The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-09-04
KANSAS rrExs OF 1srEEEsE

Tom McNeal is to speak at the Ohio
association picnic at Ottawa Sep
TENDER l.
On Saturday night the card. Judge
Horton had sinking spell and became
unconscious
Paroled youths from the state re
formatory broke into a hardware store
at Hutchinson
The Santa Fe has let contract for a
$40, 900 enlargement OF its passenger
station in Topeka
A Cimarron jointist was fined 81, 500
and sent to Jail $50 days, having been
convicted on Is counts
ST. Francis, way out in the s@short
grass country is said to have weeds on
the tovnsite 1879 feet high
The fifth annual Ohio picnic was
held at Waverly. The attendance was
good considering the rain and mud
A War dance will celebrate the open
ing of the Potta watomie Indian school
at NadeHu, Kansas, on September g.
Lieutenant Ralph Mcdowell, of Man
haitian, Kan, was drowned at Fort
Clark, Texas, where he was stationed
DIR. H. c. Stuntz, an Epworth League
lecturer, had his pocket picked of $50
on stepping off the train at McPher-
son.
The Winfield imbecile asylum
tains 2ss patients, thirty-tvvo of whom
cannot feed themselves and five are
blind.
An attempt will be made in the next
legislature to place the state charitable
institutions practically in a civil service
position.
DR.. Francis NJ. Phillips is dead at
Kildare, o. T. He was the son of Col
of Salina.
Judge Albert II. Horton showed
slight Improvement after reaching his
home in Topeka but physicians Were
without hope
The state si1l<-vvor1n station at Pea
body was unroofed by a storm the
other day. It hasn't been in use for a
plumber of years
Levi Shaner, one of the wea1thiest
men in Ottawa, died from a stroke of
paralysis. He was in good health on
the previous day
Scott, the negro who assaulted
old lady at Fort Scott, was stolen out
Of the city by the sheriff to save his
neck from stretching.
A corn contest at Winfield was won
by three stalks; Is feet inches; 13
feet 10 inches and Is feet inches high
all from one one he1o
The employees of the Western Wooden
mill of Topeka made up a purse of
$17.4o for the relief of a woman who
has been sick for 10 weeks.
The Epworth League of the Larned
district of the Southwest NJ E. confer
ence held their conference at McPher-
son last week. There was a large at
tendance and some splendid addresses
W. E. Thompson, a Riley county
farmer, brought to town ear of corn
with % rows containing 1920 grains
George Bliss heard of it and brought
in an ear with "a rows, bearing LASS
grains.
Governor Stanley has refused to
honor requisition from Gov. Savage,
of Nebraska, for L. c. Fitch, Jewell
county farmer, who, it is charged,
stole a herd of cattle in Nebraska and
drove them over the line
Ripley w. Sparr, vice president of
the Lawrence National bank and
resident of Lawrence since 1857, is
dead. He was 20 years old. For many
years he was a successful railroad con-
tractor.
Robert B. White, a bachelor mer-
chant. the owner of the Chetopa cleo
trio light system, died of apoplexy in
ais store at Chetopa on August %.
Chas- Deplantz, of Coffeyville, went
hence by the carbo1ic acid special. He
had been on a prolonged spree. He
was AZ years old and left family.
Business men of Fort Scott prepared
1877 floats for the labor day parade
Lindsborg, where there is more mu-
sic to the square foot than in any other
town in the state, is figuring secur-
ing a special train for the purpose of
taking a crowd of 600 to Wellington
during the carnival to hear the famous
Banda Rosa
Counties in Central Kansas are sell
ing boom lots at private sale on which
taxes are three and a fourth years in
arrears. under the law which vas made
to apply to dead lots
A letter mailed IN France and adj
dressed to Hays City. America, reached
the old town on Big Creek alongside
the agricultural experiment station and