The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-09-04


ties are getting plenty
The Arkansas City Traveller has COM
pleted its Bend year.
r. L. varnen will drill for gas on
his farm adjoining FL Dorado.
The contest between rival Wichita
telephone companies has reached the
courts.
A sub-station of the Wichita post
office is to be established near the
packing houses
w H. Smith, secretary to the state
railroad commission. is sick, and in a
serious condition.
Floods entered many houses on the
banks of Cow Creek, which passes
through Hutchinson.
The Kansas Free Methodists held
their third annual conference at Ar
kansas City last week
Wamego is to have a new Touring
mill, to cost SIS 900. with capacity of
100 barrels a day or more
Captain N NJ. Nelson of the =. N G.'s
Lindsborg company has resigned to
enter theological school
The report of the state superinten-
dent viii this year embrace statistics
OF city schools for the first time.
The Santa Fe is soon to build a new
depot at Baldwin. The old depot will
be made over for freight house
Every paper coming from towns
where the Buclzslzin Bill show stops
has roasts for that travelling fake.
The Smoky rivers August food was
big a the one that came in July.
The bottom lands were all under water
Frank Nelson advises the people not
to buy any school books until it is set
tied by the courts whom they may buy
from.
Prof Hugo Kahl, of Kansas univer-
sity. takes the chronological depart
ment of the Carnegie library at Pitts
burg, Pa
E L. Glasgow, of Salina, passed his
examination and will be commissioned
as captain in the regular army. He
served at Manila for a time.
The contractor who carries the mail
between Hartland and Hugoton viii
hereafter use a big automobile and
carry passengers and freight also.
Lightning struck Henry Myers farm
house in Lyon county killing Mrs.
Meyer and her little granddaughter.
Very little damage was done to the
house.
Phillips county, killed his wife and
himself with the same razor. They
had been having much trouble in the
home and with neighbors.
Frank Thomas, u booze seller of To
pelxa, stabbed customer of his bar be-
tween the ribs, next his heart, with a
pocket knife. There was a dispute
over the mans bill at the bar.
CDR" J. P. Mapus made a haul at
Arkansas City. He was going to buy
a hotel and start a sanitarium there
The people thought he had cash galore.
He left beating his creditors and his
board bill.
Falxirs are selling farmers a s'cream-
cry refrigerator and taking notes
from them at big price and promising
to call every week and pay 25 cents
pound for their butter. They never
come but notices come from banks that
their notes will come due at certain
dates
The Rock Island system paid out
more money this month to it's employees
at Goodland than for several years.
The pay of the train service was espe-
ciany heavy. as a number of the men
drew checks of more than 5000. The
local bank paid pay checks amounting
to SIS. 900.
Chanute still accumulates gushers;
six of them were brought in last week.
The are now 152 producers in the Chan
ute oil field.
Marion Coy1e, aged 90. a member of
the Frisco bridge gang, was killed near
Fontana by being crushed by a timber
falling upon him. His neck was bro
ken.
The Neosho river food of last week
was about as bad at Burlington as the
June flood. number of houses were
struck by lightning, also a half dozen
barns Some stock was killed.
ruling has been made by the state
superin that the exchange
clause in the school book law does not
compel contractors who will supply
books to exchange for old boool1s ex-
cept of like kind and grade; for in
stance, a first reader must be exchanged
for first reader and SO on.
A notice came to lola from the pen
sion commissioner stating that n pen
sim of month had been