The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-08-28
Kansas ITEMS OF 1NrEREsE

Ter county, harvested 400 bushels OF
oats off 70 acres.
1t has been decided at Cottonwood
Falls to hold fall Festivities in a grove
on October and 4.
Lane county has gained fifty votes
in the past year Cattle and wheat are
the principal industries.
The Teichgraber Bros flour rail- at
Gypsum, near Salinaz was burned,
causing loss of S25, 600.
A Hutchinson hotel man supposed he
had planted acre of canteIoupes but
the vines grew cucumbers-
The Southwestern Grain Journal, of
Topeka, estimates the Kansas corn crop
this year at 235. 900, 900 bushels
Ex-Congressman S. S. kirkpatrick.
a $50, 600 brick plant at his home
town.
NJ J. Kimme1, county clerk of Morris
county for four years, died at home at
Wilsey on August II, after a months
il1ness-
The government has completed a
telephone system of it's own at Fort
Riley. 1t connects with all the offices
at the fort.
Chas- F. Rooster, of Marysvi11e, is
dead of paralysis of the throat He
had lived there for nearly 40 years and
was president of bank.
Steam plovvs are turning the soil of
Sumner county for the next wheat
crop. There are quite a number of
steam p1ovvs now at the job.
County surveyors of Kansas will hold
their annual meeting in Wichita Sep
TENDER "a and 25, dates which will en-
able them to take advantage of the
rates made for the carnival.
The Topeka insane asylum turned
into the state treasury ST., ICY. so in fees
collected during the past quarter for
the care of patients who have property
of their own or rich relatives.
John Geehan, an NJ. K & T. switch
man at Parsons, was killed while
working in the yards, by being thrown
from the top of a stock while set
ting brake, and two ears ran over him
Every town which Bucbsl<in Bills
wild west show visits boils over with
wrath over it as a fake. Many per-
sonal thieving cases are reported in
the way of over charges and short
changing.
Working in one section gang for the
Missouri Pacific at Leroy is Mexican,
an Italian, a Frenchman, A Boer, a
d Orf0ek, DuBCnIndna an
Irishman, a Welshman, an Ethiopian
and a Missourian.
An Overlook girl acquired the habit
of pulling out single hairs from her
head and chewing and swallowing
them. 1t required a surgical operation
to take bunch of hair five inches
long from her insides-
Geo w Finch, the eldest OF the
newspaper family of that name. who
has practiced law for a number of
years at Harper. was killed in a run
away August Is. His dead body
was found in the road
w. H. Mackey, the new United
States marshal for Kansas, will con
tinue to live at J junction City Tt will
be remembered that he is a recent APP
pointee as postmaster of his home town
which position he now vacates-
Rocky Ford canteloupes are now
coming to market. They are raised in
the Arkansas river valley from Dodge
City west into Colorado.
Over 100 persons of Independence
were poisoned by eating ice cream soda
Doctors have been kept busy. The
poison was ptomaine which was in the
milk used
Members of school boards in first
and second class cities do not come
under the law prohi biting the employ
ment of teacher who is a relative of
a member of the board.
Hog cholera has appeared in Lyon
county in the districts which We're
flooded in the spring. A large num-
Der of animals are dying from it.
Police of Junction City have cleaned
out the hoboes by carrying heavy horse
whips on their beats. The tramps do
not wait to be ordered out of town but
go
Mrs C. G. Patton, of Wichita, un-
corl1ed a three gallon jug of ammonia.
and the ammonia few into her face
She was badly burned and nearly
strangled-
When Grover Cleveland was sheriff
of Erie county n. V. he boarded at the
home of Andy Wolfe. now a prosper
Gus farmer living near Solomon City
R. B. Baker, of Abilene, has just
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