The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-06-19

increase of i, 1e1 since 1890
Mcpherson is to have free mail de-
livery, commencing September l.
There We're washouts on the railroads
west of Salina by the recent rains
Hutchinson and Topeka hold musical
jtIbilees simultaneously this year.
Rain flooded the stores at Strong City
and one house was struck by lightning
The Topeka school board decides to
employ no married woman as teacher
The internal revenue receipts for the
district of Kansas for May were SAT-
417.45-
The ice factory at Cofeyville is
burned at a loss of $50. GOO, with SO, 900
insurance
The Greenwood county normal insti-
tute opened with 1oe teachers in at
tendance
Mrs Augusta erickson. of Usage City,
dropped dead while visiting relatives
at Butler, Mo-
Reub Neal has hauled his wheat into
Caldwell with the same pair of mules
ever since 1880.
Parsons had heavy rain lasting
two hours The streams were all out
of their banks
civil war and "a much esteemed business
man of Burlington, was buried on
May 81
At the close of the revival in Con-
cordia the Blade said: tsIt looks
mighty forlorn down on saloon row
these days"
St Johns military school at Salina
has paid $50, 900 of its debts in the
past two years, leaving only a mort
gage of So, 900.
The Topeka city assessors found S3,-
99s, $50 invested in manufacturing in
dustries, with an annual output footing
up SIG. 1913, 163.
John Welsh. aged Is, was drowned
while trying to ford creek near Pitts
burg His buggy was upset by the
rushing stream
Reading, which is near the head of
the Marias Des Cygnes river, reports
great damage to crops in the valley.
Many fields were under water.
Traffic between Emporia and Eureka
was stopped by floods. The Verdigris
river and the other streams in Green
wood county were overhowing-
The blacksmiths of La Cygne offer to
do free the work the farmers need who
suffered heavy loss from hail, if the
farmers will furnish the material.
Ellsworth had the heaviest rain OF
the season on June 4. Many farmers
who p1owed up their wheat regret it as
wheat left standing promises a half
crop.
Rev Louis Hills, of E. l.. Hills,
of the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison, is going to Manila where he
viii be the pastor of Presby terrain
church
Topeka, Parsons, Cherryvale, Sa1ina.
Florence, Reading and Ell Dorado re-
port very heavy rains on June 4. This
would indicate a wide and universal
soaking.
Bert Oaks who stabbed n. B. Ralev
a commercial traveller, in front of the
Breton house at Winfield, has been
arrested and brought back from Santa
Rosa, New Mexico.
At Florence the storm of June badly
damaged the Santa Fe round house,
carrying away a section of the roof and
moving out wall. The hail 1eveled
wheat and corn and broke slzylights.
l. L. Dayhoff, of Reno county, after
he was nominated for state superin-
tendent, was overcome by the hard
work of the campaign and the excite
ment of the last act. He soon felt bet
ter, however
Superintendent Hancy, of the Fort
Hays experiment station Of the agri-
cultural college, has cleaned 400 acres
of the reservation of prairie dogs at
cost of $50. 81, or less than s cents an
acre.
Marion Rogers has sold his SEQ acre
sheep ranch near Cheney for SO. 900.
Two Iowa men bought the land and
will it for general farming.
Three 40 foot steel bridges over Half
Day creek near Elmont north of To
pe15a, We're washed out The water
was four feet over the bridges
Thomas Hens1ey, of Kearney county,
was drowned in the Arkansas river.
He was on bridge watching the flood
when the bridge was swept away.
It appears that the successful candi-
dates at the republican state conven-
ton belong to the Kansas Day club