The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-05-15
Kansas 1rEA,s OF INTEREST.

Many Kansas wheat fields We're
drifted over with sand in the storm of
last week.
As pension commissioner Mr. Ware
viii have no appointments to make ex-
cept the local pension boards
Between $3.50. 900 and $500. 600 will be
expended by the government this year
on improvements at Fort Riley.
Principal F. H. Olney of the Law
renee high school had his face badly
broken up by kick from horse.
Many Santa Fe employees have made
very profitable investments of their
savings by investing in the stock of
the road when it was low
Herkirner, on the ST. Joseph & Grand
Island railroad, west of Marysville,
was destroyed by fire. Only one bust
ness house, a drug store, escaped the fire.
Geo. Reitz, an electrician at Hutch
inson, is the only man in Kansas so far
as now known, who has received a
personal invitation to attend King Ed
wards coronation.
The pharmacy students at Kansas
university have made their annual visit
to the drug stores of Kansas City.
They We're banqueted by the wholesale
druggists of that city.
Harry J. Bone, candidate for attor-
ney general, was taken sick with gas
tric fever at the Copeland hotel in To-
Pelxa and was taken to Christ hospital,
being threatened with pneumonia.
The Annual Reunion of the Bour bon
county prisoners of war held a court
martial. Colonel Dick Blue was presi-
dent and Colonel Weldy was member
of the court. 1t was great success.
One OF the sisters at ST. Francis hos
Pital in Wichita is practical cleo
trician and with her own kit of tools
attends to all small repairs required on
the elevator or light wires in the hos
Pital.
The water of the Republican river is
so much used for irrigation in Nebraska
that the water is barely running over
the dam at Concordia and the chances
are that the mills must stop work in
the summer.
NJ ]. Rhue, Orchardist of Doni-
phan county. says the recent heavy
winds have been a good thing for the
orchards. The dust carried by the
wind, he says, smothered the moths
and other insects.
A negro shoemaker in a part of To-
pel1a inhabited by colored people, has
been insulting girls as they passed his
shop. The co1Ored women of the neigh
bOrhood set an hour for him to leave
in time to escape a suit OF tar and
feathers He left.
Frank Strong, the newly-elected
chancellor of Kansas University, was
given a ride by about so students.
They were clad in night shirts and
sheets and brought hack attached a
rope and hauled Mr.. Strong about the
city. He enjoyed and praised their
enthusiasm.
At Logan Grove, native forest of
about 100 acres, two miles south of
Junction City, monument is being
erected for the Quivira Historical so
ciety in honor of Coronado's expedition
in 1871 The location for the nonu-
ment was selected by several eminent
archae1ogists the approximate CEN
ter of Ouivira, the territory which Cor
OnadO and his band visited
The county commissioners of Wash
ington county made an order that no
jointist sent to Jail will be released !
until the full penalty is paid with costs.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, was the
chief speaker at a dinner given by the
Union League club, of Brooklyn, New
York, for General Grants birthday,
April &c.
The S3rd anniversary of Odd Fellow
ship was celebrated at Kingman by |
lodges from towns near and far The |
next meeting in this district win be
held at Wichita next year
There are five veterans who would
like to hold the Office of register of
deeds in Sedgwicl1 county. They have |
asked the old soldiers of the county to |
vote on them on May 10 to decide which |
shall be the candidate
The gas belt association of the Odd
Fellows celebrated the S3rd anniver-
sary of the order at Garnett. Special
trains brought lodges from La Harpe,
Colony, Wilde and other points, and /
the Missouri Pacific brought deIeea-
tons from Yates Center Westphalia |
and Leroy.
Five young men of Burlingame who |
served in the army in the Philippines |
remain there Tom Hayson is inspect
of police in Manila; Ruel March is |