The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Enterprise has had another fine, this
one figuring at 81. 900 of loss
In Lawrence there is plan tns5bui1d
$40, 900 Y. NJ. C. A. building.
George NJ. Munger, of Greenwood
county, offers his farm for SIS, 900.
Clark Kincafd has bought 5000 acres
Of wheat land in Meade county for
1880.
Out of $50 so-ca1led cases of smallpox
reported in Kansas in December there
was but one fatal case
Judge Benson, of Ottawa, succeeds
e. z. Brown, of Chicago, as receiver
of the First National bank of Chicago
The school children of district 4s, in
Barber county, numbering a pupils,
sent in S7-25 to the Mckinley memorial
fund.
A vein of coal has been found in
Mitchell county which is three feet
thick 1t will have to be mined by
stripping.
The old county Jail in the court house
square at Garnett is to be torn down at
last. The county commissioners have
so ordered
Bert Cirtwel1, of Nortonvi11e, has sold
Buffalo Bill fifty white horses to take
the places of those killed in wreck
month ago.
Mrs. Henry Moberly, of Anderson
county, and her 12-year-o1d son lost
their lives while crossing a railroad in
a farm wagon.
A Dunkard church is being built in
a country district of Osborne county
which will cost So, 900 and will be paid
for when completed.
The executive council has contracted
for the removal of the horrid t'decora-
tions'' of the rotunda of the state house
and for re-frescoing it.
Two years ago Ewing Herbert sold a
quarter section of Brown county land
for SIS, 500 A Nebraska man has just
paid S., 200 for the same land.
Judge Glass. of Marysvi1le county,
quietly surrendered his position to
Judge Kimban, of Manhattan, who
was appointed for that district.
Contracts have been let for building
a 1926, 900 observatory at Washburn
college. There will be expended on
telescope and furnishings $50, 900.
Jewell county farmers are learning
what oldest settlers of the west have
long known; to go on high ground to
find living water at a less depth than
on low lands.
A system of promotion has been
adopted at the state industrial school
for girls at Beloit. They are taught
everything of woman's work, from
kitchen work to dressmal1ing.
An old negro brought his son from
Kentucky to Augusta to visit his old
master, G. w. Sweeney. They found
that both his old master and mistress
were dead, and his grief was Pitiful to
see.
Senator S ]. Stewart, of Allen coun-
ty, who is a regent of the state agri-
cultural college, is in Washington in
the interest of the college in connection
with the Fort Hays agricultural ex-
pertinent station
Stafford county people deny the ex
istence there of smallpox epidemic.
The only death in Stafford of late was
an old lady who died of old age, being
over 81 years old. No one there be-
1ieves there are as many as five cases in
the county.
Former students of Kansas Univer-
city living in Sedgwicl1 county, are
forming organization for the pur-
pose of working for their alma mater
Five former school teachers of EN-
poria are now in the schools of Colorado
Springs, and one ex-Emporian is a
city.
s. H. McManig1e, of Harper, and
formerly a Wichita druggist, was walk
in his yard with his wife, when he
sank to the ground and died imme-
diateIy.
- Judge Andrews opened court at La
Crosse in defiance of the appointment
of c. E. Lobden as his successor. Lob
dell will await the action of the SUI
preTne court
Judges Lawrence, appointee, and
Mcbride, holdover, of Sumner county,
reached understanding to prevent
trouble in the court room They agree
that court shall be adjourned until
February 3. by which time it is expect
ed that the supreme court viii have de
cided upon the validity OF appointment
of Mcbride by the governor.
Reuben Weeks, Pottavatonie
county farmer. kept cattle in a corral