The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-10-23
Kansas Events
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wheat, 6, 900 bushels of potatoes and
no less than $500 bushels of corn.
The prison farmers have just finished
putting in 313 acres in wheat Wheat
was placed in 235 acres before the last
rain and all of it is now showing above
the surface of the ground The prison
farm contains 225 acres of corn and it
will average about 60 bushels
EIGHT SOLDIER BROTHERS.
death of Rev. David Worsley at Neosho
Rapids brings out the fact that there
were eight sons in the Worsley family
and that all of them served in the
Union army during the rebellion
Their aggregate service amounted to
TWEEN ty-tvo years They averaged six
feet and two inches in height Six
were in the Third Iowa cavalry and
two in the Ninth Kansas. Rev Wors-
thirty-five years.
SCARED TO INsANITY.-John Roger,
a 21-year-old farmer living near Valley
Falls has been taken to the state in
sane asylum at Topeka. During the
street fair there couple of weeks ago
a dummy was taken up in balloon
with the regular aeronaut and dropped.
great many people were fooled
thinking it was man Young Roger
was one of those who were mistaken
and that night he was delirious over
it and has been SO ever since
MAJOR CRowELL's RECoRD.-The late
Major John NJ. Crowell, of Atchison,
was member of the famous vigilance
committee of San Francisco, and was
known as Boston During his life
he visited California four times, never
by rail He helped lay ont the site of
Sacramento, and there had a cabin
next to the shack of D. o. Mills, the
New York capitalist. In Atchison
Major Crowe1 lived in the house in
which he died forty years
DROWNED IN THE NEosHo--Two
girls, Josie and Rose Klemick, were
drowned by the capsizing of a row
boat in the NeOsho river about one
mile above the dam at lola. They had
gone to the river with two boys and
there is a report that one or both boys
may have been drowned The river
was promptly dragged and the body of
Josie Klemiclx was found.
THIRTY-Two MoRE.-Thirty-two adj
ditional rural free delivery routes We're
added to the list of the rural free de
livery routes of Kansas on October l.
Orders have been received at the To-
Der of new carriers on the pay rolls
TOWNSHIPS VOTE ORIENT BONDS
Out of seven townships in Butler and
Chase counties the Orient bond propo-
sition carried at the election. Out OF
S125, 900 bonds, 500, 900 bonds have
been voted in these townships
SPENDING MILLION Now.-Nearly
a million dollars worth of work is
49,
government is still calling for bids for
more of it.
THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.-An the
churches OF Ottawa pooled in giving a
supper for the benefit of the Ottawa
university and the net proceeds were
about 1925.
ALL FROM IoLA.-There are eight
candidates on the Socialist ticket in
Allen county; all of them citizens ot
lola
FARMER GIVES TO CoLLEGE--Wi1lian
McCraclzen, a farmer at Sunnyda1e.
Rice county, has given Cooper college
at Sterling So, 900 for the education OF
Indian and colored youth. Hehas also
given ST, 500 for the endowment fund
and $500 toward putting a new furnace
in the college
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district there are now seven producing
oil wells and two gas wells Two
more gas wells are being drilled, an6
the building of pipe line to Sedan i:
being discussed.
BARNEY KELLY COMING HoME.-Rev
Bernard Kelly, who has been stationed
in the Philippine Islands for the pas
year as chaplain of the United State:
army, has received notice from the wal
department. that he will shortly bt
placed on the retired list. and he i.
| now on his way home He will reacl
Topeka about November L
AN OLD-TIMER DEAD.-John NJ
| CroweI, who from 1870 to 1885 wa
postoffice inspector for nineteen west
ern states, is dead. aged So He ives
| in Atchison since 1855.
SCoTT COUNTY BoNDs--The Scot
county bond controversy has at las
been settled and the suit institutes
/ against the county by the state for tn
| collection of the amount due on tn
| bonds has been dismissed The coun