The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1und OF So 600 to bore for gas and OIL
The ladies of Osborne have made a
good beginning in accommodating funds
for a library building
j. NJ. YounI<in, of Clay Center, is
added to the list of losers of cattle by
pasturing them in dry corn fields
The First Presbyterian church Of To-
peka, reports 1O4 new members to have
United with the church since June.
Eight hundred chickens were pro
vided for the Christmas dinner at the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth-
The ten-year-old son of Thomas Nc
Cormick, section foreman at Miltonva1e,
was drowned in pond while at play.
Mrs. Lucinda Carlton, aged 81, died
Dec % on the SedgwicI1 county farm
spon which she has lived for 80 years
Tn- Fay, who was an English sol
6sr in the Crimean war, died on De-
cember % at Usage City, aged over 100
years.
Fred Dodge, of Leavenworth, who
was member of the Twentieth Kan
EaH, is chief of the Manila fire de-
parement.
Quincy r. Croft. of Osborne, Kansas,
vas been appointed a clerk and type
sTriter in the agricultural department
at Washington
1t is said that the owner of the Syca-
more Springs near Sabetha, has been
offered 500, 600 for the springs by a
Denver doctor.
J. H Hill, of the state normal, was
selected president and J. W. Wilson, of
Atchison, vice president of the teachers
association for the ensuing year.
The Neodesha Register announces
shat the Lanyon Brothers are about to
>rect and operate a zinc sme1ter in
Neodesha, where they have extensive
oil leases
Chase Broadus, a St. Joseph Missouri,
negro, was shot in Leavenworth while
under arrest and attempting to escape
He arrested for assau1ting a child
whose mothers screams brought the
officers.
DIR. j. G. Malcolm died at the home
of his daughter in Hutchinson. He
was well known writer medical
= subjects, and the author Of several
books. He was native of Scotland
and was II years old.
Henry j. Baker was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun while
hunting rabbits on his large ranch in
Elk county He was an Englishman
and single He leaves an aged mother
in England. Mr. Baker purchased the
AOC 4OhS ago
The new cell house in the Hutchinson
reformatory is abont completed and
ready for use on New Years 1t has
24o cells and is the finest cell house in
the west. The walls of the cell are of
solid rock The floor of each is one
stone, each wall one stone and the cell
ing one stone. Each cell is fitted with
electric lights and sewer connections
DIR. O. w. Grow, of Pawnee, Kansas,
purchased fifty Arizona heifers four
years ago at $3.50 each. He has sold
from this bunch and its increase enough
to bring him So, 800 and has left 60 head
of to year Olds worth 81, 200 He
places the total expense and care of his
herd, including taxes and interest, at
not more than $500; leaving his account
with profit balance of 81, 375- TWEEN
ty-two years ago he began with rs
cents and a pair of ponies and an old
Wagon
john A. Morton, of Osborne, bought
a section of land in Sherman county for
$500 and sold it the next day for 81 Ia
Alfalfa growing in Sherman county is
advancing the price of lands there.
Beginning December 20 the Missouri
Pacific will put on a new train between
Wichita and Sa1ina, to be known as
ard 10; the first to leave Wichita at
sos p. M. aud the other to leave Salina
at $50 "a m. Another change is the
Wichita Kiova train, which now leaves
Wichita at 600 p. ~ and will leave at
p
Judge Hazen. of Topeka. favors the
adoption of the law of Colorado and
other states which allows questions of
public Importance to be submitted to
the supreme court without argument,
for immediate decision.
IA. Harner. a Harvey county farmer
has from time to time employed %
paroled prisoners from the Hutchinson
refornatory- Mr. Harner takes a
strong personal interest in the boys
and encourages them to become good
citizens He has found most OF them
to be satisfactory farm hands,