The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-09
Kansas ITEMS oF1srEKEsr.

Kas., is expected to be completed by
June 1. 1902.
Geo. Pritchard, who enlisted at Enn-
poria, was killed by another soldier in
a quarrel at Fort Leavenworth-
Four hundred acres lying adjacent
to Newton has just been sold to an
Iowa investor for s2e, 900 in cash
General Fitzhugh Lee is to address
the Spanish-American war veterans
reunion in Topeka on February II.
w E. Cochran, who formerly lived
in Topeka, is chief inspector in the
United States postohice department
During the holiday trade Emporia
merchants suffered much loss by shop
lifters- Eight of them arrested
A Y. NJ. C. A. building at Herington
is assured by the raising of 1000 and
dhe Rock Island railway will assist in
the construction.
The safe in the county treasurer's
office at Atwood, Rawlins county, was
blown to pieces and the office wrecked.
There was 81, $50 taken.
General Passenger Agent Hughes, of
the Frisco, proposes to cause to be pub
lished in 800 papers, scattered over
the country, statement of the re-
sources and opportunities of Wichita
Frank Ray, who says he is from
Paducah, KY, is held for holding up
the night operator at the Offerle de-
pot. He claims that he mustered
out of the army in San Francisco last
October.
The experiment station at Ha1stead
of the department of agriculture, has
growing 500 varieties of grain. The
cerealist of the department, on his re-
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in fair condition.
The franchise of the Missouri & Kan
sas telephone company in Wichita hav-
ing expired. the city commenced fight
by arresting men who were setting
poles. This case viii go through the
courts, of course.
The completion of the Choctavv into
Anthony beat the time set by their
agreement three days. 1t was to get
there by January 1. This gives An
thony four competing railroads and the
Orient wiz be the fifth.
Clyde Moore was sentenced at Win
field to serve 20 years in the state pen
itentiary for the murder of c. L. Wilt
berger, who was killed last spring
while on the way to his home in the
country near Winfield
The Santa Fe has contracted for /, 500
tons of ice to be taken from Lake Con
trary, above Atchison in the river bot
toms of Missouri, one third of the ice
to go into their Atchison ice house and
1000 tons shipped to Topeka.
Dr. John P. Wood of Coffeyvi1le is
almost certainly the oldest practicing
physician in the world. He reached 100
years on January 4, 1902 The good
ladies of Coffeyville got up an elaborate
dinner and reception in his honor.
= E. c. Kennedy married a widow of
Sedgwiclx county, three or four years
ago. She had five children She died
and left valuable farm in Oklahoma
and the question arose to what in
terest her husband had in the farm.
Mr.. Kennedy settled the matter by
giving quit claim deed to the chill
dren, saying that they would need it
while he able to rustic for himself.
He undoubtedly had a lawful right
either to a life interest in the property
to one third of it.
A Missouri Pacific section boss on
the Burr Oak branch gave up his job
last week after boiling 1T for twenty
two years; ever since the line was built
Sedgwicl< county has IA, $50 children
of school age The county employs 2s4
teachers The average salary of male
is S43-
john Mcdonald, who knows more
about teachers associations than any
one else in Kansas, says the one Just
closed was the most successful one ever
held in the state
Bill Fisher, the Horton politician
and horse man, who weighs somethin G
less than a ton, has been at Colorado
City for five months, where he is inter
ested in banking and lumber enter
prises-
In 1861 the expenditures of the state
OF Kansas for all purposes We're S46.-
1888. In 1901 the disbursements
amounted to nearly 31< million dollars
Alexander Sherman of Stockton, and
Carl Bieber, a farmer near town, have
received money from estates in Ger
many; s1s, 900 and $50, 900. respectively.
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