The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-30
Kansas ITEMS OF rNrEEEsr.

one day last week
The Dodge City commercial club pro
tests against leasing government lands
in Kansas to -cattlemen.
R. Forsyth has sold his farm of 400
acres near Wakarusa to H. G. Carls, of
Clay Center, for s11,5oo
The Brown county farmers institute
proposes to the county poor farm
as an experimental seed farm
Mrs. Anna Thompson is travelling
about buying junk At Portis, Smith
county. she gathered q carload.
Frank D. Freeman, county clerk of
Lane county, is dead Inf1ammatory
rheumatism was the cause of his death.
Sumner county will have 80 rural
mail carriers The farmers like the
scheme but the merchants in the small
towns knock on it.
The Kansas Association of Charities
and Corrections and the Kansas Society
for the Friendless. have both asked for
an Office in the-state house.
w. Freidberg, a bachelor hermit of
Emporia, lived in a barn which was
recently burned, and he was badly
burned He is worth about SIS, DOC.
J. NJ Simpson. of Mcpherson, has
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a 81 600 cierl1ship in the office of the
fourth assistant postmaster general.
Nearly all classes of railroad workers
have already named delegates to the
annual meeting on February of the
State Society of Labor and Industry
Alexander Phelon, the founder of
Neodesha, died recently in Idaho He
had a trading post there among the
nea 4 =, 81,
The Citizens bank at Sedgwiclz was
burglarized and $40 in currency ia ken.
The robbers lett on a hand car which
they had broken open a tool house to
secure
There will be four series of teachers
institutes this year, early one being
added for the benefit Of the teachers in
the wheat belt The dates of opening
are May 20, June ?, June 80 and July
IS.
There are now 264 inmates at the
Hutchinson reforrnatory and there are
only $50 cells. The hospital is used as
a dormitory for the overplus. With
the new cells the number will soon be
$50.
J. r. Holmes, who laid out Garden
City, Kansas, is the first Republican
office as mayor He was chosen by S
majority mayor of La Porte in that
state
The NJ Z. church at Kinsley caught
fire in the basement just as Sunday
school was about to be opened. The
children were taken out safely and the
fire was put out before it got into the
main room of the church.
a. E. Berry, a wealthy farmer. is
arranging for rural telephone system
in the neighborhood of Conway
Springs 1t will start with so 60
phones, and it will connect with the
Conway Springs exchange
The Sumner county commissioners
require the county repositories to re-
port monthly the daily balances on
hand and the amount of interest due
the county The county repositories
pay the county one per cent interest on
daily balances.
The reward offered by Mrs. c. L.
Wiltberger for the arrest and convic-
ton of the murderer of her husband
was paid to Cal Ferguson. Cowley
county has paid its 5000 reward and the
state will soon pay its 5000 reward.
The Kansas Society for the Friend
less finds that there are /, 600 people in
that the average age upon entering is
p years, and that large portion OF
them come from villages and farms:
while smaller per cent come from
cities.
E. \. KAT, formerly of Caldwell, Ks,
has invented new explosive, which,
when fired, throws OFF thousands OF
particles, each an independent explo-
sive when it hits anything.
The little home in Wellington be
longing to a widow with one daughter
was burned destroying verything they
owned Contributions Were sought for
their relief. $3.50 IN cash being raised,
aud an abundance of food and clothing.
A home viii be built and stone masons
plasaerers and carpenters viii give
their services without charge
Chairman Allen of the state board OF
charities has been to New York to in
vestigate the workings of epileptic ano
insane institutions 40 as to be able tc
make recommendations in the matter
Of e~rSt,11rf5rrr tho nav