at much increased prices.
Rock Island officials arrived at Hor-
ton on a special train and while there
decided to rebuild the burned shops
Three Wichita men have purchased
$4,000 acres of land in Kearney county
The land is covered with buffalo grass.
Since the late heavy snow falls re-
ports almost unanimous that the
wheat crop of Kansas is in excellent
COndlC1On-
Some knight of research, perhap s
is one person in Kansas for every 40
acres of land.
Contract has been awarded for the
new building by the regents of the
Emporia normal school to the lowest
bidder at SAT, 277-
Rev. L. W. Harren. a United Breth-
rem preacher of Garaett became insane
and was confined. Two days later his
wife became insane.
The Santa Fe has contracted for a
complete new electric light and power
plant, for its new shops in Topeka, to
cost SIS, 900 to $50, 600
The Methodist church at Hugotcn
Stevens county, in which Sam Wood
was killed by James Brennan ten
years ago, is being torn down
Farmers in southwestern Kansas
produced sugar beets which tested
higher than those produced in Ger
many, the home of that industry
The mayor of Patterson, N. J., has
returned the money sent there from
the Kansas relief fund. He says that
his city can get along without any out
side help.
j. b Shane, a Lawrence photog
rapher, 65 years old, shot and killed
Ed Katterman, young man, as he
was passing Shane's gallery door. No
prOvOcation is known
Resident Engineer J. NJ. Meade, of
the Santa Fe, served under Fitzhugh
Lee in Virginia and was present at the
battle of Fredericksburg when the gen
eral was taken away for dead.
BENZ, Harding, who settled in Doni-
phan county in 1916, clerk at the
Iowa mission, was stricken with paral-
ysis recently He was the first rail
road station agent at Wathena-
For thirty days commencing March 1
the mails carried by Kansas railroads
will be weighed to form a basis for the
amount to be paid the roads for carry
ing mails for the next four years.
There are six forty acre tracts of
public land remaining in the Topeka
land district They are in the flint
hills of Chase, Greenwood and Chau-
tauqua counties and of but little value.
Trains were blockaded by snow in
the Flint hills of Butler county on
Feb. 90 Passenger trains We're held
at stations until the track cleared.
The executive committee of the State
Sunday School association named
Salina as the place and May L to Is as
the date of the next annual conven-
ton.
receiver has been asked for the
Modern Tonties- Application is made
in the district court at Wichita, based
on the alleged ground that the order is
insolvent- The application was denied.
The highest authority in the United
States credits Kansas with producing
the best Johnathan, Missouri Pippir
and Ben Davis apples in the world
The county treasurer of Mcpherson
county estimates that farmers of the
county, when through feeding, viii
have used half a million bushels O.
wheat
Sam1 Hayes. of Reno county, wa.
found dead in his feed lot, his body
partly covered with snow, and guarded
by his dogs keeping the cattle ava.
from it.
The United States supreme court ha
11r1be16 the of Ia-