The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-02-16
KANSAS COMMENT


milliners have struck the town.
Testing Honesty.-A reward of
s1.50 for lost $500 bill is testing
The honesty of Delphos citizens.
Valuable Wanderer. - A big hog
weighing about 500 Is wandering
around the streets Of Beatlie looking
for an owner
spearing Catfish.-ln Rocks county
the boys are spearing 200 pounds of
catfish q day through the ice. But
how about the fishing next spring,
Warm Friendship. - A half-grown
kitten at 0skaloosa is cumming
these cold nights with box of half
grown chickens. And no fuss or
feathers about It,
No Time For Observation-Disclosures,
~, when Lieutenant Hobson spoke at
Garnet the other night the hall was
10 cold that the women hurried home
lust as soon as the lecture was
over.
Continued Bad Weather.-At Dodge
City snow fell nearly all night and
the thermometer is about 5 degrees
above zero This is the longest
stretch of bad weather ever known
here, so say the old settlers.
Real Estate Changing. - Between
$4,000 and 100000 have changed
hands through real estate deals at
Wellington within the past week and
that town Is beginning to look like |
great big chunk of radum.
Cold Stops Development. -- On &C.
count of the cold weather and the
deep snow there has been little de-
velopment in the Paola oil field this
week. The Standard will pump oil
from its tanks at Paola into the pipe
line.
No Fault Of His.-Ira C. Mulvaney
recently made final proof, under the
timber culture act, Of claim five
miles southwest of Coolidge. He took
up the claim in 1887 and planted trees
on 1t several years in succession, but
never succeeded in getting any of
them to grow. The government per-
mitted him to prove up on the land
as the failure of the trees to make
good was no fault of his.
Bankers Like Senate Bill. - ]. B.
Adams, Of Eldorado, president Of the
Kansas Bankers Association, says
the senate bill Is acceptable to the
country banks of the state. Tho
main point said he, lis that the
outside banks want the state to get
some interest on Its funds. They
don't want depository legislation to
,all, - The bill passed by the senate
will be sent back to the house.
Its Christening Gift.-Senator Dolly, {
of Wabaunsee. has introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 to buy q silver
service for the battleship Kansas, now
being built by the navy department. /
1t Is always the custom Of a state af- +
ter which a battleship is named to +,
give it a silver service. Senator Dolly
wants the governor and his staff to be
present when the ship Is launched
and his bill sets aside $1,000 to pay
their expenses on the trip.
Student Acquitted. - viii Carson,
the second student of the University
Of Kansas, whose case for disturbance
of the peace in football celebration VI
was appealed from police court to the '
district court, was acquitted at Law. II
renee. The only sensational incident y
In connection with the case was the y
development that Carson was not the
defendants real name, but that he had c.
given that alias in police court, His s.
real name is Hale. and his parents are k
prominent Western Kansas people. 81
Will Not Divide District. Judge
Walter L. Simons returned to Fort az
Scott from Topeka, where he went to ID
consult with representatives Of the al
three counties of this judicial district u
in regard to a proposed division. The
plan was to make Crawford county a G.
separate district and Lyon and Bour. in
bon new district. The parties in II
terested could not agree as to which a
should be the old district which would
retain Judge Simons as judge, so the Of
matter was dropped and no division G,
bill will be presented to the legisla- pc
ture, ar
Gas and Oil inspectors, - Senator
Porter, Of Montgomery, introduced IN
two more bills affecting the gas and TT
oil industry One provides for the ap. On
pointment by county commissioners Of sis
an oil inspector in each county where
crude oil Is produced. He is to inspect n,
crude oil and see that none is wasted T..
and that streams are not polluted. The A.,
other bill provides for the appointment NJ
by the county commissioners in each
gas producing county Of gas nspec'
tor, to see that the laws against vast. ~
Ing gas are complied with, as well as M
all pipe lines and other gas laws. ny
Eggs Are Scarce. - Girard and
Plttsburg are out Of eggs; IS would ho
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