The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-02-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The profit of the ten days nid-vvinte1
fair at Topeka is about s., 900.
Henry Oliver, a Norton county man
has held the position of justice of the
peace continuously since 1874.
Casper Strohminger of Cawker City
was found dead in his bed He had
shot himself He was demented
Contracts for the new insane asylum
at Parsons will be let in ApriI- The
plans are completed and approved
BENZ. Daniels. just confirmed as U.
s. Marshal of Arizona, used to live IN
Ottawa where he has relatives
Geo. F. Collins was reelected presi-
dent of the state society of Labor and
industry, at the Topeka meeting.
Great Bend has had fire caused by
a gasoline stove. The fremen did well
in the matter of saving property.
The annual meeting of the three
grand bodies of the Masonic order will
be held at Fort Scott on Feb 1920.
The Grain Dealers association of
Kansas will meet at the Topeka CITY
building auditorium on March Is and
and 49,
Six families of Swedes, all related
have bought 5000 acres near Emporia.
Il
lies and they are all cousins. The deal
involves $50, 900.
The state society of miners, in ses-
sion at Topeka, elected D. B. Cassie
man, of Midway, over Edward Keegan,
of Pittsburg, as state mine inspector by
a vote of 79 to 81.
A Missouri Pacific train was saved
by two little girls near Overbroolz A
bridge had burned and the girls sig
nailed the train. Their names are Ida
and Sadie Workman.
Judge Chandler, formerly of Inde-
pendence, who was assistant secretary
of the interior under President Har-
risOn, is still in Washington practicing
law. He district judge in Kan
SaS.
The farmers of Leavenworth county
are now feeding grain to the quails on
their farms The recent heavy snow
prevents quail from sl1irmishing up a
living and the farmers are giving them
assistance
O. B. Jennings of Armourda1e who
owns a farm near Mckinley, Okla. has
been missing since October. He made
a loan on his farm of $500 at that time
and started for home, since which time
he has not been heard of.
In the East gumbo is used for a cover
ing for country roads, and the roads are
free from dust and slow to get out of
repair When burnt gumbo is used the
country roads are like paved streets
A southern Kansas daily paper says
that while it was showing heavily in
northern Kansas the people in south
ern Kansas We're making garden. The
truth being that the mercury was be-
low zero in southern Kansas, and
farmers rejoiced over having snow.
Many complaints are coming into the |
office of the Attorney General regard |
ing the shipment of liquor into the |
state on the c. o. d. plan by railroad |
and express companies. Attorney GEN |
eral GODDARD took this question up with |
the companies some time ago and their |
officers promised that the practice
would be stopped but it is still prac-
ticed- Mr. GODDARD will take steps to |
compel its cessation at once
Brown, the Missouri foot racer who
swindled Fort Scott betting men, is
now under arrest under the name of c.
O. Stansbury, at Denver, charged
with using the mails to defraud
Conner Jones, a young man II years
old, of Linn county, carried a pistol
and holds up the school boys and 9TH
ers IN a very dangerous style. The
country school teacher called upon the
boys parents to help disarm him He
is all the time shooting careIesslv, and
will probably be sent to the reform
school.
Farmers of Labette county have
accepted SIS each from strangers for the
privilege of hunting their lands and
the receipts given the hunters turned
up in a bank the next day as notes for
$500 each
The postofices at Thayer and Waltz
am, Kans-, will become presidential on
April 1; salaries of postmasters will be
81, 900 each.
The revival meetings at Ottawa are
no well attended that the mayors
proclamation to close stores was gen
orally observed
Martin Reilly of st. Marys, market
ed 81 Aberdeen-Augus and Galloway
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