The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-03-03


support Mr. Grass of Rush county for
state treasurer, the Coolidge Enter
prise wants to know il he is related 70
Secretary Hay.
However, the Orient brand of cigars
which a Harper county man has put
on the market are not made in tho
Orient, any more than the ordinary
brand of Havana cigars are made IN
Cuba
A little boy in Solomon stole Tile
contents of the collection plate ut one
| of the churches, and the Solomon
paper says it isn't much surprised,
because the boys father nasn't PAID
cent on his subscription since the
present owner took charge Of the
paper,
Judge Adna P Gristlebone expresses
the belief that the wretched condition
of the Trans-Siberian railroad Is due
to cinder beetles placed there by the
Japanese. He Judges from the plct-
ures of the dismantled bridges that no
dynamite was used, or the ironwork
would be bent upward. The fact That
long stretches of both rails and BAL
last have disappeared convinces him
that the beetles have been turned
loose along the right of-way. He thinks
the Japanese have taken an unfair adj
vantage of the enemy.
The Salvation Army has arranged to
open a Working Mems hotel in Law
renee, which may cut in somewhat
upon the profits Of the Free State
hotel.
On the strength of the events of the
last few weeks in the Far East Trego
county has half mind to change It's
name to Togo county.
An Anthony man has placed a brand
of Orient cigars on the market, named
in honor of the Stilwell railroad-not
the scene Of the war.
Prof, Clinker has become interested
in the thunder bugs, which Judge
(iristlebone discovered were following
the lightning bugs in Western Kansas
Prof. Clinker's theory is that they
come from Thunder mountain.
An old swindIe in a somewhat new
guise has made its appearance in the
southeastern part of the state. A
stranger appears on the road apparent
ly diligently searching for a lost val'l
able diamond ring. Soon after his de
parture a traMp appears and picKs III
what seems to be the lost diamond
ring, The person who has been OIL
, fered 500 for its return to the owne1
sees an opportunity to make HUH
stake and by giving the tramp liDer
, al sum obtains possession OF the Ola
mond. He then goes about to find tn
owner, but fails and upon submission
to diamond expert the sparkler Il
found to be worth about fifteel
cents.
I Alfred Henry Louis has a ronlinls
cent story about the United state
} Senate in this weeks Saturday Eve
Ing Post in which insists upon spellln'
) Mr.. PETERS name Pfeffer
A Salina man claims to have tn
palm leaf fan which President McKln
ley held when he was shot, 1t is be
coming almost as numerous as Pres
dent Lincoln's theater programme.
A home talent minstrel show wa
given in Manhattan this week for tn
benefit of the public library. MI
Carnegie might have been more ger
erous had he known what was goln
n to happen.
Paul Stack has been adjudged ii
sane in Pratt county and is conflne
in the county Jail. He insists upo
writing open letters" and in one 9
them he says: "Elect no man to o
flee who has signed his property owe
TO his wife. These office holders hav
/, been having very easy tim
;, of it and also a very lucrative tint
, There is no honorable man who woul
= raise an objection to having la
. framed, when a boodler or ban
wrecker Is caught red-handed, to col
fiscate his property to make restit'
tion TO his victims. It's a poor cons'
, lation to a ruined man or poor ran
. ily to send such to prison. And pc
- haps not 90 to prison at all, for thel
. are so many twists and turns In III
Il law and so many bright and clev'
# supreme Judges. As for the Doodle
IL GUST him and spit on him as Gilhoole
II did to the widow Doyle The Green
70 burg Signal adds Paul is not
IS damned crazy about some things
Only one student flunked in IL
class of journalism at the Unlversl'
# of Kansas, in the examinations he
is this month, and he was the only 9
IN perienced newspaper worker IN u
class.
A Dickinson county man who Die
out the gas is described as havll
met with an accident"
" A mild attack Of something reset
ed bling hog cholera in Central Kans'
IS has caused the state veterinarian