The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-03-19
KANSAS COMMENT.

RENO APPLE MEN. The apple grow
ers Of Reno county have organized
combine for mutual benefit,
THE GOVERNOR SICK. -Governo
Bailey had his turn with the grip las
week and was away from the executiv
office.
No NEGROES THERE.-The Sharon
Springs Times says that there isn't
a single colored person living in Wal
lace county.
SERVED 16 YEARs.-The business
men Of Ottawa have sent fireman tt
California on II vacation for his faithful
service to the city for l6years.
y IMPROVING A HOTEL. Twenty thou
sand dollars has been expended in i'm
proYements upon the Bartel house al
junction City, by its new owners.
ELEVATOR Is BURNED.-The Rock
grain elevator at Pawnee Rock, is
burned at q loss OF $4,000 There was
several thousand bushels Of wheat in it.
Two TO ONE. The city of Parsons,
BY q vote Of two to one voted for lssl-
ing about $4,000 in bonds for d site
and school building in the second
ward.
SIeNIFIcANT.-"I've seen lot OF
things around this legislature" said u
girl employee the other day, that
couldn't go through the United States
mails"
Low DEATH RATE. AT the Topeka
insane asylum it is five and three
tenths per cent; the lowest reported in
a list Of 10 asylums in nearly as many
states.
MORE OIL LEASES. They are still
being filed at the court house and cover
more leases in the Mnlvane gas and oil
field. The machinery for drilling has
arrived at Mulvane.
RIVER BRETHREN. Another colony
Of this religious sect in Dickinson coun-
ty are seeking a place to move to-
Fourteen Of them have gone to Cali
fornia to spy out the land.
YARDS BLOCKED. car from an ex-
ira freight train jumped the track IN
the yards at Florence, smashing a mer-
chandise car and q car Of stock The
yards were blocked most Of the day.
"IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."-Just after
the close of the war Lawrence man
was offered the eighty acres where the
Kansas City union depot now stands
for $500. He passed 1t up; didn't think
the land was worth the money.
No SALT PLANT. -Bucklin's bill pro-
viding for the establishment OF state
salt plant at the state reformatory at
Hutchinson has been killed by the
house ways and means committee The
bill carried an appropriation of $780, 900,
FARMERS INSURANCE CoMPANY.-A
recent statement Of the Brown County
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance com
pany shows that with over 100000
at risk, tile loss was only about $4,000,
or less than one.sixth Of one per cent.
WRECK AT FLORENCE. The Califor-
MIA Limited train on February rs,
crashed into local freight which was
standing on side track at Florence
The Limited was running rs miles an
hour and when it struck the switch the
engine jumped to the side track leaving
the tender on the main line. The mail
car toppled over and two mail clerks,
W. o. Rogers and R. 0. MCGEE were
standing in the door ready to throw
out mail and were thrown out and
dragged along heground. MCGEE had
O. leg broken in two places, while
Rogers escaped with only sprained
ankle.
THREE OUT OF 81. Governor Bailey's
message at the opening of the legisla.
ture made 81 recommendations as to
measures needed to be considered and
legislated upon. OF the thirty-one
three were needed; many Of the other
recommendations were totally ignored;
some Of them were noticed by consider
alton Of bills for their carrying out,
but the bills were all slaughtered.
Mrs. FoRrER Is ILL.-Mrs Emma
7. Torter, president Of Kansas W. r.
g., is confined to her home in Marysville
with pneumonia ]
LARGE HAY CONTRACT. Thomas
Dixon has finished his hay contract
With the government to furnish 1900
;ons Of baled hay at Fort Riley. He
las had two steam balers running since
August list with capacity Of about
'ixty tens day and employing from t
ixty TO seventy.Ave men and this year t
laid the highest wages ever paid on o
lay contract
Cows DROWNED. Monte Kearse, Of L
Niles southern Ottawa county, has v
ost IS cows by drowning. They crowd S