The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-06-05
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On Jan. 1. 1903, Justice W A. John
ston becomes chief justice of the
preme court.
The state executive council has let
the contract for vault in the office of
the state superintendent of schools.
Forty people of Dickinson county
left in a special car to attend the an
nual Dunkard conference in Pennsyl-
vania.
Carrie Nation has just been jailed
for 80 days and fined 500 for her con-
duct in one case in February, 1901, in
Topeka.
Anthony as happy boy with
his first pants over the completion of
the first mile of track in Kansas of the
Orient railroad
The $50, 900 Carnegie library build
ing at Leavenworth has been finally
opened. The building is of the Grecian
style of architecture.
The Wilson, Kansas w. R. c. has
erected So, 900 monument to the sol
diers buried there, which is to be dedi-
Gated on Memorial day.
John Thorp, tenant farmer near
Portland, Sumner county, was found
dead in elevator at Portland, with
a bullet hole in his head.
Congressman Charles Curtis is ex-
pected to attend the state convention
OF his party at Wichita and to deliver
memorial address at Topeka.
Robert Stone, a stonemason of Read
ing had been drinking heavily of late,
and then shot himself with a shotgun.
The wound was considered fatal.
Coneordia had three-inch rainfall
The streets were flooded, cellars filed
culverts washed out and much damage
done to railroad tracks and sidewalks.
Emporia business men have raised
enough money to begin the work of
prospecting for oil and gas. The drill
is to be sunk eight miles southeast of
town.
James S. Clark, of Downs, was shot
in his own door as he opened it. with a
pail in hand to go for water. The
charge of bucl1shot riddIed the back of
his head
C. w Goodlander, of Fort Scott, has
been stricken with apoplexy and the
chances of his recovery are slight. Mr.
Goodlander is the heaviest capitalist in
that city.
c. G.. Rodgers, of Douglas county,
walked on the track ahead of the linn
tied at Topeka; did not hear the train
and received injuries which were
thought to be fatal.
About twenty-five book men. who
We're in Topeka trying to get their
books adopted by the Kansas commits
sion, left there for Utah, where the
commission of that state begins its ses-
sion this week.
The Union Pacific Land Company is
reported as having raised the price of
its land along the Smoky and Saline
rivers, in Western Kansas, to SO an
acre The demand for gold shale land
is said to be the cause.
Stephen Thomas a farmer living
near Lawrence, was killed in a runa-
way. He was sitting in his buggy
talking to a friend when a pigeon
which was under the horse suddenly
few with whirr. Mr.. Thomas was
kicked over the heart.
JAS. F. Legate has suffered a stroke
of paralysis. He has served in IT ses-
sions of the Kansas legislature as a
member of the senate or the house
The mi1lers of Southern Kansas met
in Wichita, May 21. There was q joint
meeting between the millers and the
grain dealers, who asked the mil1ers to
buy exclusively of them Both com
binatiOns Were anxious to make friends
of the Farmers Cooperative associa-
tons The sentiment among the mil
lers was to buy where they could get
the lowest prices
Mike Shooter, a cowboy from the
Moseley ranch in the territory, was
killed at Arkansas City by his horse
throwing him, his head striking a tele-
phone pole. He was drunk and was
riding recklessly to escape arrest.
Brown county orchardists report
their trees being killed by canlxer
worms Frank Glenn has Il plum or
chard of 5000 trees, one third of which
were killed in few days. Chase and
Son, of Padonia, think they have killed
by spraying about all the worms in
their 100 acre orchard.
The pupils of the Kansas Wesleyan
business college at Sa1ina, made up
$50 which was forwarded to the treas
urer of the relief fund at New York