The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-10-19


shops at Atchison, have been laid of
as a result Of the recent retrencemenc
order.
Viewing Newton Wreck. Three
miles seemed no distance at all 10
scores Of Newton people when a
wreck was 70 be seen at the other
end Of the line. Some Of the more
curious rode out to the place, but the
majority rode out in buggies, car
riages or automobiles.
Used Mails to Defraud.--Mrs Cora
Sohns of Junction City pleaded guilt
In the United States district court to
a charge of using the mails to defra,IG
In connection with answering the adj
vertisement of q man who wanted a
wife. She was fined $50 and SEN
fenced to one day in JAIL
viii Feed New corn.--When husk-
ing begins the corn is going to hit
the bottom of the crib on nearly ev.
cry farm in Kansas. Instead Of hav-
ing several hundred bushels of old
corn to start on, feeders this year
are depending almost wholly on the
new crop to carry them through from
start to finish.
Elks to Spend $8,ooo.-The Hutch
inson Elks expect to make large adj
dition to their club house. The min
strel show to be given will be the
starting Of the building fund. They
are planning to build an extension
that will cost about $4,000. 1t will be
of. brick, two stories in height, and
will join the present club house at
the rear.
. Rate Hearing Postponed The coal
rate case which was set for hearing
October 10 before the board OF railway
commissioners, and the grocers' COM
modify rate case hearing have both
been postponed. General Freight Agt
KoontZ. of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road, an interested party, is
quarantined at his Topeka home by a
case OF diphtheria in his family
salina-Tipton Road. - Things arc
beginning to look up in railroad cir
Giles here. A force sof thirteen men
in charge of e. D., Pike have start
ed 10 make two surveys for the pro-
posed Salina-Tipton railroad. The
men have established their camp two
miles south of Osborne and will keep
on with the survey work until it
Is finished.
Wholesalers File lnterpea. - indie.
pendence and Coffeyville wholesale
grocers have filed an interplea in the
wholesale grocery case started against
the railroads by the interior grocery
jobbers Of the state. The interplead-
ers want rates in their section of the
state scaled down. The case is set
for trial before the railroad board
on November g.
Fewer Sumner Co. Routes. - At
Wellington Postmaster Ferguson has
received notice that eleven of the
fifty-seven rural free delivery routes
in this country are to be abolished,
and one new one established out of
this city, net reduction of ten. The
existing routes will be extended to
cover the same territory The post
office at Blackstone is to be abolish
ed. The new order becomes effec.
tive November /. 1t is claimed as
good service will be given ii as by
the old arrangement, and at very
material reduction in expense.
The Golden Egg.-The eggs annually
produced in Kansas bring in more
money than wool does, or than sheep
do. and are greater earners of money
than the oats, potato, barley, flax,
sorghum or fruit crops. According to
the latest statistics the hens of Kansas
lay eggs worth S7,996. i'll, which is the
at five per cent for one year
on 44.742, 800. There are not many
interests which have a
larger Business than this. Besides
egg raising is not generally u main
industry and principal objects but is
side issue which occupies the spare
time of the farmer or of the women of
his family. So this important addi-
ton to the States agriculture income
is to a great extent found money +"
Lecture Course $500 Out.-At lola
with the present sale of lecture course
tickets the association stands to lose
$780, The talent for the course and
the rent for he Grand theater
amounts to something like 81 100 and
as yet the sale of tickets has not ex-
ceeded $500. The members of the as
ISOLATION undertook the work of sup
plying lc.l with a meritorious lee
ture course for the benefit of the city.
1t was planned that what money might
be cleared on the enterprise should
be cnDlied to giving an even better
course the succeeding year. 1t is in
no way calculated to be a money maxi
ing enterprise.
Scottish Rite Reunion. - The Scot
fish Rite bodies of Topeka will hold
their fall reunion October "a to 26,