The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-10-02

the Hutchinson Ialr exceeded Sl2sOoO
The directors interpret this en-
core and have already decided to hold
a larger and better fair next year.
They will ask the state for aid, but, if
it is refused, they will go ahead as
they have done the last two years and
hold fair anyway The grand finale
was free exhibition at the grounds.
None of the exhibits We're removed and
every body was admitted free. Two
bands furnished concerts in different
parts of the grounds
EMPLOYER REsPoNsIELE.- William
Gugeler. a wealthy farmer, was found
liable for $923 damages in the district
court for injury done by runaway
team handled by his hired man. Jones
drove up a lane east of Enterprise and
left the team near the fence while he
went to help some wood choppers pull
down a tree. The tree fell and the
team ran away into buggy driven by
the plaintiff, smashing it and injuring g
her severely. She was under doctors
care for weeks and brought suit.
Law. of the milling firm of Alexander
& Law Bros, of Brandon, and Miss
Sherwin a social favorite, shot two
prairie chickens the farm of L..
Rowe. This enraged Rowe that he
fired twice at the hunters, shooting
Miss Sherwin in the stomach and Law
in the knee. Rowe ran home and
swallowed the contents of a bottle OF
poison, dying in a few minutes. Miss
Sherwin is not likely to recover.
FRosTs ALONG THE KAw.-Swcet
potato growers about Wamego have
| been made very anxious by the recent
frosts- Cool weather in August held
the crop back and all We're hoping for
warmer weather. The frosts made it
| necessary to begin digging at once.
Other late crops are in like condition.
Only the vezy earliest planted Kaffir
corn has fully matured and the fourth
crop of alfalfa is barely beginning tic
bloom.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.-The Wells
vile Globe says: sit was only a few
days ago that three separate buyers
were endeavoring to purchase a piece
| of land near We1lsville. Any one OF
| them was ready to sign papers. Last
| year and last spring this same piece Oh
! land was offered for sale but there
| but there were no bidders. Big crops
have made land in demand even at the
| increased prices
ALL D.-ttkansas is pros
| perous," said T. b. Gerow, director OF
| the Kansas Free employment bureau
'sThis is abundantly shown by the
fact that not agency of this depart
| ment in the state has application
| for work, while there are numerous
| applications for help. If there could
! be any better evidence of the condition
of the people generally I do not know
I - Il L.
/ AGREEABLY SURPRISED. Miss Myrtle
Rose, one of the teachers of the public
| schools of MCPHERSON, agreeably
| surprised by being notified of her cleo
ton to the chair of languages in the
Southwest Kansas college at Winfield
at salary of twice that which she wa.
| receiving.
ALL FROM PHILLIPs.-An three O
| the nominees for congress in the Sixth
| Observation-Disclosures Democratic ans
| Socia1ist-are from Phillips county.
$50 PER CAPITA--The three nationa
| banks of Lawrence have deposit So
for every man, woman and child il
Douglas county; a good per capt.;
showing which could be made mucl
better if the deposits of the three stat
banks could be figured in.
| OSBORNE COUNTY wa
favored with good rain ON Septembe
90 and 90. Tt came at an opportun
time for the ground in many places wa
too dry for ploughing and seeding
This will enable the farmers to SOY
| a large acreage of wheat
TEXAS FEVER IN MIAMI.-Texas feve
prevails among cattle in Miami count
and the state sanitary board has bee
notified. The disease was spread by
Texas steer that escaped from a trai
from Gardner. The diseased cattl
have been quarantined-
, SALINE CoUSTY MADE GLAD
| heavy rain fell in Sallna on Septem be
% and it could not have come at be
ter time notwithstanding that thresl
ing will be considerably delayed TIL
crop in the vicinity is good and tn
yield will be large
HUMBOLDT On. FIELDs.-The Hun
iooldt oil field is attracting a good man
I strangers. The town is filing up an