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

found drowned in the AIaris Des Cygne
| river
Dodge City has taken up its six per
cent bonds with bonds drawing per
cent
Slot machines are being .banished
from Kansas towns. Washington being
/ the latest noticed
In Dickinson county towns there are
eleven less joints Judge Moore closed
| them by injunctions-
Colonel D. R. Anthony is being push
ed to become candidate for com
mander of the Kansas G. A r.
An old tin can was unearthed near
Pao1a which contained $3.50 in gold
Mrs Hymer proved that it was hers.
Children and matches caused the loss
| by E. A. Weller, OF Wamego, of a barn,
three horses and his hay and grain.
! When Granville H Meixe1I. of Mid
land College at Atchison died, his
| friends sent 5000 in cash in lien of
flowers.
| Washington pays the Methodist
church of that county seat city SO a
| year for the use of its bell for fire
alarms.
A dynamo in the state house heating
plant burned out and the executive
council is Investigating where to Iocat tie
the blame.
t. B. Gerow, director of the State
Free Employment bureau thinks that
Homework should be taught in the pub
lie schools
brakeman George Turner had a wrist
broken and was otherwise badly in
jured from falling from train near
the Slate Creek junction.
A new town 1afvveaY, TavxaI5
Beloit, where coal is expected to be
brought to the surface in car load lots,
is to be called Minera1ton.
Peter a. Hartig. a member of the
original town company and ever since
a much respected citizen of Eudora,
was recently killed by train He was
nearly 80 years old.
City Attorney Chas. f. Spencer, of
Topeka, told the municipal league
convention at Wichita that Kansas has
no law by which city can condemn a
waterworl1s system
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company are to supply their customers
in Topeka and Wichita with the new
instruments which call Central au-
tomatically, with no bell ringing
Postmaster Guthrie of Topeka is to
be from now on the paymaster who
Will SeDd the cdS1 pay every month to
all the rural free mail carriers in
Kansas There are now about 200 of
them.
Supt. Pearls, of the Haskell Institute
is asking for a supply of guns for has
Indian battalion He has two com
panies of Indians who make a fine
appearance as soldiers; one company
averaging six feet tail, the other com
pa-ny only trifle smaller The super
intendent viii also ask for a regular
army officer to drill his battalion.
DR.. Phillips was once the bosom
friend of Abraham Lincoln. He came
to Kansas in the early days and for
tune smiled upon him. He lived in
Allen county and was surrounded by
many friends But old age overlook
him, his friends and fortune passed
from him, and the other day he died in
| the Sedgwicl1 county poorhouse at the
age of 50. Nearly forty years ago DR..
Phillips was prominent enough to be
the recipient of unusual honor. lis
wife died at Hum boldt, and Senator z.
Is. Plumb hurried ali the way from
Washington to be a panbearer at her
funeral.
The Cowley county commissioners
hired a man to hunt for tax dodgers.
His work resulted in placing on the
tax rolls S45, 200 more property.
An air pressure gasoline lamp ex-
| ploded in a store at Meade and the
county commissioners promptly pro-
| hibited the use of such lamps in the
| court house
A Salina company which puts up
! couple of patent medicines has agreed
| to turn over every year to the Kansas
! Wesleyan university Of that city 10 per
| cent of all sales made
Rev H E. Mills. pastor OF the First
| Congregational church of Fort Scott,
and Mrs Mills, offered themselves to
! the American board of foreign missions
for service abroad, and We're rejected
because they Were both past 80 years
old
A St Louis doctor has heard that
| tho village doctor at lola is about to
| leave> and he has written to the mayor
asking if the people are able to pay an
] other one to take his place. and this