The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-05-18

pupils Of the Wellington publ,
schools were held at auditorium
The address to the class was deliv
cred by United States Senator Ches
ter |. Long on "'This Country 0
ours. -
Ellis H. Roberts Coming. TIL
Kansas Bankers Association will holt
its eighteenth annual convention n
Topeka June CTS. The association
has secured Ellis Fl. Roberts. treas
urer Of the United States, to address ,
great meeting In the Auditorium a
tho night session Of June 7.
Estimate Corn crib.--It would hav,
required crib sixteen feet high
twelve feet wide and twenty miles
long to have held the corn crop Of
four Kansas counties last year. The
counties are Jewell, Phillips, Smith
and Reno, in which 100000 bushels
were produced.
Inspected Agricultural College. =
Nearly 500 excursionists from the
northwestern part of the state came
to Manhattan to inspect the Kansas
State Agricultural College. The lar.
ger portion were teachers and stu.
dents who contemplate attending c.
lege.
Smallpox In coiIege.-At Manhat.
tan smallpox has broken out among
students Of the Agricultural college.
Six students, four boys and two girls
are quarantined in an improvised pest
house in the outskirts of the town.
All the patients are improving and
there is no fear of serious results.
There is no excitement at the college
and no new cases have developed TO-
several days.
Plunged in oil Properties. - No
trace has vet been obtained Of |. r.
Harmon, the defaulting township
treasurer of Elk City. His bondsmen,
chiefly of relatives, have
made good the $4,000 shortage. Mrs.
Harmon has gone to live with her
Rev. and Mrs. M. Il. Spahr,
OF Chautauqua. Harmon lost his
money plunging in oil properties.
Big Brown County Families. = To
show that race suicide is a thing un-
known in Brown county, Judson Holt,
of Fairview, sent Presi-
lent Roosevelt four pictures of big
Brown county families. Three Of the
antilles have thirteen members and
me has eleven. There are many 9TH
ITS equally as large. In return the
PRESIDENT wrote letter thanking the
photographer.
480 Licensed Saloons. - Special re.
,orts have been received from forty
wo Kansas counties regarding the
enforcement of the prohibitory law.
If these nineteen report the existence
4 licensed saloons. Over 4S0 saloons
n Kansas are paying licenses to the
ifferent city governments. The in
has been placed before
Governor Hoch to form a basis for
Is coming order to close all liquor
cling places in the state.
Squadron Blacksmith Shop. The
quartermaster at Fort
.iley, Captain Leon S. Roudiez, has
cen instructed OF prepare at once for
ne erection Of a building that will |
e known as a squadron blacksmith |
hop. 1t will be one-story stone
uilding, 55x25 feet. It will be equip |
ed with a largo number OF FORCES,
nd will be supplied with outfits of
lie best blacksmith tools for the SOL !!
ers 20 do all the repair work In this ]
ne.
against Sunday BasebalI.-At a re.
,nt meeting Of TIE Parsons Miris' /
rial Association the following pT. /
st was unanimously adopted and
gned by all the members Of the 4
and arrangements were
ade for the signatures of all the
tiZens of Parsons who are in SYM
ithy with the principles involved:
We, the undersigned, citizers & !
arsons, protest against any basebS)l
aging on the Lords day--compjnly |
lied Sunday
No Charges at Peesent.--In order
set at rest all rumors to the effect
at he attended to make a. number
changes in the superintendent
the state charitable institutions in
few days, Governor Hoch stated
at no such action was contemplate
|. ~ will make no changes at al
r the present, said he. 81 want
e board of control. which takes
large of the institutions on July !,
get the run of things first before
ranging superintendent of any Of
e institutions.
Would Keep Commodity Rate.-At
opeka the hearing on the applica-
On to abolish the commodity rate
1t Of Missouri river towns will not
, a one-sided affair by any means.
issouri river jobbers, as well as